Description Details
...an Republic would last forever, forever and ever. His opinion was not isolated, but a widespread belief. Even this shows how our fathers were distant from the common mentality of today. Who would ever say, these days, that a state will last forever? La Serenissima lasted fourteen centuries, but the self-government of the Venetian people since time immemorial. The objectiv...

Description Details
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

Full Text Search Details
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...had many friends. I had many friends in Florence, Milan, Rome, Genoa, and Venice. I shall name a few: Marco d’Oggiono, Vitelli, Tomaso Masini, Amali...

Description Details
...There’s no place like Venice in the world: you’ll fall in love with its canals and bridges and spectacular views. Rich in museums and historical buildings, you’ll soon find that its fame is really deserved...

Full Text Search Details
...d Giudecca Islands 141 Canal Grande 175 Gondolas Ades Web Magazine 2010/11 Venice San Marco piAzzA sAn mArco 4 V e n i c e Ades web magazine piAzzA... ...des web magazine the wAtch 16 V e n i c e Ades web magazine A wedding in venice 17 V e n i c e Ades web magazine riAlto bridge 18 V e n i c e Ades ... ...agazine pAlAzzo frAnchetti 35 V e n i c e Ades web magazine cAnAl grAnde from ponte dell 'AccAdemiA 36 V e n i c e Ades web magazine fond dellA chi... ... sAntA mAriA del giglio church 41 V e n i c e Ades web magazine sAn mArco from sAntA mAriA dellA sAlute church 42 V e n i c e Ades web magazine wAit... ...llA sAlute church 42 V e n i c e Ades web magazine wAiting for the sunset from sAn giorgio islAnd 43 V e n i c e Ades web magazine sunset from sAn g... ... work could not have been the same without the amazing contribution of the people I’m grateful to: Cathy, Lauren, my family Photos, production and rea...

Description Details
...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

Full Text Search Details
...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ... Way,‖ Boorstin notes that prior to the thirteenth-century merchants from Venice, Genoa, Pisa, or Paris prospered selling luxuries, such as sleek Ch...

Excerpt Details
...mas Mowbray? Bul. First, heaven be the record to my speech, In the devotion of a subjects love, Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appealant to this Princely presence....

Full Text Search Details
...e, 37 Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, 38 And free from other misbegotten hate, 39 Come I appealant to this Princely pre... ... 59 First the faire reuerence of your Highnesse curbes mee, 60 From giuing reines and spurres to my free speech, 61 Which else would... ...e yeeres 101 Complotted, and contriued in this Land, 102 Fetch’d from false Mowbray their first head and spring. 103 Further I say, an... ...hy: heere Bagot and Greene 598 Obseru’d his Courtship to the common people: 599 How he did seeme to diue into their hearts, 600 With ... ...l’d with workes of Warre, retyr’d himselfe 2016 To Italy, and there at Venice gaue 2017 His Body to that pleasant Countries Earth, - 45 - The... ...A generation of still breeding Thoughts; 2676 And these same Thoughts, people this Little World 2677 In humors, like the people of this world,... ... as haue before indur’d the like. 2697 Thus play I in one Prison, many people, 2698 And none contented. Sometimes am I King; 2699 Then Tre...

Full Text Search Details
... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...t, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should 6 The Count of Monte Cristo live with them; so... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...he home depart- ment, or of the observatory?” “Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to under- stand things of which I would prefer to... ...to tell you. Ah, really this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?” “Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian —... ...es.” “Impossible!” “Here is my passport; examine the visa — Geneva, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Delvino, Yanina. Will you believe the government of a re- ... ...and an- swer, and the horses galloped off. Danglars intended travelling to Venice, where he would receive one part of his fortune, and then proceeding... ... untouched; the hundred louis he had reserved for his journey from Rome to Venice were in his trousers pocket, and in that of his great- coat he found...

Description Details
...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

Full Text Search Details
...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ...-- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape ... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...cumstances under which the elder Polos went to Cathay -- They are sent back to Venice for Christian instructors -- The little boy Marco returns to Cat... ...or of Yunnan when only twenty -- Denial of request for permission to return to Venice -- Description of Marco's travels -- Tale of a devout shoemaker ... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ...

Full Text Search Details
...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... the United States. Only 23% of Spaniards had a positive opinion of the USA, down from 41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (f... ...41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (from 71% to 56%), Russia (from 52% o 43%), Indonesia (from 38% to 30%), and Turkey (from ... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ...as reduced to penury by these events and by the Black Death of 1347. It fought with Venice against Genoa only to lose tax revenues hitherto paid by ...

Excerpt Details
...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

Full Text Search Details
...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ... been announced by Mr. Bantling, who, coming down from Nice while she was at Venice, and expecting to find her in Florence, which she had not yet reach... ...much attention to the outer life. She had been studying it for two months at Venice, from which city she sent to the Interviewer a conscientious accou... ...e made her way down to Rome without touching at Florence—having gone first to Venice and then proceeded southward by Ancona. She accomplished this jour...

Full Text Search Details
... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...tly because there is nothing else for them to do, find it easier to locate Venice. My earlier rides in V enetia began always with the level roads of t... ...d; she has no visitors. I woke up on my way to Udine and found my train at Venice with an hour to spare; after much examining and stamping of my passp... ... while to wake up…. 36 War and the Future 2 2 2 2 2 Except in the case of Venice, the war does not seem as yet to have made nearly such a mark upon l...

Excerpt Details
...h of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without local habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of....

Full Text Search Details
...al habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of. In fact, waking thoughts decided th... ... their greatest splendour, the last free nobles in course of being reduced from their lawless liberty, and the House of Austria beginning to acquire i... ...ctice he found insuper- able. At home Maximilian raised the Imperial power from a mere cipher to considerable weight. We judge him as if he had been b... ...f assassination, of poison, in single combat, or in battle; tumults of the people beset him; he is imprisoned as at Ghent. But finally Neidelhard is b... ...eneral belief that Freiherren lived there to do what they chose with other people, and that the House of Adlerstein was the freest and noblest in exis... ...ery hill around Ulm. Loud shouts were greeting the uprising flame, and the people gathering thicker and thicker on the slope. The friar undid the door... .... I am chosen as his envoy, and shall sail so soon as I can make my way to Venice. I only knew of the appointment since I came hither, he having been ...

Table of Contents Details
...CONTENTS BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwin...

Full Text Search Details
...OND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewher... ...ce and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. ... ...nce could be given to the thin, hard, stony wine, which after all was made from the grapes! The air had been warm and transparent through the whole of... ... is very important.’ Again Monsieur was right. The dog was very important. People were justly interested in the dog. As one of the dogs celebrated eve... ...t a beautiful sacrifice? What do we want more to touch us? Because rescued people of interesting appearance are not, for eight or nine months out of e... ...!’ ‘Sir, I thank you again, I wish you good night. My dear, are our—ha—our people in attendance?’ ‘They are close by, father.’ ‘Permit me!’ said the t... ... CHAPTER 5 Something Wrong Somewhere THE FAMILY HAD BEEN a month or two at Venice, when Mr Dorrit, who was much among Counts and Marquises, and had bu... ...The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’ WHILE THE WATERS of Venice and the ruins of Rome were sunning themselves for the pleasure of th...

Full Text Search Details
...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...merations beside it. Its port reached to its heart like V enice, and, like Venice, it was obvi- ous, dramatic, and proud. Seen from above it was alive...

Full Text Search Details
... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...’t be known better, from the film. So Aaron tied his tie in front of a big Venice mirror, and nothing was a surprise to him. He found a footman hoveri... ... said Aaron. “I think to Geneva for the moment. But he certainly talked of Venice. You yourself have no definite goal?” “No.” “Ah! You have not come t... ... usual. “We shall see you in the morning, I hope. You say you are going to Venice. Why? Have you some engagement in Venice?” “No,” said Aaron. “I only...

Full Text Search Details
...be considered a mere fancy name, neither more nor less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, o... ... years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with superstitious awe, as to the image of the Hol... ...ly, and for a while he lived in hiding. Then, in the name of the Sovereign People, the d’Esgrignon lands were dishonored by the District, and the wood... ...iquities meal, until he could scarce draw nine thousand francs of in- come from the pickings of his old estates? It was in the month of October 1800 t... ...iwick, and subsequently the presidial; it had belonged to the d’Esgrignons from generation to generation; and now, in consideration of five hundred lo... ...l d’Esgrignon. In 1800 little or no difficulty was made over erasing names from the fatal list, and some few emigres began to return. Among the very f... ... code of their own for nephews and sons and brothers. Mlle. Armande was in Venice; she saw the lines of fairy palaces that stand on either side of the...

Full Text Search Details
... of a subject’s love, Tendering the precious safety of my prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appellant to this princely presence. No... ... nought at all to say: First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me From giving reins and spurs to my free speech; Which else would post until ... ...asons for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring. Further I say and further w... ...rself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green Observed his courtship to the common people; How he did seem to dive into their hearts With humble and familiar ... ...cens: And toil’d with works of war, retired himself To Italy; and there at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country’s earth, And his pure soul un... ...two beget A generation of still breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humors like the people of this world, For no t... ...ck Of such as have before endured the like. Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish...

Full Text Search Details
...ccommodated to their taste. As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either, we have conde scended to... ...who is capable of lending us either, we have conde scended to take a hint from these honest victuallers, and shall prefix not only a general bill of ... ... exhaust so extensive a subject. An objection may perhaps be apprehended from the more delicate, that this dish is too common and vulgar; for what e... ...r begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe; besides, why should your worship provide for w... ...overy. The sagacious reader will not from this simile imagine these poor people had any apprehension of the design with which Mrs. Wilkins was now c... ...nature of such persons as Mrs. Wilkins to insult and tyrannize over little people. This being indeed the means which they use to recompense to themsel... ...manners of men might spare themselves much pains by going to a carnival at Venice; for there they will see at once all which they can discover in the ...

Full Text Search Details
...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...sed fragments of the same great palladium are to be found on the canals of Venice, at the second cataract of the Nile, in the baths of Germany, and sp...

Full Text Search Details
...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...ening pledge. CHAPTER II. Talk you of young Master Lancelot? —Merchant of Venice. AFTER SOME BRIEF INTERVAL, Master Goldthred, at the earnest instiga... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...ing. Go ask a heretic parson to do the like. But ours were a com- fortable people.” “V ery true, Dame Crank,” said the hostler; “so said Simpkins of S...

Full Text Search Details
...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... could tell her of chances and conjectures; and when her boy began to fret from hun- ger and weariness, she had left her serving-man, Gervas, to watch... ...one Master Snigg, or Sniggius, for the children of the numerous colony who peopled the castle. Girls, as well as boys, were taught there, and thus Cis... ... go and spoil it all with folly about Papists, and Spaniards, and grown-up people’s non- sense that nobody cares about!” Cis had a rare power over bot... ...To History present to make them ashamed of their own placability. Grown-up people’s follies were avoided by mutual consent through the rest of the wal... ...were reserved the 187 Charlotte M. Yonge tall, slender, opal Venice glasses, recently purchased by the Countess in London. The pies, the...