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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over... ...oastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in rec... ... even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabe... ...nting family members considerable independence in the governance of other territories, he was able to remain Chief Khan of the Mongols while he conc...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over w... ...oastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recog... ...nd even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘... ...nting family members considerable independence in the governance of other territories, he was able to remain Chief Khan of the Mongols while he conc...

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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...holic, Episcopalian (the name given to the Church of England in the United States) left me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total outsider w... ...ventually this led me to enroll in the analytical institute which Jung had established in Zürich for the multi-year training leading to a diploma in p... ...ndsworth, 1973. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 2 claims are theories rather than established facts. I would like to invite you to accompany me in considerin... ...much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which define the deta... ...tivity which might threaten the stability of the Empire or its grip on the territories. Judaism was the major religious and social influence in first ...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

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... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...light was ever thrown—all these capi- tal heads of the narrative have been established beyond the reach of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story ... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...when her Grecian vassal prepared to trample on her yoke. In her Euro- pean territories she reckoned, at the utmost, eight millions of subjects. But th... ... this sketch of her modern condition, that pretty nearly the same European territories as were assigned to the eastern Roman empire at the time of its...

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...e Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloster, Protector; the Duke of Exeter Warwicke, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That...

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...otector; the Duke of Exeter War-wicke, 6 the Bishop of Winchester, and 7 the Duke of Somerset. 8 Bedford. 9 Hung be ... ... with black, yield day to night; 10 Comets importing change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 A... ...h black, yield day to night; 10 Comets importing change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And w... ...orting change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 ... ... He ne’re lift vp his Hand, but conquered. 25 Exe. We mourne in black, why mourn we not in blood? 26 Henry is dead, and neuer shal... ...er. 2528 Suf. Yet so my fancy may be satisfied, 2529 And peace established betweene these Realmes. 2530 But there remaines a scruple i... ...ts sound. Enter Reignier. 2590 Reig. Welcome braue Earle into our Territories, 2591 Command in Aniou what your Honor pleases. 2592 ... ... With Letters of Commission from the King. 2737 For know my Lords, the States of Christendome, 2738 Mou’d with remorse of these out- ragious b... ...knowne already that I am possest 2781 With more then halfe the Gallian Territories, 2782 And therein reuerenc’d for their lawfull King. 2783 ...

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...Excerpt: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the convention:-- If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the ...

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...EECH AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858. .................................................................................................................. 12 IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS ...................................................................................................................... 12 SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JULY 17, 1858. ........................................

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 3 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Sena- tor. Mr. DOUGLAS was not present.] Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN... ...ocates will push it forward till it shall become alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to ... ...Territory. This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves, without danger of losing them as property, and thu... ... only to the Constitution.” Why mention a State? They were legislating for Territories, and not for or about States. Certainly the people of a State a... ... to it. I think that was the condition in which we found ourselves when we established this government. We had slavery among us, we could not get our ... ...od gave him but little, that little let him enjoy. When our government was established we had the institu- tion of slavery among us. We were in a cert...

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...ou not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to him? What is your Senator Martin saying and doing? What is Webb about?...

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...Contents LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS FOURTH JOINT DEBATE, AT CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. ............ 4 FIFTH JOINT DEBATE, AT GALESBURGH, OCTOBER 7, 1858 ....................................................................... 26 SIXTH JOINT DEBA...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin 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 squar...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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