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...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...onal criminals, electronic notices, stolen motor vehicles, stolen/lost/counterfeit travel and ID documents, stolen works of art, payment cards, fin... ...related to tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient als... ...tes of: I. Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of ... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ...
...rence in each of them from the rest. I hold it no wisdom or labor well spent to travel much therein. One artificer had devised them all.‖ ―Thou ... ...who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such power belonged eithe... ...hole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on Astrology and Magic give voluminous directions for gatheri... ...gs at the house of a friend, while his companion put up at a public tavern. The traveler lodging at his friend‘s, was visited in a dream by his comra... ...blood, and beseeching him to avenge his murder. The phantom informed his fellow traveler that he had been treacherously assassinated by the tavern k... ...her eyes closed.‖ PREVOYANT VISION OF JOHN KNOX. John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer, when upon his death bed, experiences a most remar...
...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ...at it is useful, yea, and of the utmost usefulness. Wherefore all venerable divines and writers of the best times, are ever wont to place the USES o... ... upon whom he hath been nourished and sustained, not in his humility as heretofore, but travelling in the greatness of his strength; not as a servan... ...les, and so carried the question into the arcana of Christian antiquities, of classical writers, and the authority of the fathers, whither the great ... ... William Huntingdon, two most able preachers, and, as it seems to me, two of the purest writers after the scriptural type; nor do I mean to say that ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ... ... Saviour and Author of eternal righteousness; but that I perceive I have much ground to travel over. And yet I know not what to do; for there is suc...
...lomela: Rape victim weaves her revenge King Tereus of Thrace agreed to travel to Athens and escort his wife Procne’s sister, Philomela, to Thrace... ...neys of Marco Polo (1254–1324) through Asia lasted twenty-four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far su... ... siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of finding an ... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...
...hilomela: Rape victim weaves her revenge King Tereus of Thrace agreed to travel to Athens and escort his wife Procne’s sister, Philomela, to Thrace... ...neys of Marco Polo (1254–1324) through Asia lasted twenty-four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far su... ...h siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of finding an ... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...
...y true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in the New Hebrides as early as... ...of '07 Class of '08 Class of '09 Class of '10 Miscellaneous Training table Traveling expenses : Transportation Hotels and restauran Umpires Dalton, Ma... ...1 e- phone 87 90 Trniiior and care of tiekl 4('>5 40 Training table 688 67 Traveling expenses: Transportation 532 53 Hotels and restau- rants 240 80 U... ... leave on the five o'clock car for North Adams Tuesday afternoon, and will travel from there to Worces- ter by way of Pittsfield, returning at ten o'c... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil...
...e equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess. Then there are the new girls: Heptha, with copper ... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ..., their Persian origin, the circumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind ... ... never trembled. Wind shakes the house. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 89 Mind travels to other days when we struggled in exile, when Alcaeus, badly dres... ...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici...
...an only pray they’re blind with a Seeing Eye dog that can’t talk. The Ute travels past my kitchen window; we’re both clocking thirty- Ks as I head fo... ...ch short notice, but....” “Ali wants to see the farm and dad won’t let her travel alone.” “It’s absolutely pathetic! He lets her go clubbing on her ow... ... where I grabbed my handbag and car keys. I broke every speed limit in my travels to the city. Still in my overalls, I took a deep breath and snuck i... ... I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I was saying, it was one hell of a step, belie... ...ven moment. I’ve seen spooky movies; they now seem so real. I just bet the writers knew things others didn’t and it was their way of telling their st...
...nd Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend... ...nic Force; not a mechanical one. Take light rays as an example. Light rays traveling through intergalactic space actually avoid hitting stars: th... ...gone around the stone, it resumes its original path. The only reason light travels in a general direction that is more or less straight, is becau... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...
... the top of the mystical mountain, but all arriving by different means of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western... ...ned about light years. Then we went to the moon. And here am I, the first traveler around the solar system. I certainly am a believer in science. Bu... ... accumulate your wealth in goods or in memories? Do you want to experience travel, people, and ideas or do you want to buy cars, yachts and houses? I... ...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp...
...ne so spake Greeke as he seemed to know no other tongue: the other in his travells to Athens and Rhodes had long conversed with the learned Græcians... ...nders had many times beene cloyed with them. Secondly (as said an ancient Writers that I doe not so much remember injuries received. I had need have... ...rections to the CHAPTER XVI: A TRICKE OF CERTAINE AMBASSADORS IN all my travels I did ever observe this custome, that is, alwaies to learne someth... ...ng of histories (which is the subject of most men) to consider who are the writers: If they be such as professe nothing but bare learning, the chiefe... ...ckes us, or it only aimeth at our contentment, and in fine, bends all her travell to make us live well, and as the holy Scripture, saith, 'at our ea... ...fford, I commonly make use of that which is most rare and memorable. Some writers there are whose end is but to relate the events. Mine, if I could ... ...iam Guerenti, who hath commented Aristotele: George Buchanan, that famous Scottish Poet, and Marke-Antonie Muret, whom (while he lived) both FranceI... ...le, when or how we shall make an end. I was not long since reading of two Scottish bookes striving upon this subject. The popular makes the King to ...
... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the P... ...ed within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State U... ...sion to three gal- leries, two running forward towards Steerage No. 1, and the 4 Essays of Travel third aft towards the engines. The starboard forwar... ...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...
...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...ub, would be revelling in hisses, shrieks, puffings and screeches, so that travelling would become an intoler- able affliction. ‘I speak rather as an ... ...talk was passable. The subjects treated of politics, pictures, Continental travel, our manufactures, our wealth and the reasons for it —excellent reas... ...riding like a huntsman. His great-coat lay on a chair in the hall, and his travelling-bag was beside it. He had carried it up from the valley, expecti... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...
...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...
... almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficul... ...ich therefore had the honor of producing perhaps the most char- acteristic writers of the nineteenth century in prose and verse respectively . The fam... ... his sister tells us, enthusiastically, though there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who ... ...ferme,” was his motto to the very last, varied only by a certain amount of traveling. Balzac was always a considerable traveler; indeed if he had not ... ..., deniable. So things went on in light and in shade, in homekeeping and in travel, in debts and in earnings, but always in work of some kind or anothe... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul... ... mind to face the fire of criticism should no more think of writing than a traveler should start on his journey counting on a perpetually clear sky. O...
...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...
... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ... rehearsal of the stages through which the process of induction ordinarily travels, we have purposely omitted one possible interlude or parenthesis in... ...peaking of the routine in this place, according to the course which it did travel or could travel under that law and that practice which furnished the... ...ple was the same in one case as in the other; that of the two presbyteries travelled upon lines diametrically opposite. The first case was that of Auc... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq...
...........................................................37 TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ........................................................ ...f-same air for me you play; For I do think and so do you It is the tune to travel to. For who would gravely set his face To go to this or t’other plac... ...’other place? There’s nothing under Heav’n so blue That’s fairly worth the travelling to. On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal the... ...end, Be sure there’s nothing at the end. Then follow you, wherever hie The travelling mountains of the sky. Or let the streams in civil mode Direct yo... ...d the fire addressed its eveing hours. BOOK II. – In Scots TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ae } ae } = open A as in rare. a’ } au } = AW as in l... ...or you, my buckie. “The hale concern (baith hens an’ eggs, Baith books an’ writers, stars an’ clegs) Noo stachers upon lowsent legs An’ wears awa’; Th... ...ntie – An’ the ba’ rise into the air, A leevin’ lintie: Sae in the game we writers play, There comes to some a bonny day, When a dear ferlie shall rep...
...in this anonymous accidental way, to watch more than one of these downward travellers for some stages on the road to ruin. One man must have been up- ... ... the ground. The physical shock was felt far and near; and the moral shock travelled with the morning milkmaid into all the suburbs. The church-bells ... ...e space. The Parliament Close has been the scene of marking inci- dents in Scottish history. Thus, when the Bishops were ejected from the Convention i... ...it was here that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would hav... ...nth century, going to pass his trials (examinations as we now say) for the Scottish Bar, beheld the Parliament Close open and had a vision of the mout... ... was a special interest, a point of romance, and a sentiment as of foreign travel, when we hit in our excursions on the butt- end of some former hamle... ...e the beginning of history. The date is reassuring; for I think cau- tious writers are silent on the General’s exploits. But the stone is connected wi... ...and without exactly casting in one’s lot with that disenchanting school of writers, one cannot help hearing a good deal of the winter wind in the last...
...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ...f is swimming in his eyes. All dripping from the recent flood, Panting and travel-soiled he stood, The fatal sign of fire and sword Held forth, and sp... ...e torrents which he exhibits are not the im- perfect sketches of a hurried traveller, but the finished studies of a resident artist.” See also on 278 ... ...cture is somewhat too minute, and that the contemplation of it detains the traveller somewhat too long from the main purpose of his pilgrimage, but wh... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ...
...engers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wre... ... so measurable by instrument, as it struck home upon the heart and seemed to travel with the blood. Day came in with a shudder. White mists lay thinly... ...s had pro- ceeded, and how it was because of his desistance that she was now travelling to the West. Then, when I was thus put in possession of the fa... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first... ...ng To the braes o’ Balquidder.” – which is indeed apt to echo in the ears of Scottish chil- dren, and to him, in view of his experience, must have fou...
...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ... peared to have so imperfect an acquaintance with law. The modern modes of travelling cannot compare with the old mail-coach system in grandeur and po... ...tures to the heart of his servant the horse. But now, on the new system of travelling, iron tubes and boilers have disconnected man’s heart from the m... ...des that awed. Tidings fitted to con- vulse all nations must henceforwards travel by culinary pro- cess; and the trumpet that once announced from afar... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...