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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...et, all anarchists admit that these endowments are decimated by millennia of statal repression. Life in anarchism is, therefore, aimed at restoring ... ...nizens, thoroughly demoralized, impoverished, and criminalized by decades of Soviet repression? How likely are these tensions to lead not only to th... ...ght. It is impossible to cope with it but through awesome mechanisms of denial and repression. In this permanent subconscious warfare, memory is a ...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...et, all anarchists admit that these endowments are decimated by millennia of statal repression. Life in anarchism is, therefore, aimed at restoring ... ...nizens, thoroughly demoralized, impoverished, and criminalized by decades of Soviet repression? How likely are these tensions to lead not only to th... ...ght. It is impossible to cope with it but through awesome mechanisms of denial and repression. In this permanent subconscious warfare, memory is a ...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...t Singh 3 Fixing Global Finance Fixing Global Finance was first published in 2010 by Madhyam and SOMO. Madhyam 148, Maitri Apartments Plot No.28 Patp... ...one: 91-11-43036919 Email: madhyamdelhi@gmail.com Website: www.madhyam.org.in Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on ... .... The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 22 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 30 4. The Rise of N... ...er Wall Street banks quickly spread to other developed economies including Germany, the UK and Japan. Post-Lehman collapse, many markets became dysfun... ...age markets suffered huge losses, particularly IKB Deutsche Industriebank (Germany), BNP Paribas (France) and Macquarie Bank (Australia). In particula... ...8 Fixing Global Finance recovery. Unlike bailing out big banks, the strong political will to protect and create jobs is squarely lacking at both natio... ...s had come under severe criticism from the Western world for their alleged political and non-commercial objectives. 10 Post-crisis, however, it is be... ...ons of these two official committees. 74 Fixing Global Finance The Indian political establishment also remains non-committal to the imposition of a T... ...sity of California Press, 1998. Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, “Good-bye Financial Repression: Hello Financial Crash,” Journal of Development Economics, 1985,...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the wo...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk 6. Global Financial Crisis and India 7. Guid...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ...arly Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m delighted that you took you... ...ualified and justified reason. We are charitable, but not stupid! Look at Germany where two-thirds of the men have retired before the legal age throu... ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...ndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Liberia, Mozambique, Germany, Ireland, UK, Argentina and the Philippines. Only Saudi Arabia and... ...ften asking for equality but wanting the state to follow sharia, with its repression of women in many areas of life. The feminists of the West are ...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...escu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ...marandache/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought ... ...ose, we personalize further on. The examples are extremely numerous, even in our nearest past. When we mention a creation - in the largest sense of ... ...n office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible, expanding on fou... ...wards surrealism the Prevertian heredity (Claude Le Roy) and towards “the political significance the holding of silence” (Jean-Michel Levenard). ... ...epressed the hesitation 20 and decided, in compensation, on a resolute political exploration, in which complete actions are taken. Let us come b... ...tion in the expression of the anguish, tending to the pulverization of the repression (internal and external, subjective and objective). Paradoxism i... ...rom abroad: Dumitru Ichim (Canada), Dan Romascanu (Denmark), Titu Popescu (Germany), Radu Enescu (Spain), Al. Mirodan (Israel), Constantin Craciun (A... ...the seen and unseen semantic stratification of words, the disclose of the repression and outpression patterns, experimental linguistic with a boundle...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which g...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...g Celebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – Th... ...son. In short: pathological narcissism is a result of over-sensitivity, the repression of overwhelming memories and experiences, and the suppressio... ...f narcissism"? Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, bands – acquire a life and a character all t... ...: a massive post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). APPENDIX: Strong Men and Political Theatres - The "Being There" Syndrome "I came here to see a co... ...on, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political. The new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized p... ...acial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britai... ...Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserv...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...pope. Similarly, the values of the people and those of their religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my parishioners tol... ...are the rule rather than the exception. Prostitution, gambling, drugs and political payoffs are only a small part of their overall business, much of... ...How well are the common people represented when they have not watered the political flower pots? ―There is something to be said for self inter... ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...uty of parents to cast their children into the bottomless pit of fear and repression? We freethinkers don‘t think so. ―I would have to say...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ... are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studies in German... ...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...am about being famous. There are several sub-types of this major category of forgetting reality. ―One sub-type of forgetting is called ‗repres... ...ng ourselves to be other than we are: a professional athlete, a glamorous personality, or a person unusually successful in any field. ―Repres...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...The Metaphors of Mind – The Brain VII. The Metaphors of Mind - Psychotherapy VIII. In Defense of Psychoanalysis IX. Metaphors of Mind – The Dialog ... ...mfiture for his condition to qualify as a disease. To this extent, we are justified in classifying all diseases as "spiritual" or "mental". Is ther... ...ntee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these hellish envi... ...a clear path leading from unconscious (or conscious) conflict to signal anxiety, to repression, and to symptom formation (be it neuroses, rooted in ... ...uctures and strictures (internalized as the superego) are concerned mainly with the repression and redirection of natural instincts. Signs and symbo... ...ing a few (minor) modifications to it. (1) Society consists of practices: economic, political and ideological. Althusser defines a practice as: "A... ...her means of production, all organized within defined webs of inter-relations. The political practice does the same with social relations as the ra... ...ise: the economic is determinant not because the practices of the social formation (political and ideological) are the social formation's expressive...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... improved for over 4 million years… the technique of separation, or to use the politically correct term; tool-use. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Cha... ...e which will impregnate the female planetary-egg. The entire, international political race to get to the moon first: was merely a mechanical recrea... ...processed, cooked food, and you will also take away a basic reason for sexual repression, sexual shame, rape, sexual abuse. We became sexually sick ... ...s secret, is out-of-balance. The spiritual sickness of all shame-guilt- taboo-repression-suppression-denial is rooted in secrecy. Moreover, the real... ... that word as an excuse for refusing to listen to any new idea; it is just the politically correct code-word for saying: ‘I am afraid of any kind of ... ...ed societies, and closed communities. What is one result of the emotional repression of anger as a social norm? Police brutality. Mass fear. ...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...k! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health Professional. The Author is certified in Counselling Techniques. Editing and Desi... ... Rangelovska All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidi... ...he Human Character" "… This book has an important purpose. I am sure it will be appreciated in a library, classroom or among the mental health ... ...es not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these ... ...sense of a blind person. In short: pathological narcissism is a result of over-sensitivity, the repression of overwhelming memories and experiences,... ...ct of an overweening Primary Object (parent) or caregiver. Perhaps excessive abuse leads to the repression of even the narcissistic and other defenc... ...wrong? The answer is: it depends. Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, bands – acquire a life a... ...alled brilliance, bodily beauty or performance, or ideal, everlasting, all- conquering ideals or political theories. • The group as a whole, or memb... ... in all fields of finances and the economy, and numerous articles dealing with geopolitical and political economic issues published in both print an...

...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidat...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... .... It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in... ...a by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zittrain, Jonathan ( Jonathan L.), 1969– The future o... ...osts Services Hosts Bots Attacks United States 1 1 1 1 2 1 China 3 2 4 8 1 2 Germany 7 3 3 2 4 3 France 9 4 14 4 3 4 United Kingdom 4 13 9 3 6 6 South... ...d and deployed. In addi- tion, much of that software is geared toward making political and artistic ex- pression easier. Yochai Benkler has examined t... ...of cultural participation offered by the Internet through the lens of liberal political theory: The networked information economy makes it possible to ... ...nd discourse. It affects the way we, as individuals and members of social and political clusters, inter- act with culture, and through it with each oth... ...adly legalize similar methods for counterterrorism efforts. See Melissa Eddy, Germany Wants to Spy on Suspects via Web, A. P, Aug. 21, 2007, ht... ...nesty Int’l, Amnesty International Launches Global Campaign Against Internet Repression, http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT 300162006 (last v...

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...the principles of the American Governments, elements consistent with their political faith and the practical convictions which the peoples of America ... ...eir own. I speak of this, not because of any desire to exalt an ab- stract political principle which has always been held very dear by those who have ... ...ail. 12 Why We Are at War II THE SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELA- TIONS WITH GERMANY Message to the Congress February 3, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS:... ...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether. 13 Woodrow Wilson GERMANY’S U-BOAT PLEDGE In reply to this declaration the German Government ... ... habitual attitude to- ward life. Autocracy that crowned the summit of her political struc- ture, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality... ...there should be disloyalty it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... this strange still house, among the shadows of dead thoughts and haunting repressions. “I hate it! I hate it!” she panted. “Why did I ever—” She reme... ...o be in motion; it welcomed her back from shop- ping; it lost its mildewed repression. The supreme verdict was Kennicott’s “Well, by golly, I was afra... ...and turned Mr. Grimm into a limp dummy. But Raymie, as the villain, had no repressions. The tilt of his head was full of character; his drawl was admi... ...k was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity. But it proved that Mr. Bert Tybee, the former bartender, ... ... the sheriff, and announced that in a few days he would address a farmers’ political meeting. That night, the news ran, a mob of a hundred business me... ...y dollars we want for ourselves! The churches have always done it, and the political orators— and I suppose I do it when I call Mrs. Bogart a `Puritan...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...ress – Illustrated by the United States -Opinion of the Americans upon the repression of the abuse of the liberty of the press by judicial prosecution... ...sted with a temporary right of judg- ing. Trial by jury, as applied to the repression of crime, ap- pears to me to introduce an eminently republican e... ... from Great Britain, Ireland, or the British colonies; 2,643,069 came from Germany or northern Europe; and about half a million from the south of Euro...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... what is passing under our very eyes. But here, as in so many other cases, Germany, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It... ...l of a rough journey; as if, forsaking the gold- mines of finance and that political slaughter of fat oxen whereby a man himself grows fat, they were ... ...nd how our mercantile greatness, and invaluable Constitution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture an... ... of our Friend we detected any practical tendency whatever, it was at most Political, and towards a certain prospective, and for the present quite spe... ...truction, we were to have a science of Affirmation and Reconstruction; and Germany and Weissnichtwo were where they should be, in the vanguard of the ... ...g, to a certain Tract of Hofrath Heuschrecke’s, entitled Institute for the Repression of Population; which lies, dishonorably enough (with torn leaves...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presc... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...aid beyond their own limits. For nine years, ever since the triumph of his political ideas, the colonel had lived almost entirely outside of social li... ...uture son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors and dignities of political life.” “Could you love Cecile?” said the colonel to his son. “Yes... ... 10 The Deputy of Arcis REVOLT OF A LIBERAL ROTTEN-BOROUGH THOUGH 1839 IS, politically speaking, very distant from 1847, we can still remember the ele... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ... “Then the crime we wish to denounce can be committed with impunity?” “Its repression is always doubtful,” replied Desroches. “Judges do sometimes mak...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...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... ... the German word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a les... ... Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet of the army on his head. Last came the Empr... ...ts fight duels in the room which I have described, two days in every week duringseven and a half or eight months in every year. This custom had contin... ...- sional victim—the end of a broken sword flew five or ten feet and buried itself in his neck or his heart, and death ensued instantly. The student du... ...y demonstrations of this sort. However brilliant a contest or a victory might be, no sign or sound betrayed that any one was moved. A dignified gravi... ...estion may well be asked, What can be found in it? It is easily answered: A child’s handful of tele- grams, mainly about European national and interna...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Presc... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... her justification. The product of liberty of will, religious liberty, and political liberty (not, observe this, to be confounded with civil liberty) ... ...where power has no vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political liberty, lifts to the surface none but commonplace men; where bru... ... of will, ought not to teach the dogma of liberty of conscience, or demand political liberty. But, as no society can exist without guarantees granted ... ...mn occasion, when he was starting, March 25, 1552, for his expedition into Germany, Henri II. declared Catherine regent during his absence, and also i... ...sons the spirit of their age. The religious reform undertaken by Luther in Germany, John Knox in Scotland, Calvin in France, took hold espe- cially of... ...lf-love; for the Guises were determined to treat her on the same system of repression which the late king, her husband, had so long pursued. The thirt...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kath... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from literary or political life, and he yielded to the temptations incurred by journalists b... ...ete, and without sufficient force to bear up against the rough jostling of political life, the struggles and sufferings of which confer no credit,—a b... ...y alike in all humanity. So- ciety alone has the right over its members of repression; as for punishment, I deny it that right. Repression suffices; a... ...ke of sacred principles. From the time of his return to the provinces this political manoeuvrer had an intimacy with a young man, overwhelmed with deb... ...d he studied much and observed much, but he had travelled in every part of Germany, Russia, Persia, and Turkey, whence he had gath- ered many a tradit...

...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspec...

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