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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...ian calendar and dates followed by NS ("New Style") according to the Gregorian one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, E... ...using flooding (a phenomenon called seiche). Seiches were observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaska... .../politics/foreign/asiso.htm http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-057es.html Israel, economy of At $105 billion annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ... ...implemented what they called "War Communism" (1917- 1921), the militarization of the economy. Between 1916 and 1920, industrial output plunged by mor... ... called at the time). In 1921-2, Lenin re-introduced money to re-monetize the economy which consisted of barter, quotas, and centrally issued ... ...the Nokia Group. In the 1980s, Nokia took over Mobira, Salora, Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing t...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...explained the tariff of custom houses and humanitarians, magnetism and the economy of the civil list. This lean young man, with a bilious skin, tall e... ...cess of her son, she dis- pensed with the duty of giving him a dot,—a wise economy which was imitated by the notary. Thus was consummated the union of... ... Great provincial for- tunes are usually the product of time multiplied by economy. Thirty years of old age make capital. In giving to Cecile-Renee a ... ...my last discomfiture, a letter reached me bearing the post-mark Stockholm, Sweden; which address did not surprise me be- cause, while in Rome, I had b... ...g is easier to understand,” interrupted the mar- quis. “I do not reside in Sweden, and we wished to throw you off the track.” “Will you continue the e... ...hes, the most intelligent solicitor of mod- ern times—Comte Halphertius of Sweden.” As for Sir Francis Drake, he seemed at first inclined to disdain t...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and the Government of the United States to the arbitrament of the King of Sweden and Norway, the King of the Netherlands, or the Republic of the Swis... ... any additional regulations that may be necessary to insure regularity and economy in carrying this agreement into effect to be adopted and commu- nic... ... States command of said department. A. LINCOLN. REPLY TO THE MINISTER FROM SWEDEN. November 8, 1861. SIR:—I receive with great pleasure a Minister fro... ...EDEN. November 8, 1861. SIR:—I receive with great pleasure a Minister from Sweden. That pleasure is enhanced by the information which preceded your ar... ...e of their limited acquisitions. This fact imposes peculiar obligations to economy in disbursement and energy in action. The revenue from all sources,...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...accus- tomed to succeed. She had the genius of housekeeping, a faculty for economy, a thorough understanding of how to live, and a love for work. She ... ...she said, the finger of God. In 1824 she turned over a new leaf, talked of economy, stopped her receptions, busied herself with her children, determin... ...property of nine thousand and a few odd hun- dred francs; the fruit of his economy and that of his wife 30 The Lesser Bourgeoisie during thirty years... ...hat, of course, was a parody on the famous speech of Charles XII., King of Sweden, when a shot interrupted him 267 Balzac while dictating to a secret...

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...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ering viciousness of her com- ments on the new furniture, stirred Carol to economy. She spoke judiciously to Bea about left-overs. She read the cook-b... ...ees. James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Sweden, both proved that they were free American citi- zens by grunting, “I... ...en—not solidly founded—not scholarly—doesn’t know anything about political economy—falls for every new idea that some windjamming crank puts out. But ...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...of a declining population. In Singaling the population has dropped as its economy has increased. This is not surprising because we have found for a ... ...o keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for research. Putting the voters to work, a... ...sults you want, an orderly highly functioning society with an outstanding economy, you can’t argue. Pragmatism, rather than an idealistic ideology, ... ...i Arabia and Morocco have no female representatives in their governments. Sweden leads with 45% of the Parliament being women. “Mohammad‟... ... government and business management, are women. In the U.S. it is 45%. In Sweden it is only 29%. In the U.S. women make up 65% of the work force but...

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...which settles more and more every day. Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wolsey used to say, ?I and my king,? yet this egotistic way of speaking, wherein I take precedence of my chimney, is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me....

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... and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immo...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...pulent, though not emphatically rich in a mercantile estimate—the domestic economy is pretty sure to move upon a scale of liberality altogether unknow... ...England and in Ireland. From this peculiar anomaly, affecting the domestic economy of English mer- chants, there arises a disturbance upon the usual s... ...her for employing these two young girls in menial offices of the household economy. One reason for that was, that she thus indulged her dislike for th... ...ike a man of extreme sobriety upon his extravagant theme. He is angry with Swedenborg, as might be expected, for his chimeras; 97 Autobiographic Sket... ...nse he belongs to our litera- ture, for he was, in fact, the introducer of Swedenborg to this country; as being himself partially the translator of Sw... ...slations; and also, I believe, as republishing the original Latin works of Swedenborg. To say that of Mr. Clowes, was, until lately, but another way o...

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...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

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...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ...t work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ............................................... ...ANGLADESH ............................................................ 10 ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS................................................... ........................................ 19 NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF AN EXPANDING ECONOMY .................................................. 20 POLITICS OF ... ...that China and Vietnam had earlier used to catapult them into the global economy. The money they earned helped to finance their fledgling education... ...or not they are married, the relationship should be solid. I know that in Sweden and France over 50% of babies are born to unmarried people. That se... ...wn language in the north of Norway. The Scandinavian languages of Norway, Sweden and Denmark are similar, yet often the Swedes don‘t understand the ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...world individual psychological self-centeredness prevails. The collective economy, tried by the USSR, did not reward individual initiative. It theref... ...Europe we point to Italy, with corruption at many levels of the legitimate economy as well as the underworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of ... ...er now or in the future, then 45 vote for our interests. And the free economy, with its emphasis of advertising to sell products, makes us want ... ...ple don‘t think is worth the trouble. ―A recent survey showed that Sweden was the least religious country with 85% non- believers. Vietnam was... ...countries all had state churches, all supported by tax money. Even though Sweden separated the state from the church in 2000, it still supports it. ... ...ystem like the U.S. or feel the safety net of a welfare state, such as in Sweden? ―Societies, except for the most totalitarian, will genera...