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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...lis/7609/eng/bio.html http://wekker.seagull.net/bolivar/biograf_menu.html Bra Mary Phelps Jacob - a rich socialite - received the first patent... ...and Missouri - seceded but were controlled by the Union's army throughout the war. Maryland and Delaware were slave states but did not secede. ... ...evolved in Tudor times from the kirtle, stiffened by glue and worn under the gown. Mary Tudor's wardrobe contained these: "Item for making of one p... ...erself. An examination of the body, commissioned by the incensed parents, found her virginity intact. The Manfredis charged Elvira Puccini with ... ...h typhoid bacilli!!! She protested her innocence: "This contention that I am a perpetual menace in the spread of typhoid germs is not true. My ...

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...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy exp...

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...OW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR............................

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...st T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ries, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rself for a little while, she said to the priest, “How then did the Virgin Mary?” “Ah!” replied abbot, “that it is a mystery.” “And what is a mystery?... ...he lamentations, profound wisdom, controversies and intelligence that this virginity secreted. “My daughter,” said he, “God has distinguished us from ... ...was compelled, like La Balue, to murmur words of excuse to this student of perpetual motion, shutting the door with as promptitude as he opened it; an... ... And the old girl rubbed and warmed this fine young man, supplicating holy Mary the Egyptian to aid her to renew the life of this husband who had fall... ... was increasing in poverty, and ran into debt on account of her daughter’s virginity, as an alchemist will for the crucible in which his all is cast. ...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF T...

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...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...heretic woman, should find herself upon a throne, to keep a prisoner sweet Mary of Scotland, to the shame of all the knights of Christendom, who shoul... ...ves of the saints, in their own fashion, and said that all they admired in Mary of Egypt was her fashion of paying the 25 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 boat... ..., from thread to needle, the Regent declared that she believed more in the virginity of the Holy Mary than in the promised dozen. Now, by chance, Jacq... ...e, the Regent declared that she believed more in the virginity of the Holy Mary than in the promised dozen. Now, by chance, Jacques de Beaune did not ... ...ay of mock- ery, the Succubus placed me in the centre of this horrible and perpetual conflict, where I was lost as a grain of sand in the sea. Then st...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ons about his “miraculous” begetting, and by the morbid speculations about virginity and the like that arose out of such grossness. They were still fu... ...erature of authoritative Christianity with decisions upon the continu- ing virginity of Mary and the virginity of Joseph—ideas that first arose in Ara... ...alities, such odd deductions as the accepted Christian teachings about the virginity of Mary and Joseph, and the like. All these things are parts of o... ...d, em- bodied itself in this conception of a malignant and partisan Deity, perpetually “upset” by the little things people did, and contriving murder ... ...him, and who could help but hate? I thought of him as a fantastic monster, perpetually spying, perpetually listening, perpetually waiting to condemn a... ...our. These are gods after the ancient habit of the human mind, that turned perpetually backward for causes and reasons and saw all things to come as n...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...lf sunken by the raising of the soil, these houses are also wrapped in the perpetual shadow cast by the lofty build- ings of the Louvre, darkened on t... ...rfection, and the rapidity with which an idea develops in a virgin nature. Virginity, like every other monstrosity, has its special rich- ness, its ab... ...upremely great above every other type, whether Hindoo, Egyptian, or Greek. Virginity, the mother of great things, /magna parens rerum/, holds in her f... ...habits of life on the clothes he wears. 190 Cousin Betty Sculpture is the perpetual realization of the fact which once, and never again, was, in pain... ...ad lost this alliance, he would have been no more than an ordinary player. Perpetual work is the law of art, as it is the law of life, for art is idea... ... wife, in the depths of the country, has preserved him in a state of utter virginity as to the luxury and pleasures of Paris life. But Beauvisage—his ...

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...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... woman. In this particular case, in favour of marrying Missy (her name was Mary, but, as is usual among a certain set, a nickname had been given her) ... ...ecided which haycock to turn to. “At any rate, before I get an answer from Mary Vasilievna (the marechal’s wife), and finish completely with her, I ca... ... and even wrote to Princess Elena Ivanovna, Nekhludoff’s mother. His aunt, Mary Ivanovna, was afraid Dmitri would form an intimacy with Katusha; but h... ... right to glorify the Virgin Mary, who had borne Christ without losing her virginity, and was therefore worthy of greater honour than some kind of che... ...at seemed so simple would have cost a great deal. Besides encountering the perpetual hostility of all those who were near to him, he would have to giv...

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...Excerpt: On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi?s works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transition...

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...ION The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...on can change woman as long as her highest ideal shall be marriage and not virginity, freedom from sensuality. Until that time she will remain a serf.... ...doctors, who pretend to aid health, your entire life is disturbed. It is a perpetual peril. Scarcely do we believe ourselves out of it when a new dang... ...uch. Vodka be- fore meals, and during meals two glasses of wine, so that a perpetual mist concealed the turmoil of existence. “These new theories of h... ...alousy, my irritability, and the necessity of keeping myself in a state of perpetual semi-intoxication by hunting, card-playing, and, above all, the u... ...d invite him to your house. It will be a holy day (the birth of the Virgin Mary). Get out the samo- var and have some vodki, and over both forgive and...

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...cs Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ctly, and kicks 89 EM Forster the chair-legs with her feet. The faults of Mary—I forget the faults of Mary, but they are very grave. Shall we look in... ...t they are very grave. Shall we look in the garden?” “I know the faults of Mary. She leaves the dust- pans standing on the stairs.” “The fault of Euph... ...a question of fact. Mrs. Honeychurch’s mouth twitched when he spoke of the perpetual green of the larch. “I count myself a lucky person,” he concluded... ... per. Cecil glanced at them as he proceeded to his toilet and they impeded Mary with her brood of hot- water cans. Then Mrs. Honeychurch opened her do... ...rther—to place her out of danger until she could confirm her resolution of virginity. The feeling was very subtle and quite undogmatic, and he never i...

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...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possibl...

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...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nst the accusation of ever having done anything. He wanted to preserve the virginity of his wife’s thoughts. He told me that himself during the long w... ...isiting. Do you understand that, whilst she was Edward’s mistress, she was perpetually trying to reunite him to his wife? She would gabble on to Leono... ...o have been irritating, too, so that the house was a place of outcries and perpetual disturbances. Mrs Rufford was Leonora’s dearest friend and Leonor... ...ver my own property and I saw a good deal of him and of a nice girl called Mary, to whom he was engaged. At that time I did, what I certainly shouldn’... ...els turned round and round within him: his tongue 113 Ford Madox Ford was perpetually dry and it seemed to him that the breath between his teeth was ... ...n admiration that is awakened in Catholics by their feeling for the Virgin Mary and for various of the saints. It is too little to say that the girl w...

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..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER...

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...ics Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...m its look of brooding. She might have been one of the women who went with Mary when Jesus was dead. Her body was not flexible and living. She walked ... .... There was one tall tower in a cor- ner, rather tottering, where they say Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. “Think of the Queen going up here!” sai... ... what was his reluctance? He told himself it was only a sort of overstrong virginity in her and him which neither could break through. He might have m... ...pposite; it was a strong desire battling with a still stronger shyness and virginity. It seemed as if virginity were a positive force, which fought an... ...od many of the nicest men he knew were like himself, bound in by their own virginity, which they could not break out of. They were so sensitive to the... ...g where he would end. He was sick, and much too quiet for him. There was a perpetual little knitting of his brows, such as she had seen when he was a ...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...conception of it would have entered his mind first only in a bare and sum- mary fashion. It would have been taken up again, expanded, developed, metam... ...t forth betimes: so doth not the total welfare of our humanity depend upon perpetual drinking in a ribble rabble, like ducks, but on drink- ing early ... ...re you shall erect two pillars more stately than those of Hercules, to the perpetual memory of your name, and the narrow entrance there shall be calle... ...ons detained as hostages till that sum had been paid, they made themselves perpetual tributaries, and obliged to give us every year two millions of go... ...already published, very speedily to offer up unto this Isle of Britain the virginity of the translation of the other three most admirable books of the... ...ent thyself from the fight, thou white- livered son of a dunghill! Upon my virginity thou wilt never come back. Well, there can be no great loss in th...

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...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y to persevere as in the Past, must Innovation and Conservation wage their perpetual conflict, as they may and can. Wherein the ‘daemonic element,’ th... ...suits; strips Reporter Goezman of the judicial ermine; covering him with a perpetual garment of obloquy instead:—and in regard to the Parlement Maupeo... ...s acknowledged grounds of Hope, at bottom mere precursors of Despair, this perpetual theorising about Man, the Mind of Man, Philosophy of Government, ... ...echaussees, National Guards, Troops of the line; justice, of the most sum- mary sort, is not wanting. The Electoral Committee of Macon, though but a C... ... of the Halle, slim Mantua-makers, assiduous, risen with the dawn; ancient Virginity tripping to matins; the Housemaid, with early broom; all must go.... ... oar of French Galley, ‘in the Water of Lore;’ and even flung their Virgin-Mary over, instead of kissing her,— as ‘a pented bredd, ’ or timber Virgin,...

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...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...any common theft, whilst women who loathe sex sla- very more fiercely than Mary Wollstonecraft are unable to face the insecurity and discredit of the ... ...ers accepted the Reformation under Henry and Edward, the Restoration under Mary, and, after Mary’s death, the shandygaff which Elizabeth compounded fr... ...ith grotesque results. The slave-dealer having always asked more money for virginity, the Church, instead of detecting the money-changer and driving h... ...s lover, and, helped by its only half-discarded doctrine of celibacy, gave virginity a heavenly value to ennoble its commercial pre- tensions. In shor... ...ove of their conduct and want to punish them; but do not send them back to perpetual wed- lock. 5. If, on the other hand, you think a couple perfectly...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ................................................................. 127 TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. ....................................................... ......................................................................... 152 MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. .................................... ...works the general good out of extremes, and brings all to its great end by perpetual revolutions, ver. 161 to 178. How a miser acts upon principles wh... ... means you know. The same apostle, too, has elsewhere own’d No precept for virginity he found: ’Tis but a counsel—and we women still Take which we lik... ...ost. CARDELIA. At the groom-porter’s, batter’d bullies play, Some dukes at Mary-bone bowl time away. 100 But who the bowl or rattlin...

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...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 JOHN KINSELLA’S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE . . . . . . 349 HOUND VOICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... oaken press. 38 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Did the kiss of Mother Mary Put that music in her face? Yet she goes with footstep wary, Full of e... ...inds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet. THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS 53 INTO THE TWILIGHT OUT WORN heart... ...riment a quarrel. O may she live like some green laurel Rooted in one dear perpetual place. My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of ... ...But a birch tree stood my Jack: The solid man and the coxcomb. Jack had my virginity, And bids me to the oak, for he (All find safety in the tomb.) Wan...