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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... ...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘s ... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...bespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a mob assembling outside. "I ... ..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ...pace the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an e... ...gling Macedonia and the Bulgarian race." TODOR ALEXANDROV, The Leader of the IMRO from 1911 to 1924 The Treaty of Berlin killed Peter Lazov. A ... ...ent rebelliousness and were applied mainly to the urban minority (for instance, in Constantinople). The Church was an accomplice of the Turkish oc... ...ndscape. Thus, for instance, though officially owing allegiance to the patriarch in Constantinople and the Orthodox "oikumene", both Serb and Bulgar... ...ally it was a clash of authorities and interests - the Pope versus the patriarch of Constantinople, the Romans versus the Greeks and Slavs. Matters ...

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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... ...ated sublime. Lord Warburton walked beside her and talked of Saint Sophia of Constantinople; she feared for instance that he would end by calling atte... ...hat she herself had always been consumed with the desire to visit Athens and Constantinople. The two ladies accordingly embarked on this expedition, a...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...ow the River’s course: land somewhere in Crim Tartary, in the Black Sea or Constantinople region: a la Sindbad! Authentic History, accordingly, lookin...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...ois the Baker;’ (21st October, 1789 (Moniteur, No. 76).) and hangs him, in Constantinople wise;—but even this, singular as it my seem, does not cheape...

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...g always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn, in evil persons. Even the real character that lived in the XV century and inspired the creation of the fictional Dracula, the Walachian Prince Vlad Ţepeş (or V...

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...ince Vlad Dracul (1390-1447) Chapter II: VLAD ŢEPEŞ (1431-1476) 2.1 Vlad Ţepeş becomes ruler Prince of Walachia 2.2 Vlad Ţepeş and the merchants from Southern Transylvania 2.3 Vlad Ţepeş and his fights for Walachia’s independence 2.4 The arrestment and detention of Vlad Ţepeş; his third reign in November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... the United States. Only 23% of Spaniards had a positive opinion of the USA, down from 41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (f... ...41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (from 71% to 56%), Russia (from 52% o 43%), Indonesia (from 38% to 30%), and Turkey (from ... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ... were mercenaries at the service of competing factions in Byzantium (Thrace versus Constantinople). Orhan wanted to cut into this lucrative busines... ...ned with the three centuries old schism between the Roman Church and the Church in Constantinople. John V has begged for help for more than a decad... ...the Ottomans, their former mercenaries. When emperor John V united the churches of Constantinople and Rome in a vain and impetuous effort to secure...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...know not what:— the notes being all false, and no gold to be had for them, people take to crying in their despair that there is no gold, that there ne... ... guai, and that he himself should see it, than we doubt that we should see Constantinople if we went thither. Dante’s heart, long filled with this, br...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...in its tendency . Immoral! God bless my soul, gentle- men, what is it that people mean? I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all... ...Czarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow—This is the road that leads to Constantinople. 58 about tastes) to sweep round that odious man’s odious p...

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...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. Thi...

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...l. I (Soc. Bibl. Belges., Mons., 1866). INTRODUCTION This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal ; edit... ...edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866, 1 from the MS. num bered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at... ...istory issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner’s Extraits de Poesie du X... ...esent state, the “Chronicle” comes to an end with a notice of the capture of Constantinople by the French in 1204, and it has been hastily assumed tha... ... day that He was put on rood and crucified in order that He might redeem His people from the pains of hell. Josephus set it in remembrance by annuncia... ... appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.” III. W ith that, they left of talking, and the hermit led Messir... ... us, for he saith of remembrance that by envy was Adam betrayed, and all the people that were after him and the people that 88 The High History of th...

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...y University. THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616. EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. The Tragicall... ...our, of DARIUS, and of HELEN. Chorus. THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. Not marching in the ... ...; I’ll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, And chase the Prince of Parma from our land, And reign sole king of all the provinces; Yea, stranger en... ...y the Emperor. POPE. We will depose the Emperor for that deed, And curse the people that submit to him: Both he and thou shall stand excommunicate, An... ...ely legions of infernal rule, How am I vexed by these villains’ charms! From Constantinople have they brought me now, Only for pleasure of these damne...

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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... ...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

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...var Horsetail. Onund was the brother of Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father?s relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and used to harry away in the West over the sea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Bla...

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...Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father’s relations were mostly in Rogaland a... ...ea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Blaeing from Sotanes, and by Orm the Wealthy. Another comrade of theirs was named... ...ltitude led by Kjotvi the Wealthy, Thorir Long chin, and Soti and King Sulki from South Rogaland. Geirmund Swarthyskin was then away in the West, beyo... ...Norway. There are many accounts of it, for one always hears much about those people of whom the saga is told. Troops had come in from all the country... ...him Audun Nannygoat. The Saga of Grettir the Strong 12 When the farmers and people about heard of the disturbances they all came out to help the jar]... ...later Asgrim went to Hallsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound. All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim. He defended himse... ...nk, from whom many are descended. CHAPTER LXXXV THORBJORN GOES TO NORWAY AND CONSTANTINOPLE THORBJORN A NGLE EMBARKED AT G ASAR with as much of his ... ...o he made ready to leave Norway, embarked, and did not stop until he reached Constantinople, and obtained service there. CHAPTER LXXXVI GRETTIR’S DEAT... ... WAS A WEALTHY MAN and highly thought of. On hearing of Angle’s departure to Constantinople he handed over his property to his kinsmen and followed hi...

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...ed by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which in- cluded diplom... ...to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the per... ...rvice of the free Republic of Florence, which flourished, as stated above, from the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. After ... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ...y ran more danger than at any other time of their troubles. The Emperor of Constantinople,* to oppose his neighbours, sent ten thousand Turks into Gre...

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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... ... of Canterbury in 1093, died 1109; magnus et subtilis doctor in theologia.”Constantinople. 37 The compiler of the treatise on grammar (the first of t... ... to have ceded Rome to the Pope, and by transferring the seat of empire to Constantinople, he made the laws and the eagle Greek. 9 William H., son of...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ... every Society are such chimneys, are Institutions serv- ing as such: even Constantinople is not without its safety- valves; there too Discontent can ... ...ois the Baker;’ (21st October, 1789 (Moniteur, No. 76).) and hangs him, in Constantinople wise;—but even this, singular as it my seem, does not cheape... ...ow the River’s course: land somewhere in Crim Tartary, in the Black Sea or Constantinople region: a la Sindbad! Authentic History, ac- cordingly, look...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...In every Society are such chimneys, are Institutions serving as such: even Constantinople is not without its safety-valves; there too Discontent can v...

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...be the chief char acteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their ... ...d meekness of spirit. “Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity”(II Tim. 2. 19.) . “Thou, when thou art converted, strengthen... ... that those should sincerely and heart ily apply themselves to make other people Christians, who have not really embraced the Christian religion in t... ...ish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people? These, and such like things, are certainly more contrary to the glo... ... the Church, and to the salvation of souls, than any conscientious dissent from ecclesiastical decisions, or separation from public wor ship, whilst ... ...ne, and bears His yoke, though he forsake both father and mother, separate from the public as semblies and ceremonies of his country, or whomsoever o... ...ches—the one of Arminians, the other of Calvinists—residing in the city of Constantinople. Will anyone say that either of these churches has right to ... ...of their worship is on both sides equal; nor is there any judge, either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth, by whose sen tence it can be deter... ...give unto them a right which he has not himself. This would be the case at Constantinople; and the reason of the thing is the same in any Christian ki...

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...pected accent. “It might be London.” She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water ... ...hite bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate tha... ...f the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert ... ...e of conversa- tion that you have just accepted the living—” “Yes, I heard from mother so last week. She didn’t know that I knew you at Tunbridge Well... ..., and round by Settignano, or something of that sort.” “No!” cried a voice from the top of the table. “Mr. Beebe, you are wrong. The first fine aftern... ...ope that people will be nice.” “I think he is; nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect—I may sa... ...ny further than Athens, but if you knew of a really comfortable pension at Constantinople, we should be so grateful.” Lucy would enjoy this letter, an... ... it. “Isn’t it wonderful? Isn’t it romance? most certainly they will go to Constantinople. They are taken in a snare that cannot fail. They will end b... ...f propriety against the terrible thing. ‘A really comfortable pen- sion at Constantinople!’ So they call it out of decency, but in their hearts they w...

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... a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the na... ...ly by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol inj... ...of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people. Time and again, in his essays and in his letters to friends, he exp... ... of the time which ought to be richer than any other in events. Here was a people whose whole existence was passed in 6 Gogol activity, and which, ev... ....” Russian history gives him no plea- sure, and he separates it definitely from Ukrainian history. He is “ready to cast everything aside rather than r... ...e Thucydides of Little Russia.” How completely he disasso- ciated Ukrainia from Northern Russia may be judged by the conspectus of his lectures writte... ...at Kizikirmen, that Pidsuitok’s head had been salted and sent in a cask to Constantinople. Old Bulba hung his head and said thoughtfully, “They were g... ... held by all. We made ourselves known to the Greeks, and we took gold from Constantinople, and our cities were luxurious, and we had, too, our temples...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...me sort as a prelude to his public career, and finding that all the clever people seemed to be agreed that the cen- sorship was an anti-Liberal instit... ...ed to him as a new play, he would have been sup- ported by a large body of people to whom incest is a tabooed subject which must not be mentioned on t... ... the same time, a brisk demand arose outside the Committee, not only among people who were anxious to read what I had to say on the subject, but among... ...lapham would be a Mohammedan for the cognate reason if he had been born in Constantinople. He has never willingly tolerated im- morality. He did not a... ...rtune that public opinion would not tolerate a dramatization of Mahomet in Constantinople. But to prohibit it here, where public opinion would tolerat...

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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... ... his talent for art. “Well, never mind; only just to breathe freely. First Constantinople, then Rome. Only just to get through with this jury business...

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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... ... our so-called History is. How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads a... ... pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day, yellow, emaciated, ragged, sneakin...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ...er nerves, her chest, her liver. The noise of footsteps made her ill; when people left her, solitude became odious to her; if they came back, it was d... ...eath of his wife had not served him ill in his business, since for a month people had been saying, “The poor young man! what a loss!” His name had bee... ...called, and the internal management of the farm, suited him less than most people. He did not will- ingly take his hands out of his pockets, and did n... ...long years. One, he said had been told of, who had come back to Paris from Constantinople. Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight ...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ... W allachia, T ransylvania, Hungary, Bulgaria, T urkeyland, and are now at Constantinople. Come, said Picrochole, let us go join with them quickly, fo... ...h his trisulc lightning if I lie! I walked there as they do in Sophia (at) Constantinople, 287 Rabelais and saw there great rocks, like the mountains... ...cal trick Gallienus, the Roman emperor, put to death the mili- tary men in Constantinople. Thus, under colour of friend- ship, Antonius enticed Artava...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...rable, built of brick and stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three ... ...ianus and Theodosius reigned eight years. At that time a synod was held at Constantinople, attended by three hundred and fifty of the fathers, and in ...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...go since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how the clumsy quality of that success... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ...ork of all sorts comes under this head. What to do with the pariah dogs of Constantinople, what to do with the tramps who sleep in the London parks, h...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...e other blue; and not the green and blue chariots in the circus of Rome or Constantinople excited more tur- moil among the citizens than the double ap...

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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 play- bills, and the gingybear bottles in the window—above all, by the “Constantinople” Divan, kep by the Misses Mordeky, and well known to every l... ... lover of “a prime sigaw and an exlent cup of reel Moky Coffy for 6d.” The Constantinople Divann is greatly used by the foring gents of Lester Squar. ... ...lam; and of this back-parlor and baggytell-bord, of this counter, of this “Constantinople” Divan, he became almost as reglar a frequenter as the plast...

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...ries of stories written for the Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : Preface 3 people; and among them What Men Live By, probably the most widely circulate... ...f the spirit of the Russian peasantry, and supply a glimpse of the sources from whence Tolstoy imbibed many of his own spiritual sympathies and antipa... ...is own spiritual sympathies and antipathies. Part VI gives two adaptations from the French which have appeared in no previous English edition of Tolst... ...m afraid of; all I know is that I had a bad dream. I dreamt you re turned from the town, and when you took off your cap I saw that your hair was quit... ...w, in his mind, the place where he was flogged, the execu tioner, and the people standing around; the chains, the convicts, all the twenty six years ... ... far; I only want to climb that hill. I want to find a herb — to cure sick people with. You come with me if you like. How can I run away with these sh... ...acks. On the third day it grew calm, and on the fifth day they anchored at Constantinople. Some of the pilgrims went on shore to visit the Church of S...