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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...rs, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner... ...r reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or review... ...and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah ....................................................356 Cha... ...ys, which is why language itself has no meaning. Knowledge can be conveyed in English, Russian or any other language, even though the writers of the... ...ritten about in books of Kabbalah sold all over the world and translated into English, Russian and other languages. Anyone can learn the flavors of ... ...ting inside and only now surfaced? A: We are surprised when normally reserved Englishmen or Ger- mans suddenly turn into barbaric murderers. Here are... ...y to correct is lost. C O N C E P T S I N K A B B A L A H 383 In the case of intoxication, a person descends from the level of “man” to that of a “... ...But the act of ejac- ulation without a screen is a sin. You might say that the intoxication in and of itself is not a sin, but the sin is the deviati... ... sin, but the sin is the deviation from the purpose of creation caused by the intoxication. Through the correspondence between root and branch, ejacu...

...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to fi...

...Introduction: The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabb...

........................................... 323 Chapter 10. The Messiah and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah .................................................... 356 Chapter 12. Reflections and Thoughts .............................................. 386 Detailed Table of Contents: .........................................

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...a Bnei Baruch USA, 2009 85th street, #51, Brooklyn, NY 11214, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner with... ...roduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kabbalah for the student. — — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN... ...o legs and no stance. Indeed, here you need to have prior knowledge of the Law of Root and Branch by which the worlds relate to one another. ThE lAW ... ...te in quantity and quality, as with the seal and the imprint. This is the law of Root and Branch, which applies to every detail and occurrence of re... ...as no wish for wisdom, but for what appears in his heart, who follows the intoxication of the sordid world. He does little in studying the Torah and... ... v i a T i o n s (Because the acronyms are of Hebrew words, the letters in English may not match the words they represent) AA Arich Anpin AB HaVaYaH ... ...per produced and disseminated by Bnei Baruch in many languages, including English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. It is apolitical, non-commercial, a... ...Toronto, Canada, London, England, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, Hebrew, and Russian, and is also available on the Internet, at www...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

..., Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Israel No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner with... ...roduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ashlag, Yehudah. Shamati = (I heard) / Yehuda Ashlag ... ......................................................297 140. How I Love Thy Law ................................................................298 141... ...ss. At that 84 Shamati time one does not feel any wholeness, for it is a law that what people think affects a person. Therefore, if people respect ... ...947 It is impossible to be awarded the Torah in its entirety. And through intoxication in the wine of Torah, when one feels that the whole world is ... ...led Dalet (the Hebrew letter). When it is added by a Sack (the Hebrew and English words are the same here), they form Shaked (almond), which rushes ... ...Toronto, Canada, London, England, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, Hebrew, and Russian, and is also available on the Internet, at ww... ...srael time. The lessons are simultaneously translated into six languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish. In the near futur...

...One evening in September 1991, Kabbalist Rabash summoned his prime student, Michael Laitman, to his bedside and handed him a notebook, whose cover contained one word-Shamati (I Heard), containing transcripts of Rabash's conversations wit...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes such characters, and we shall send him away to another ... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ... 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... ...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... ...ing with him playfully, agreeing with him silently, kissing him, needing the intoxication of his breath, and that tendentious male assertiveness of th... ...a mood, for her saturnine thoughts came in part from the slowing of spinning intoxication and a more sobering reality pressing upon her: that she was ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, 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 N...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ...d (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in E... ...emonstrate is that there is no need to assume that the central processing unit (the English speaker) understands (or, for that matter, performs any ... ...ese debates a few points seemed to have escaped most of those involved. First, the English speaker inside the room himself is a conscious entity, r... ...elling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dr...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ...d (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in E... ...emonstrate is that there is no need to assume that the central processing unit (the English speaker) understands (or, for that matter, performs any ... ...ese debates a few points seemed to have escaped most of those involved. First, the English speaker inside the room himself is a conscious entity, r... ...elling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dr...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...nation, contraception, and other self-centered desires run against natural law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Ne... ...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ... gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there i... ...til he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there is no requirement. It was legal for Englishmen to... ... liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Engli... ...e physical delight of orgasm may have been the primary reason for humans‘ intoxication and addiction to carnal pleasures. Then along the way the phy...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...The Metaphors of Mind – The Brain VII. The Metaphors of Mind - Psychotherapy VIII. In Defense of Psychoanalysis IX. Metaphors of Mind – The Dialog ... ...mfiture for his condition to qualify as a disease. To this extent, we are justified in classifying all diseases as "spiritual" or "mental". Is ther... ...ompanies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued and exponent... ...ministration by some supreme, transcendental principle is restored. This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the plot yields predicti... ...ons which come true (either because they are self-fulfilling or because some real "law" has been discovered). b. The Integrative Principle – The c... ...elling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dr... ...ench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-own... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Maced...

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...EUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamilnadu In India XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF M... ...NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamilnadu In India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Ins... ...e of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department ... ...k. Some of the reasons, which were attributed to not using condoms, were: intoxication at time of intercourse, non-availability of condoms, no satis... ...n case of a model, add two or more FCMs to produce a new FCM. The strong law of large numbers ensures in some sense that knowledge reliability incr... ...mbined conflicting opinions tend to cancel out and assisted by the strong law of large numbers, a consensus emerges as the sample opinion approximat... ...osexual partners. Some of them, nearly 50% acknowledged that only under intoxication they had visited CSWs so they were out of their mind to use a... ...ife is also infected with HIV. He has seen pornographic movies especially English movies. He feels that today the government will give one conclusi... ...nt around Rs.100/- on CSWs per visit. He knows Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English. He is married and has a child. 372 Additional Observation: F...

...In this book for the first time we have ventured into the total analysis of migrant labourers in rural Tamil Nadu who are victims of HIV/AIDS using FCM, BAM and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps. As in our study and analysis we fel...

...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and pol...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ... -- Escape of de Pontis and capture of the robbers -- A singular appeal to the law -- The vast booty acquired at Cartagena is lost in litigation -- Am... ...entrusted the command of two vessels which he had fitted out to his brother-in-law, Lopez Villalobos, and sent him upon a voyage of discovery in the P... ...soners, and after waiting a suitable time and seeing no evil result other than intoxication, began to drink deeply and before morning Panama was held ...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...ng the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his ho... ...train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate tim... ...h his magazine, "Revealing Babes," which lay at his side. The title was in English but the nude women and what little writing there was within it were... ...mulous cloud. Only the storms, the headlines of the masses that he read in English from the Bangkok Post, would get his attention. A female beggar on ... ...yboy, was appealing enough to be referred to as "Naughty Nawin" with those English words in their headings proving that he had not turned into mushy a... ...e but for a worldly adulterer like himself it was minutes of indispensable intoxication. He continued to listen to the howling wind. It seemed to inve...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...cey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ... ever mention opium, formally or incidentally, that it does or can produce intoxication. Now, reader, assure yourself, meo perieulo, that no quantity ... ...ends apologized for him by suggesting that he was constantly in a state of intoxication from opium. Now the accusation, said I, is not prima facie and... ...se a medical man unacquainted with the characteristic symptoms of vi- nous intoxication, it yet struck me that he might proceed on a logical error of ...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...aight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ...e high table, or dais, it then be- came possible to assume as a fiction of law that the three delf fellows, after all, were not present. They could be... ...ated, such a death is falsely regarded with peculiar horror; as though the intoxication were sud- denly exalted into a blasphemy. But that is unphilos... ...osophic. The man was, or he was not, habitually a drunkard. If not, if his intoxication were a solitary accident, there can be no rea- son for allowin...

...BLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICT...

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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worm... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ...f the Ponts at Chausses. As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law, De Balzac AN OLD MAID CHAPTER I ONE OF MANY CHEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST ... ...ment invented by the Prince of Wales; but he did practice the rudiments of English elegance with a personal satisfaction little understood by the peop... ...he tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled quality like that of an English bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety. The chevalier h... ...ary tribunal. The two sentiments, equal in force, kept her stationary by a law as true in ethics as it is in statics. This state of uncertain expectat... ...is the attribute of all great masses. His love pro- duced in him a sort of intoxication which changed the shrill voice of the old maid into a soft mur...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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Honorine

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ...m the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps suff... ... celebrated lady had refused to yield to his ad- vances, dreading what the English call an exhibition; but she had drawn in the claws of her refusals ... ... with a promise made by the Ambassa- dor to the Consul-General’s father-in-law, the young man was created Baron and Commander of the Legion of Honor. ... ...l- General’s tale:— “When I was two-and-twenty, and had taken my degree in law, my old uncle, the Abbe Loraux, then seventy-two years old, felt it nec... ...derstood that I had made a poem of my wife—a poem I delighted in with such intoxication, that I fancied she shared the intoxication. Ah! Maurice, an i...

...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside Fran...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...rst such an apology must wear a very suspicious aspect of paradox. 3. “The English Mail-Coach.”* —This little paper, accord- ing to my original intent... ...the collision neared,—all these ele- ments of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction... ...ein. This brutal officer, who had latterly lived in a state of con- tinual intoxication, was the judge before whom the lovely and innocent Paulina was...

...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...d without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...d as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to ... ...own acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. T... ...women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding from the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common s... ...pite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and be- came on the strength of that an universal... ...e moles and in the feluccas of the Mediterranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twan... ...nce of despair at the loss of his affection; some day she would meet the fugitives, and the law would see her duly righted, and in the meantime the sm... ...the nerves among the snow and sunshine of the Alps. That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety. Thus also a man walks in ...

...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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Virginibus Puerisque, And Other Papers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ........................................................ 77 CHAPTER VII – THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS ............................................................. ... Are there no more definite rules than are to be found in the Prayer-book? Law and religion forbid the bans on the ground of propinquity or consan- gu... ...kespeare bombastic and most absurd, and all of him written in very obscure English and wearisome to read. And not long ago I was able to lay by my lan... ... notice your loops and flourishes; they are beside the mark, and the first law stationer could put you to the blush. Rousseau, indeed, made some accou... ...And so long as a man is reasoning he cannot surrender himself to that fine intoxication that comes of much motion in the open air, that begins in a so...

...69 CHAPTER VI ? EL DORADO ...................................................................................................... 77 CHAPTER VII ? THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS .......................................................................... 80 CHAPTER VIII ? SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN............................................................ 91 CHAPTER IX ? CHILD?S PLAY ...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ichelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; .......................................................... ...e cleave to life; an instinct, which, as being indispensable to the primal law of self-preservation, is the same in kind, (though different in degree,... ...e last sentence, which is so weighty, that I shall attempt to convey it in English: “Now, if merely to be present at a murder fastens on a man the cha... ... 24 ing of murder? Here was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by ... ...ated, such a death is falsely regarded with peculiar horror; as though the intoxication were sud- denly exalted into a blasphemy. But that is unphilos... ...osophic. The man was, or he was not, habitually a drunkard. If not, if his intoxication were a solitary accident, there can be no rea- son at all for ...

...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...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... ............................................................ 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................. ...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...cey PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE T T T T TO O O O O THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION THE ENGLISH EDITION... ...ecessity, and without design, full upon their pursuers, whom unhappily the intoxication of victory had by this time brought into the most careless dis... ...inal purpose, his lordship was to have held a high command. In a moment of intoxication, the earl confided this secret to some false friend, who pub- ...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

...MERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: IN...

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