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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...fruits, along dusty and sizzling highways. This loot proves his detractors wrong. It loudly states, in black and red: I am here, not to be snubbed. ... ...efuge in numbers, solace in propinquity. I thought I'd join the Jesuits. I strolled to the United Nations building and met a senior bureaucrat, a m... ...ong behind him. It is not true! You are so young!" I drove my shrimps amongst the Thousand Islands in my bowl. "You are observant, Sir" – I said – ... ...d dried, his clothes the latest fashion from abroad. He was a seaman. His visits smelled of outlying cities and sinful women thin-clad in bustling p... ...s own abode. He didn't say a thing, but not long after, he signed me over to the army as a minor. My mother tremblingly co-signed and mutely pleaded... ... Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International (UPI). Web and Journalistic A... ...t, and "Central Europe Review". Publications and Awards "Managing Investment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1988...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...ave driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, isl... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...ved him with signs of hostility, which they manifested by cries and groans. He states that the island had three volcanoes which continually belched fo... ... For several hundred years the spirit of discovery had been quiescent, the far outlying lands were neglected because they had not been a source of rev... ...iscoveries of the earlier Portuguese navigators, along the coast of Africa and outlying islands, had been eclipsed by the more illustrious success of ... ...ed of extreme cold. On the 26th of May following, the three vessels were again united and entered the South Sea, but were almost immediately dispersed... ...nt seven years with his uncle, Ovando, governor of St. Domingo, occupying some minor official positions, but in this time performing no special servic... ...GENA. UPON taking possession of the city, de Pointis was careful to spread the minor that Cartagena would be taken permanently from the Spaniards and ...

...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ...he World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet thei... ...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ...9 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257 Vanuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam... ...ective Afghan Ethnic divisions: 50% Pushtun, 25% Tajik, 9% Uzbek, 9% Hazara; minor ethnic groups include Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baluch, and others Re... ...ersian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life ex... ...s: fair system of urban facilities in Djibouti and radio-relay sta- tions at outlying places; 7,300 telephones (2.4 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV s...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

... will bo ilhistraterl with actual missionary experiences in tjie south sea islands. MONDAY, APRIL 8 p, m,—Triaf.s for iuterclass de biite, 'Techuian a... ... to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH... ...e Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH si'lep... ...- similarities between the constitu- tioiis of Germany and of the L'liited States. It must be re raeinl)i!red, however, that the origi- nal sources an... ...affected by this influence, and this is not- ably true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to es... ...the Hindoo and Morning songs. The program follows: Prelnde and Fngiie in A minor J. S. Bach FantHHie (The Storm) JaoqueH LemmenH Hiiiiloo Song Henri B... ...; among them his costly three-volume edi- tion of " Butterflies of Eastern United States and Canada," and his largest work •• Nomenclatura Zoologicus.... .... Salter, assisted byLaMent '08 with the violin. The program : Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, R. L. Baldwin j Vision de Jeanne d'Arc, Gounod I Adoration, ... ...n of college property is sending the sons of residents of Williamstown and outlying villnges to other col- leges rather than to Williams; that the tow...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ike the slight bitter aftertaste of too much cloying chocolate), it was of minor consideration being the Patpong prostitute depicter that he was. With... ... newspapers and magazines to give readers what they wanted: sleaze about a minor celebrity whom through his paintings and tabloid gossip they could le... ...through the silence. "Since you were about ready to go on your trip to the states, Nawin of the Thais with your American passport, we decided to delay... ...lness and sleep that the mind should continue to allow either of these two states to overwhelm the other. It seemed odd that after so long it would co... ... as he remained seated a few feet from the window) the swath of fields and outlying roads of small towns hurried past him in an incessant green and gr... ...ary. In the seats of his car parked around forested areas within Bangkok's outlying roadside parks (the woods therein avoided because of the bigger pr... ... to assemble a bridge of ideas that would link them, two distant and alien islands. Words merely verified the fact that their intimacy was a mirage. T... ...Thailand, and so if he had to have a practical reason for returning to the United States this could be one. He had plenty of accessible money for his ... ...ter?--he could not remember any of the specifics; hadn't some uncle in the United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thun...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

.... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... .... Then there would be no black hole at all. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ...alf of Infinite Time; that’s only one split. That was the Major split: not a minor one. The other minor splits happened inside it. One major spli... ...ty of the Twelve major organs of your body. It is the Totality of the Twelve minor organs of your body, it is the Totality of the twelve major nerv... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...hat the highest concentration is at the top, not at the bottom. Today in the United States: 1% of its population holds 40% of its wealth, 4% of its ... ...uling class or elite. Civilized centers thus became more prosperous than the outlying non-civilized areas due to the peaceful legalization of robber... ...d commander’s hands. Then you had an endless series of Roman Generals in outlying provinces that invaded their own city in order to conquer it....

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...e no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchased, but was not ye... ...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...f screens against the wind. Here and there, in solitary places, there were outlying tents, looking as though each belonged to some military recluse; a... ...d themselves to be deceived by Sir Robert Peel. In each of these cases the minority of dissentients was so small that the nation suffered noth- ing, t... ...age; and even that word should be taken with certain restrictions. Aliens, minors, convicts, and men who pay no taxes cannot vote. In some States none...

................................................................................................................ 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...................................................................................................................

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...se tribes as have been brought into frequent and bloody collision with our outlying settlements and emigrants. Sound policy and our imperative duty t... ...I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constit... ...d soldiers under his com- mand. ADDRESS TO THE ENVOY FROM THE HA W AI- IAN ISLANDS, JUNE 11, 1864. SIR:—In every light in which the State of the Hawai... ...NDS, JUNE 11, 1864. SIR:—In every light in which the State of the Hawaiian Islands can be contemplated, it is an object of profound interest for the U... ... Lee unless it be for the ca- pitulation of General Lee’s army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not ...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

... species of civilization long before the greater portion of even the older States was rescued from the wilderness. Ontario in our own times has been t... ... but a poor Indian if he didn’t. No, no; it is war-time, and no redskin is outlying without using his senses. Every skin has its own natur’, and every... ...side of the river, and I have come up the other, in order to scout for the outlying rascals, while Jasper brought up the canoe, like a bold-hearted sa... ...mming as soon as it was dark. In this manner, the body of friends and foes united reached the margin of the eastern channel, where, as in the case of ... ...geant is about to embark with a party to relieve a post among the Thousand Islands; and as I heard him say he intended that Mabel should go along, you... ...ft your berth into a part of the world where they say there are a thousand islands.” “Pathfinder, this is some of your forgetfulness?” “Nay, nay, Serg... ...a general wish to have her settled, rather than from any desire to see her united to any particular individual. These thoughts, however, she kept secr... ...has been the traitor? Ah, Pathfinder! ye’ll no’ be making yourself a great statesman or a great captain if you put too much faith in appearances. Lord... ...ed the follow- ing circumstances, which will serve to clear up some of the minor incidents of our tale. Soon after the 55th appeared on the frontiers,...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By: Charles Dickens

...directs his comely gaiters towards the ruddy dining-room of the snug old red-brick house where he is at present, ‘in residence’ with Mrs. Dean and Mis... ... Dean. Mr. Crisparkle, Minor Canon, fair and rosy, and perpetually pitching himself head-foremost into all the deep running water in the surrounding c... ... for your, as I may say, sacrificing yourself to me in that way.’ Mr. Jasper, becoming a breathing man again without the smallest stage of transition ... ...es of monastic graves, that the Cloisterham children grow small salad in the dust of abbots and abbesses, and make dirt-pies of nuns and friars; while... ...e) a quarter has no pieces in her list of recitals bearing on such unprofitable questions. As, in some cases of drunkenness, and in others of animal m... ...under walked in the middle of the road, shouldering the natives out of his way, and loudly developing a scheme he had, for making a raid on all the un... ...ickens favourites with national enemies, but gave him the genuine George the Third home-brewed; exhorting him (as ‘my brave boys’) to reduce to a smas... ...hen understood Mr. Sapsea to suggest that the river should be dragged, that its banks should be rigidly examined, that particulars of the disappearanc...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ...he was so fatherly and indulgent toward the boat’s family, and so patient of minor shortcom ings, he could be stern enough when the fault was worth i... ...stick to the Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 123 boat, and give such minor service as chance might throw in the way. Henry remembered this, af... ...s seems to have consisted mainly of one long street of log houses, with some outlying cabins sprinkled around rearward toward the woods; and now and t... ...ays now, and is adding to them—pushing them hither and thither into all rich outlying regions that are naturally tributary to her. And like Vicksburg ...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ers, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with c... ...d in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with convenie... ... where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought th... ...nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their con... ...e pretended anxiety of Robinson Crusoe and others to escape from uninhabited islands. But Ohio was not at all as I had pictured it. We were now on tho... ...y as men forget, that country-side was still alive with tales of uhlans, and outlying sentries, and hairbreadth ‘scapes from the ignominious cord, and... ...t harbour-sides, which is the richest form of idling; it carries him to wild islands; it gives him a taste of the genial dangers of the sea; it suppli... ...reast of the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (some- what minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to hi... ...hat organ perish from disuse. And to avoid the penalties of the law, and the minor capitis diminutio of social ostracism, is an affair of wisdom – of ...

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The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757

By: James Fenimore Cooper

... numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to underst... ...us tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand ano... ...almost any other district of equal ex- tent within the whole limits of the United States. There are fashionable and well-attended watering-places at a... ...any other district of equal ex- tent within the whole limits of the United States. There are fashionable and well-attended watering-places at and near... ... its original appella- tion of “Horican.”* Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen league... ... fingers of my two hands; but they lie hid like cowards.” “The thieves are outlying for scalps and plunder,” said the white man, whom we shall call Ha... ...any with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies. They are full of outlying Iroquois, and your mongrel Mohawk knows where to find them too wel... ...rm the climax of an Indian’s wishes. “He will make the fire-water from the islands in the salt lake flow before the wigwam of Magua, until the heart o... ... to the world a man who was great in all the 184 The Last of the Mohicans minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became nec...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

... Roman greatness. Peace, hollow rhetoricians! Until Cæsar came, Rome was a minor; by him, she attained her majority, and fulfilled her destiny. Caius ... ...imply be- cause there was no other but himself. There were doubtless a few outlying rulers, of unknown names and titles upon the margins of his empire... ...strength was measured against it. In Macedon, in Achaia, in Syria, in Asia Minor, in Egypt,— every where the members of this empire had begun to knit;... ... a ferocity in his character, and a touch of the devil in him, very rarely united with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplis... ...ed with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplished statesman, the splendid orator, the man of elegant habits and polished tast... ... as it were, rose in a body with one voice, and apparently with one heart, united by mere force of in- dignant sympathy, to put him down, and “abate” ... ...the excesses of the autocrat. Even in the bloody despotisms of the Barbary States, there has always existed in the religious prejudices of the people,... ... of the Orient, and those who sat in the gates of the rising sun, with the islands of the West, and the unfathomed depths of the mysterious Scandinavi... ...dented violence, ravaged the wealthy regions of Asia Minor, as well as the islands of the Archipelago; and at length, under the guidance of deserters,...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...n with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years... ...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ...cate net- work of wires and cables, for Bun Hill became not only a sort of minor centre of power distribution—the Home Coun- ties Power Distribution C... ...nd made a broad-chested and intelligent man of every Bert Smallways in the islands, had they given the resources they spent in war material to the mak... ...ness of equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military nece... ... equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military necessities... ...had settled now it was to be twenty thou- sand pounds. He left a number of minor legacies. The wills became more and more meandering and extravagant …... ...n- ception of warfare. He saw quite a number of Germans run- ning from the outlying houses towards the power-house. T wo fell. One lay still, but the ...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ...t have ever blown con- ceit at me. We climbed towards the little church, at a cheery pace, among the loose stones, the deep mud, the wet coarse grass,... ... the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always i... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ...rse; that is in the nature of all animals. I have the pleasure to know a dog in a back street in the neighbourhood of Walworth, who has greatly disti... ...Prius with eloquent ap- peal to British Jury; that the air will to-morrow, and to-mor- row, and to-morrow, remain untroubled by this superabun- dant g... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ... in the presence of witnesses. This hand- some proposal I modestly declined, and he then embraced me, and we walked away conversing. We conversed resp... ... and no discretion. This friend discovered a deso- late stranger, mourning over the unexpected death of one very dear to him, in a solitary cottage am...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...oment, the lyric and almost un- selfish lover of Zenith. He thought of the outlying factory suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely eroded b... ...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at ... ...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ... brother, Mr. George F. Babbitt.” He had in fifteen minutes changed from a minor delegate to a personage almost as well known as that diplomat of busi... ...ne and Class Rule, and Zenith was again saved. Babbitt was offered several minor appointments to distribute among poor relations, but he preferred adv... ... trying to look like a member. Sixty men had come to the dinner. They made islands and eddies in the hall; they packed the elevator and the corners of...

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...own noticed signs of the flue of a forge, shown by a long trail of soot,—a minor detail which confirmed the conjecture of archaeologists as to the ori... ...ntly at Veronique as she returned to her seat from the altar where she had united herself with God,—a moment when she appeared to all the parish in he... ...f all chance of the episcopate. 38 The Village Rector This eminent priest united in himself great Christian mod- esty and a noble character. Without ... ... which ne- cessitated an appeal to the court; but the judge sided with the minority. According to the legal system of that day this action led to a ve... ...present day. The village itself mounted to very little, but thirty or more outlying farms belonged to it. In the valley, leading down to the river, ir... ...magnificent phase of public works, which is destined to change the face of States and nations, to double human life, and modify the laws of space and ... ...ble human life, and modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will ... ...y on to that officer’s shoul- ders. But the poverty of the village and its outlying districts made such a functionary almost useless, and the inhabita... ...re the valley widened Gerard had taken advantage of a few hillocks to make islands and plant them with trees of varied foliage. These vast operations ...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder ... ... beings. It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all ov... .... It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all over the ... ... scenery was ruined, trap-doors were so swollen that they wouldn’t work for a week after- Mark Twain 48 ward, the fine costumes were spoiled, and no ... ... by a family of princely rank. This castle had its legend, too, but I should not feel justified in repeat- ing it because I doubted the truth of some ... ... or anything else if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of th... ...the very peak of the summit, a hundred yards away, and made for it. We rushed up the stairs to the top of this scaffolding, and stood there, above th... ...ve ever seen in private life. She was over seven feet high, and magnificently proportioned. What had first called my attention to her, was my stepping... ...appear in these tables, but they are scattered so widely over the country that they furnish a 277 A Tramp Abroad good general average of city health ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...continued. “There’s not a regiment in the service where you’ll find a more united society nor a more agreeable mess-room. There’s no quarrelling, bick... ...w. And he cursed his past follies and extravagances, and bemoaned his vast outlying debts above all, which must remain for ever as obstacles to preven... ...horses, and what a price he had paid for them. But success or defeat was a minor matter to them, who had only thought for the safety of those they lov... ...rnblower, who was tattooed 82 V anity Fair – V olume Two in the South Sea Islands. As for the Lady Jane, on whom, as it has been said, Mr. Pitt Crawl... ...ratification of making the ac- quaintance of the great and good Mr. Fox, a statesman whom, however much he might differ with him, it was impossible no... ...much he might differ with him, it was impossible not to admire fervently—a statesman who had always had the high- est opinion of the Emperor Napoleon.... ...was unlimited, but the quality was inferior: but when quantity and quality united as at his aunt’s house, James showed that he could appreciate them i... ...private. They had interviews together every morning when he shaved; Rawdon minor sitting on a box by his father’s side and watching the operation with... ...se pedigree goes far beyond the date of the arrival of King Brute in these islands. Pendragon is the title of the eldest son of the house. The sons ha...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...ed glow of embers. “I shall see Holroyd himself on my way back through the States,” said Sir John. “I’ve ascertained that he, too, wants the railway.”... ...siness of living. Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had rep- resented his country at s... ...ed backwards and forwards in a rocking-chair of the sort exported from the United States. The ceiling of the largest drawing-room of the Casa Gould ex... ..., with my dear mother, for a whole year, while poor father was away in the United States on business. You shall be the new mis- tress of the Casa Goul... ... at the North Pole. And then we shall have the leisure to take in hand the outlying islands and continents of the earth. We shall run the world’s busi... ...orth Pole. And then we shall have the leisure to take in hand the outlying islands and continents of the earth. We shall run the world’s business whet... ...cessible to profane eyes. Some scornful young men, insignificant pieces of minor machinery in that eleven-storey-high work- shop of great affairs, exp... ...e hosts of that informal func- tion, with the captain of the ship and some minor officials from the shore around him. Those cheery, 108 Nostromo swar... ...ct circle of the horizon, its clumps of heavy timber motionless like solid islands of leaves above the running waves of grass. There were hides there,...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...t of success, is but the regard for one’s own dignity which is inseparably united with the dignity of one’s work. And then—it is very difficult to be ... ...thers that feeling of peace which was not her own. It was only later, when united at last with the man of her choice that she developed those uncommon... ...?” I told him almost in a whisper, for he attuned my communications to his minor key, that we had such a thing as a pony, and I hinted, as gently as I... ...ueer smiles and the disrespectful chat- ter of every vagrant trader in the Islands. Your name was the common property of the winds: it, as it were, fl... ...ed me into the North Sea (I suppose) and provided me with a lee-shore with outlying sandbanks—the Dutch coast presumably. Distance, eight miles. The e... ...tunity of observing was the boarding of ships at sea, at all times, in all states of the weather. They gave it to me to the full. And I have been invi...

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The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

...g to oblige, they have had to take small parts, to content themselves with minor identities, in order to come on at all. I haven’t the heart now, I co... ...am of hospitality, filtered or diffused, could thus now and then spread to outlying receptacles. A good- natured lady in fine, a friend of her mother ... ...fteen or twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been... ...r twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been nursed... ...ect up—that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It wa... ...that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It was just ... ... friend could now judge, from what she sup- posed her familiarity with the minor peaks, that she had been one of the best. These reminiscences, sacred... ...ad expected, and resumed, with a splash of her screw, her cruise among the islands. “Oh I’ve heard that,” the young man replied, “before!” “There it i... ...e awaited him—of which, in this queer way, the remarkable young man was an outlying part; but the single motion of his face, the motion into which Den...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...— all other subjects were dropped; even the king became suddenly a person of minor interest and notoriety. Within twenty four hours the del egations ... ...iends and his community have at heart if he would be liked — especially as a statesman; and both as business man and statesman I wanted to study the t... ...and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and th... ...rationally constructed world. And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonge... ...and. This little relaxation of sternness had a good effect upon the queen. A statesman gains little by the arbitrary exercise of iron clad authority u... ...ree sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machin... ...ast was the success of it. Not right off, of course, for the native of those islands does not, as a rule, dissolve upon the early applications of a hu... ...ould have persuaded him to now and then provide a sup port for one of these outlying scions from his own pocket, I could have made a grand to do over... ...er is home again, and looks much improved by his vacation round up among the outlying smithies. See his ad. Of course it was good enough journalism f...

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

... exceptions the prospect is a broad rich mass of grass and trees, mantling minor hills and dales within the major. Such is the Vale of Blackmoor. 6 P... ...mouth now and then. Yet few knew, and still fewer considered this. A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, ... ...tanding. A loud laugh from behind Tess’s back, in the shade of the garden, united with the titter of the room. She looked round, and saw the red coal ... ...tood in the relations to d’Urberville that Car had also been suspected of, united with the latter against the common enemy. Several other woman also c... ...d’s note seemed to lurk a joy. Her face had latterly changed with changing states of mind, continually fluc tuating between beauty and ordinariness, a... ...he grass were marks where the cows had lain through the night — dark green islands of dry herbage the size of their carcases, in the general sea of de... ...nsequence 149 the river, and masses of them were floating past her — moving islands of green crow foot, whereon she might almost have ridden; long lock... ...dations that showed where the d’Urberville mansion once had stood; also an outlying stretch of Egdon Heath that had always belonged to the estate. Har... ...nly created by the stroke of a wand, and allowed to get a little dusty. An outlying eastern tract of the enormous Egdon Waste was close at hand, yet o...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...mile; to purchase a pint of rum-shrub on credit; to brave all the Doctor’s outlying spies, and to clamber back into the playground again; during the p... ... not particularly lively—but he paraded twice before the box where the now united couples were met, and nobody took any no- tice of him. Covers were l... ...tate. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in V anity Fair he had a higher place than the m... ...f women. She had pictures of Mr. Fox in every room in the house: when that statesman was in opposition, I am not sure that she had not flung a main wi... ...brokers from the City. And now the public being invited to the purchase of minor objects, it happened that the orator on the table was expatiat- ing o... ...itors would have come rushing on him in a body, had they known that he was united to a woman without 168 V anity Fair fortune. “My relations won’t cr... ...n Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity Fair Islands in some way or other. He died last year, and Miss Pinkerton has fin... ...on is final and irrevocable. Although the monies expended upon you in your minority, and the bills which you have drawn upon him so unsparingly of lat... ...w. And he cursed his past follies and extravagances, and bemoaned his vast outlying debts above all, which must remain for ever as obstacles to preven...

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By: The Manhattan Engineer District

...which can be released at this time without prejudicing the security of the United States. This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer Di... ...an be released at this time without prejudicing the security of the United States. This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District ... ... This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District of the United States Army under the direc- tion of Major General Leslie R. Groves.... ...eport has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District of the United States Army under the direc- tion of Major General Leslie R. Groves. Specia... ...er Tokyo, indicating what might be expected over other targets in the home islands. The worst month of the year for visual bombing was believed to be ... ...nd windows in the main business section of Nagasaki, 2.5 miles from X), to minor (broken or occasionally broken windows at a distance of 7 20 The Ato... ...d a deep wound of the lower leg. Father Cieslik and Father Kleinsorge have minor injuries but are com- pletely exhausted. While they are eating the fo... ...at 8:15, almost the entire city was destroyed at a single blow. Only small outlying districts in the southern and eastern parts of the town escaped co... ...ncy work was lost, and no preparation had been made for rescue work in the outlying districts. Many of the wounded also died because they had been wea...

...lable on damage to structures, injuries to personnel, morale effect, etc., which can be released at this time without prejudicing the security of the United States....

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...lligence, and may yet be held in subjec tion, forcibly or otherwise, by a minority in both respects inferior to it. To make these various elements of... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...exceeding a single small town, participate personally in any but some very minor portions of the public business, it fol lows that the ideal type of ... ...to equal rights with its native subjects in all other parts of the empire. Outlying territories of some size and population, which are held as depende... ... always felt under a certain degree of obligation to bestow on such of her outlying popu lations as were of her own blood and language, and on some w... ...of the colonies. Why does no one ever hear a breath of disloyalty from the Islands in the British Channel? By race, religion, and geographical positio...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arc... ...till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arched the... ... preserve the memory of its freshness to mid day. As we passed the various islands, or what were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down s... ...n the serenest days, and embodies still all the sunlight that fell on Asia Minor. No modern joy or ecstasy of ours can lower its height or dim its lus... ...ature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, a... ...lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words, Orpheu... ...enetrating beams, Ruler of fire breathing horses, has it.” The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by su... ...eum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in the United States” was to be seen, and I also read in its directory of a “Manch... ...mers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ ence of outlying spheres, and no astronomer has ever yet cal culated the elements ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ... Once this world-spread band was an Arabian clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchies of ancient time, the Megatheria of h... ...simple charms into the shade, and blazed with a splendor which caused all “minor lights” to twinkle faintly. Before a day the beau-monde, before a wee... ...ople stated. Quak- ers may not marry, nor sit in the Chamber of Peers. The minor bishops have seats in the House of Commons, where they are attacked b... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of h... ...sula; the inland sea swarmed with their ships hasting from their forts and islands, from Rhodes and Byzantium, from Jaffa and Ascalon. The Pyrenean pe...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ...placed under suitable escorts, and continually swelled in numbers by other outlying bodies of the horde who kept falling in at various distances upon ... ...l an interest (the summa rerum) was now at stake to allow of any regard to minor interests, or what would be considered such in their present circumst... ...o, as the misery of the guards gradually withdrew their attention from all minor in- terests to their own personal sufferings, the vigilance of the cu... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...since, dukes or no dukes, to the rest of Christendom, to us of the Channel Islands you will always be transported felons.’ There is therefore a good r...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

..., and would have kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating wa... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...sed, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office. As to the minor priests 108 Charles Dickens and acolytes of that temple, the result ... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the ... ...little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state. It seemed a...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

..., and would have kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating wa... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...sed, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office. As to the minor priests 108 Charles Dickens and acolytes of that temple, the result ... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the ... ...little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state. It seemed a...

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