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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ceived three pennies. “Ah, kind gentleman! carita, carita; for the love of St. Catherine! only a halfpenny to buy some bread!” A little chimney sweepe... ...ed for a moment at the other. Then construing the stranger’s silence as an order, the apprentice left him alone in the closet. Have you never launched... ...ast universes, and whether it is worth while to accept the pain of life in order that hereafter we may become an intangible speck. Then we remain as i... ...y. For all that, we certainly did not look like duns, creditors, sheriff’s officers, or the like. But no matter! Rastignac had seen you the evening be... ...a magnanimous nature, debt is a hell, and a hell, moreover, with sheriff’s officers and brokers in it. An undis- charged debt is something mean and so...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes....

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... shocked at his impiety, “you have then forgot that Christ was baptised by St. John.” “Friend,” replies the mild Quaker once again, “swear not; Christ... ...e’d” and “thou’d” him, sent him to the House of Correction, in Derby, with orders that he should be whipped there. Fox praised the Lord all the way he... ...e Lord all the way he went to the House of Correction, where the justice’s order was executed with the utmost severity. The men who whipped this enthu... ...y do not call themselves Arians or Socinians, do yet dissent entirely from St. Athanasius with regard to their notions of the T rinity, and declare ve... ... not many removes from slavery. By Article XXI., the king ordains that his officers shall not henceforward seize upon, unless they pay for them, the h...

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...By virtue of the principle of the full liberty to set forth any philosophical thesis, no justification would probably be necessary, yet it should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?t...

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...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup... ...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3... ... Press Rehoboth 2002 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... .... C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ...American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University o... ...e ancient thought″: <The rational is moral, since by its essence it is an order (cosmos), while the moral is rational, since the good is but the exp... ...nts sent by the readers, to the address: Prof. Gh. C. Dinulescu–Câmpina, St. Bucea, Nr.4, Bl. 38, Ap.31, CAMPINA, Jud. PRAHOVA, ROMANIA. The comme... ...It′s not unreasonable to say we were born Christians, probably even before St. Andrew’s missionary works). 75 How else can we explain the existen... ...ement, He can influenc free will through the words of wisdom of the church officers and, through the power of the testimonial example (Jesus), but ne...

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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...One's reach should exceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to se...

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...Prefaces. 6 -- Ch.1. Introduction . 11 -- Ch.2. The Human Barrier. 14 -- Ch.3. An Overview. 18 -- Ch.4. Acceleration Due to Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First...

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...BEGIN the ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache ... ...rrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Alber... ...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ...close contemporary of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...at can enable interstellar flight." We felt a comparative analysis was in order of the acceleration to be expected from such a plan. Analysis: ... ...navigation & engineering; module M5 to life needs. Quarters for the four officers are located in the modules containing or near their duty stations;... ...forward consoles are to be manned, and at least one of the two flight-deck officers (FDOs) will be on the Flight Deck of the remaining two officers, ... ...n a place of honor with the Wright brothers' Flyer, Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo moonship. Welcome home starman! The Sun lo...