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...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer,...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Master of... ...bert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of... ...ity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Master of... ...of Mackellar’s homespun and how to shape it for superior flights; these were his company on deck in many star-reflecting harbours, ran often in his mi... ...de; there he sat reading, in a lined gown, with few words for any man, and wry words for none: the model of an old retired housekeeper; and yet his mi... ...hout much change; only they were now three instead of four, which was a per- petual reminder of their loss. Miss Alison’s money, you are to bear in mi... ...that fall to be made upon our escape, how providen- tially our steps were conducted to the very end. What a hu- miliation to the dignity of man! My ph...

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...ronic Classics Series Publication Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purp... ...s, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical w... ... this note of old King Jamie’s perquisitions af- ter wealth, it had come strongly on my mind that the spot for which he sought in vain could be no oth... ...orgotten dignity and wealth. This was a design of which I soon had reason to repent. My mind was sharply turned on different reflections; and since I ... ...on. No that I would preen my faith to that clink neither; but it’s bonny, and easier to mind. “Who go to sea in ships,” they hae’t again– 14 Robert L... ...ho had been summer travellers spoke together in cafes of Will o’ the Mill and his rough philosophy. Many and many an invitation, you may be sure, he h... ... ‘Little boy, little boy,’ said Dr. Desprez, ‘I told you al- ready you had the vices of philosophy; if you display the virtues also, I must go. I am a... ...he had aired quite as many theories, but of a different order, at- tributed his present philosophy to the study of Anastasie. It was her brute enjoyme...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver t...

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...Deserted Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... The con- stant stirring of the sap of life, the fertilizing influences of mind on mind, after which he had sought so eagerly in Paris, were beginning... ...dress for themselves or others. He saw the glimmerings of something like a philosophy in the even tenor of their per- petual round, in the calm of the... ...ent desires that had lain dormant for a little. Gaston de Nueil was absent-minded and preoccupied for the rest of the evening. He was pondering how he... ... at last upon one of the hopeful stratagems that are sure to occur to your mind if you persevere long enough, a strata- gem which must make clear to t... ...ust either die or take refuge in a material- istic, selfish, and heartless philosophy, from which impas- sioned souls shrink in horror. AS FOR MME. DE...

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A collection of the author's original poetry centered around the themes of spiritual search and individual identity in the modern world.

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...Loose, Shifting Ghost Incantation Soul’s Mirror Trying To Make It Behind the Words Reflection No One Mind and Its Light Babel’s Tower Core Remains Word The Book Grave Goods Stranger You Build the Tower Birthing Your Image The Singing Here The Name River We Can Listen Writing Me I Entered Lances The Kingdom...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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...bsence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformatio...

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...In this edition are presented the works by Alex Listengort, written in a period of time from autumn-2008 to may 2013. Here the reader may see a circulation of different topics, of questions and answers, embodied in Poems. These Pieces of Arts do Bless and Fill Up with a Special Energy that is familiar to...

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...OCEAN OF DIVINITY Ozean der Göttlichkeit אוקיינוס של אלוהות Океан Божественности Աստվածայնության Օկվիանը Océano de la Divinidad MAY 2013 A Message Flows It faded blossom of that crazy time I would like to tell so much ...

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...Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself O...

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...Aislinn of Bairdhe dreams of becoming a lady knight to honor the death of her fallen brother. To her mother's horror, King Patrick grants Aislinn's wish and she begins her long years of training. Despite the mockery of the other page...

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... Woman of Honor 1 The Kingdom of Arnhem Book 1 Woman of Honor By: Nicole Zoltack ... ...0: 1-936000-03-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-03-6 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. D... ...ht by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ele... ...and climbed inside. “Carry on when you can, Gerald,” she said simply but her mind remained on the street urchin and no longer on her impending judgm... ... a curt comment. I’m in the castle now. I’m a guest of the king. I must be mindful of my station! “I want to be a knight, too,” the boy continued... ...hers see—“ Aislinn nodded. Wishing to change the subject to perhaps keep her mind occupied, she asked, “You are a noble?” “Aye. From Siva.” “I’m ... ...n’t a bard. You’re training to be a knight. Leave the poems to them and the philosophy to the monks.” Geoffrey managed a laugh but he remained s... ... about that yesterday. He was deeply wounded that you didn’t like his poetic philosophy.” His tone was teasing, but he was right. Aislinn knew it....

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze an...

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... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...nry James’s phrase and story of “The Great Good Place,” twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light. The man I saw wrote with a thing like a... ...portion of the world used these lamps. All this first scene will go, in my mind at least, to that olfactory accompaniment. That was the evening smell ... ...proper setting for existence imaginable. It was the world as I knew it. My mind was entirely occupied then by graver and intenser matters, and it is o... ...their choice of that word is exhaustively eloquent of the quality of their philosophy. But, if you can master these alien ideas upon which the old sys...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had occurred to her early that in her position-- that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie-- she should know a great many persons without their recognizing the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively--tho...

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...in the seaven sleepers den? T?was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir?d, and got, t?was but a dreame of thee. And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have go...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, l...

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...lassics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ce, been in various engagements, always acquitting him- self as an officer mindful of the welfare of his men, but never tolerating an infraction of di... ...d than the vehicle, his bias was toward those books to which every serious mind of superior order occupying any active post of authority in the world ... ...cial, political and other- wise, which carried away as in a torrent no few minds in those days, minds by nature not inferior to his own. While other m... ...are aware that I am the adherent of no organized religion much less of any philosophy built into a system. Well, for all that, I think that to try and...

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...e is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn?t an ounce of waste flesh, is straight, graceful, springy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a handsome face, and black hair dangling down on his shoulders, and is beautiful to look at; and nobody is braver than he is, and nobody i...

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...One Man. Ten days. No talking. One Centre. 102 meditators. No eye-contact. One Course. 105 hours of meditation. No gestures. One Law. One Truth. One Universe. This story isn't about me, it's about you. It may read as if it's about me, but if you've ever sought the Truth, then it's about you too. Surrender; it's th...

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...THE CONTEXT: A DIFFERENT MIND-SET . . . . . 1 The Mind-Set in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Post-World War I Posture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 GIULIO DOUHET . . . . . . . . . . . . ....