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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...hines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that ric... ...d buffalo calves from Phayao, and then I raised them and sold them in the south, in Kamhaeng Phet. Today, hardly anyone in this village keeps buffalo... ...nstantly increased - in Thailand, as in Finland, girls will predominate in universities and many academic professions. Delocalization of culture has a... ...ear secondary school or vocational schools, and then apply to colleges and universities. Lampang is a 'school city' with municipal and private element... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ...d in the last few years, often way out of the limited means of libraries, universities, individual scientists and scholars. A "scholarly divide" has ... ...n the Internet : it used to belong to the US Government and to a bunch of universities. Users like information, with emphasis on news and data about ... ...Commerce System) and OeBF (Open e-Book). Companies ,like Enpia Systems of South Korea (a DOI Registration Agency), have already implemented a DOI-cu... ...tial pricing (as pharmaceutical companies were forced to do in Brazil and South Africa). A Macedonian with an average monthly income of 160 USD clear... ...ence is that correspondence with and complaints to Wikimedia and to Jimmy Wales go unanswered or stonewalled by a variety of minions. Even when (rar...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.carav... ...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... ...et with an extraordinary potential for growth, and pushing the industry to a new level of competition in ways to connect us to each other and to the W... ...mes, minicomputers, and professional workstations found at government offices, universities, and computer science research cen- ters. 2 These computers ... ...e delay of truly destructive malware is that network op- erations centers at universities and other institutions became more profession- alized betwee... ... 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 Korea 12 9 2 9 11 9 Canada 5 23 5 7 10 5 Spain 13 5 15 16 5 7 Taiwa... ...bara van Schewick, Adrian Vermuele, Eric von Hippel, Fred von Lohmann, Jimbo Wales, Ginny Walters, David Weinberger, Yorick Wilks, Ruth Zittrain, and ... ...&emc rss; Choe Sang-Hun, Mi- crosoft Settles Antitrust Suit over Windows in South Korea, N.Y. T, Nov. 12, 2005, at C3; News Release, No. 45/04, E...

... With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ... Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Liberia 142 Libya 1... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ...eychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230... ...r pressure groups: revi- talized university student federations at all major universities dominated by political groups; labor National Workers Com- m... ...nistrative divisions: 3 districts Legal system: based on laws of England and Wales with a small number adopted from Jamaica and The Bahamas; constitu-... ...000 Jewish (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortali...

...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 disp...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...n Wilbanks at Science Commons, neither organization would exist today. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and another Creative Commons board member, al... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...mation processing power of a decentralized network of hob- byists, amateurs, universities, businesses, volunteer groups, professionals, and retired ex... ...nment official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to use. The official was not o... ...e sold. Region 1 is the United States and Canada. Region 2 is Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and—bizarrely—Greenland. Region 3 is South... ...dence of net benefits and some cause for concern that the traditional role of universities in freely sup- plying knowledge is being undermined. David M...

...ll 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 copyright, patent,...

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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 ... ...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...ematician alive, and close down all of the mathematical Departments in all the Universities, and throw out all scientific data that has been collecte... ...n to understand anything scientifically. Then you can close down all of the Universities and all the Schools. Since they are all obsolete, and do ... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...lessly fighting and warring with their immediate neighbors: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and France, and Holland. Their addiction to beef and ale. The...

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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... ...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...t but I do. Being invited to speak around the world and teaching in major universities makes me feel that I am important to some people. But let‘s ge... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...ms does not put the average American at a very high level. While your top universities are the best in the world, studies show that many of your col... ...about the same time that Austria and France gave up their Catholicism and Wales gave up the Anglican religion. More recently Spain and Italy have gi...

...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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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...rince. At various times I redrafted a parallel dedication to the Prince of Wales, to the Emperor William, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper pro... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ... 54 The New Machiavelli existence correlated, the scholars went on to the universities and came back to teach the schools, to teach as they them- sel... ... convinced it is hopeless to think of reforming the old public schools and universities to meet the needs of a modern state, they send their roots too...

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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works Also Spelled Love and Freindship a Collection of Juvenile Writings

By: Jane Austen

...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ted me to give you. My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Op... ...hed my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Parents to my paternal roof in Wales. Our man- sion was situated in one of the most romantic parts of the... ...hools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night in Southampton. “Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid V... ...land; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.” “Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall n... ... having roasted Beef, Broiled Mut- ton, and Stewed Soup enough to last the new-married Couple through the Honey-moon, I had the mortifica- tion of fin... ...anvers with whom she became acquainted at Aber- deen (he was at one of the Universities there,) felt infi- nitely happier than in that of Matilda and ... ...een able to drive poor Henry from her remembrance. You ask me whether your new Mother in law is hand- some and amiable—I will now give you an exact de...

...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State U... ...y Trollope Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I WHO WILL BE THE NEW BISHOP? I n the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important ... ...y of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways—Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr Grantly, who had for many years filled the ... ...they only profess to do so, and sometimes not even that. You’ll have those universities of yours about your ears soon, if you don’t consent to take a ... ...e fact that Lord De Courcy was grand master of the ponies to the Prince of Wales, had not a chance with her. At first the little circlet of gold waver... ...ife. As long as promotion cometh from any hu- man source, whether north or south, east or west, will not such a claim as this hold good, in spite of a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The ...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ysentery and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head... ... like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from the little rooms are goi... ...stened sullenly to his talk with Miss Ramell, and saw only, as they say in Wales, with the front of my eyes, the small flat drawer that had, it seemed... ...ood lords (for the land is food) and mineral lords ruled its life, gave it Universities as one gave coins to a mendicant, and spent its resources upon...

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

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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 English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...a guinea a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life... ...d money he broke away entirely from his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ... mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met... ...were im- passioned, as being all (or nearly all) in early manhood. In most universities there is one single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twe... ...) iden- tified in an instant an old friend of mine whom I had known in the south for some years as the most masterly of mail- coachmen. He was the man...

...n have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...tribution of our assize towns, our cathedral towns, our sea-ports, and our universities, all so many recurring cen- tres of civility, it is not very e... ...past genera- tions, for connecting the provincial towns with the two royal universities of the land, this Manchester school was one; in addition to ot...

...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...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. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...struction of capital and a waste of the savings that are needed to finance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young m... ...test young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if... ...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...e, in which rents are to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyi... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ...s not give the full measure of the present occasion. All the other British universities are in a like case. And the schools which feed them have been ... ...And not a tithe of any of this war class of schoolboys will ever go to the universities now, not a tithe of the war class of undergraduates will ever ...

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The Life of John Sterling

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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania S... ... of all the scientific faculties he had;—very strange mystery indeed, this new arrival, and fresh deni- zen of our Universe: “Wull’t eat a-body?” said... ...- toration we find him again, safe, and as was natural, flour- ishing with new splendor; gifted, recompensed with lands;—settled, in short, on fair re... ...e or bigger hills, in the pleasant plain of Glamorgan; a short mile to the south of Cowbridge, to which smart little town it is properly a kind of sub... ...ange of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it... ...ually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far of... ... the house might have fallen among robbers in his way homeward. CHAPTER IV UNIVERSITIES: GLASGOW; CAMBRIDGE At a later stage, John had some instructio... ...or him. In this point, as the learned Huber has insisted,* the two English Universities,—their studies oth- erwise being granted to be nearly useless,...

...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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The Bickerstaff- Partridge Papers

By: Jonathan Swift

...harge 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... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift , the Pen... ... other abuses of this art, too tedious to repeat, I resolved to proceed in a new way, which I doubt not will be to the general satisfaction of the kin... ...ll not be quieted in some months. On the 15th will be a violent storm on the south-east coast of France, which will destroy many of their ships, and s... ...will be the cause of mighty turns and revolutions in the following year. The new King makes yet little change either in the army or the ministry; but ... ...ledge be ever advanced? I wish Mr. Partridge knew the thoughts which foreign universities have conceived of his ungenerous proceedings with me; but I ... ...t brother. v Yonge Symnele, etc. By Symnele is meant the pretended Prince of Wales, who, if he offers to attempt anything against England, shall misca...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...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. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...ep: his hat was in the hall: there was a hackney-coach standing hard by in Southampton Row. “I’ll go and see the Forty Thieves,” said he, “and Miss De... ...the young 60 V anity Fair ladies in Russell Square. As George walked down Southampton Row, from Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion,... ... as after the heaven-born minister; and Rawdon Crawley, from the Prince of Wales’s friend, whom his Majesty George IV forgot so completely. Many years... ...use, and to figure for a short time in the splendid Court of the Prince of Wales. Fox had toasted her. Morris and Sheridan had written songs about her... ...r and private pedagogue who “prepared young noblemen and gentlemen for the Universities, the senate, and the learned pro- fessions: whose system did n...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...ge 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 docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...lish—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; an... ...s, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousa... ...is about the easiest thing to draw. By the time you have drawn twenty one wales and written “William I.—1066 1087—twenty one years” twenty one times... ...lborough House they saw a crowd gathering and were told that the Prince of Wales was about to drive out, so they stopped to get a sight Mark T wain 1... ... Meloria, Zutphen. The highest peaks of the Karakorum range. The number of universities in Prussia. Why are the tops of mountains continually covered ...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...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. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... the infinitely little while threading his way to a haberdasher’s shop for new white waistcoats. Under the shadow of the rep- resentative statue of Ci... ...,’ exclaimed Mr. Radnor. ‘He informed me that Mrs. Burman has heard of the new mansion.’ ‘My place at Lakelands?’ Mr. Radnor’s clear-water eyes harden... ...ld like to think of the lengthened tide-flux of pedestrian citizens facing South-westward, as being drawn by devout attraction to our nourishing lumin... ...t the taint of gambling, a beneficent speculator. The Montgomery colony in South Af- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- w... ...hey are called, can’t and won’t forgive injuries; look at Ireland, look at Wales, and the Keltic Scot. Have you heard them talk? It happened in the ye... ...so is a concurrent. And not only is he the chosen by election of the chief Universities of his land, he has behind him, as Athene dilating Achilles, t...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ...eatedly re- turned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one ... ...t fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmon or Cader Idris in Wales, like Skiddaw or Helvellyn in England, constitutes a central object o... ...the public is here represented by the great endowed libraries of the seven universities, the British Museum,” &c., &c. But prima facie, this was that ... ...- gland,—they are compelled to throw the duties of such schools upon their universities; and consequently you see boys of thirteen and fourteen, or ev...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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