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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...lizes, so does crime fighting. Mobsters, serial killers, and terrorists cross state lines and borders effortlessly, making use of the latest advance... ...00 tremors annually (of which two thirds are greater than 3.5 in magnitude). Fault lines abound and new ones are discovered frequently. One fault l... ...IA. As commander of the 30th Assault Unit, he sometimes operated behind the German lines, trying to secure important documents and files from destr... ...rence accurately. He used astronomical observations to calculate the difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now Asw ān) and Alexandria...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...-- Results of the Franklin loss -- Captains who have reached the North Pole -- Latitudes reached by famous Arctic explorers -- The overland journey of... ... he proceeded as far north as Iceland. He was absent two years, and attained a latitude where the cold was so severe that he came near perishing with ... ...had been wrecked, and others disabled by severe storms encountered in southern latitudes. But all the failures that had attended these attempts in no ... ...tions in the temple and kissed the Kaaba, its holy stone; having stood in long lines in the holiest mosque in the world and prayed where Mohammed bent... ...ands out to sea. It is joined by others; the Portuguese fleet is reproduced in lines of fire, and the phantom Hindoos dance on the sand as the flaming... ...ssion would preserve them from insult, and the astonished garrison beheld long lines of monks and nuns marched away under guard. What did it mean? No...

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...erimental physics, including related themes from mathematics. All submitted papers should be professional, in good English, containing a brief review of a problem and obtained results. All submissions should be designed in LATEX format using Progress in Physics template. This template can be downloaded from Progress in Physics home page http://www.geocities.com/ptep_online...

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...According to the Dictionary of Mathematics (Borowski and Borwein, 1991 [1]), the paradox is “an apparently absurd or self-contradictory statement for which there is prima facie support, or an explicit contradiction derived from apparently unexceptionabl...

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...INPHYSICS A quarterly issue scientifc journal, registered with the Library of Congress (DC). This journal is peer reviewed and included in the abstrac... ...nal is peer reviewed and included in the abstracting and indexing coverage of: Mathematical Reviews and MathSciNet (AMS, USA), DOAJ of Lund University... ...534 (print) ISSN: 1555-5615 (online) 4 issues per annum Electronic version of this journal: http://www.geocities.com/ptep_online To order printed issu... ...ch as planets and their satellites, is not linked to deviation of geodesic lines and quadrupole mass-detectors with their specifc technical problems. ... ...is approach leads to an experiment, based on the prin- ciple that geodesic lines of two infnitesimally close test- particles will deviate in a feld of... ...ving imaginary relativistic masses m= im 0 p v 2 /c 2 −1 (tachyons). World-lines of both kinds are known as non-isotropic trajectories. Particles of z... ...erposition of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. However, at measurements at latitude 54 ◦ N (in Pushchi- no), absence of the daily period [9] also was ...

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...Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states ...

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...ranfibit per cztera ~pun&a, & in p&as parallelarum abibit in infinitum. Lines! AB, CD, ad quas re&z duae 5?,$& T R UIIUII~ re&angu- Yorum continen... ... de pofitione re&z ST, quae aream ATS’ abfcindat vera3 proximam. Jungatur OF, & ab A et T ad afymptoton agan- tur JI I, TK afymptoto alteri paralle... ...ue ideo etiam tempori proportionalis. Manente axe AB minuatur per- petuo latitude ellipi‘eos, & femper manebit area ASD tempori proportionalis. Min... ...,qxACxST aequale efi + AOXBC--’ Minuatur jam in infinitum figurl;e RF% latitude, CT, fit ut punAwn fl, coeat cum punAo C, pun- Aumque S cum pun&o... ...m circa idem centrum S unifor- miter defcribentis. Minuatur pa- rabolae latitude CT in infinitum eo, ut arcus parabolicus T f B cum re- &a CB, ce... ... zquales G H Sr S& Ut d -&!$G, five (per coral, prop. L.) ut d$$&. Itaque of& lationes in globis & cycloidibus omnibus, quibufcunque cum viri- bus ... ...get fpiralem, ideoque perpendi- culariter fecabit re&am .OT. Fiet igitur OF’ diameter circuli hujus,’ & angulus 0 SF in femicirculo re&us. g E. 2)... ... erat hum pedum Pariii- enfium, & OAO linearum cum t&us quintis: partibus lines) & re- perit breviorefm effe, exiitente difkrentia line% unius cum q...

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...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...e look directly at the picture, it appears to be a medley of incomprehensible lines. But if we blur our gaze, we will be able to “penetrate” the pic... ...estion of the external ob- server, but in the fact that there seems to be some latitude passed on within matter. That latitude points to “something” ...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...

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...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...cope Broadening" Debate 22 Social Marketing: Two Meanings 23 A BROADENED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSAC... ...program to fit the market (p. 19). Expansion of the product mix sometimes crosses lines that separate ideas, goods and services. Ricklef (in Gaede... ...espond to such a shift in demand by themselves introducing more nutritious product lines. If successful, no economic losses need be endured overall... ...vate Sector Initiative Program (PSIP), under which business people were given wide latitude to run the CETA show. This was to be 93 accomplish... ...ting employers and earnability for potential enrollees. They are the two "product lines" within the product mix of the PSIP. STRATEGIES AND ACTION...

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...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ...e to bee in painting, for sometimes the Painters hand shall draw certaine lines or draughts, so farre exceeding his conception or skill, that himsel... ... being so downe-right and perpendicular, and every way engendring parallel lines? And therefore was it necessarie they should afterward adde a causal... ...: as James Peletier told me in mine owne house, that he had found out two lines bending their course one towards another, as if they would meet and ... ...e example. Our sufficiencie is retailed into small parcells. Mine hath no latitude, and is in number very miserable. Saturninus answered those who h...

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...Introduction: On February the first 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been c...

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...au by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Page The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...T 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888—that is ele... ...Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3" S. and longitude 101' W . in a small open boat of which the ... ...east this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about latitude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of th... ...a sense of failure. I take no interest in them. I fancy they follow in the lines the Kanaka missionary marked out, and have a kind of mockery of a rat... ...e nothing but the denizens of our wild- est dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the ...

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...Introduction: The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled The Single Hound, published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here collec...

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...son Bianchi A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Emily Dickinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...nd .....................................................251 Index of First Lines.....................................................................3... ...d night did soft descend Nor constellation burn, Intent upon the vision Of latitudes unknown. The angels, happening that way, This dusty heart espied;... ... if some little Arctic flower, Upon the polar hem, Went wandering down the latitudes, Until it puzzled came T o continents of summer, To firmaments of... ...um. The heaven below the heaven above Obscured with ruddier hue. Life’s latitude leant over-full; The judgment perished, too. Why joys so scanti... ...Now Death usurps my premium And gets the look at Thee. 327 Index of First Lines A A bird came down the walk: 95 A cap of lead across the sky 278 A ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksl...

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...Excerpt: Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the gran...

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...ication ublication Falk, A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...bject of affection was a disgrace to the ship’s purity. Purity, not clean- liness, is the word. It was pushed so far that I seemed to de- tect in this... ... patch of the hair, and nothing below the waist but the ‘thwart-ship white lines of the bridge-screens, that lead the eye to the sharp white lines of ... ...na’s mastheads. The multitude of stars gathered into clusters, in rows, in lines, in masses, in groups, shone all together, unanimously —and the few i... ...ellington was to be the first port, I fancy. It doesn’t matter, because in latitude 44 d south and somewhere halfway be- tween Good Hope and New Zeala... ...ting the assistance of some steamer. There were very few steamers in those latitudes then; 64 Falk and when they desired to leave this dead and drift...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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... ...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... ...solitary, and much mutilated; but it nestles with a kind of wasted friend- liness beneath the big walls of the cathedral. Its lower arcades have been ... ...f the old guard-room, which is now a stable; and there are other vague out-lines and inconsequent lumps, which I have forgotten. You need all your ima... ...ancis I.—which is the last work of free and joyous invention— to the ruled lines and blank spaces of the ponderous pa- vilion of Mansard, one makes on... ...ns, its loves and hates, its treacheries, falsities, touches of faith, its latitude of personal development, its presentation of the whole nature, its... ...ok out for the south, prepared as I am to find the careless grace of those latitudes even in things of which it may, be said that they may be south of... ...tain to the sun. It was, moreover, the happy and genial view of these mild latitudes, which, Heaven knows, often have a dreariness of their own; a lan...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver t...

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...I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mil... ...y Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through... ...nd San Francisco. The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension. In fact, I remember... ... his feet. The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, face of the man who has abs... ...f blasphemy had heard him spew forth. The face, with large features and strong lines, of the square order, yet well filled out, was apparently massive ... ... hunters, on the other hand, had stronger and more diversified faces, with hard lines and the marks of the free play of passions. 22 The Sea Wolf Stra... ... the sea had become glass. By mid day, though we were well up in the northerly latitudes, the heat was sickening. There was no freshness in the air. I... ...apan than the night we left the Ghost. Nor could I more than roughly guess our latitude and longitude. At a calculation of a two mile drift per hour, ... ...pened most opportunely, for what must have been the Indian summer of this high latitude was gone and drizzling stormy weather had set in. We were very...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ... hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, ... ... immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the bei... ...of the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and ... ...st man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit. Transported to the ... ...e running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all ... ...verages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimmin...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...raised your expectations, but the result somehow was always on stereotyped lines, unsuggestive, empty of any lesson that one could lay to heart. He ke... ...n a touch of genius or the finger of good fortune in the fashioning of her lines at bow and stern. It is impossible to say. She was built in the East ... ...ng scowl of a stormy sky; there is high courage in the upward sweep of her lines to- wards the bow; and as soon as, on a hastily-rigged spar, a strip ... ...t her captain unromantically reported having sighted a disabled steamer in latitude somewhere about 50 degrees S. and a longitude still more uncertain... ...imself that day; and yet the wildest motion of the ship in the most stormy latitudes we had passed through, never made him miss one single morning eve... ...ed wildness there is nothing like a gale in the bright moonlight of a high latitude. The ship, brought-to and bowing to enormous flashing seas, gliste...

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...BLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ll a seaman’s exist- ence, but directed on now to me utterly inconceivable lines. No. My will had nothing to do with it. Indeed, no sooner had I made ... ...nce I saw that she was a high-class vessel, a har- monious creature in the lines of her fine body, in the propor- tioned tallness of her spars. Whatev... ...as getting toward noon and he was anxious to obtain a good observation for latitude. When he returned below to put his sextant away he found that the ... ...re in the tropics, unglowing, almost gray, with a strange reminder of high latitudes. The voice of the look-out man hailed from forward: “Land on the ... ...him begin to mutter crazily about the late captain, that old man buried in latitude 8 d 20', right in our way —ambushed at the entrance of the Gulf. “... ...t a call of egotism. Here I must give another sample of it, a few detached lines, now looking very ghostly to my own eyes, out of the part scribbled t...

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...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...proach to their pro- fession, mere cobblers, dealing in nothing but jagged lines and clumsy patches, and utterly incapable of soaring to those heights... ... remembered. An enthusiastic sitter celebrated the event in verse. Several lines were repeated to us by Hardy, some of which, in a sort of colloquial ... ...haps, to guard against the possibility of any- one finding out the precise latitude and longitude of the spot we were going to, Jermin never revealed ... ...went about his capers. Fastening a rope’s end to each sleeper, he rove the lines through a number of blocks, and conducted them all to the windlass; t... ... great violence; though, as every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling Nor... ...d to the westward after leaving the Marquesas, or what might have been our latitude and longi- tude at any particular time, or how many leagues we voy...