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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State T... ...ved as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent a... ...d) Mahan doctrines. Wilson's Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but two World Wars and a Cold War thereafter. It is time to disengage. Note -... ...obility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin list of grievances coupled with desperate protestations of love ... ... - but then proceeded to establish a series of protectorates throughout Asia Minor, Greece and today's Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt and North Afr... ...ade of violent demonstrations, home-grown urban terrorism, and numerous skirmishes involving the National Guard and even, in violation of the Const... ...rgy Ministry concluded the negotiation of a 10-year collaborative effort with Japan involving the construction of oil and gas pipelines, the develop...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ........................................................................... 33 WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES ................................................ ...der methods that have historically controlled population have been reduced. Wars are so horrible that countries now occasionally try to avoid them. ... ...nfanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the elements determine ... ...ommitted. As bad as we may think America is for murders, it is way down the list when compared to Columbia and South Africa. Interpol told me that t... ... he’s not still around, he could certainly do a better job of making people listen than I can. Because he was a man of color he could neutralize the... ...hat they are adults. So adulthood is thought of as strictly biological, not involving mental or emotional maturity, not involving any ability to fin... ...aturity, not involving any ability to financially take care of oneself, not involving any socially useful purpose. “I’ve heard young men say...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...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 ... ... is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. Th... ...ricans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes ... ...e or producing or watching child pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway... ...hasn‘t sent any messengers lately. But he listens to prayers, approves of wars, and allows natural disasters. ―How we define the Creator may h... ...o me that in the last hundred years the insecurity brought on by all your wars, the decline in the extended family relationships, and the marketing o... ...est hours within OECD economies along with Slovakia with 1,978 hours and Greece with 1,934. ―Ireland provides a good example of the changing ... ... are supposedly educated! ―About twenty years ago I took a case involving ex post facto to the Supreme Court. (78a) A California teacher w...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...ourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...owever, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, softw... ...) split geographically along a line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from t... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when th... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘...

...This book also begins 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....

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over co...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many pe... ... to say how a schizophrenic feels? Stop talking at the person and start to listen. How does it feel to weep nonstop for months at a time? If you haven... ...f Islam was also well-known, principally because of the Crusades and other wars past and present. Just what Islam taught and practiced was, however, l... ...d through the second major influence—the writings and schools of classical Greece—came a new, carefully defined system of Hebraism which can lay claim... ... leaders, called rabbis, led worship in small local buildings (synagogues) involving neither sacrifices nor priests. The records portray Je- sus as pa... ...League some time to actually desist, mainly for reasons of exhaustion from wars against tribes outside the League, by about AD 1750. (The date of the ... ...not married to each other, or several dozen other feasts, dances, or rites involving participation by the community. Some prophetic dreams, such as th...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...... ... may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its edito... ...specify or proscribe how. It has been incorporated into local law only by Greece and Denmark hitherto. In Austria, Literar-Mechana, the copyright fe... ... scatternetworking capabilities The technology is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the ebook realms. Platforms compete. St... ...hers. It will become a new arena of warfare and an integral part of actual wars. Different peer groups, educational and income social-economic strat... ...r this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects will have ... ...fficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an observation mu...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...ourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...owever, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, softw... ...) split geographically along a line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the ... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when they... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘s ...

...This book also begins 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. This boo...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...ghter and in both capacities he operated in the areas that are today North- Central Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He ... ...r, describes lawless conditions in Macedonia, the central Balkan district between Greece, Serbia, Albania and Bulgaria. In the areas Brailsford kn... ... propaganda and in the seeding of armed bands in Macedonia prior to the two Balkan wars. Its biggest achievement was probably the inception of nume... ...ivilization was at stake. This was the background to the onslaught of the Balkan Wars. Serbia collaborated with the more potent of its potent... ...Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited', owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study List, and webmaster of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder Top... ...id not sing Hallelujah. They allowed the consumption of dairy products in Lent. The list was long and preposterous. The parties were spoiling for a ... ...ts vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ...asazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Greece). The Britannica Encyclopedia (2005 edition) recounts how... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ...asazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Greece). The Britannica Encyclopedia (2005 edition) recounts how... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...mpetition, globalization, privatization, and deregulation - led to ferocious price wars and to consistently declining prices. Quoted by "The Econo... ...Press International (UPI) The Wall Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a pa... ...ket? Apparently, conventional wisdom is wrong. Market concentration leads to price wars, to the great benefit of the consumer. This is why firms fi... ... was introduced illegally where manufacturers insisted on rigid, rich-world, price lists. Piracy of intellectual property, for instance, is a form... ...rties. Switzerland rendered this service to Nazi Germany (1933-1945), Macedonia and Greece to Serbia (1992 to the present), Cyprus aided and abetted... ...ccount for this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects ... ... major difficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an obse...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...rfeit game to its credit; or, in other words, Williams will include in its list of game-scores at the end of next season both a victory over and a def... ...stance ill a great drought, he won over the entire island to Christianity. Wars gave way to peace, resulting in increased prosperity, the intro- ducti... ...ion occur the league would immediately beco.me eligible for a place on the list of former leagues which have passed their period of usefulness, so far... ...s are im- bued with a false idea of morals ; lying and deceit are rampant; wars, and especially brutality, abound. Most of this moral deg- radation is... ... wrenched out of its place and made a serious, often a desperate, businesB involving the activity of a few picked nnd highly trained men, to win the g... ...tics of this country with the simpler organizations in England and ancient Greece. He favored a return to the old-tiuie spirit of sport. Whittemore's ... ...incoln the Citizen," in Jesup Hall on Friday evening. Mr. JeHup's address, involving as it did the highest ideals of citizen- ship, was peculiarly int...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branches and enjoy its beauty ... ...s, nobody would The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 70 have listened to him. In fact, if he had not used two expedient constants: ... ...a. To give you a slight inking of the degree of volcanic activity there was: Greece was once buried under 400 feet of volcanic ash drifting over th... ...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ... how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the addiction to see... ... elite of all human societies spent their time during the last 12,000 years. Wars, hunting, feasting, and wallowing in ease, neglecting their own c...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ... and the Netherlands). Optimally, they should be lower (as is the case in Greece, Germany and Hungary). Alternatively, even if sickness benefits are... ...rnational Migration, 2001" that (to quote its press release): "Migration involving qualified and highly qualified workers rose sharply between 1999... ...hat the IMF had a strange way of "consulting" them - they were invited to listen to a monologue regarding the policies of the Fund and then dismisse... ... information based in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Sofia, and Warsaw- also rewards its employees with stock options. The list is long an... ...ue, Sofia, and Warsaw- also rewards its employees with stock options. The list is long and is getting longer by the day. Watson Wyatt, a human reso... ...0, the authors say: "The development of more complex organisational forms involving cross- organisation networking, partnerships, alliances, use of e... ...rcome the perceived workforce deficiency, slave labour was introduced and wars were fought to maintain precious sources of "hands", skilled and unsk...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ... compatriots 307- 317 CHAPTER XXIX. Decline of Buccaneering. -- Effects of the wars of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He ... ...ction. Their commerce extending, they soon carried commodities to Egypt and to Greece, and to other nations occupying territory in the Levant. In the ... ...a ship the name of which begins with a letter S or 0, for he can recall a long list of vessels whose names began with these unlucky letters, and every... ...ave pushed the old sailor into the background; the world has no longer time to listen to his stories; the steam engine does his work, heaves his ancho... ...e fact that, not only have several centuries elapsed, but on account of fierce wars which have agitated the Tartan Empire for a like period, there mus... ... greater indignities, which Cortez had foreseen could not be continued without involving the Spaniards and Mexicans in open hostility. His next act wa... ...sk he desired them to undertake, nothing less than the suppression of a mutiny involving three-fourths of the men, of his fleet, but not a man faltere...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ....................................................... 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ...................................................................... ...oppressors, exhibit to us the incarnations of Wordsworth’s principle. Such wars are of rare occurrence. Fortunately they are so; since, under the poss... ...zed by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshu... ...shment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explana- tion—that no... ...times in every week dinner invitations to all the families on her visiting list, and lying within her winter circle, which was measured, by a radius o... ...ven qua- druple interpretations—each rising in dignity, each crypti- cally involving another. Even amongst natural agencies, pre- cisely as they rise ... ...tity of C at the same time that B commands a double quantity of C, without involving any absurdity at all. And, if so, the disputed doctrine is establ...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...eries Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens 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 ... ... and twenty members at two shillings, seven years ago this autumn, and the list is not full yet. We are rather sanguine, now, that the raffle will com... ... opportunity of observing in connexion with the Drama—which, by the by, as involving a good deal of noise, appears to me to be occasionally con found... ...he Waterloo Road.’ As this was somewhat in the nature of a royal speech, I listened with deference and silently. His Majesty, taking a scroll from his... ...the most of his legs. ‘No doubt,’ said he. ‘ And you’ve seen me along with warses of flowers, and any number of table kivers, and antique cabi nets, ... ...riends, the moment a grey hair appears on his head. All the noble savage’s wars with his fellow sav ages (and he takes no pleasure in anything else) ... ...nds, and from the birds and beetles of the trop ics, and from the Arts of Greece and Rome, and from the Sculptures of Nineveh, and from the traces of... ...nger immediately started up again, and said that after those observations, involving as they did ample concession to his honour without compromising t...

............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t an early period, the seat of frequent immigrations from various parts of Greece. Among the immigrants was Menapolus, the son of Ithagenes. Although ... ...; the words, and not the melody were regarded by the 8 The Iliad of Homer listeners, hence it was necessary for him to remain intelli- gible to all. ... ...o represent such scenes to the mind; but whoever has had an opportunity of listening to the improvisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodoc... ...tion of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed over the ... ...ior none such hatred bear: Strife and debate thy restless soul employ, And wars and horrors are thy savage joy, If thou hast strength, ’twas Heaven th... ...grow, Repulsed and baffled by a feeble foe. So small their number, that if wars were ceased, And Greece triumphant held a general feast, All rank’d by... ...e, warrior, haste! preserve thy threaten’d state, Or one vast burst of all-involving fate Full o’er your towers shall fall, and sweep away Sons, sires...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania 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... ...or the murder, then, indeed, Lydia enjoyed high peace and security, but in Greece and the countries about it the like villanies again re- vived and br... ..., held him in the highest estimation, and was never more satisfied than in listening to any that gave an account of him; especially those that had see... ...at way back: That it was a 17 Plutarch’s Lives decree consented to by all Greece, that no vessel from any place, containing above five persons, shoul... ...ssemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurred be- tween them, which he by his persuasions appeased, g... ...together, nobody committed the like in Rome; and Lucius Hostius, after the wars of Hanibal, is recorded to have been the first parricide. Let thus muc... ... of order and tranquility, had so great an influ- ence on the minds of the listeners, that they were insensibly softened and civilized, insomuch that ... ...is; but there his soldiers’ hearts failing, after exposing his project and involving the Spartans in a dangerous war, he retreated to Thespiae. After ...

.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...and el- egant poem, in ottava rima, entitled, “Mr Pope’s Welcome Home from Greece,” in which his different friends are pic- tured as receiving him hom... ...n falsehood, finesse, treachery, and envy, he stood at the bot- tom of the list, without that plea of poverty, or wretched- ness, or despair, which so... ...its beauty and propriety in the time of Theocritus; it was used in part of Greece, and frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest persons: whereas... ...ves, The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves, But, charm’d to silence, listens while she sings, And all the aërial audience clap their wings. Soon... ...ds; Secure from flames, from envy’s fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving age. See from each clime the learn’d their incense bring! Hear in... ..., and all mankind. VER. 130, 131:— When first young Maro sung of kings and wars, Ere warning Phoebus touch’d his trembling ears 60 The Poetical Works... ... Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. At length great Anna said—‘L...

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...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

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