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...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ... nickname was Porn. "This will be my first plane ride soaring off with the birds." "Thais don't often fly," he said. His idea was tinged with a ... ...at made Nawin think that he was sitting on the back seat with some type of mythological, hybrid animal he was in the process of taking on an overseas ... ...iendly gestures and the two of them took from his hand greedily like tamed birds. Then he began his old contemplation of why 2 was greater than 1 or... ...h such a bold stare that he felt that it could easily seduce him in as its prey--that the survival of the fittest reigned with the hegemony of its kin... ...that it would stay stolid and poised as statues of the Garuda and Kinnara, mythological creatures that permeated Thai art, literature, and dance. ... ...ges of Laotian queens walking through cocoa fields with their little black birds. When Kazem came home with more shopping bags and saw the symbol of a...

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...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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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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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into t...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...t. Our problem is that every society nurses its 105 children with the mythological milk of its geography. So the infant learns that god is vengef... ...be more fast twitch muscles fibers that enable it to run faster after its prey. In a giraffe it might be the genes that develop a longer neck so tha... ...do we draw the line? Worms, jellyfish, mammals, fish, flatworms, insects, birds, reptiles?‖ —―You‘re right. Animal rights advocates may have a ... ...rights to only mammals, so we can cruelly keep catching fish and shooting birds? Should we limit it to mammals whose adult weight is over ten pounds ...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...se, the stream, the lake, and the waterfall. Ill health and continual pain preyed upon his powers; and the solitude in which we lived, particularly on... ... the echoing vaults, but soothing notes Of ivy-fingered winds and gladsome birds And merriment are resonant around. The fanes of Fear and Falsehood he... ... darkness eddying by. _150 There is a pause—the sea-birds, that were gone Into their caves to shriek, come forth, to spy What c... ...s day—two mighty Spirits now return, _645 Like birds of calm, from the world’s raging sea, They pour fresh light from Hope... ...om torture on condition of its being communicated to him. According to the mythological story, this referred to the off- spring of Thetis, who was des... ... of the Oceanides, is the wife of Prometheus—she was, accord- ing to other mythological interpretations, the same as V enus and Nature. When the benef...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

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...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and every load that was overthrown in the river was regarded as the lawful prey of the noble on whose banks the catastrophe befell. Any freight of goo... ...dance, and keeping numerous rural or religious feasts, where old T eutonic mythological observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation.... ..., whose mind had been much impressed by the Minnesinger’s be- quest to the birds. “Nor like any true Christian knight. Alas, my poor boys, must you be... ...is not hard after the first” said Friedel. “I only waited to watch the old birds out again.” “Robbed the eagles! And the young ones?” “Well,” said Fri... ...es of wonderful costli- ness of material and beauty of workmanship; little birds, with thin cakes fastened to their feet, were let loose to fly about ... ...ush to keep up with the attractive part of the show. Pageants of elaborate mythological character impeded the imperial progress at every stage, and it...