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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ... SAPPHO’S JOURNAL Sappho, walking on her island beach, pauses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the... ... 9 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, piling the surf on the beach... ... conflict that assails our country. ...We defy augury; there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it... ...g pair, well-trained, handsomely har- nessed. My driver is a stalwart from Rhode Island; he says he used to work in a cotton mill; now, he looks forw...

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...ocrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ...e seemed to know no other tongue: the other in his travells to Athens and Rhodes had long conversed with the learned Græcians: So he, writing of him... ...d by no meanes be appeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prost... ...ts atchieved by him, and with a fierce and arrogant manner upbraiding the people with them, had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his... ... received, and not to divert and innovate the same. If at any time divine providence hath gone beyond the rules to which it hath necessary constrain... ... and more carelessely unto fortune than I have done since unto my wit and providence. Most good husbands thinke it strange add horrible to live on s... ...he vulgar, the ignorant, or the generalitie have had all power, as that of Rhodes, those of Athens, and that of Rome, and where things have ever been... ... Bishop hath left written, that in the other end of the world there is an island called of our predecessours Dioscorida, very commodious and fertile...

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... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...a: 4,030 km 2 ; land area: 4,030 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Rhode Island Coastline: 965 km Maritime claim: (measured from claimed arc... ...s the responsibility of Australia 52 Colombia Sea 400 km Barranq San Felipe Providence. Malpelo, and San Andtes islands are not shown. See regional m... ...50 km 2 ; land area: 750 km 2 Comparative area: about one-fourth the size of Rhode Island Coastline: 148 km Maritime claims: Contiguous zone: 24 nm Ex...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ... lowing;; Wednesday tiie oolli'go knew the team had found itself, for tliH Providence live, whii h la- ter won fruni Dartniuiith 22-21 on its liDiiie ... ...o any :lddress WRIGHT &DITSON Bosten and Cambridge, Mass> \ Chicago, Ills. Providence, R. I. DITSON Wilson House ^ Drug Co. Wilson House Block North A... ... will bo ilhistraterl with actual missionary experiences in tjie south sea islands. MONDAY, APRIL 8 p, m,—Triaf.s for iuterclass de biite, 'Techuian a... ...nchidae, Cos, Hariicarnassos and Cnidus. After Professor Howes has treated Rhodes, Pso- fe«aor Rice will take up Lindos, and Professor Howes, Crete; t... ...THER CHOSEN FROM WILLIAMS Carroll A. Wilson 1907 Selected as Massachusetts Rhodes Scholar At the meeting of the Rhodes scholarship committee of Massa-...

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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.” “W... ...y are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode Island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashi... ...to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode Island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashion, kn... ...at he could distinguish the accents of towns 26 Mosses from an Old Manse people of his own, men and women, both pious and un godly, many of whom he... ...t from her communion with the youth not unlike what the maiden of a lonely island might have felt conversing with a voyager from the civilized world. ... ...e woman will accept them. Now this is the very height of absurdity. A kind Providence has so skil fully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individual... ...rence, we lose sight of those realities by which nature, fortune, fate, or Providence has constituted for every man a brotherhood, wherein it is one g...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...d made treaties with the Indians, and be gan a plantation which he called Providence.” “I have been to Providence on the railroad,” said Charley. “It... ... some persons who had been persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also... ...persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also, many settlers had gone to... ...nd the sages and ministers of that day were in clined to the opinion that Providence had sent this mortality in order to make room for the settlement... ... great renown at Saratoga, and lost it again at Camden. General Greene, of Rhode Island, was likewise at the council. Washington soon discovered him t...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...ckles, and will spread, by a quiet but resistless influ- ence, through the islands of the seas to other lands, where the appeals of De T ocqueville fo... ...imagination, the depth of thought, and all the gifts which are bestowed by Providence with an equal hand, turned 15 Tocqueville to the advantage of t... ... then be constrained to make the best of the social lot awarded to them by Providence. The Christian nations of our age seem to me to present a most a... ... to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. ... ...h Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the State of Rhode Island in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first sett...

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...pirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: Be light made. And light was made. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day....

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ligion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and rose in this island through the last two hun- dred years. It is well known that the two ... ...use of this awakening from slumber in the two established churches of this island, the fact is so little to be denied, that, in both its aspects, it i... ...xious to bring under public notice, with regard to Milton. The reader whom Providence shall send us will not measure the value of these ideas (we trus... ...comparison with Charlemagne. All the knowledge current in Rome, Athens, or Rhodes, at the pe- riod of Caesar’s youth, the entire cycle of a nobleman’s... ...lly in the individual, and in the other with the irre- sistible decrees of Providence. Napoleon Bonaparte and Charlemagne were both, in a memorable de...

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... commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparalleled prosperity, will appear in the analysis of the natural ad...

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...sent age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the pure... ...while New England, collectively, must have had some six or seven times our people. A very few years of peace, however, brought material changes. In 17... ...succeeding it, it was found that the propor- 4 New Y ork tion between the people of the State of New Y ork and the people of the city , was about as ... ...ude and magnificence. The policy of the country , which separates religion from the state, precludes this, by confining all the expenditures of this n... ...ecial benefit of New Y ork. The immense natural advantages of the bays and islands at the mouth of the Hudson have, in a great degree, superseded the ... ...f their individual people; in other words, that the native of New Y ork or Rhode Island, regardless of the laws of the country , has a right to remove... ...r individual people; in other words, that the native of New Y ork or Rhode Island, regardless of the laws of the country , has a right to remove to an... ...o be found occupying their places, and using the means assigned to them by Providence, whether free or enslaved, prosperous or the reverse. No one can... ...conse- quence of the extent and number of its outlets, each a provision of Providence to put a check on revolutions and violence. The elements of a mo...

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...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...s fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five hundred acres of land thirty years a... ...ans peur et sans reproche; the driving out of the Knights Hospitallers from Rhodes by the Turks; and the placarding of the Ninety Five Propositions,—... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ... at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the par tiality of Providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was op... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...in and their chills again—chills being a merciful pro vision of an all wise Providence to enable them to take exer cise without exertion. And this s...

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...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...erve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a polity to maintain itse... ...e, the Moon. It is a planet like our planet, the same continents, the same islands, the same oceans and seas, another Fuji- Yama is beautiful there do... ...nd there dismisses it with a spiral whirl. “No!” he says. He seems sent by Providence, for just now we had been discussing how we should broach our re... ...nity about Welt-Politik, you assume the best race is the “Teutonic”; Cecil Rhodes affected that triumph of creative imagination, the “Anglo- Saxon rac...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...as open to no one without a mili- tary pass; and we started, trusting that Providence would supply us with rations and quarters. An officer attached t... ...ke of the coming thaw as of a misfortune which must come, but which a kind Providence might perhaps postpone—as we all, in short, speak of death. In t... ... the unanimous consent of the States present.”* Twelve States were present—Rhode Is- land apparently having had no representative on the oc- casion—on... ...- self. Where would be the State sovereignty and indi- vidual existence of Rhode Island and Delaware, unless they could maintain, in at least one Hous...