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...heory and school of using paradoxes in literary and artistic creation. C) History: “Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest aga... ... and by translation one falsifies. The cars jingling on the street” was a “city poem”, “peasants mowing” - a “disseminationist poem”, “the dream wit... ...o literature, art, philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings new literary, artistic, philosophical or scientific terms, new procedures... ...writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money? Only books about crimes, sex, horror are published. Where is the true Art? In begging… . ... ...ndem seus sntimentos? Vocês criam apenas por dinheiro? Apenas livros sobre crimes, sexo e terror são publicados. Onde está a verdadeira arte? No com... ...ntul meu! În 1997, pe 25 noiembrie, am ţinut o comunicare la Universitatea New Mexico, Gallup, SUA, clasa de compozi ţie literar ă a profesorului ... ...Costescu, “De vorb ă cu ascult ătorii”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 19, 11 februarie 1989. 34. Dan Costescu, “Autograf... ...cu, “Autograf / Florentin Smarandache”, în “Lumea Liber ă”, Rego Park, New York, SUA, Anul I, nr. 31, 6 mai 1989, p. 23. 35. Claude Le Roy, “Roumani... ..., and by translation one falsifies. <The cars jingling on the street> was a city poem, <paysans mowing> - a disseminations poem, <the dream with open...

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...ere is nothing wonderful in my being glad to see you,? Mrs. Luna rejoined, ?when I tell you that I have been three long weeks in this unprevaricating city.? ?That has an unflattering sound for me,? said the young man. ?I pretend not to prevaricate.? ?Dear me, what?s the good of being a Southerner?? the lady asked. ?Olive told me to tell you she hoped you will stay to dinne...

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..., ‘when I tell you that I have been three long weeks in this unprevaricating city.’ ‘That has an unflattering sound for me,’ said the young man. ‘I pre... ...l, that Miss Chancellor would be all that you say. She was brought up in the city of reform.’ ‘Oh, it isn’t the city; it’s just Olive Chancellor. She ... ...hink much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New York. This last remark he made at a venture, for he had, naturally, n... ... much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New York. This last remark he made at a venture, for he had, naturally, not d... ...s dishonesty, however, only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired... ...shonesty, however, only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired. ‘W... ...ve Chancellor, it may be confided to the reader, to whom in the course of our history I shall be under the necessity of imparting much occult informati... ...we had done only this, we shouldn’t boast of it. Poverty, and ignorance, and crime; disease, and wickedness, and wars! Wars, always more wars, and alw... ... kings. These ladies were easily disposed of between the two, and the public crimes of Bloody Mary, the private misdemeanours of Faustina, wife of the...

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..., PREDICTIONS, VISIONS, AND Compacts with the Devil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. ... ...AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A C... ...ENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A Caver... ...t is evil bears his footprints, and as each succeeding generation appears, some new phase of the Devil‘s cunning hand looms up to our sight. As man ... ... will of God was, in that time, regularly made known. But her existence and her crimes can go no length to prove the possibility that another class o... ...onfess their master, ―This is the finger of God‖! The spirit of the Jewish history loudly affirms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had ado... ...t the stake in the Carrefour du Bordage, in Guernsey, the square devoted by the city authorities of that island to this kind of punishment. The last... ...timent of danger. Sailing upon the river is one of the common amusements of the city of Rouen, in France. My father also took great pleasure in thes... ...D. FACTS VERSUS THE DICTUM OF SCIENCE – WHAT A TENNESSEAN CAN DO. A New York Paper publishes the follow item of Interest: I have seen se...

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...CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five ... ...TER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’cl... ... present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on... ...sent at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sun... ...ed on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I cou... ...are over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through the de... ...on which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and to judg... ... your presence; and if I may suppose the reader to have committed some great crime and come to me for aid, I think I could still find my way to a smal... ...icating his complicity with Satan; nor merely because, as it was after all a crime of a fine religious flavour, it figured in Sunday books and afforde...

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...ard the cock crow without a yawn. But Raphael and Titian and Rubens were a new kind of arithmetic, and they inspired our friend, for the first time in... ... of his familiar English vocables which were current in this extraordinary city of Paris was, that it was simply a matter of a good deal of unwonted a... ...” And then, in answer to his companion’s inquiries, he related briefly his history since their last meeting. It was an in- tensely Western story, and ... ...be unable to raise a dollar, and to find himself at nightfall in a strange city, without a penny to mitigate its strangeness. It was under these circu... ...ple of months ago, something very curious happened to me. I had come on to New York on some important business; it was rather a long story—a question ... ...of months ago, something very curious happened to me. I had come on to New York on some important business; it was rather a long story—a question of g... ...tablish- ment which called itself an American Agency, and at which the New York illustrated papers were also to be procured, and he had carried it abo... ...“Well,” said Newman, “she is wicked, she is an old sin- ner.” “What is her crime?” asked Mrs. Tristram. “I shouldn’t wonder if she had murdered some o... ...bars at the large, time-stained face of the edifice, and wondering to what crime it was that the dark old house, with its flowery name, had given conv...

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...th and freedom, values that are conquered at a very high price, where life faces pain and death over and over again so they can be transformed into a new creation of immortal beauty, that once created can no longer die. This type of project for the couple, which strongly contrasts with the c...

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... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES A new look at Homer’s Odyssey 2 ... ... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a new way of interpreting the Odyssey that is ingenious, beautiful and eleg... ...s. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (like the ... .... This wisdom is available to all, even to those who are about to commit a crime (Aegisthus, for example). Each person is free to welcome it, by lis... ...ted to be the guarantors of their followers’ immortality. This is human history. So who is Ulysses to say no to the immortality that Circe and ... ...personal dignity, or of its megalomanic expectations, wound it deeply. The crime of lèse-majesté does not originate in the king’s palace, it happens... ...“La saggezza dei libri” ed Rizzoli, 2004 {Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? New York: 2004}. He refers, however, mostly to the Iliad, and I want to mainl... ... him for ten years while he was at Troy. Then he was dealing with Troy’s city walls and Ulysses found the solution to his powerlessness by using c... ...ving life as a work of art”... For ten years, beneath and inside Troy’s city walls, Ulysses lived in violence and thievery and he continues to do...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a person...

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...a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the paradox is simultaneously a conclusion and a provocation, consisting in the concomitance of the opposites, which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus...

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... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...portance in the literary sphere, when he had succeeded in settling in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. He has triggered off a real campaign of in-formin... ... emission. I have added to the suggestions of Smarandache’s biography some new 6 ones, coming from other sources. Furthermore, I have put as a bas... ...being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the paradox is simultaneously a conclusion and a ... ...rs, do you sell your sentiments? Do you create gifts for money? Not only crime, sex and terror books are published? Where is the true art? Look fo... ... of the long universal history of versification. The above mentioned New-Yorker critic, James Gardner, affirms that the contemporary art belongs to... ...eman is very watchful searching for the one who committed an “ideological crime”, that is the ascension to “spiritual heights”. A “play” without act... ... (Chorea), IBC Advisory Council (England), Academy of American Poets (New York); or, after his own declaration, he is a founding-member of “Rebel Ac...

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....37 Joan of Arc .....................................................................................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet?s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; ...............................................................85 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY......................................................

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.............................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MA... ...evealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers,... ...hence the Christian Latinity of the middle ages was obliged to introduce a new word, such as the feebleness of classic conceptions never as- cended to... ...ut who was L.M.? It surely never could be Lindley Murray; for I saw him at York in 1825; and besides, I do not think he Would do such a thing; at leas... ...eived so bold an idea as that of a noon-day murder in the heart of a great city. It was no obscure baker, gentlemen, or anonymous chimney-sweeper, be ... ...to that, reader?] and yet in their behalf, we consent to forget, not their crimes only, but (which is worse) their hideous bigotry and anti-magnani- m... ...is, like the case of women laboring in childbirth during the storming of a city, trebled the awful- ness of the time. Even the wild story of the incid... ...not better the case for his country- man; that, being an accomplice in the crime, making him- self the leader in the persecution against the helpless ... ...r, or upon the evidence of a result, as that actually we find ourselves in York four hours after leav- ing London. Apart from such an assertion, or su...

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...roned, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the lati... ...ike a torch in the bark of some fisherman,’ which is the shining star of a new world. Bruce is caged in Abyssinia, surrounded by the gory horrors whic... ...vemonths, when we found only four conditions of men remaining in the whole city: to wit, lazzaroni, priests, spies, and soldiers, and all of them begg... ...y, as I contemplated (being newly come to Lon don from the East Riding of Yorkshire, on a house hunting expedition for next May), an old warehouse wh... ...these vehicles, with the terrific announcements they conducted through the city, which being a summary of the contents of a Sunday newspaper, were of ... ...ast entertained by such a spectacle in any street in London, Paris, or New York. It always appears to me that the secret of this enjoyment lies in the... ... question the expedi ency of advocating the revival of whipping for those crimes. It is a natural and generous impulse to be indignant at the perpetr... ...Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was, and showed why he... ... we glide into a review of the most cel ebrated and horrible of the great crimes that have been com mitted within the last fifteen or twenty years. ...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an insp...

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...ents: Preface by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in ... ...es - and logics. He had generalized the fuzzy logic, and introduced two new concepts: a) “neutrosophy” – study of neutralities as an extension of... ...adoxes in literary, artistic, philosophical, scientific creations. 2.3. History: "Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a clo... ...and by translation one falsifies. 'The cars jingling on the street' was a "city poem", 'peasants mowing' a "disseminations poem", 'the dream with ope... ...iters sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? Only books about crimes, sex, horror are published. Where is the true Art? In begging... . ... ...d Dictionary of American English>, Third College Edition, Cleveland & New York, Simon & Schuster Inc., Editors: Victoria Neufeldt, David B. Guralnik... ...paradoxal? How do the dreams put up with reality? Is O. J. Simpson's crime trial an example of: justice of injustice, or injustice of justice?... ...to a third world country, for example Romania. You arrive in the capital city of Bucharest, late in the night, and want to exchange a $100 bill to t... ...62. [ 2] Ayer, A.J., "Logical Positivism", The Free Press of Glencoe, New York, 1958. [ 3] Bailey, Cyril, "The Greek Atomists and Epicurus", Russell...

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...untable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view that the main crime committed in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against pot... ...dmission of the relativity of moral calculus: "One is close to oneself" and "Your city's poor denizens come first (with regards to charity)". On... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...erich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organization,... ...to construct the ideal community. This, of course, is its Achilles' heel. Consider crime. Anarchists of all stripes agree that people have the righ... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ... of a dead man is grafted onto a living man..." (Read, P.P. 1974. Alive. Avon, New York) Complex ethical issues are involved in the apparently str... ...ivities and even that not past the thirteenth century. Max Weber, in his opus, "The City" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift o...

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... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ... such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To history, to tragedy, to the past, to the future, Mrs. Munt re- mained equal... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...sing and fall- ing with the restlessness of the water in a fountain as the city receives more and more men upon her soil. Camelia Road would soon stan... ...la. “Seven miles to the north of Venice the banks of sand which nearer the city rise little above low-wa- ter mark attain by degrees a higher level, a... ...ng Naples, of the movements of Mr. Wilcox and Evie, who were mo- toring in Yorkshire. Margaret could not bear being bored. She grew inattentive, playe... ..., “Father! I say! look who’s here.” “Evie, dearest girl, why aren’t you in Yorkshire?” “No—motor smash—changed plans—father’s coming.” “Why, Ruth!” cr... ...oth might be necessary in the future, but she had first to purge a greater crime than any that Helen could have committed—that want of con- fidence th... ...of the tangle. So does the sui- cide yearn. The impulses are akin, and the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those who...

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... me to the last dhrop o me blood. BROADBENT. Have you ever heard of Garden City? TIM [doubtfully]. D’ye mane Heavn? BROADBENT. Heaven! No: it’s near H... ... Howard’s book, and several pamphlets]. You understand that the map of the city—the circular con- struction—is only a suggestion. TIM. I’ll make a car... ...iend who lives with me here: my part- ner, Mr Doyle. [T o Doyle] This is a new Irish friend of mine, Mr Tim Haffigan. TIM [rising with effusion]. Sure... ...glish. They don’t be- long to the dear old island, but to their confounded new empire; and by George! they’re worthy of it; and I wish them joy of it.... ...een; and I want to bring Galway within 3 hours of Colchester and 24 of New York. I want Ireland to be the brains and imagination of a big Commonwealth... ...e you? BROADBENT. Yes I have. There is something very touch- ing about the history of this beautiful girl. DOYLE. Beau—! Oho! Here’s a chance for Nora... ...Englishman I blush for the Union. It is the blackest stain on our national history. I look forward to the time-and it cannot be far distant, gentlemen... ...he Indian revealed to me—perhaps he was sent to reveal it to me to expiate crimes committed by us in a former existence. AUNT JUDY [awestruck]. Heaven...

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...s with that wondrous 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....

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...c? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech S...

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...nicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysi... ...aissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever ... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... 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,... ...e heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which often sent me into composing roo... ...ient postal system.  The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles.  The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boa... ...fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to return to the bank. He... ...8 Nobel Prize for discovering a new form of quantum fluid. His book The Crime of Reason, And the Closing of the Scientific Mind, addresses in cons...

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...NSLATED BY L. AND A. MAUDE Originally published by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This volume is divided into seven parts. First we hav... ...TED BY L. AND A. MAUDE Originally published by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Ta... ...der. The date when each story was published is given. The translations are new ones, and for the footnotes I am responsible. AYLMER MAUDE. GREAT BADDO... ...ar till you come right to the sea. When you get there you will see a great city. Enter the city and ask for a night’s lodging at the furthest house. T... ...lled and rolled until at last it reached the sea. By the sea stood a great city, and at the further end of the city was a big house. There Emelyán beg... ...He lives peaceably and well. It is a good thing that he did not commit his crime in a country where they do not grudge expense to cut a man’s head off...

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..."The Biotic Environment." "The Cultural Environment" considers the people of Hawai'i. The diversity of the state's cultures is treated in chapters on history and languages as well as archaeology, religion, and the arts. "The Social Environment" treats such elements as the economy, government, and tourism. The sixth and final section comprises a statistical supplement, bibl...

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...en 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the center of the Pacific Ocean and is one of the most isolated yet populous places on Earth. The west coast of North America, for example, is 2,400 miles (3,900 kilometers) from Honolulu, and J...

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... -- Alien Species and Threats to Native Ecology -- 146 -- Endangered and Threatened Species -- 150 -- Protected Areas -- 154 -- Archaeology -- 161 -- History -- 169 -- Population -- 183 -- Languages -- 198 -- Religion -- 201 -- Architecture -- 205 -- Museums and Libraries -- 208 -- Culture and the Arts -- 211 -- Government and Politics -- 219 -- Land Use and Tenure -- 225...

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...nd honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And however thinks, because all such things are dispatch?d, that the Improvement of it, as well to the Diversion, as to the Instruction of the Reader, will be...

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...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . .... ... let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And howe... ...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, my Father being a... ...NTURES 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, my Father being a Foreign... ...st V oyage that ever Man made; for tho’ I did not carry quite 100 l. of my new gain’d Wealth, so that I had 200 left, and which I lodg’d with my Frien... ...Miser I was to go thro’, as will appear in the Sequel of this Story. As my new Patron or Master had taken me Home to his House, so I was in hopes that... ...t not forget, that we had in the Ship a Dog and two Cats, of whose eminent History I may have occasion to say something in its place; for I carry’d bo... ...articular Case ? it is certain these People either do not commit this as a Crime; it is not against their own Consciences reproving, or their Light re... ...ustice, as we do in almost all the Sins we commit. They think it no more a Crime to kill a Captive taken in War, than we do to kill an Ox; nor to eat ...

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...e reader the chief personages of this narrative. AT THA T FAMOUS PERIOD OF HISTORY, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-ki... ...e, that the sun of that autumn evening shone upon any two men in county or city, at desk or harvest, at Court or at Newgate, drunk or sober, who were ... ...the rustic bystanders were quite convinced of the good intentions of their new friend, and accompanied him back to the “Bugle,” to re- gale upon the p... ...ght use, if he liked, the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling ... ...een roundly reprobated by the worthy divine; who told Mrs. Score, that the crime of Catherine was only the more heinous, if it had been committed from... ...for many years past had lived, one of the hundred thousand miracles of our city, upon nothing that anybody knew of, or of which he himself could give ... ...wever, like Mr. Conrad, the Corsair, one virtue in the midst of a thousand crimes,—he was faithful to his employer for the time being: and a story is ... ...ared last night, in the hearing of several witnesses, that he was going to York; says he is a man of independent property, and has large estates in Ir... ...he fortunes of both. For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awakin...

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...N AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Stre... ...D NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, ... ... he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later ... ...ditor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia, where he arrived in October, 1723. He... ...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ...s no wind, we row’d all the way; and about midnight, not having yet seen the city, some of the company were confident we must have passed it, and woul... ... this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings The Auto... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc... ...f God was the do ing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter. Th...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors...

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...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ... Paris lives for us with newness of life: we have ever before our eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “m... ...mplished, and we carry away with us a sense of the “Gothic profile” of the city, of the “surprising forest of pinnacles and towers and belfries,” and ... ...eir country, told at length the ille- gality of the Shogun’s power and the crimes by which its exercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once,... ...gnificent copy of Charles’s poems, given by our Henry VII. to Elizabeth of York on the occasion of their marriage, a large illumination figures at the... ...ell’s correspondence in The Times was among the most material parts of the Crimean War for that talented correspondent. And I think it scarcely cynica... ...he company of a Mrs. Elizabeth Bowes, wife of Rich- ard Bowes, of Aske, in Yorkshire, to whom she had borne twelve children. She was a religious hypoc...