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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...h an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the importa... ...ng ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart fro... ...e 148 Chapter 33 The Specksynder lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to i... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! 166 Chapter 36 The Quar... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil. Nevertheless,...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor-... ...ng ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand political maxim of the sea de- mands, that he should nominally live apart f... ...el of the mass. Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to i... ...ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Y ... ...ce of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Thou... ...d die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indi- gestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt 387 Herman Melville of anything li...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...tinction survives there between Kentish women and women of Kent, as a true South-eastern dame will let you know, if it is her fortune to belong to tha... ...smelt of cream-bowls and wheaten loaves; the firs on the beacon-ridge, far south- ward, over Fenhurst and Helm villages, were transported nearer to se... ...n, or of widows, that Edward’s experience had not yet come across. All the parties immedi- ately concerned were apparently so desperately acquiescing ... ...ently be discovered with a slightly ruffled bosom amid the feathers of his defunct associate. Thus painfully revolving matters of fact and feeling, Si... ...k away from the mother country and establish a republic. He’s got the same political opinions as you. Oh! he’ll do well enough over here; of course he... ... but with brows perturbed at the thought of this ruffian being of the same political persuasion as himself. “Eh?” cried Sedgett; “I don’t want any of ... ...lived to reflect on her having decided practically, perhaps wisely for all parties. Her debts expunged, she became an old gentleman’s demure young wif...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...d a pretty daughter. Since the days of old Harry Baillie of the T abard in Southwark, no one had excelled Giles Gosling in the power of pleasing his g... ... Walter Scott name, and, as I think, of Cornish lineage; for what says the south proverb— ‘By Pol, T re, and Pen, You may know the Cornish men.’ Shall... ...ed from busi- ness, so doth this Wayland assume the dangerous trade of his defunct master. But although, most worshipful sir, the world is ever prone ... ... men and inferior attendants remained in the courtyard, where the opposite parties eyed each other with looks of eager ha- tred and scorn, as if waiti... ...ich are compelled into the same channel, yet shun to mix their waters. The parties arranged themselves, as it were instinctively, on the different sid... ...s thus stupefying the remonstrances of his own conscience, by appealing to political necessity for his 259 Sir Walter Scott apology, or losing himsel... ...t so suddenly presented itself. He had that instant been receiving, with a political affectation of disavow- ing and misunderstanding their meaning, t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed... ...tism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen the cities, the free constitution... ...f 1568 to Philip II by the Pope on a mission, partly of condolence, partly political, and on his return to Rome, which was somewhat brusquely expedite... ...nd theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the transcendental wor... ...hat of seeking to revive and restore to the world the long-lost and almost defunct order of knight-errantry, we now enjoy in this age of ours, so poor... ... that day, so that there might be time to con- sider what was best for all parties. Don Luis kissed his hands by force, nay, bathed them with his tear... ...and their recognition of one another set at rest the apprehensions of both parties; the first then told the other in two words who Don Quixote was, an... ...he famous kingdom of Kandy, which lies between the great Trapobana and the Southern Sea, two leagues beyond Cape Comorin. She was the widow of King Ar...

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...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ... ...hrough the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its h... ... the whole wider ex- tremes of temperament and sensibility. The boy of the South seems more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives him- self to game... ... a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections of men, and a political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts? The story of the A... ...ent; and soon after the time of which I write, he made a showy speech at a political dinner, was cried up to heaven next day in the Courant, and the d... ...one day from the printed author to the manuscript stu- dent. III FROM THIS DEFUNCT PERIODICAL I am going to reprint one of my own papers. The poor lit... ...house where I spent my youth was not yet thought upon; but we made holiday parties among the cornfields on its site, and ate strawberries and cream ne...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitle... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ... attack.The job of the NMCC in such an emergency is to gather the relevant parties and establish the chain of command between the National Command Aut... ...he story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to ... ...discos and beaches in Beirut, and in Greifswald was known to enjoy student parties and drinking beer.Although he continued to share an apartment in Gr... ... to reduce it to a “rump group” like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980s.“Continued anti-al Qida operat...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ugh every hour of the golden morning the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old, the timid and the bold, nay, even of the most del... ...egree, by the time we reached the office. Already on our road thither some parties had passed us who were conversing with eagerness upon the case: so ... ...All Spain, Portugal, Italy, rang with her adventures. Spain, from north to south, was frantic with desire to behold her fiery child, whose girlish rom... ...lty in winning over the Russian counsels to a concurrence with some of his political views, and thus covertly introducing the point of that wedge whic... ...net of Rus- sia, Zebek-Dorchi proceeded in his new character to fulfil his political mission with the Khan of the Kalmucks. So art- fully did he prepa... ...c beauty, once were anchored con- tinents and boundless forests. Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intrusions o... ...statesmen assembled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past...

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...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

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...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ... toil of a rough journey; as if, forsaking the gold mines of finance and that political slaughter of fat oxen whereby a man himself grows fat, they wer... ...nd how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture ... ... found these Chapters, that it may be thrown out as a pertinent question for parties concerned, Whether or not a good English Translation thereof migh... ...d, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginning at Libra; in the inside of which seale... ...ge, wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventide. Not till my eighth year did I reflect that... ...rudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty... ... shreds; and Society, long pining, diabetic, consumptive, can be regarded as defunct; for those spasmodic, galvanic sprawlings are not life; neither i...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...s and through a great sea of tedium, steers this mortal bark. There may be political wisdom in such a view; but I am persuaded there can spring no gre... ...athetic kind of folly. Money, being a means of happiness, should make both parties happy when it changes hands; rightly disposed, it should be twice b... ...ating that they were prepared to join in any enterprise commenced by their south- ern brethren. The leader of the persecutors was Sir James Turner, an... ...prinkled trees, and fading gradu- ally into shadow in the distance. To the south, too, they beheld a deep-shaded amphitheatre of heather and bracken; ... ...very semblance of life from the victim enclosed in his toils. The flanking parties of horse were forced in upon the centre, and though, as even Turner... ...as continually move, but not by measurable marches on a stable course; the political soil itself steals forth by imperceptible degrees, like a travell... ...ready inhabitants of that land ‘Where entity and quiddity, ‘Like ghosts of defunct bodies fly – Where T ruth in person does appear Like words congeale...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ...rth-bank, of no great height. The grey houses of Pulteney extend along the southerly shore almost to the cape; and it is about half-way down this shor... ...ea; not even the gleam of red tiles; not even the greenness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waitin... ...ch composure. I am gen- erally glad enough to fall back again, after these political in- terludes, upon Burns, toddy, and the Highlands. 23 The Lette... ...uit enough to think that any end will justify an unjust law. Here ends the political sermon of your affectionate (and somewhat dogmatical) son, ROBERT... ...I have fallen altogether into a hollow-eyed, yawning way of life, like the parties in Burne Jones’s pictures… . Talking of Burns. (Is this not sad, We... ...hway, and away south under the street lamps, and away to dear Brash’s, now defunct! But the old time is dead also, never, never to revive. It was a sa... ...nson: V ol. 1 There remain: C. B., the Williamses – you know they were the parties who stuck up for us about our marriage, and Mrs. W. was my guardian...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...ten, in regard to French patois— leaving out of count the languages of the South—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are bu... ...ting out the need of it in his mocking fashion, he was not favourable to a political reform. Those who would make of him a Protestant altogether forge... ...ies and secessive places, that is, the convents and abbeys, separated from political conversa- tion, as the jakes and retreats of a house are. But if ... ...211 Rabelais right it, or take up the difference betwixt the two aforesaid parties, it did so grievously vex them that they most villain- ously conshi... ...siveness of considering how he was bound in conscience to do right to both parties, without varying or accepting of persons. Then he returned, sat dow... ...heirs, the same opprobry, scandal, and imputation will be charged upon the defunct, and his memory remain accursed for his unjust and unwarrantable co... ... more nor less than, at the invocation of Erictho, 395 Rabelais a certain defunct person foretold to Pompey the whole progress and issue of the fatal...