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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., such as a sudden storm, and an encoun- ter with another slaver, when his Portuguese prisoners be- came mutinous, and nothing but his steadiness and ... ...g off with an elasticity that caused his mother to say the boy was made of india-rubber; and then putting his head in by the window to say, “By-the-by... ...ever-stricken emigrant- ship. He had afterwards received an appointment in India, and there the correspondence had died away, and Dr. May had lost tra... ...—she knew he had nothing of his own, only a moderate pension from the East India Company. “What do you think of this?” he said, coming to the slope of... ...t new to him, though his former subjects—a church and mis- sion station in India—bore little remembrance to the present. He bought a little round dump... ... own. Though he now and then talked of seeing America, or of going back to India, in hopes of assisting his beloved mis- sion at Poonshedagore, these ...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ity of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprinted by per... ...k, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switz... ...Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction Dream An... ...time and time again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is no... ...d been superseded by Christianity. Many of the basic religious concepts of India had THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION x been popularized in the West, with Bud... ...e at Lourdes. Another well-known ap- pearance was to three children in the Portuguese village of Fati- ma in 1917, which also led to the building of a...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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The Marriage Contract

By: Honoré de Balzac

...u my Natalie.” “Give me, give me?” said the young girl, waving a screen of Indian feathers, “what are you whispering about me?” “I was telling her,” r... ...sps, brace- lets, and chains, and said, in a mumbling tone:— “ A good many Portuguese diamonds from Brazil are among them. They are not worth more tha... ...trac, save my income, and part with her diamonds, but I would rather go to India and work for a fortune than tear my Natalie from the life she enjoys.... ...Evangelista. Here he is, ruined, without a penny to his name, going out to India to look for luck.” “But how did he ruin himself? he was very rich.” “... ...be far away from you; perhaps already on the vessel which is to take me to India, where I am going to repair my shattered fortune. I have not found co... ...very step? You will be with me every- where. Ah! it will not be the sun of India, but the fire of your eyes that lights my way. Therefore be happy—as ...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...bubles into the air for the sake of watching their prismatic hues, like an Indian juggler with his cups and balls. We of this age, who have formed our... ...eld a clerkship in the South Sea House. In 1795, he was transferred to the India House. As a junior clerk, he could not receive more than a slender sa... ... into uncertainties, humbly to content himself with the certainties of his Indian clerkship, to dedicate himself for the future to the care of his des... ...s, therefore, until he was emancipated by the noble generosity of the East India Directors, Lamb’s time, for nine- and-twenty years, was given to the ... ...bona narint,” is applicable to more people than “agricolae.” Clerks of the India House are as blind to their own advantages as the blindest of ploughm... ...nt, had so far embittered the sympathy of the Ger- mans with their distant Portuguese brethren, that, in the Frankfort discussions, sullen murmurs had...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...different parts of the country, and she seldom sees them. She has a son in India, whom she always describes to you as a fine, handsome fellow—so like ... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...a man whose whole scope of ideas was limited to Lloyd’s, the Exchange, the India House, and the Bank. A few successful speculations had raised him fro... ...ling to make himself generally useful. ’ If any old lady, whose son was in India, gave a ball, Mr. Percy Noakes was master of the ceremonies; if any y... ...ass of which Mr. Hardy had fixed a large black wafer. ‘Did you ever hear a Portuguese tambourine?’ inquired that jocular individual. ‘Did you ever hea...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...spectator of this scene, “but I know that he is Monsieur de Funcal, a rich Portuguese.” Monsieur de Funcal had disappeared. The baron followed but wit... ... questioned the prefect, ascertained that the Comte de Funcal lived at the Portuguese embassy. At this moment, while he still felt the icy fingers of ... ... I have heard poor Justin say, that Monsieur de Funcal lives at either the Portuguese or the Brazilian embassy. Monsieur de Funcal is a nobleman belon... ...ough to read, my friend! It is written on the grid- iron plan, used by the Portuguese minister under Monsieur 76 Ferragus de Choiseul, at the time of... ...ishes are eating. God knows it is not for my own sake I have made myself a Portuguese count!” “Poor Gratien!—you, the wisest of us all, our beloved br... ...se who have reached the last degree of wretchedness, he thought of how, in India, the law ordained that widows should die; he longed to die. He was no...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... Should the U.S. Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it... ...roduce an effect directly the reverse of that which was produced by the East India Company’s monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essex’s monopoly of sweet win... ...aint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept of propert... ...that lake, baking at that altitude, washing windows, or treating stings from Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. Someone will have taken a photo of the Du... ...amage in Southeast Asia. One set of monsoon rains alone killed 660 people in India and left 4.5 million homeless. Researchers seeking to predict the m... ...genda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), put forward by India and Brazil, includes similar themes, as do the Geneva Declaration a...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...ed. She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how mu... ... puddings smoked upon the board. 360 Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honest factor stole a gem away: He pledged it to the knight;... ...at least to these; they are thy own. Biddel, 88 like thee, might farthest India rove; He changed his country, but retain’d his love. ... ...his country; a monster, that will, one day, shew as daring a soul as a mad Indian, who runs a-muck to kill the first Chris- tian he meets. 170 Anothe... ...uineas, for discovering the erroneous translations of the Common Prayer in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, &c. As for my genius, let Mr Cleland ...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature... ...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ...ive feet. The partitions had doors that were shut hermetically by means of india-rubber instruments, and they ensured the safety of the Nautilus in ca... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ... ...s nearer or taking us farther from the coast. But no; the Nautilus kept in Portuguese waters. I must therefore take my part and prepare for flight. My...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... eldest sister, a stiff, sensible, dry woman, had just married and gone to India, leaving her post to the next in age, Emily, who was much too indolen... ...ral, Sir Jasper Merrifield, and he is gone out to command in some place in India; but she cannot stand the climate, and is living at home at a place c... ...other used to laugh at her. And I think there was an older one who went to India and died long ago.’ ‘I have seen your two uncles. There’ s Major Mohu... ...d her re- maining at home with them, while her husband held a com- mand in India, taking out with him the two grown-up daugh- ters and the second son,... ...rs above and one brother below him were in 18 The Two Sides of the Shield India with their father, and Gillian was not yet out of the schoolroom, tho... ...dings and investiga- tions into the creatures at the bottom of the sea, of Portuguese men-of-war, and albatrosses; and there were some orders to scien...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...heir native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or ... ...ist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T ... ...“Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like... ... new combinations, and bespoke an effort of the understanding of which the Indians of our days would be incapable.* The social state of these tribes d... ... advanc- ing to civilization, have relapsed into a state of barbarism. The Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his ... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the Government of India, at the last moment, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under... ...Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown ... ...ill his wonderful English, or his still more wonderful lingua franca, half Portuguese and half Malay, ran out and he was forced to take string and sho... ... He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “So it has... .... Two full months before the time!” “ That’s why it comes. I’ve only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don’ t pretend to understand... ... now royally wasting the revenues accumulated dur- ing his minority by the Indian Government. His steam-launch, 33 The Day’s Work with its silverplat...

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