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The Altar of the Dead : The Beast in the Jungle; The Birthplace, And Other Tales

By: Henry James

...med little by little the habit of num- bering his Dead: it had come to him early in life that there was something one had to do for them. They were th... ... for concessions in exchange for indulgences. Stransom had of course at an early stage of his enquiry been referred to the Bishop, and the Bishop had ... ... that she had known more kinds of trouble than one. He had a great love of music and little time for the joy of it; but occasionally, when workaday no... ...great wonder. “Did you know him?” “He was the friend of all my youth—of my early man- hood. And you knew him?” She coloured at this and for a moment h... ...into being. Then he understood that it was essentially in his own soul the revival had taken place, and that in the air of this soul they were now una...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during those years of early life when the character is chiefly formed, and as an endeavour to tra... ...iffe, who felt him- 54 The Daisy Chain self obliged to leave Stoneborough early on the morrow. “I can endure better to go now,” said he, “and I shall... ... to sea; I wish it was not neces- sary that the decision should be made so early in life, for this fault is just what would make us most fear to send ... ...orman wearily. “I promised to go and read to Margaret while Flora does her music,” said Ethel; “I shall come after that and do my Latin and Greek with... ...e evening,” she said, “and I could draw here, if I wished, but I have some music to copy.” Margaret was concerned at the dissatisfaction, though not u... ... That cheerful tone, and the kindness to herself, were a re- freshment and revival to Ethel, who was still sobered and shocked by her yesterday’s adve... ...b book, and imparting the cream to the listeners; and Flora gave them some music, a great treat to Margaret, who had long only heard its distant sound... ...flag, both in strength and spirits, as winter approached, but there came a revival in the shape of “Ship Letters!” Alan wrote cheerfully and graphi- c... ...ery one, with more attention to the quantity than the quality. Then came a revival of her anxieties for the guards, and while Mary was simply desirous...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... impossi ble now, at least till night time; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter women; so he must forget himself in the dream ... ...not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend and companion of his early Part I — Chapter 5 17 youth. They were fond of one another in spit... ...ers and tastes, as friends are fond of one another who have been together in early youth. But in spit of this, each of them—as is often the way with m... ... to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young l... ...ys, in spite of his friendship with Oblonsky, became less intimate. But when early in the winter of this year Levin came to Moscow, after a year in th... ...iftly lightly, and rhythmically moving over the slippery floor in time to the music. “It’s a rest to waltz with you,” he said to her, as they fell into... ...yet, princess; let me kiss your hand. There’s nothing I’m so thankful to the revival of the old fashions for as the kissing the hand.” He kissed Betsy...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...des. In July they found four or five urns of unbaked clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined... ...ugh Hursley Church has been twice, if not three times, rebuilt, remains of early Norman mould- 8 John Kemble’s Parishes ings have been found ... ...t had passed, by what means we do not know, to Sir Francis de Bohun—a very early specimen of this Christian name which was derived from the sobriquet ... ...racious hearts, whereby that which is bad metre on earth will be made good music in heaven. As for our Thomas Sternhold, it was happy for him that he ... ...e open- ing of the 18th, still hold their place, probably in virtue of the music to which they are wedded. Bishop Gardiner recovered the Manor of Merd... ...on of Winchester. He was a 50 John Kemble’s Parishes man of great musical talent, and some of his chants are still in use. The only other fac... ...last of all, the friend and partner of his earlier work, the sharer in the revival of the Church from her torpid repose, John Henry Newman, who met Dr...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...a Brown, who is the loving wife of Pastor Philip Brown; both are in their early sixties. The school curriculum is considered very old fashioned comp... ...s education department, it is not a smart move to encourage one to retire early from the use of alcohol or any other stimulant. Better to see one ab... ...an that on this very day, he was to expect a very welcome visitor. In the early hours of the morning, Kelvin opened his heart to the fullest and his... ...ooks. Tammy politely asked Miss Armstrong to sit back and enjoy the taped music they had prepared, adding. “You play the organ beautifully. We would... ...but we’ll have to rely on these inferior tape recordings until your sheet music arrives.” With a smile from Tammy, Miss Armstrong, who glowed from f... ...fully to convince Fred to put his pride aside and attend the service. The music full of praise for those upstairs, forced imps out onto the main roa... ...oof. The statement, ‘women have no place in church politics’ instituted a revival in the church; however, this was not of a spiritual nature, but a r... ...tions, the three men were of different ages and backgrounds. One was into revival, one into traditional and one half-hearted, so Fred thought. None ...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

..., Mr. Connolly,” she whispered, but the words were lost in the silk and the music and the applause. ***** Rupert Gable, Legendary Lord of Leg... ...five years later Daniel Connolly smiled behind the cover of his sheet music. His wife Helene was on the verge of a small tantrum, her third o... ...e of any help, darlin’?” he asked. “I don’t want to disturb you from your music,” she replied with an edge of petulance in her voice. “It’s all... ...didn’t eat enough to slow its effects. Our only luck is our client came so early.” “I’m not afraid of you, Shark. I’m a very good swimmer. My pa... ... He hoped they wouldn’t come today. When Peter had sent word they would be early and planned to take him to the club for dinner, Daniel had sent ba... ...ld have thought Connolly would be too indisposed to come sniffing around so early this morning. What did he look like?” “You asked that already.” ... ...he knelt to gather the sketches and put them in order. “We were plannin’ a revival,” Daniel continued. “Everything was set to go into rehearsals af...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ey were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publica- tion produced a considerable corres... ...is art rises to its most consummate triumphs in Venus and Madonna, and his music is saturated in love suggestions. Not only is this so with the right ... ...he shape of a new gathering place—and of this the New Republic presents an early guess and anticipation. I do not see how men, save in the most unexpe... ...d sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adven- turers. Just as in the early days of British Somaliland, rascals would descend from nowhere in par... ...eat hopes that by these expedients they will evolve at last a “scientific” revival of the Kaffir’s witch-smell- ing. We shall catch our criminals by a... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...des of expression need not begin till after five, or later. With regard to music, every child should begin to undergo a simple course of ear-training ...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...gh-heeled boots, that like the grey cloak and felt hat bore witness to the early walk. Grace’s countenance and fig- ure were in the same style, though... ...ng at the slender spire surmounting the bell-turret of a small building in early-decorated style, new, but somewhat stained by sea-wind, without havin... ...uld be done for her was to wish her good-night, and prom- ise to come down early. Come early! Y es, Rachel might come, but what was the use of that wh... ...ung.” “Fourteen. I was in a naughty fit at her refusing to go to the great musical meeting with us. We always used to go to stay at one of the canon’s... ...ially trying to the Curtises. 58 The Clever Woman of the Family Cathedral music had been too natural to him for the en- durance of an unchoral servic... ...ice, and the prime labour of his life was to work up his choir; but he was musical by educa- tion rather than nature, and having begun his career with... ...ound respect with which you breathed the name of Avonmouth, was due to the revival of the old predilection for our sweet little—” “Hush, Bessie,” said... ...y one as being very good to her, and indeed the old influences only needed revival, they had never quite died out. Even that poor child’s name was giv...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ving, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth. The... ...ther here in the village. In the evenings, we used to walk along the road, musicians used to play old folk instruments and the others follow them, dan... ... used to collect money for the temple or celebrate for other reasons. Play music, sing and dance it was great fun. Today, you don't see such things an... ... the eighth or ninth month, we used to plough the fields with buffalo from early morning up till midday. Then, during the day, the buffalo were given ... ...traffic jams. The irrigation network was constructed in the village in the early 1970s, and at the same time, division of land was verified for taxati... ...lane. The irrigation network and electricity arrived in the village in the early 1980s. When arable land was divided for permanent private ownership, ... ...ceton Univ. Press, Princeton N.J. — 2000. Bowling Alone. The collapse and revival of American community. Simon and Schuster, New York. Pyne, H. H. 1...

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Confidence

By: Henry James

...versity. 3 Henry James Confidence by Henry James CHAPTER I I t was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Ro... ...greatly with his reflections and meditations upon Sienese architecture and early Tuscan art, upon Italian street-life and the geological idiosyn- cras... ...d by the simple fact of its having survived the sentimental revolutions of early life. Its strongest link was a sort of mutual respect. Their tastes, ... ...y nice; it ‘s impossible to be nicer. They are very fond of books, fond of music, and art, and all that. They always read in the morning. They only co... ...ce with Angela Vivian. Her mother came, as usual, to sit and listen to the music, ac- companied by Blanche Evers, who was in turn attended by Captain ... ...up at the dusky hills and the summer stars, seen through a sort of mist of music and talk, and of powdery light projected from the softly lurid window... ...he closest intimacies, moreover, had phases and seasons, intermissions and revivals, and even if his friend had, in fact, averted his countenance from...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was unde...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...a block of stone. She was a wonderful swimmer, among other things, and one early morning, when she was a girl, she did really swim, they say, across t... ...n his heels at ten paces on an April morning, when the duel was fought, as early as the blessed heavens had given them light to see to do it. Such day... ...as fourth of a family of seven children, all males, and hard at the bottle early in life: ‘for want of proper occupation,’ he says in his Memoirs, and... ...se ladies. Their names, Livia and Henrietta, soared above her and sang the music of the splen- did spheres. Henrietta was closer to earth, for her fea... ...hey consulted, and a feminine tongue more urgent than the others, and very musical, sweet to hear any- where, put him in tune. She said, ‘Brother! bro... ... us to be much alone, and I am alone when you are absent. ‘I hear military music! ‘How grand that music makes the dullest world appear in a minute. Th... ...such a wife; a name in sporting journals and shilling biographies: quite a revival of the Peerage they have begun to rail at! ‘I would not wish to lea...

...d her hounds are pricking their ears, and you see antlers of a stag behind a block of stone. She was a wonderful swimmer, among other things, and one early morning, when she was a girl, she did really swim, they say, across the Shannon and back to win a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to beco...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

... so odd and so stupid. Do you know, she says she does not want to learn either music or drawing.” “To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, an... ... minds; and it is not very wonderful that with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common ... ... any thing for a niece, whom she had been so forward to adopt; but as she took early care to make him, as well as Lady Bertram, understand that whatev... ...onsequence so very near them, and not at all displeased either at her sister’s early care, or the choice it had fallen on. Matrimony was her object, p... ...st, as long as you can like to listen; probably much longer, for I dearly love music myself, and where the natural taste is equal, the player must alw... ... since lain dormant. Mrs. Norris and her nieces were all well pleased with its revival, and an early day was named, and agreed to, provided Mr. Crawfo... ...harmony!” said she, “Here’s repose! Here’s what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe. Here’s what...

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Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

...y relied on the liberality of his intentions. The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter in law, was very muc... ...d intelligence. And besides all this, I am afraid, mama, he has no real taste. Music seems scarcely to attract him, and though he admires Elinor’s dra... ...cide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. Oh! mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward... ...possible charm.” “Remember, my love, that you are not seventeen. It is yet too early in life to despair of such an happiness. Why should you be less f... ...val, and each for the sake of the others resolved to appear happy. It was very early in September; 20 Sense and Sensibility the season was fine, and f... ...t what related to themselves. In the evening, as Marianne was discovered to be musical, she was invited to play. The instrument was unlocked, every bo... ...es. Mrs. Jennings, though forced, on examination, to ac knowledge a temporary revival, tried to keep her young friend from indulging a thought of its...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...the exclusive devotion of her only child during all the years in which her early widow- hood had made them all in all to each other. Ten years ago, on... ...nd that she must return next Monday morning. It was the Doctor’s day to be early at the hospital, and he had had a summons to see some one on the way,... ...n Allen, when he wound up his affairs, after paying the debts in which his early and imprudent marriage had involved him. He did not seem to have had ... ...esent, and after this autumn we will manage for you to have some real good music lessons.” “But I don’t like wasting time over old easy things made di... ...dancing-master, and all behold- ers, seeming to catch inspiration from the music, and float- ing along with a wondrous swimming grace, as her dainty f... ...y. A horse and man were given up, and Jessie had to resign the hope of her music lessons. These were the first retrenchments, and the diminution of di... ...er mother about every little arrangement as to dress; satirical on Allen’s revival of spirits in prospect of a visit to a great house; annoyed at what... ...homesick, but they would not let me come!” No doubt Lisette had feared the revival of the Brownlow influence if her charge were once in England, for s...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e to the vices of the French nation! Who has not chanced to leave his home early in the morning, intending to go to some extremity of Paris, and found... ...ets who express; the first are the happiest), Auguste had tasted all these early joys, so vast, so fecund. She possessed the most winning organ that t... ...than the meagre salary of a clerk. But he was a man to whom misfortune had early taught the truths of life, and he followed the strait path with the t... ...ade! He recomposed the “Night Thoughts” of Y oung in a second. And yet the music was sounding through the salons, the light was pouring from a thousan... ...remem- bering my mother’s dying farewell, said in a voice sweeter than all music, and in feeling the solemn touch of her icy hand at a moment when you... ...he said. “I have forgot- ten all, I swear it!” Clemence fell asleep to the music of those sweet words, softly repeated. Jules, as he watched her sleep... ...r had just expired. When he raised his tearful eyes, it was to see in me a revival of his dead hopes. I had sworn, not to tell a lie, but to keep sile...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...have seen it.’ ‘Well! One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music—because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show... ...her father, ‘the sudden loss of her little picture and playfellow, and her early association with that mys- tery in which we all have our equal share,... ...sgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much pl... ...it was enough to see other people’s children there.’ At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit ... ...ed, and never took to that luxury any more. He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, reso... ...was empty, when the lights were out. And still, through all this grotesque revival of what he remembered as having once been prettily natural to her, ... ...yes, yes, yes. It’s my leg, it’s my leg. But it pleases me to hear the old music, though I am very bad.’ ‘Y ou are a traveller! Stay! See, the water! ...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...y, is the true diversion, as it is likewise the key of the great Book, the music of the Book. They tell us how it con- denses whole sections of the bo... ...thout parley. It was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the r... ...tner. The “Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar” had entirely forgotten his musical gifts in motion. He crossed himself and crossed his bewildered lady... ...her hand. “Laetitia Dale!” he said. He panted. “Your name is sweet English music! And you are well?” The anxious question permitted him to read deeply... ...rs, you will bring your garlands to the Hall to- morrow morning; and mind, early! no slugabeds tomorrow; I suppose I am browned, Laetitia?” He smiled ... ... the accountable light of rea- son, they may have fair harvests, as in the early time; but that case is rare. In other words, love is an affair of two... ...her experience. What if she had been captious, inconsiderate? Oh, blissful revival of the sense of peace! The happiness of pain departing was all that...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...have seen it.’ ‘Well! One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music—because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show... ...her father, ‘the sudden loss of her little picture and playfellow, and her early association with that mys- tery in which we all have our equal share,... ...sgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much pl... ...it was enough to see other people’s children there.’ At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit ... ...ed, and never took to that luxury any more. He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, reso... ...was empty, when the lights were out. And still, through all this grotesque revival of what he remembered as having once been prettily natural to her, ... ...yes, yes, yes. It’s my leg, it’s my leg. But it pleases me to hear the old music, though I am very bad.’ ‘Y ou are a traveller! Stay! See, the water! ... ... Clennam re- garded as among the implied obligations of his partnership. A revival of the passing interest in the subject which had been by chance awa... ...have seen enough of you to know that you are a bully and coward. I need no revival of my spirits from the effects of this wretched place to tell you s...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...eak out, besides all this, one of my colleagues [Mr. Richardson] at a very early day in the session brought in a set of resolutions expressly indorsin... ... of order shall be made, the chair will then decide it. Mr. Lincoln: At an early day of this session the Presi- 57 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V... ...ring the greater part of his whole life. Mr. Clay’s lack of a more perfect early education, however it may be regretted generally, teaches at least on... ...titutional right to take and to hold slaves in the free States, demand the revival of the slave trade, and demand a treaty with Great Britain by which... ... of the principle of self- government, as contended for, would require the revival of the African slave trade; that no argument could be made in favor... ...us continue to obey the Constitution and the laws; let us keep step to the music of the Union. Let us draw a cordon, so to speak, around the slave Sta...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

... little brothers of mine – who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle – I am indebted for a belief I religiously... ...one, and went on in these fearful terms: “Y ou bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. You bring the lot to me, at that old Bat... ... what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning. “Say Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” said the man... ...of yours to the top of mine – Ring once, ring twice – the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Y our health. May you live a thousand years, and never be ... ...a peal of bells!” The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual. We got a chai... ...sly strong voice (in reply to the inquisitive bore who leads that piece of music in a most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody’... ... I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood. The coffee-room at th... ...e, and heard her ceaseless low cry . Before we left next day, there was no revival of the differ- ence between her and Estella, nor was it ever revive...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—help... ...ions.” The same was true of the scratchy folk songs from the twenties or the early film holdings. The material was in the Library, of course—remarkable... ... fraction of it is available online. (There is a fascinating set of Edison’s early films, for example.) Most of the material available online comes fro... ...ve us some sense of typical debates. What do these debates tell us? From the early days of intellectual property as we know it now, the main objection... ...s and would hear all these musicians on the jukeboxes and then I would go to revival meetings on Sunday morning. So I would get both sides of music. A...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenth... ...er asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted t... ...digitally to a cathode ray tube (CRT), a monitor similar to ones found in early TV sets. I could write and edit copy on this setup. One key click... ...thmetic—math applied to basic numbers  geometry—math applied to space  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astron... ...nd harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon after Alcuin‘s scholarl... ...e world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carolingian Renaissance. Some, however, contend that the major... ...as just finishing grade school. The family home was filled with books, music, and artwork, and his parents studied diverse fields, ending up as f...

...VIII’s first act as ?pope? orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. -- 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again-Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. -- 18. ?The Eighth Wonder of the World?-Although as late as 1980, Linotypes s...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... U.S. mainland to show photos of the Islands. Tracing its roots to these early eforts, the Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau has served as a ... ...termine where gunshots came from and what type of weapon fred them. • An early commercial success came with the invention of a rapid-response test... ...Endoscopy Institute of Hawaii, to provide state of the art screening and early detection of gastric and colon cancer. Though some of his products h... ...aring, education and organization, a traditional lifestyle redolent with music and dance, and a special relationship to the land and water. HAWAII... ...efer to the dancer, and to a chant or song for the dance. Crucial to the revival and perpetuation of hula is the kumu hula, the hula master or tea... ... the world today for graceful, swaying movements and hauntingly romantic music. Most people know that hula is a form of storytelling in dance. The... ...iian culture by encouraging participation in traditional Hawaiian dance, music, chant, and arts and crafts. By perpetuating the culture and giving ...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...physiology. We look for an account of social antecedents; a description of early surroundings, of the conditions and occupation of the family; of the ... ...poses and entail certain con- sequences. A child growing up in a family of musicians will inevitably have whatever capacities he has in music stimulat... ...have been awakened in another environment. Save as he takes an interest in music and gains a certain competency in it, he is “out of it”; he is unable... ...ute animals to adapt themselves fairly well to physical conditions from an early period suggests the fact that their life is not intimately bound 48 ... ...cts of the lower animals per- fect themselves for appropriate action at an early period after birth, while most of those of the human infant are of li... ... what the future callings of individuals are to be. We have an unconscious revival of the defects of the Platonic scheme (ante, p. 89) without its enl... ...using them, and the order is not something which exists ready- made in the musician’s hands or brain prior to an activity deal- ing with the piano. Or... ...tical method. Scholasticism frequently has been used since the time of the revival of learning as a term of reproach. But all that it means is the met... ...ure. The move- ment of the fifteenth century which is variously termed the revival of learning and the renascence was character- ized by a new interes...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...eness hardly to be measured without a precise chro- nology of scholarship. Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had... ...rilling her from despair into expectation. They were pam- phlets about the early Church. The oppression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir James was shaken o... ...38 Middlemarch had hitherto not conceived to be compatible either with the early bloom of youth or with those graces of sex that may be said at once t... ...low stool, unable to occupy herself ex- cept in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...was no passion behind those son- nets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? Dorothea’s faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon’s word... ...be so bad. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind—a touch and go—music, the fine arts, that kind of thing—they should study those up to a ce... ...ing what he had originally felt about Dorothea’s engagement, and feeling a revival of his disgust at Mr. Brooke’s indiffer- ence. If Cadwallader—if ev... ...ent up. At a glance he knew that Raffles was not in the sleep which brings revival, but in the sleep which streams deeper and deeper into the gulf of ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...iveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had... ...thrilling her from despair into expectation. They were pamphlets about the early Church. The op pression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir James was shaken... ...dness, which I had hitherto not conceived to be compatible either with the early bloom of youth or with those graces of sex that may be said at once t... ...a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...e was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? Dorothea’s faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon’s word... ...be so bad. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind—a touch and go—music, the fine arts, that kind of thing—they should study those up to a cer... ...g what he had orig inally felt about Dorothea’s engagement, and feeling a revival of his disgust at Mr. Brooke’s indifference. If Cadwallader— if eve... ...went up. At a glance he knew that Raffles was not in the sleep which brings revival, but in the sleep which streams deeper and deeper into the gulf of ...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so great, that ... ...can render to his fellow creatures, and in certain cases, as in those of the early Christians and of the Re formers, those who think with Dr. Johnson... ...ll 35 introduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at leas... ... religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the stron gest permanent leaven o... ... may be well assured that the case was not thus, but far otherwise, with the early Christians. Had it been thus, Christianity never would have expande... ... person may with out blame, either like or dislike rowing, or smok ing, or music, or athletic exercises, or chess, or cards, or study , because both... ...ss, to put down all public, and nearly all pri vate, amusements: especially music, dancing, public games, or other assemblages for purposes of diver ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...king surf, with an entirely agreeable exalta- tion. And Eastbourne, in the early morning sunshine, had all the brightly detailed littleness of a town ... ...he among my chances. There again reason reinforced conjecture. When in the early morn- ing Mr. T ravers came from Brighton in this Farman in which I f... ...iticism, and that is a total condemna- tion of all these eight-hour-a-day, early-closing, guaranteed- weekly-half-holiday notions that are now so prev... ...ooking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its effect. But almost always the nov... ...revolution amidst which we are living to-day, that revolution of which the revival and restatement of nominalism under the name of pragmatism is the p... ...h a simple direct fatherliness with all the beneficent persuasiveness of a revivalist preacher. Millions read these leaders and feel a momentary benef... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...odd and so stupid. Do you know, she says she does not want to learn either music or drawing.” “To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and sh... ...s; and it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common acq... ...ything for a niece whom she had been so forward to adopt; but, as she took early care to make him, as well as Lady Bertram, understand that whatever s... ...quence so very near them, and not at all displeased either at her sister’s early care, or the choice it had fallen on. Matrimony was her object, provi... ... long as you can like to listen: prob- ably much longer, for I dearly love music myself, and where the natural taste is equal the player must always b... ...ce lain dormant. Mrs. Norris and her nieces were all well pleased with its revival, and an early day was named and agreed to, provided Mr. Crawford sh... ...ony!” said she; “here’s repose! Here’s what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe! Here’s what may...

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No Thoroughfare

By: Charles Dickens

...ing sung together of a Sunday with a relish, we will come home and take an early dinner together with a relish. The object that I have at heart now is... ... makers, Swiss silver-chasers, Swiss jewellers, Swiss import- ers of Swiss musical boxes and Swiss toys of various kinds, draw close together there. S... ...wiss toys of various kinds, draw close together there. Swiss professors of music, paint- ing, and languages; Swiss artificers in steady work; Swiss co... ...He is well informed and clever,” said Wilding. “Certainly clever.” “A good musician.” (He had played very well, and sung very well, overnight.) “Unque... ...ht be. The chances, or the laws— call them either—that had wrought out the revival of V endale’s own acquaintance with Obenreizer, and had ripened it ... ...ll I come to you at ten to-morrow?” “I shall be enchanted, sir, to take so early an opportunity of redressing the wrongs of my injured client,” return...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...h nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection for phi- losophy and political economy, and at twenty-tw... ...ng it. It is by agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early inhabitants of North America lived by the pro- duce of the chase. The... ...ng it. It is by agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early inhabitants of North America lived by the pro- duce of the chase. The... ...ess, often interrupted, and as often resumed; they will have many apparent revivals, and will not become totally extinct until an entirely new people ... ...he Americans what the imitators of the Greeks and Romans were to us at the revival of learning – an object of curiosity, not of general sympathy. They... ...y mournful strain,” says Champlain, who was not then aware that all savage music has a melancholy character. The tortures which succeeded, accompanied...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...so Lilias’s favourite brother, Claude, who had become a clergyman and died early. Aunt Adeline had been the spoilt child and beauty of the family, the... ...for want of the will. When I look back now I feel sorry for myself for the early loss of my mother, for though we were all merry enough as children an... ...round the breakfast-table, further brightened by the fire, pleasant in the early autumn. Eyes, as it seemed to Dolores, eyes without number were level... ...Dolores indignantly thought that she was amused. Mysie was sent off to her music in the drawing-room, whither her mother followed with Primrose’s litt... ..., and some French and German to trans- late and parse also in writing. The music was inconvenient to a girl who had always pre- pared her work alone. ... ...lk was entirely between the gentleman and lady, 69 Yo n g e chiefly about music for the choral society, and the voices of the singers, about which Do... ...er sister Jane’ s room, in her dressing-gown, talking according to another revival of olden time. ‘What did Ada mean about Rotherwood? Isn’t he happy?...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rades, and afraid of the sound of their own rustic voices. It was in these early days, I think, that Professor Blackie won the affection of his pupils... ... And again, how many of these last have not found their way there, all too early , through the stress of education! That was one thing, at least, from... ...oying in his friend’s suc- cesses; his laugh still ready but with kindlier music; and over all his thoughts the shadow of that unalterable law which h... ...so, if we could trace it out, that all men have learned; and that is why a revival of letters is always accom- panied or heralded by a cast back to ea... ... paper single-handed; trusting no one, for he was something of a cynic; up early and down late, for he was nothing of a sluggard; daily ear- wigging i... ... Stevenson CHAPTER VII THE MANSE I HAVE NAMED, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and often I desire to ... ...e steamer lay at her moorings. All day long there hung about the place the music of chinking tools; and even in the dead of night, the watchman carrie... ...e was proud to tell, played a certain part in the history of Shakespearian revivals, for he had successfully pressed on Murray, of the old Edinburgh T... ...truck in the last years of his life by a conversation with two young lads, revivalists “H’m,” he would say – “new to me. I have had – h’m – no such ex...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...eral attention and remark. His father wrote the family name Burnes; Robert early adopted the orthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in... ... an inn, the servants would get out of bed to hear him talk. But, in these early days at least, he was determined to shine by any means. He made himse... ...e through the fame of his associate. I think we can conceive him, in these early years, in that rough moorland country, poor among the poor with his s... ...med as if he affected a rusticity or landertness, so that when he said the music was `bonnie, bonnie,’ it was like the expression of a child.” These ... ... a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious revival. He watched Lincoln going daily to his work; he studied and fratern... ...umour. He calls his verses “recitatives,” in easily followed allusion to a musical form. “Easily-written, loose- fingered chords,” he cries, “I feel t... ...ow of sentiment and execution, is not at all the same thing as discoursing music? I wish I could believe he was quite honest with us; but, indeed, who...

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