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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...blic/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fight... ...a) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was played ... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ...ged to female adults. Gein quickly became a cult figure and the butt of moralizing folk tales and "Geiners", macabre jokes. His farm and belongings... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...• music publishers (e.g., The Harry Fox Agency); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federa... ...air Use (Nov. 18, 2005), available at http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf. Page 56 UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT O... ... http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Casey Muratori/Molly Rocket, Inc. Lester Earnest Douglas Fields Carol Anne Ogdin Garrett... ... John Haggerty Jonathan McKamey Nancy Ross M. Diane Moss/Puget Sound Folk Harp Society Laura Lynn Haslacker Craig Lee Chrisco Kevin Savetz... ...ration of Television and Radio Ann Chaitovitz Artists 2. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 3. American Society... ...Building, Room 2237 ORGANIZATION(S) REPRESENTATIVE(S) 1. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 2. Artists Rights ...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...• music publishers (e.g., The Harry Fox Agency); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federa... ...air Use (Nov. 18, 2005), available at http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf. Page 56 UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT O... ... http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Casey Muratori/Molly Rocket, Inc. Lester Earnest Douglas Fields Carol Anne Ogdin Garrett... ... John Haggerty Jonathan McKamey Nancy Ross M. Diane Moss/Puget Sound Folk Harp Society Laura Lynn Haslacker Craig Lee Chrisco Kevin Savetz... ...ration of Television and Radio Ann Chaitovitz Artists 2. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 3. American Society... ...Building, Room 2237 ORGANIZATION(S) REPRESENTATIVE(S) 1. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 2. Artists Rights ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e heard voices of he and his sister counting 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock rock. 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, twelve o'clock rock - Ghosts won't find me.... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...vous he became and the more hurried. When he became breathless, he sat on a rock and drank the last of his bottled water. The taste of sauerkraut and... ...oy standing at a curb with other pedestrians waiting for the light to change rocked a metal, rectangular trash container, which swung back and forth o... ...he bed was playing "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had b... ...estige rural traditions in Seoul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but ... ... it been otherwise it would have even seemed a major aberration to the queer folk there. The queer folk of Korea were Koreans too and no one was more...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...ituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… which becomes you... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ... And still be proud of themselves as decent, rational scientific, God-fearing folk: obeying Darwin’s famous Law of Natural Selection… or God’s Will,...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...cause of potential rights considerations.” The same was true of the scratchy folk songs from the twenties or the early film holdings. The material was ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...alking in like “Hey!” Chilling on his vacation, sitting patiently Them black folks gotta hope, gotta wait and see If FEMA really comes through in an e... ...used to dying!” He said, “I know it looks bad, just have to wait” Forgetting folks was too broke to evacuate N———’s starving and they dying of thirst ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...icry, spoken somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindl... ...protection. Onlookers came out of the alleys as well as the palace. Alley folk jeered. They shouted “Christ the Juggler;” they called Him “El Puto”.... ... four are difficult to appraise as we walk along Henley Street. The local folk have never heard the creak of chariot wheels. Lonely...I have been lo...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...icry, spoken somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindl...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ... was long in the making. Though treated very differently by accountants - financial folk see little distinction between an insurance policy and equi... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...se they assume that they will live to enjoy the benefits. Similarly, sophisticated folk overindulge a little at present because they believe that, ... ...kely to become as atomized as labor and to revert to its true owners - the inspired folks. They, in turn, will negotiate licensing deals directly wi... ...am Vaknin "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make it its home for life.... ...apitalism and capitalists (big business). Again, the list is dizzying: antibiotics, rocket technology, the internet itself (first developed by the P... ...rning, originally created for the military-industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was founded on the observation of the fights ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ferentia). Without the context, the definition can well fit an appropriately shaped rock. "Game" – Mental or physical activity of one or more peopl... ... open) (differentia). Without the context, the definition can well fit a hole in a rock. It is easy to notice that the distinction between the dif... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment... ...arcissist who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of... ...ers of these couples tend to define themselves as each other's best friends. It is folk wisdom to state that the first three types of dyad arrangem... ...apitalism and capitalists (big business). Again, the list is dizzying: antibiotics, rocket technology, the internet itself (first developed by the P...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ferentia). Without the context, the definition can well fit an appropriately shaped rock. "Game" – Mental or physical activity of one or more peopl... ... open) (differentia). Without the context, the definition can well fit a hole in a rock. It is easy to notice that the distinction between the dif... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment... ...arcissist who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of... ...ers of these couples tend to define themselves as each other's best friends. It is folk wisdom to state that the first three types of dyad arrangem... ...apitalism and capitalists (big business). Again, the list is dizzying: antibiotics, rocket technology, the internet itself (first developed by the P...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...f; Brerything up to date *^a{ StTMt, WillUnttowo CHILD LABOR Talk by Homer Folks—Lirg:isla- tion to Meet Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York ... ...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ...Mr Bradman ^ THE HAHflPTON AilJaoBnt to Post Offioo European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2m50 to$4 Om Am Koelef, Propm Northampton, Mass. B,K Browni... ... THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H.J. Rockwell & .Son The Auto Strop SafetyRaxor Tha One Gomplete Razor Safety Ra... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto Strop SafetyRazor The One Comptete Razor Safety Raz... ... Elegant Goes & Stodder 14 School Street, I)os*.on College Shoes I'red E ".rocke. Representative Bemis' every two weeks * Cbe Richmond Tfte iUcllingte... ...riginal series. Mrs. Thompson also presented' a large number of volumes on folk-lore and legends. The next most important addi- tion is the gift of Sa... ... What it the sheep of Provence are not lily-white, and at beat but a silly folk; what if the shepheril con't afford silver buckles, —is there no innsi...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No... ...e paces and kneels down, and then the barons and all the people kneel, and the musicians sound their instruments. There is no cause, since I would avo... ...hops, and baths with hot and cold water, broad plazas in which native bands of musicians discoursed every evening, flowing fountains, and seemingly al... ...pipes were liberally given, and the sailors made glad the hearts of the simple folk by presenting them with old clothing in great abundance, for every...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ...of living, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth... ...ity - local language (dialect) - local concepts, cognitions and categories Folklore supporting community - localization of storytelling - moralistic n... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...is resistance to Western entertainment, although people seem to be used to rock music. The table does not show that people’s ideas of what constitute... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ...international techno-world. In Lampang, too, youth culture means clubs and rock bands. Teenagers hanging out around supermarkets want to behave and dr... ...to behave and dress like their contemporaries in international adverts and rock videos; they want to copy the self-assured achievers on TV, to use uni... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...very limited group of authors who actually live by their pen. Only select musicians eke out a living from their noisy vocation (most of them rock st... ...select musicians eke out a living from their noisy vocation (most of them rock stars who own their labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do ju... ...ortant difference is that researchers give away their journal articles and musicians don't give away their music. We work entirely within the consen... ... pioneered the current generation of electronic reading devices with its "Rocket eBook" in 1998) acquired eBookNet and hired me. NuvoMedia supported... ...at has an established base of customers and actual dedicated devices, the Rocket eBook and REB1100 and REB1200s. Gemstar's format actually has a lot ... ...come as atomized as labor and to revert to its true owners - the inspired folks. They, in turn, will negotiate licensing deals directly with their en...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...• music publishers (e.g., The Harry Fox Agency); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federa... ...air Use (Nov. 18, 2005), available at http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf. Page 56 UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT O... ... http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Casey Muratori/Molly Rocket, Inc. Lester Earnest Douglas Fields Carol Anne Ogdin Garrett... ... John Haggerty Jonathan McKamey Nancy Ross M. Diane Moss/Puget Sound Folk Harp Society Laura Lynn Haslacker Craig Lee Chrisco Kevin Savetz... ...ration of Television and Radio Ann Chaitovitz Artists 2. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 3. American Society... ...Building, Room 2237 ORGANIZATION(S) REPRESENTATIVE(S) 1. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Michael Taft 2. Artists Rights ...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... will ultimately right themselves. But it is otherwise in prac- tice. Such folk as the pastor’s harpy relatives will generally have a boat, and will n... ...OF DISCORD: FOREIGN T HE HUGE MAJORITY of Samoans, like other God-fear ing folk in other countries, are perfectly content with their own manners. And ... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...to Germany, he had great delight to see the cliffs of England. He saw “the rocks shining in the sun, and three hours later was surprised to find them ... ...om Mulinuu, he would sit on his own poop and confound them with gratuitous rockets. He was at the pains to write a letter and address it to “the High ... ...sillading the pilot house. Between four and five, the Fabeata regiment (or folk of that village) on the Mataafa left, which had been under arms all da... ...e next. The two white visitors passed with- out and between the lines to a rocky point upon the beach. The person of Moors was well known; the purpose...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...arked the detective, dogmatically, “great rob- bers always resemble honest folks. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and th... ...ve his passport visaed?” “Yes. Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues. I assure you it will be quite 2... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...ped in silken doubles, hauberks and coats of mail; and numbers of military folk of all ranks—for the mili- tary profession is as much respected in Jap... ...evada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific—its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile. S... ...satch Mountains. It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American en- gineers found the most formidable dif... ..., avoided its difficulties by wind- ing around, instead of penetrating the rocks. One tunnel only, fourteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in or...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...bers of the Fund to the Gentlemen of the Edinburgh Professional Society of Musicians, who, finding that this meeting was appointed to take place on th... ...ion-stone of a certain edifice, “Behold the endless work begun.” Playgoing folks should attend somewhat to convenience. The new Theatre should, in the... ...ded. But this is an opinion which I keep to myself when I am among younger folk, for I recollect, in my youth, quizzing the Sexagenarians who carried ... ...d), it includes within its precincts the mountain of Arthur’s Seat and the rocks and pasture land called Salisbury Crags. But yet it is inexpressible ... ...tion, and, as my good mother used to say, there was always life for living folk. Stern necessity gave my man- hood that prudence which my youth was a ... ...gs, can only be excused in folly or superannuation. It is like riding on a rocking-horse, where your utmost exertion never carries you a foot forward;... ...ords, when they are unsupported by proofs, are like seed sown on the naked rocks, or like an house biggit on the flitting and faithless sands.” Here I... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

...eads defiantly. They covertly examined the woods, and paths, and masses of rock which flanked the road, after the manner of a dog with his nose to the... ...n their declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of whi... ...old blockhead. A pretty time to choose to let fools sail the ship! English rockets from all the head- lands, and those cursed Chouan cockchafers in th... ...llop to overtake the carriage. “I sha’n’t let myself be fooled by any such folks as they,” said Hulot to his two friends, in a growling tone. “I’d rat... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...led priests, and murdered the king and queen; they mean to make the parish folk of Brittany Blues like themselves, and send them to fight in foreign l... ...ho must be satisfied—he’s here!” he added, striking his stomach. “Have the musicians come?” said the marquis, in a con- temptuous tone, turning to Mad... ... impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuning their instruments and the dancing was about to begin,... ...tiated into the secret, began to under- stand its nature, so that when the musicians gave the signal for the dancing to begin no one moved. “Mademoise...

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