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... time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the... ...esent the Yin and the Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make... ... the Yin and the 97 Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make... ...om and courage he creates new ways of acting, ways that surprised both the ancient world and the one that came afterwards. But Ulysses does even more... ... it becomes light. Our eyes receive this light and we are delighted by it. Astronomers tells us that the light of a star that has already died can st... ...did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sky for a long time while they were still on ...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ...7 The market place of Mecca................................................ 91 Chinese War-ship of the time of Polo...................................... ...ims, and in which we read descriptions of the peoples of the New World, as the Chinese had found them; but they are so mixed with legend, and traditio... ...e, made a trip to the regions of the far east and abode with the great Khan of Chinese Tartary for a period of twenty-six years. A description of this... ...enus was successfully made from two points, on separate islands, but while the astronomers were making their calculations one of the ship's store room... ...ohn Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD. The mo... ...itish commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux had taken f...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...  Professionals—those who could read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or p... ...medicine, botany, biology, zoology, geography, history, and navigation. Astronomers were quick to welcome freedom from the tedium of copying their ... ...maps and illustrations in how-to books added much to the impact of print. Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic s...

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...me to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more informatio... ...ant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more information call (... ...ca’s Most Diverse State White 24.7% Asian (mostly Filipino, Japanese, Chinese and Korean) 38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Is... ...d around the world. ASTRONOMY World’s best place to study the Universe In ancient times, Polynesian voyagers used navigational knowledge they gaine... ..., with its unprecedented capacity and advanced technologies, will enable astronomers to look beyond the most distant galaxies known to man. Sandra... ...fags will be the 13th and 14th on the mountain. In May 2011, American and Chinese scientists and engineers met in Beijing to iron out technical asp... ...the-art, 3.6-meter, optical/infrared telescope that is made available to astronomers from around the world. In July 2011, two Canadian astronomers... ... northern and southern hemispheres. In June 2011, a team of international astronomers described how ongoing infrared sky surveys and observations a... ... matter just outside the Milky Way containing about a thousand small and ancient stars. With the greatest collection of ground-based telescopes on ...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...  Professionals—those who could read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or p... ..., medicine, botany, biology, zoology, geography, history, and navigation. Astronomers were quick to welcome freedom from the tedium of copying their ... ...maps and illustrations in how-to books added much to the impact of print. Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic s...

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... never-again-repeated burst of energy exploded out of a minuscule point. Astronomers call it “the Big Bang.” Just as a seed and an egg join to form... ... think about it, it is very easy to sym- pathize with Nimrod, the ruler of ancient Babel. In all likelihood, he wished for nothing more than to prot... ...rds might eat them.” --Dr. Martin Henry Fischer Thousands of years ago, in ancient China, medicine was practiced quite opposite to the way it is pra... ...t acutely. heaLing the heaL thC are sY stem Clearly, we cannot emulate the ancient Chinese healthcare system. w e have grown too entangled in our eg... ...y. heaLing the heaL thC are sY stem Clearly, we cannot emulate the ancient Chinese healthcare system. w e have grown too entangled in our egotistica...

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... piece of software. 58 This could be something like SETI@home, through which astronomers can distribute voluminous data from radio tele- scopes to ind... ... visit a substitute site rather than wait. Taking advantage of this reality, Chinese regulators have used their extensive control over ISPs’ routing o... ...ensor words like “Falun Gong” and “Dalai Lama” in its text messaging for the Chinese version of the program. 53 Other services that are not generative... ...ww.ijclp.org/4_2000/pdf/ijclp _webdoc_1_4_2000.pdf (discussing efforts by the Chinese government to adapt—and censor—evolving Internet technologies). 2... ...ing along a specific theme.” The Barnstar of High Culture, Epic Barnstar, and Ancient Ruin History Barn- star are examples of barnstars awarded “in rec...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a ...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladi... ...er the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit. The queen became so fond ... ...tre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called Flandon... ...nd their discoveries Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 149 much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a catalogue of ten thousand fix... ...ight, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more eas ily than the Chinese. I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeat...

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... step-sister Augustine’s marriage with 35 Balzac the painter Sommervieux. Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the F... ...ter two years correspondence with Germany, Berard has at last found one on Chinese paper before lettering. It cost fifteen hundred francs, my boy. To-... ...f it. I saw an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for ... ...ents used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by ... ...ncients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, than...

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...r. Every third man at the least might be set down as a foreigner. Lascars, Chinese, Moors, Negroes, were met at every step. And apart from the manifol... ...hich is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scientific of astronomers. For the man of science, equally with the populace, talks of th... ...er to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent. On these double wings he soared into a region of public in... ...tailor and co. As to ‘Cato,’ Schlosser, as usual, wanders in the shadow of ancient night. The English ‘people,’ it seems, so ‘extravagantly applauded’... ...ed reader knows well what is coming. Fox is ‘formed after the model of the ancients’—Fox is ‘simple’—Fox is ‘natu- ral’—Fox is ‘chaste’—Fox is ‘forcib... ..., I learn that ‘the 7000th year of Astronomical History’ is taken from the Chinese tables, and coincides (as I had supposed) with the year 1812 of our...

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...refused to consider the pork and gave its whole blaz ing interest to that ancient incident. O.M. What was the incident? Y.M. An armed desperado slapp... ...lish, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every k... ...oc cupied. It is many and many a year since I have seen the like. In that ancient day Mrs. Clemens and I used to slip softly into the nursery at midn... ...m down—and of course, also, he was made to feel unwelcome, for this is the ancient law with man and the other animals. Hardy was thirty years old, and... ...s, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geolo...

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...s of his younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Mine... ... Days smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea. As he passed among the bu... ... of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. The Brah- ... ...s. The Brah- min legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet’s tomb, was once sus- 62 Around the Worl... ...e Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing abo... ...es from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days, so... ...e lesser stars which gravitated around him. Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a disturbing star, which might have produced an agit...

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...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil Dam; from her, hopped ove... ...edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black tro... ... same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese... ...se comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Busines...

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...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ...he name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped ove... ...difices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally in- vested him, with wide black t... ...same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese draw- ing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chine... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...

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... it assume the conventional tailed out- line, comets are supposed to have. Astronomers talked of its double tail, one preceding it and one trailing be... ...our theological passions than you can understand the fancies that made all ancient peoples speak of their gods only by circumlocutions, that made sava... ...le images, to printed words and formulae. But why revive the echoes of the ancient logomachies? Suffice it that we lost our tempers very readily in pu... ...dy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young. Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lan- terns and frying, are leading “notes,” I find, in the impres- ... ...t lies upon my desk, a dead souvenir of the dead ages of the world, of the ancient pas- sions of my heart. I know we discussed its news, but for the l...

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...his way and that, may mean I can’t get a notion. And what’s the writing?” “Chinese,” said the man with the map. “Of course! He was a Chinee,” said Eva... ...dy. It lay in a clear space among the trees. Near by was a spade after the Chinese pattern, and further off lay a scattered heap of stones, close to a... ...ht, staring at me over their shoulders, with an intent expression on their ancient faces. “Good-night,” I said, setting the door open. “It’s your own ... ... eyes; his hair was a dirty grey, and he wore a shabby blue frock-coat, an ancient silk hat, and car- pet slippers very much down at heel. He remained... ...cerns itself only with the coming and the passing of the star. The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although they are very diffe... ... “Tell me all about yourself, dear. That journey has quite re- freshed our ancient friendship, and I do so want to keep in touch with you.” About Mr. ...

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...Agrippas (all in their turn phy- sicians of the house of Valois); also the astronomers, astrolo- gers, and alchemists who surrounded the princes of Ch... ... Ecco!” “You are right as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brothe... ... brought a hideous old woman,—toothless, humpbacked, twisted, bent, like a Chinese image, only worse. She was wrinkled as a withered apple; her skin w... ... many great and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter... ...nt for some moments. I no longer be- held a queen, but rather one of those ancient druidesses to whom human lives are sacrificed; who unroll the pages...

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... for the masqueraders, for a superb collation, for shops of all countries, Chinese, Japa- nese, &c., where many singular and beautiful things were sol... ... a strong garrison. Prince Eugene ascertained that there was at Cremona an ancient aqueduct which extended far out into the country, and which started... ...nce been 262 Saint-Simon invoked; the opposition of the reformers to this ancient opin- ion was a novelty; that this novelty rendered suspicious othe... ...r disputes, nor talk about religion or politics; but much and elegant wit, ancient and modern stories, news of gal- lantries, yet without scandal. All... ...e learned, and often the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learn...

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...h, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look into ancient authors, and thou 8 Letters on England wilt find that John only re... ... still have seats in the House of Lords in spite of the Whigs, because the ancient abuse of considering them as barons subsists to this day. There is ... ...to be always governed by their Druids and the chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of barons, not so tyrannical as their successors. These Druids... ...e English should discontinue it through fickleness. I am informed that the Chinese have practised inoculation these hundred years, a circumstance that... ...ey are thought to be the wisest and best governed people in the world. The Chinese, indeed, do not communicate this distemper by inoculation, but at t... ...is opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations which astronomers have made. By the course of Nature we here understand the time ...

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... thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert calle... ...h seems too perfect and unalloyed—[a spirit of restless distrust, which in ancient times often led men to throw valuable gems into the sea, in the hop... ...in, accom- panied by Hannah, to the police court and to the prison—a vast, ancient, in parts ruinous, and most gloomy pile of build- ing. In those day... ...ally, the tragical retribution to Zebek-Dorchi at the hunting-lodge of the Chinese emperor;—all these situ- ations communicate a scenical animation to... ...China, therefore, and as their first rendezvous to the shadow of the great Chinese Wall, it was settled by Zebek that they should direct their flight.... ...ng state paper upon the subject of this Kalmuck migration, drawn up in the Chinese language by the Emperor himself. Parts of this paper have been tran... ...ort of tax or fine levied for remunerating their own risks; and that great astronomers, as necessarily far trav- ellers into space, are entitled to a ... ...Glasgow, the stars are conscious of being watched every- where; and if all astronomers do not publish their observa- tions, all use them in their spec... ...e interplanetary ether, and other rarities, which the professional body of astronomers would naturally keep (if they could) for their own private enjo...

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...and fine kraut. Let us proceed in a body to the borough, and re- store the ancient order of things in V ondervotteimittiss by eject- ing that little f... ... so deadly. The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient proph- ecy—“A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rid... ...e, thus discovered, a tendency to allay the irritable feelings of the less ancient and less wealthy Berlifitzings. What wonder then, that the words, h... ...les. Now for the Piquant Expressions. “PIQUANT EXPRESSIONS. ‘The Venerable Chinese novel Ju-Kiao-Li.’ Good! By introducing these few words with dexter... ... evince your intimate acquaintance with the language and literature of the Chinese. With the aid of this you may either get along without either Arabi... ...nd in the commencement of the third volume of that admirable and venerable Chinese novel the Jo-Go-Slow. In my solitary walk through, the city I had t... ...on of years, is a proposition not to be entertained; and yet these ancient astronomers were absolutely cajoled, it appears, into believing that a deci... ...ed; but analogous misfortunes had been long a subject of discus- sion with astronomers. I need scarce tell you, my friend, that, even when you left us... ... the ignorant that actual apprehension prevailed, upon the announcement by astronomers of a new comet, yet this announcement was generally received wi...

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...f an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of ... ...Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, Some arm of knightly worth, Of strength unbought, and f... ... viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or ... ...imackRivers the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. The very dogs that sullenly bay... ...c body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr... ...gh it happens that I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. ... ...ughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the... ...oroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ e...

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...e to him whom it fits. I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are sai... ...he limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins æs alienum, another’s brass, for som... ...ver too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silen... ... the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class t... ...lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has bee... ...ok to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of m... ...ttracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some re... ... behind the clouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read them. The astronomers forever comment on and observe them. They are not exhalations...

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... ing to get into business and trying to get out of debt, Walden 6 a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another’s brass, for some... ...r too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence ... ...ave ever Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class tha... ...ved a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been ... ... to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my ... ... out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philan thropic activity, the... ...ouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read W alden 94 them. The astronomers forever comment on and ob serve them. They are not exhalations...

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...eserves the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples st... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...iscov- ery of the law that water rises to the level of its source. It is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over. It is a standing army, ... ...circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the hei... ...resses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization. The astronomers said, ‘Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct... ...mpulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the con...

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...d health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers. He looked on her, expecting her to look at him. But as soon as... ... horses are in very good condition.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on pou... ... have to practise much simulation; they are in their way losers like their ancient mothers. It is the palpable and material of them still which they a... ...ger attentiveness, if the motive could have been con- ceived. Besides, the ancients were not decorous; they did not, as we make our moderns do, write ... ...for a sen- tence, “that humps her back in the figure of the letter H, or a Chinese bridge has given the dog her answer and her rea- sons, we may presu...

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...e you the fact is exactly the reverse, and I have com pletely baulked the ancient proverb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progres... ...they have not been? Is there no Bracebridge Hall in exist ence? Has it no ancient shades or quiet streets? In bygone times, when Irving left that Hal... ...n the rail way, as I came here. In the same carriage with me there sat an ancient gentleman (I feel no delicacy in alluding to him, for I know that h... ...wledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. As the astronomers tell us that it is probable that there are in the universe innu... ...eived by any fine, vapid, empty words. The true material age is the stupid Chinese age, in which no new or grand revelations of nature are granted, be...

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... _245 32. 32. 32. 32. 32. Latona’s glorious Son began:—’I pray Tell, ancient hedger of Onchestus green, Whether a drove of kine has passed this ... ...eaving, Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair, Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare. _40 but in return, In Venu... ...ugh of dead, and wives are husbandless, _290 And ancient women and gray fathers wail Their childless age;—if you should roas... ...s progress is not merely an oscillation, as has been surmised by some late astronomers. (Laplace, “Systeme du Monde”.) Bones of animals peculiar to th... ... degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived their sci- ences...

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...an nose,” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of an ancient Roman patri- cian of the decadent period.” He seemed proud of it. N... ... it has existed over a thousand years. It is maintained that it existed in ancient times in Rus- sia also, but through the calamities which overtook R... ...fortune and expectations of much more. He was a friend of Alyosha’s. In an ancient, jolting, but roomy , hired carriage, with a pair of old pinkish-gr... ... officer at all now. He served in the customs in Siberia, somewhere on the Chinese frontier, some puny little beggar of a Pole, I expect. Lost his job... ...ble day. Ringing, and mounting the staircase, which was dimly lighted by a Chinese lantern, he saw a man coming down, and as they met, he recognised h... ...I think, flying round the earth without knowing why, like a satellite. The astronomers would calculate the rising and the setting of the axe; Gatzuk w...