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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...JA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Blac... ...Cross VIII. Appendix – Terrorism as a Psychodynamic Phenomenon IX. The Author X. About "After the Rain" Terrorists and Freedom Fighters "... ...hodynamic Phenomenon IX. The Author X. About "After the Rain" Terrorists and Freedom Fighters "'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes cou... ...e law of diminishing returns applies to morality." Thomas Sowell There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the F... ...d," he is reputed to have said: "For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in ... ...hem had quite enough to eat or warm enough clothing or handsome lodgings or all the books they needed" - wrote Dame Rebecca West in her eternal "Bla... ...f ruined minds comes before the memory--an old priest lying beside a burning house speechless with terror ... a woman who had barked like a dog sin...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...n judgeth our Actions VIII. Of Idlenesse IX. Of Lyers X. Of Readie or Slow Speech XI. Of Prognostications Xll. Of Constancie XIII. Of Ceremonies in th... ...e me, which from others strangles others, I meane the coller you have put about my neck with your inscription, Noli me cædere, nam sum Dianæ. Yet no... ... lift, else let them chuse, I send them to the ninth chapter of the third books, folio 956, where himselfe preventeth their carping, and foreseeing ... ...ht, the best of all delight, And where her motions evenest come to rowle About this doubtful center of the right. Which to discover this great ... ...amples, I affect no subject so particularly as this. Were I a composer of books, I would keepe a register, commented of the divers deaths, which in t... ... is: what difference there is betweene ambition and avarice, bondage and freedome, subjection and libertie, by which markes a man may distinguish t... ...ence would have been thought scrupulous and so superstitious: liberty and freedome, importunate, inconsiderate, and rash. Misfortune serveth to some...

...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tr... ...ical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publis... ...teller would not be with them for ever. The prospect didn’t bear thinking about. The Storyteller opened his eyes. They seemed to protrude so far fro... ...urned from red to amber and then f nally to green, signalling that he was about to speak. ‘My dear Bloons,’ he began, in a voice that seemed as faint... ... ‘I’m awake,’ Theo said patiently for the third time. Sandra stared at him speechless, tears streaming down her face in joy. Her f rst impulse was to... ...moment with Bozo on a lower f oor of the hospital, surrounded by piles of books that were taller than him. The books in question were medical texts ... ... one, Bozo sneezed and they grew afraid that someone would hear them. The books were not especially easy to read, either. In fact, you got the impre... ...was a shattering sound, a f ash of light and the Eleckytrons sped away to freedom. Of course, the minor drawback of such heroics was that Bozo could ... ...throwing sand in everyone’s faces and charging out into the desert sky to freedom. Bozo and Theo looked up at Ali in trepidation. Ali pulled back the...

...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hooman...

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The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

...CATION The Lifted Veil by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... have ceased from all wants as well as from all work. Then your charitable speeches may find vent; then you may remember and pity the toil and the str... ... of my first hatred—hatred of this big, spectacled man, who pulled my head about as if he wanted to buy and cheapen it. I am not aware how much Mr. Le... ...hich the defects of my organization were to be remedied. I was very stupid about machines, so I was to be greatly occupied with them; I had no memory ... ... my diseased condi- tion to betray itself, or to drive me into any unusual speech or action, except once, when, in a moment of peculiar bitterness aga... ...ides while the daylight lasted, and then shutting myself up with my unread books; for books had lost the power of chaining my attention. My self-consc... ...en, again, my exasperating insight into Alfred’s self-complacent soul, his freedom from all the doubts and fears, the unsatisfied yearnings, the exqui...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I a...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches. Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that... ... as an elephant grunts in the timber-yard. Riveters by the hundred swarmed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung fro... ...nodded to his chief. “All but,” said he, with a smile. “I’ve been thinking about it,” the senior answered. “Not half a bad job for two men, is it?” “O... ...ip me at each new year, when they draw my image at the head of the account-books. I, looking over their shoulders by lamplight, see that the names in ... ...s. I, looking over their shoulders by lamplight, see that the names in the books are those of men in far places— for all the towns are drawn together ... ...ions o’ pure-minded, high-toned horses now strugglin’ towards the light o’ freedom, I say to you, Rub noses with us in our sacred an’ holy cause. The ... .... “Let us return simply but grandly to our inalienable rights—the right o’ freedom on these yere verdant hills, an’ no invijjus distinctions o’ track ...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...pplies to the flute and the French horn. I learned enough of whist to lose about a hundred a year at that scientific game. My acquaintance with French... ...anly accomplishments. I have had every sort of adventure, including a duel about nothing. Only two months ago I met a young lady exactly suited to my ... ...eraldine; “and as it is so much more so, will you allow me five min- utes’ speech in private with my friend, Mr. Godall?” “It is only fair,” answered ... ...went out of a small cell into a smaller, that he might come forth again to freedom.” “For my part,” said a second, “I wish no more than a bandage for ... ...ce has played the part of Providence were to fill the habitable globe with books. But the stories which relate to the fortunes of The Rajah’ s Diamond... ...showed himself in a most obliging tem- per, communicated what he knew with freedom, and pro- fessed regret that he could do no more to help the office... ...mong exceptional events. I am a patient reader; can the thing be learnt in books?” “Y ou put me in a difficulty,” said the stranger. “I confess I have...

...ents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .......................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK....................................................................

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...have expected such results. As it was, her poor weak darlings were carried about from London to Brighton, from Brighton to some German baths, from the... ...t be long, close, and mutually ad- vantageous. We must say a few words now about the place itself. Greshamsbury Park was a fine old Englishman’s seat—... ...e in order. He had had no fixed hour for his meals, no fixed place for his books, no fixed ward- robe for his clothes. He had a few bottles of good wi... ...o. From the doctor himself she learnt much; the choice, namely, of English books for her own reading, and habits of thought somewhat akin to his own, ... ...or dinner, to do honour to the young heir. CHAPTER V FRANK GRESHAM’S FIRST SPEECH We have said, that over and above those assembled in the house, ther... ...ldn’t it, uncle? Yes, selling me; and the price you would receive would be freedom from future apprehensions as regards me. It would be a cowardly sal... ...he form of a question. Lady Arabella was a little offended at this want of freedom on his part, and become somewhat sterner in her tone—a thought less...

...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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Bail Yourself Out

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...er a broad, hopeful perspective on the current world crisis. a Professor of o ntology, a Ph.d . in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and an m.Sc. in medical... ...and an m.Sc. in medical bio-cybernetics, laitman combines all three felds of expertise to address the extraordinary challenges facing us today. i n ... ...standing the crisis is to 4. inform people of this natural process, using books (such as Bail Y ourself Out), tV , cinema, and any other means of co... ...6 Chapter 17: Epilogue ............................................... 100 About the Author .................................................... 105 ... ...th each other. 9 1 With a Map and CoMpass , and s till l ost I t was about 9 a.m. when I parked my beat-up Toyota pickup at a parking lot on on... ...ls such as Chapter 8: A w ay out of the w oods 49 sitting and standing, speech, and use of cutlery. when we speak, they watch how we move our lips... ...n nature. Then, as naturally as children 50 B ail Yourself o ut discover speech by emulating sounds and syllables, we will discover the desire to g... ...te, www.kab.info, presents the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah using essays, books, and original texts. It is by far the most expansive source of auth... ...d He awaits your prayers for help. when you seek help in your search for freedom from the bondage of this world, help in elevating yourself above t...

...Everything that exists is an outcome of interaction between two forces--giving and receiving. When they work in harmony, life flows peacefully in its course. When they collide, we must deal with calamities and crises of great magnitude, says Prof. Michael Laitma...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...Series Publication Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... again stayed a fortnight at Framley Court, and Lady Lufton al- ways wrote about him in the highest terms. And then the lads went together to Oxford, ... ... her. For Mark himself was a hand- some fellow. At this time the vicar was about twenty-five years of age, and the future Mrs Robarts was two or three... ... to yourself, when you’re married. ’ Mr Supplehouse began to make a pretty speech, saying that he would be delighted to incur any danger in that respe... ...e Lord Lufton whistled again. ‘No bill of his dishonoured! Why, the pocket-books of the Jews are stuffed full of his dishonoured papers! And you have ... ...bye, my lord. Do not be angry with me. ’ ‘No, no, no!’ and without further speech he left the room, and the house and hurried home. It was hardly surp... ... doing serious injury to her best dress. When Mrs Proudie, with her weekly books before her, looked into the financial upshot of her conversazione, he... ... look and bearing, and to put out his hand to greet her with his customary freedom, but he knew that he failed. And it may be said that no good man wh...

...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

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At the End of the Winter, In the Shtcherbatskys House

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...enina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...although all the doctors had studied in the same school, had read the same books, and learned the same science, and though some people said this celeb... ...lockhead!” he thought, as he listened to the celebrated doctor’s chat- ter about his daughter’s symptoms. The doctor was mean- time with difficulty re... ...e connection with the other, one must attack both sides at once.” “And how about a tour abroad?” asked the family doctor. “I’ve no liking for foreign ... ...e. “Marvelous!” said someone. The sensation produced by Princess Myakaya’s speeches was always unique, and the secret of the sensation she produced la... ... forty-five, was still more annoying to him. Clover, as he knew, both from books and from his own experience, never did well except when it was sown a... ...ore often than anyone else a check 84 Anna Karenina – Part Two upon their freedom. When he was present, both Vronsky and Anna did not merely avoid sp... ... the 93 Tolstoy upper world, which was moving and talking with dis- creet freedom before the pavilions. He knew that Ma- dame Karenina was there, and...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring c...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...se pages are meant to serve as a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then ... ...th it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do not much care if they don’t. I ... ...ntly there. I saw this gentleman every day. He was immersed in strange old books when I arrived early in the morning, and he was reading them still wh... ...None had ever whispered in her ears the charming nonsense that she read in books. She recognised that she had no beauty to help her, but once she had ... ...least 21 Maugham the charm of vivacious youth. That was gone now, and the freedom to go into the world had come too late; yet her instinct told her t... ...eart was uplifted from the sordidness of earth, and she had a sensation of freedom which was as delightful as it was indescribable. Arthur had never t... ... Haddo. ‘I have,’ answered the other calmly . ‘My father lost his power of speech shortly before he died, and it was plain that he sought with all his...

...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which ...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...E LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 12 THE MINISTER’S... ...NISTER’S VIGIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE P... ...ab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows. The pavement round about the above described edifice — which we may as well name at once as... ...asleep, but occasionally might be heard talking together, ill voices between a speech and a snore, and with that lack of energy that distin guishes t... ...d as you enter the front door, is a certain room or THE CUSTOM HOUSE 5 office, about fifteen feet square, and of a lofty height, with two of its arched... ...e?” murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other. “A writer of story books What kind of business in life — what mode of glorifying God, or b... ...bjects, were now of little moment in my regard. I cared not at this period for books; they were apart from me. Nature — except it were human nature — ... ...ellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope; together with a range and freedom of ideas, that he would have vainly looked for among the member... ...she affections? Hath she any discoverable principle of being?” “None, save the freedom of a broken law,” answered Mr. Dimmesdale, in a quiet way, as i...

...OND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom ...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1 -- THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY, 2 -- 1 THE PRISON DOOR, 31 -- 2 THE MARKET-PLACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the assumptions that Wanda talks about.... ...t ourselves to avoid crying for ourselves. 6 ―Wanda told me about ... ... promises of sex and the street corner businessmen guarantee you happiness when you buy their mind altering wares. And the marketing of sex in books,... ...attorneys are always right. And if you don‘t believe it, I‘ll sue you for defamation of character!‖ —―I read about her. She had written books ... ...en seen the cartoons. No matter! Mad senseless power must have its victims. ―In the case of the cartoons, the Western press defended freedo... ...ose way was paid by the IOC. There were speakers who talked about the need for more females in coaching and sport administration. After every speech... ...how to love.‘ ―Most people desire power. A few are capable of love and compassion. A few want to find meaning in their lives and the freedo...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast ... ...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ... cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up... ...received orders to call the captain if the wind came out from the westward. About midnight the wind became fair, and having called the captain, I was... ...re so rapidly given and so immediately executed; there was such a hurrying about, and such an intermingling of strange cries and stranger actions, ... ... captain. After the division had been made, he gave a short characteristic speech, walking the quarter deck with a cigar in his mouth, and dropping... ...is was the first time we had been without the captain, we felt a little more freedom, and looked about us to see what sort of a country we had got int... ...ly be expected that a crew, on a long and hard voyage, refuse a few hours of freedom from toil and the restraints of a vessel, and an opportunity to ...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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The Rise of Peace : (Tuloo e Amn), Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks - Muslims, Non Muslims: A Fiction Novel on World Power Politics by Dr Hafiz Shahid Amin..Pakistan

By: Dr. Hafiz Shahid Amin

... The Rise of Peace is an English version Of Urdu Novel“ Tuloo e Amn ” Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks (Muslims, Non Muslims) The Scenario… The Central Theme This Novel has been written in the context of present day...

...Bismillah Hirrahmaan Nirraheem In the name of Allah Almighty, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful….The Most Beloved Prophet of Allah Almighty, Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) ************************************* A Novel in English and Urdu An Engl...

...Table of Contents Title of Novel About The Author The Scenario The Preface Chapter-1 Meeting Of World Leaders Chapter-2 Dr. Jabran and Robot Sunny Chapter-3…. The Chief of ZSCIA Chapter-4 Killing of EX PM Chapt...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...nd New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of... ... La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with abou... ...ran quil present epoch in what shall be left of the book. The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over use, the word ‘new’ in connectio... ...fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and indelicacy b... ...d hiding in the willows by day,—bound for Cairo,— whence the negro will seek freedom in the heart of the free States. But in a fog, they pass Cairo wi... ...scapes and the most engaging and unconscious personal villainies, that I sat speechless, enjoying, shuddering, wondering, wor shipping. It was a sore... ...fe. The poor wretches complied with this request, hoping to obtain money and freedom; they would be sold to another master, and run away again, to the...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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The Bostonians

By: Henry James

... . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Book First Chapter 1 O live will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exact... ...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ...e apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her la... ...phrase); that he lived in a part of the country where they didn’t think much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New Yo... ...t exerting the smallest pressure. Mrs. Luna explained to her sister that her freedom of speech was caused by his being a relation—though, indeed, he d... ...the smallest pressure. Mrs. Luna explained to her sister that her freedom of speech was caused by his being a relation—though, indeed, he didn’t seem ... ...ure, and now there was culture in Miss Chancellor’s tables and sofas, in the books that were everywhere, on little shelves like brackets (as if a book... ... that were festooned rather stiffly in the doorways. He looked at some of the books and saw that his cousin read German; and his impression of the impo... ...worldly to the young woman from Cambridge, and something to Olive that had a freedom which she herself would probably never arrive at (a failure of fo...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1; Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because ...

...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...e second part of the Confessions. He had assumed the surname of Renou, and about this time he declared before two witnesses that Therese was his wife—... ...roclaim, thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I. With equal freedom and veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have con... ... his sword on him in the city, and in consequence of this charge they were about to conduct him to prison. He insisted (according to the law of this r... ...venient oppor- tunity present itself, and I empty my purse with the utmost freedom; not that I would have the reader imagine I am ex- 41 Rousseau tra... ...s; they show her the ribbon; I accuse her boldly: she remains confused and speech- less, casting a look on me that would have disarmed a de- mon, but ...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudal...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

...Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penns... ...e gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my ex perience of these birds. The raven in this story is a compound... ...nly, I fear, as a Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly, about half a mile from my house, walking down the middle of a public street... ...tically for itself, I subjoin it, as related by Sir William Meredith in a speech in Parliament, ‘on Frequent Execu tions’, made in 1777. ‘Under this... ...is ghost?’ said Varden, rising from the desk at which he was busy with his books, and looking at 109 Charles Dickens him under his spectacles. ‘Which... ... and lend some charms of their own to the gloomiest scene. Birds, flowers, books, drawing, music, and a hundred such grace ful tokens of feminine lov... ...replied Sir John sweetly; ‘old friends like you and I, may be allowed some freedoms, or the deuce is in it.’ Gashford, who had been very restless all ... ...d the blind man, corking his bottle, ‘and if I seem to conduct myself with freedom, it is therefore. You wonder who I am, ma’am, and what has brought ...

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The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen

By: George Meredith

...The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen (An early uncompleted fragment.) By George Meredith A Penn Stat... ...eredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen by George Meredith is a publication of ... ... to keep her dress from ballooning and puffing out of all proportion round about her person, while the vicar, who stood without his hat, em- ployed a ... ...ot but fancy, and with less than our usual wilfulness when we fancy things about Nature’s 5 George Meredith moods, that the Mother of men beheld this... ...one, two, and up.’ He was raising a dead weight. The passion for sarcastic speech was manifestly at war with common prudence in the bosom of Mrs. Ambl... ...a bachelor whom the lady had never persuaded to dream of relinquishing his freedom. ‘My dear, I am coming,’ said the vicar. ‘Then, come at once, or I ... ...lingray?’ Alice was here guilty of one of those naughty sort of inno- cent speeches smacking of Eve most strongly; though, of course, of Eve in her be... ...number of years will not ring like bridal bells in a man’s ears. I have my books about me, my horses, my dogs, a contented household. I move in the ce...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Passing over Ickleworth Bridge and rounding up the heavily shadowed river of our narrow valley, I perceived a commotion as of bathers in a certain bright space immediately underneath the vicar?s terrace-garden steps. My astonishment was considerable when it became evident to me that the vicar himse...

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