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...ary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It matter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or mem... ...en very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others ... ...l increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when usu- ally the bills are very moderate. The usual number of burial... ...the world. I had an elder brother at the same time in London, and not many years before come over from Portugal: and advising with him, his answer was... ...cially those who had been in the armies in the war which had not been many years past; and I must needs say that, speaking of second causes, had most ... ...ther places where he had been (for my brother, being a merchant, was a few years before, as I have already observed, returned from abroad, coming last...

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.... Job has been written and read; the tower of Siloam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing t... ...emperor and the gossip of country market women, the gradual decay of forty years of a man’s life and the gesture of a passionate moment. He finds him-... ...ic sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om Jones is laid in the year forty-five, and that the only use he makes of the rebellion is to thro... ...tter irony that the paper, on which all this depends, is left to float for years at the will of wind and tide. What, again, can be finer in conception... ...me and his father. That father, William Burnes, after having been for many years a gardener, took a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new coun... ...ich he set himself to supply the deficiency by his own influence. For many years he was their chief companion; he spoke with them seriously on all sub... ...rticular colour, wrapped in a particular manner round his shoulders.” T en years later, when a married man, the father of a family, a farmer, and an o... ...rthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in his twenty-eighth year changed it once more to Burns. It is plain that the last transformatio... ...ugh the fame of his associate. I think we can conceive him, in these early years, in that rough moorland country, poor among the poor with his seven p...

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...cation. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country,... ...ive me his Consent than force me to go without it; that I was now Eighteen Years old, which was too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an A... ... that was ever born: I can give no Consent to it. It was not till almost a Year after this that I broke loose, tho’ in the mean time I continued obsti... ..., noEnglishman, Irishman, or Scots man there but my self; so that For two Years, tho’ I often pleased my self with the Imagination, yet I never had t... ... the least encouraging Prospect of putting it in Practice. After about two Years an odd Circumstance presented it self, which put the old Thought of m... ...is Medium, that he would give the Boy an Obligation to set him free in ten Years, if he turn’d Christian; upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to... ... as his; and we rather planted for Food that any thing else, for about two Years. However, we began to increase, and our Land began to come into order... ...egan to increase, and our Land began to come into order; so that the third Year we planted some Tobacco, and made each of us a large Piece of Ground r... ...nd made each of us a large Piece of Ground ready for planting Canes in the Year to come; but we both wanted Help, and now I found more than before, I ...

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...d this out as soon as possible. What’s New When we began Best of Four five years ago, it was the intention of the English faculty on the Hazleton camp... ...eam was to play in the majors. The first time I played baseball, I was six years old. I remember being only as tall as the tee. No matter how hard I t... ...I remember my parents cheering me on and the crowd going wild. That entire year was exciting for me, and I learned how to play the game. T wo years pa... ...ion. At the completion of Little League, I chose to play for only one more year. I hated it, so I decided to quit, and I have not picked up a baseball... ...e was a popular student who was friendly to everyone. It was Nate’s senior year in high school, and he was a star wrestler on the varsity team. He was... ...st having some of what they thought was innocent fun before the end of the year. The high-pitched sound of police sirens arose from all directions. Th... ... Christmas tree. The decorations for the tree have been collected over the years. Most of the ornaments were made by family members and have unique se... ... WA S BROUGHT UP in a depressed town for most of my childhood and teenage years. When I became thirteen my mother discussed drinking with me and to... ...hen I drank alcohol for the first time. In my town, when we turned fifteen years of age, we are pressured by our peers to drink with everyone. However...

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... which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. In 1758, the year in which he ceases writing for the Almanac, he printed in it “Father... ... get leisure for study, having now acquired comparative wealth; and in a few years he had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned... ...t the influence of the Penns in the govern ment of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministr... ...had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew not (perhaps from the time when the na... ...at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time ... ...d by the then Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and... ...boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now live... ...cle must have left them here, when he went to America, which was about fifty years since. There are many of his notes in the margins. This obscure fam... ...ll occasional pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many years since. It was written in 1675, in the home spun verse of that time ...

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...onal misfortune that some of our most powerful journals have been for many years past very unfavorable exponents of English feeling on all subjects co... ...eings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years we sentence our most hardened criminals, but keeps its indignation to... ...l sign of the moral state of the American mind which has appeared for many years. That a sense of justice should be the motive which the rulers of a c... ...ed their votes, that the object of the 9 J S Mill fight was slavery. Many years ago, when General Jackson was President, South Carolina did nearly re... ...orld knows what the question between the North and South has been for many years, and still is. Slavery alone was thought of, alone talked of. Slavery... ...on cultivation, exclusively adhered to, exhausts in a mod erate number of years all the soils which are fit for it, and can only be kept up by travel... ...alm and dispassionate Mr. Olmsted affirms that there has not been a single year, for many years past, in which this horror is not known to have been p... ...to be done any longer. If this knowledge does not come to them for several years, the abolition question will by that time have settled itself. For as...

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...300 billion credit card transactions are expected to take place each year by 2018, creating 300 billion opportunities to understand customers better. Unfortunately, many banks remain ignorant of this wealth of information at their disposal, and they opt for mass marketing and costly above-the-...

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...tion cited in this study is divided into two primary categories, and focuses on accounts which have had little or no exposure over the last 80 to 150 years or more....

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...ard shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Two of the appointive members shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years, and one of the appointive members in his appointment shall be designated as chairman. Upon the termination of such initial terms the members shall serve f...

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...This book examines the economics of the postal sector through three lenses: snapshot and trends, models, and opportunities. In the years to come, the Universal Postal Union plans to develop its role as a knowledge centre for the postal sector from these perspectives. At this time of radical transformation of the postal sector, it is important to under...

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...R 2 Postal economics and statistics for strategy analysis – The short view Joëlle Toledano Bialot CHAPTER 3 Status of the postal service 20 years after the green paper: a Franco-European perspective José Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joëlle Toledano Bialot CHAPTER 4 The economics of postal delivery in developing countries: ...

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...vidences for Maturity Level 5, I and the Lead Appraiser has mapped the Scatter plot of Effort Variance vs Size for Process Performance Model. After 9 years when we look back, the Industry has moved on and so does the CMMI Model V1.3. There is much better clarity on what is expected in CMMI High Maturity. Similarly in 2007 there was a huge demand for Statistics Professors i...

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...her unknown to their customers. Take any firm at random,--Brown, Jones, and Cox, let us say,--the probability is that Jones has been dead these fifty years, that Brown is a Cabinet Minister, and that Cox is master of a pack of hounds in Leicestershire....

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...d Cox, let us say,—the probability is that Jones has been dead these fifty years, that Brown is a Cabinet Minister, and that Cox is master of a pack o... ...of the city. The junior brother was a married man, with a wife some twenty years younger than himself, with two daughters, the elder of whom was now o... ...fe was past forty; and his eldest daughter, as I have said, was twenty-one years of age. His second child, also a girl, 5 Anthony Trollope was six ye... ...egarded the world, she made him one of the family. So things went on for a year,—nay, so things went on for two years with her, after Herbert Onslow h... ...f this, for it was understood that the money was of service. For the first year Herbert found that nothing especial happened. He always fancied that h... ... could not read it, even had he dared to show it to her. During the second year he went home to England for three months, and by confessing a passion ... ...ot take her by the hand and tell her that he loved her. And thus the third year of his life in Munich, and the second of his residence in the Ludwigs ... ...nd the second of his residence in the Ludwigs Strasse, went by him. So the years went by, and Isa was now past twenty. To Herbert, in his reveries, it... ...oom, having done the deed on which he had been meditating for the last two years. About half an hour afterwards he met her on the stairs as he was goi...

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...ages gained from this dual track of lifestyle and its corresponding social costs models. “The ‘social cost’ of obesity averages around $150 billion a year. This comes to about 10 cents per item (of junk food). Every soda pop, hamburger and candy bar will now have this 10 cent premium. The more soda you drink, the more you have already paid into your own health coverage for...

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...o illustrate the demographic distribution of the Native Hawaiian population in the state of Hawaii. As the Office of Hawaiian Affairs marks its 25th year of serving the Native Hawaiian community, our staff continues to work diligently to advance the betterment of Native Hawaiians. Baseline data and information will continue to chart our improvements and give direction to ...

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...s father in a socially approved manner, the arrogant son had yelled out at the top of his voice, "Papa, you have had enough of her during the past 45 years. In case, you still need a woman's company, there is no dearth of this lot to provide warmth to your body. The following day, while exiting from the faculty meet, Vibha marked that Dr Rawat looked eager to join her, wh...

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...s father in a socially approved manner, the arrogant son had yelled out at the top of his voice, "Papa, you have had enough of her during the past 45 years. In case, you still need a woman's company, there is no dearth of this lot to provide warmth to your body. The following day, while exiting from the faculty meet, Vibha marked that Dr Rawat looked eager to join her, wh...

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...s, for example; • salinised irrigation systems that helped bring down civilisations such as the Sumerian states on the Euphrates river some 4,000 years ago, • deforestation leading to desertification and or massive erosion is a particularly widespread and pernicious example, • human induced climate change may be another that is unfolding before our eyes. The...

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