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Excerpt: Emma Woodhouse. Handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her....

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Excerpt: Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson.

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Excerpt: Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of ?German Ocean.? And through the wide windows we had a view of the Thames; an enfilading view down the Lower Hope Reach. But the dinner was execrable, and all the feast was for the eyes....

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Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Contents WHAT IS MAN? ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ................................................................................................................... 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK ......................................................................................................... 95 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION............................................................................................................... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY...................................................................................................................... 118 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY ................................................................................................ 125 AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER ....................................................................

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Excerpt: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill.

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Contents PREFACE........................................................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ........................................................................................................5 ESSAY II: Of the Influence of Consumption on Production ......................39 ESSAY III: On the Words Productive and Unproductive ............................60 ESSAY IV: On Profits, and Interest .............................................................71 ESSAY V: On the Definition of Political Economy; and on the Method of Investigation Proper to It...........................................................................93...

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Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order....

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Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 170 -- Book III?Waiting For Death., 183 -- Chapter XXIII., 183 -- Chapter XXIV., 192...

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Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one Man being scarce capable of a greater Variety. The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to which wise Men always apply them (viz.) to the Instruction of others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And however thinks, because all such things are dispatch?d, that the Improvement of it, as well to the Diversion, as to the Instruction of the Reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without father Compliment to the World, he does them a great Service in the Publication....

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Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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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 under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to republish so considerable an amount of copy....

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Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS........... 84 CHAPTER V ? YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO..................................................................................... 107 CHAPTER VI ? FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER.........117 CHAPTER VII ? CHARLES OF ORLEANS ............................................................................ 141 CHAPTER VIII ? SAMUEL PEPYS .......................................................................................... 170 CHAPTER IX ? JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190...

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Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been wronged....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of...

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Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 14 CHAPTER III: OLD MORTALITY .................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER IV: A COLLEGE MAGAZINE ...................................................................................... 28 CHAPTER V: AN OLD SCOTCH GARDENER ............................................................................. 36 CHAPTER VI: PASTORAL .............................................................................................................. 41 CHAPTER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ....................

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Excerpt: Welcome to the fifth volume of 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 each fall semester to the widest audience possible. Our students have important stories to tell and powerful voices to be heard. The students who read these essays will learn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice....

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Contents How to Use This Magazine .............................................................................................................. 3 High School to College Andrew Makhoul ........................................................................................ 4 Ignoring Problems Creates More! Ashley Morris................................................................................ 5 Hang in There Brad Hart ................................................................................................................. 6 Nate Brandi Saveri ........................................................................................................................... 7 The Best Birthday Is the Sixteenth Brent Heimbach ......................................................................... 9 Sharing the Bread of Angels Christa Sist ......................................................................................... 10 Tragedy in the Night Danielle Gehman .......................................................................................... 11 My Grandfather David Smith ..............................................

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Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....

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Se confunda adesea paradoxul cu exercl- siul plat si plicticos al reabilitarii truismelor. Nu se poate nega fapsll ca pentru a intoarce 10- curile comune isl trebule curaj.Nimic mai rlscant decit a lucra cu banalltatea.si totuGi,paradoxul bine facut atinge pragul filosoflel.Devine 0 forrna penetranta de cllnoastere.Valoarea de excep1tie a paradoxului care di unor acte aparent insignifiante un sens Ildinc !;Ii revelator a fost intuita de Alexandru Paleologu : "Paradoxul e 0 alarmS. a inteligentel,un contact inedit cu adevarul n....

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Problemes Distrayants. 5 – Arithetique. 16 – Logique: Athekatique. 39 – Trigonometrie. 42 – Geometrie. 48 – Analyse. 68 – Algebre. 84 --

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Aim of this book is to present basic mathematics that is needed by computer scientists The reader is not expected to be a mathematician and we hope you will find what follows to be useful....

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Teoria Analitics a Numerelor reprezents pentru mine 0 pasiune. Rezultatele expuse mai departe constituie rodul catorva ani buni de cercetsri si csutsri. Lucrarea de fass se compune din 9 articole, publicate toate prin reviste de matematics romanesti sau strsine, iar unele prezentate chiar la congrese si conferinse nasionale cat si internasionale [vezi "Lista publicasiilor autorului pe tema tezei"). Ea se structureazs in patru capitole: - in primele trei capi tole se introduc noi funsii in teoria numerelor, se studiazs proprietssile lor, probleme nerezol vate legate de ele, implicasii in lumea stiinsific! internasional! (ce alsi matematicieni au abordat nosiunile acestea), conexisi cu alte funcsii bine stiute, importansa rezultatelor obsinute: - in ul timul capitol se aduc contribusii la studierea unei- funsii cunoscute in teoria numerelor (totient sau phi a lui Euler), in principal referitoare la conjectura lui carmichael. [Exist! referinse particulare dup! fiecare paraqraf (articol), iar referinse generale in finalul tezei.)...

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Ne bucuram exprimAnd mult-umirile noast.re f'at-a de t.ot-i acei.cunescut- i sau mai put-in cunoscut-i.care de-a Iungul aniler ne-au ajut.at. sa ajungem la aceast.a cart.e.Sunt. mult-i.sunt. f'oart.e mult-i cei care ne-au ajut.at. ... Unii ne-au dat. sugest.ii.alsii ne-au oferit. idei. uneori ne-am st.raduit. impreunA sa descif'ram un amanunt. nelamurit.. alleori Invst-am din Int.rebarile mest.esugit.e sau poale chiar naive ale inlerloculorilor nost.rii:...

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Mi-a sosit, de curand, cu po~ta aeriana, 0 carte din Amcrica. Era expcdiata de Florentin Smarandache, din Phoenix. Arizona. un valcean de-al nostru din Balce~ti, fugit Inainte de revolutic prin Turcia ~i "aclimatizat" In Statele Unite. Cinc e Florentin Smarandache: profesor de matematica, aut or a peste cincisprczece volume. poet. initiator al curentului paradoxise acum cercetator la Corporatia de computere Honeywell. Arizona. L-am cunoscut bine pe acest domn In perioada studentiei, cand incerca sa publice la revista studentcasca pe care 0 conduceam, tot felul de jocuri matematice. pe care nici nu Ie Intelegeam, nici nu Ie gustam, dar pe care Ie-am publicae in final. de dragul omului....

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In 1996 the author wrote reviews for "Zentralblatt fUr Mathematik" for books [11 and [21 and this was him first contact of with the Smarandache's problems. In [1] Florentin Smarandache formulated 105 unsolved problems, while in [21 C. Dumitrescu and V. Seleacu formulated 140 unsolved problems. The second book contains almost all problems from [11, but now everyone problem has unique number and by this reason the author will use the numeration of the problems from [2]. Also, in [2] there are some problems, which are not included in [1]. On the other hane, there are problems from [1], which are not included in [2]. One of them is Problem 62 from [1], which is included here under the same number. In the summer of 1998 the author found the books in his library and for a first time tried to solve a problem from them. After some attempts one of the problems was solved and this was a power impulse for the next research. In the present book are collected the 27 problems solved by the middle of February 1999....

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Preface 5 -- 1. On The 4-Th Smarandache's Problem 7 -- 2. On The 16-Th Smarandache's Problem 12 -- 3. On The 22-Nd, The 23-Rd, And The 24th -- Smarandache's Problems 16 -- 4. On The 37-Th And The 38th -- Smarandache's Problems 22 -- 5. On The 39-Th, The 40-Th, The 41st, And -- The 42-Nd Smarandache's Problems 27 -- 6. On The 43-Rd And 44-Th Smarandache's -- Problems 33 -- 7. On The 61-St, The 62-Nd, And The 63red -- Smarandache's Problems 38 -- 8. On The 97-Th, The 98-Th, And The 99th -- Smarandache's Problems 50 -- 9. On The 100-Th, The 101-St, And The 102nd -- Smarandache's Problems 57 -- 10. On The Ll7-Th Smarandache's Problem 62 -- Ll. On The Ll8-Th Smarandache's Problem 64 -- 12. On The 125-Th Smarandache's Problem 66 -- 13. On The I26-Th Smarandache's Problem 68 -- 14. On The 62-Nd Smarandache's Problem 71 -- Is. Conclusion 74 -- 16. Appendix 76 -- References 83 -- Curriculum Vitae Of K. Atanassov 86 --...