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Outline of Science, Vol. 1, The (Solo)

By: J. Arthur Thomson

...he little, and the biological. With straightforward language intended for a general audience, this book covers astronomy from the Solar System to the Milky Way, the submicroscopic makeup of matter from protons and electrons, and the evolution of simple living beings into the varied fauna of the world today. Thomson cites many examples that would have been familiar to his r...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...he chips on one another, by size and then by colour. We carry them with trepidation all the way to the cashier and convert them to pesetas. Eli halv... ...reeted with regal pomp. I wander to a further board with lower minimum wagers. I squash my way into a raucous mob. They screech and squeal with ever... ...ess. Eli drags his feet laboriously, wipes tears from reddened eyes and moans: "Only your way, I guarantee, never again just gambling wildly. We w... ...branches and stones wrenched out of the mucky soil around our barracks. But there is still way to go. I mount the bus and sit near a dishevelled, u... ...s clustered knees and place it gingerly between two bursting bags. Moustachioed women wipe milky exudation from upper lips with blotted synthetic h... ...pses. Children, women, shreds, all full of blood…" – She pauses – "Why do you treat me this way?" Her Hebrew is rocky but sufficient to provoke a he... ...is expansive brow that most impressed me as a child. A swathe, pulsating in venous green, a milky desert, crisscrossed with brittle capillaries and ... ...ut didn't bolt it (regulations). To fend off the gloom, I stretched over and turned on the milky lights above his bookshelf. His wife got him some o... ...er body and wonder what it knew and not with me. A foot flashes, she bends and a swathe of milky breast, a nipple, his hand between her thighs. I ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... patches of skimpy forest that most Koreans thought of as so beautiful. The way was straight, south and barren and made him almost yearn for the tort... ... that even in sleep there wasn't always repose. Sometimes, without finding a way of sealing memories in tidy body bags, one's inner voice was as activ... ... of the Taleban and the tattered infrastructure of the country. There was no way to catch even a word or two of it and this balding and middle aged ma... ...ing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario would have clung ... ...nking about in the bus. Sang Huin was labeled as dirty a few nights ago: the way he walked on the floor with his shoes instead of taking them off at t... ...his time, she supposed, those sights and sounds would be at the edges of the Milky Way before moving further into deeper space, the gray matter of thi...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had di... ...s is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife’s words. There happened to him at that i... ...pposed that she, a worn out woman no longer young or good looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a good mother, ought from a sense o... ...nse of fairness to take an indulgent view. It had turned out quite the other way. “Oh, it’s awful! oh dear! awful!” Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating... ...most unpleasant thing of all was that his pecuniary interests should in this way enter into the question of his reconciliation with his wife. And the ... ... in the garden, and looked at the triangle of stars he knew so well, and the Milky Way with its branches that ran through its midst. At each flash of l... ... with its branches that ran through its midst. At each flash of lightning the Milky Way, and even the bright stars, vanished, but as soon as the lightn...

...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...and beautiful story and manages to telescope, in a brilliantly leisurely way, a lifetime, a full and eventful lifetime.” RUSSELL KIRK, novelist: “T... ... lieved that as a form of literature the journal offers the most effective way to bring back to life the life-worlds of significant, unique, highly i... ... cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Voices caught our song, way out at sea, assuring us that these were not phantoms. Alcaeus? Ten y... ...es rising in his hands. “Take me to my room... You haven’t forgotten the way, have you?” I took his arm and the Parthian opened the door and servan... ... he followed along the shore, walking uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me ... ...nce: I am confronted by yes- terday, in the gulls: I squint, and there, on milky horizon, I glimpse the spirit of man, blundering, a plant in his han...

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The Collection of Antiquities

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marria... ...ly in my 11 Balzac memory as a type; that Mlle. Armande for whom men made way respectfully, following the tall brown-robed figure with their eyes alo... ...ol (ci-devant des Grignons),” maliciously 13 Balzac adopting the obsolete way of spelling. “For my own part,” said Emile Blondet, “if I try to recall... ... mind, that these follies would go by like others. Events contributed in a way which has escaped attention to assist such noble champi- ons of forlorn... ...eak familiarly to this White Lady, this starry vapor slidden down from the Milky W ay. This system, which answered completely for some years at a stre...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...s lightened by the finger of the dawn. Love moves with life along a darker way, They cast a shadow and they call it death: But rich is the fulfilment ... ...m’d o’er the lawn To the drowsy-eyed west. Cold and grey They slept in the way, And shrank from the ray Of the chariot East: But now they are gone, An... ...ming shoulders! Circling about In a coronal rout, And floating behind, The way of the wind, As forward he bends, And upward ascends, 88 Timely and tr... ...the husbandman’s toil and strife Little varies to strife and toil: But the milky kernel of life, With her numbered: corn, wine, fruit, oil The song d... ... And some strange beast of sky became: A giant’s club withheld the blow; A milky cloud went all to flame. And there were groups where silvery springs ... ...ll golden rains Of tears in laughter, laughter weeping, smote Knowledge of milky mercy from that throat Pouring to heal their pains: And one bold yout... ...arrowed breast. Back to the primal rational of those Who suck the teats of milky earth, and clasp Stability in hatred of the insane, Man stepped; with...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...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 Uni- ver... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critica... ... clergyman, in the re- mote parish of Reay, in Caithness, who rode all the way to T wickenham to pay his great namesake a visit, and was pre- sented b... ...ape of the Lock,” in a volume of Miscellanies. Lord Petre had, much in the way described by the poet, stolen a lock of Miss Belle Fermor’s hair,—a fea... ...d if his genius be ever so great, he cannot at first discover it any other way than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which ren- ders him the... ... whose dark streams his flowery islands lave; And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave; The blue, transparent Vandalis appears; The gulfy Lee his sedgy... ...00 His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky-way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topp’d...

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Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I.

By: William Wordsworth

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lyrical Ballads with other poems, Volume One by William Wordsworth , ... ...others; or, as in the Incident of Simon Lee , by placing my Reader in the way of receiving from ordinary moral sensations another and more salutary i... ...the strict affinity of metrical language with that of prose, and paves the way for other distinctions which the mind voluntarily admits, I answer that... ...them: we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased. There is a host of argu... ...very vale for their delight was stowed: For them, in nature’s meads, the milky udder flowed, Semblance, with straw and panniered ass, they made ...

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The Cosmo-Art Theorems and Axioms

By: Antonio Mercurio

...the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncomme... ...number of species exist, and they are all intelligent, but not in the same way. Every species chooses the niche it lives and evolves in, and it adap... ...n and cosmic forces. They are both present within each human being but the way to fuse them together is found only within the Choral Group SELF. T... ... struck with when it experiences a trauma is a cosmic force; the temporary way that the Fetal I faces it, by using defensive and offensive mechanism... ...either we find radical, creative solutions to our traumas, or else, in one way or another, they will destroy us. In a group of Existential Personali... ...velock), the solar system is also alive, and, moving on, the system of the Milky Way galaxy is living, this universe is a living system and the whol... ... system appeared, which is also most certainly an emergent property of the Milky Way galaxy. It took some time, but then planet Earth appeared, an e...

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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Reading of Life by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...at curve along a rounded thigh; Her firm new breasts each pointing its own way A knee half bent to shade its fellow shy, Where innocence, not nature, ... ... verse Rarely the music made of two ascends, And Beauty’s Queen some other way is won. Or it may solve the riddle, that she lends Herself to all, and ... ...arth when sole they lead; 15 George Meredith Nor either points for us the way of flame. From him predestined mightier it came; His task to hold them ... ...arrowed breast. Back to the primal rational of those Who suck the teats of milky earth, and clasp Stability in hatred of the insane, Man stepped; with...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... arm that began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his chest and then smoot... ...g his head in a gesture of respect, “you’ve got a full schedule today. By the way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Beri... ...nment has been, considering everything.” Alfredo shrugged in a non-committal way. Francis began to pace. “The Church has become the order of men, ... ...air. “Antonio,” the Pope began with a smile, “tell me about yourself? By the way, you are not in any trouble.” Antonio relaxed, but only slightl... ...verything that had occurred, at least, not for now. However, he had to find a way to explain his apparent transformation. He couldn’t even explain it... .... No, that was not exactly right, not in command, in search -- In search of a way to make his daughter’s death a victory instead of making her a vic...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...ny 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 Univers... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Cleme... ...est. It had church accommodations for thirty five thou sand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where ... ...as noticed. Two pencils had been busy during that hour—note making; in the way of plans. It was Sally who broke the stillness at last. He said, with e... ...alf yearly?” “That kind of an investment—yes; but I sha’n’t invest in that way.” “What way, then?” “For big returns.” “Big. That’s good. Go on, Aleck.... ...ss could never have a rival until somebody should set up a monument to the Milky Way. People would come from every corner of the globe and stop off to...

... thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside--unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody an...

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The Snow Image and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...rposes of reproduction with the intent to make a profit. Nor are they in any way provided as a substitute for traditional, paper books. No electronic ... ... 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 Univ... ...ed within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Snow Image & Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylv... ...of legs, and worsted mittens on their hands, and gave them a kiss apiece, by way of a spell to keep away Jack Frost. Forth sallied the two children, w... ...her, who, as we have already intimated, had an exceedingly com mon sensible way of looking at matters. “Do not tell me of “The Snow Image” Nathanie... ...ame all soul, and felt as if I could climb the sky, and run a race along the Milky Way. Here is another tale, in which I wrapt myself during a dark an...

...rnet, for their own private use. However, they may not be used for the purposes of reproduction with the intent to make a profit. Nor are they in any way provided as a substitute for traditional, paper books. No electronic media, at the time of this publication (October 1998) has approached the readability of traditionally printed text. However, some readers find that the ...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylva... ...once more dark- ness circling round, as if from the beginning, and in this way rounding or making an island of our fantastic existence,— that is human... ...augh- ter and his tears—of what he suffers and he does—of his motions this way and that way—to the right or to the left— backwards or forwards—of all ... ...ss, half disguised or im- perfectly acknowledged by herself, which (in the way I have just explained) so touchingly contrasted with (and for that very... ...lass of remarkable phenomena in the starry world hitherto unstudied, viz.: milky spots in various stages of diffusion. The nature of these ap- pearanc... ...ch distance is so great as to make the manifes- tation of that world weak, milky, nebular. Now let the secret power that wields these awful orbs, push... ...denominator stretch from the Accountant- General’s office in London to the Milky Way. Now the total mass of the granite represents, on this scheme of ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...aking late hay, somewhere out of town; and though the fragrance had a long way to come, and many counter fragrances to contend with among the dwelling... ... re- mark, that I, as a humble individual, think your sweet niece in every way most promising?~ ‘What do you mean, Lucretia?’ returned Mrs Chick, with... ..., I must beg to say that it was not intended to relate to Florence, in any way.’ ‘Indeed!’ returned Miss T ox. ‘No,’ said Mrs Chick shortly and decisi... ...e day , at a consid- 126 Dombey & Son erable distance, so overpowered her milky nature, that she was fain to seek immediate refuge in a pastrycook’s,...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... Outrigger Enterprises Group ‘ Āma‘u Mahalo to our Suporer for leading the way for Hawai‘i Laua‘e Albert C. Kobayashi, Inc. Aloha Petroleum, Ltd. Athe... ...nown as “the gathering place,” signifes the importance and meaning of our way of life. The Aloha Spirit is a tradition of graciousness that binds o... ...wer systems to smaller industrial, commercial and utilities markets in a way that is more manageable, more durable and easier to deploy, Wong says... ...ding passenger cars, minibuses and aircraft- fueling trucks. PAVING THE WAY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES PHOTO: COURTESY OF STATE OF HAWAI‘I ENERGY OFFIC... ...ome. AIR CONDITIONING FROM SEAWATER PRIVATE COMPANIES have a cool, new way to reduce electricity consumption by using tons of cold seawater to a... ...xistence of the “darkest galaxy,” a huge cloud of matter just outside the Milky Way containing about a thousand small and ancient stars. With the g...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania St... ... too, which he has perfectly under control—which he can make to go a great way—and by which, with admirable skill, he can subserve alike his moral and... ... life’s stream for observation stay, It hurries all too fast to mark their way: In vain sedate reflections we would make, When half our knowledge we m... ...s a wit, has too much sense to pray; To toast our wants and wishes, is her way; Nor asks of God, but of her stars, to give The mighty blessing, ‘While... ...d owe more than to the soil; Whose ample lawns are not ashamed to feed The milky heifer and deserving steed; Whose rising forests, not for pride or sh... ... 50 And found the springs, that ne’er till then denied Their milky moisture, on a sudden dried. I saw, unhappy! what I now relate, And s... ...s; Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies; You, only you, can move the god’s desire: Oh crown so c... ...nd, Sound forth, nay brayers, and the welkin rend.’ As when the long-ear’d milky mothers wait At some sick miser’s triple-bolted gate, For their defra...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...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 Universi... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ver marshes and forest streams, through which the herds must pass on their way to the woodland pastures. Nyrikki also busies himself in blazing the ro... ...ells the approach of rain. Linnunrata (bird path) is the name given to the Milky way, due probably to a myth like those of the Swedes and Slavs, in wh... ...he approach of rain. Linnunrata (bird path) is the name given to the Milky way, due probably to a myth like those of the Swedes and Slavs, in which li... ...y waist, the belt of silver, Golden was my pretty crosslet.” Near the door way sat her brother, Carving out a birchen ox bow: “Why art weeping, lovely... ... bottoms soft and even, On the borders of the snow banks, In the fields of milky color. “Lead the hero’s steed to water, Lead him to the Pohya fountai... ...atures. 334 The Kalevala Go around the scented meadows, Amble through the milky pastures, From the tones of bells and shepherds. should the herd be o... ...(B ta (B ta (B ir ir ir ir ird way). d way). d way). d way). d way). The Milky way. Lou Lou Lou Lou Lou’hi. ’hi. ’hi. ’hi. ’hi. The hostess of Po...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...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 Penn- sylvania State Univer... ... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy a... ... author of “Boule de Suif,” of “Pierre et Jean,” of “Notre Coeur,” found a way of effacing his personality in his work. Of De Maupassant we know that ... ...an, however intimate the friendship between them. He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the at- tainment of a spiritual... ...rs got up, surrounded their chief, and said: “Let the captain have his own way, commandant; it is terribly dull here.” And the major ended by yielding... ..., not the blue sea, the slate-colored sea, but a sea of jade, as greenish, milky, and thick as the overcast sky. “I was so pleased with my work that I... ...eclivities, lined with brambles and long rows of trees, hidden, drowned in milky vapor, clad in that misty robe which sometimes floats over valleys at...

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