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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...imal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa. These small finche... ...inches build a large tear drop shaped nest with complicated knots holding the twigs and hairs of the nest in place. Marais took some of these finch ... ...he nest in place. Marais took some of these finch eggs and removed them from their environment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new finche... ...God‘ I get the feeling that they are getting high on power. If there is a God wouldn‘t it be nice to have him as a friend. If Mary Poppins or Peter ... ...makes some people do rather foolish things, like suicide bombings, burning books and defacing art—like was done to Michelangelo‘s Pieta in St. Peter‘... ...love of a person for others. Many of the Nobel Peace Prize winners exhibit this type of love. Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa or the lawyer Peter ... ...ican Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 1512 (7), July 1994, pp. 979-986 19. "Depression and Anxiety" Johns Hopkins White Papers (Simeon Margolis and Peter ...

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Christ's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...be greatly missed. CHRIST’S JOURNAL 3 Peter’s Home Elul 10 he sun is setting. The evening is very warm. Across... ...here at this table, the night air blowing in; a star is caught in a tree. Peter is talking to a friend; Peter’s voice has always pleased me, so deep.... ...lt such joy, such joy, all day. I couldn’t eat when I sat at the table at Peter’s; his mother scolded me. To please her I nibbled a little fruit. I ... ...me a disease. I saw that the past can have too pow- erful an influence. Peter’s Home Tishri 6 Tomorrow I am to preach on a hill... Peter says the... ...fter windy days. For weeks we have had wind and cold. Here, in my room at Peter’s, I am discontented. The windows try to send me outdoors. They face... ...uests go unanswered. Peter, James and Matthew are no luckier than I. A finch is watching me as I write under the olives. Rain is threatening. Co...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ife. Mother must have heard me say such things, reflecting the same hope. Finches gathered in the olive trees as we worked. I asked time to stop and... ... CHRIST’S JOURNAL 157 Peter’s Home Elul 10 he sun is setting. The evening is very warm. Across... ...here at this table, the night air blowing in; a star is caught in a tree. Peter is talking to a friend; Peter’s voice has always pleased me, so deep.... ...lt such joy, such joy, all day. I couldn’t eat when I sat at the table at Peter’s; his mother scolded me. To please her I nibbled a little fruit. I ... ...me a disease. I saw that the past can have too pow- erful an influence. Peter’s Home Tishri 6 Tomorrow I am to preach on a hill... Peter says the... ...fter windy days. For weeks we have had wind and cold. Here, in my room at Peter’s, I am discontented. The windows try to send me outdoors. They face... ...uests go unanswered. Peter, James and Matthew are no luckier than I. A finch is watching me as I write under the olives. Rain is threatening. Co... ... at Cloux. (I have not written my journal for months). Birds—orioles and finches—are singing along the river. Willows and birds for miles. Old tree...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ovation - technological and financial - is an inseparable part of competition. Tom Peters put it succinctly in "The Circle of Innovation" when he w... ...mads and marauders. Trading was confined to fortified medieval cities. Even as it petered out in the west, feudalism remained entrenched in the pr... ...emale are distinct. She-elephants are gregarious, he-elephants solitary. Male zebra finches are loquacious - the females mute. Female green spoon w... ... on Immigration Policy", published by the Political Science Quarterly, the authors Peter Burns and James Gimpel substantiated the hypothesis that "... ...ny because he is unaware of the monstrosity of which he is the main cogwheel. But Peter Weir, the movie's director, takes this issue one step furt...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ovation - technological and financial - is an inseparable part of competition. Tom Peters put it succinctly in "The Circle of Innovation" when he w... ...mads and marauders. Trading was confined to fortified medieval cities. Even as it petered out in the west, feudalism remained entrenched in the pr... ...emale are distinct. She-elephants are gregarious, he-elephants solitary. Male zebra finches are loquacious - the females mute. Female green spoon w... ... on Immigration Policy", published by the Political Science Quarterly, the authors Peter Burns and James Gimpel substantiated the hypothesis that "... ...ny because he is unaware of the monstrosity of which he is the main cogwheel. But Peter Weir, the movie's director, takes this issue one step furt...

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A Midsummer Nights Dreame

By: William Shakespeare

...ches, on his wedding 275 day at night. 276 Bot. First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats 277 on: then read the names of ... .... A very good peece of worke I assure you, and a 282 merry. Now good Peter Quince, call forth your Actors 283 by the scrowle. Masters sprea... ... Quin. Francis Flute the Bellowes- mender. 305 Flu. Heere Peter Quince. 306 Quin. You must take Thisbie on you. 307 ... .... 320 Qu. Robin Starueling the Taylor. 321 Star. Heere Peter Quince. 322 Quince. Robin Starueling, you must play Thisbi... ...323 mother? 324 Tom Snowt, the Tinker. 325 Snowt. Heere Peter Quince. 326 Quin. you, Pyramus father; my self, Thisbies f... ... Tyta. What Angell wakes me from my flowry bed? 947 Bot. The Finch, the Sparrow, and the Larke, 948 The plainsong Cuckow gray; 949...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

By: William Shakespeare

...the duke and the duchess, on his wedding day at night. BOTTOM: First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on, then read the names of the act... ...by. BOTTOM: A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yours... ...is more condoling. QUINCE: Francis Flute, the bellows mender. FLUTE: Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE: Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE: What i... ...M: Well, proceed. QUINCE: Robin Starveling, the tailor. STARVELING: Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE: Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby’s mother. T... ...rveling, you must play Thisby’s mother. Tom Snout, the tinker. SNOUT: Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE: You, Pyramus’ father: myself, Thisby’s father: Snu... ...wakes me from my flowery bed? BOTTOM: [Sings.] The finch, the sparrow and the lark, The plain son...

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

... everywhere there was a great noise of birds—thrushes, blackbirds, robins, finches, and many more—and in one warm corner of the park some bracken was ... ...ive feet high and scaled eight stone three; he was as big in fact as a St. Peter’s in Vaticano cherub, and his affectionate clutch at the hair and fea...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... Saint Saviour’s, Southwark; and the church of Milton’s tomb to be the church of Cripplegate; and the church on Cornhill with the great golden keys to... ...ch lived at a bird-shop, and offered, in writing, to barter himself against old clothes, empty bottles, or even kitchen stuff. Surely a low thing and ... ...e velveteen race, velveteeny. He sent word that he would ‘look round.’ He looked round, appeared in the doorway of the room, and slightly cocked up hi... ...e of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end might b... ...aid Bullfinch confidentially . And then aloud, ‘Coffee-room!’ The youth in livery (now perceived to be mouldy) con- ducted us to the desired haven, an... ...Totally unable to make anything of one and eightpence and two shillings, the waiter went out to try if anybody else could; merely casting a helpless b... ...nch, in acknowledgement of his pathetic entreaties for our soup-tureen. After a pause, during which Mr. Indignation Cocker read a newspaper and coughe...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Two

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...er will join in, and Trix too. Break this news to ‘em gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for their rents, and send me the ryno ... ...y. Break this to mother, who’ll take anything from you. And write, and bid Finch write amediately. Hostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So F... ...Cupid, you hear?” “Iss, Missis!” says Pompey, a little grinning negro Lord Peterborrow gave her, with a bird of Paradise in his turbant, and a collar ... ...y “Gawrie,” whom the man in the story was enamored of. “And what will your Peter Wilkins say to your flight?” says Esmond, who never admired this fair...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...nded the queer word so as to fix it sticking to the usher, calling him Mr. Peter Bell Shalders, 12 Lord Ormont and His Aminta at which the boys roare... ...Monstrous to have the suspicion that he would, you know him! Mrs. Lawrence Finchley, for example. I say nothing to hurt the poor woman; I back her aga... ...m expect his whipping, with or without orna- ment. My opinion is, Lawrence Finchley had no solid foun- dation for his charge, except his being an imbe... ...rely discovered in the haunts he frequented. Her allusion to Mrs. Lawrence Finchley rapped him smartly, and she admired his impassiveness under the st... ... pseudo Lady Ormont might be the real one after all, and Isabella Lawrence Finchley prove right in the warning she gave to dogs of chase. The tutor re... ...our lips as you like; I say nothing to condemn or reflect on Mrs. Lawrence Finchley. I have had my eyes a little opened, that is all. Oh, I know my ni... ... my brother Rowsley’s there or no. But that Olmer doctor of mine, Causitt, Peter Causitt, shall pay me for being a liar or else an ignoramus when I to... ...will to go that way! Napoleon’s treatment of women is excel- lent example. Peterborough’s can be defended. 216 Lord Ormont and His Aminta His Aminta ...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...an account of the digging up of his remains in the little graveyard of St. Peter’s Church, dur ing the renewal of that edifice. Nothing, if I rightly... ...r, though bred a lawyer, and accustomed to speak of Bacon, Coke, Noye, and Finch, as his professional associates, the exigenties of this new country h...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...have found them.” My horses never were in harness,” added the lady. “Bull- finch would kick the carriage to pieces, if you put him in the traces.” “Bu... ...ved him sincerely: as for Lady Emily, the authoress of the “Washerwoman of Finchley Common,” her denuncia- tions of future punishment (at this period,... ...Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal.’ “ “And the ‘W asherwoman of Finchley Common,’ Mamma,” said Lady Emily. “It is as well to begin soothing... ...awdon,” the other said. “I wish she would. I won’t read the Washerwoman of Finchley Common,” vowed Violet; and so saying, and avoid- ing a passage at ... ... to Mr. Crawley for religious instruction, touched upon the Washerwoman of Finchley Common, which she had read with the greatest profit, and asked abo... ...t sleep in what they call my bedroom. The bed is like the baldaquin of St. Peter’s, and the pictures frighten me. I have a little brass bed in a dress... ... the present historian to say much. There was his Excellency the Prince of Peterwaradin, with his Prin- cess—a nobleman tightly girthed, with a large ...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...est; only known by a ‘chuck, chuck,’ and dovelike Call of content, but the finch and the linnet and blackcap pipe loudly. Round on the western hill-si... ...the Olympian couch, Which bade our public gobble or reject. O spectacle of Peter, shrewdly pecked, Piper, by his own pepper from his pouch! What of th...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...much more than I could understand. Sam Miles had been caught poaching, and Peter Bailey had gone to the workhouse at last. “Serve him right,” said Sir... ...et us set down the items of her happiness. In the first place, she gave up Peter Butt, a young man who kept company with her, and in consequence of hi... ... anity Fair—V anity Fair! This might have been, but for you, a cheery lass—Peter Butt and Rose a happy man and wife, in a snug farm, with a hearty fam... ...e those sweet tracts, “The Sailor’s True Binnacle,” and “The Applewoman of Finchley Common.” Miss Sharp’s accounts of his employment at Queen’s Crawle... ...have found them.” My horses never were in harness,” added the lady. “Bull- finch would kick the carriage to pieces, if you put him in the traces.” “Bu... ...ved him sincerely: as for Lady Emily, the authoress of the “Washerwoman of Finchley Common,” her denuncia- tions of future punishment (at this period,... ...Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal.’ “ “And the ‘W asherwoman of Finchley Common,’ Mamma,” said Lady Emily. “It is as well to begin soothing... ...t sleep in what they call my bedroom. The bed is like the baldaquin of St. Peter’s, and the pictures frighten me. I have a little brass bed in a dress... ... the present historian to say much. There was his Excellency the Prince of Peterwaradin, with his Prin- cess—a nobleman tightly girthed, with a large ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication F... ... Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ... Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ... PANTAGRUEL Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been r... ...rsorily. At the end of the seventeenth century, in 1693, a French refugee, Peter Antony Motteux, whose English verses and whose plays are not without ... ...st. Then large puffs. Pheasants and pheasant poots. Forced capons. Thistle-finches. Parmesan cheese. Whore’s farts. Peacocks. Red and pale hippocras. ...

...ve Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...s the Spaniards im- properly call them, mistaking this substance for salt- peter), nothing is to be seen but an extensive plain composed of a black, m... ...ide to side. Of birds we have three carrion hawks and in the valleys a few finches and insect-feeders. An ibis (Theristicus melanops — a species said ... ...on every twig and branch. In the more open parts, three or four species of finches, a thrush, a starling (or Icterus), two Opetiorhynchi, and several ... ...onderance in most countries of certain common genera of birds, such as the finches, one feels at first surprised at meeting with the peculiar forms ab... ... Salt-lake in Crater — Natural History of the Group — Ornithology, curious Finches — Rep- tiles — Great Tortoises, habits of — Marine Lizard, feeds on... ...r to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), which ranges on 418 The ...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...et the various national songs of the Finns. Among these were Palmskold and Peter Bang. They collected portions of the national poetry, consisting chie... ...quity of the Kalevala, Barna adduces a Hungarian book written by a certain Peter Bornemissza, in 1578, entitled ordogi Kisertetekrol (on Satanic Spect... ...zes not the ocean billows, Does not check the ocean currents. On the sea a finch is resting, Bird of song upon the waters, But his feet are not yet fr... ...inland waters, Swans came gliding from the marshes; 387 The Kalevala Tiny finches, green and golden, Flew in flocks that darkened sunlight, Came in m... ...n’ger land. ’ger land. ’ger land. ’ger land. ’ger land. The present St. Petersburg. J J J J Ja a a a a’ ’ ’ ’ ’men ( men ( men ( men ( men ( Y Y Y ...

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Wild Apples

By: Henry David Thoreau

...haps one-half of them must be eaten in the house, the other out-doors. One Peter Whitney wrote from Northborough in 1782, for the Proceedings of the B... ...d the autumn woods and the wild flowers, and the woodpecker and the purple finch, and the squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the No- vember trave...

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The Children of the Night

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

...liel said Before you, when the sick were lying down In streets all night for Peter’s passing shadow. Fight, and say what you feel; say more than words... ...Discovering a world with his man’s eyes, Quite as another lad might see some finches, If he looked hard and had an eye for nature. But this one had hi...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...off to her house at Chelsey, near to London, the picture of herself by Sir Peter Lely, in which her ladyship was represented as a huntress of Diana’s ... ...ot marry. Y ou will under- stand these things better soon.” “Was not Saint Peter the head of your church?—Dr. Rab- bits of Ealing told us so.” The Fat... ...b- bits of Ealing told us so.” The Father said, “Y es, he was.” “But Saint Peter was married, for we heard only last Sunday that his wife’s mother lay... ... laughed at recognizing in the parlor the well-remembered old piece of Sir Peter Lely, wherein his father’s widow was represented as a virgin hunt- 1... ...of her lord, Harry’s father. Specially, and in the place of honor, was Sir Peter Lely’s picture of the honorable Mistress Isabella Esmond as Diana, in... ..., and Trix too. Break this news to ‘em 307 Thackeray gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for their rents, and send me the ryno ... ...y. Break this to mother, who’ll take anything from you. And write, and bid Finch write amediately. Hostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So F...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...ority ye know. A. B. C. Triumphant shall be An Equilateral Triangle, Not Peter Pindar carp, nor Zoilus can wrangle. Because the point A. is the c... ...r in the gust, Or when it bends beneath the up-springing lark, Or mountain-finch alighting. And the rose (In vain the darling of successful love) ...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...es, an account of the digging up of his remains in the little graveyard of St. Peter’s Church, during the renewal of that edifice. Nothing, if I rightl... .... For, though bred a lawyer, and accustomed to speak of Bacon, Coke, Noye, and Finch, as his professional associates, the exigenties of this new count...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...g a parure of pearls. They were praising the breadth of the columns of St. Peter’ s, Tivoly, Vesuvius, Castellamare, and Cassines, the roses of Genoa,... ...ut self- satisfaction, and he appeared to take life as calmly as the gold- finch suspended over his head in its wicker cage: this was the chemist. “Ar...

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