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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable 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 implement...

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...It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming-rooms around the tables. Everywhere the crowd was great. The night was p...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ...chapter. 'Be anxious about nothing.'' Worry upsets the peace of the hunjan mind. To dispel our worries we should use thanksgiving in our prayers to Go... ...egree of M. D. A four years' course, open to bachelors of art, literature, philosophy or science, and to persons of equivalent standing, leads to the ... ...egres of M. D. A four vears' course, open to bachelors of art, literature, philosophy or science, and to perf-ons of equivalent stand in 15, leads to ... ... 111 rm'Nds mi nnfrtny ffpling in tiioilVrrs 'lirnry Obirlc 'rhowpsoii fm- minds of TTiftiiy thnt thi' time msv ^ ily plpnflun ntVnvrii^ii tn (hp c^-.... ... 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.—College, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H... ...at there should be sharply defined depart- ment preferences in the student mind, and it would sflera fairer to these preferences if all of the de- par...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...Voiceless Banners Blowing Purify Your Mind Beautiful Attachment Baths All The Creatures Golden Grass Intricate Structure, Strange Lives Not Easy, Not Careless Kyoto Three Ways For the Spirit Moonlit Walk It’s A Long Time Now Every CreatureCultivars Ho...

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...the strength and courage necessary to detach from their Fetal I that they still carry within, and elevate themselves to the cosmic artistic dimension of the Adult I, which embraces the whole life of a human being […] A. Mercurio This book represents the culmination of the Author’s anthropological and cosmological thought. It is a synthesis expressed through poetic langu...

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...heorems and Axioms A New Poetic and Fascinating Cosmological Viewpoint of Human Life in this Universe 2 Published by the Solari... ...ife in this Universe 2 Published by the Solaris Institute of the S O P H I A U N I V E R S I T Y O F R O M E Creative Commo... ...censor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial pu... ...e born, to grow and to evolve. This is a truth that we must always keep in mind. Cosmo-Art and also Sophia-Art are existential arts. The goal of So... ..., perfection consists of the complete detachment from the Ego and from the mind and from the presence of any type of Karma that dirties the soul or ... ... dialectical process, after it has freed itself of the infernal cage of the mind that knows only linear processes. It consists of the ability of the... ...life, that regulate the evolutionary path of this specific structure. As a philosophy, it asks about why human beings exist, what its individual pur...

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...Time: High School to College Alaina Watts ....................................................................................... 4 An Objective View of Cheerleading Erica Chinetski .......................................................................................... 5 She?s Come Undone Jill Giosa ..........................................................................

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...Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Volume 6 Student Voices Student Voices St... ...is Lucy Morrison Liz Wright Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylva... ......................................................... 4 An Objective View of Cheerleading Erica Chinetski .............................................. ...common stereotype of cheerleaders is that they are all blondes and have no mind of their own. Yes, they all look alike because of identical uniforms, ... ... so to pick a favorite isn’t easy. There is one book that stands out in my mind, which has left a big impression on me and, in a way, has changed the ... ...common stereotype of cheerleaders is that they are all blondes and have no minds of their own. Yes, they all look alike because of identical uniforms,...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot 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... ... with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception o... ...held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather:... ...oney as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about ... ...n he regarded as he did the other se- vere facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have t... ...her questions which determine the starting- point of a diagnosis—as to the philosophy of medial evidence— any glimmering of these can only come from a... ... youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the ...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has ... ...es, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception o... ...held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: ... ...money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about ... ...men he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have t... ...gher questions which determine the starting point of a diagnosis—as to the philosophy of me dial evidence—any glimmering of these can only come from ... ... youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a religion without the ...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...n ours. His training is better than ours. His imagination is livelier. His mind is more active. His requirements in a novel, for example, are not kind... ...solicitudes, M. Blériot has set quite another train of thought going in my mind. The age of natural democracy is surely at an end through these machin... ... temperament, a certain habitual timidity, slovenliness and insincerity of mind. It is a little distrustful of intellectual power and enterprise, a li... ... Will our literature escape at last from pretentiousness and timidity, our philosophy from the foolish cerebrations of university “characters” and emi... ... other literatures well trans- lated into English, and all science and all philosophy, have to be brought within the reach of everyone capable of avai... ...- can universities towards Germany. The slow starvation and decline of our philosophy and science, the decadence of Brit- ish invention and enterprise...

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...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 THE BALLOON OF THE MIND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE NA N... ...ver rustling robe, Who is Amrita? Sorrow of all sorrows! Another fills your mind. Vijaya. My mother’s name. Anashuya [sings, coming out of the temple].... ...hes Within the temple, devious walking, made To wander by their melancholy minds. Yon tall one eyes my supper; chase him away, Far, far away. I named ... ...ree; The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasel...

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...‘Jarek’ takes a tongue in cheek swipe at the extreme elements of 'women’s liberation', while offering a serious alternative to the way we currently teach our children. ...

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...Chapter 1. Zeno Skinny-dipping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at th...

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...os Chapter 13 Acceptance Chapter 14 Secrets Chapter 15 National Park Chapter 16 Waterfall Chapter 17 Secret Places - Secret Thoughts Chapter 18 Philosophy and Farewells Chapter 19 Feral Chapter 20 Crime and Punishment Chapter 21 Another successful Week Chapter 22 A Proposal Chapter 23 Partners Chapter 24 Chloe Chapter 25 Refuge Chapter 26 Sebastian Chapter 2...

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...NonNovel is indeed a novel of drawer, carried year after year in the bottomless sack of the exile. This fierce parabola about totalitarianism, about alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity, written in a strong ...

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...WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 I...