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...no death, only a change of worlds." Dr. Henry A. Smith sat in a small room in a log cabin and tran­ scribed the words of Chief Seattle as they echoed... ...ness, and took a job as the curator of a small Indian museum in the Puget Sound area. She missed being able to help her people, but she never missed... ... was all but over that he re­ alized just how much he had hurt her. Even then he rationalized the situation, why couldn't she understand the pressure... ...gh the hazy smoke from the campfire, he could see a hunched figure sitting on a log next to the fire. If this was a dream, it was as real as anythin... ...ormed by colleagues who had left Southern California and settled in the Seattle area for a slower lifestyle. They complained about the rat race, the... ...rd project was the perfect place to begin. Alana burst into Pierce's reception area, stomped past his sec­ retaryand entered his private office like... ...le Pierce, even bluff him. She should have known better; she calmed herself by rationalizing that it was worth a shot. Now she would go back to mor... ...d complete annihilation." "In the end it won't solve anything," Brent said with rational logic. "Of course not. But there are desperate people out ... ...tarry sky. He followed Gray Shadow into what appeared to be a long rectangular log cabin. It was pitch black inside. The huge Indian grabbed Brent'...

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...ounged about enjoying the humidity. Large wisdom trees grew throughout the area and their giant heart-shaped leaves provided shade in the artificial ... ...f a female in heat. He froze, his thoughts racing. A soft glow filled the area. He saw her then—beautiful tawny fur, nicely toned body and bountiful ... ... the chair. The consoles near him lit up with live footage of the landing area. Already base personnel were headed for the designated landing spot. H... .... Finding a male psionic partner to bond with was harder still because the ratio of females to males was 10 to 1. The few women who made it every yea...

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...e a big girl. Come with me,” she said, as she led her over to the magazine area. “I wonder if you’d like to read these for a change,” she said with a ... ...e. It poked up majestically through the terrace floor and shaded the whole area. “I am absolutely awestruck,” said Lacey. “I knew you’d like it. Come ... ...plates with sour cream and added crackers, and led her over to the sitting area by the fire. Lacey thought it was a long way to walk inside someone’s ... ...back step and racing around to see everything. “This is so beautiful.” The log cabin sat amid tall trees, on the top of a grassy slope leading down to... ...m- puter screen, but her mind rebelled against figuring out staff vacation ratios. She rose, collected her things and opened Jerry’s door, “I’ve got t... ...s coming to her house for a drink before taking her to dinner at The Cedar Log House, a rustic, upscale restaurant nearby. She had not told her mother... ...5-0690; www.righttodie.ca {contact- rtd@righttodie.ca} Society for Old Age Rational Suicide (SOARS), c/o Dr. Michael Irwin, Hove, East Sussex, England...

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...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, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, fiveninths; the Ganges, less than one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhi...

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...ace, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven ninths; the Lena,... ...teamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England,... ...e middle distance the red hue brightened into gold, through which a solitary log came floating, black and con spicuous; in one place a long, slanting... ...hion: This sun means that we are going to have wind to morrow; that floating log means that the river is rising, small thanks to it; that slanting mar... ... at night the difficulty was mightily in creased; every now and then a huge log, lying deep in the water, would suddenly appear right under our bows,... ...ive trade in that staple, collecting it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and shipping it by boat; but Uncle Mumford says she built... ... war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus deco rations. For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also r... ... known to the human race, except water. This measure was approved by all the rational people in the State; but not by the bench of Judges. Burlington ... ...five per cent. had perished. Already twenty five hundred people had received rations from Troy, on Black River, and he had towed out a great many catt...

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...h refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that th... ...hich he selected would seem to forbid. His property increased in a tenfold ratio, and he was already ranked among the most wealthy and impor- tant of ... ... upon the pole- horses, who in their turn backed the sleigh. Only a single log lay above the pile which upheld the road on the side toward the valley,... ... with her arms demurely folded before her, surveying, with a look of admi- ration and envy, the dress and beauty of the young lady; and from her to Be... ...an off his farm with as little ceremony as I would order Benjamin to put a log in the stove—By-the-bye, Ben- jamin, see how the thermometer stands.—No... ...through the vistas of bushes and faces. The two sexes were separated by an area in the centre of the room immediately before the pulpit; amid a few be... ...Why, dear Miss T emple, we know all that already. I have heard it all very rationally explained by your cousin—” “The executive chief! he can explain ... ... posses- sion of the table, and the noise of moving feet had ceased in the area, the proclamations were made in the usual form, the jurors were sworn,...

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... part con- sisted of a grating of yellowish spear-shaped bars. These deco- rations, which had lost all their color, gradually rose on ei- ther half of... ... the example set by my system of irrigation; cattle were mul- tiplied; the area of meadow land and every kind of out-turn increased. I had nothing to ... ...ds, his tree trunks had to be trans- ported during the summer season; each log was dragged along one at a time, and with no small difficulty, by means... ... muffled up in ragged cloaks. The whole barn was lighted by a blazing pine log; it might have set the place on fire, and no one would have troubled to... ... a small pony besides for business purposes, for he does trade over a wide area. And only four years ago he had nothing in the world! Stay, that is a ... ...l unit perfectly equal, an increase of popula- tion everywhere in the same ratio, and give the same amount of land to each family; it would not be lon... ...e an eyelash, she is in such terror for her neck. “‘She is sleeping like a log; you can see that quite well,’ so says the tall one. “‘Old women are so...

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...mbled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or the subsidence of s... ...complaints. A priest’s kitchen in the eastern islands is a depressing spot to see; and many, or most of them, make no attempt to keep a garden, sparse... ...ne damning evidence: on the island of Onoatoa the punishment for theft was to be killed and eaten. How shall we account for the universality of the pr... ..., as at all junctures of island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet—the child’s presence at the daily board per- haps suff... ...ight miles of open water, and run almost high and dry upon the next. But my captain was more sorry for himself to be afloat in such a labyrinth; laid ... ...hared the spoil, he bore the penalty alone. He was condemned in five years. The period, when I had the pleasure of his friendship, was not yet expired... ...ill strike the blow,’ said the ven- erable Abou; and Mr. Corpse (surely with a sigh) accepted the compromise. The quarry was decoyed into the bush; he...

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...s unfit for any public duty or trust. In a town government, having a small area of jurisdiction, where the voice of the majority of qualified vot- ers... ...he subject to its chief magistrate would not be a passion, but a quiet and rational persuasion. Every individual being in the possession of rights whi... ...rity, and the people will remain quiet, not because it despairs of amelio- ration, but because it is conscious of the advantages of its condition. If ... ...f judicial power in the political world ought therefore to be in the exact ratio of the extension of elective offices: if these two institutions do no... ...e midst of the wilds; the traveller frequently discovers the vestiges of a log house in the most solitary retreats, which bear witness to the power, a... ...rsued our way at full gallop, leaving the in- habitants of the neighboring log houses to send for their share of the treasure. [When the author visite... ...e forests which still cover the State of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log house of a pioneer. I did not wish to penetrate into the dwelling of th... ...nd T erritories had increased to 51, the population to 62,831,900, and the area of the States, 3,602,990 square miles. This does not include the Phili... ...09,020; and the present estimated population of Porto Rico is 900,000. The area of the Philippine Islands is about 120,000 square miles, that of Hawai...

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...e land apportioned to it is nearly as compact as may be, and it exceeds in area the size of a parallelogram four miles long by two broad. These dimens... ...ry well to be prepared for good fortune, but one should limit one’s prepa- ration within a reasonable scope. Two miles by one might, 7 Trollope perha... ...- tary pass; and we started, trusting that Providence would supply us with rations and quarters. An officer attached to General Buell’s staff, with wh... ... They were all in tents, and seemed to be light- spirited and happy. Their rations were excellent; but so much may, I think, be said of the whole Nort... ...stand in the place of convenient furniture; and logs of wood, at a franc a log, fail to im- part to you the heat which the freezing cold of a Paris wi...

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...orkmen to ply their vocation. But nothing gained so large a share of admi- ration as a horse, which had been brought from Valparaiso by the Achille, o... ...eing now twenty-four hours since we had tasted food. Accordingly our day’s ration was brought out, and seating ourselves on a detached fragment of roc... ...lay in advancing. T owards sunset we halted at a spot where we made prepa- rations for passing the night. Here we constructed a hut, in much the same ... ... savage warfare. Outside of the habitation, and built upon the piazza-like area in its front, was a little shed used as a sort of larder or pantry, an... ... a number of towering cocoa- nut trees, planted at intervals along a level area of a hundred yards. At the further extremity of this space was to be s... ...st placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, ... ...o rising at each corner to a little more than the height of a man. A clear area of a few yards surrounded the pi-pi, and was enclosed by four trunks o... ...dly hastening. The image itself was nothing more than a grotesquely shaped log, carved in the likeness of a portly naked man with the arms clasped ove...

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...voices, he saw women’s figures, he could even smell the scent of the cedar log which flamed in the grate. His mind relaxed its tension, and seemed to ... ...ust like all the oth- ers. I rang, I knocked; no one came. I went down the area. I am certain I saw some one inside—children—a cradle. But no reply—no... ...ig lamp hung down from the center of the ceiling and, together with a fine log fire, illuminated a large and lofty room, with rafters running from wal... ...is kind but experienced manner. Now and then she fed the fire with a fresh log, and as the room filled with the fine, dry heat of burning wood, they a... ...d, after a break. He told her in an orderly way, betokening careful prepa- ration, all that he had meant to say at first; how he stood with regard to ... ... or so. They would go and hear some music together. Cassandra’s dislike of ratio- nal society, she said, was an affectation fast hardening into a prej... ...claim was certainly upheld by the number of houses which, within a certain area, lit their lamps at night, opened their doors after 3 p. m., and admit... ...n was a relief, not only in giving her a goal, but in providing her with a rational excuse for her own actions. It gave her a goal certainly, but the ...

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...ts than a whale. The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creatur... ...hree times a minute, and the steam poured out of the valves. We heaved the log, and calculated that the Abraham Lincoln was going at the rate of 18 1/... ... of smoke could hardly find way out of the narrow funnels. They heaved the log a second time. “Well?” asked the captain of the man at the wheel. “Nine... ...y a simple calculation the surface and cubic contents of the Nautilus. Its area measures 6,032 feet; and its contents about 1,500 cubic yards; 62 20,... ...the earth; in- deed, water is a better conductor of sound than air, in the ratio of four to one. At this period the earth sloped downwards; the light ... ...to W.N.W., from the Island Ducie to that of Lazareff. This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, am... ...as it was, I could only take a rapid glance at the basin whose superficial area is two million of square yards. Even Captain Nemo’s knowledge was lost... ...distillatory ma- chines stood that furnished the drinkable water by evapo- ration. They filled these with water, and all the electric heat from the pi...

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...eference in the left-hand path. As a compromise, they sat down on a fallen log. Looking about him, Rowland espied a curious wild shrub, with a spotted... ...t to think. This was the first that Rowland had heard of his Christ. “More rationalistic, I suppose,” suggested Miss Blanchard. “More idealistic!” cri... ...hrow dust into your eyes, to put you off the scent. That ‘s your eminently rational view of the case.” “Excuse me from taking any view at all,” said R... ...e terrible when such countenances could inspire admi- 196 Roderick Hudson ration. You see more beautiful girls in an hour on Broad- way than in the w... ...d the messen- ger, and presently found Madame Grandoni occupying a liberal area on the steps of the tribune, behind the great altar, where, spreading ...

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...marvellous growth. The statesman or the military hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; but we may search in ... ... his opportunities for satisfying that thirst were wofully slender. In the log schoolhouse, which he could visit but little, he was taught only readin... ...r, as the un- couth boy, after his daily work, crouched in a corner of the log cabin or outside under a tree, absorbed in a book while munching his su... ...came like a problem of arithmetic. As the Union armies pushed forward, the area from which the Southern Confederacy could draw recruits and sup- plies... ...racy could draw recruits and sup- plies constantly grew smaller, while the area from which the Union recruited its strength constantly grew larger; an... ...incoln: V ol One ing. So Lincoln, at twenty-one, had just begun his prepa- ration for the public life to which he soon began to aspire. For some years... ...eply that the rapid growth and increase of our resources was in so great a ratio as to outstrip the difficulty; that his object was to do the best tha... ... that success is so much greater now than heretofore is doubtless owing to rational causes; and if we would have it continue, we shall do well to inqu...

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... of her books. The desire to propitiate a divinity is generally in inverse ratio to its responsiveness, and the sense of discouragement pro- duced by ... ...nowledge the agreement,” she said. “And—you don’t mean to repudiate it?” A log on the hearth fell forward, and mechanically he ad- vanced and pushed i... ... into a side street of shabby houses, with rows of ash-barrels behind bent area railings. In a base- ment window she saw the sign Ladies’ Restaurant: ... ...… There was no one else in sight. Julia leaned for a long time against the area-rail at the corner, her eyes fixed on the front of the house. The feel...

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...east bite, and assert credibly that he was there: but as for the poor King Log, tumbled hither and thither as thousandfold chance and other will than ... ...e proportion, namely. For the theatricality of a People goes in a compound-ratio: ratio indeed of their trustfulness, sociability, fervency; but then ... ...rent that the spadework there cannot be got done in time. There is such an area of it; three hundred thousand square feet: for from the Ecole militair... ... sprawling hundred-headed, say with Twenty-five million heads; wide as the area of France; fierce as Frenzy; strong in very Hunger. With these shall t... ...t to think of such a march, without appointment or arrangement, station or ration: for the rest it was ‘the same men he had seen formerly’ in the trou...

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...31, which he afterwards republished at Rome. The ap pearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observed in Mr. K... ...coach window. “One of the young Jellybys been and got his head through the area railings!” “Oh, poor child,” said I; “let me out, if you please!” “Pra... ...the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Rich ard and Mr. Guppy ran down ... ...paper were all over the house. Some pewter pots and a milk can hung on the area railings; the door stood open; and we met the cook round the corner co... ... to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy prepa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shop... ...gs than jack towelling itself and stopping its own digestion, to which no rational person need particularly object? Why, yes. It cannot be disguised.... ...d in something; and here is—is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal? Oh, horror, he is h...

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...31, which he afterwards republished at Rome. The ap pearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observed in Mr. K... ...coach window. “One of the young Jellybys been and got his head through the area railings!” “Oh, poor child,” said I; “let me out, if you please!” “Pra... ...the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Rich ard and Mr. Guppy ran down ... ...paper were all over the house. Some pewter pots and a milk can hung on the area railings; the door stood open; and we met the cook round the corner co... ... to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy prepa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shop... ...gs than jack towelling itself and stopping its own digestion, to which no rational person need particularly object? Why, yes. It cannot be disguised.... ...d in something; and here is—is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal? Oh, horror, he is h...

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...ear,’ pleaded Mr Chick. ‘Nonsense! Habit!’ returned his wife. ‘If you’re a rational being, don’t make such ridiculous excuses. Habit! If I was to get ... ...tland Place and Bryanstone Square.’ It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by c... ... good; and that his general disposition to study may be stated in an equal ratio. Thus, taking eight as our standard and highest number, I find these ... ...e. No vestige of any dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wr... ...t. They don’t romance, you see, on such pints. It’s entered on the ship’ s log, and that’s the truest book as a man can write. To-morrow morning,’ sai... ... what came of education for the common people, let us have none. Some more rational said, let us have a better one. But the governing powers of the Gr...

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...udents. I went to the home page of three other schools and found that the ratios of students per computer are significantly smaller. There are 3327 ... ..., according to the Penn State Erie home page. This gives the Erie campus a ratio of twenty one students per computer. The Penn State Schuylkill cam- ... ...Schuylkill cam- pus has 981 students and has 56 computers. This gives it a ratio of seventeen students per computer. The Penn State Harrisburg campus... ...he dorms are at the bottom of the campus. It is not located in the central area, so walking there can be a problem, too. Everyday when students go to ... ... time between priori- ties and extracurricular activities. Also, having an area for wrestling gives an alternative to partying and other unproductiv... ...d other unproductive activities along those lines. Socially, the wrestling area will become a great place for new friend- ships to form because the pa...

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... was not one of my strong points. The hook ended up in a tree, caught on a log, anywhere but where I wanted to place it. Even for a pro, the fishing c... ...ng expository prose (Penn State 1997-98 Catalog, 517). Even in Hazleton Area High School, I had ESL classes for a couple of years. When I attended ... ...ulation. We can see many ESL students attending high school at Hazleton 15 Area High School. After they graduate high school, they may come to Penn St... ...oducts were avail- able to me, but people have to be sure that any storage areas with theses kinds of products that are at low levels need to have loc... ... sign, which read “John 3:16.” Use a colon with proportions. Example: The ratio of cleaning fluid to water is 1:50 ounces. To learn more about puncti...

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...on, the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we ha... ... military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.To avoid New Y ork area air traffic and uncertain about what to do, the fighters were brought ... ...der at 9:23:“Okay . . . scramble Langley. Head them towards the Washington area. . . . [I]f they’re there then we’ll run on them. . . .These guys are ... ...13 Bin Ladin shares Qutb’s stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattle... ...wrote,“has only confirmed the importance of defining a clearly articulated rationale for military action” that was effective as well as justified. But... ...he Philippines, and repressive governments in the Arab world. Beyond KSM’s rationalizations about targeting the U.S. economy, this vision gives a bett... ...11, Sept. 11, 2001. 53.AAL record, System Operations Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001, p. 2; NTSB report,“Flight Path Study—American Airlines... ...rview (Jan. 8, 2004);AAL record, System Opera- tions Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001. 56. FBI report,“American Airlines Airphone Usage,” Sep... ...erview (Nov. 19, 2003);AAL record, System Operations Command Center (SOCC) log, Sept. 11, 2001; UAL System Oper- ations Control briefing (Nov. 20, 200...

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...s, it belongs to a granitic formation. The circumstance of this enor- mous area being constituted of materials which most geologists believe to have b... ...he various rich productions of a tropi- cal land. Considering the enormous area of Brazil, the proportion of cultivated ground can scarcely be conside... ...e original sites of which without doubt were near. All occurred in a level area of shifting sand, sixty yards by twenty, situated among some high sand... ...e an average of 250 pounds, which I believe is overstating the result. The ratio will therefore be as 6048 to 250, or 24 to 1, for the ten largest ani... ...et high, which Captain Fitz Roy has called after Sir J. Banks, in commemo- ration of his disastrous excursion, which proved fa- tal to two men of his ... ...alliferous, and man finds it worth his while to complete the task of sepa- ration. Bad as the above treatment of the miners appears, it is gladly acce... ...an island in the far- famed South Sea. 17th. — This day is reckoned in the log-book as Tuesday the 17th, instead of Monday the 16th, ow- ing to our, s... ...ows in abundance, and has a soft brown root, in shape and size like a huge log of wood: this served us for dessert, for it is as sweet as treacle, and...

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...thers might think, was yet in suspense; and there was room enough for very rational hopes, especially where there was an absolute cer- tainty of innoc... ...d. Barratt still breathed; spite of his mutilations he could speak; he was rational. One only thing he demanded—it was that his dying confession might... ...long a series of terraces, that traversed the whole breadth of the topmost area at that point of crossing the Cordilleras, and which perhaps, but not ... ...t the same moment, and then all rushed simultaneously into the little open area. The thundering sound of about thirty horses, all rushing at once into... ...e 209 Thomas de Quincey the velocity of our course, we may enter into our log daily the rate at which our whole solar system is running. Bessel, it s... ...s orbit. Now, as the velocity is assumed to be the same in both cases, the ratio between the distance (already so tremendous) of Bessel’s 61 Cygni, an... ...hat are now unfolding and pre- paring to unfold before us, are many vacant areas upon which the astronomer may pitch his secret pavilion. He may dedi-...

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... and as I let him go in the extremity of my despair, he rolled like a mere log into the bilge-water, from which I had lifted him. It was evident that,... ...ernately, one above the other. At last an idea occurred to me which seemed rational, and which gave me cause to wonder, very justly, that I had not en... ...ck, stone dead, upon the cabin floor, and was hurled to the leeward like a log by a heavy roll of the brig. Of the remaining seven, there were but thr... ...to show us more fully the horrors which surrounded us. The brig was a mere log, rolling about at the mercy of every wave; the gale was upon the increa... ...peared much revived and invigorated, and, upon getting out, asked me, in a rational manner, why I had so served him. Having explained my object, he ex... ...nd speak, for a short pe- riod, of their prospects, in a manner altogether rational, although full of the most intense despair. It is possible, howeve... ...ose of a general promenade. The next process is to partition out the whole area into small squares exactly equal in size. This is done by forming narr... ...e stopped, as before, by an immense frozen expanse, which filled the whole area of the southern horizon. The northern edge of this ex- panse was ragge... ...ation there were no traces whatsoever throughout the whole of the desolate area within sight. Several immense scorpions were seen, and vari- ous repti...

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...se upon. Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas. One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the ... ...all, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. What do I know sympathetically, morally, of either of these worlds of ... ...and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspi- ration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equa- tion of quantity ... ...so much death. So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this sepa- ration of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried,—si... ...ound remains,—if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the bound- ary mountains on... ...haracter and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the sepa- ration of things, and dealing with one at a time. Love and all the passions... ...ray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm, or in the log-hut of the backwoods, or in the narrow lodging where he has endured the... ... selfish and sen- sual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest re- maining cold....

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...wl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog. Cool, now—cool! Do be co... ...t be displeasing or exciting even to a lunatic. She replied in a perfectly rational manner to all that I said; and even her original observations were... ...e it has been given a fair trial, if ever in any. W e did every thing that rational human- ity could suggest. I am sorry that you could not have paid ... ...gth of the island is nine miles; the breadth varies materially. The entire area (so Pundit says) was, about eight hundred years ago, densely packed wi... ...ess to the then pro- prietor—however troublesome, or distressing—in direct ratio with the advantages to be derived by others from their attain- 130 P...

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...a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or company’s baggage wagon, piled... ...ermaster sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log before his shelter, had been tasted. Another company, a lucky one for n... ...nced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka. The campfires crackled and the sol- diers’ songs resounded... ...of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, as reported by ... ... instead of taking any- thing from them, often gave them the last of their rations. The Pavlograd regiment had had only two men wounded in action, but... ...e rickety wooden steps of the porch. The house, with its bare, unplastered log walls, was not overclean—it did not seem that those living in it aimed ... ...erals had ever be- fore seen such horrors or so many slain in such a small area. The roar of guns, that had not ceased for ten hours, wearied the ear ...

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...land of the Fay” and “The Domain of Arnheim”; such marvel- lous studies in ratiocination as the “Gold-bug,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Purl... ... masses of cloud already mentioned, was seen slowly to emerge into an open area of blue space, a queer, heterogeneous, but apparently solid substance,... ...ions wherein she may be found. Nature herself seemed to afford me corrobo- ration of these ideas. In the contemplation of the heavenly bod- ies it str... ...ware that this apparent paradox was occasioned by the center of the visual area being less susceptible of feeble im- pressions of light than the exter... ...cended (as may be plainly seen from what has been stated before), but in a ratio constantly decreasing. It is there- fore evident that, ascend as high... ...- lated by means of spherical geometry, what a great extent of the earth’s area I beheld. The convex surface of any segment of a sphere is, to the ent...

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...taking a stand far above any I have ever been able to reach in their admi- ration. I cannot conceive that other men feel differently. Of course I cann... ... say, the three as above, and, in addition thereto, the commutation of ten rations per day, amounting per year to $730. Third. During another part of ... ... four different capacities; that is to say, the first three, as above (the rations being dropped after the 29th of May, 1822), and, in addition theret... ...art of all they had struggled for by the Wilmot Proviso. They also got the area of slavery somewhat narrowed in the settlement of 157 The Writings of... ...ade when the boat was not in the draw. It has been ascertained what is the area of the cross section of this stream and the area of the face of the pi...

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... the greater rigour for having been supposed to be unacquainted with repa- ration, refused to eat her oysters when they were brought. They looked temp... ...ump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such prepa- rations. Heartily glad to see the morning, though little rested by the nigh... ..., with a ram- shackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be num- ber twenty-fou... ...LENNAM DID not increase in favour with the Father of the Marshalsea in the ratio of his increasing visits. His obtuseness on the great Testimonial que... ...d gloomy; like a brick and mortar funeral. They inquired at several little area gates, where a dejected youth stood spiking his chin on the summit of ... ...to Mrs General’s apartment (which would have absorbed about a third of the area of the Marshalsea), to present his compliments to that lady, and repre... ...darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Nay, the high priests of t...

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...er youth. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in log houses among the morasses, and swamps, and densest forests, and deep so... ... as a very novel and excellent provision—its opportunities of blame less, rational enjoyment, here it is, open to every youth and Speeches: Literary... ...witnessing; indeed, I am strongly inclined to believe them by far the more ratio nal class of the two. Moreover, if the institution itself be not a s... ...here, that we are truly interested in the cause of human im provement and rational education, and that we pledge our selves, everyone as far as in h... ...o issues out of the house on the false alarm, and is precipitated into the area. Or, to come to the actresses, she may be the fairy who resides for ev...

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...t him on the top of it: he swims there; can as little sway it as the drift-log sways the wind-tossed moon-stirred Atlantic. “What have I done to be so... ...d: a sinking pilot will fling out all things, his very biscuit-bags, lead, log, compass and quadrant, before fling- ing out himself. It is on this pri... ...atue on the Nile, what tones were these, so thrilling, tremulous of prepa- ration and foreboding, which he awoke in every bosom at Versailles! Huge Pa... ...igy! For in- deed hardly since the Arabian Prophet lay dead to Ali’s admi- ration, was there seen such a Love-hero, with the strength of thirty men. I... ...east bite, and assert credibly that he was there: but as for the poor King Log, tumbled hither and thither as thousandfold chance and other will than ... ... proportion, namely. For the theatricality of a People goes in a compound- ratio: ratio indeed of their trustfulness, sociability, fervency; but then ... ...rent that the spadework there cannot be got done in time. There is such an area of it; three hundred thousand square feet: for from the Ecole militair... ... sprawling hundred-headed, say with Twenty-five million heads; wide as the area of France; fierce as Frenzy; strong in very Hunger. With these shall t...