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...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ce or understanding arm and hand movements. We are humanizing the plastic souls of the rambling robots. The questions now revolve around whether to ... ...at they should be played at a highly ethical level, that fair play is the soul of real sport, and that sport should be the beacon for our societies.... ...tial. Salaries here are pretty much performance based. As we said earlier, singers, actors and professional athletes are paid little. They are superf...

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...op by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldha... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...We must end this sort of thing—absolutely.” He glanced at the faces of the singers, and it became beyond all other things urgent, that he should lift ...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...eculiar impressions from everything he saw. But nevertheless in his secret soul he detested Europe, and he felt an irritating need to protest against ... ...it was like a bell, of which the handle might have been in the young man’s soul: at a touch of the handle it rang with a loud, silver sound. There was... ...oup composed of persons who are worthy to remain unmarried. These are rare souls; they are the salt of the earth. But I don’t mean to be invidious; th... ...rty. What is the grandest thing one can do here? I will hire all the great singers from the opera, and all the first people from the Theatre Francais,...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an Immortal soul might be awakened. Long before I looked upon her, the help had come. H... ... the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in the pulpi... ...as it is now, and containing, as it does, a popula tion of fifty thousand souls, but two and fifty years have passed away since the ground on which i... ...as delicious, and American Notes – Dickens 193 the entertainers were the soul of kindness and good humour. I have often recalled that cheerful party...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ... what poor Waymarsh meant was “I told you so—that you’d lose your immortal soul!” but it was also fairly explicit that Strether had his own challenge ... .... The great church had no altar for his wor- ship, no direct voice for his soul; but it was none the less soothing even to sanctity; for he could feel... ...- stance that the music in the salon was admirable, with two or three such singers as it was a privilege to hear in private. Their presence gave a dis...

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...tors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are pri... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887 Y OU RIDE IN A GERMAN plantation and see no bush, no soul stirring; only acres of empty sward, miles of cocoa-nut alley: a deser... ...cuous; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured; and the one note- worthy event was the mutilation of Capt... ... gaping hollow of the reef. Of her whole complement of nearly eighty, four souls were cast alive on the beach; and the bodies of the remain- der were,...

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...own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul? Did not the German kings inherit the empire of bygone Rome? It was no... ...he crucifix itself is nothing, a factory-made piece of sentimentalism. The soul ignores it. But gradually, one after another looming shadowily under t... ...e peasant, but also with a kind of dogged nobility that does not yield its soul to the circumstance. Plain, almost blank in his soul, the middle-aged ... ...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...-respectable cafe. These young men are all free-think- ers, great dancers, singers, players of the guitar. They are im- moral and slightly cynical. Th... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...ver seen faces more viv- idly lit up with joy than the faces of these Indian singers. It was to them not only the worship of God, nor an act by which ... ...n is complete; you might camp for weeks, if there were only water, and not a soul suspect your presence; and if I may suppose the reader to have commi... ...ant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbizon; and ... ... have passed Arcadian days there and moved on, but yet left a portion of our souls behind us buried in the woods. I would not dig for these reliquiae;... ...e courage died within her, and she fled home screaming to her parents. Not a soul would venture out; all that night, the minister dwelt alone with his...

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...di- ment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world’s history, it may justly be considered, were the hi... ...e original insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness;—in whose radiance all souls feel that it is well with them. On any terms whatsoever, you will not... ...haps unbelief and flat denial? Answering of this question is giving us the soul of the history of the man or nation. The thoughts they had were the pa... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ...dia- lect, now in that, with various degrees of clearness: all true gifted Singers and Speakers are, consciously or unconsciously, doing so. The dark ...

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... have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fi- bre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, des... ...ience,—the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man’s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other Tis... ... the Intellect of the place assembled of an evening); and there, with low, soul-stirring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a whi... ...ffscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad-singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed l... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel...

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...e over from England. They seemed to be impelled by an earnest love for the souls of men, and a pure desire to make known what they considered a revela... ...he Puritans, But Grandfather told them that God had put something into the soul of man, which always turned the cruelties of the persecutor to naught.... ...who realized that an Indian possesses a mind, and a heart, and an immortal soul. That single man was John Eliot. All the rest of the early settlers se... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... ...e drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voices of the singers. It would appear as if the British took every method to insult the ...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...e struggle to mount on board became desperate and savage, but stimulating. Souls surcharged with hostility found now some outlet for their feelings. ... ...pokesman on the pit bank: or when he read the all-righteous newspaper; his soul curdled with re- vulsion as from something foul. Even the infernal lov... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...of fact, the doctor was weep- ing too, for he was an emotional sympathetic soul, over forty. “Never mind—never mind—you aren’t alone,” came the doctor... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d...

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ... and Cimarosa. With Handel I had long been familiar, for the famous chorus singers of Lancashire sang continually at churches the most effective parts... ...cherous ill usage he had experienced, the religious processes by which his soul had been weaned from the world. The most obvious solution of the myste... ...ble innocence. Father of all! though wilful manhood read His punishment in soul distress Grant to the morn of life its natural blessedness”? Meantime,... ...cription of that noble street, it must have been about the entrance of All Souls’ College,—he met a gentleman, a gownsman, who (at the very moment of ...

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...the warp through which is shot a woof less brilliant than the poesy of thy soul, whose ex- pression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those... ...ainst the evil day from your mysterious dwarf?” Modeste instantly sent the soul of her adorer to its humble mud-cabin with a terrible glance, such as ... ...ch seem to us dramatic are nothing more than 15 Balzac subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy ac- cording to the bent of our charact... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ... music, which had the inexpressible charm of sentiment so admired in great singers, Modeste had taken liberties with the lines in a manner that may as... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...

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...mposure, with yet the sparkles; they ascend; but hue and flavour tell of a soul that has come to a lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to te... ...ecrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours”:—women. But no; my dear souls didn’t prick and bother. And they dealt with a man in armour. I carry... ...ifteenth of the month! with the constitution of a broken drug-bottle, poor soul! She hears everything from Jarniman: he catches wind of everything. Al... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ... you. But you are hungry? Y ou have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard you...

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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...res- sion; yet at times the pain was so exquisite that I could hardly keep the tears back. At those times, as the howlings and wailings and shrieking ... ... of people marched around and around, in the third act, and sang the Wedding Chorus. To my untutored ear that was music—almost divine music. While my ... ..., once, and in Mannheim once, and in Munich (through my authorized agent) once, and this large experience had nearly persuaded me that the Germans pre... ... sufferer said: “There is one more, but I have not the courage to—O my lost Catharina!” One of the old dames said: Mark Twain 92 “Ah, I knew her well... ...the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to e...

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...izon; like the pinnacles of some ornate and monstrous church, they stood there, in the sparkling brightness of the morning, the fit signboard of a wor... ...uth-easterly corner of the bay. Punctually to our use, the blow-hole spouted; the schooner turned upon her heel; the anchor plunged. It was a small so... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...e the year before, a first case of phthisis appeared in a house- 22 In The South Seas hold of seventeen persons, and by the month of August, when the... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...iefs, the drummers, the dancers, the women, and the priests. The drums—perhaps twenty strong, and some of them twelve feet high—con- tinuously throbbe... ...you not hear something supernatural?’ His attention thus directed, he was aware of a strange buzzing voice—and yet he declared it was beautiful—which ... ...ere summoned (I suppose in honour of Queen Victoria) to join him. A strong breathless heat reigned under the iron roof, and the air was heavy with the...

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...st day to last of the voyage, there is no rest for a chief mate’s body and soul. And ships are what men make them: this is a pronouncement of sailor w... ...icers affected a superiority over the rest of us, but the boredom of their souls appeared in their manner of dreary sub- mission to the fads of their ... ...following eyes on board those ships—Dutch, English, with a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’cl... ...nd fed with black coal. The other seems to draw its strength from the very soul of the world, its formidable ally, held to obedience by the frailest b... ... in our discourse, upon sci- ence, politics, natural history, and operatic singers. Then, after remarking abruptly, “You seem to be rather intelligent...

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...a few particular things, such as, for instance, the analysis of Poe’s place in American literature — an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atla... ...n, with drawn, white faces and open mouths, is shrieking like a chorus of lost souls; and Chapter I 5 the red faced man, his face now purplish with w... ...bbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance. “And whom have I to thank... ...d sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea. They were eyes that masked the soul with a thousand guises, and that sometimes opened, at rare moments... ...ented, and I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in two large volu... ...nd gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musi... ...as you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one, Kelly, an Irish American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat pull... ...ight brown hair, and loved it, and learned more of love than all the poets and singers had taught me with all their songs and son nets. She flung it b...

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...udgments, rather: judgments in the mirk nicht among the draygons o’ the deep. And their souls – to think o’ that – their souls, man, maybe no prepared... ...‘I havenae been near it,’ said she. ‘What for would I go near it, Charlie lad? The poor souls are gone to their account long syne; and I would just ha... ...ount long syne; and I would just have wished they had ta’en their gear with them – poor souls!’ This was scarcely any great encouragement for me to te... ...once before he died! to move with a jocund spirit in a golden land! to hear the trained singers and sweet church bells, and see the holiday gardens! ‘... ...is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level – many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief? – And n...