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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?T...

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...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ... 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in In... ...len was fascinated throughout the journey - the golden temples and stately mosques; the beautiful architectural monuments of Moghul power - particul... ...l-pink beauty magnified by the clear blue sky and the shimmering waters of the lake. ‘Indeed, an architectural jewel,’ said Helen in awed admiration...

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...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...up- port for that position, 18 and, with one significant recent exception, 19 historians of intellectual property have agreed. 20 Jefferson himself had... ... life. So much for the bad side of the enclosure movement. For many economic historians, everything I have said up to now is the worst kind of sentime... ... distribution of wealth that so incensed an earlier gen- eration of critical historians, they argue that there are significant questions about whether ... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ... ...gth movie called T each by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim; and free architectural drawings that can be used to build low- cost housing. At th...

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...ngle with steam engines, internal combustion engines and jet engines. Modern architectural firms have their offices inside ancient stone buildings. ... ...only one thing: the one thing that code allowed them to do and nothing else. Historians and history books cover up this fact. The fact is: Napoleo... ...lization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 423 for making bread. Do historians talk about where the roots of our Civilization come from? T... ... you to know that the speck of dust came from a huge monolithic one-of-a-kind architectural monstrosity… and that there existed millions of other ho... ... to understand their own Science in the proper historical context. Neither do Historians. Every new generation in every culture, in every neighborh... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ...nto the world. The over-arching coveting of land: which created over-arching architectural symptoms of bird- culture called bridges. The over-archi...

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...country -- A passage of the Cordilleras -- More altars for human sacrifices -- Architectural wonders of the City of Naulinco -- A meeting with the Tla... ...ning each vessel brought a rich cargo of gold, silver, and precious wood. Many historians maintain that this fleet sailed to Peru where the riches bro... ...owever, is scarcely to be credited, although there is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made ... ...by the hostile savages who were known to occupy the country north of him. Many historians maintain that the island or country upon which Zichmni thus ... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...at great grandfather? Of course you can't. So much for that. Intellectual feats or architectural monuments are far more potent mementos. Still, w... ...e the Victorian and middle-class roots of his theories about suppressed sexuality. Historians deride and decry his stifling authoritarianism and fr...

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...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...at great grandfather? Of course you can't. So much for that. Intellectual feats or architectural monuments are far more potent mementos. Still, w... ...e the Victorian and middle-class roots of his theories about suppressed sexuality. Historians deride and decry his stifling authoritarianism and fr...

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...er rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A mill...

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...not many—if we except the cities of Greece, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to s... ...n to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional,... ...ef of Owyhee or Tongataboo should proclaim a momentary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign ... ...n echo—or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an em... ...then wielding the whole thunders of the state, is somewhat surprising; and historians have sought their solu- tion of the mystery in the powerful inte... ...t of Cæsar’s life which has suf- fered much from the misrepresentations of historians, and that is—the vast pecuniary embarrassments under which he la... ... account, amounted to up- wards of two millions sterling. Now the error of historians has been—to represent these debts as the original ground of his ... ...sense, whether for health or for the conveniences of polished life, or for architectural magnifi- cence, there never was a doubt that the Roman people... ...imply cryptæ, are the same which, in the Ro- man jurisprudence, and in the architectural works of the Romans, yet surviving, are termed hypogæa deambu...

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...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ...ous operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the si... ... world an Ag- glomeration of four limbs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Mo... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ... with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and... ...bs: of which 67 Thomas Carlyle fashion how little could I then divine the architectural, how much less the moral significance!” More graceful is the ... ...erloo, or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, Geo...

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... at school and afterwards, and in which you were taught to believe. Modern historians, for the most part, know very little, and, secondly, only tell a... ...is Government, and in its name, to accept the coffin from the hands of the British authori- ties, and that he and the other persons composing the Fren... ... Guizot was the worthy representative of the French good- will towards the British people; and the remark frequently made by our orators at public din... ...sus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British soldier of the line. The sword and pistol, however, had no doubt th... ...ng for places in the chapel within. The chapel is spacious and of no great architectural pretensions, but was on this occasion gorgeously deco- rated ...

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...t—the most interesting of all of which, I think, is the mention of certain British products as “mufflings.” “Muf- fling” used to be a domestic joke fo... ...aladroitly, following his lead, may have exaggerated the coherence and the architectural design of the Comedie. But it has coherence and it has design... ...cteristics, I might perhaps succeed in writ- ing the history which so many historians have neglected: that of Manners. By patience and perseverance I ... ...individual lives, and to their causes and principles, the importance which historians have hitherto ascribed to the events of public national life. Th...

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...e given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet to- ward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth cen- ... ...ring and proselyting armies of the French Directory. 14 Billy Budd To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would ... ...d- the blue-jackets, to be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation tra... ...s the King’s!” Such an episode in the Island’s grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowled... ...ence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial. How it fared with the Handsome Sailor during the year...

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...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ...y built high perforce. But to do so was to dis- cover a whole new world of architectural beauty, of exquisite ascendant lines, and long after the cent... ...e in the morning sunlight of American flags at point after point above the architectural cliffs of the city. It is quite possible that in many cases t... ...already among those who had been wealthy, famine spread. 3 3 3 3 3 So what historians have come to call the Phase of the Emer- gency Committees sprang...

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...n more or less marred by an independent deviation from recognized rules of architectural taste. These are the Capi- tol, the Post-office, the Patent-o... ... being bright almost as marble, and I do not know that there was any great architectural defect to offend the eye. The figures in the pediment are mea... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...ich, whether they may injure its beauty or no, certainly are subversive of architectural purity. It is built of red stone, and is not ugly in itself. ... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...rable than those of Cooper and Irving. They like to know that their modern historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own po...

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...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...town, they have a singularly venerable and impressive character. It is the architectural essence of a rich old city, with all its common life and comm... ...th the place itself. It might be a Pantheon, or a Senate House, or a great architectural trophy, having no other ob ject than an architectural triump... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no... ...de by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poets, Historians, Philoso phers—those illustrious men of history, beside whom it...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ... history says 20,000 Englishmen routed 80,000 Frenchmen there; and English historians say that the French loss, in killed and wounded, was 60,000. Hen... ...but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the world all down the ages... ...rtless flow of his speech? and its cadenced and undulating rhythm? and its architectural felicities of construction, its graces of expres sion, its p... ...at and very thin foun dation of inconsequential facts. IV Conjectures The historians “suppose” that Shakespeare attended the Free School in Stratford...

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..., that in 1688-9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large effect in this change to the perso... ...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities. The images of architectural splendor, suddenly raised in the very centre of Paradise, as ... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m...

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...ough, there is music everywhere. A true inward symmetry, what one calls an architectural harmony, reigns in it, proportionates it all: architectural; ... ...limest, of the soul of Chris- tianity. It expresses, as in huge world-wide architectural em- blems, how the Christian Dante felt Good and Evil to be t... ...d, it may be called the best of all Dictionaries. There is in it a kind of architectural nobleness; it stands there like a great solid square-built ed... ...g men: and he was born in a poor Ayrshire hut. The largest soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard- handed Scottish Peasant... ...to every man? You would think it strange if I called Burns the most gifted British soul we had in all that century of his: and yet I believe the day i... ...mselves, were this one undeniable fact kept hon- estly in view by History! Historians indeed will tell you that they do keep it in view;—but look whet...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...ia, which was then a name unknown; and this Hesperian region had as yet no architectural value, and con- sequently no ground-rent value, simply becaus... ...f mind, was the costly one of seeking her chief intellectual excitement in architectural creations. She individually might be said to have built Green... ...sure-ground, and were con- stantly resorted to by artists for specimens of architectural decays, or of nature working for the concealment of such deca... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...ence arises a phenomenon, which has too lan- guidly arrested the notice of historians; namely, that already, and for centuries before the time of Cons... ...an bigotry of Rome. Paganism for Rome, it ought to have been remembered by historians, was a mere neces- sity of her Pagan origin. Paganism was the fa...

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...spect that to-day “The Portrait” wears for me: a structure reared with an “architectural” competence, as Turgenieff would have said, that makes it, to... ...o the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance o... ... Lady puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the m... ...o amused themselves, time and again, with talk- ing of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it;... ... you saw them from the piazza, were, in their noble proportions, extremely architectural; but their func- tion seemed less to offer communication with... ...vermuffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that it took pages or historians to hold up—that this felicity was coming to an end. That most of... ...eaning, and for the most part their horror, rose before her with a kind of architectural vastness. She re- membered a thousand trifles; they started t...

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...ed to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance... ...orms that puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about England, about the British CHAPTER 6 43 constitution, the English character, the state of p... ...e two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to i... ...as you saw them from the piazza, were, in their noble proportions, extremely architectural; but their function seemed less to offer communication with... ... over muffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that it took pages or historians to hold up—that this felicity was coming to an end. That most ... ... meaning, and for the most part their horror, rose before her with a kind of architectural vastness. She remembered a thousand trifles; they started to...

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...never going to read! And I suppose most of the owners of Americana are not historians either?” “No; very few of the historians can afford to buy them.... ...cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and ... ... street near the Park, and as the two men walked down Fifth Avenue the new architectural developments of that ver- satile thoroughfare invited V an Al... ...here all the dishes are put on the table at once. His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have though...

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...have the honor to present to you.” This “card” was a charming sketch of an architectural de- sign placed in a landscape. Beneath it was written “Plan ... ...at name. This church is a building of very little interest, no matter what historians and certain “Guides to Paris” may say. I should therefore have p... ... in your midst—better than you, better than I, better than all orators and historians—a woman who has weighed and understood Danton, and who says to t... ...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified...

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...ality towards those whom the age accounted at once the secretaries and the historians of honour. The bounty of the spectators was acknowledged by the ... ... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...ry one of those numerous passages which he has collected from contemporary historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality ... ...ly consistent with the ignorance of so many of the prin- cipal branches of architectural knowledge. I have always thought, that one of the most curiou... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ... ...ivate life of our ancestors lie scattered through the pages of our various historians, bearing, indeed, a slender proportion to the other matters of w...

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...st of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always more concerned with facts and dates than with th... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s... ...the European streets of Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, Lon- don, and Moscow, architectural steppes where the wind rustles innumerable papers on which a ...

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...died possessed of secrets which will remain secrets from the best informed historians. The struggle between the general police of the kingdom, and the... ... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...here a door- 276 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life way without a door or any architectural adornment, a square hole of the meanest type. Through this th...

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...National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in ... ... such title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here pres... ...rious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the ... ... the world an Agglomeration of four limbs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether ... ...ded us to that joint stock vehicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...et with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, a... ...re body with four limbs: of which fashion how little could I then divine the architectural, how much less the moral significance!” More graceful is the... ...RESARTUS or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, G...

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... is a naturalist, and has made and pre served a collection of the eggs of British birds, and stuffed the birds: who is now a conchologist, with a ver... ... London, and having a great desire to see the famous read ing room of the British Museum, was assured by the En glish family with whom she stayed th... ...means con sent to doing so—although, I say, this Association possesses no architectural home, it is nevertheless as plain a fact, rests on as solid a... ...ng the streets in long melancholy rows under the escort of that surprising British monster—a beadle, whose system of in struction, I am afraid, too o... ...naturally see with especial interest the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around ...

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...ows of shelves, bending under the weight of legal commentators and monkish historians, whose ponderous volumes formed the chief and most valued con- t... ... been once covered in, screened and decorated 54 Bride of Lammermoor with architectural ornaments of a Gothic character. But now the vault which had ... ... alludes to a revolution in the Scottish privy council, rather than in the British kingdoms.” “Oh, confusion to your state tricks!” exclaimed Bucklaw—... ...f Ravenswood were liable, under the Treaty of Union, to be reviewed by the British House of Peers, a court of equity of which the Lord Keeper felt an ... ...der your estate stable, if the Marquis of A—— comes in with a party in the British Parliament. You know that the deceased Lord Ravenswood was his near...

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...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...e spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is proba... ...nopied thrones with the simple country as a background, and of saints with architectural models in their hands, or knives accidentally wedged in their... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...