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...nothing to complain of, and looked at his wife, who said not a word as she ironed the albs and sur- plices from the sacristy. “By my halidom,” he said... ...b that has grown from the hollow trunk of some gnarled willow, withered by age, blasted 12 The Exiles by lightning, standing decrepit; one of those m... ...he schools for which the Rue du Fouarre was at that time famous throughout Europe. At the moment when Jacqueline’s two lodgers arrived at the old Scho... ...he immoderate love of the marvelous, which haunts the mind of man in every age. This effort of man to clutch the infinite, which for ever slips throug... ...died life from blood-stained pages? What can you have to weep for, at your age?” “Alas!” said Godefroid, “I regret a land more beautiful than any land... ...rge. The loud, heavy step of a man-at- arms sounded on the stairs with the iron clank of his sword, his cuirass, and spurs; a soldier presently stood ...

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...nial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England, during which he had had a very good p... ...m as much as the others. He detected a degrading quality in the touches of age which every day adds to a human countenance. They moved and disturbed h... ...paper in the Antipodes could not ignore the fashionable philosopher of the age. Not that anybody read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had hear... ...I dare say,” and only then went on to explain that old Dunster, during his European tour, had been made rather a lion of in London, where he stayed wi... ...tony eyes. “And you proceed from one set to the other in this demo- cratic age,” the Editor went on with unperturbed complacency. “That is if you are ... ...e to the thoughts than to the events of existence. Withal not crushed, sub-ironic without a trace of acidity, and with a simple manner which put peopl... ...iver in Paris. A serious matter. That lectures by Professor Moorsom were a European event and that brilliant audiences would gather to hear them Renou... ...sture with her hand, putting away from her that thought. He spoke, quietly ironic at first. “Ha! the legendary Renouard of sensitive idiots—the ruth- ... ...he sloop ran close to a shallow cove where a landing could be made on that iron-bound shore. A boat was lowered, and pulled in with Tom Corbin (Cuba T...

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...n a sip of coffee. A horrible thought enters my mind. Now in this day and age one can’t tell by mere appearances, I just hope he’s not gay, what a t... ...lesson in survival; food. Craters formed whilst I tapped on the corrugated iron. Naturally, I didn’t want to appear too obvious, but with each bang, t... ... guy, true story, had to have his teeth capped due to excess brushing. He irons his undies, checks out his reflection in his shoes and his hair, oh ... ...ven; not much, mum had us close together. Geezers, now I’m lying about my age! Anyway, he also has me believing my chest is so small, even implants ... ... thinks if I don’t get my bum into gear, the only company I’ll have in old age, will be a set of false teeth and a battery driven device. Steven has ... ...nk he’s a comedian. “No it’s true, honestly. She bought a whole library of European cook books, couldn’t do one of the recipes.” “There had to be one... ... so calmly, unlike me, who stormed through the house like Hitler invading Europe. He’s keeping count, mutters six. I correct him and say seven; remi...

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...ered returning to the insular South of her youth. But who could have foreseen that iron-willed Eleanor O’Connell Langey would die before her time? ... ...ho I snagged after all those years of putting up with Royce Lee. Do you believe in irony, Laura Kate?” “Yes.” “The irony is simply delicious.” Sh... ... and people in his family who could look after the children while she stayed in the European killing zone. And it was he who had been firm in remin... ...go Watts had been Wallace Langey’s mistress for at least twenty-seven years — Olin’s age. After the baby boy was born, and with Aunt Eleanor’s bless... ... the place to an off-the-wall brand church. The church sold it to Guy and moved to Europe.” He was stalling. He’d rather talk real estate than ge... ...same one you’re taking’.” “Ah, ménage a trois.” “You spent too much time in Europe,” he said. “It’s called a threesome in Georgia. Anyway, ... ...e ill-fitting door and found herself in a large room full of mess. Rusting wrought iron lawn furniture scattered across the place. There was a hom... ...end.” “Let me ask you about Sammie Lee.” “Sure.” Bobby and Sammie were the same age. They’d grown up together, attended various academies toget... ...en he’d talked to Honey Dade he found him to be a kindly black man of undeterminable age, neither young nor particularly macho. Whitaker went on, “I...

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... EVE AND DAVID Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for acc... ...y of the periodical press. He saw the direction in which the spirit of the age was tend- ing, and sought to find means to the required end. He saw als... ...ak door had been put in by his orders, and the walls were lined with sheet-iron; he even re- placed the dirty window sash by panes of ribbed glass, so... ...s. “My gaffer will go farther with his ‘sabots’ than yours with their cast-iron contrivances that turn out mass books all day long,” he would boast. “... ... privilege of our literature; papermaking will be for France what coal and iron and coarse potter’s clay are for England—a monopoly. I mean to be the ... ... the day of Saint- Bartholomew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he called it, in the face ... ..., and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he called it, in the face of Europe.” “So long as my fingers can hold an iron, you shall want for nothin... ...han rags, France can produce paper more cheaply than any other 179 Balzac European country. Dutch paper, as David foresaw, no longer exists. Sooner o...

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...or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_a... ...lly foresaw the replacement of the print book with the much heralded e- book. The irony is that the new economy self-destructed because most of it... ...What rate of inflation is desirable? The answer is: it depends on whom you ask. The European Central Bank maintains an annual target of 2 percent. O... ...inent-wide inflation rate of 0-2 percent would increase structural unemployment in Europe's arthritic labor markets by a staggering 2-4 percentage ... ...recessionary and deflationary effects of a "real" tax. The outcomes of inflation, ironically, resemble the economic recipe of the "Washington cons... ...ve often resulted in costly failures." Stern concludes his remarks by repeating the age-old advice: caveat emptor. Let depositors and creditors suff... ...ysical or monetary kinds. This led to an ongoing revolution in economic relations. Ironically, dehumanizing totalitarian regimes, such as fascism a... ...essmen amass superfluous wealth and collectors bid in auctions regardless of their age. We all - particularly economists - seem to deny the prospec... ...rsity Press, the model ignores future income from work which tends to dwindle with age. Another way to look at it is that income from labor is assu...

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...e Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press Inter... ... Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, h... ...owners to revert to a monthly hosting fee model. With Lycos in trouble in Europe, Tripod may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft h... ... (the content creators) for their services. This is especially true in an age of just-in-time inventory and digital distribution. Network effects me... ...n e-book. Consider what this simple business model does to entrenched and age old notions such as "original" and "copies", copyright, and book iden... ... The Internet and the Library By: Sam Vaknin "In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyr... ...m romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is ironic. Publishing, in its earliest forms, was a revolt against the writin... ...s bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typ... ...ially, editing articles without first logging in to one's account). It is ironic, since the vast majority of Wikipedians - including the administrat...

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...he is a rights-holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But what about the unborn fetus? One approach is that the ... ...ass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged culpability. But the phenomenon of excl... ...ish Response: Race has been invariably used as an argument against the Jews. It is ironic that racial purists have always been the most fervent ant... ...e most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and lang... ... what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, ... ... government. Neither were Jews prominent in any of the recent moves - mostly by the Europeans - to strengthen the role of international law and att... ...gemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the European order. The Nazis borrowed the Leninist vocabulary and ... ...talist history. Communism should be well distinguished from Marxism. Still, it is ironic that even Marx's "scientific materialism" has an equivale... ..., are no longer so. Consider Yugoslavia's Milosevic and Chile's Pinochet. But, the irony is that a similar trend of criminalization - within nation...

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...y consistent; applicability, in the printing-office, is a better test than iron-clad consistency, and common-sense a safer guide vi than abstract... ...); an invasion of barbarians from the north, traveling through the south of Europe. A The Universitv of Chica~o Press 4. Generic terms for politic... ...onservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, as in continental Europe, it is organized as a distinct parliamentary faction); Christian,... ...history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: Stone Age, Middle Ages, Crusades, Renaissance, Reforma- tion, Inquisition, Com... ..., Commune (Paris); Old English (OE-see IIO), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pleistocene, Silurian, Lower Carboniferous. 8 The Un... ... page; Such a piece of metal is called a "slug." 67. An unusual, technical, ironical, etc., word or phrase in the text, whether or not accompanied b... ...which the initials only are given, nor after MS (=manuscript) : IE ( =Indo-European), OE ( =Old English), MHG ( -Middle High German); AJSL (=Americ... ...T- 114. The exclamation point is used to mark an outcry, or an emphatic or ironical utterance: Manual of Style: Punctuation 41 "Long live the kin... ...n into the text: "The reasons for his resignation were three: (I) advanced age, (2) failing health, (3) a desire to travel." If such divisions are ...

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... see, my dears. Well, Rose Jocelyn would just suit Evan. She is just of an age to receive an impression. And I would take care she did. In- stance me ... ... were Messrs. Barnes, Kilne, and Grossby, whom we know; Mr. Doubleday, the ironmonger; Mr. Joyce, the 59 George Meredith grocer; Mr. Perkins, commonl... ...t. ‘The Douglas and the Percy: “he took the dead man by the hand.” What an age it seems since I last saw that. There’s Sir Hugh Montgom- ery on horseb... ...e old gentleman’s home. Men do not play truant from home at sixty years of age. He must, therefore, be seriously indisposed. The kind heart of the lan... ...arked: ‘Oh! that is the language of the son of a gentleman.’ The tumult of irony, abuse, and retort, went on despite the efforts of Drummond and the c... ... step not only upset the Honourable Melville’s, but shattered the limbs of Europe. Let us admit, that it is easier to fit a man’s legs than to com- pr... ...ses so profoundly humble, that a listener would have taken them for bitter irony. He said adieu to her,—pronouncing it with a pathos to melt scornful ...

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...clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, o...

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...or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, ... ...nalyzing them. That smile is peculiar to Parisians; it says so many things—ironi- cal, quizzical, pitying; but nothing save the rarest of human curios... ... dependent upon his earnings. Running about to give private lessons at his age!—Think of it. How many a mys- tery lies in that unromantic situation! B... ...to trot about for us.—What else would he do?” Very soon the cold which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable cold which sen... ... royal crown above it. In the eighteenth century, all the crowned heads of Europe had rival porcelain factories, and workmen were kidnaped. Watteau de... ...look for fans in the Rue de Lappe, among an Auvergnat’s stock of brass and iron and ormolu furniture? Well, I myself believe that there is an intellig... ...some square to which La France should stand god- mother. The Quartier de l’Europe was a revival of the same idea; history repeats itself everywhere in... ...ndred francs per annum this profound philosopher lived. How many people in Europe, whose one thought it is to come to Paris and live there, will be ag... ...h are as rings in a coat of chain-mail enveloping the soul in a network of iron. One of the keenest pleasures of Pons’ old life, one of the joys of th...

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...07 CHAPTER II OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 C... ...a thousand nails in a day. I have seen several boys, under twenty years of age, who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails, and ... ...ows the bellows, stirs or mends the fire as there is occa- sion, heats the iron, and forges every part of the nail: in forging the head, too, he is ob... ...le and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and f... ...nts nor play- fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupa- tion... ...hat is made of wood; a country smith in every sort of work that is made of iron. The former is not only a carpenter, but a joiner, a cabinet-maker, an... ...Africa none of those great inlets, such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the ... ...ferent metals have been made use of by different nations for this purpose. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copp... ...OMMODITIES THERE IS IN EVERY SOCIETY or neighbourhood an ordinary or aver- age rate, both of wages and profit, in every different employment of labour...

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... to keep so quiet as that in the latter half of the nineteenth century—the age of newspapers and telegrams and photographs and interviewers. And she h... ...leached and shriv- eled face. Independently of the refining process of old age it had a delicacy which once must have been great. She had been very fa... ...o. It was possible she intended her omission as an impertinence, a visible irony, to show how she could overreach people who attempted to overreach he... ...ers it was not possible to frame. I had known many of my country-people in Europe and was familiar with the strange ways they were liable to take up t... ... have been Norwegians or Spaniards. Miss Bordereau, after all, had been in Europe nearly three-quarters of a century; it appeared by some verses addre... ...liana’s. It was also indispensable that he should have been accompanied to Europe by these young ladies and should have established himself there for ... ... answer this appeal. “She has a much easier life than I had when I was her age.” “You must remember that it has been quite open to me to think you rat... ...hem to you?” This put the case very crudely, though I am sure there was no irony in her intention. “Oh, I mean that you might let me see them and look... ... no dusky nooks nor curtained corners, no massive cabinets nor chests with iron bands. Moreover it was pos- sible, it was perhaps even probable that t...

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...f our part of the country, who have but one passion, he had a character of iron, and persevered in the path he had chosen as steadily as a monk in ven... ... he got hold of he stuck to. More than this, he had teeth fit to masticate iron, a stomach to dissolve it, a duodenum to digest it, a sphincter to let... ...s is what happened to the silversmith in the one-and- fortieth year of his age. One Sabbath-day while walking on the left bank of the Seine, led by an... ...l get you my engine; nay, not even torture, seeing that I am stronger than iron is hard, and more patient than sorrow is great.” So saying, the silver... ...d it may be he was right. In con- sequence of this idea he reached his old age without a com- panion, which was certainly not to his advantage. Always... ...h, his chamberlain, and more than that, his ambassador in the countries of Europe, and well-beloved of this most redoubt- able lord, to whom he was ne... ...for it, so melodious was his young voice, and was scarcely twenty years of age. “Dear cousin,” said she to him, “leave the room, and go to your house;... ...e through these things his Court was the most renowned in the countries of Europe. This fine political aspect was the result of the perfect agreement ...

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...oy, born the 10th of March. He is very much such a child as Bob was at his age, rather of a longer order. Bob is “short and low,” and I expect always ... ...who was that man? He was one of the ablest and most learned lawyers of his age, or of any age. It is no disparagement to Mr. Polk, nor indeed to any o... ...u go along gather up all the shrewd, wild boys about town, whether just of age, or a little under age, Chris. Logan, Reddick Ridgely, Lewis Zwizler, a... ... was called upon to legis- late for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle f... ...eaty was concluded in the latter part of the same year. On his return from Europe he was again elected to the lower branch of Congress, and on tak- in... ...e man’s mak- ing a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying: “The white people of... ...port of the ‘Confed- eracy’ during the Civil War is a prime example of the irony and hypocracy of politics: that self-interest will ever over- power r... ...he Ohio there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled to- gether with irons. That sight was a continued torment to me, and I see something like i...

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...n the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, with grey hair, rather short, and somewhat corpulent, but still gifted... ...whole tenor of his life had espe- cially fitted him. Now, in his green old age, he had ceased to covet, but had not ceased to repine. He had ceased to... ...seems to me that you want to encourage him. A child about sixteen years of age!’ ‘I am told she is nineteen.’ ‘What does it matter if she’s fifty-nine... ...d.’ ‘And Mrs Arabin;—she is with him?’ ‘They tell me she is not. She is in Europe. He is in Pales- tine.’ ‘In Palestine, is he?’ ‘So they tell me. A d... ...aid his prayers ever since that day. And now his surplices were washed and ironed and folded and put away; but there were moments in which he would st... ...hey were standing near a corner, where a turning path made an angle in the iron rails, Mr Dunn having proposed that they should wait there for a few m... ...ar Mr John,’ said Miss Anne Prettyman, ‘Dr T empest is as hard as a bar of iron, and always was. But I am surprised that Mr Robarts should take a part... ...Chronicle of Barset ‘What a paladin you have been, John, rushing all about Europe on your friend’s behalf!’ ‘Don’t talk about that.’ ‘And such a succe...

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...d problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try... ...of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual property is important, that... ...ty, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you that our intellectual property po... ...the end. As I pointed out in the last chapter, the copyright term in most of Europe and in the United States now lasts for the life of the author and ... ...tal Millennium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual... ...rangement of data—C’s, G’s, A’s, and T’s. 34 Other challenges are overt: the European Database Protection Directive did (and various proposed bills in... ...ut it also provided substantial gains, gains that far outweighed the losses. Ironically, had the movie companies “won” in the Sony case, they might no... ...f impending doom from cheap copies were completely mistaken. The public and, ironically, the industry itself benefited as a result. But the Sony case i... ...a and thus has decided a lot of copyright cases over the years. There was an irony here. When the Supreme Court decided the Sony case, it was on appea...

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