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...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the com...

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...hai (Rashbi) ....................................................... 32 From Student to Fugitive ..................................................... ...t, at the deepest level of our being, the true basis for suffering arises from our inability to answer life’s most fundamental question: “Why am I ... ...h and the history of the world, except that Kabbalah tells the same story from the spiritual perspective. It is similar to examining our lives from ... ...hey are not actually writing about those higher worlds, but about how the writers perceived those worlds while being in the worlds BYA. And because ... ...awn The darkest time of night is right before the dawn. Similar- - ly, the writers of The Book of Zohar said, almost 2,000 years ago, that humanity’s... ... major U.S. city, as well as in Toronto, Canada, London, Eng- - land, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, He- - brew, and Russian, and i...

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...isdom of Kabbalah (Assorted Authors) 157 A Prayer before a Prayer (excerpt from Noam Elimelech) 183 Spiritual Attainment 187 Divinity in Exile (Rav Ye... ...r the Heaviness in the Work (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 193 Lishma Is an Awakening from Above (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 195 Support in the Torah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag)... ...lag) 473 The Acting Mind (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 477 Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 479 Introduction to the Prefac... ...ooks among us relating to the essence of Judaism, as there were almost no writers who could not stand behind their words, for the simple reason that... ... God demands. But ever since the printing of books has become popular, and writers are no longer in need of scribes, the price of books has been redu... ...price of books has been reduced. This has paved the way for irresponsible writers to publish whatever books they please, for money or for glory. But... ...very major U.S. city, as well as in Toronto, Canada, London, England, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, Hebrew, and Russian, and is a...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...ty. The book of the non-poems is a protest against art’s marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money? Only books abou... ...eresinka Pereira şi intitulat ă Fanatico, cu desene de Xico, International Writers and Artists Association, Moorhead University, MN, SUA, 1989. 3. ... ...hila, 31 1993; tradus ă în englez ă de c ătre autor şi publicat ă în “A Writers’s Choice”, USA, http:/members.spree.com/writer/htm3/new-man.htm, ... ..., a pus-o în aplicare şi a scos un CD, transmis şi la un post de radio din Sydney. Privind oul lui Columb: da, îns ă conteaz ă şi cine are curajul s...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...ty. The book of the non-poems is a protest against art’s marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money? Only books abou... ...eresinka Pereira şi intitulat ă Fanatico, cu desene de Xico, International Writers and Artists Association, Moorhead University, MN, SUA, 1989. 3. ... ...hila, 31 1993; tradus ă în englez ă de c ătre autor şi publicat ă în “A Writers’s Choice”, USA, http:/members.spree.com/writer/htm3/new-man.htm, ... ..., a pus-o în aplicare şi a scos un CD, transmis şi la un post de radio din Sydney. Privind oul lui Columb: da, îns ă conteaz ă şi cine are curajul s...

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...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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.... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...n Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotations from this paper that appear in the text are reprinted with kind permission ... ...ittle known in the West. By and large the tendency among Western religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and ... ...ns. We are body-mind units. How could there be anything more? Yet Buddhist writers often speak of our “buddha nature.” There is something about us tha... ...at this means, but even he is seldom understood, because, as with Buddhist writers, what he wanted to say is beyond expression. That writer is Plato w... ...e, A.A.: The Original Australians, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, 1969. Aldred, Cyril: Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; A... ....: Man, Land and Myth in North Australia: the Gunwinggu People, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1970. Berndt, R.M. & C.H.: The World of the First Australians, Ure ... ... 1970. Berndt, R.M. & C.H.: The World of the First Australians, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1976. Berndt, R.M.: Australian Aboriginal Religion, Brill, Leiden, ...

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... consisting in the concomitance of the opposites, which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus resulting from the fusion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of someth...

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...2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Res... ...rch Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) ... ... I received at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and... ...ature, that he was alone and just did not bear solitude. The professional writers know this type of letter. At first I’d had a reflex of restraint, ... ... nor desperation. It is a protestation against the sale of the art. You writers, do you sell your sentiments? Do you create gifts for money? Not ... ...saic/poetical experience. Let us remember, in this field, among the prose writers, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Morrison.... ... Mitin, Talking with Florentin Smarandache from USA, in “Mihai Eminescu”, Sydney, Australia, 3rd year, no.7, p.17. Giurgiu, Eugen, Metahistory, in ... ... Critical judgements upon the volume Blue Horizons, in “Mihai Eminescu:, Sydney, December 1995, 5th year, no.22, p.56. Adam, Ioan, The animals co...

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...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ... George J. Hatt, 2d, Mrs. Frederick C. 13errick, Mrs. Albert E. Hoyt. Mrs. Sydney T. Jones, Mrs. Abraham Lansing, Mrs. Gerrit Y. Lanaing, Mrs. Richard... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil... ...ecord, For the club, Francis B. Sayre. M. W. Maclay, Jr. Arthur J. Santry, Sydney D. Palmer. For Student Voting; Privilege The Inst ohanun for registr...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...with Spain began directly afterwards, and Drake, in connection with Sir Philip Sydney, was placed in command of an expedition sent out against the Spa... ...ing a suitable harbor, put into Botany Bay, where the great commercial port of Sydney is now situated. The ship came to anchor before a small village...

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...concentration. Lacey’s father was a salesman whose territory took him away from home most days of the week. On weekends he went shopping for food and ... ...ornful name-calling. She rejoiced every June when summer offered a respite from the bullying. Lacey spent entire days sprawled on her bed engrossed in... ...driveway cement. She cried out, tears springing to her eyes, blood pouring from her skinned arm. Roger bent down to help but she shook him off. “I’m a... ... summer job at The Toronto Star. It is amazing there – I get to see famous writers all the time. When the presses are going it’s like thunder rumbling... ...b, and even her expected book revenue. “We won’t count on that,” he said. “Writers don’t make much, in my experience. We’ll get what we can out of him... ...xperience. We’ll get what we can out of him.” She hoped he was wrong about writers. If she had to work full-time, she would not have time to write any... ...ck on my back with my documents and clothes and survival gear. I landed at Sydney and went up the Queensland coast by bus to Cairns and then back down... ...lly figured out there must be something wrong with my head. “I got back to Sydney and saw a doctor. He said I had clinical depression. He put me on me... ...ult, he’d written – all of it his own weakness. The cards were postmarked ‘Sydney, Austra- lia’ but there was no return address. Her mind moved on to ...

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...ln V olume Five of Seven Abraham Lincoln June 19, 1858 to May 12, 1862 TO SYDNEY SPRING , GRA YVILLE, ILL. SPRINGFIELD, June 19, 1858. SYDNEY SPRING ... ...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ...ish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. No impression has been made on my mind against the honor or integr...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a m...

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...TURE mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s ca reer. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship’s earthly fate. ... ...phere. 4 The Mirror of the Sea The Departure is not the ship’s going away from her port any more than the Landfall can be looked upon as the synonym ... ...of the land on the part of a sailor. It is the technical, as distinguished from the sentimental, “good-bye.” Henceforth he has done with the coast ast... ...e walked ashore over the gangway of his ship lying at the Circular Quay in Sydney. His voice was deep, hearty, and authori- tative—the voice of a very... ...re. We, belonging to other ves- sels moored all about the Circular Quay in Sydney, used to shake our heads at her with a great sense of the unblemishe... ...as the chief officer of a fine ship, just docked with a cargo of wool from Sydney, after a ninety days’ passage. In fact, we had not been in more than... ... Indeed, I suspect that, leaving aside the pro- testations and tributes of writers who, one is safe in saying, care for little else in the world than ...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...rary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individual writers concerned. It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of... ...word. I do not wish to dis- credit that, but I must point out—what so many writers upon obscure psychic phenomena fail to do—that we are passing here ... ...t this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader- writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capi- tals of the w... ...d been fond of smoking by starlight, and the corner where an old chap from Sydney used to flirt with a widow we had aboard. A comfortable couple they’...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...‘Your affectionate Father, ‘J. Patteson.’ The interview with the Bishop of Sydney never took place, for the excellent Bishop Broughton arrived with he... ...it than any man we ever knew. He tells me in his letter that the Bishop of Sydney is coming home to con- sult people in England about Synodical Action... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ... the little fellow faithfully attending him. The Englishman was carried to Sydney, and left in the hospital there; but Umao begged not to be sent home... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ...h. Those three beliefs produced such men as the Berthereaus of Geneva, the Sydneys and Straffords of England, the murderers of Thomas a Becket, the Ja...

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...etimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can’t. Not from any fault of yours. Y ou simply can do nothing, neither great nor litt... ...! I thrilled. I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way—but Bankok! “We work... ...d-by a north- country tug picked us up. We took sixteen days in all to get from London to the Tyne! When we got into dock we had lost our turn for loa... ...re we remained for a month. Mrs. Beard (the captain’s name was Beard) came from Colchester to see the old man. She lived on board. The crew of runners... ...ntle and inflexible way that it was part of our duty to save for the under-writers as much as we could of the ship’s gear. According we went to work a... ...t the skipper said we must save as much property as we could—for the under-writers—and so I got my first command. I had two men with me, a bag of bisc... ...d brought up with the deep- sea lead-line which we had saved—for the under-writers. I eased my painter and fell alongside. He sat, a broken figure at ...

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...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...able. They are easy, merry, and pleasure-loving; the gayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dre... ...plantation quantities of pineapples are sent at a particular season to the Sydney markets. A hundred and fifty thousand pounds of English money, perha... ...waits till the patrol goes by. And on the 23rd, when the mail had left for Sydney, when the eyes of the world were withdrawn, and Samoa plunged again ... ...ciety, and applying it to another, of 134 A Footnote to History which the writers know less than nothing, and no European knows much. Several interpr...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...crisy. This prob- ably has been much owing to the acerbity and pungency of Sydney Smith’s witty denunciations against the drab- colored State. It is n... ... army in Kentucky. Buell, commanding the Federal troops at Louisville, and Sydney Johnston, the Confederate general, at Bowling Green, as yet remained... ...small dressing-bag, but we ourselves manfully shouldered our portmanteaus. Sydney Smith declared that an Englishman only wasted his time in training h... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ...nd our Spenser. Tasso in his ‘Aminta’ has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as in his ‘Gierusalemme’ he has outdone the epic poets of his coun... ...and greater virtues, I’ll agree. Spenser himself affects the obsolete, And Sydney’s verse halts ill on Roman feet: Milton’s strong pinion now not Heav...

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...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES... .................................... 119 4 Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition THE PLANTER OF MALATA CHAPTER I IN THE PRI... ... was old. He had been an emi- nent colonial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England... ...ed me to talk to him like this. He reflected audibly that he guessed story-writers were out after money like the rest of the world which had to live b... ...the Frenchman without hands. Y es. The very same we used to know in ’79 in Sydney, keeping a little to- bacco shop at the lower end of George Street. ... ...k door, was no 133 companion for him. “And, true enough, he vanished from Sydney before long, after some trouble with the Excise fellows about his st...

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...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ...from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse o... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ... hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remark... ... pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr. Stoddard was c... ... life, and find ourselves sharing the extremely realistic discomforts of a Sydney whaler in the early forties. The rebellious crew’s ex- periences in ...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at ... ... incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Warde... ...eaning may lurk here. There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers — the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain lim... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an o...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ... infection of begging letter writing, like the contagion of disease. What Sydney Smith so happily called ‘the dangerous luxury of dishonesty’ is more... ...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ...l little things that brought him in—nothing. I have two sons doing well at Sydney, New South Wales—single, when last heard from. One of my sons (James... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...f its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at ... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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...d it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an ... ... that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or l... ... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...g, 1914. 6 The Moon and Sixpence who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanati... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...ozen canvases. He had a few pounds in his pocket, for he had found work in Sydney , and he took a small room in a native house outside the town. I thi...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...lf was in those tumbrils that went along Cheapside to the Mansion House, a Sydney Cartonesque figure, a white de- feated Mirabean; sometimes it was I ... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...e mumble and the nasty chin—how can a man contrive to be always three days from shaving?— and a sort of furtive air of being en- gaged in sneaking in ... ...ch should be at choice ei- ther heavier or lighter than air. He took hints from the con- tractile bladders of fish and the pneumatic cavities of birds... ...een en- 8 Twelve Stories and a Dream tirely dependent on his small income from this source— making misdirected attempts to assure a quite indifferent... ...equate advertisement may be obtained—had paid. The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible ... ...d been fond of smoking by starlight, and the corner where an old chap from Sydney used to flirt with a widow we had aboard. A comfortable couple they’...

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...d. He drew a fresh sheet of paper toward him as he looked at me. I glanced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marke... ... forty. And I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it borderi... ... system of yellow and olive-green stains caused by the percolation of damp from above. The walls were covered with dun-colored paper, upon which had b... ...eep; the Mahometan world spread its carpet and was taken in prayer. And in Sydney, in Melbourne, in New Zealand, the thing was a fog in the afternoon,... ...ence to be found in the “Twentieth Century Gar- ner” from the pens of such writers, for example, as Sidney Low. But a picture of them as a whole is wa...

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...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... could tell her of chances and conjectures; and when her boy began to fret from hun- ger and weariness, she had left her serving-man, Gervas, to watch... ...zabeth herself could be more stately. But who comes here?” “I’m Sir Philip Sydney.” “No, no,” shouted Humfrey, “Sir Philip shall not come into this fo... ...s, the Club of London. Twelve scriveners had their tables to act as letter-writers, and sometimes as legal advisers, and great amusement might be had ... ...with coifs are the Attorney and Solicitor General. The rest are clerks and writers and the like.” “It is a mighty and fearful array,” said Cicely with... ...r Queen Mary, whose life hung in the balance, more heartsick with what old writers well named ‘wanhope’ than any of them; but they had to live on, and...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...n their droll way, but are by no means so momen- tous and profound as some writers—probably for the sake of Art—would like to make us believe. There i... ...tless as the eyes of any wise generation that has in its hands the fame of writers. Yes, they are seen, and the man who is not an artist is seen also ... ...ional little incident I witnessed now rather more than twenty years ago in Sydney, N.S.W. Ships were be- ginning then to grow bigger year after year, ... ...nsions were not even dreamt of. I was standing on the Circular Quay with a Sydney pilot watching a big mail steamship of one of our best-known compani... ...big things, they want some handling.” Some months afterwards I was back in Sydney. The same pilot brought me in from sea. And I found the same steamsh...

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...of his enthusiasm, and kindled at his example. But ev ery word which fell from his lips, and every demonstration of sympathy and approbation with whi... ...d together in inseparable connexion, and that I had never known them apart from you. Speeches: Literary and Social 7 It is a difficult thing for a ma... ...clusion of the story, I daily received letters of remonstrance, especially from the ladies. God bless them for their tender mercies! The Profes sor w... ...ce of national pride and honour. You have in America great writ ers—great writers—who will live in all time, and are as fa miliar to our lips as hou... ...ve you a senti ment, most appropriate, I am sure, in the presence of such writers as Bryant, Halleck, and—but I suppose I must not mention the ladies... ...in the mass becomes, and the more readers there are, the more dis tinctly writers of all kinds will be able to throw themselves upon the truthful fee... ... note of any kind was referred to by Mr. Dickens—except the Quotation from Sydney Smith. The address, evidently carefully prepared, was delivered with... ...the understanding which was given more than half a century ago by the Rev. Sydney Smith—wisest and wittiest of the friends I have lost. He says—and he...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...eve of Mother Gunga?” “ All that our priest says. London is London, Sahib. Sydney is Sydney, and Port Darwin is Port Darwin. Also Mother Gunga is Moth... ... was the least of the wonder, for no man dies before his time. I have seen Sydney, I have seen London, and twenty great ports, but”—Peroo looked at th... ...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select... ...and, who was to me a very kind friend. Her novel, entitled Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, contains an excel- lent moral while it inculcates a future... ...rmly shewed Johnson the greatest respect; and when Mr. Townshend, now Lord Sydney, at a period when he was conspicu- ous in opposition, threw out some...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... ... issued their challenges for them. “Young Pronto,” Bill announced, “from North Sydney, challenges the winner for fifty pounds side bet.” The audience a... ...hree weeks away, and for two days now, carefully con cealed from the sporting writers, Carthey had been lying up, badly injured. There was no one to ...

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...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ... was a time when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of... ... Leicester to help them with an army. With him went his nephew, Sir Philip Sydney, the most good, and learned, and graceful gentleman at court. There ... ... victories abroad. It was a time, too, when there were almost as many able writers as in Queen Elizabeth’s time. The two books written at that day, wh... ...e were a great many newspapers, and every- body was more alive. Some great writers there were, too: the Scottish poet Walter Scott, who wrote some of ...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...Schopenhaur, W agner, Ibsen, Morris, T olstoy, and Nietzsche are among the writers whose peculiar sense of the world I recognize as more or less akin ... ...- gion for professional purposes without delicacy or scruple (for example, Sydney Carton and the ghost in Hamlet!): they are anarchical, and cannot ba...