...re Delacroix’s background, and her intellectual rebellion against her place in “proper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision ... ... inspiration. I am also grateful to Paddy Doyle Cathcart, who became Pierre in these pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2... ...re I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Frie... ...otillion or coming-out for me. My father spent a great deal of money on my education, and there was not much left for such fripperies. As other you... ...impering behavior of the Parisian women. At the same time, he preferred my education to that of the Baincthuinoise ladies. I read constantly, and w... ...gem he employed to make it so. He picked up my regular corset, a pale blue China silk, and examined it somewhat disdainfully. My stays had no lac... ...rench one is just too big now.” She made a pretty moue. It was my favorite China-blue silk; I hoped that a competent corsettier could take it in. O... ...ing to a pattern I had long thought behind me, I had Michael take me to the Chinatown at Limehouse, where I sought out the arms of Morpheus in an op... ...o school anymore.” 112 “Dolly,” I said as I put the vegetables aside, “Your education is very important. It’s a wonderful thing that Prince Albert ...

...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each ot...

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Edge of the SKY South China Sea Phom Rak Khun The Meh Khong River Mahogany Shadows Heart of Java Sudharmi Ode to Dati Devil Moon Dukun

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...taining its ecosystem, the muscular young body that had an orange hue like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had lis... ... East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union and China. "The whole f-- world is West," thought Gabriele. She felt that dem... ...re." "My job here means that I have to live here alone." "You have a college education from America. You shouldn't be wasting yourself working at a c... ...ersity. She had not had a steady boyfriend since early in her undergraduate education when she decided that men were special creatures who were uniqu... ...seat thinking how ignorant he was of the earliest essays and arguments about education. Even centuries ago intellectuals believed that education shoul... ...pen and she stepped into it. Photographs of Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Italy, and China graced her. Where would she go? Should she take her son with her ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

...rs, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner... ...r reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or review... ...and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah ....................................................356 Cha... ... opening our eyes instead of remaining blind. Of course, if one were “a man,” education would not be needed, because education is only needed to com... ...ence of corporeal pleasures, such as sex, money, control, fame, re- spect, and education, until we develop the aspiration toward the Creator. When tha... ... everything. The most important objective is to be freed from prejudice, from education and from public opinion. Free yourself from anything extrane... ...nces in culture and psychological differ- ences. But many sages from India and China, such as Buddha, Osho and others climbed very high in their spir...

...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to fi...

...Introduction: The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabb...

........................................... 323 Chapter 10. The Messiah and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah .................................................... 356 Chapter 12. Reflections and Thoughts .............................................. 386 Detailed Table of Contents: .........................................

...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. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the... ...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... ...world, and filled with nar- row and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a catholic creature, and as stan... ...ses by the name of my “housekeeper.” And as a scholar and a man of learned education, and in that sense a gentleman, I may presume to class myself as ... ...e often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go... ...sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern Asia,... ...es, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan. From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and all her ... ...ects that he has obviously not had the advantage of a regular scho- lastic education: he has not read Plato in his youth (which most likely was only h...

...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ishness gave way, he proved so bright that Emily undertook to carry on his education. He soon had a wonderful eye for a wild flower, and would climb a... ... would give was to take the boy into the office at Liverpool, stopping his education just as he was old enough to care about it. There were a delicate... ..., in his new position, he could or would do so, although his pres- ence in China would be very important to the firm at this juncture; and there would... ... she had not been able to get rid of a single one! Of Clarence’s doings in China I need not speak; you have read of them in the book for yourselves, a... ...with whom she was called on to associate. Somersetshire, Beachharbour, and China occupied our tongues by turns, and we had to begin luncheon without t...

...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

...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 English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...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... .... The very same idea had not long before struck the celestial intellect of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that countr... ...det Ucalegon.” But, recollecting that the Virgilian part of the coachman’s education might have been neglected, I interpreted so far as to say that pe... ...ion for these four di- verging arms, will finish the reader’s geographical education, by showing him to a hair’s-breadth where it was that Domrémy sto... ...f a story told in Staunton’s Account of the Earl of Macartney’s Embassy to China in 1792.”—MASSON. 8 4 ÇA IRA (“This will do,” “This is the go”): “a p...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ...e lacking, two heavy guns—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had not to move out either of ... ... in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not ... ... I will tell you it from the beginning. You know how I was married. With the education mamma gave us I was more than innocent, I was stupid. I knew no... ...ming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things. The hostess sat down at the table and took off her glov... ... Countess Lidia Ivanovna had sent him a pamphlet by a celebrated traveler in China, who was staying in Petersburg, and with it she enclosed a note beg... ...ou may as well sit there,” he said to Levin. The dinner was as choice as the china, in which Stepan Arkadyevitch was a connoisseur. The soupe Marie Lo...

...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

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...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open...

...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ne associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...s, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the b... ...idnight,’ the woman goes on, as she chronically complains. ‘Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad. Them two come in after ye. Ah, poor me, the business ... ... good soul, won’t ye, that the market price is dreffle high just now? More nor three shillings and sixpence for a thimbleful! And ye’ll remember that ... ...ne comes to,’ pursues Durdles, considering about it with the same sodden gravity; ‘I don’t know what you may precisely call it. It ain’t a sort of a –... ...0 – the old lady resumed, ‘“to get our little affair of business off my mind. I have spoken with my two wards, Neville and Helena Landless, on the sub... ...revengeful. I have been always tyrannically held down by the strong hand. This has driven me, in my weakness, to the resource of being false and mean....

...English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one ...

...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. Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson, ... ...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... ... friend will marry and put you to the door; a second accept a situation in China, and become no more to you than a name, a reminiscence, and an occasi... ...eart beats no more tunefully than yours. But it is the object of a liberal education not only to ob- scure the knowledge of one sex by another, but to... ...nds us, he will have little time for thought. If you look back on your own education, I am sure it will not be the full, vivid, instructive hours of t... ...s playing truant. This is not the moment to dilate on that mighty place of education, which was the favourite school of Dickens and of Balzac, and tur...

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by W... ...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... ...736, soon after our return from England, whither my parents took me for my education; and where I made the acquaintance of Mr. W arrington, whom my ch... ...any was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brother, my Lord C... ... Mrs. Tusher lying sixty miles off at Castlewood. But my papa’s genius and education are both greater than any a woman can be expected to have, and hi... ...e he was a dozen years older, and might have finished his days a martyr in China or a victim on Tower Hill: for, in the few months they spent together... ...eautified not a little to receive him. The flowers were in the window in a china vase; and there was a fine new counterpane on the bed, which chatterb...

...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....

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Knock, Knock, Knock and other stories by Ivan Turgenev, trans. ... ...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... ...ty vanity—and genuine strength and daring; generous impulses—and defective education, igno- rance; aristocratic airs—and delight in trivial foppery...... ...pected, and respected not for his character nor for his in- telligence and education—but because the stamp which dis- tinguishes “fatal” people was di... ...osait,” as the French express it—and with his limited intelligence, scanty education and immense vanity, such a reputation just suited him. It was dif... ...bellied coffee 97 Turgenev pot beside a cut glass sugar bowl and two blue China cups. The guitar was lying there, too, and blue-grey smoke rose in a ...

...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me i...

...d without any charge 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 Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...d as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to ... ...h peasant the conclusion would be tenable. But Mackay had most of the elements of a liberal education. He had skirted metaphysical and mathematical st... ...nd fought, hunted and farmed, from his child- hood up. He excused himself for his defective education on the ground that he had been overworked from f... ...d Judaea are gone by forever, leaving to generations the legacy of their accomplished work; China still endures, an old-in- habited house in the brand... ...n the cold room, and threw quite a glow on the floor. Twelve cockle-shells and a half-penny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf. ...

...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

...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 Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wel... ...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... ...nt- able sense of duty. I heard Bensington also once—in the old days—at an educational conference in Bloomsbury. Like most eminent chemists and botani... ... he says, wishes to prevent the children of the lower classes obtaining an education suited to their condition, but to give them a food of this sort w... ...hat. They worked together harmoniously, but Redwood sup- plied most of the educational theory required … They had the walls and woodwork painted with ... ...y bricks of wood in diverse colours, oblong and cuboid, bricks of polished china, bricks of transparent glass and bricks of india-rubber; there were s... ...re on the Pantiles, in the overcoat trimmed with fur. He stands under that chinaware window where the spring spouts, and holds and sips the glass of c...

...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, ... ...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... ... his portrait. The timepiece was a gift from the Marechal de Saxe, and the china ornaments on the mantelpiece came from the Marechal de Richelieu. My ... ... wind over the mirrors and hang down in festoons. On the consoles are fine china vases. The ground colors are scarlet and white. My grandmother was a ... ...d an embassy, but I would not let him accept it. I am tied to Paris by the education of Armand and Athenais—who are now respec- tively thirteen and ne... ...nch of the dynasty and returned to our country life without allow- ing the education and prospects of the three children to suf- fer. A mother, my swe... ... fly to Armand’s bedside and watch his slumbers or snatch a kiss. Yet home education is not without its drawbacks, to which I am fully alive. Society,...

...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. An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pre... ...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... ...holding in his hand a sandal-wood box which had probably been brought from China by Admiral de Simeuse. This pretty casket was flat and about the size... ... showed that knowledge of men and things had given them that supplementary education which makes its possessor a man of the world. Not lacking money, ... ...ity of character. They possessed all the eminent little marks of a careful education, to which they added a won- derful dexterity in bodily exercises.... ...because her daughter Berthe and her son Paul were now of an age when their education required the re- sources of Paris. Madame de Cinq-Cygne went but ...

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...