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...992. A group of literary critics (J. – M. Levenard, I. Rotaru, A. Skemer) collected all multicultural essays (in 11 languages) dealing with paradox... ... PARADOXISM IN ALL FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE It took me ten years to collect all these texts dealing with the paradoxism, since I came to Ame... ...ing two poems, without knowing me, in his book called: “The Number Poems”, Collective Effort Press, Melbourne, Australia, 2000, pages 123 and 124 re... ...n tu the Smarandache Function, de Charles Ashbacher, Vail, 1995, 60 p. 2) Collection of Problems on Smarandache Notions, de Charles Ashbacher, Vail... ...se de teatru pentru copii), Fugit.../ jurnal de lag ăr, Bucure şti (1994); Collected Papers, vol. I, II, III, Bucure şti, Chi şin ău, Oradea (1996, 1... ...thematician of the World, de Charles T. Le, Los Angeles, 1995, 52 pag. 3. Collection of Problems on Smarandache Notions, de Charles Ashbacher, Vail,...

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...futed and convinc,t Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift; At length collecting all his Serpent wiles, 5 With soothing words renew’d, him thu... ...emains, Deep verst in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a spunge; As C... ... follow’d thee still on to this wast wild; Where by all best conjectures I collect Thou art to be my fatal enemy. 525 Good reason then, if I bef...

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...d the lama to the main hall, and, the Curator beside him, went through the collection with the reverence of a devotee and the appreciative instinct of... ...ncient design, Chinese, of an iron that is not smelted these days; and the collector’s heart in the Curator’s bosom had gone out to it from the first.... ...lamps were paling in the dawn when the half caste guard came round. Ticket collecting is a slow business in the East, where people secrete their ticke... ...om a bottle of belaitee pani [soda wa ter], and, affixing it to a bridge, collected taxes for a month from those who passed, saying that it was the S... ...id not note the money lender on his goose rumped pony, hastening along to collect the cruel interest; or the long shouting, deep voiced little mob s... ... of no interest to anyone but ourselves, of course, but you know what book collectors are like. Well, don’t say a word, directly or indirectly, about ... ...above his head. As the light swept them, there leaped out from the walls a collection of Tibetan devil dance masks, hanging above the fiend embroi de... ...o. I think Hurree Babu is getting too old for the Road. He likes better to collect manners and customs information. Yes, he wants to be an FRS. ‘Hurre... ...ful thing still to dread the magic that you contemptuously investigate to collect folk lore for the Royal Society with a lively belief in all Powers ...

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...was a turner! As subsidiary to this pursuit, he took up a fancy for making collections. Philo- sophical doctors, devoted to the study of madness, rega... ...cal doctors, devoted to the study of madness, regard this tendency towards collecting as a first degree of mental aberration when it is set on small t... ...l, and I sent everything off, furniture and all, by carrier to Besancon. I collected my diplomas, and I went to bid you good-bye. The mail coach dropp... ... dred feet up the side of the Dent de Vilard. I am having a trench made to collect all the water and carry it into the lake. The village did not appea... ...xplicable departure had lent him five thousand francs while undertaking to collect his assets. When Girardet asked what had become of the handsome and...

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... in height, and only two or three paces from wall to wall; and while their collected torches illuminated this one small, consecrated spot, the great d... ...d their conversation with something akin to the ideal. So, when the guests collected themselves in little groups, here and there, in the wide saloon, ... ... had suf- fered more from time and hard usage than almost any other in the collection; it appeared, too, that there had been an attempt (perhaps by th... ...an fever.” “Yes,” said Donatello; “my heart shivers.” As soon as she could collect her thoughts, Miriam led the young man to the gardens of the Villa ... ...mes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pictures consists of Vir- gins and infant Christs, repeated o... ...anifold, to be compelled to scrutinize those masterpieces of art, which he collected with so much cost and care, and gazing at them unintelligently, s...

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...line, (as are all mens conceipts that are thier owne, though but by their collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed f... ...heir possessions? What doe they but translate? perhaps, usurpe? at least, collect? if with acknowledgement, it is well; if by stealth, it is too bad... ...and both his words and knowledgee were for many ages after remembred, and collecte d, containing the principles and meanes of this art. An ofspring ... ...same, either more materiall, or at least thicker on his paper: That I may collect the more, I doe but huddle it; the arguments or chiefe heads. Let ... ...he Orator may well conclude the wisedome and vertue of many engraffed and collected. And though this Montaigne-Lord, not so knightly as uncivilly, i... ...nd therein served long, whereof he hath left a Journall-booke of his owne collecting, wherein he hath particularly noted whatsoever happened day by ... ... conditions, in grosse and by retale: the diversitie of the meanes of his collection and composing, and of the accidents that threaten him. Now thos... ... their owne to adde unto the storie and have but the care and diligence to collect whatsoever come to their knowledge, and sincerely and faithfully t... ...s holy persons, and who had some particular inspiration of divine wisdom; collecting their sentences and discourses as if they had beene Oracles; and...

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... thought, and one area of experimentation—our own feelings. This results in a collective goal, thought, and desire that in time creates in the group... ...ight of the Creator when one is in adhesion with Him. Thus, if only one could collect the genuine desires for spirituality the appropriate answer wo... ...t students can do is gather around the teacher, dedicate their desires to the collective melting pot, and receive a unified desire that is dozens of... ...gether with the help of Superior Forces, Forces of the Creator. They obtain a collective goal for their lives that becomes clearer and clearer every... ...“the Stony Heart.” This refers to our egoism. It can only be corrected when a Collective Light, called Mes- siah, comes to our world. Only that Light... ...y fate, we begin to feel peace, serenity, calm, and completeness. We attain a collective understanding. Q: What is Israel’s role in the correction? A... ...HP is simply that the person got disconnected from the bottom part ( ) of the collective soul called Adam ha Rishon. In such a person, there is a st... ... what is the way to become man? A: The creature can be defined as a sort of a collective soul, a global one. That soul refused the unilateral recept... ...was extinguished from the vessel. Kabbalah also tells us that after that, the collective soul was shattered, which brought it to its final state, th...

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...k, instead, that many human lives, if they are lived both individually and collectively as works of art, can create, when they are summed up, that p... ... Creating a myth is a work of art; it’s a work of art that emerges from the collective unconscious of a people or an individual, or from the creative... ...people or an individual, or from the creative action of an individual that collects and transforms the myths of a people and gives them a form that i... ...Dante Alighieri. We no longer know who created the single myths that Homer collected in his poems. We no longer know what the “divine comedies” were...

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... in height, and only two or three paces from wall to wall; and while their collected torches illuminated this one small, consecrated spot, the great d... ...d their conversation with something akin to the ideal. So, when the guests collected themselves in little groups, here and there, in the wide saloon, ... ... had suf- fered more from time and hard usage than almost any other in the collection; it appeared, too, that there had been an attempt (perhaps by th... ...an fever.” “Yes,” said Donatello; “my heart shivers.” As soon as she could collect her thoughts, Miriam led the young man to the gardens of the Villa ...

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...with soft brevity. M. Nioche stood aghast, but under his daughter’s eye he collected his wits, and, doing his best to assume an agree- able smile, he ... ...talk about that. That will be a cheerful subject!” Mademoiselle Noemie had collected her accessories, and she gave the precious Madonna in charge to h... ...ding on end. Suddenly he became conscious of the germ of the mania of the “collector;” he had taken the first step; why should he not go on? It was on... ...bric- a-brac. Bellegarde, penniless patrician as he was, was an insatiable collector, and his walls were covered with rusty arms and ancient panels an... ...ons, including Bellegarde. She had obtained a separation from her husband, collected the scraps of her fortune (they were very meagre) and come to liv... ...great ethnologist,” said Valentin. “An ethnologist?” said Newman. “Ah, you collect negroes’ skulls, and that sort of thing.” The marquis looked hard a...

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...d City Z Club; chases great food and drink; takes occasional photographs; collects dragons and t-shirts; plays computer games; and still mourns the ...

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...tects. 19 It is immortal and lives in the archetypes that reside in the collective unconscious of the human species. It is immortal and lives i... ...over time, and they were often completely different from each other. Homer collects some of these versions and leaves others out, according to his o... ...ich mention him. He is immortal because he has become an archetype in the collective unconscious of humanity. He is immortal because he has becom... ...of Psychotherapy, where the best papers from the 1999 Vienna congress were collected. I also thank Martha Bache-Wiig, Director of the Center for the...

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...f urbanized areas. In order to deal with flood waters in urban areas, mostly drainage systems were developed. However, the expansion of networks that collect water and transport it to the sea is a classic approach of dealing with rainwater runoff that has grave quantity and environmental consequences and is thus nowadays hydraulically inefficient, technically doubtful, env...

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... with any attempt to describe the spirit of their proceedings, as you will collect that much better from one of the Monthly Lectures read before the s... ... it was lost in the dark ages for want of 49 encouragement. In the famous collection of Greek epigrams made by Planudes is one upon a very charming l... ...finitions of the law from the Quarter Sessions. We, on our parts, (we, the collective mail, I mean,) did our utmost to exalt the idea of our privilege... ...lops doing here? Had the medical men recom- mended northern air, or how? I collected, from such expla- nations as he volunteered, that he had an inter... ...ingle cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that scheme of valuation, we have the old Roman belt, the ...

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..., and was quite charmed to have the agreeable duty of dis charging him. A collection was made for the ‘poor fellow,’ as he was called in the reports,... ...e whole thing were a new idea. We have a faint remembrance of an unearthly collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese ar... ...another, who writes ‘Insulting Beast!’ Miss Julia Mills has read the whole collection of these books. She has left marginal notes on the pages, as ‘Is... ...—especially the tramps and vagabonds. In our fancy shops we have a capital collection of damaged goods, among which the flies of countless summers ‘ha... ...ns, dozingly and dully, with a few sacks of corn; starts into a surprising collection of boots and shoes; goes brawling down the hill in a diversified... ...‘Pretty well so,’ was the answer. ‘Excuse me,’ said I; ‘but I am a sort of collector—‘ ‘’Not Income tax?’ cried His Majesty, hastily removing his pipe... ... Majesty. ‘You misunderstand me,’ I replied, soothingly. ‘Not that sort of collector at all: a collector of facts.’ ‘Oh, if it’s only facts,’ cried th... ...bills all over it. ‘ And so,’ said he, rousing himself, ‘it’s facts as you collect?’ ‘Facts,’ said I. 52 Reprinted Pieces ‘The facts of bill sticking... ...s brought out of his den to stand on his head in the presence of the whole Collection. We are a tidal harbour at Pavilionstone, as indeed I have impli...

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...A complete collection of the poems of William Blake. Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, engraver, and painter. Early in his life, his unique and deceptively simple poems marked the beginning of Romanticism, particularly those from h...

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...anding) rules. There is absolutely no biological test or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion th... ...e are narcissists and megalomaniacs everywhere and among the members of any human collective. Hitler and his Aryan superiority is a good example. ... ...The Arabs, exhausted by decades of conflict and backwardness, are likely to heave a collective sigh of relief and embrace Israel - reluctantly at fi... ...s sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the collective unconscious". Computers and their programming evolve... ...tion (division) arrangements; 4. Allocation of sales or production by quota; 5. Collective action to enforce arrangements, e.g., by concerted re... ...d refusals to deal; 6. Concerted refusal to sell to potential importers; and 7. Collective denial of access to an arrangement, or association, w... ...sting application of a concept (or a predicate). When is a person tall? When does a collection of sand grains become a heap (the sorites or heap par... ...niacal equivalents of savings accounts. Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amasse... ...orms of cognition and affect. The artist probes our subconscious, both private and collective. Crime The state has a monopoly on behaviour usually...

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...ation - From the obscure past to the uncertain future, that was subtitled “collection of non- fictions”, understanding with that an effect still littl... ...e to the museum. We consider then premature the foreword of the poetical collection Argo (Bonn, Winter solstice, 1994), in a redactional sequence t... ...argest part of the summary will be named Uneducated art, where the author collects the pearls of the new artistic refuges. Thus is orchestrated the p... ...ns moi, que deviandra la poésie? (1993; a revival of the volume from 1982, Collection of poetical exercises) is formed from heterogeneous fusion: aff... ... The diary has many similitudes - the tension of waiting, adaptation to a collective life, a hostile and even dangerous human environment, the exerc... ...te University, Hayden Library, “The Florentin Smarandache papers” special collection, Tempe, AZ 85287 - 1006, USA, phone (602)965-6515 (Carol Moore ... ...riments. “All trees at our place descend in lads”. As well as in his haiku collection, The silence bell, the inherent rigor of formula is taken into ... ... experiences. Time for joking (2000; co-author: Gheorghe Niculescu) is a collection of genres “corrupted” to paradoxism: micro-fables whose moral l... ... short stories, tales, drama, essays, poems, interviews and even folklore collections. It seems to be an already “traditional” re-launching in the pa...

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...PEC economies (Australia; Indonesia; Mexico; and United States) as case studies. Data collected from the sample economies served as sample indicator... ...re funds in excess of their incomes), thereby reducing transaction cost), information collection and analysis which market participants use in valu... ...ning Capital Market and other Act in the area of financial market. BAPEPAM-LK also collects reports from non-bank financial institutions and marke... ...markets. Functions of the department of Treasury, include managing Federal finances, collecting taxes, duties and monies paid to and due to the Unit... ...g and safeguarding deposits of Reserve Banks, manages payment system services; check collection, which involve the collection of interbank through ... ... which involve the collection of interbank through the Federal Reserve Banks’ check collection system. Providing High-speed, computer- controlled m... ...such as consumer protection and foreign investment Regulation 1. Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 and the Repealed Financial Corpora... ...categorization of financial corporations since 1 July 2002 when the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (the Act) 22 , and the Financial ... ...ns that were previously registered under the Financial Corporations Act are now known collectively as Registered Financial Corporations (RFCs). The A...

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... trials. Then he goes in. Broadbent rises. Aunt Judy goes to the table and collects the plates and cups on the tray. Nora goes to the back of the rust... ...US. N how d’ye make dhat out, if I might ask you, Mr Broadbent? BROADBENT [collecting himself for a political deliverance]. Well, you know, Mr Doyle, ... ...mendous effect. Hodson! HODSON. Yes sir? BROADBENT. Do you think you could collect a crowd to see the motor? HODSON. Well, I’ll try, sir. BROADBENT . ... ...hen death stared me in the face today. So I will ask you to excuse me. [He collects himself for a speech]. Gentlemen: I hope the grav- ity of the peri... ...roachfully]. Larry! KEEGAN [blandly]. That is not quite what occurred. [He collects himself for a serious utterance: they attend involun- tarily]. I h...

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...r. What? What’s that? Your universities? Oh yes, you have learned men, who collect more facts than do the learned men of England. They collect facts, ... ...ose who have none.” “But this is something quite new!” said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attract... ...bout ‘mechanical cheerfulness’—oh, fine!” “I’m very sorry,” said Margaret, collecting herself. “He’s a nice creature really. I cannot think what set h... ...fresh aquariums stink less than salt? Why, then Victor, my brother-in-law, collected many tad- poles—” “You are not to say ‘stink,’” interrupted 164 ... ..., up to join them. “You see,” continued Helen to her cousin, “the Wilcoxes collect houses as your Victor collects tad- poles. They have, one, Ducie St... ... as representing the older inhabitants, had said—Charles had said—the tax- collector had said—Charles had regretted not say- ing—and she closed the de... ...l upstairs. I waited in the drawing-room. We were all moderately civil and collected, though I had my suspicions. I gave them your message, and Mrs. W...

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...ou very well know. A dozen travellers arrive at the boundary. The official collects their passports. He counts twelve per- sons; then counts the passp...

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... possession of land is not without obligation both to the soil and the tax-collector; the possession of fine clothing is op- pressed by obligation; go... ...hout soothing her. Supposing he had soothed her warmly? All her sentiments collected in her bo- som to dash in reprobation of him at the thought. She ... ...ld have flown all to pieces, so that it took Bardett and me ten minutes to collect every one, down to the smallest piece there was; and he said, and I... ... of the scenes they witnessed. They were but anxious observers, diligently collecting. She fancied Clara susceptible to his advice: he had fancied it,... ...ings to go and buy those bird’s eggs and the butterflies you want for your collection; and mind, promise me, to-day is your last day of truancy. Tell ... ...race? I suppose he’s taking a final shot at his Book of Anecdotes and neat collection of Irishisms.” “No,” replied the colonel, descending. “That’s a ... ...s. Mountstuart mildly gaped. “I want a new description of her. You know, I collect your mottoes and sentences.” “It seems to me she is coming three pa... ...st burglar, who must have a nuptial soul in him, for wherever there’s that collection on view, he’s never a league off. And ’tis said he knows a lady’... ...She will be in a fitter state in a few hours. Spare me this moment; I must collect myself. I thought I was free; I thought he would not press me. If I...

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...era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most of his minor and early poetry as well....

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... close friend and colleague, Dr. Charles H. Hunter of the Department of History, University of Hawaii, for completing the text, checking the proof, collecting and labeling the illustrations, and preparing the index. We are also greatly indebted to Aldyth V. Morris, former Managing Editor of the Press, for her advice concerning Dr. Kuykendall's preferences on many edit...

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... from outside the State was secured on microfilm but some of it had been copied in typescript over thirty years ago. Dr. Kuykendall's method was to collect as complete a bibliography as possible and then, as he wrote, to consult nearly all of the documents concerned anew. Fortunately we had often discussed both the materials and his conclusions for many of the controver...

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...mentation Miscellaneous References Introduction to CMMI CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a Process Improvement Model, which has collection of Industry best practices to implement in Organizations to achieve process capability and maturity. CMMI is a proven approach to achieve better performance results. CMMI is more of a framework which contains the m...

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...sive as these libraries were, neither allowed access to the general public. The great renaissance libraries that followed were much the same; private collections for the wealthy and intellectual elite. The first truly public, lending library was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. This library allowed anyone to borrow, member or not, but required that non-members ...

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...This second book devoted on advances and applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) for information fusion collects recent papers from different researchers working in engineering and mathematics. Part 1 of this book presents the current state-of-the-art on theoretical investigations while, Part 2 presents several applications of ...

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...goods brought back and shared with family and friends. The victors didn‘t collect heads or scalps. Nor did they cut notches hailing the number of ki... ...Nation. After he rerouted them northward across the Mongol steppes, he collected them into a single stream of carts carrying coveted cargo flowin... ...c tools as cadence, rhyme, images, and icons that had helped preserve the collective memory since antiquity. Other craftsmen improved Gutenberg‘... ...l their future generations. It seems most unlikely that Shakespeare collected any royalties. There were, moreover, many great authors who hate...

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...this luggage at the rate of file and thirty miles an hour; and they do it: he collects, apparently by lot, six hundred and fifty eight miscellaneous ind... ...treet Advertisements, in most living tongues, here is perhaps the completest collection extant. So that if the Clothes V olume itself was too like a C... ...er sympathy with animated Nature:” but when, we would ask, saw any man, in a collection of Bio IDYLLIC 63 graphical Documents, such a piece as this:... ... of Silence. We know it well; the first mad paroxysm past, our brave Gneschen collected his dismembered philosophies, and buttoned himself together; he... ...agments; now suddenly emerging into some emerald valley, where the streamlet collects itself into a Lake, and man has again found a fair dwelling, and... ...The whole, too, imparted emblematically, in dim multifarious tokens (as that collection of Street Advertisements); with only some touch of di rect hi... ...ng cataract, flies wholly into tumultuous clouds of spray! Low down it indeed collects again into pools and plashes; yet only at a great distance, and ... ... Customs, or Fashions both of Cloth habits and of Soul habits; much more his collective stock of Handicrafts, the whole Faculty he has acquired of man... ...e substance has been spilled out: not enough to quench one Appetite; and the collective human species clutching at them!—Can we not, in all such cases...

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...ry art. In Part V we have a series of Russian Folk Tales. The gems of this collection are the temperance story, The Imp and the Crust, the anti war st... ...resh gang of convicts came to the prison. In the evening the old prisoners collected round the new ones and asked them what towns or villages they cam... ...d work it. The wheel began to turn and the dolls danced. The whole village collected round. Little boys and girls, Tartar men and women, all came and ... ... The mare was cut up, the pieces taken into the hut, and the whole village collected at the red Tartar’s hut for a funeral feast. For three days they ... ... glistening. They were soldiers — Cossacks! Zhílin was filled with joy. He collected his remaining strength and set off down the hill, saying to himse... ... There were traces of blood on the snow, but the bear had got away. We all collected in a group in the forest, to decide whether we ought to go after ... ...d related how we had got round the bear. After telling our peasant host to collect beaters for the morning, we had supper and lay down to sleep. I was... ... I felt no pain. My comrade had come up by this time, and the other people collected round: they looked at my wound, and put snow on it. But I, forget... ...imself a stick to serve as a staff, and started off after breakfast. ‘I’ll collect the five roubles that are due to me,’ thought he, ‘add the three I ...

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...ifices.” Simeon, Abel-Phittim, and Duzi-Ben-Levi were the Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem. “V erily,” repli... ... to the task forthwith. Once more I betook myself to remonstrance. Again I collected my energies for a final at- tempt at expostulation. When I had ma... ...THE MOST SINCERE ESTEEM 1845 E.A.P. PREFACE These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the ... ...n unpublished drama.” These scenes were in- cluded, unaltered, in the 1845 collection of Poems, by Poe. The larger portion of the original draft subse... ...ay *I have often noticed a peculiar movement of the fire-flies;— they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common centre, into innumerable radii... ...as have not already been given in their revised versions, and a few others collected from various sources. “Al Aaraaf” first ap- peared, with the sonn... ...e following twenty-nine lines, which have been omitted in - all subsequent collections: AL AARAAF Mysterious star! Thou wert my dream All a long summe... ...“A. M. Ide,” it is not impos- sible that the poems now republished in this collection may be by the author of “The Raven.” Having been published witho... ...work under an assumed name. The three pieces are in- cluded in the present collection, so the reader can judge for himself what pretensions they posse...

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... An’ aye as love frae land to land Tirls the drum wi’ eident hand, A ’ men collect at her command, Toun-bred or land’art, An’ follow in a denty band H...

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... the river Marina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day.” Alpatych collected his parcels, handed them to the coach- man who had come in, and s... ...ed that on the morning of the very day he gave the village Elder orders to collect carts to move the princess’ luggage from Bogucharovo, there had bee... ... a short man, coming up. “V ery large,” answered Rostov. “But why have you collected here?” he added. “Is it a holiday?” “The old men have met to talk... ...ing for the show. “Y ou don’t spare anyone,” said Julie Drubetskaya as she collected and pressed together a bunch of raveled lint with her thin, berin...

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...flictions. The notes one of my uncles (who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with se... ...ds was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes. I after... ...le volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton’s Historical Collections; they were small chapmen’s books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all.... ...fter some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Mat thew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing house, took notice o... ...one Wilcox, a bookseller, whose shop was at the next door. He had an immense collection of second hand books. Circulating libraries were not then in u... ...s they phrased it, being out. I watch’d the pay table on Saturday night, and collected what I stood engag’d for * “A printing house is always called a... ...eat use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books ho... ...y done, and for some time contented us. Finding the advantage of this little collection, I propos’d to render the benefit from books more common, by c... ...educated. Returning northward, he preach’d up this char ity, and made large collections, for his eloquence had a won derful power over the hearts an...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best ...

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...s by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in... ...ter his return – a letter to my mind among the most degrading in the whole collection – a letter which seems to have been inspired by a boastful, libe... ...recommendation, like that other famous one which Hawthorne prefixed to his collected tales, is in itself a character of the work. Every one who has be... ...oks of his that will be read with much pleasure: the Week, Walden, and the collected letters. As to his poetry, Emerson’s word shall suffice for us, i... ...ria Affectuum Se Immiscentium Controversiae de Gynaecocratia. It is in his collected prefaces, Leipsic, 1683. 192 Robert Louis Stevenson ties of thos... ... yet, because the time was not ripe, I find no hint of such an idea in his collected works. Now, the regiment of women was another matter that he shou... ...that I can remember to have seen in all the five volumes of the Reformer’s collected works: it is no small honour to Mrs. Locke that his affection for... ..., “in quairs,” as he calls it; asks her to assist him with her prayers, to collect money for the good cause in Scotland, and to send him books for him...