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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Eilean Aros. It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion ...

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...thout any charge 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 Pennsyl... ...e material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylva... ... part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make... ...follow me. He signed, with the same clearness and quiet as before, that he knew not the art; and there was truth apparent in his signals, it would hav... ...ion; persons who seemed to live (as he did) by the senses, taken and pos- sessed by the visual object of the moment and unable to discharge their mind... ...fix, and, though I was no friend to images, and despised that imitative and grimac- ing art of which it was a rude example, some sense of what the thi... ...upon, a stout brune, with cool smooth cheeks, steady, dark eyes, and hands that neither art nor nature could improve. She was the sort of person over ... ...as to revolt from my conclusion. We have now arrived,’ he resumed, ‘at some idea of the composition of the gang – for I incline to the hypothesis of m...

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...for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometimes in purpose to turn back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all th...

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...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

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...lectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...e than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work imp... ...ce it is different. The French have nearly two thousand years of history and art and industry and social and political life to “conserve”; that is ano... ... races—every one of them non creative in the plastic arts— who decided that “Art” (that is, plastic art) was something apart from life, as dangerous t... ...“Taste,” and taste, whatever it may be, is not, after all, the same thing as art. No; it it is not art—but it is the atmosphere in which art lives, an... ...o France, and you will see how this principle of adaptation has always ruled composition. III It is the sense of its universal applicability that make... ...tural beauty, not to be charmed by the harmony of pro portion and beauty of composition of a certain building with curved wings and a small central d... ...ings presented to him. It takes the most complex assemblage of associations, visual and mental, to enable us to discover what a picture represents: th...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...daily life‖ before the printed book and fully deserved to be labeled the ―art preservative of all arts.‖ For millennia, memory presided over comm... ... Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritua... ...accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to man. It combines unique visual signs into unique arrays. These form unique spoken words that creat... ...atesman and diplomat. Franklin, nevertheless, in an epitaph of his own composition focused on his first trade thusly: B. Franklin, Printer. Lik... ...inst such formidable competitors as the pen and remained the workhorse of composition and calculation from kindergarten on to higher grades through ... ... Soon, individuals could transmit not just text and sound but also active visual images—first to other individuals but later to social media sites o...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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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... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...identified aircraft closing in on W ashington:“Latest report.Aircraft VFR [visual flight rules] six miles southeast of the White House....Six,south- w... ...nal. The controller located it on primary radar, matched its position with visual sightings from other air- craft, and tracked the flight as it turned... ...3 over the Pittsburgh area.Within seconds, the Com- mand Center received a visual report from another aircraft, and informed head- quarters that the a... ...cations equipment employed for these casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casin... ...gence report, funding by Bin Ladin of Gama’at al-Islamiya by Bin Ladin and composition of its Sudanese wing, July 22, 1993. On aid to Y emeni terroris... ...(Nov. 26, 1996;Apr. 18, 1997); on the structure of al Qaeda and leadership composition (Dec. 18, 1996; Dec. 19, 1996; Dec. 19, 1996); on roles and res...