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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...n by: Professor Ervin Laszlo LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Kabbalah Revealed The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Rav Michael Laitm... ...hael Laitman, PhD Introduction by: Professor Ervin Laszlo KABBALAH REVEALED The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Copyright © 2006 by... ...s book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in c... ...uide to a more peaceful life / Michael Laitman p. cm. ISBN 0-9781590-0-4 1. Cabalah. 2. Mysticism—Judaism. 3. Spiritual life—Judaism. I. Ti... ...ticism—Judaism. 3. Spiritual life—Judaism. I. Title. BM525.L253 2006 296.1’6—dc22 2006031322 Copy Editor: Claire Gerus Layout and Drawings: Ba... .......................................................................13 CHAPTER 1 - KABBALAH: THEN AND NOW ..................................... 19 THE... ...een brushed off and ridiculed. In the previous chapter, we said that evolution oc- curs because our will to receive pleasure progresses from the Root... ...change, global warming, rising sea levels, and the start of the new hurricane season. The (Narrow) Road to Freedom 125 “The Big Thaw” is what Geoff...

...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...h J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bo... ... COLLEGE CLOTHES. Our Representative, Mr. A. Tucker, at Bemis' During tlie Season EVERALL BROS High-Class Tailors 259Sth Avenue, New York ALrDGATE ARR... ...r. J. H. Hunter and brother will be in Wil- liamstown fvcryweek during the season. Headquarters at J. E.^MILLER'S—Hab«rdash«r—No. Adams Harry White CO... ...TION. 166 Devonshire Street BOSTON, . MASS, MEADE'S Academyof Dancing 12TH SEASON 61 Main St. NO. ADAMS, MASS. Class Fri., Sat. eve. nings. Private le... ... that year the college petitioned tax exemp- tion for such property as was oc- cupied by a college officer as a compensation in whole or in part for h... ... of everyone to test the novelty of walking on green grass. This condition oc- curs periodically every spring.and the accompanying protests make iheir... ...rs^iandlo iCs coiikltii reti or can mipuf It It yon Insist npon navlnt 11. Oc«t:*»otuoratlianutMr tonntaln pons of best srad«. looitflM sad tliea toul...

...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ...Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer... ...quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction i What Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Religious Belie... ...t it gives us something to live for, and it is something that on very rare oc- casions we can momentarily glimpse. In this respect it may be likened t... ...appearance of the Virgin Mary was reported to have been accompanied on one oc- casion by a vision of the sun spinning and then rushing towards the ear... ... the road’s south side. For a year I live here, experiencing the change of seasons, picking my way over the dry, stubbled grass of November fields rime... ... individual snowflake on my mitten. I watch these friends changing with the seasons. My friend the Grandfather maple gets his brilliant fall leaves of ... ... Americans, time was cyclical, based on the recurring sacred cycles of the seasons, and these cycles were celebrated in seasonally appropriate thanksg...

...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ...ctbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense ... ...840O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m 02 m 08 APR 15 APR 1 8 CPASWF 87-001 (Supersedes CR WF 86-001) June 1987 Contents Page No... ...o 164 Mongolia 165 Montserrat 167 Morocco 168 Mozambique 169 Page N Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New ... ...nm Climate: semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool, dry season (May to October) and hot, rainy season (Novem- ber to April) Terra... ...conomic zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: mostly low-lying with some higher... ... km Maritime claims: Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: flat with a few hills; scant vege... ...lar Action (MAPU); Movement of Unitary Popular Action Workers/Peasants (MAPU-OC), Oscar Garreton Purcell (in exile); Christian Left (1C), Luis Maira; ...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... The Public Domain ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page i -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ Thomas Jef... ...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ...closing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page iii A Caravan book. ... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...ttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United Sta... ...onsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page iv Contents ___... ... to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who oc- cupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes... ...ed. But the benefits of open data policies go further. Every year the monsoon season kills hundreds and causes massive property damage in Southeast Asi...

... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... ...ny of others"--Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 1. Sappho--Diaries--Fiction. 2. Jesus Christ--Diaries--Fiction. 3. Leonar... ... “You’re so sweet,” she said and I saw myself mirrored in her eyes. And it oc- curred to me that Alcaeus and I would never again be able to exchange n... ...ng trip: may they find Phaon and bring him back to me. P This is theatre season and the talk is of actors and acting. I like to familiarize myself ... ... my hip. I wondered how I could wait, through the days ahead, how could I oc- cupy myself, until Phaon and I sailed? It was a question for water cloc... ...the Magi gifts, help himself and Mother. This has been a poor carpentry season for him and for others. No use has been made of the gifts these ye... ...s progression. October 29th Masculine skies...feminine skies...at this season of the year they are mostly masculine, with snow falling, wind blow...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare

...As you Like it. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...are: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 As you Like it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus primus. Scoena Prima.... ... that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that dif-fers 13 not from the stalling of an Oxe? his horses are bred 14 better, for besides th... ...ir’d: but I (his brother) gaine nothing vnder 17 him but growth, for the which his Animals on his 18 dunghils are as much bound to him as ... ... Oliuer. Marry sir be better employed, and be naught 39 a while. - 1 - As you Like it Shakespeare: First Folio 40 Orlan. Shall I kee... ...ous Court? 611 Heere feele we not the penaltie of Adam, 612 The seasons difference, as the Icie phange 613 And churlish chiding of the... ...es with forked heads 631 Haue their round hanches goard. 632 1.Lord. Indeed my Lord 633 The melancholy Iaques grieues at that, 63... ..., and when you 1987 were grauel’d, for lacke of matter, you might take oc-casion 1988 to kisse: verie good Orators when they are out, 1989 ...

...lly at home, or (to speak more properly) staies me heere at home unkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an Oxe? his horses are bred better, for besides that they are faire with their feeding, they are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir?d: but I (his brother) gaine nothing under him but grow...

...Table of Contents: As you Like it, 1 -- Actus primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scoena Secunda., 4 -- Scena Tertius., 11 -- Actus Secundus. Scoena Prima., 14 -- Scena Secunda., 16 -- Scena Tertia., 16 -- Scena Quarta., 18 -- Scena Quinta., 21 -- Scena Sexta., 22 -- ...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...ssociate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ...shman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein ... ...n were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsylvania University, during the academi... ...ck, arms, and neck in the blue and white paint. This game was on September 1, 2001 under the lights for only the sixth time in the history of Beaver S... ...branches of the bare trees. My grandmother had often told me that when the season changes ba- bies are born and elderly folks die. A thick clump begin... ...up sweating and shaking tre- mendously. T wo weeks later the same accident oc- curred, but the differences were that I was the per- son in the acciden... ...uated fast enough to stop the problems associated with radiation (Visscher 1). There are many birth defects and many radiation- related cancers attrib... ...ects and many radiation- related cancers attributed to Chernobyl (Visscher 1). To prevent a problem like this in the United States, power plants must ... ...g this problem (“History and Safety” 3-4). Another problem at Indian Point oc- curred in 1998 when the Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission (NRC) fined Ind...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the eighth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructio...

.... 8 Tammy Lenig English 4 ? Hazleton campus ?Neighborhood? .......................................... 9 Josh Gilligan English 15 ? Du Bois campus ?In the Beginning There Was Rap? ............. 11 Laura Hope Stawski English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?Hopeless Hope? ........................... 13 Samuel G. Lepadatu English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?A Good Samaritan? ....................

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...m Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... all the better for him by-and-by.” “And the elder ones will take care the seasoning is not too severe,” said Caroline, with a resolution she could ha... ...fully expansive and genial state; “but we shall get back to London for the season, and know what it is to enjoy life and rational- ity again, and then... ...end the early spring in the country, but we must have the best part of the season in London now that we can get out of banishment, and en- joy rationa... ...us race, And now in tumult, now at rest, Flash back heaven’s radiant face. 1. While both alike this name we bear, And both like life we flow, 2. And ... ...en made the work for his final examination a plea for being so incessantly oc- cupied as to avoid all private outpourings. And if he had very little f...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... ...LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a... .... . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyss... ...4 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . ... ...One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 To the Man on Trail 1 D UMP it in.” “But I say, Kid, is n’t that going it a little too stro... ... and dying away in sadly cadenced woe — then the next rush upward, octave upon oc tave; the bursting heart; and the infinite sorrow and misery, fainti... ...sting his weight on one leg. It was four Love of Life 179 o’clock, and as the season was near the last of July or first of Au gust, — he did not know... ... under growth, where high water of the previous spring had lodged a supply of seasoned twigs, he got his fire wood. Working carefully from a small beg... ...of dry fire wood — sticks and twigs, princi pally, but also larger portions of seasoned branches and fine, dry, last year’s grasses. He threw down seve...

... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?at...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...itors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...he Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The Ponds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering season. I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong and valiant natures, w... ...cross lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the public heel had testified to their utility. I have look... ...the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons. In short, I went on thus for a long time, I may say it without b... ...o me to lean over the cornice and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude oc cupants who really knew it better than he. What of architectural beau... ...55 to study the bottom. Being curious to know what position my great bubbles oc cupied with regard to the new ice, I broke out a cake containing a mi... ...and sumachs growing in the sunny sward there; some pitch pine or gnarled oak oc cupies what was the chimney nook, and a sweet scented black birch, pe...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the ...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, ...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the... ...m, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of... ...onsequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed... ...ty without having horses to hire. Fanny had no share in the festivities of the season; but she enjoyed being avowedly useful as her aunt’s companion, ... ...shrubs in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and senti... ... end of August, he arrived himself, to be gay, agreeable, and gallant again as oc casion served, or Miss Crawford demanded, to tell of races and Weym... ...ete, which he was to be in time, she did not believe she could accept him. The season and duties which brought Mr. Bertram back to Mansfield, took Mr. ... ...o see you both dance. You spoke of the balls at Northampton. Your cousins have oc casionally attended them; but they would not altogether suit us now... ...ss.” Edmund was at this time particularly full of cares; his mind being deeply oc cupied in the consideration of two important events now at hand, wh...

...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large i...

...Table of Contents: I, 1 -- I, 3 -- II, 10 -- III, 18 -- IV, 26 -- V, 33 -- VI, 39 -- VII, 47 -- VIII, 56 -- IX, 62 -- X, 72 -- XI, 79 -- XII, 85 -- XIII, 90 -- XIV, 97 -- XV, 103...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

... and Homerica A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a... ... and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ............................................................ 66 THE THEOGONY (1,041 lines).................................................................. ...o neglected or sum- marily and imperfectly treated. In continental Greece (1), on the other hand, but especially in Boeotia, a new form of epic sprang... ...g, therefore, to find that from the first the Boeotian school is forced to season its matter with romantic episodes, and that later it tends more and ... ...e phrases derived, per- haps, from a pre-Hesiodic peasant poetry: thus the season 20 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica when Boreas blows is the... ...’, and the serpent is the ‘hairless one’. Very similar is his reference to seasons through what happens or is done in that season: ‘when the House-car... ... his manliness, and the scorpion also as a memorial of him and of what had oc- curred. Fragment #5 — Diodorus iv. 85: Some say that great earthquakes ...

...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended ...

...Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica .................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE........................................................................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... .................................................. 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It ha... ... shall tell the truth, and shall so tell that truth 6 North America V ol. 1 that what he has written may be readable. But a second duty is due to tho... ...n; but this was not so. The war and attendant turmoils of war had made the season of vacation shorter than usual, and most of those for whom I asked w... ...d the Hudson River, with a peep into Boston and New York, before many more seasons have passed by. But I cannot forbear to tell my countrymen that any... ...turally visit Quebec in summer or autumn, seeing that a Canada winter is a season with which a man cannot trifle; but I imagine that the mid-winter is... ...he recognition of the independence of the Confederate States. The military oc- cupation of Maryland is unconstitutional, and she pro- tests against it...

...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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The Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...Jim Manis and Carol Ann Ellis Student Editors Charles Patterson Tim Thomas The Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The... ...ty. The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The Students’ Choice V olume 4 1999 Table of Contents: How to Contact Best... ... 1291. Or phone 570.450.3189 Or Fax: 570.540.3182 Or Email jdm@psu.edu For the latest, visit our web site: www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/bof.htm Best... ... of February I decided to try snowboarding on my first trip of the skiing season to Montage Mountain. After watching my friends make a few runs, I we... ... friend, Rickey, made it look. He had been snowboarding since the previous season. I found it hard to keep my balance, and I fell about every ten feet... ...h is the worst condition. I had a terrible experience with slush on a late season trip to Camelback, a local ski resort. I had tickets from my high sc... ...ich are needed. Penn State Hazleton s home page states that the campus has 1,310 stu- dents enrolled, and only 25 IBM compatible computers (Home Pages... ...3466 students and 150 computers available, thus giving it a ratio of 23 to 1. These are the only home pages I went to, and all of them have much lower... ...ar, and again he pressed firmly down on the gas pedal. The strangest thing oc- curred when I peered back to check the position of the vehicle that had...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the fourth volume of the Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 to the widest possible audien...

...Table of Contents: Breaking the Ice ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Computer Dilemma ........................................

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...g it easier for me, at a later period, to acquire readiness of expression. 1 I had read, up to this time, very little English poetry. Shakspeare my f... ...prehension at the time; but they left seed behind, which germinated in due season. At this time I also read the whole of Tacitus, Juvenal, and Quintil... ...lled myself and others by it as a sectarian appellation; and it came to be oc casionally used by some others holding the opinions which it was intend... ...unders of the Society was at last exhausted, except me and Roebuck. In the season following, 1826 7, things began to mend. We had acquired two excel ... ...on sideration came to hear us. This happened still more in the subsequent seasons, 1828 and 1829, when the Coleridgians, in the persons of Maurice an... ... movement during its first years, though delicate health and superabundant oc cupation made her decline to be a member of the Executive Committee. Ma...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so ...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... and Education by John Dewey Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life 1. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between li... ...to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses oc- cur. By operating steadily to call out certain acts, habits are formed ... ...a being having differ- ent standards of judgment and emotion for different oc- casions. This danger imposes upon the school a steady- ing and integrat... ...former recapitulation occurs physiologically; the latter should be made to oc- cur by means of education. The alleged biological truth that the indivi... ...eeds sprout, rain falls, the sun shines, insects devour, blight comes, the seasons change. His aim is simply to utilize these various conditions; to m... .... But it is the fault of the teacher if the pupil does not perceive in due season the inad- equacy of his performances, and thereby receive a stimu- l...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwa...

................ 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education ...............................................................................................

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...es Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ..............................................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................. ...smen to whom the Times addressed pathetic condolences on the loss of their season will lose more than one; and we shall be made sensible that we have ... ...nfined, before the passing of Mr. Gladstone’s well-meant Land Bill, to the oc- casional despatch of commissions; and, in fine, we behold through Histo... ...ields cut by ditches and brooks, which, though owing to the dryness of the season [they] can- not be, as it was generally believed two weeks ago, easi...

...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T...

...ROSE............................................................................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 .............................

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ed and his heart had lost the power of self-devotion before an opportunity oc- curred. The circumstances of his youth doubtless counted for something ... ...rly boyhood an obstinate battle against poor soil, bad seed, and inclement seasons, wading deep in Ayrshire mosses, guiding the plough in the furrow w... ...mism and the praises of the best of possible words went irrevocably out of season, and have been no more heard of in the mouths of reasonable men. Whi... ... its horrors. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious revival. He watched Lincoln going daily to his work; he... ...dress; and the duch- ess herself was among those who most excelled. On one oc- casion eleven competitors made a ballade on the idea, “I die of thirst ... ...ographie Didot, art. “Marie de Cleves.” Vallet, Charles VII, iii. 85, note 1. *Champollion-Figeac, 364: “Jeter de l’argent aux petis enfans qui estoie...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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