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...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...trial life: an excavator business, two large car showrooms and two service stations. And at the start of the village road, where just a small brick fa... ...sinesses, schools, banks, and a concentration of motor dealers and service stations. Since 1997, the heart of the area has been occupied by a huge sup... ...s consist of white, mechanically shelled and polished rice, up to now only served on special occasions, at weddings and funerals. Rice fields have the... ...t tobacco kills its farmer, as well as the smoker. Only pristine leaves of Virginia tobacco are acceptable to world markets, and growing them demands ... ...ple lay down on the bed and they are photographed. Sometimes they are also served food in the bedroom.After all that, the young couple returns to the ...

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...rfect lawn were straight and angular; they were the shadows of an old man sitting in a deep wicker-chair near the low table on which the tea had been served, and of two younger men strolling to and fro, in desultory talk, in front of him. The old man had his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brill...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...c Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ... were found in the bedrooms of convalescents and in dentists’ parlours and railway trains than in gentlemen’s studies. I would rather have it dipped i... ... the iridescent coal of the place. Nearer at hand was the broad stretch of railway, and half-invisible trains shunted—a steady puffing and rumbling, w... ... that still lay in the black tangle beneath him; for to the naturalist the virgin forests of Borneo are still a wonderland full of strange ques- tions... ... Blind big letters, like what you see done with coloured stones at railway stations in the old country, and mathematical calcu- lations and drawings o... ... floor under the straps between the en- gines and the dynamos. “Have I not served my Lord?” said Azuma-zi inaudibly, from his shadow, and the note of ... ...e the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the virgin forest showed its course down the distant hill slope. The forest her... ... place in Regent Street to which we went, and the sumptuous dinner we were served with there. I was disconcerted at first by the well-dressed waiter’s...

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Excerpt: The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence.

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...wrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...s on water. As he watched the end of the pier loom higher, large ponderous trains of cloud cast over him the shadows of their bulk, and he shivered in... ...places. Siegmund sat in a chilly torpor. He counted 19 D. H. Lawrence the stations. Beneath his stupor his heart was thudding heavily with excitement... ...l, inaccessible sea-cave, creep- ing into it like a white bee into a white virgin blossom that had waited, how long, for its bee. The sand was warm to... ... ing the mignonette, he said: ‘I found a little white bay, just like you—a virgin bay. I had to swim there.’ ‘Oh!’ she said, very interested in him, n... ...ching the houses, the downs dead asleep in the sun, the embankments of the railway with exhausted hot flowers go slowly past out of their reach. They ... ...s of gold in the smithy of the sunset. Like sparks, poppies blew along the railway-banks, a crimson train. Siegmund waited, through the meadows, for t... ...Allport facetiously with his elbow. After supper, which was late and badly served, the young men were in poor spirits. Mr MacWhirter retired to read. ...

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...controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- si... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- ... ...sted persecution, stood gath- 14 Yo n g e ered round the green mound that served as a natural pulpit for a Calvinist minister, who more the dress of ... ...there, Dolly,’ said Philip, in a warning voice, ‘that is the way you’ll be served if you do not mend your ways.’ ‘But I thought,’ said Annora gravely,... ...that little Eustacie de Ribaumont was to make her es- cape that night! The trains of royalty were not sumptuously lodged. France never has cared so mu... ... first planned, enabled Osbert to carry his whole crew safely past all the stations where passports were demanded. He had much wished to procure surgi... ... the project. There was what in later times has been termed an underground railway amid the persecuted Cal- vinists, and M. Gardon knew his ground wel... ...irs, and a rugged woodcut of a very tall St. Ursula, with a crowd of pigmy virgins, not reaching higher than the ample hem of her petticoat. ‘Did Aunt... ...d would probably have decided against the syrup if it had been nothing but virgin honey. She was one who fully be- lieved that her dear Queen Jeanne h...

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...gham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ps was engaged. When they reached the vicarage they all felt that they de- served a substantial dinner. When this was over Mrs. Carey went to her room... ... back to T ercanbury in time for call-over. As he sat in the corner of the railway carriage he saw that he had done nothing. He was angry with himself... ...y high spirits; and then, though he limped about demurely , silent and re- served, it seemed to be hallooing in his heart. He seemed to himself to wal... ... Being used to the society of young men (they were full of stories of hill-stations in India, 190 Of Human Bondage and at that time the stories of Ru... ... contemplate the masterpiece and then took him to a picture representing a railway-station. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazar... ... making ges- tures whose sense escaped you; there was an Assumption of the Virgin; there was a Crucifix- ion in which the painter by some magic of fee... ...as a classical figure representing the river Tagus; and in the sky was the Virgin surrounded by angels. It was a landscape alien to all Philip’s notio...

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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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...E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...itting in a deep wicker-chair near the low table on which the tea had been served, and of two younger men strolling to and fro, in desultory talk, in ... ...eed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her deep chagrin,... ...ick by mid- summer. When they reached home they usually found tea had been served on the lawn and that Mrs. Touchett had not shrunk from the extremity... ... the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway- trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and it... ... tracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway-carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was m... ...he might go and look at the yellow room, which seemed so attractive yet so virginal. He had been there already with Osmond, to inspect the furniture, ... ...ht and fair. Her remarkably open eyes, lighted like great glazed rail- way-stations, had put up no shutters; her attire had lost none of its crispness...

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...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...fe of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...ly written down, instead of spo- ken and forgotten, because correspondence served him in- stead of conversation. I think I have represented fairly, fo... ... passed on. He had all a boy’s shyness about the adventure; but perhaps it served to quicken the personal loyalty which is an unfailing characteristic... ...r, 1842, some severe spasmodic attacks made her family anxious; and as the railway communication was still incomplete, so that the journey to London w... ...ny have nobly carried out, of unselfish duty and devotion in their several stations. Balliol had, under the mastership of Dr. Jenkyns, attained pre-em... ...isto fully equal to his anticipations. There is that about the head of the Virgin which I believe one sees in no other picture, a dignity and beauty w... ...ts, &c., is erected, and where shooting at targets with wooden darts, sham railway- trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of eve... ...mon group, are now yielding up scholars and affording openings for Mission stations, though this indeed is great matter for thankfulness; but there is...

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...th the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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...THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... upon us; never was a slacking, dull people so liber- 7 H. G . Wells ally served with warnings of what was in store for them. But this event—this for... ...and prepared for something like the down-going sensa- tion of a switchback railway on a larger scale. Just for a mo- 13 H. G . Wells ment there was t... ...tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There one gets a dis- agreeable quiver up one’s ... ...in in the years ahead. But a great system of laboratories and experimental stations, a systematic, industri- ous increase of men of the officer-aviato... ...itary and naval education and training, upon laboratories and experimental stations, upon chemical and physical research and all that makes knowledge ... ... common man, the idea of the State as his own, as a thing he serves and is served by. We want to add to his sense of property rather than offend it. I... ...d feet. Even the highly feudal slave-holding “county family” traditions of Virginia and the South pass now out of memory. So that in a very real sense...

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.... Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ... return to their homes. And he is a chilly Londoner who does not endow his stations with some personality, and extend to them, however shyly, the emot... ...et, out of politeness, invested a few hundreds in the Nottingham and Derby Railway, and though the Foreign Things did admirably and the Nottingham and... ...ut being pressed, consecrated a fraction of it to the Nottingham and Derby Railway. So far so good, but in social matters their aunt had accomplished ... ...imate aspirations in the other place, might appeal to others, and be fitly served by them; for his own part, he abstained from the fruits of vic- tory... ...were women from the dead woman’s district, to whom black garments had been served out by Mr. Wilcox’s orders. Pure curiosity had brought others. They ... ... It tires them. Go on.” “I felt like R. L. S. You probably remember how in Virginibus.” “Yes, but the wood. This ‘ere wood. How did you get out of it?... ...anner more down- right, and she was inclined to patronise the more foolish virgin. Margaret was silly enough to be pained at this. Depressed at her is...

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Excerpt: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louis Maude.

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...RESURRECTION BY C OUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated by Mrs. Louis Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Re... ...is Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...y in land wrong, this step filled his mother and relations with dismay and served as an excuse for making fun of him to all his relatives. He was cont... ...with a deep sigh, she looked straight in his face with a look of devotion, virgin purity, and love, in her very slightly squinting eyes. In the love b... ...er sat another woman sew- ing a coarse canvas sack. This was the wife of a railway watchman, [There are small watchmen’s cottages at dis- tances of ab... ...tages at dis- tances of about one mile from each other along the Rus- sian railways, and the watchmen or their wives have to meet every train.] impris... ... not to wake them. The watchman’s wife was hanging up the rags to dry that served the baby as swad- dling clothes, while the baby was screaming desper... ...inel at the entrance, [the headquarters of the fire brigade and the police stations are generally together in Moscow] drove into the yard of the polic... ... to ask the officer for an interview with Katusha. At the last six halting stations he could not get the permission for an interview from any of the o...

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...ondescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying f...

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... STEVENSON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ... settlement] ‘there followed a brief term of office by Father Damien which served only to pub- lish the weakness of that noble man. He was rough in hi... ...e it, and observe with wonder how 52 Robert Louis Stevenson well you were served by your gossips, how ill by your intel- ligence and sympathy; in how... ...ture of capital and competition; it stands and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the ... ...rivate property, the days of the independent jour- nal are numbered. State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspape... ...ne on both; the waggons will be fired on as they follow the high- way, the trains wrecked on the lines, the ploughman will go armed into the field of ... ...’ cried the old man. ‘Come now, Mr. Archer, you and me belong to different stations; and I know mine– no man better– but since we have both been rooke... ...f my joke, and so’s she? I declare to God, by what I ken, she might be the Virgin Mary– if she would just keep clear of the dragoons. But me! na, deil...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of ...

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...JOHN KEBLE’S PARISHES A HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND OTTERBOURNE By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...s Publication John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...rous manors in the diocese, and these were really not only endowments, but stations whence the episcopal duty of visitation could be performed. Riding... ... and which is the worst, father (or mother rather) the expres- sion on our virgin queen, as falsely as other things have been charged upon her. Some h... ... part of which was still legible in 1839. Otterbourne was apparently still served by the vicar of Hursley or his assistant. Parish Registers began at ... ...etween Hursley and Baddesley, at a spot called High Trees Corner, near the railway, is marked in the old map, “Here stode Gospell Oke.” It is not far ... ...as White Esq., son of Ignatius White Esq. of Fiddleford in Dorsetshire. He served three kings and Queen Ann as a Commander in the guards, and was much... ...itants, who chiefly lived along the high road. Moreover, the South Western Railway was being made, and passed so near, that to those whose ears were u... ...our Street he succeeded in obtaining five panels, representing the Blessed Virgin and the four Latin Fathers, which are worked into the pulpit; also a...

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...PASSOS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...Where d’ye come from, buddy?” “Oh, I come from New York. My folks are from Virginia,” said Andrews. “Indiana’s ma state. The tornado country … . Git t... ...re you could sit at an oak table and have beer and eggs and fried potatoes served you by a girl with red cheeks and plump white appetizing arms. “Atte... ...les and here and there a man coughing. Near the counter where the food was served out one of the cooks swore interminably in a whiny sing-sing voice. ... ...now the ropes … . All you have to do is keep away from the Olympia and the railway stations, walk fast and keep your shoes shined … and you’ve got wit... ...ropes … . All you have to do is keep away from the Olympia and the railway stations, walk fast and keep your shoes shined … and you’ve got wits, haven... ... of ciga- rettes and in the midst of them a little opening, like that of a railway ticket office, in the wall through which the “Y” man sold his commo... ...he occa- sional little red-green lights that darted by and the glow of the stations that flared for a moment and were lost in dark silhouettes of unli...

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...The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...e Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ntain the dame and troops of children painfully reared to fill subordinate stations. According to our reading, a moral is always wel- come in a moral ... ...ed her more fre- quently for carriage exercise, and Sir Willoughby was ob- served riding beside them. A real and sunny pleasure befell Laetitia in the... ... until Crossjay related how that he had stood to salute on the road to the railway, and taken off his cap to Sir Willoughby, and Sir Willoughby had pa... ...- ary benevolent irony in speaking of the persons, great in their way, who served him. “Why he cannot give us daily so good a dinner, one must, I supp... ...e loved me!” Before hearing of Constantia, she had mused upon liberty as a virgin Goddess—men were out of her thoughts; even the figure of a rescuer, ... ...tely, and still with a bent head, she turned her face to where the load of virginal blossom, whiter than summer-cloud on the sky, showered and drooped... ...d, as if wealth had been imputed to Miss Dale; adding: “No male cousin.” A railway station fly drove out of the avenue on the circle to the hall-entra...

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Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

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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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...as children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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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... ...asping frightfully, while redoubling his contortions, though Queen Mab ob- served in the most admonitory tone, touching him at the 17 Yonge same time... ...flounces on her dress, and speculating on the meetings and partings at the stations; yet with a terrible weight and soreness on her all the time, thou... ...ived. By the terms of Joseph’s will, everything was left to Caroline unre- servedly, save for a stipulation that all, on her death, should be divided ... ... to weak human nature. (Mrs. Rigby.) 22nd.—All his toilet apparatus is of “virgin gold;” he lets nothing else touch him. (Jessie.) “Exactly like King ... ...e dron in the wolf-skin rug, and jump out on him in his chair.” In Allen’s railway rug, Jock rehearsed the scene, and was imitated if not surpassed by... ...s secured. Never was the taste of wealth sweeter than in that over- filled railway carriage, before it was light on the winter morn- 185 Yonge ing, w... ...the wedding, Barbara re- ceived a letter. “Ashton Vineyard, Virginia. September 30th. “My Dearest Babie,—I have l...