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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... deal 44 The Age of Innocence more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. The dinner was a somewhat formidable business. Dining with the van... ...enna George II plate were out; so was the van der Luyden “Lowestoft” (East India Company) and the Dagonet Crown Derby. Mrs. van der Luyden looked more... ...ork wedding a rite 125 Edith Wharton that seemed to belong to the dawn of history. Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to pu... ...th conscious intention but be- cause he did not want to miss a word of her history; and lean- ing on the table, her chin resting on her clasped hands,... ...go to Naples on account of the fever. “But you must have three weeks to do India properly,” her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that h... ...epeated. “Ever so far? Where, for instance?” she asked. “Oh, I don’t know. India—or Japan.” She stood up, and as he sat with bent head, his chin propp...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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Bhagavad Gita with Commentaries

By: Various; Commentary by Vladimir Antonov

...The Bhagavad Gita — or, in translation from Sanskrit, the Song of God — is the most important part of the Indian epic poem “Mahabharata”. The latter describes events that are 5-7 thousands years old. The Bhagavad Gita is a great philosophical work that played the same role in the history...

...Preface to the Russian edition of the Bhagavad Gita......2 Sanskrit terms left in the text without translation....3 BHAGAVAD GITA....5 Conversation 1....5 Conversation 2....7 Conversation 3.......12 Conversation 4.......14 Conversation 5.......17 C...

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Sylvie and Bruno

By: Lewis Carroll

... Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica tion project, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...n with a little basket, which he was filling with frogs. “So fond of Natural History as he is, dear boy!” said the doting mother. “Now do tell us, Bar... ...afcutter bee!” I care lessly remarked—you know I am very learned in Natural History (for instance, I can always tell kittens from chickens at one gla... ...very moment more excited as he turned them over. “These are all from Central India!” he said, laying aside part of the bouquet. “They are rare, even t... ...mounting to his very forehead) “—is. I am nearly sure —but I have a book of Indian Botany here—” He took a volume from the book shelves, and turned t... ...Arthur. But don’t think about me. I have made up my mind to accept a post in India, that has been offered me. Out there, I suppose I shall find someth... ...d as a revelation of love no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a prin ciple I should, for exa...

...Excerpt: Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any 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....

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Bunner Sisters

By: Edith Wharton

...assics SeriesPublication Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...getable than in the human world, to remark sig- nificantly on the probable history of the persons they met. All the alleys were thronged with promenad... ...d the twist of hair that was fastened above her parting by a comb of black India-rubber. Toward spring a lady who was expecting a baby took up her abo...

...Excerpt: In the days when New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a sin...

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Barrackroom Ballads

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ries Publication Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... than I am, Gunga Din! Kipling 23 Oonts Oonts Oonts Oonts Oonts (Northern India Transport Train) Wot makes the soldier’s ‘eart to penk, wot makes ‘im... ...ads For ever since then, if a war they would wage, Behold us a-shinin’ on history’s page — First page for, etc. We lay down their sidings an’ help ‘...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...ions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Easter Holidays . . . ... ...Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Julia . .... .... . . . . . . . 11 To the Muse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Destruction of the Bastile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Life . . . . .... ...his Lime-Tree Bower my Prison 1797 [Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London] In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid... ...else: fair, but of import vague Or unconcerning, where the heart not finds History or prophecy of friend, or child, Or gentle maid, our first and e... ... was the same! FRIEND This riddling tale, to whom does it belong? Is’t history? vision? or an idle song? Or rather say at once, within what spa...

...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?...

...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To ...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...urgatory and Jerusalem are antipodal, and in one direc- tion the Ganges or India was arbitrarily assumed to be their common horizon. The night is here... ...n by half the edge dies away. Gold and fine silver, and scarlet and white, Indian wood lucid and clear, 4 fresh emer- ald at the instant it is split,... ...only is thy reply of need, for all these have a greater thirst for it than Indian or Ethiop of cold water. T ell us how it is that thou makest of thys...

...Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO I...

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...cs Series Publication The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... this world.” It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling ta... ...e very much pleased with themselves for the time. Mowgli had never seen an Indian city before, and though this was almost a heap of ruins it seemed ve... ...ch and told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was going to show them how to weave s... .... “Even ssso! Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old sum- ... ...ink. It was a serious matter for him. If you read the old books of natural history, you will find they say that when the mongoose fights the snake and...

...Excerpt: It was seven o?clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day?s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay ...

......................................................................................................................................... 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ............................................................................................................................ 23 Kaa?s Hunting ..................................................................

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...... ...liographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serv... ...nd educators by providing public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services a... ...d offset a stern presence. Seattle, Chief and spiritual leader of the Suquamish Indians, was dressed regally with his full chieftain bonnet gently s... ...nd witness a day of reconciliation be­ tween the United States and the Suquamish Indians. A day that marks the beginning of a new relationship ... a ... ...sity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to fini... ...f­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he missed touc... ...ng?" "Dr. River Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed the other ... ...upply." "Could be two reasons. First, it could be the biggest cover up in U.S. history ... " "Doc, you're talking about people knowingly putting th...

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

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Hinduism Today : Special Issue, Bali, Volume April/May/June 2012: Special Issue, Bali

By: Various

...Hinduism Today Releases a Special Issue on Balinese Hindus The April/May/June 2012 issue of our flagship magazine focuses on the Hinduism of Bali, where we experience the people and explore the philosophy and temple culture of this unique Hindu outpost. If you ask the Balinese, they will tell you theirs is the re...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...ny Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing t... ...spired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as t... ... rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages a... ... Should the U.S. Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it... ...roduce an effect directly the reverse of that which was produced by the East India Company’s monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essex’s monopoly of sweet win... ...aint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept of propert...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ou, I’m sure,” said Sophie, and curt- sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June su... ...T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At t... ... wan of them. How’s the dog takin’ it ?” “Like a man. He’s the best dog in India. Can’t you make Stanley take him back?” “I can do no more than I have... ... goes to the Hills? The doctor’s put him on the list.” It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stati... ...t somehow forgot about it. The new draft marks a new chapter in the Hunt’s history. From an isolated phenomenon in a barge it became a per- manent ins... ... could recall that in any way bore on the house, and what they knew of its history. We went to bed in a fortifying blaze of electric light. My one fea...

...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ... 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE INDI... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ... all men’s ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.’ ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest... ...fidget finger CROSSWAYS 11 Trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me. THE INDIAN UPON GOD I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees, My s... ...Nor be I any less of them, Because the red rose bordered hem Of her, whose history began Before God made the angelic clan, Trails all about the writte... ...he hands that play. The notes they waken shall live on When all this heavy history’s done; Our hands, our hands must ebb away. Three Voices [together]... ...thought to have fled, Being certain it was no right rock Because an ancient history said Hell Mouth lay open near that place, And yet stood still, beca...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ... in this glance at our general intention for the sake of the small page of history thereby added to my already voluminous, yet on the whole so unabash... ...teresting, and I dare say admirably difficult, to go into would be the very history of this effect of experience; the history, in other words, of the g... ...It is over the fact of such a phenomenon and its so pos sibly rich little history that I am moved just fondly to linger—and for the reason xii The G... ...real caravan; they’ve mainly known ‘old England’ as a shop for articles in india rubber and leather, in which they’ve dressed themselves as much as po... ...on of a settler or a trader in a new country; in the likeness even of some Indian squaw with a papoose on her back and barbarous beadwork to sell. Mag...

...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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Hinduism Today : Bharat Sevashram Sangh; Benevolent Band of Sadhus, Volume April/May/June 2011: Bharat Sevashram Sangh; Benevolent Band of Sadhus

By: Various

...The April-May-June edition of Hinduism's flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. The issue takes you to South America, Texas, Vermont, Nepal, Northeast India and more...

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Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore. Vol. 6

By: Abraham Fornander

...This third series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostl...

...at the time, without appetite for food, they (the attendants) sought to ascertain her cravings. Then certain women came to her and asked, “What sort of illness have you that you hide yourself?” She said to them, “I do not know; (I am) simply languid. ” The women then said to her, “Let’s see; we will examine you. ” She took off her garment and they examined her body whil...

...Preface -- 1 -- Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies -- 2 -- Various Heathen Prayers -- 46 -- Concerning the Construction of the Heiau -- 52 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the Order of Sorcery -- 56 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time Called Hoomanamana -- 66 -- Explanatory Remarks—History of the Sorcery Priesthood—...

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