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...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...

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...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...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...right January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms an... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...on Chapter Four: Modern Humans Psychobiologic Totality Pg 223 The Slow Death of Human Sensitivity-Awareness Pg 224 The Human Inner Self P... ... The Idea of Human Balance Pg 1499 Wonder Pg 1501 Reincarnation Pg 1504 Death Pg 1505 Wonder and the Universe Pg 1506 Universal Connectivit... ...ones who didn’t survive. The kinder, more loving, more giving, more generous prisoners perished, while the more ruthless managed to survive. What... ...ou do not want to be attacked, vilified, ostracized, hated, outlawed, judged, sentenced, jailed, imprisoned, shot, or hung; you obey its external law... ...burned down, rebuilt and restocked with new indentured servants and political prisoners over and over. Its survival was constantly being threatened ... ... actually did. If any of them had done that today: they would be in jail, and sentenced to death. The basic grudge Americans were in fury over a...

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...e 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 -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "T... ...E FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING ... ... OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAIN... ...Expedition returns to Greenland in the year 1005 -- The voyage of Thorstein -- Death of Thorstein -- Proofs of Norse settlement in America -- The cour... ...sands of years in the form of a fish -- The contrary Bishop of Malta whom Paul sentenced to do penance in the sea -- Apparitions and Phantoms -- A gho... ...rs -- Saved by a warning -- A sister's spirit gives forewarning of a brother's death -- The spectre of a murdered fiddler -- Ghost of a deserted sweet... ... King's horoscope -- Preparations for a dangerous voyage -- Eighteen murderers sentenced to death accompany the expedition -- Appointment of Vasco da ... ...sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners -- Powder pots used by da Gama -- A massacre of the natives -... ... -- A desperate battle -- Horrible butcheries -- Da Gama encloses his helpless prisoners of men, women and children in the ship and sets fire to it --...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...a-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0... ............................................... 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... 133 RETIREME... ............................................................... 332 LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES--WHAT IS THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE? .......................... 3... ...view. ....................................................... 345 WHAT IS DEATH? ....................................................................... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...e of unprecedented magnitude and extraordinary audacity.‘ For this he was sentenced to several years in prison. He lamented his actions once he was ... ... equally to the full-bellied well adjusted people with good jobs! And the prisoners get three square meals, while the honest homeless don‘t! ... ... less Central Americans. ―When Fidel Castro allowed his ‗political‘ prisoners to come to the US, we gladly took them. But we didn‘t know that ...

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...rpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly litt...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..........

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...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A C... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State University The... ...of the British Chiefs of Tribes submitted. Others resolved to fight to the death. Of these brave men, the bravest was Caractacus, or Caradoc, who gav... ...ns lost the day. The wife and daughter of the brave Caractacus were taken prisoners; his brothers delivered themselves up; he himself was betrayed in... ...with him; they killed their very wives and children, to prevent his making prisoners of them; they fell, fighting, in such great numbers that certain ... ...rch which has risen up, since that old time, to be Saint Paul’s. After the death of Ethelbert, Edwin, King of Northumbria, who was such a good king t... ...ve trusted Robert to the death. But the King was not a magnanimous man. He sentenced his brother to be confined for life in one of the Royal Castles. ... ...uch time as that Jew should produce a certain large sum of money, the King sentenced him to be impris oned, and, every day, to have one tooth violent...

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Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418...........

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...Young Folks’ History of England By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...orks of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... .... A.D. 1641—1649.......................................... 93 CHAPTER XXXV DEATH OF CHARLES I. A.D. 1649—1651............................................ ... my clothes off before I go to bed,” meaning that Robert must wait for his death. Robert could not bear to be laughed at, and was very angry. Soon aft... ...y, and losing almost all her friends by the way as they were slain or made prisoners. Her best helper of all—Earl Robert of Gloucester—was taken while... ...t had beaten the rest of the army, and made his fa- ther and uncle Richard prisoners. Indeed, the barons threat- ened to cut off Richard’s head if Edw... ... hands, the king threw down his staff before them, stopped the combat, and sentenced Nor- folk to be banished from England for life, and Henry for ten... ...rt that sat to judge her—some English and some French of the English party—sentenced her to be burnt to death in the market place at Rouen as a witch,...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having f...

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...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...vour. The interest of the story is thrown upon that period when the sudden death of the first Count- ess of Leicester seemed to open to the ambition o... ...most general voice of the times at- tached the most foul suspicions to the death of the unfortu- nate Countess, more especially as it took place so ve... ...counsel to my lord, and to my strict agency; and so she loves us both as a sentenced man loves his judge and his jailor.” “She must love us better ere... ...y any decent captive for some hundred years. And I have that regard for my prisoners, poor things, that I have put good squires and men of worship, th... ...“She speaks fairly,” said the jailer, “and I will take her part. I love my prisoners; and I have had as good prisoners under my key as they have had i... ...t of your vassals, kinsmen, and dependants, you would be a captive, nay, a sentenced captive, should she please to say the word. Think upon Norfolk, m...

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Excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. I...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detai...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...E ............................................................................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ......................................................................................................................

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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...Document File produced as part of an ongo- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ..... 113 CHAPTER XVIII THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH. ....... 116 CHAPTER XIX THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPY IS TO LEARN TO DIE .... ...remost in the heart of Montaigne, as it was afterwards in his memory, when death had severed it. Although he blames severely in his own book [Essays, ... ... as he sat at table of the proceeding against Monsieur de Vervins, who was sentenced to death for hav- ing surrendered Boulogne to the English, —[T o ... ...ewhere for the like offence he only condemned others to remain amongst the prisoners under the baggage ensign. The severe punishment the people of Rom... ...ince it is inevitable? To him that told Socrates, “The thirty tyrants have sentenced thee to death”; “ And nature them,” said he.— [Socrates was not c... ...se, but principally to have wherewithal to furnish his sacrifices with his prisoners of war. At a certain town in an- other place, for the welcome of ...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ...sure. It com- prises no less than 2,300 pages in folio. After the author’s death, in 1755, the secret of his lifelong labour was revealed; and the Duc... ...on of Henry IV., became thus “Prince of the blood” so many years after his death, without having ever suspected it. The Duc d’Uzes thought this so amu... ...reat anger, and learning that Madame de Saint Geran had been of the party, sentenced her to be banished twenty leagues from the Court. Like a clever w... ... Albaredo. One Spaniard was killed, and all the rest of the men were taken prisoners. The Imperialists would not give them up until a cartel was ar- r... ...only two attendants, when all three were surrounded, recognised, and taken prisoners. These troops shut up in Blenheim had been left under the command... ...the disgrace of Cardinal de Bouil- lon, and the banishment to which he was sentenced. Exile did not improve him. He languished in weariness and rage, ...

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...ber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon t...

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... Twe... ...niversity assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Twe... ...mas, the Pennsyl- vania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File ... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera... ...h a cardinal, had not taken such vows as to prevent it, was secretly married to Anne of Austria.—La Porte’s Memoirs. 5 Dumas “Richelieu, whom they ha... ...e, I shall go out of the prison at such a time,” and another, at such and such a time, the duke used to answer, “As for me, gentlemen, I shall leave o... ...t. You are in prison, then?” Rochefort trembled in every limb at this question. “But I thought,” he said, “that your eminence knew that circum- stance... ...y. To-day it’s a sort of diplomatic arrangement; ask Planchet.” Musqueton inquired, therefore, the state of the case of his old friend, who confirmed ... ...of one accustomed to fine houses. “And you are disposed to serve the cause of the people?” asked Gondy. “Most undoubtedly,” said Planchet. “I am a Fro...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time hea...

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...M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ble and lasting shock at the acci- dent and at the sight of my crushed and deathly condition, which occupied every one too much for them to think of s... ...my mother could brook the fact far less than if her son had died a gallant death. The Clotho was on her way home, and Midshipman William Clarence Wins... ... and asked in a be- wildered voice, ‘Where are the others?’ There were two prisoners, Petty the ratcatcher, who had attempted some resistance and had ... ...forced and had broken into the prisons, set them on fire, and released the prisoners. They were mustering on College Green for an attack on the palace... ...ing received and delivered it. It was a very painful affair, and Tooke was sentenced to seven years’ transportation. I believe he became a very rich a...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...THE TRIAL or MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...c Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...’ he said contemptuously. ‘Scarlet fever in the most aggravated form. T wo deaths in one house, and I am much mistaken if there will not be another be... ...t he would not add to her father’s distress in the freshness of Margaret’s death, and the parting with Norman. He had never ceased to mourn over the l... ...dreams had all night been haunted by the thought of the two little nursery prisoners, entreated to go with her father, and see what could be done for ... ...own Mary and Dr. Spencer. They found her in a state of nervous fever, that sentenced her to her bed, where Mary deposited her and watched over her, ti... ...y show I am sorry for the real thing— and I may be forgiven. Oh! I am glad prisoners are not cut off from church.’ Dr. May pressed his hand in much em...

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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Youn... ...State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...followed by the victory over the hell-hound of 4 My Young Alcides death; and lastly, the attainment of immortality—all seem no fortuitous ima... ... with arms in their hands; they were tried by the special com- mission and sentenced to death. Lewthwayte and his son were actually hung; but there wa... ... their hands; they were tried by the special com- mission and sentenced to death. Lewthwayte and his son were actually hung; but there was great inter... ...ght of the distress, when his father had just been tried for his life, and sentenced to death. It was their birth and education that caused them to be... ... I passed, up in those great London attic nurseries, where Dora and I were prisoners—all winter fogginess, with the gas from below sending up its ligh...

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...s -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were cover...

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...The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, Fren... ...tand once for all that you are trifling with my happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your h... ... marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die.” “Death alone can separate them,” remarked Fernand. “You talk like a noodle, ... ...going there to be imprisoned,” said Dantes; “it is only used for political prisoners. I have committed no crime. Are there any magistrates or judges a... ...not even see the ocean, that terrible bar- rier against freedom, which the prisoners look upon with utter de- spair. They halted for a minute, during ... ...pris- oners sometimes, through mere uneasiness of life, and in order to be sentenced to death, commit acts of useless violence, and you might fall a v... ... brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity. The other sufferer is sentenced to be decapitato;* and he, your excellency, is poor Peppino.” “Th...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds ...

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...The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The ... ... Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylva... ...remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Mark... ...r sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hard... ...at he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaim... ...ct but that moment flashed upon him, ‘what has become of Kit?’ He had been sentenced to transportation for a great many years, she said. ‘Has he gone?... ...ot counted it; but when they have gone a few paces beyond the box for poor Prisoners, he hastily returns and drops it in. Mr Garland has a coach waiti...

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...sin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of t...

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...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...al works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...n a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I.’s defeat at Pavia; the death of Raphael; the death of Bayard, sans peur et sans reproche; the dr... ...tood on the banks of the Mississippi, it was still two years before Luther’s death; eleven years before the burning of Servetus; thirty years before h... ...esently thrown aside and the officers fell to with axes and tried to cut the prisoners out. A Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 125 striker was ... ...it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; can not bar its path with an obstruction which it will not te... ...Murel, to procure his conviction and sentence to the Penitentiary (Murel was sentenced to four teen years’ imprisonment); so many people who were sup... .... The letter got no further than the office of the prison warden, of course; prisoners are not often allowed to receive letters from outside. The pris...

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Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it wa...

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... Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...Son. He had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole re... ... can see, and in the meantime the poor child seems likely to be starved to death. Paul is so very particular—naturally so, of course, having set his w... ...ithin ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of gold and silver ‘down among the dead men’ under... ...whispering of Nature and her wholesome air, as such things will, even unto prisoners and captives, and those who are desolate and oppressed, in very s... ...—a girl still, but deserted and an outcast. And she was tried, and she was sentenced. And lord, how the gentlemen in the Court talked about it! and ho...

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...ASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ...........................................

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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The ... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . .......................................................... .............................................. 66 Chapter 1.3.VIII. Lomenie’s Death-throes. ................................................................ ...ive, and still the firing slakes not.—Far down, in their vaults, the seven Prisoners hear muffled din as of earthquakes; their Turnkeys answer vaguely... ...nning off in his white smock, is driven back, with a death-thrust. Let all prisoners be marched to the Townhall, to be judged!—Alas, already one poor ... ...ans inwardly, at Lyons; but dare not outwardly. Chalier, when the Tribunal sentenced him, made an- swer: “My death will cost this City dear.” Montelim... ...rinkers, Buveurs de Sang.” Feraud’s Assassin, taken with the red hand, and sentenced, and now near to Guillotine and Place de Greve, is retaken; is ca...

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...ountess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most o...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ...anician, a master of stratagems; and would say, that brains will beat Grim Death if we have enough of them. He was a standing example of the lessons o... ... took possession of his coachman’s wife, and was accused of compassing the death of the hus- band. He was not hanged for it, so we are bound to think ... ... sight. It is the feet are so desirous. I feel them so this morning, after prisonership. I could not have been driven to my lord.’ ‘I know the feeling... ...former bride, the present stranger, into his chamber of the brave aims and sentenced deeds. Her brother in the room was the barrier; and she sat mute,... ...n. Certain it is she brought her wounded brother safe home to England, and prisoners in that war usu- ally had short shrift. For three years longer sh...

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................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE?S TELESCOPES......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ................................

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...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION N... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2005 The Pennsylva... ...dred thousand spectators, in many a fifth part of that amount,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare... ... still it happens that at times I do—I must—I shall perhaps to the hour of death, rise in maniac fury, and seek, in the very impotence of vindictive m... ...times even a comfort to know that this will be the case. A great criminal, sentenced to an agonizing punishment, has derived a fortitude and a consola... ...ast’—‘How so?’ I interrupted him; ‘surely they don’t detain the corpses of prisoners?’ ‘Ay, but mind you — put case that he or that she should die in ... ..., precisely according to the de- gree in which its absolute power over its prisoners was annu- ally growing less and less, grew more and more jealous ... ...d Miscellaneous Papers public opinion as powerfully as possible, Agnes was sentenced by the court, reassembled in full pomp, order, and ceremo- nial c...

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...Excerpt: ?But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this coun...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B...

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...Cashel Byron’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ...e years old the first startling event of her life took place. This was the death of her father at Avignon. No endearments passed between them even on ... ...st unbe- coming will. It was a brief document, dated five years before his death, and was to the effect that he bequeathed to his dear daughter Lydia ... ...ured, but against whom the grand jury had refused to find a true bill. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. The defence was that the fight, the occurrenc... ...he posse of constables 204 Cashel Byron’s Profession who had arrested the prisoners. Again, it had been urged that the prisoners were in fight- ing c... ...llish, and found Cashel and Paradise guilty of a common assault. They were sentenced to two days’ imprisonment, and bound over to keep the peace 208 ...

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................................................................................................................................. 4 SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM................................................................................................... 11 PART I HISTORICAL.............................................................................................

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...Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pr... ...ussell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ... with Syndicalism—notably the I. W . W . in America and Guild Socialism in England. From this historical survey we shall pass to the consideration of ... ... brief intervals for purposes of agitation, he continued to live until his death in 1883. The bulk of his time was occupied in the composition of his ... ...isie itself. But not only has the bourgoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield... ...eriod of imprisonment in many pris- ons and various countries. Bakunin was sentenced to death on the 14th of January, 1850, but his sentence was commu... ...newspapers were full of the cruel treatment meted out to Russian political prisoners, the oppression of Finland and Russian Poland, and other such top...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and...

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...Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication M... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Universi... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...r mother’s maternal aunt, and had lived on an annuity so small that on her death there had not been funds sufficient to pay expenses without a sale of... ...ed away when the other chamber had been arranged into the solemnity of the death-room. Hastily securing them, she carried them to her own desk in the ... ...sat down on the stairs, all in a heap again with him, 46 Magnum Bonum and sentenced him to the forfeit of the ship, which he en- dured with more tole... ...Mr. Barnes had gone back to the West Indies at once, and never appeared in England again till he came home, a broken 143 Yonge and soured old man, to... ...as much for his own security as to carry some additional com- forts to the prisoners, and she committed to him two little notes, one to each boy, writ...

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...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE... ...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University.... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...xistence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or... ... ever, we hasten to undeceive them, and stride to its commencement. On the death of his father, Ralph Nickleby, who had been some time before placed i... ...hings is charged, in after life, with bitter disappoint- ment, affliction, death; with dreary change and wasting sor- row. The time will one day come,... ...sorry to contradict anybody; but I can only say that I’ve heard the French prisoners, who were natives, and ought to know how to speak it, talking in ... ... loike.’ ‘After various shiftings and delays,’ said Nicholas, ‘he has been sentenced to be transported for seven years, for being in the unlawful poss...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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...ns A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ... dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.” “I’ll eat my breakfast afore they’re the death of me,” said he. “I’d do that, if I was going to be strung up to that... ...our time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!” 18 Great Expectation... ...s. Our lights warmed the air about us with their pitchy blaze, and the two prisoners seemed rather to like that, as they limped along in the midst of ... ...usty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw him taken up the side a... ...ge to be protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us? And when we’re sentenced, ain’t it him as gets seven year, and me fourteen, and ain’t it h... ...s; who, after re- peated imprisonments and punishments, had been at length sentenced to exile for a term of years; and who, under circum- stances of g...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business t...

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...The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication T... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylv... ...y a sum of fifty pounds and that the payment had been made in five Bank of England notes of ten pounds each, which had been handed to his friend in th... ...w sug- gested for his son, was encompassed almost with the bitter- ness of death. ‘I think it would kill me,’ he said to his wife; ‘by heavens, I thin... ...t would kill me,’ he said to his wife; ‘by heavens, I think it would be my death!’ A daughter of the archdeacon had made a splendid matri- monial alli... ...victed, then, I suppose, there will be an end of the question. He would be sentenced for not less, I should say, than twelve months; and after that—’ ... ...for the comforts of ordinary life as though they had been prepared for two prisoners. But Lily was not so ignorant as to expect cheerful lodgings in L...

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...t: The opening of the eyes of Mrs Chick Miss Tox, all unconscious of any such rare appearances in connection with Mr. Dombey?s house, as scaffoldings and ladders, and men with their heads tied up in pocket-handkerchiefs, glaring in at the windows like flying genii or strange birds,--having breakfasted one morning at about this eventful period of time, on her customary vian...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...whispering of Nature and her wholesome air, as such things will, even unto prisoners and captives, and those who are desolate and oppressed, in very s... ...enteel persons who have existed at various times, she set her face against death altogether, and objected to the mention of any such low and levelling... ...sarcophagus below it. The owner of the house lived much abroad; the air of England seldom agreed long with a member of the Feenix family; and the room... ...scious air upon it, that no levity or temper could conceal. ‘I am tired to death,’ said she. ‘You can’t be trusted for a moment. Y ou are worse than a... ...—a girl still, but deserted and an outcast. And she was tried, and she was sentenced. And lord, how the gentlemen in the Court talked about it! and ho...

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...CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? ...

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...RS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAIN?A DESCENT?HURRIED DEPARTURE?A -- NEW SHIPMATE, 104 -- CHAPTER ...

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