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...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...blue and white Dutch tiles bearing marvellous representations of Scripture history, and was protected by a very tall green guard; the chairs were much... ...ged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fanc... ...onveyed in his tone so opened Ethel’s heart that she went on eagerly:—”The history of it is this. Last time we walked here, that day, I said, and I me... ...ball, now a magistrates’ meeting, a concert or a poultry show, where rival Hamburg and Dorking uplifted their voices in the places of Mario and Grisi,... ...rge, and gained great credit with him, for admiring the prettiest speckled Hamburgh present; indeed, George was becoming very fond of “poor Ethel,” as...

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... had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in ...

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...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...ance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her ... ...ace. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically develop... ...hey knew his open handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked enviously out of the window at... ... And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all t... ...lture. “Take the reforms of Peter, of Catherine, of Alexander. Take European history. And progress in agriculture more than anything else the potato, ...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...– Musgrave 1964. Hanks, J. 1964. Hanks – Hanks 1964. Wijeyewardene 1965. Hamburger 1965. Ayabe 1966. Mizuno 1968; 1971. Kemp 1970; 1982. Turton 19... ...ed family is not a ‘loose’ structure, discussion e.g. Moerman 1964;1969. Hamburger 1965. Evers (ed.) 1969 (Cunningham, Kirsch, Mulder, Phillips, Pik... ...– Musgrave 1964. Hanks, J. 1964. Hanks – Hanks 1964. Wijeyewardene 1965. Hamburger 1965. Ayabe 1966. Mizuno 1968; 1971. Kemp 1970; 1982. Turton 19...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ut the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of AEG Publishing Group 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor - 6016 New York, NY 1... ...y'll see no more. Hour upon hour in horse and cart on the long journey West, Hamburg their goal, along tracks barely passable, thick with refugees, 2 ... ...irl for exhaustion and brutally blistered feet. Then by hook and by crook to Hamburg they must, no trains, no buses, no planes, but from south to nort... ... pumps and wells washing off the dirt and heat of miles and miles and miles. Hamburg they finally reach, delight at the sight of family reunited, eve... ... fascinated by all things mechanical, math and science a breeze, English and history, too, a military career for him, of course, following the traditi... ...nights of sleep. Insatiable curiosity driving him to devour books galore on history and science, philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whethe...

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...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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...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically de- velop... ...y knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked 139 Tolstoy enviously out of t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. I won- dered what was the history of all the odd litter about the room, and how it came there. I wond... .... “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of his history. There is but one way that I know of. I must ask him point-blank.” ... ...tions?” “I did. Why, they would have it so! So would you. What has been my history, that I should be at the pains of entreat- ing either them, or you,... ... point, almost indifferent what port we made 382 Great Expectations for – Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp – the place signified little, so that he was go... ... after breakfast to pursue our investigations. We found that a steamer for Hamburg was likely to suit our purpose best, and we directed our thoughts c... ...for a resting-place. There, we meant to lie by, all night. The steamer for Hamburg, and the steamer for Rotterdam, would start from London at about ni...

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...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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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state 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...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...t may pass with them rather for a direction to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not he of one farthing value to them t... ...nswer for any mistakes, I shall give as distinctly as I can, believing the history will be a very good pattern for any poor man to follow, in case the... ...id that the relating has been unprofitable. I say all this previous to the history, having yet, for the present, much more to say before I quit my own... ...ester, Yarmouth, and Hun, on that side of England, exported to Holland and Hamburg the manufactures of the adjacent coun- tries for several months aft... ...was wholly interrupted; but Spain and Portugal, Italy and Barbary, as also Hamburg and all the ports in the Baltic, these were all shy of us a great w...