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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...ecording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint o... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...ham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is d... ...he government was violating their own laws by doing this. So much for the Constitution.” Vincent motioned to Lexi to see if she wanted his seat; she ... ... a beter view of the screen. Vincent leaned forward. “Unfortu- nately, the Constitution was being ignored more and more every day by the government. ... ... Josh. Lexi had her eyes glued to the article. “XCIX…XCIX…wait… that’s the Roman Numeral for 99. The group is Rebel 99. I remem- ber that thing at Mil... ...d could have been harnessed and used for our purposes.” “The former Soviet Republics have virtually decimated them- selves through war with each other... ...sterious and highly dangerous Rebel XCIX or Rebel 99 if you translate the Roman Numerals. This group was public in their goal to undermine and ultim...

...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C ... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional experts wrote: "If the King disregarded it, const... ... to broadcast in disregard of that advice would be appealing over the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in En...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Nar cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's... ...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...istic Supply from their physique, exercise, physical or sexual prowess and romantic or physical "conquests"). Patients with Narcissistic Personality... ...ty. The traits of this personality are primarily evident in the context of romantic relationships. The child was conditioned by the narcissistic pa... ...ure whether he is factual, or just a figment of my overwrought and febrile constitution . At the bailiff's prompt, he raised his hand, swore on a ... ...nancial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnevnik", "Makedon... ...he Ministry of Trade. 1999 to 2002 Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senio...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ... bloodshed or banishment of any of their members, reestablished the proper constitution in the governments, and now resolved to carry away the war fro... ...greater glory to Thebes than ever was acquired by any other of the Grecian republics, in their civil wars against each other. The behavior, notwithsta... ...s in the surface of bodies, ready to generate putre- faction. And this hot constitution, it may be, rendered Alexander so addicted to drinking, and so...

... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...validate my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living wi... ...te my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living within t... ... which nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every pe... ...ossible development of thought and concerted action which I called the New Republicanism, and afterwards I redrew the thing rather more elaborately in... ...rcely anything in modern life is changing so much; they are in their legal constitution or their moral and emotional quality profoundly different thin...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what 10 Don Quixote he says in more th... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...sted of all political power, a like fate had befallen the cities, the free constitutions of Castile and Aragon had been swept away, and the only funct... ...tury. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand s... ...n, studying day and night and making myself acquainted with the governor’s constitution, in order to be able to cure him when he falls sick. The chief...

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Heartsease or Brother's Wife

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ation Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...on Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...and all the elder ones were out of the way, except Matilda. I was doing my Roman his- tory with her, when papa came in and said, we must both come int... ...ime of life when men take a turn. Depend upon it, now he has had his boy’s romance, he is not going to play the disconso- late lover for the rest of h... ...rsed themselves as long as you have, who ever go out 116 Heartsease for a constitutional.’ ‘He will be on duty to-morrow,’ said Violet, ‘and so he wi... ...ed Violet. ‘I never knew. We all of us have, more or less, a West In- dian constitution; that accounts for anything.’ ‘How old were you? Do you rememb... ...ce of right and freedom in their history than in all his beloved Lombardic republics. And now, what was he but a thorough- going country gentleman, fu...

...Excerpt: The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled o...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...cs Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...of an only son, and of course a spoiled urchin, to the forms of the little republic? —why, Alan. And who taught me to smoke a cobbler, pin a losen, he... ...n, sir? Is not the foundation of our municipal law the ancient code of the Roman Empire, devised at a time when it was so much re- nowned for its civi... ...tant particular. My courage con- sists, I think, in strength of nerves and constitutional indif- ference to danger; which, though it never pushes me o... ...the family of Mr. Fairford, senior, at a time when some of the delicacy of constitution which had abridged the life of his consort began to show itsel...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... 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... ...m/guide.html http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists ... ...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... ...IA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the ... ...as proclaimed, replete with "Rules of the Macedonian Uprising Committee" (aka the "Constitution of the Uprising"). This document dealt with the li... ...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...onstituent Assembly in 1920 - Serbia and the Moslem members voted for the Vidovdan Constitution (June 1921) which was modelled on the pre- war Serbi...

...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 ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ... As I progressed through high school and college I came to understand the Constitution and many of the laws of our state. They also said don't steal... ...sons for attacking Iraq were for its oil or to establish an American-like republic in the country, the reasons he gave to the world were that it was ... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ... about whether the United States is a Christian nation. However with the Constitutional requirement of the separation of church and state it would ...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...o Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally became a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s own nephew that won the ... ...ned by abstraction and not actuality. The older any written law, or code, or constitution gets the more out-of-date it gets, the more inappropriate ... ...eturn on your ‘investment.’ In the 1700’s People spat on the United States Constitution. They burned it in public. They did not show it any res...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...ake an action. His comment that he supposed it unique to himself is in The Republic section 496c. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION ii Aristotle’s writings mad... ...’ registration act was enacted specifically to outlaw Scientology; but the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion made the state powerless wh... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...y legitimate government. 143 The US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were framed by men who were for the most part wealthy land-own...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ...a few hundred years old. But traditions can be changed. Just look at your Constitutional requirement for a separation of church and state, then look... ... as bad as his father who had at least 70 wives and threw out the British Constitution he inherited. So his son, King Mswati III, lives a pretty goo... ...men and women. But barring the parents of three or more children from the republican process of town councils and the parliament creates a question ... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ...oblems I see relate to a large part of the world’s children. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Wheth... ...ietzsche were alive today he might say “I told you so.” Plato might see his Republic unfolding with human intelligence as its soul. And Aristotle wo... ...changes. The right, even the necessity, to own slaves was accepted when our Constitution was written, then less than a century later it was illegal ... ... not far behind at 1.18. It just goes to show that even in these supposedly Roman Catholic countries, family needs outweigh the commands of religion... ...istianity fifteen years earlier was brought to court because the new Afghan Constitution required that nothing could go against the Koran. And the Ko...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the press... ...y people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that much, mu... ... reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hidden world of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT ... ... social, political and retired — — engineer. He currently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, ... ... this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right of the people. United States Constitution - The First Amendment "...no law...abridging the freedom of... ...e silk matted in black velvet. I can't believe I — — sound just like a d@mn romance novel! And she has the most radiantly clear, lightly sun- tanned ... ...lf of my closet and setting it on top of my bed. Then I put in a few Banana Republic stretch polos, with matching boot-cut indigo jeans and some Hug... ... little suburban utopia intact, that they'll do anything, like violate your constitutional rights. That's why Gabriel's so anal retentive about my d... ...his pressure and there's still nothing going on between us. I guess this is romance. But then again, I read a book by the Dalai Lama, in which he ex...

...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian c...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ...ctly distinct from anything known to the Greek poetry. The delineations of republican grandeur, as expressing itself through the prin- cipal leaders i... ...may affirm that there is no human compo- sition which can be challenged as constitutionally sublime— sublime equally by its conception and by its exec... ... Bonaparte. He spoke incoherently of volcanoes—secret agitations—victories—constitution vio- lated. He found fault even with the 18th Fructidor, of wh...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... Descoings; for in the same week (or rather, we should say decade, for the Republic had then been proclaimed) he was imprisoned on a hint from Robespi... ... ignorance of life paved the way for great misfortunes. The epitaph on the Roman matron, “She did needlework and kept the house,” gives a faithful pic... ... now one of those rare women whom time respects. She owed to her excellent constitution the privilege of preserving her good looks, which, however, wo... ... so. Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he acquired the habits, manners, style, and life of... ... the sign-manual of an anterior civiliza- tion; for its stones came from a Roman temple which stood on the same site. Issoudun, therefore, according t...

Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...zzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the manners a... ...esently found herself in the singular situation of de- fending the British constitution against her aunt; Mrs. Touchett having formed the habit of sti... ... view of French life; and it’s a fact that I want very much to see the new Republic. Mr. Bantling doesn’t care much about the Republic, but he thinks ...

Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party, Catherine employed the most dangerous but ... ...n- ger; in other words, that he did not substitute for parliament a strong constitution of the provinces. There lay the remedy for the evils of the mo... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ... thus bringing on a malady which was purely fortuitous and 225 Balzac not constitutional. Under these harrowing circumstances, Charles IX. displayed ...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...sitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger faith in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from ext... ...ion in three years and a half, and party feeling runs very high: the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly the acrimon... ...ph, or to crack my voice by shout ing forth any reference to our Glorious Constitution, to the noble purity of our independent voters, or, the un im... ...t likely ever to vie, in point of elegance or beauty, with Cincinnati. The Roman Catholic religion, introduced here by the early French settlers, prev... ...will be sent from Belgium. In addition to these establishments, there is a Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier; and a hospital...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existenc...

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