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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

By: Mark Twain

...hink of it. I know the customs that prevail in those por tions inhabited by peoples that are appointed to enter by my own gate — and hark ye, that is... ...them, but was not lucky. First off, I flew thirty yards, and then fouled an Irishman and brought him down — brought us both down, in fact. Next, I ha... ...of ours; next come Ezekiel, and Mahomet, Zoroaster, and a knife grinder from ancient Egypt; then there is a long string, and after them, away down to... ...ch, and sometimes a mixture of all three; back of them, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions... ... a mixture of all three; back of them, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and billions of ...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

........................................................... 161 THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LA Y OF GUDRUN ....................................................... ..., Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; ... ...imes has been altered in a thousand ways by foreign influence, even as the peoples and their speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Icel... ...- premely important is Icelandic as a word-hoard to the En- glish-speaking peoples, and that in its legend, song, and story there is a very mine of no... ...eland had been known for a good many years, but its only dwellers had been Irish Culdees, who sought that lonely land to pray in peace. Now, however, ... ...bringing with her many of mixed blood, for the Gaedhil (pronounced “Gael”, Irish) and the Gaill (pronounced “Gaul”, strangers) not only fought furious... ...ng years in which the northern races pressed upon their frontier; from the Irish during the existence of the west- ern viking-kingdoms; but what I par... ... volume are part of the wonderful frag- ments which are all that remain of ancient Scandinavian po- etry. Every piece which survives has been garnered... ...he Songs of Edda; in chap. xxxii. the Sagaman has rendered into prose the “Ancient Lay of Gudrun”, except for the begin- ning, which gives again anoth...

...ENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD ....................................................................................................... 161 THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN ................................................................................................ 166 THE SONG OF ATLI ........................................................................................

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...dicating the end of the pipe. It takes quite a bit of muscle to remove an ancient metal device from the end. Supposedly, it lets the water into the ... ...tell you woman….” The ghoul spoke to me, yet I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I ... ...omething, but I’m literally biting my tongue. I know there is nothing but ancient trash here, but I’m not getting R rated movies and that’s final. Al... ... arse off.” Though I didn’t catch the fly’s added mumbles, probably some ancient insect curse he’s put on me, he did relay the message. “Your boyfr... ...olitely, it might go away.” He looks at me. “Oh god it’s my sister! Sorry peoples; mistaken identity. It’s a breather.” His grin doesn’t leave his f... ...of keeping a secret is faxing it off to ten people at a time, using other peoples fax machines.” “You’re too nice, that’s your problem.” Ali points ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties th... ... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties th... ... to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers amon... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...know, not when it manipulated and coaxed and coerced - but when it failed. To the peoples of these regions, the king was fully dressed. It was not... ... rather than scarce. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins discovered that primitive peoples he has studied had no concept of "scarcity" - only of "s...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...n Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legen... ... be observed of him with a shallow felicity that he looked like a “refined” Irishman. What had happened was that shortly before, at three o’clock, his ... ...er, the power of the rich peo ples. Well, he was of them now, of the rich peoples; he was on their side—if it was n’t rather the pleasanter way of pu... ... the board, on a figure he thinks he may move and then may not: small florid ancientries, ornaments, pendants, lockets, brooches, buckles, pretexts for ... ...s, intaglios, amethysts, carbuncles, each of which had found a home in the ancient sallow satin of some weakly snapping little box, there was, in spit... ...comprise the four or five persons—among them the very pretty, the typically Irish Miss Maddock, vaunted announced and now brought—from the couple of ot... ...solidity in the rich sea mist on which the garish, the supposedly envious, peoples have ever cooled their eyes. But it was at the same time precisely ...

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