Description Details
...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...

Excerpt Details
...esses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

Table of Contents Details
...h. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic...

Full Text Search Details
... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...elf to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many de... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ... powerfully to the history of eBooks—the most recent method of publishing words—and I would work back from there, because I like to start with a fou... ...tion of data.‖ According to M-W, the first known coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer th... ...ating system‘s software lets us build intricate, comprehensible words and phrases. By controlling the breath we exhale, we communicate precise thoug... ...es that any one of them might have been his native tongue. Many of the phrases Tyndale coined remain part of our language today, and he‘s more fr... ...nglish as their first language. That total is less than half the total for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Span...

Description Details
...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic...

Full Text Search Details
...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe t... ... Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that much... ...ruths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hidden world of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ans... ... the Internet, or by any information storage and retrieval system; in other words, share and spread this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right o... ...us vines and descending sidewalks neatly paved with erect signs posting the words: No Parking At All Times. The City of Irvine doesn't like parked c... ...on't want to learn English, because they don't want to assimilate. In other words, they think that their culture is the best ethnocentricity and tha... ... handing out flyers and pamphlets, which proclaimed the burgeoning surge of Mandarin, the traditional Chinese language. They even had a huge banner w... ...e traditional Chinese language. They even had a huge banner with the title: Mandarin, The Language of the Future. How is Mandarin the language of the... ...tance of China politically and economically, thus, the growing importance of Mandarin, but how many people do you know that are not Chinese who actua...

Description Details
...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 u...

Full Text Search Details
...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...elf to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many de... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ... powerfully to the history of eBooks—the most recent method of publishing words—and I would work back from there, because I like to start with a fou... ...ution of data.‖ According to M-W, the first known coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer th... ...ating system‘s software lets us build intricate, comprehensible words and phrases. By controlling the breath we exhale, we communicate precise thoug... ...ages that any one of them might have been his native tongue. Many of the phrases Tyndale coined remain part of our language today, and he‘s more fr... ...nglish as their first language. That total is less than half the total for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Span...

Table of Contents Details
...ater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Resea...

Full Text Search Details
...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER ... ...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS 2 APEC 2011... ...ESTORING SIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SOLUTIONS NANOTECHNOLOGY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AQUACULTURE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER ... ...e is Sopogy Inc., the Honolulu company whose name is contracted from the words “solar-power technology.” This high-tech company, fnanced by privat... ... 6 5 3 4 7 Hawai‘i’s Eight Main Islands Lucky Hawai‘i One of the favorite phrases of local residents is “Lucky You Live Hawai‘i.” Here are some rea... ... an S to create a blue-sky name. Wuh, who grew up in Honolulu and speaks Mandarin, exudes boyish enthusiasm for his commitment to “create companie... ...ry by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert ofers more than 30 English words in translation. Among them are: love, afection, compassion, sympat...

Description Details
...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of th...

Full Text Search Details
...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ...mers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Ev... ...An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM ... ... Wind from being told from a slave’s point of view. 4 The copyright over the words you are now read- ing will not expire until seventy years after my ... ...purchasers even if unauthorized copying is theoreti- cally cheaper. In other words, the economic model of pure public goods will track our reality wel... ... driven by patent. What about the legal protection of trademarks, the little words or symbols or product shapes that identify products for us? Why do ... ... Legendary K.O., their intense and profane political anger, onto the musical phrases they have in common. The postmodern conclusion here is “there is ... ...thout license or fee, and you can innovate by producing new words, slang, or phrases without clearance from some Academie Anglaise. After you coin you... ...work out of “My Life.” The person who translated my articles into Spanish or Mandarin, or the people who re- post them on their Web sites, or include ...

Description Details
...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 and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

Table of Contents Details
...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 Pgs 223-266 Hum...

Full Text Search Details
...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ... Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. T... ...’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this,... ...h a microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you plant an orange seed and wonder about it. If you care for the seedling, and study its grow... ...e limit to how small they could actually be: which they do not. In other words: for the Universe to be finite in size: Literally all of the smal... ...nt into a mouse. It cannot be done. It is impossible. It is too absurd for words. The Condition of Actual Infinity cannot exist inside something... ...Since they learned this behavior from watching the stupid spoiled fat Chinese mandarins who looked at them for thousands of years? And call this wat... ... or rebelling. It still is. Mao knew his people. He was not a bloodless Mandarin or a naïve Mongol. He did not want their hypocritical, servi... ...have done; is to adapt and add Western Capitalism; into their ancient peasant-mandarin culture as a new, expanded format of the same old thing. The...

Description Details
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

Full Text Search Details
...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ... a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9989... ... it into a catalyst of human interactions across time and space. In other words, it returns the book to its origins: a time capsule, a time machine ... ... Some of the plagiarists are straightforward copiers. Others substitute words, add sentences, or combine two or more sources. This raises the ques... ...o deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hor... ...ll be usually done using extensive and adaptable lists of keywords or key phrases. This will lead to the formation of cultural Internet Ghettos - b... ...nes (or human-computers or human-calculators, to use Turing's unfortunate phrases). The emphasis was on finiteness: a finite number of instructions,... ...ese speculations and take off into the land of the Technicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" i...

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

Full Text Search Details
...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ...Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Market XIII. T... ...m restricting output, lest their market share be snatched by new entrants. In other words, even monopolists behave as though their market was fully ... ...hat government obligations and corporate lending are perfect substitutes. In other words, once deprived of treasury notes, bills, and bonds - a rat... ...sity to negotiate an "exchange rate". It does not prevent market failures. In other words: money is not an index. It is merely a medium of exchan... ...ple machines (or human-computers or human-calculators, to use Turing's unfortunate phrases). The emphasis was on finiteness: a finite number of ins... ...get off these speculations and take off into the land of the Technicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic ad...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...e. At the gate of Trinity Benham stopped, and conveyed rather by acts than words that Prothero was to descend. He got down meekly enough, al- though h... ... foreign speciality to balance his East Purblow in- terest. But Lady Beach Mandarin warned Benham against the Balkans; the Balkans were getting to be ... ...his mother knew about this business. This feeling came from nothing in her words or acts, but from some indefinable change in her eyes and bearing tow... ... all in things… .” 4 4 4 4 4 In saying this she did but echo Benham’s very words, and all she said and did that evening was in quick response to Benha... ...e and the Rushtones took her up; Mr. Evesham was amused by her, Lady Beach Mandarin pro- claimed her charm like a trumpet, the Young Liberal people ma... ...hat bilateral adventure. He saw Benham in conversation with liberal-minded mandarins, grave-faced, bald-browed persons with disciplined movements, who...

Excerpt Details
...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 be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ..., if anything does, and I’ll be your surgical kit.” She did not follow his words, only the burring resolute- ness of them. She was shocked, thrilled, ... ...nod- ded, solemnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze from t... ...er your clothes, and please forget that you are Minnesotans, and turn into mandarins and coolies and—and samurai (isn’t it?), and anything else you ca... ...smiled maternally at his secret. She could not escape asking (in the exact words and mental intonations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches ... ... on “Other Poets.” The other poets worthy of consideration were Coleridge, Wordsworth Shelley, Gray, Mrs. Hemans, and Kipling. Miss Ella Stowbody obli... ... Mrs. Potbury’s residence, Mrs. Potbury’s oratorical style, Mrs. Potbury’s mandarin evening coat, Mrs. Potbury’s coiffure, and Mrs. Potbury’s altogeth...

Excerpt Details
... person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...pots. Access into the graveled walk is afforded by a door, above which the words MAISON VAUQUER may be read, and beneath, in rather smaller letters, “... ...re and Mme. V auquer exhausted the vocabulary of abuse, and failed to find words that did justice to the banker’s iniquitous con- duct; but while they... ...n- duct; but while they heaped execrations on the millionaire, Victorine’s words were as gentle as the moan of the wounded dove, and affection found e... ...er somewhere what he would do if he could make a fortune by killing an old mandarin somewhere in China by mere force of wishing it, and without stirri... ...stirring from Paris?” “Yes.” “Well, then?” “Pshaw! I am at my thirty-third mandarin.” “Seriously, though. Look here, suppose you were sure that you co... ... only to give a nod. Would you do it?” “Is he well stricken in years, this mandarin of yours? Pshaw! after all, young or old, paralytic, or well and s...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... opportunity; and each answers the question 5 Joseph Conrad for itself in words which, if I may say so without undue solem- nity, were written with a... ...or themselves with overwhelming precision. Old Mr. Sigg liked a man of few words, and one that “you could be sure would not try to improve upon his in... ...ed two days before, awaited termination. These long letters began with the words, “My darling wife,” and the steward, between the scrub- bing of the f... ... Just see for yourself what he says. I’ll show you his letter.” There were phrases in it calculated to give the impression of light-hearted, indomitab... ...uld get rid of them and their money afterwards by delivering them to their Mandarin or Taotai, or whatever they call these chaps in goggles you see be...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...quite low, but so that Mademoiselle Modeste is sure to overhear you, these words: ‘The young man has come.’” Exupere was to start the next morning for... ...be well, for the sake of those who have never seen that city, to say a few words as to the present destina- tion of the Latournelle family,—the head c... ...ounds. No man shall reach your daughter. Forgive me for troubling you with words.” The two soldiers clasped arms like men who had learned to understan... ...UNSOLVED AN HOUR WENT BY in solemn stillness broken only by the cabalistic phrases of the whist-players: “Spades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?... ...ades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?” “T wo to four.” “Whose deal?”— phrases which represent in these days the higher emotions of the European a... ...ut to society at large what is she? noth- ing. At this moment the greatest mandarin in China may be yielding up the ghost and putting half the univers...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... on Mademoiselle Hortense would be forthcoming. I replied exactly in these words: ‘I would not answer for it. My son-in-law, to whom the Hulots had pr... ...rtain of im- punity. Y ou showed me the door like a mangy dog at the first words I uttered as to the state of my feelings; you only made my passion—my... ... spoken,” said he, feeling that he must jus- tify the ferocity of his last words. “Oh, my daughter, my daughter,” moaned the Baroness in a voice like ... ...ic- ing herself. This modern art of love uses a vast amount of evangelical phrases in the service of the Devil. Passion is martyrdom. Both parties asp... ... The sham cousin stared at Hulot as he might have looked at some big China mandarin. This state of things could not last; it was bound to end in some ... ...in. To-morrow at eleven o’clock bring your note of hand; at that hour that mandarin Marneffe is at his office, Valerie is free.—Have you really asked ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y 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 Pennsylvania ... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a pa... ...oar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture, quite a dry, Bob! And Wordsworth, in a rather long Excursion (I think the quarto holds five... ...been its price. You have your salary; was ‘t for that you wrought? And Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — ... ... At least her conversation was obscure; Her thoughts were theorems, her words a problem, As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ‘em. She... ...st appearing such As but to lovers a true sense affords; Sweet playful phrases, which would seem absurd To those who have ceased to hear such,... ...ou blind Could I do justice to the full detail; So, luckily for both, my phrases fail. Thus much however I may add,— her years Were ripe, th... ...he equinoctial line Of any thing which nature would express; Just as a mandarin finds nothing fine,— At least his manner suffers not to gues...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ranchers, grimed with the soil they worked upon, were odious to him beyond words. Never could he feel in sympathy with them, nor with their lives, the... ...o doubt he had been meditating his speech all the morning, formulating his words, preparing his phrases. “Say, no, no,” he continued. “Me, I wanta sta... ...editating his speech all the morning, formulating his words, preparing his phrases. “Say, no, no,” he continued. “Me, I wanta stay bei der place; seve... ...s without names—thoughts for 9 Frank Norris which no man had yet invented words, terrible formless shapes, vague figures, colossal, monstrous, distor... ...e Death,” and last of all, a strange intrusion amongst the mild, well-worn phrases, two leg- ends. “My motto—Public Control of Public Franchises,” and... ...ece, where burning Sappho loved and sung.” The Chinaman, in the robes of a mandarin, lectured on Confucius. The Armenian, in fez and baggy trousers, s...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ith his pipe between his teeth and the match flar- ing, in response to his words. “W ar Departments; that’s more like it.” He threw his match aside, a... ...e of the world. And what do I get?” He paused. “I am sniffed at by elderly mandarins! . . . And the woman I love is treated like a leper!” “I am an Im... ...nd foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents. In short, mark my words—there are other nations!” This speech it was that particularly impres... ...iday suit of yesterday. The boarded-up shop was dark and depressing beyond words, the few scandalous hiring machines had never looked so hopelessly di... ...e meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ici,” he decided upon as convenient phrases. Then it occurred to him that he would entertain himself by reading... ...aid Bert appreciatively, though he had not the ghost of an idea what these phrases meant. Little electric lights could be switched on up there if any-...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two ki...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...of his fit- 11 Frank Norris ness, bewildering him with a torrent of empty phrases that he delivered with fierce gestures and with a manner of the gre... ...g himself with his own noise. He was continually mak- ing use of the stock phrases of the professional politician— phrases he had caught at some of th... ...had he ignored it so long? It was dazzling, delicious, charming beyond all words. His narrow point of view was at once enlarged and confused, and all ... ...ina, will you?” “What is it? What do you mean?” she cried, confusedly, her words muffled beneath the rubber. “Will you?” repeated McTeague. “No, no,” ... ...e was circumspect, reserved, dis- tant. He could no longer open his mouth; words failed him. At one sitting in particular they had said but good- day ... ...er was admirable— 111 Frank Norris hundreds and hundreds of tiny Japanese mandarins, all identically alike, helping hundreds of almond-eyed ladies in...

Excerpt Details
...th 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 who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it i...

Full Text Search Details
... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...t ‘eard anything of Mithith Thkinner?” he asked. The lime-burner—his exact phrases need not concern us— expressed his superior interest in hens…. It w... ...suspicion in a week-old baby, and laying the accent heavily on most of the words he chose, he asked, “I thuppothe nobody ‘athn’t ‘eard of any other bi... ...her was the first to give their con- densing thought the concrete shape of words. “A cat to match them ‘ens—” said Fulcher. “Ay!” said Witherspoon, “a... ...“Y ou have lit to-day—? You have lit today—?” Then he remembered Latimer’s words: “We have lit this day such a candle in En- gland as no man may ever ... ... the bankruptcy of science, of the dying of Progress, of the advent of the Mandarins,— talk of such things amidst the echoing footsteps of the Chil- d... ...; getting at one another’s meaning through endless half-heard, half-spoken phrases, repeating, making perplex- ing breaks and new departures—a wonderf...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...ar by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a public... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...seem as strange among the grey shapes of modern war transport as a Chinese mandarin in painted silk would be. They are the most individual of things, ... ...ve account of the land ironclad that was ever writ- ten concluded with the words, “They are the reductio ad ab- surdum of war.” They are, and it is to... ...loded and destroyed within thirty miles of my Essex home…. There in chosen phrases you have the truth about these things. But now mark the perversion ... ... to talk of the “Psychology of the Rentier.” I was for such untranslatable phrases as the “Genteel Whig,” or the “Donnish Liberal.” But I lit up an It... ...ts of things for the army, would go pink with suspicious anger at the mere words “inspector” or 134 War and the Future “socialism” three or four year... ...ica. It bore a portrait of General Lafayette, and under it was printed the words, “Gen- eral Lafayette, Colonel in the United States army.” “Oh! These...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...asn’t your living! As if it wasn’t meat and drink to you!’ At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a mo- ment paused in her rowing, see... ... the North Pole, when, as the ice- plates are being removed, the following words fall from her: ‘I assure you, my dear V eneering—’ (Poor T wemlow’ s ... ...nce of Mrs Veneering, here induces Mortimer to address his next half-dozen words to her; after which he wanders away again, tries Twemlow and finds he... ...ng of the sea, the kettle-drum’s Read- ing of an instrumental passage, are phrases ever youthful and delightful.) I was mentioning your perception of ... ...bob- bing herself backwards and forwards, like a demented mem- ber of some Mandarin’s family. ‘O, I understand you now, sir!’ cried Bella. ‘I want nei...

Full Text Search Details
...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...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 Pennsylvania St... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1999 The ... ...ens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my ex perience of these birds. The raven in this story is a co... ...or, friend,’ returned John Willet. ‘Per haps there’s more meaning in them words than you suspect.’ ‘Perhaps there is,’ said the strange man, gruffly;... ...ough he has never been heard of from that day to this, he will be, mark my words. The crime was commit ted this day two and twenty years—on the ninet... ...s sympathy by crowing like a cock, and afterwards running over his various phrases of speech with such rapidity, and in so many varieties of hoarsenes... ...urbanity, conde scended, at Barnaby’s solicitation, to repeat his various phrases of speech, and to go through the whole of his per formances with t... ...he best service of real undoubted china, patterned with divers round faced mandarins holding up broad umbrellas, was now displayed in all its glory; t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

Table of Contents Details
........................................................................................................................................... 71 AUTOCRACY AND WAR?1905 ............................................................................................................................... 71 THE CRIME OF PARTITION?1919.........................................................

Full Text Search Details
... Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...es may present at first sight is merely the re- sult of the arrangement of words. The logic that may be found there is only the logic of the language.... ...oks, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.” These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ... ... years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate. The words of our municipal rulers have a solemnity and im- portance far above t... ...ecessary to make him either one or the other. Of him from whose armoury of phrases one in a hun- 14 Notes on Life and Letters dred thousand may perha... ...that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mustiness of the Middle Ages, that epoch when... ...g in the dusk killed but the body, whereas the grotesque thing nodding its mandarin head may in its absurd unconsciousness strike down at any time the...

Excerpt Details
...ns which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon doctoring and earn my living as a writer; so, as soon as I was ?qualified?, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... Margaret Dauncey.’ Arthur made no reply, and Dr Porhoët, fearing that his words might offend, hastened to explain. ‘You know as well as I do that I t... ...n their relation with less seriousness because they had not muttered a few words be fore Monsieur le Maire . The room was full when Arthur Burdon en... ...with the landscape painter who is by her side.’ Arthur’s eyes followed her words and rested on a cleanshaven man with a large quantity of grey, curlin... ...ons who seem ever about secret, reli gious rites, combined in his cunning phrases to create, as it were, a pattern on her soul of morbid and mysterio... ...e bloated legs, and an absurd squat body, so that it looked like a Chinese mandarin in porcelain. In another the trunk was almost like that of a human...

Excerpt Details
...in alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y 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 Pennsylvania ... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim ... ...t needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, n... ...y me. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 22 I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back... ...Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States, Exulting words, words to Democracy’s lands. Interlink’d, food yielding lands! Land... ...s materials are overaw’d, The dispute on the soul stops, The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn’d back, or laid away. What is your money mak... ...e growth has establish’d it. 4 These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls, (If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were th... ... with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama, Mandarin, farmer, merchant, mechanic, and fisherman, The singing girl and...

Full Text Search Details
...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...y the date you may perhaps understand the purport of my letter without any words wasted about the matter. I cannot walk with you to-mor- row, and you ... ...(clean), said one; and they all nodded their heads to- gether like as many mandarins, and repeated rein, so rein in chorus. Of course we got upon Scot... ...ible to you; but I think the sentiment will keep, even through a change of words, something of the heartsome ring of encouragement that it had for me:... ...ful and perfect thing in the world – the only marriage of really accordant words and music – both drunk with the same poignant, unutterable sentiment.... ... me. I was then aged fifteen or sixteen; conceive my glory. Several of the phrases you object to are proper nautical, or long-shore phrases, and there...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ersa- tion with monsieur le sous-lieutenant, met me half-way. I caught the words: “And Cummings” (the first and last time that my name was correctly p... ...hree or four times. The rosette and the moustache were exchanging animated phrases. At last Noyon, motioning for silence and speaking in an almost des... ...nd ten years of age in France! The gendarme offered a suggestion, in these words: “Have you any change about you?” He knew, of course, that the sanita... ... a well-dressed burglar. They exchanged a 41 e e cummings few well-chosen words, in French of course. “What ya got there?”—“An American.”—“What’s wro... ...ike? I explained that it was a sort of Argot-English. When I gave him some phrases he was astonished—“It sounds like English!” he cried, and retailed ... ...y window by The Zulu, who was brushing cheese crumbs from his long slender Mandarin mustaches, and who ex- pressed profound astonishment and equally p...

Excerpt Details
...o-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using thi... ...kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any... ... any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any... ...icisms which wait upon a great existing fact. It was now perceived that such phrases as “self government,” and “the power of the people over themselve... ...life blameless and respected. The high priest who rent his garments when the words were pronounced, which, according to all the ideas of his country ,... ...e months imprisonment, for uttering, and writ ing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. Within a month of the same time, at the Ol... ... thus held, is but one superstition the more, acci dentally clinging to the words which enunciate a truth. If the intellect and judgment of mankind o... .... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the... ...organization and discipline, as the governed are of the governors. A Chinese mandarin is as much the tool and creature of a despotism as the humblest ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...llowe turned lazily on the sofa and rested her head on her hand. ‘Hear the words of the Preacher, the son of Baruch,’ she said. ‘Will you talk sensibl... ...self, by a glance through the fringe of her sunshade, of the effect of her words. The shot went home. Of a surety Otis Yeere was somebody in this bewi... ...nged the Station and lost the rent to have saved this. He said, in so many words, that he wasn’t going to try to work up any more, because because he ... ...tancy,’ ‘unal- terable trust,’ and ‘reverent devotion’? I remem- ber those phrases; you seem to have forgotten them. I mention a man’s name He. A good... ...ts are ne- glected, and in fact regarded with contempt by our new literary mandarins in posse.” “But our young friend said he wanted steam- engines an...

Excerpt Details
...uth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... had done some fair lady a service), his good fortune went no further than words. It was between the years 1810 and 1816 that Pons con- tracted the un... ...e sufficiently tire- some Grandison, for whom the very Venus of the Cross- words is sexless. Setting aside one or two commonplace adventures in Italy,... ...ece, the revelation of his soul, and the record of his dreams; those three words were set once and for ever by the poet at the head of a page which is... ...y are very ingenious, very clever; they make modern copies of their ‘grand mandarin’ porcelain, as it is called. But a pair of vases of genuine ‘grand... ...andarin’ porcelain, as it is called. But a pair of vases of genuine ‘grand mandarin’ vases of the largest size, are worth, six, eight, and ten thousan... ...e slang of “the road” (to use his own expres- sion), with a few green-room phrases superadded. Now, art- ists in the theatrical profession are wont to...

Excerpt Details
...trong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

Table of Contents Details
...er Functions of Representative Bodies............................................................................... 61 Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extensio...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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 Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...a great quan tity of mere sentimentality connected with these and similar phrases, over and above the amount of rational meaning con tained in them.... ...r is not power quiescent, power merely passive, but active power; in other words, power actually exerted; that is to say, a very small portion of all ... ...in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. This division is plausible and seductive, from the appa... ...requisites of a form of government. The fundamental antithesis which these words express does not lie in the things themselves, so much as in the type... ...for the fitful energy of one man. The Chinese government, a bureaucracy of Mandarins, is, as far as known to us, another apparent example of the same ...