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...ted especially for him. He was born and raised there. He knows no other place. The people around him – unbeknownst to him – are all actors. His lif... ...efine him and infuse his life with meaning. Caught in a narrative, the movie says, people act immorally. (IN)famous psychological experiments supp... ... walks out on the whole project. He destroys an investment of billions of dollars, people's lives and careers. He turns his back on some of the act... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ...s not present because he does not remember Dan and how it is to be Dan. He may have murdered Jake - but, by all philosophical and ethical criteria, ... ...th, the USA believes that it should be immune to the consequences of its misconduct abroad. Hence its shock when al-Qaida brought the blazing messa... ...nch. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owne... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Econom...

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...omeland, 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 parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ... despised him and suspected his son was gay; and that Yang Lin felt that his English level was the same as his Korean. Abstract ideas must not have e... ...hing him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little did they know of the pleasurable respites from p... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... ...hool friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spoke in English the entire time neglecting his school friend from the conversatio... .... He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually "honja," ... ...by coming here to find his land he had parted from her. When his sister was murdered, he was just beginning his studies at the university. When his f... ... his sister, Jung- Jun (that girl sister as dead and yet phantomesque as the murdered adult) tacit and waiting anxiously to be the first to pierce int... ...pressed their own savagery through the common necessity of not wanting to be murdered in their beds. The contract wasn't as simple as that alone. Th...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ...ge communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. International development ha... .... For this volume, has in turn translated the interviews from Finnish into English. In selecting villagers' accounts, I have attempted to include diff... ...sk and purposeful way has dealt with the task of translating the book into English. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 20... ...t people believe it. For example, if someone has died accidentally or been murdered, the soul of such a person sometimes settles in a person or it may... ...one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy choral singing and speech echoes from sc... ...me back to haunt his relatives. A person who had committed suicide or been murdered, his soul was particularly feared. It was believed that such a per... ..., and the deceased went there to look for them. Today, if someone has been murdered or killed, the cremation may be arranged at Did you see any friend...

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... the last man who is a Dalit? As one of the world’s largest socio-economically oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the excesses of the traditional oppressor castes, but also from State Oppression— which includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police brutality, economi...

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...vilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradatio... ...cally oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the exces... ...riyar who devoted his entire life to working for the rights of the subjugated people. W.B.VASANTHA KANDASAMY FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE K.KANDASAMY ... ...es. Also, in some cases, they student find it very difficult to cope with the English medium of instruction. Another sad thing to be noted is tha... ...e ill- treated and harassed not only by their teachers for their ignorance in English but also by their own classmates. The teachers are also indiff... ...es a risk to his life, consequent of which he may be assassinated or brutally murdered on the streets. This is the deplorable plight of the Dalits w... ...itled Kudi Arasu (Republic). In his second journalistic foray, he started the English magazine ‘Revolt’ on 7 November 1928. In February 1929, the ... ...tely, raided 14 homes, killed 67 people, injured an additional 20 people, and murdered 7 local fishermen and brutally raped and murdered 5 girls. T... ...Shankarbigha Twenty-three scheduled caste landless agricultural workers were murdered in cold blood on 25 January 1999 by the private army of upper...

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...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...ook at other races, tribes etc. as enemies: They were all killed, butchered, murdered, and enslaved. Their cultures were stolen from them, their c... ... overcome their killers. Instead: they just stood there and let themselves be murdered because they were so stupid, so cowardly, so craven, so lacki... ...arger groups: just to protect ourselves from being killed, robbed, raped, and murdered. Making better tools, more specialized tools, creating mo... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ...

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..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ...pace the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an e... ...mented. In Northwestern Macedonia, an adolescent girl was raped by 50 soldiers and murdered afterwards. In another village, they cut a girl's arm t... ...In a 1904 book called 'Macedonia: Its Races and Their Future', H. N. Brailsford, an English relief worker, describes lawless conditions in Macedonia... ...uisling ruler of Vardar Macedonia). It was an IMRO man ("Vlado the Chauffeur") who murdered King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934. All this period... ... All this period, the IMRO continued to pursue its original agenda. IMRO terrorists murdered staff and pupils in Yugoslav schools in Vardar Macedoni... ... another venerable political prisoner. The PPK was co-founded by Veton Surroi, the English-speaking, US-educated, son of a Yugoslav diplomat and ed... ...eja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978 Any effort to understa...

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...pilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has come down to us it is also the first English classic for our knowledge of which we are entirely dependent on a prin...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...69 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country,... ...ry, and since no manuscript of it has come down to us it is also the first English classic for our knowledge of which we are entirely dependent on a p... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond... ...he fairest of all the world, wife to Sir Howell, Duke of Brittany, he hath murdered her in forcing her, and hath slit her unto the navel. Dame, said t... ... short life and shameful death; and the devil have thy soul; why hast thou murdered these young innocent children, and murdered this duchess? Therefor... ...s sorrow. And when she saw him she said thus: Ah, my little son, thou hast murdered thy mother, and therefore I suppose, thou that art a murderer so y...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he old handicrafts towards our modern life of ma-chines.” There were still people in Clyde who re-membered the frontier, and like America itself, the ... ...er face to the wall and tries “to force herself to face the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.” Or especially in Winesb... ...ually a root condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit- ied and dismissed; at some point ... ...ong the beds, preferring the labor that could be done when the guests were abroad seek- ing trade among the merchants of Winesburg. By the door of her... ...eporter you would look me up. In Chicago there was a Doctor Cronin who was murdered. Have you heard of that? Some men murdered him and put him in a tr... .... Kneeling in a fence corner at the edge of some meadow, he sent his voice abroad into the silence and looking up he saw the stars shining down at him... ...urriedly that he forgot to put on his overshoes. In Main Street no one was abroad but Hop Higgins the night watchman and in the whole town no one was ...

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...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ...ndbook of Experimental Economics", by John Hagel and Alvin Roth (eds.) admits that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic... ...ructive aggressiveness - is distinct from jealousy. The New Oxford Dictionary of English defines envy as: "A feeling of discontented or resentf... ...t on by - as Cato Institute's Daniel Griswold summarizes it - "high trade barriers abroad, predatory import pricing, declining competitiveness of c... ...a long time, America's savings rate turned negative. Americans borrowed at home and abroad to embark on a fervid shopping spree. Even worse, the pa... ... members to forcibly board whaling ships. In the USA, anti-abortion activists have murdered doctors. In Britain, animal rights zealots have both as... ...y non-existent. To this understatement, we must add my precarious knowledge of the English language. So, I am in a disadvantaged position. Due to t... ...ench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owner...

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... be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, adulation, att... ... (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalen... ...ne after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing essentially the same things (though with changing content... ...leadership which yields political stability; prosperity; security; prestige abroad; authority at home; a renewed sense of nationalism, collective an... ...ptimal conditions, with all hindrances (read: undesirables) removed (read: murdered). All four ideologies subvert modernity (in other words, Progre... ...e: Alexander later ordered him assassinated and his son executed. He also murdered anyone who had anything to do with the two. When he tried to im... ...ccounts of his drunken and violent reveries remain, in which he habitually murdered people and tore down cultural treasures (such as the palace of ... ...ertified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owner of a chain... ...el-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Economy at a Cr...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... ...the Boeotian poetry may be taken to have its germ in maxims similar to our English ‘Till May be out, ne’er cast a clout,’ or ‘A rainbow in the morning... ...rdly we may ascribe the rise of the new epic to the nature of the Boeotian people and, as already re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old ep... ...ady re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old epic. The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were... ... little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such. T o a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-... ...d the poet, suspected by his hosts of having seduced their sister (5), was murdered there. His body, cast into the sea, was brought to shore by dolphi... ... The tradition seems, however, to be constant in declaring that Hesiod was murdered and buried at Oenoe, and in this respect it is at least as old as ... ...sque, quasi-comic character, and it is also the best-known of the Hymns to English readers in consequence of Shelley’s translation. After a brief narr... ...flourishes, and the people prosper in it: Peace, the nurse of children, is abroad in their land, and all- seeing Zeus never decrees cruel war against ...

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...nd the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of th... ... Smiling incredulously, the Kid glanced at his well stocked ar senal, and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned for the door. But the dog d... ...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...ot good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they ’re better ’n her people’s, and then return to them. Take care of her, Kid, — why don’t y... ...tion; but when she came to him with her wonderful smile and her straight clean English, and talked to the point, without pleading or persuad ing, he ... ...nderer, and I learned that he was a hunter of seals, and that even then he was abroad on the ocean. “So I shipped on a seal schooner with the lazy Siw... ...s that had perished at his hand. They had been whites, all of them, these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parti... ... passage, he was prompted to warn them. But his gaze fell upon the body of the murdered maid, and he kept silent. When six had ventured on the knife e...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he friend with whom I shared the flat that I wanted to be rid of it and go abroad. He could not keep it by himself, but we luckily found a middle aged... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...cian bowler hats and the neat coats of the boulevardier. Dr Porhoët spoke English fluently, with scarcely a trace of foreign accent, but with an elab... ... lecturing at his hospital, and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profe... ...riage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’ ‘I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you, in postponing your marriage with... ... Burkhardt returned to England; and Haddo, pur sued by the friends of the murdered man, had great diffi 64 TheMagician culty in escaping with his l... ...?’ ‘I will do nothing till I have made quite sure that Margaret was foully murdered.’ He turned on his heel and walked quickly away. It was late now, ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...aid Mr. Brownlow laughing—having just found her trying to make out the Old English of King Alfred’s 7 Yonge ‘Boethius’—”such as this?” “Just so! They... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ... of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your honours? Eh, my boy?” Allen looked rat... ...are of some laird with an unearthly name.” “But you knew that they took me abroad.” “And Alice Brown told me that letters sent to the place in Scotlan... ...retreated into the wood from the alarming spectacle of “the school- master abroad.” After a greeting to the two girls, who comported them- selves, acc... ...ke the ghastly notion of Bertram Risingham in Rokeby, of some phantom of a murdered slave protecting those hoards. “I don’t wonder he threatens,” said...

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...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ... The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or o... ...ative. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house lord dogging you for rent. Many a ma... .... . I have often lodged in their wigwams, and found them as warm as the best English houses.” He adds, that they were commonly carpeted and lined with... ...questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he mig... ...ver read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wreck... ...advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, soc...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E L... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ....462 5 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 To Dr. J.D. Buck, ... ...RANSLATION was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprise... ...ala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems... ...a being more than 144,000 square miles, and inhabited by some 2,000,000 of people, the last remnants of a race driven back from the East, at a very ea... ...ch it watered, nor sowed the fields which it made fruitful, but robbed and murdered, insomuch that its clear waves grew dark with the blood of the sla... ...islands of the blessed, I had thought that thou hadst perished, Hadst been murdered by my foemen, Hadst been slain with bows and arrows. Heavy are min... ...to save thee from destruction, Then thou wert not sent to Swamp land To be murdered for thy follies. In thy former years of sorrow, When the beauteous...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...s one which ought to be studied. “I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con... ...development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts. “With the h... ...holy, good, intangible, or divine; to whom the loftiest conception which the people have reasonably made their measure of value, would already practic... ...ugh their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where g... ...is weak reason: like lead lay its words upon him—thereupon he robbed when he murdered. He did not mean to be ashamed of his madness. And now once more... ...it cometh home to me at last—mine own Self, and such of it as hath been long abroad, and scattered among things and accidents. And one thing more do I... ...t terrifies the modern soul; it is his one anxi- ety, his one ghastly fear” (English Edition, page 141). In his feverish scurry to find entertainment ... ...which, at first sight, seems to be merely “le manoir a l’envers,” indeed one English critic has actually said of Nietzsche, that “Thus Spake Zarathust...

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...ery generation has to educate another which it has brought upon the stage. People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very dif... ... ing, and how to walk through a quadrille. But, you may tell me, the young people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I ha... ...rit is true, the letter is eternally false. The shadow of a great oak lies abroad upon the ground at noon, perfect, clear, and stable like the earth. ... ... your neighbour as yourself, but he can tell more or less whether you have murdered, or stolen, or committed adultery, or held up your hand and testif... ...ins the cause. And thus you find Christ giving various counsels to varying people, and often jealously careful to avoid definite precept. Is he asked,... ...ind was pursuing some other and more general design than to set one or two Englishmen of the nineteenth century be- yond the reach of needs and duties... ...Revenge,’ ‘Duells,’ ‘Cruelty,’ ‘A Defence of some of the Ceremonies of the English Liturgie– to wit– Bowing at the Name of Jesus, The frequent repetit... ...re confined to the shire of Mid-Lothian, pursued, captured, plundered, and murdered the miserable fugitives who fell in their way. One strange story h... ...alist Jericho– but to the stealthy change that has come over the spirit of Englishmen and English legislation. A little while ago, and we were still f...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nmates of the hut caught the sound of bells. 6 Anton Chekhov “Lord! fancy people wanting to drive about in such weather,” sighed Raissa. “It’ s gover... ... him compassionately. “When father was alive and living here, all sorts of people used to come to him to be cured of the ague: from the village, and t... ...eighteen months ago. Of course, when the gentry lived here there were more people, and it was worth while to have the services. But now the gentry hav... ...in anything that came to hand, and when, for instance, magpies were wanted abroad for ladies’ hats, he made some thirty kopecks on every pair of birds... ...r little axes… .” He drank little and was now only drunk from one glass of English bitters. The revolting bitters, made from nobody knows what, intoxi... ...w , there is no great cleverness needed where there is a will to it. Yefim murdered people with viper’s fat. That is such a poison that folks will die...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...ar to that of Shakspeare’s Hamlet. The times were out of joint; here was a murdered father to avenge on a powerful murderer; and here, in both cases, ... ...s not the man to avenge his father. Like Hamlet, this son of a dear father murdered was sincerely grieved at heart. Like Hamlet, too, he could un- pac... ... high thoughts came to Charles only in a flash. John the Fearless had been murdered in his turn on the bridge of Montereau so far back as 1419. His so...