...ition) 2002 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (U... ...ers were submitted to the following web site, provided by The York University, from Toronto, Canada, at: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca/submit/cag... ...points). Statically T, I, F are subsets. But dynamically, looking therefore from another perspective, the components T, I, F are at each instance... ...robability that candidate C will win an election is say 25-30% true (percent of people voting for him), 35% false (percent of people voting against h... ...ercent of people voting against him), and 40% or 41% indeterminate (percent of people not coming to the ballot box, or giving a blank vote - not sel... ...s since and . This is unfortunalely not a valid conclusion in general as many people (wrongly) think. We argue that the fusion of independent source... ...naged Landscapes pp53-87, New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Ltd., Christchurch. URL: http://www.calresco.org/cs2000/meta.htm [25] Masl...

.... Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human systems is due to the imperfection of knowledge that humain receives (observation) from the external world. Imperfection leads to a doubt about the value of a variable, a decision to be taken or a conclusion to be drawn for the actual system. The sources of uncertainty can be stochasticity (the case of intr...

...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...would come. On the edge of winter, here at home, Sterling was married: “at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830,” say the records. His blooming...

...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...his university life was to be spent began to come forward. Studentships at Christchurch were then in the gift of the Canons, and a nomination would ha... ...g and eating now.’ After an absence of three weeks at the General Synod at Christchurch, the Bishop took up such of his party as were to return, and s...

...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...ite and proper gentleman. When he grew to man’s estate, and came back from Christchurch, he began to reform the slackened discipline of the hall, in s... ...ounty than the Baronet his brother. At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the “town.” He...

... was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjec- tured from her always preferring those which she was forbid- den to take. Such we... ...was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what sh... ...o has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and w... ...ude on the pianoforte, of her own com- position, she could listen to other people’s performance with very little fatigue. Her greatest deficiency was ... ...ng of disappointment—she was tired of being continually pressed against by people, the gener- ality of whose faces possessed nothing to interest, and ... ...Mrs. Allen, are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? I think you must know somebody.” “I don’t, upon my word—I wish I di... ... it? Well hung; town- built; I have not had it a month. It was built for a Christchurch man, a friend of mine, a very good sort of fellow; he ran it a...

...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ... I mean just before I had the measles, ha, ha—there was me and Ringwood of Christchurch, Bob Ringwood, Lord Cinqbars’ son, having our beer at the Bell...

...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...d not seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of w... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ...t, mewling and puking in its nurse’s arms.” There had been a time when two people had thought Mr. Polly the most wonderful and adorable thing in the w... ...ices. He had overheard a little lady putting her view to a friend near the Christchurch gate. The accent and intona- tion had hung in his memory, and ...

...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...ite and proper gentleman. When he grew to man’s estate, and came back from Christchurch, he began to reform the slackened discipline of the hall, in s... ...ounty than the Baronet his brother. At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the “town.” He... ... I mean just before I had the measles, ha, ha—there was me and Ringwood of Christchurch, Bob Ringwood, Lord Cinqbars’ son, having our beer at the Bell...

...nic’s dress. ‘So that’s what you call beating a mat,’ said he, catching it from her hands, and mimicking the tender clasp of her little fingers. ‘D’ye... ...nd Frampton and Gervas, they put on me, and you know how ’twas I come away from Ormersfield. I was not going to say a word to one of that lot! but if ... ... He could merely bandy glances with Poynings, the groom, and he was so far from indifferent that he signifi- cantly lifted up the end of his whip. Not... ...not? She wished she had never teased him by going out so much, and letting people talk nonsense; he had been very kind, and she was not half good enou... ...n wonder and reproof, ‘Is that on purpose?’ ‘Adventures are thrust on some people,’ was the noncha- lant reply, with shoulders depressed, and a twinkl... ...t on me, and conjured me first to dine and then to sleep. They are capital people. Dobbs is superintendent of the copper and tin works—a thoroughly ri... ...im to London for Hastings to decide whether it be fit for him to return to Christchurch after the vacation, according to his own most anxious wish. Wi... ...r went to some pupils for the Easter vacation, which was spent by Louis at Christchurch, in studying hard. The preparation for going up for his degree...

...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...left her, would like to know what was happening to Mrs Brand, who lived at Christchurch, and whom they both liked very well. The case occupied three d... ... day; she could not understand why a chart of the bedroom accommodation at Christchurch Old Hall should be produced in court. She did not even see why...

...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

...sles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they m... ... her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish ... ...sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s condemnation for enthusiasm or impracticability, and it was n... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ...r own. Allen Brownlow, at twenty, was emphatically the Eton and 209 Yonge Christchurch production, just well made and good-looking enough to do full ... ...end?” “No, indeed. The eldest one, who has left these two years, and is at Christchurch.” “I am sure the one who came down here was a gentleman.” “So ...

...Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room befo...

..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...e dispute. After returning from Granchester, when the boats pulled back to Christchurch meadows, the disturbance between the Townsmen and the Universi... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is...

............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...et me introduce Miss Pem- broke—don’t all go!” For his friends were flying from his visitor like mists before the sun. “Oh, Agnes, I am so sorry; I’ve... ...s, which Agnes, who had never been to Venice, took to be Venice, but which people who had been to Stockholm knew to be Stockholm. Rickie’s mother, loo... ... beautiful fields, even swift, even pure, until they mirrored the tower of Christchurch and greeted the ramparts of the Isle of Wight. Of these he tho...

...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... the walk, and will like it very much, and he will undertake to defend you from the quarrymen.” “Is Miss Winter afraid of the quarrymen?” hallooed Har... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...of, mamma. Car- ing to be clever, and get on, only for the sake of beating people.” “I think that might be better expressed.” “I know,” said Ethel, be... ...of music, and other accompaniments of church service, they went to walk in Christchurch Meadows. They had begun altogether by comparing feelings—Ethel... ...ned rather early, and went out afterwards, to walk down the High Street to Christchurch Meadow. Norman and Ethel had been anxious for this; they thoug...

...nd agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in w... ...oming—in accordance with the dic- tates of some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country postmen, and where is located the supply of... ...is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conversant with Barsetshire do- ings declare that they can already d... ...ice again he made violent efforts to do so. Elections in East Barsetshire, from various causes, came quick upon each other in those days, and before h... ...se in Portman Square, she had worried him because he objected to have more people carried every winter at Greshamsbury Park than the house would hold;... ...llowed them, nor had they suffered as their sisters had suffered; and some people at Greshamsbury attributed this to the fact that a change had been m... ...I never liked the idea of Cambridge myself at all. All the De Courcys were Christchurch men; but the Greshams, it seems, were always at Cambridge. ’ ‘...