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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

... things quite so much his own way as either of them. But his power is very great, notwithstanding; and the dignity of his office is never impaired by ... ... the woman out. Her previous admiration of ‘the board’ (who all sit behind great books, and with their hats on) fades into nothing before her respect ... ...ost. He speculated again and won—but never got his money. His talents were great; his disposition, easy, generous and liberal. His friends profited by... ...the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner. The greater part of these are presents from little girls whose parents live in ... ... periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a greater distance th... ...eaps from stone to stone, and from crag to crag; he lingers in the fertile plains of a land of perpetual sunshine, and revels in the luxury of their b...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

... things quite so much his own way as either of them. But his power is very great, notwithstanding; and the dignity of his office is never impaired by ... ... the woman out. Her previous admiration of ‘the board’ (who all sit behind great books, and with their hats on) fades into nothing before her respect ... ...ost. He speculated again and won—but never got his money. His talents were great; his disposition, easy, generous and liberal. His friends profited by... ...the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner. The greater part of these are presents from little girls whose parents live in ... ... periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a greater distance th... ...eaps from stone to stone, and from crag to crag; he lingers in the fertile plains of a land of perpetual sunshine, and revels in the luxury of their b... .... ‘Man,’ replied Horatio, ‘man, whether he ranged the bright, gay, flowery plains of a second Eden, or the more sterile, barren, and I may say, common...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...f irrigation, pesticides and fertilizers, and transformed the northwestern plains into India‘s breadbasket. Between 1968 and 1998, the production of ... ...of the entire Sub-Saharan population. ―Global income inequality is greater now than it has been in modern times. The richest one percent of t... ...e system, has resulted in a number of high class wealthy people and a far greater number of uneducated and impoverished people. A third of the world... ... the advanced medical knowledge of the Indian medical community they do a great deal of research in medicine and in the pharmaceutical fields. They ... ... much more elsewhere. ―India‘s progress is not universal. There is great progress for its educated citizens and almost no progress in the nea... ...s to compare itself to China as an important emerging market, but China's great economic advances have been built on a solid work force that is bett...

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...” The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance. Tabaqui, beh... ...m, was squeaking: “My lord, my lord, it went in here!” “Shere Khan does us great honor,” said Father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry. “What does Sh... ...red with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide. Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cun- ning, lay o... ... jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scr... ...kal and the Hyaena whom we hate.” But Mowgli, as a man-cub, had to learn a great deal more than this. Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come ... ...t this nonsense ends safely. Next week the catching is over, and we of the plains are sent back to our stations. Then we will march on smooth roads, a... ... ones to prevent them giving too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had b... ... stuff at least. ’Tis a pity to send that young jungle-cock to molt in the plains.” Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who l... ... Pudmini’s back and said, “What is that? I did not know of a man among the plains-driv- ers who had wit enough to rope even a dead elephant.” “This is...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...y cannot tell me any thing, to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried... ...l constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes ... ...ing of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be. The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be ba... ...eat; but with an excess of these, or of Fuel, that is, with an external heat greater than our own internal, may not cookery properly be said to begin?... ...too warm, these naked sav ages, who were farther off, were observed, to his great surprise, “to be streaming with perspiration at undergoing such a r... ... a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools ... ...se, and take care that this does not spread by contagion. From what southern plains comes up the voice of wailing? Under what latitudes reside the hea... ...ords, and is surrounded to the distance of three hundred miles by cultivated plains.” In this town the price of wood rises almost steadily, and the on... ...discriminating ear, there were in it the elements of a concord such as these plains never saw nor heard. I also heard the whooping of the ice in the p...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...ang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * B... ...e Asian Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or areAsian cultures stronger, are they able to choose their f... ...er way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, when the environme... ...cerned, when the environment and society were wholly recreated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked th... ...ove on to the post-oil era, and societies will be faced possibly with even greater structural change than the post-war one. In today's scientific-tech... ...ultural hierarchy becomes globalized, too. In a transnational economy, the greatest importance in the consciousness industry or the rankings of news p... ...The second village, Ban Mae Kong Nya, might be described as a medium-sized plains village, located on a tributary river plain more distant from the ci... ...llagers' increased ownership of consumer goods. The inhabitants of Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are ... ...try's distant northern mountains and flows through Chiang Mai and Lamphun plains. Mae Ping is the country's major western river. In Central Thailand,...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...en being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily a... ...ed and fifty saw mills on the Penobscot and its tributaries above Bangor, the greater part of them in this immediate neighborhood, and they sawed two h... ...inward are of the clearest and widest white pine stuff, of which there is a great waste on account of their form, for the bottom is left perfectly fla... ... a moment to see a fish hawk dive for a fish down straight as an arrow, from a great height, but he missed his prey this time. It 4 The Maine Woods was... ... repair, as almost any you will find anywhere. Everywhere we saw signs of the great freshet, — this house standing awry, and that where it was not foun... ...try of nature would anon work up, or work down, into the smiling and verdant plains and valleys of earth. This was an undone extremity of the globe; a... ...re is less of substantial thought and fair understanding in him, than in the plains where men inhabit. His reason is dispersed and shadowy, more thin ... ...lfers him of some of his divine faculty. She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, why came ye here before your time? This... ...ght to the earth as on a lake, he clears off the forest on the hillsides and plains, and sprinkles fine grass seed, like an enchanter, and so carpets t...

...ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the circumstance of a gang of men being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of t...

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The Polynesian Family System in Ka'U, Hawai'I

By: E. S. Craighill Handy

...en before the high chief kamehameha conquered the other islands and formed a united kingdom in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This truly great warrior, diplomat and ruler was born in kohala, but was reared, trained and toughened for his mission in ka-u, the southern and most rugged district of hawaii, where his mother, the high chieftainess kekui-a-poiwa, isol...

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