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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 world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...dark cloaks lined with down; he has rings set with emeralds; she reeks of cologne and sweat. Her pinched face is regally ugly—somehow provincial. “... ...e polished floors, starched cuffs thrown back over satin sofas. Whiffs of cologne and perfume over-topped the whiff of garret. Rapiers shimmered. Th...

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...he pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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...—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could he set forth, in language o... ...ther calls “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” The reference is clear from the contents of the document: just as the Jews were carried away fr... ...f the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to the tyranny of the papacy. This ... ...o German, confident that it would expose Luther to the rank and file of the people as a radical heretic and dangerous foe of the church. Of special s... ... On the other hand, the Captivity cleared the atmosphere for many thoughtful people and brought Luther not a few new friends. The most outstanding ex... ...y attack. This is the way of Sylvester and Eck and Eraser, and of the men of Cologne and Louvain, 14 and if this friar had not been one of their kin... ...oncerning the Blessed Sacrament (1519). PE 2, 9–10. 14 The universities of Cologne and Louvain had ratified Eck’s “victory” over Luther at Leipzig. ... ...o have wanted to write my “recantation” so much as the praise of the French people and the Roman pontiff. Let him attest his allegiance in this litt...

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...Special Lieutenant Jewels Enbran, a human telepath unable to shield her mind from thoughts, uses telepathic anchors who protect her vulnerable mind. Her current anchor, Colonel Jeremy Lingley, is nearing burnout. An alien race is seeking an alliance with Earth and the pair are assigned the mission of ...

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...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 culture, which wi...

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...lly 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 an... ...rds, share and spread this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right of the people. United States Constitution - The First Amendment "...no law...ab... ...not that you would anyway. So without further ado, please enjoy the journey from the gospels of a former Asian. Outset 1 Doctor or lawyer—my only... ..., other than what's important like — saving lives or protecting the innocent from an unjust, inequitable system; reasons being money and status, whic... ...se of their thick and heavy accent, as if they really just got off the boat from Asia. FOB is quite derogatory, needless to say. Whenever my parents ... ...o catch me daydreaming, especially when I'm sitting at a table near lots of people, so that I'm embarrassed as hell. No...just thinking, I reply ap... ...myself. But it doesn't end there oh no! I get some — of my favorite organic cologne, Herban Cowboy Organic Cologne Dusk , and spray it all ™ ™ over ...

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...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate 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. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...pens England’s first print shop So Caxton, now fifty and wealthy, went to Cologne. There, he paid to have a printer teach him the secrets of printin...

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...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ... toilet table, with something that looked uncommonly like a bottle of eau de Cologne. She speaks delightfully of Pansy; says it’s a great happiness fo...

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...ll, he sitting in his throne royal, twelve ancient men, bearing each of them a branch of olive, in token that they came as ambassadors and messengers from the Emperor Lucius, which was called at that time, Dictator or Procuror of the Public Weal of Rome....

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...a branch of olive, in token that they came as ambassadors and messen- gers from the Emperor Lucius, which was called at that time, Dictator or Procuro... ...ssembled about Rome, with six- teen kings at once, with great multitude of people. When the emperor understood their coming he made ready his Romans a... ...n the emperor understood their coming he made ready his Romans and all the people between him and Flanders. Also he had gotten with him fifty giants w... ...on, and to break the front of the battle of King Arthur. And thus departed from Rome, and came down the mountains for to destroy the lands that Arthur... ...ountains for to destroy the lands that Arthur had conquered, and came unto Cologne, and besieged a castle thereby, and won it soon, and stuffed it wit... ... marvellous dream: him seemed that a dreadful dragon did drown much of his people, and he came flying out of the west, and his head was enamelled with... ...h such a swough, and smote the boar on the ridge, which was ten foot large from the head to the tail, and smote the boar all to powder both flesh and ...

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... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...f ruins. I can bear no more ruins unless they are the ruins of Dusseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, or suchlike modern German city. Anxious as I am to be a sy...

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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 sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate 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. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ns England’s first print shop So Caxton, now fifty and wealthy, went to Cologne. There, he paid to have a printer teach him the secrets of printin...

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... son, although that son was an only child. Paul de Manerville, coming home from the college of Vendome in 1810, lived under close paternal discipline ... ...nly which required a persistent will. Capable of doing great things to fly from persecution, he would never have prevented it by systematic opposition... ...ve killed the poor youth if the death of the old man had not delivered him from this tyranny at the moment when it was becoming intolerable. Paul foun... ...ntly before his mind. “Marriage,” he said to himself, “is disagreeable for people without means, but half its troubles disappear before wealth.” Every... ...tact of continual intimacy, which, of course, does not exist between young people before they marry, and will never exist so long as our present socia... ...s alternating with those when the sun shines and the fields are gay. Young people, however, exhibit fine weather and no clouds. Later they attribute t... ...r of a merchant, will certainly not open the doors of the chapter-house of Cologne to him!” “She is grand-niece to the Duke of Casa-Reale.” “Through t...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...r below-stairs, or in one of the bedrooms above. Immedi- ately a stream of people poured down into the kitchen, where at once they saw the cradle—but ... ...ut at least a cathedral would be required in di- mensions, York Minster or Cologne. Lamp-light gives to us some advantages which the ancients had not....

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................................................................................................................................ 123 THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLE .................................................................................................................... 136 THE YOUNG TSAR .....................................................................................

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.............. ...................................... 123 THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLE ....................................................................... ...stic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo tism it eludes analysis. We k... ... and writings of men of the most diverse creeds and na tionalities. Apart from those who, like Buddha and Mahomet, have been raised to the height of ... ...t time will admit Leo Tolstoy – a genius whose greatness has been obscured from us rather than enhanced by his duality; a realist who strove to demoli... ...s Morning” – ended in failure, owing to the ignorance and obstinacy of the people. It was not till he passed through the ordeal of war in Turkey and t... ...e had given him, and to have become, as before, a peasant and a man of the people. In the eyes of the other prisoners Plato was just a common soldier,... ...ing to go to the theatre. His untidy room smelt of scented soap and eau de Cologne. “That’s awful, old chap,” said Mahin, when Mitia tell ing him abo...

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...E........................................................................................................................................ 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE.................................................................................................................... 46 THE GRASSHOPPER.......................................................................................

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................................................................. 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE........................................................................ ...FE I I RECEIVED the following letter: “Dear sir, Pavel Andreitch! “Not far from you — that is to say , in the village of Pestrovo — very distressing i... ...ack. Here, of course, they have noth- ing now; everything belongs to other people. They have settled three or four families in a hut, so that there ar... ...day that they can do nothing, and yet continue to re- ceive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a r... ...hat they can do nothing, and yet continue to re- ceive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right ... ...hink, my thoughts were in a muddle, my eyes began blinking, I would get up from the table with a sigh and begin walking about the big rooms of my dese... ...stead of buttons, and it would have been strange if he had smelt of eau-de-Cologne, for instance. In his long, unshaven, bluish double chin, which loo... ...one her hair, but after she has washed, smelling of flower-scented eau-de- Cologne, looking as though she had come in by chance. Ev- ery time she says...

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... most of its light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from thereabove neither knows how nor is able to recount; because, drawing ... ...into my breast, and breathe thou in such wise as when thou drewest Marsyas from out the sheath of his limbs. O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to m... ...nd. The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better... ... me what are the dusky marks of this body, which there below on earth make people fable about Cain?” 6 She smiled somewhat, and then she said, “If the... ...lown to the sorrow of Lucretia, in seven kings, conquering the neighboring peoples round about. Thou knowest what it did when borne by the illustri- o... ... revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice an... ...nearest to me on the right was my brother and master; and he was Albert of Cologne, 14 and I Thomas of Aquino. If thus of all the rest thou wishest t...

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...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ...urts, and back buildings extend to the Zwinger; and we saw many thou- sand people amid their little domestic and secluded circum- stances. From the or... ... peace during the great work now impending. The Electors of T reves and of Cologne had now also arrived. On the evening before the day of election, al... ...e,—their servants and domestic officers seemed innumerable: the Elector of Cologne and the Elector of T reves had above twenty state-carriages, and th... ...e their majesties, the Elector of T reves at the right, and the Elector of Cologne at the left. This upper part of the hall was imposing 195 Goethe a...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... ...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...ot good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they ’re better ’n her people’s, and then return to them. Take care of her, Kid, — why don’t y... ...ppy hollyhocks, but that smells good to me! Talk about your attar o’ roses an’ cologne factories! They ain’t in it!” He had the habit of soliloquy. Hi...

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... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...mosphere of in- tense suspicion and distrust that has naturally re- sulted from the painful experience which France has had with foreign emissaries. B... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ... believe that my friend is not as sincere a lover of France and the French people as any man living!—T ell him to write it,” I commanded Noyon stonily... ...ar-big eyes, he took and ran. A strongly-built, groomed apache smelling of cologne and onions greeted my v-f-g with that affection which is peculiar t...

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...m PREFACE THE A UTHOR OF THE B OOK. Richard de Bury (1281 1345), so called from being born near Bury St. Edmunds, was the son of Sir Richard Aungerv... ... the bishop’s bookloving propensities, supplementary to what can be gathered from the Philobiblon itself. Iste summe delectabatur in multitudine libr... ...le to stand or move without treading upon them. All the time he could spare from business was devoted either to religious offices or to his books. E... ...ected.” EARLY E DITIONS OF THE P HILOBIBLON. The book was first printed at Cologne in 1473, at Spires in 1483, and at Paris in 1500. The first Engli... ... but a light matter to you, we will add yet greater things. Y e are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy race, ye are a peculiar people cho se... ... is there any to mourn your lot. Peter swears that he knows not the man: the people cry to the judge: Crucify, crucify Him! If thou let this man go, t... ... laymen, which is more bitter to us than any death, since they have sold our people for nought, and our enemies themselves are our judges. It is clear...

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...ing the Doukhobors, a sect who were persecuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) for refusing to learn war. About seven thousand three hu... ... the same cause. “Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the mone... ...Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the money to patch up thei... ... duty. The jailer, rattling the iron padlock, opened the door of the cell, from which there came a whiff of air fouler even than that in the corridor,... ...th evident intent. The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have lived long in confinement, and which puts one in mind of sh... ... ried woman had a baby every year, and, as often happens among the village people, each one of these undesired babies, after it had been carefully bap... ...stant was young, with dyed mous- taches, and diffusing the smell of eau-de-cologne. “This way, please,” he said to Nekhludoff, with a pleasant smile. ...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...nt anew the orders and the ornaments of archi- tecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes. The Doric temple preserves th... ...grees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael’s Square, being steeped in Cologne water, and perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly ground...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ... porch to it, and little bits of Lombard Gothic have been well copied from Cologne. But windows have been fitted in with stilted arches, of which the ... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl...

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...ING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAI...

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...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...3 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER XXXVI — SOUNDINGS—SIGHTS FROM HOME—BOSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 HARBOR—LEAVING THE SHIP -... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ...o the forecastle, filled our jacket pockets with tobacco to barter with the people ashore, and - 21 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana w... ...ppose was owing to its being carnival—was the breaking of eggs filled with cologne, or other essences, upon the heads of the company. One end of the... ...of the egg is broken and the inside taken out, then it is partly filled with cologne, and the whole sealed up. The women bring a great number of these... ...rned slowly round, the - 126 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana cologne, running down his face, and over his clothes and a loud laugh br...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...he Earl rushed to the mantel-piece, where he saw a flacon of Otto’s eau-de-Cologne, and,’ &c. “Or say it’s a cheap furniture-shop, and it may be broug... ...time the appearance of eleven thou- sand British virgins was considered at Cologne as a wonder? Now there come twenty thousand such annually, accompa-... ...d by a company of his father’s men-at-arms, was on the river going towards Cologne, to the monastery of Saint Buffo there. The Lady Theodora, under th...

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...versity. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK NINE: 1812 CHAPTER I FROM THE CLOSE of the year 1811 intensified arming and con- centrating of t... ...s-millions of men, reckoning those transporting and feeding the army-moved from the west eastwards to the Rus- sian frontier, toward which since 1811 ... ... bons principes, and to the diplomatists of that time that it all resulted from the fact that the alliance between Russia and Austria in 1809 had not ... ...nged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. To us, their descend... ...toric significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more... ...e hive life— that is to say, for history-whatever had to be performed. The people of the west moved eastwards to slay their fellow men, and by the law... ...ut sharply above the black collar of his uniform, and he smelled of Eau de Cologne. His full face, rather young-looking, with its prominent chin, wore...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...ps. One, chiefly mascu- line, had formed round the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili’s da... ...ut sharply above the black collar of his uniform, and he smelled of Eau de Cologne. His full face, rather young- looking, with its prominent chin, wor... ...r valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor’s pampered body with an expression which seemed to s... ...xpression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled. Napoleon’s short hair was wet and matted on th...

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...ng to the stimulating influence of a June morn- ing, and could not refrain from bursts of anger in the presence of Kurakin and then of Balashev. Alexa... ...ish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal charact... ...t they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of a... ...f Russian towns and the hatred of the foe this aroused among the Rus- sian people. But no one at the time foresaw (what now seems so evident) that thi... ... even then understood. Russian authors are still fonder of telling us that from the com- mencement of the campaign a Scythian war plan was adopted to ... ... as to the issue of any event that however it may end there will always be people to say: “I said then that it would be so,” quite forgetting that ami... ...r valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor’s pampered body with an expression which seemed to s... ...xpression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled. 121 Tolstoy Napoleon’s short hair was wet and...

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... Hungary to him. — Matthias acknowledged King of Bohemia. — The Elector of Cologne abjures the Catholic Religion. — Consequences. — The Elector Palati... ...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...tants to extend their influ- ence and their power. The Elector Gebhard, of Cologne, (born Truchsess* of Waldburg,) con- ceived for the young Countess ... ...benefices of Lower Germany, and at- tended with success. Several canons of Cologne had also already embraced the Protestant con- fession, and were on ...

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...ing. He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker ... ...beard was neatly and closely trimmed. Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever o... ...er at the house. The main building was called “the house,” to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. T... ...over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s t... ...it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet u... ...e pinned securely. She complained of faintness. Mrs. Pontellier flew for the cologne water and a fan. She bathed Madame Ratignolle’s face with cologne... ...e, and you would be unfit to asso ciate with the wives and daughters of the people who trust you.” Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to ... ...ppeared exhausted. The nurse gave her a fresh handker chief, sprinkled with cologne water. “This is too much!” she cried. “Mandelet ought to be kille...

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...e broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent ... ... hunting, shooting, fishing, flirting, eating, and drinking. The same nice people, the same utter futility. The nice people could read; some of them c... ...r any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from that contact. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia... ...t. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their o... ...cs). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found la... ... incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets... ... to destroy the militarism of Zabern; and the army they rescued is busy in Cologne imprisoning every German who does not salute a British officer; whi...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...cumference, and entirely surrounded by gentle hills, over whose summit the people have never yet ventured to pass. For this they assign the very good ... ...ust look, of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixty yards from the front door of each dwelling. Every house has a small garden before... ...e fond of their sauer-kraut, but then they were proud of their clocks. All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as t... ...t idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps. The good people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes tho... ..., also, with much pompos- ity, Brantome’s “Memoirs of Duels,”—published at Cologne, 1666, in the types of Elzevir—a precious and unique vellum- paper ...

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... campuses within the Commonwealth College that we were open to submissions from their students as well. This edition marks the first in which the Best... ...has become a Commonwealth College publication with the inclusion of essays from students at the Scranton- Worthington campus. We hope that the sixth e... ...on- Worthington campus. We hope that the sixth edition will include essays from all twelve of the College’s campuses so that the publication will reac... ...week of college, the social events are more prevalent so students can meet people right away. This will fade quickly as the time progresses. College s... ... she ran away from her problem, which created an even bigger problem. Many people think that if the problem is too troubling or too difficult, they ca... ...s are going to come back, because they were never resolved. What are these people going to do when they have to face the problems they have been avoid... ...the waiting area, I can still smell the scent of my grandfather’s favorite cologne. I laugh and think, this is my grandfather, the one I call Poppy. M...