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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ngla of Snorre T urlleson, the most famous Icelandic author of the twelfth century! It is the chronicle of the Norwegian princes who ruled in Iceland.... ... his nephew to un- dertake the most wonderful expedition of the nineteenth century. 12 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth [Runic glyphs occur her... ...rlleson’s book, and which was only added to the alphabet in the fourteenth century. Therefore there are two hundred years between the manu- script and... ...f Babylon or the wonders of Greece. I had heard of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal’s Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never ... ...ly carrying us to very great depths indeed. Four days later, Saturday, the 18th of July, in the evening, we arrived at a kind of vast grotto; and here...

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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

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... regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

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 French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...er of dead dogs. Swiss Claviere could found no Socinian Genevese Colony in Ireland; but he paused, years ago, prophetic be- fore the Minister’s Hotel ... ...ccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men, and of the Eighteenth Century; but your mag- netic vellum forbids us so to interpret. Say, are ye... ...raculous Seven-sleeper might, with miracle enough, wake sooner: not by the century, or seven years, need he sleep; often not by the seven months. Fanc... ...s, you have a right to life, as good as Louis XVI., or the happiest of the century. What man can say he has a right to dine, when you have no bread?’ ... ...Feuillant Club. This latter, high as it once carried its head, she, on the 18th of February, has the satisfaction to see shut, extinct; Patriots havin... ...and follow Lafayette to Paris; they will rise and send him thither! On the 18th, which is but next Saturday, Lafayette, with some two or three indigna...

... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features 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 a...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ... my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9... .... The world is less globalized today than it was at the beginning of the century. Job tenure has not declined (in the first 8 years of every job) an... .... Pure system USA maintained its low rate of 4-5% during the same quarter century. These opposing moves cannot be attributed to monetary or fiscal p... ...the national median household income. In the UK the figure is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in ... ...ot so. By many measures, the world is less globalized today than it was a century ago. Contrary to popular perceptions, job tenure (in the first 8 y... ...s less than half the national median. (In the UK the figure is 10% and in Ireland – 3%). Over a 5-year period, only 25% of low paid Americans are in... ...mployees, and government, proposed by its Chairman, Klaus Zwickel, in its 18th convention in 1995, went nowhere effective, though it was signed by a...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERI... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah'... ...out spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman... ...ate millions whose power he had no means of knowing, Cortez left Havana on the 18th of February, 1519, for the shores of Yucatan. IN THE IDOL TEMPLES ... ...s, the smoke from whose numerous fires was seen rising above the trees. On the 18th of December, Tasman came before the entrance of a promising harbor... ...trait of Magellan, also fell a sacrifice to the dire demands of hunger. On the 18th of June, nine or ten more islands were discovered, which number wa...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... introduces insoluble contradictions into the theory and practice of late twentieth century anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivial... ...- this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in the last two decades of the past century. Privatization, deregulation, and self-regulation becam... ...t missionary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Na... ...niches and different genes - even mutated ones - may fit different niches. In the 18th century most peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, i... ...d the downfall of this meteoric latecomer - we must look elsewhere, to the 17th and 18th century. Friendship What are friends for and how can a f... ...tood inventor working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematica...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... introduces insoluble contradictions into the theory and practice of late twentieth century anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivial... ...- this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in the last two decades of the past century. Privatization, deregulation, and self-regulation becam... ...t missionary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Na... ...niches and different genes - even mutated ones - may fit different niches. In the 18th century most peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, i... ...d the downfall of this meteoric latecomer - we must look elsewhere, to the 17th and 18th century. Friendship What are friends for and how can a f... ...tood inventor working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematica...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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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 ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...mply the latest in a series of networks which revolutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the... ... markets in the USA in 1983. The number in 1995 was 18. At the end of the century they will number 6. This is the stage when companies - fighting f... ...routinely farmed out to aspiring first world countries such as Israel and Ireland. But OverDrive's Jamaican facility is an example of something more... ...ication system successfully used in non-virtual libraries for more than a century. Books - both print and electronic - (actually, their publishers) ... ...alesced to form the modern printing press - printed books in the 17th and 18th centuries were derided by their contemporaries as inferior to their l... ...brary were two additional reactions to increasing demand. As early as the 18th century, publishers and booksellers expressed the fear that libraries...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html... ...issance. Assets tend to accumulate in "asset stocks". Residences built in the 19th century still serve their purpose today. The quantity of new ass... ...ert Barsky and Bradford De Long and titled "Bull and Bear Markets in the Twentieth Century": "Major bull and bear markets were driven by shifts in ... ...ectations of average dividend growth plausibly lie behind the major swings of this century." Jude Waninski attributes the crash to the disintegrati... ...in far outpaces the United States and Italy (65% rise since 1997), it falls behind Ireland (179%) and South Africa (195%). It is in league with Aus... ... and oil skyrocketed; and as real estate bubbles burst in countries like Spain and Ireland. Additionally, European banks were heavily leveraged and... ...re. This is surprising. Auctions are nothing new. The notorious slave fairs of the 18th and 19th century were auction markets. Similar bazaars exis...

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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... ...27 Requesters outside the US Government may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service ... ...8 Hungary 110 iv Page Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy... ...ndary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild winters and ... ...ndary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; Gulf Stream influ- ence; mild, windy ... ... heavenly way), eclectic religion with nationalist overtones founded in 19th century, claims about 1.5 million adher- ents Language: Korean; English w... ...Island (continued) Norway Language: English (official); Norfolk a mixture of 18th Century English and ancient Tahitian Literacy: probably high Governm... ...d (continued) Norway Language: English (official); Norfolk a mixture of 18th Century English and ancient Tahitian Literacy: probably high Government O...

...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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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XV... ... and located in tax friendly climes such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Ireland, and in the USA: Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii. Comp... ...tood inventor working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematic... ...inventor working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematically ... ...ent weeding-out of unfit solutions by the marketplace. "... Technology in the 21st century is going to be less about discovering new phenomena and ... ...herefore, equal treatment is not self evident. European aristocracy well into this century would have probably found this notion abhorrent. Jose Or...

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Irish Wit and Humor

By: Anonymous

...Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poignant in addition to being humorous and for others they may be humorous in addition to being poignant. ( Summary by JCarson )...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... 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... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...cause the copyright term is now so long, in many cases extending well over a century, most of twentieth-century culture is still under copyright— copy... ...o pay. Yet this still leaves a huge proportion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture commercially unavailable but under copyright. In the case... ...e history of recorded music. Long enough to lock up almost all of twentieth- century culture. But is that not what copyright is supposed to do? To gra... ...d have been to confiscate farms, ropewalks and other forms of property in the 18th century.” Poor Jefferson. How lucky we are to have Mr. Helprin to re... ...imes wrote a story on it, setting the practice in historical context. In the 18th century, songwriters responded to current events by writing new lyri... ...d the government sites of individual countries in the European Union such as Ireland (- http://www.psi.gov.ie/). 10. Andrew Gowers, Gowers Review of I...

...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 Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

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 Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...E ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .............................. ... the same whom you had lost sight of. Never, through the course of a whole century, could there be a night expected more propitious to an escaping cri... ...GHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Y Y Y Y IN THE PERSON of this Mr. Schlosser is exemplified a com- m... ...as to the copper coinage, and of the imaginary wrong which it inflicted on Ireland. Of all Swift’s villainies for the sake of popularity, and still mo... ... This digni- tary of the church, Dean of the most conspicuous cathedral in Ireland, had, in full canonicals, made himself into a regu- lar mountebank,... ...beria, and is the next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June, 1815. 13 E E E E Endnotes ndnotes ndnotes ndnotes ndnotes 1 ...

...................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................... 84 JUNIUS......................

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Miscellaneous Essays

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. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...s—(by which we, that speak with precision, mean, par excellence, the tenth century, and the times immediately before and after)—these ages ought natur... ...ssassinations, which has prevailed from an early period of the seventeenth century, that really does surprise me; I mean the assassination of phi- los... ...of showing my own learning. The first great philosopher of the seventeenth century (if we except Galileo) was Des Cartes; and if ever one could say of... ...s and every one of the three following rounds, I floored the baker. “Round 18th. The baker came up piping, and manifestly the worse for wear. His geom... ...nciple, vitiate every Irish murder. Gentle- men, this must be reformed, or Ireland will not be a land to live in; at least, if we do live there, we mu... ...as anybody heard lately of Hare? I understand he is comfortably settled in Ireland, considerably to the west, and does a little business now and then;...

...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...ch allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...fter civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, their Celts ancestors had laid the Indo-European seedbed for the ... ...HISTORIC Adam’s apple Hunter-gatherers Homo sapiens dominates earth 18TH CENTURY BC Pictograph, logographic, syllabic First City-States Mes... ...lish King Richard national icon Sun Never Sets on the British Empire 18TH CENTURY Democracy blossoms 19TH and 20TH CENTURIES Linotype and D...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper us... ...offset by carbon credits. is part of This special edition of was produced in cooperation with the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee. PUBLISHER David ... ...waii Business at store.pacifcbasin.net To keep informed about Innovation in Hawai‘i, email innovation@hawaiibusiness.com Or visit hawaiibusiness.c... ...e on imported oil and create an expansive economy that will advance 21st century power generation, distribution, energy consumption and conservatio... ...a Plan will create a cleantech sector which will provide sustainable 21st century jobs. Additionally, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan supports STEAM (Science, Te... ...e on imported oil and create an expansive economy that will advance 21st century power generation, distribution, energy consumption and conservatio... ...any • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • Japan Jordan • Kazakhstan • Kenya • ... ...he 17th Century, Hawai‘i was a bustling center of Pacifc commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sailing ships from around the world stopped in t...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...cean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Place for Global Meetings -- 78 Checklist for Your Next Conference -- 82 Sustainability, Harmony Built Into Hawaiian Culture -- 86 What A...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN 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 myse... ... neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands ... ... England, which is the great workhouse of the world. Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the ... ...ther’s day. Among the rest was a dried tapeworm. And now, after lying half a century in his garret and other dust holes, these things were not burned;... ... let “our church” go by the board. We boast that we belong to the nineteenth century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider... ...nt than any other equal sum raised in the town. If we live in the nineteenth century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the nineteenth cent... ...o a captain, town clerk, and representative, I find the following entry. Jan. 18th, 1742 3, “John Melven Cr. by 1 Grey Fox 0 — 2 — 3;” they are not now... ...h of March; in ’47, the 8th of April; in ’51, the 28th of March; in ’52, the 18th of April; in ’53, the 23d of March; in ’54, about the 7th of April. ...

...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 labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

... -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...ngland, which is the great workhouse of the world. Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the ma... ...er’s day. Among the rest was a dried tapeworm. And now, after lying half a century in his garret and other dust holes, these things were not burned; i... ... “our church” go by the board. We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider h... ... than any other equal sum raised in the town. If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nine teenth Cent... ... captain, town clerk, and representative, I find the following entry. Jan. 18th, 1742 3, “John Melven Cr. by 1 Grey Fox 0 2 3"; they are not now found... ...of March; in ’47, the 8th of April; in ’51, the 28th of March; in ’52, the 18th of April; in ’53, the 23d of March; in ’54, about the 7th of April. ...

Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

............................................................................................................................................. 113 A DEAL IN COTTON .................................................................................................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ..............................................

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History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 14)

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay

...This is volume 3 chapter 14 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959 in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine righ...

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History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 15)

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay

...This is volume 3 chapter 15 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959 in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine righ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...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... ...Sir Francis Esmond to the dignity of Vis- count Castlewood, of Shandon, in Ireland: and the Viscount’s estate being much impoverished by loans to the ... ...r clear- ness’ sake, be explained here. The Prince of Orange being gone to Ireland, where the King was ready to meet him with a great army, it was det... ...inckel; and, these overthrown, and their indomitable little master away in Ireland, ’twas thought that our side might move on London itself, and a con... ...ve to advance his fortune that way. ’Twas in the first year of the present century, Mr. Esmond (as far as he knew the period of his birth) being then ... ... come without her ladyship, and be at his mother’s house about the 17th or 18th day of June, pro- posing to take horse from Paris immediately, and bri...

...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Your obliged friend and servant....

............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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