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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...ence of the sublimest spectacle the eye of man can behold; he is surrounded by mystery and awe. The boundless extent, the unfathomable depth of the oc... ...ed to the finger, the door rolled back and disclosed a large chest. Here was a mystery; the great box of heavy oak was securely locked, and no key cou... ...ts, commissions, letters, reports, maps were drawn forth to the light, and the mystery was solved, for here were full accounts of all the naval enterp...

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...e of a work of art is not based on carbon chemistry. How this happens is a mystery, but we know this is true. The answer to the question "is it pos... ...ork of art. Dante Alighieri will no longer be enough for you, nor will the writers of science fiction. 24 The Eastern way of thinking that affirms... ...eliminates in one fell swoop the art of reconciliation of opposites and the mystery of Life. Secondly, it eliminates the meaning of pain and its impo... ...cal to another. Every crystal of snow has a unique, unrepeatable shape. An American photographer named Bentley took pictures of more than six thousa... ... Scientists study what laws govern this phenomenon, but they remain a deep mystery. * Here we are ...

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...ative to an Earth-bound laboratory or to the sun or to anything remains a mystery. The first manned starship under phase one of the grand experiment... ...e itself not attempting to exceed lightspeed - would help to resolve that mystery. The slowing of certain kinds of clocks under increased gravitat... ...ollow that it is always physically effective. Twentieth-century science writers have generally followed Einstein's reality view; however, Rosser w... ...s the way it would happen. The Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Europeans and Americans all wanted to be first to reach another star; and a healthy, fie... ...ngOnline.com at: http://www.publishingonline.com/en/catalog/book.jhtml?id=americanR-motta- proceed\ingsOTSIC&_requestid=313. [7] Editors, Ad Astra...

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...lve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored." J. S. Bell, ... ...the dual equivalent of weakly interacting five-branes (solitons) (Duff, Scientific American, February 1998). Later, a duality between solitonic and... ...nducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent ... ...e Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published... ...unts to our sense of wonder and restored proportion in the face of this humungous mystery that is our home: the Universe. Read Note about Parapsy... ...olve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored. " J. S. Bell, S... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess. " Anna F reud Towards the end of the 19th...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...d there is no visi- ble ocean, then, still, still it communes, insinuating mystery, legends from caves, legends stronger than any coral, barracuda an...

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...he cosmos had not placed this aspiration within us. The immortality that writers and poets attributed to the Olympian gods is a false immortality ... ...hose adepts also aimed at achieving immortality – have remained veiled in mystery and their secret rites died along with the death of their adepts,... ... we never know why this happened. The reason for this is surrounded by the mystery of a god who never revealed to patient Job why he had to undergo ... ... to face many trials as well. The reason behind these many trials is not a mystery; it is described in detail throughout whole Odyssey. One must onl... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...ere the case, the return, the greatly proclaimed “nostos” of the poets and writers, would have been concluded here. 118 Homer is not thinking ... ...ant to make sure that my readers do not forget about it, as do many of the writers who speak of Ulysses and mention only his deceit and his manipula...

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... DESPRE PARADOAXE Mie totdeauna mi-au pl ăcut paradoaxele. Mai ales alea americane. C ă la şcoal ă înv ăţam c ă americanii se drogheaz ă şi se î... ...neva m ă întreba ce vreau s ă m ă fac când cresc mare îi spuneam pe loc: – American, nenea! – Şi cum treci oceanul? – Cu autostopul. C ă ştiam... ...tra immaginazione puo’ fiorire come un cactus nel deserto. Ma, il manifesto Americano del Paradossismo e’ in particolare, una rivolta degli emigran... ...does all this so right and she doesn’t give a damn about the slyboots script-writers, narrow-minded and with pockets full of money. How big is the s... ...n them and enveloped them in contradiction. And in that gray area of grainy mystery, the shifting line of teacher and student grew shadier as well....

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...Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father)....

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...Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father)....

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...olute and bad, the thing remains a frightful American Notes – Dickens 91 mystery. Between the criminal and them, the prison— wall is interposed as a... ... man upon the left —whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that makes him tremble. The weary days pass on with solemn pace, li... ...ed solemnly upon the water; and the gloom of evening gave to all an air of mystery and si lence which greatly enhanced its natural interest. We cross... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...as she knelt there, that never had he seen how lovely and how charged with mystery her features were; the dark large eyes full on the brows; the proud... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...struck at walls, as in complete obscurity. 232 Diana of the Crossways The mystery of her conduct troubling his wits for the many hours was explained ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec... ...e that it sleeps!’ Diana said. ‘The sacrilegious hand to strip you of your mystery is with- ered as it stretches,’ exclaimed Westlake. ‘The sage and t...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...ts with a vague and not unpleasant idea that they teemed with all kinds of mystery and bedevilment. To one of his quiet habits this little delusion wa... ... find an echo in the depth of every ancient tomb, no less than in the deep mystery of his own heart. Great thoughts and hopes came crowding on his min... ...run away in our absence. We leave you in charge of everything. There is no mystery; all is free and open. Unlike the young man in the Eastern tale—who... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...or of quackery about him; but by no means of an ordi nary kind. A sort of mystery—yet which, perhaps, need not have been a mystery, had any one thoug... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... .... Where the child got the tenderness that a child needs to live upon, is a mystery to me; perhaps from some aged or dead mother, or in her dreams; per... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...or healthfulness, at his age; the peculiarity of his situation, a child of mystery, with certain reaches and vistas that seemed to promise a bright so...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Boscombe Valley Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Five Orange ... ... hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. “This is indeed a mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?” “I have no d... ..., as I told you she would.” “I am still in the dark.” “I do not wish to make a mystery,” said he, laughing. “The matter was per fectly simple. You, o... ... apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire. Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his way... ...e answered. ‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do... ...push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.” “Indeed, your example is an u... ...certainly to muster all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the American Encyclopaedia which stands upon the shelf beside you. Thank yo...

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...In fact, I remember the placid exaltation with which took up my position on the forward upper deck, directly beneath the pilot-house, and allowed the mystery of the fog to lay hold of my imagination. A fresh breeze was blowing, and for a time I was alone in the moist obscurity--yet not alone, for I was dimly conscious of the presence of the pilot, and of what I took to be ...

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...n on the forward upper deck, directly beneath the pilot house, and allowed the mystery of the fog to lay hold of my imagination. A fresh breeze was bl... ...a few particular things, such as, for instance, the analysis of Poe’s place in American literature — an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atla... ... fog. And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the gray shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes... ...elish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamoring an... ...ented, and I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in two large volu... ...ife I experienced the desire to murder — “saw red,” as some of our picturesque writers phrase it. Life in general might still be sacred, but life in t... ...as you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one, Kelly, an Irish American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat pull... ... never comprehended the deeper significance of such a situation — the thing the writers harped upon and exploited so thoroughly. And here it was, now, ...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...bly buried fathoms deep in the mud, and their names will no doubt remain a mystery to the latest ages. They were brought thither, I presume, by the ap... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...shall have decided on her fate. I have never been quite able to fathom the mystery of these delays. I think they must have originated in the necessity... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...s of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until the most obscure mystery of all is reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England pres... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ...t on the part of landlord, lawyer and investor to resume the old political mystery dance, in which rents are to be sent up and wages down, while the o... ...e of mediae- val bickerings, traditionalism, and State blindness. They are mystery dealers, almost unanimously they have resisted giv- ing the common ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...ove, grief, religion—are haunters of solitary places. Love, grief, and the mystery of devotion,—what were these without solitude? All day long, when i... ...ith all time and all space, an Aeonian smile of gracious love and Pan-like mystery, the most diffu- sive and pathetically divine that the hand of man ... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...hatever. And I well knew, that almost all nations believed in the dreadful mystery of the evil eye; some requiring, as a condition of the evil agency,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the mystery which invested the murders; mystery as to various points but especi... ...here- fore, reason enough, both in the man’s hellish character, and in the mystery which surrounded him, for a Postscript* to the original paper; sinc... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...eur to this miracle which we all daily be- hold; namely, the inconceivable mystery of having written and sculptured upon the tablets of man’s heart a ... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al...

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...we are not so sure of. And the process of election to the chief power is a mystery. Certain provinces have in their gift certain high titles, or names... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...arola, professed to have seen and spoken with him. Here again the needless mystery affected by the Germans bitterly disserved them. The uncertainty wh... ...ciety, and applying it to another, of 134 A Footnote to History which the writers know less than nothing, and no European knows much. Several interpr...