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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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.... S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pen... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend IN... ...enough for it, to interpret mod- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which m... ...a, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his “Hamletisme.” But in Virgin Soil he is easy and almost negligent master of his instrument, and though h... ... dom, but cannot achieve it. It is one of a series of portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and i... ...finely revealed .and brought to a rare point of characterisation in Virgin Soil, is the prophetic intention he had of the woman’s part in the new orde... ...895; A Lear of the Steppe, from the French, by W . H. Browne, 1874; Virgin Soil, from the French, by T . S. Perry, 1877, 1883, by A. W . Dilke, 1878; ... ...oyd, T wo Russian Reformers: Ivan T urgenev, Leo T olstoy, 1910. 6 Virgin Soil VIRGIN SOIL “T o turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep p...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... ...t indefatigable mole, that ro- dent which undermines and disintegrates the soil, par- cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 So... ... cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 Sons of the Soil ever spurred on to his banquet by the lower middle classes who make hi... ...g my greatest consolations in misfortune. De Balzac. 5 Balzac SONS OF THE SOIL PART I Whoso land hath, contention hath. CHAPTER I THE CHATEAU Les Aig... ...tracks can be seen along its double width of way. The great 6 Sons of the Soil age of the trees, the breadth of the avenue, the venerable constructio... ...landscape on such free lines covers a great deal of ground. 8 Sons of the Soil Nothing is smoothed off; rakes are unknown, ruts and ditches are full ... ...tears, and all are clearly defined on the dark-blue ether. Above the ruddy soil of the terraces flames that joyous natural punch which intoxicates the...

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...Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in ...

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...In agricultural soils the presence of enzymes assures a correct, integrated and regulated course of processes at soil-plant-environment interfaces that lead to the growth and production of crops for human and animal feed. The knowledge of ...

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...Quietly Respect the Creatures In the Fire How Far Mind’s Gift Feel the Black Soil Sing Not Simpler Out of the Other Language Loosing Go Han Shan’s Mountain Plum Buds Diving Seeing World This Place Immortal, Ephemeral Going Past One Universe, Shining Empty Meaning Moon-Slope Cool Breast I...

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..."Most of water on the earth is salty and yet most of the land is not. Over the millennia, salts have been washed from rocks and soils into the oceans where they have accumulated. Where the oceans meet the land then saline areas can form that have an unusual flora, one that tolerates salt concentrations lethal to most of our plant species. These salt-t...

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...9, Castle Hills, the skies had opened up to shower its sprawling lawns. It was as if the eagerness of the rainfall matched the longing of the parched soil to receive its fertile mate in an aroma of embrace, and in the ensuing echoes of that seasonal union, the roots of the garden plants devoured every raindrop, that is, even as their leaves shed the overburden to accommoda...

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...Red Tempests Ash Woodlands Black Streams Orange Soils White Vines Purple Waves Gold Foliage Turquoise Roots Emerald Luminosities Sapphire Skies Crimson Fields Pink Honeycombs...

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...cult spirit of the Nippon poetry and aesthetics. He is right on the native soil of the one­line poem, which was lacking in Romanian literature, from i...

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...ars, disintegrating inexorably beneath its blackening shield. Its wheels, now rooted in the soil, it sank into the mildewed ground, another, peculia... ...at I have to purge my tattered sneakers with branches and stones wrenched out of the mucky soil around our barracks. But there is still way to go. ... ... roles. I rise, prying my neighbour loose from contemplation. He eyes me, wicked. I pass a soiled boot above his clustered knees and place it ginge... ...m, holding onto it tightly. One jerky movement, it fell and he stood there, gawking at the soiled lump and whimpering. He was so tiny that I hugged ... ... a story about "Adhesa Cottonball", the cotton monster, who forever wishes to return to the soil, her abode. His eyes cleared and he giggled nervous... ...brightened the room's far corners, let alone the alleyway. The young ones dozed, bowing to soiled plates, their crumpled, stained, cloth bibs bobbi... ...ot necessarily a thing to mourn" – I added. He rearranged the remnants of his dinner on his soiled plate. I gathered that he was far too experienced... ...end the footpath, liberally dotted with fallen leaves and broken twigs. Submerged in muddy soil, the rich substrate of foliar death, I kicked the ri... ... now I have been urinating into flower pots, spraying the shiny leaves, the fissured russet soil. Typically, as time passes, the plant I pee on blac...

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...earing the creaking and scraping of the opening barn door Plowing The top soil of the dry earth. Thinking: he would never kill my shadowy corner. ...

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...ity and the real I, thoughts of letting himself sink and take root in the soil called despair by men, soil out of which arise self-destruction and r... ...ery man can say Thou and is t~en :r. every man can say Father and is then SoIl.: reality abides. * -But how if a man's mission require him to know...

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...as so despised that the government of Venezuela refused to allow his body onto its soil. It took 12 years of constant petitioning by the family to ... ... host and fall to the ground (spill over from the wounds) to pupate in the surface soil. Depending on the temperature, this takes anywhere from 7 ... .... Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building's foundation res...

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...ange is threatening to turn vast areas of our planet into unlivable, lifeless soil, unsuitable for hu- man habitation and inadequate for food product... ...pearance may change as a result of environmental influences such as sunlight, soil, fertilizers, moisture, and rain. So while the kind of plant rema...

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...etotherootofanew,organicspiritualstate.Justasaseed must first decompose in the soil in order to grow, so, too, must a person cease to feel any spiritu... ...form several kinds of work on ourselves, starting with "tilling" the inanimate soil. Spiritual progress can be made only by counteracting our desires ... ... soul. This process is similar to planting a seed. If it is planted in fertile soil and is properly cared for, then the seed will sprout, grow, and br... ...row, and bring forth its fruit. Therefore, we need both a good mentor and good soil (environment) in order that all of our traits should develop and b...

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... produce a new quality of the same essence. These elements might be the sun, soil, fertilizers, moisture, and rain. They de- termine the difficultie... ...at ejects and repels this people, a land that cannot stand this nation on its soil, “a land that devours its in- habitants” (Numbers, 13:32). Baal Ha...

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...ance may change as a result of environmental influences such as sunlight, soil, fertilizers, moisture, and rain. So while the kind of plant remains ... ...his is why we grow plants in greenhouses and artificially fertilize their soil. We try to create the best environment for plants to grow. In our hum...

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... from the mist on a crisp winter day to flower buds breaking through the soil in spring, rising heat on those dog days of summer, the bursts of bri... ...' ting a hole in one. When he was finally freed and settled back on u.s. soil, one of the first things he did was play golf. And wouldn't you know ...

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... God. These are the seeds of part 2 (of God’s Plan) being sown into part 1 soil. And then, after the first part of God’s Plan for us is fulfilled (i. ...

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...sea. Between vegetative and animal we may find a living organism feeding on the soil. The ape is located halfway between the animal and human realm o...