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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "T... ... RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS ... ...D VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in th... ...orfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing of the fi... ...ot only mis-shapen, but of such enormous size that from their bones and ribs a church had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish ... ..., which they brought into their service and placed as sentinels to guard their churches and grave-yards, and cattle, and other possessions. He asserts... ...ady to mutiny if a dead body is not at once committed to the deep and midnight burials are recommended because the spirit is then least likely to reap...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to t... ...e mistakes and crucial errors of perception and judgment: both Newton and the church had already swindled people into believing that there was such ... .... By it; he destroyed the Right of Kings. He destroyed the Aristocracy, the Church… They were all up in arms against him because of it. Because ... ...ient texts left over from the hated and despised Roman Empire. But then… the Church began preserving these ancient texts and copying them down. Not... ...th. The point is: burial itself, is a physical confession of guilt. All burials are cover-ups. All burials are confessions of guilt. There ...

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...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...e of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. Internation... ...eritocracy has made development religion the power system of our time, the church of development, where innovation and technological development equal... ... is also unusual in that it contains a small Christian parish with its own church, and the new village chief, elected in 1998, is also Christian. From... ... countries is closing. In Finland and other Nordic countries, the Lutheran church started mass education in the 1600s, and in the 1700-1800s it gradua... ...of the kinship group or phii of the compound. As population became denser, burials in or around villages had to be abandoned mainly for health reasons...

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...d friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions and humours, and by that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge and acquaintance they have had of me. Had my intention beene to forestal and purchase the world's opinion and favour, I would surely have adorned myself...

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... Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on th... ... Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It... ...n 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique t... ...licies, and such like things: If Divines, we may note the affaires of the Church, the Ecclesiasticall censures, dispensations, cases of conscience, ... ...re. A man should rid himselfe of these vulgar and hurtful humours. Even as Churchyards were first placed adjoyning unto churches, and in the most fre... ... to the end that continuall spectacle of bones, sculs, tombes, graves and burials should forewarne us of our condition, and fatall end. Quin etiam e... ...man of the Citie, whose trade was to sell such necessaries as belonged to burials, under colour, hee asked too much profit for them: and that such p... ... (after the manner of our yong gallants of France) to report how many the Church of Santa Rotonda is in length or breadth, or what rich garments the... ...o the hands of those who had the charge to provide for their funerals and burials. Periander did more miraculously, who extended his conjugall affec...

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...otterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again....

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...eredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith RHODA FLEMING By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I REMAINS of our good yeomanry blood will... ...in their hearts, and often afterward, when Dahlia, upon taking her seat in church, shut her eyes, according to custom, she strove to conjure up the im... ...distinguishing thing to the farm, and when on a Sunday he walked home from church among full June roses, he felt the odour of them to be so like his i... ...n groaned at continuous falls of moisture, and when rain was prayed for in church, he had to be down on his knees, pray- ing heartily with the rest of... ...n usual. After his departure, Mrs. Sumfit sat and discoursed on deaths and burials, the certain end of all: at least, she cor- 343 George Meredith re... ... least, she cor- 343 George Meredith rected herself, the deaths were. The burials were not so cer- tain. Consequently, we might take the burials, as ...

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...spects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, wit...

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...ections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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...Excerpt: We sailed from Peru, where we had continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came...

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...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Atalantis by Francis Bacon, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...vania State University is an equal opportunity university. THE NEW ATLANTIS by FRANCIS BACON. (Written in 1626.) NEW ATLANTIS WE SAILED FROM P ERU,... ...ritten in 1626.) NEW ATLANTIS WE SAILED FROM P ERU, where we had continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, ta... ...Old and New Testament, according as you have them (for we know well what the churches with you receive), and the Apocalypse itself; and some other boo... ...ry, and indeed live very long; by whom also we learn many things. “We have burials in several earths, where we put divers cements, as the Chinese do... ...t and fresh, whereof we have use for the fish and fowl. We use them also for burials of some natural bodies, for we find a difference in things buried...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...hor to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the most distant resemblance....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... .........................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE THIS VOLUME ... ...onder. Along the flat horizon there arise the frequent venerable towers of churches. He sees at the end of airy vistas the revolution of the windmill ... ...ore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed a different social constitution... ... his pipe beside the mortuary fire, and in his faithful memory notches the burials of our race. To suspect Shakespeare in his maturity of a superficia... ...he minister was summoned. He dwelt in a cottage built into the wall of the church-yard; and through a bull’s- eye pane above his bed he could see, as ...

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... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ................276 After the Sea Ship.............................277 BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE ..278 A Boston Ballad (1854).....................278 Euro... ...on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame...........314 Come Up from the Fields Fathe... ...om, The scent of these arm pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship one thing more than an... ...and talks melodiously, Pleas’d with the tune of the choir of the whitewash’d church, Pleas’d with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher... ...the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner table, library, exchange... ...ndirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall en... ...ul. O L IVING A LWAY S, A LWAY S D YING O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visi...

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...ia State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth... ...s produced in the courses listed above, and the essays must be submit- ted by faculty members from the campuses. In other words, Best is not an “open ... ... them. All documentation should be in MLA parenthetical style and verified by the student’s instructor. (Please see the edito- rial at the end.) Facul... ...ity air (as fresh as NYC air can be) fills our lungs as we jolt out of the church through the huge mahogany doors and onto the sidewalk. There was har... ...s hardly a word spo- ken in the pre-arrangement of our activity; tag after church is a sort of unwritten rule for ten year olds. I, being the dominant... ...and laughing, huffing and puffing. Most of the congregation has exited the church already and gathered on the sidewalk outside where they are mingling... ...nearly every one of America’s conflicts. It was even- tually closed to new burials, but this place is still sacred to all who go there. The reason is ...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... .............. 187 187 187 187 187 4 Biographical Essays BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSPEARE EARE EARE EARE ... ...nt to the feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye of the mo... ...oughtless. 5 Thomas de Quincey According to the discipline of the English church, the un- baptized are buried with “maimed rites,” shorn of their ob-... ...nd sternly denied that “sweet and solemn farewell,” by which otherwise the church expresses her final charity with all men; and not only so, but they ... ... and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- lous with Christian burials of households, “That died in peace with one another. Father, sister... ...tline, the very same, but not applied to the narrow purpose of obtain- ing burials from a public fund He persuaded, for instance, two beautiful young ...

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... unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride of Lammermoor, the Author...

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...t A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- si... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Sir Walter Scott Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on ... ...o determine; but it’s certain her coffin stands upright in the isle of the church of Kirklistown, the burial-place belonging to the family.” The tal- ... ... of the bride, a mere lad at the time, who had ridden before his sister to church. He said her hand, which lay on his as she held her arm around his w... ...betwixt Leith and Holyrood House; and was honourably interred in the Abbey Church of Holyrood House, on April 4, 1682.” Men might, and very justly too... ...w. If grit folk gie poor bodies ony thing for coming to their weddings and burials, it suld be something that wad do them gude, I think.” “Their gifts...

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...e had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bl...

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...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...ipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...h their caste, or indeed with anything at all. He ate the offerings of his church, and slept and smoked, and slept again “for,” said Peroo, who had ha... ...d, where he had sat of evenings with his nurse, and at the ten-by-fourteen church, where the officers went to service if a chaplain of any official cr... ... with a shudder. “And you?” Scott said nothing. There had been many little burials along his route—one cannot burn a dead baby—many mothers who had we... ...t,” said Janet. “We’re fair rich -well- to-do, but no more. A new gown for church, and one for the theatre. We’ll have it made west.” “How much is it?...

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... only the printer of the book, but to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory?s work into twentyone books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully, and supplying the ?Rubrish? or chapter-headings. It may be added that Caxton?s preface contains, moreover, a brief criticism which, on the points on which it touches, is still the soundest and most symp...

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...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One by Sir Thomas Malory, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Class... ...l opportunity university. 3 Le Morte Darthur – V ol. One Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble K... ...hat their prayer might be the more acceptable unto God. So in the greatest church of London, whether it were Paul’s or not the French book maketh no m... ...the French book maketh no mention, all the estates were long or day in the church for to pray. And when matins and the 16 Thomas Malory first mass wa... ...atins and the 16 Thomas Malory first mass was done, there was seen in the churchyard, against the high altar, a great stone four square, like unto a ... ...at I flee or yield me as recreant, bid mine eme never bury me in Christian burials. And upon thy life, said Sir Tristram to Gouvernail, come thou not ...