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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ...The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by ... ...onderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among ... ... large as an island -- Settlement of Iceland -- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- D... ...he New World colonists -- Imperilled by the savage Esquimaux -- Terrors of the Black Plague -- Terrible cataclysm that destroyed a part of China -- Ho... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...nd, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also distributed themselves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, O... ...e of the several vessels which he had laden with provisions for trade with the colonies was driven by a storm so far south-westerly out of its course ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone xi PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 151 COLOPHON 153

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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 every...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-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 ...

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...tion by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emer... ...n by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritu... ...essor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first p... ...till after our Death XIX. That to Philosophise is to learn how to die XX. On the force of Imagination XXI. The profit of one man is the dammage of an... ... name, but fist and chiefe in fame, K. Edward, you would not succour your blacke, not sonne, but servaunt, but bade him fight and conquere, or die (... ...Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bu... ..., Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Greekes: and the Greekes drew their baptizing water from the conduit-pipes... ...vantaged, and embellished by such deriving; and doth it drive our noblest Colonies upon the rockes of ruine? And did they well? and prooved they wel... ...there in to plant habitations, and as Plato and Plutarch doe, erect their colonies for our use. And to make of our knowne earth a bright shining plan...

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...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... ...ally comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is... ...ings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities an... ...2 The Dynamic of Infinite Pemuataions………………………………………………………...………5 Black Holes and Nothingness………………………………………………………………………….7 Dimensions a... ...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ... families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for themselves comes from? Onl... ...he exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… In fact ...

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... 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... ................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... .... But 26% of your teenage girls have sexually transmitted diseases, 50% of Blacks and 20% of Anglos and Hispanics. The 26% rate is fifty times higher... ...quality. We‘re going to get into that dichotomy when we get to the United Colonies. We are scheduled to meet Dr. Kelsi Konnor there. Do you know her... ...zens. We are going more into exploring equality when we get to the United Colonies and speak with Dr. Konnor. It is 231 generally popular with t...

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...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... ...se material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of O... ...he paper by Chung-Yuan Chang “Tao and the Sympathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was publi... ...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...y And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction Dream And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 2... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e found in Martin Werner, The Formation of Christian Dogma, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1953. See especially pp. 100ff. BUDDHISM 47 ZEN In this cha... ...ment, and land shortage, and the early Puritan settlers thought that their colonies would solve these problems. The immediate depopulation of Indians ...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of pre...

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...peace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is... ...rnhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion 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... ...ocument or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, t... ...f polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with black worsted, and ornamented with a shin- ing gold cord. A little squat bo... ...rniture; and, finally, an air of extremely respectable pov- erty. A jolly, black-eyed, yellow-shawled Dulcinea conducted us through the apartment, and... ...about our keel were enjoying an anerithmon gelasma (this is one of my four Greek quotations:depend on it I will manage to introduce the other three be... ...ree before the tour is done)—seemed to be enjoying, I say, the above-named Greek quotation at our expense. Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of... ..., Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little colonies of people of dif- ferent race and persuasion. There was a Greek Pa...

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...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ................................... 126 126 126 126 126 SOL SOL SOL SOL SOLON ON ON ON ON .................................................................. ...ARISON OF POPLICOLA A A A A WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOLON ON ON ON ON ............................................................. .... ...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ..., entertaining no hopes of safety or return, they sent out the ship with a black sail, as to unavoidable destruction; but now, Theseus encouraging his... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...overseers; and, taking a delight sometimes to inspect 120 V olume One his colonies in person, he formed his judgment of every man’s habits by the res... ...quest known, the Corinthians, who had always a great concern for all their colonies and plantations, but especially for Syracuse, since by good fortun...