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... CUPID?S ARROWS ....................................................................................................................... 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.................................................................................................................. 47 WATCHES OF THE NIGHT ..................................................................................

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classica... ...: I have no doubt it is entirely fair. Take Krusenstern’s candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the ... ...e others; and, as the art of making them was jealously guarded amongst the old men, he believed the mystery would soon die out. I should add that he w... ...and on the 11th January 1888, in the seventy- ninth year of his life, and the thirty-fourth of his labours in the Marquesas, passed away. Those who ha... ...he bush; he was no man of that neighbourhood; and it was known he was one of the gods, speeding to a council. Most perspicuous of all, a missionary on... ...aking excellent English—Tamaiti his name, or, as the whites have now corrupted it, ‘Tom White’: one of the king’s supercargoes at three pounds a month... ...s forbidden, lauded the prohibition a while, and then went on to explain that he was a doctor, or ‘dogstar’ as he pronounced the word, that gin was ne...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...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... ...ng al ready in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool. I have not inquired among my medical acquaintance, whether Turtle, and cold Punch, with Hock, Champagne,... ...f time after the ar rival of the railway train at Euston Square. And com missions and remembrances do so crowd upon one at such a time, that we were... ...another last will — positively the last this time — conceals the same in a china teapot, and expires next day. Then it turns out, that the whole of th... ...ch of which has all the comforts of a very comfortable home. The principal medical attendant re sides under the same roof; and were the patients mem ... ...gton Monument, which is a handsome pillar with a statue on its summit; the Medical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with th... ...with the best whip in those parts. Setting forth on one of her patri otic missions, she appropriated to herself the first horse she could lay her han...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...ge 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 ... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty... ...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... ...age 30, vol. ii., * the recorded opinions and experiences of distinguished medical profes sors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days, con... ...at the death of Captain Cook; and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engraving... ... dis persed that I found the brother of a youthful officer of mine in the china closet and the grey old age of my pretty young bride, with a flower i... ...gathered from the conversation that Mr. Skimpole had been educated for the medical profession and had once lived, in his professional capacity, in the... ...ppears and vanishes in a breath, who soon returns accom panied by a testy medical man brought from his dinner, with a broad, snuffy upper lip and a b... ...k by his massive configuration of brow. In short, we heard of a great many missions of various sorts among this set of people, but nothing respecting ...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... aborted mission. An abortion. Why was it a botched abortion? Because 12 missions had already been done. The full cycle of 12 were fully playe... ...echanical attempt to impregnate a dead moon and give it Life. The Apollo Missions to the moon were literal transliterations of the human subcons... ...ual abuse. So all sexual abuse is quietly brushed under the carpet. And the medical establishment goes on treating all kinds of symptomatic ailment... ... indication of how sexually repressed the entire civilized World is: when its medical professions refuse to even recognize the existence of sexual ab... ...edical professions refuse to even recognize the existence of sexual abuse as a medical condition that needs treatment. Culturally… in nearly all c... ...hey did not want to even waste the time and expense of establishing religious missions like the Spanish had done to excuse their rapacity for gold, ...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his ...

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...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...kness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure. The change from the tight dress c... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...cept in the southern part, at Cape Horn, and in the western parts, near the China and Indian oceans, it has few storms, and is never either extremely... ... les Angelos—the largest town in California—and several of the wealthiest missions; to all of which San Pedro was the sea port. Having made ou... ...ed the agent ashore, and he went up to visit the Pueblo and the neighboring missions; and in a few days, as the result of his labors, large ox carts,... ...st before a light fair wind, keeping the land well aboard, and saw two other missions, looking like blocks of white plaster, shining in the distance; ... ...s and material aid; and, as George’s mother told me, on my return, had with medical aid and stores, and a clergyman, made the boy’s end as comforta...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ... of value—In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account—Theory that re... ...antive value as revelations of the living truth; and we wish that all this medical materialism could be made to hold its tongue. Medical materialism s... ...tion for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. Medical materialism fin- ishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the r... ..., and liberal Protes- tants with older Protestant notions; it is thus that Chinamen judge of us, and that all of us now living will be judged by our d... ...s com- ing with new meanings, the same voices and visions and leadings and missions, the same controlling by extraneous powers; only this time the emo... ...ing cham- pions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions. Each attitude being a syllable in human nature’s total message, i...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...hat passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class. Other flight attendants were busy at duti... ...n first class. Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events. 36 At 8:4... ...nd how the two agencies interacted eight years later, we will review their missions, command and control structures, and work- ing relationship on the... ...hnical surveillance and communications equipment employed for these casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and fr... ...nts not only making connections with the U.S. government through their own missions in Wash- ington, but working through the CIA station or a Defense ... ...d support to civil- ian agencies to assess the nature of the attack, offer medical and technical advice, and coordinate state and local responses. 92 ...