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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fam...

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...lectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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...ng Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mount...

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

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

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

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the ... ...scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting... ...a’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for know... ... needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but ... ...od, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where it‘s been. Other birds and beasts make s... ...emorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same ma... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...plans of the Allies; in the end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have ... ...n the Versailles fashion by great moustached heroes frown- ing and drawing lines with a large black soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned.... ...certainly be as un- precedented as its prelude. Before it meets, the broad lines of the settlement will have been drawn plainly with the ap- proval of... ...m to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the life of ... ...d. (There was a negro in the little party 31 H.G. Wells which reached the North Pole.) It is absolutely essential to the peace of the world that ther... ...ough the possessions of several Powers) and in the regula- tion of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of pe... ... it on every side. Consider, moreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does could be dischar...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...n another; the inflow of English and other immigrants another; their drift westward (my ancestors among them) another; the settlement of certain of th... ...Henry II. Give him thirty five squares of red paper. These hens must face west, like the former ones. (Image not available—ed. ) This hen differs fro... ...e I was in Switzerland last. In that remote time there was only one ladder railway in the country. That state of things is all changed. There isn’t a ... ... pointing. If I were now imprisoned on a mountain summit a hun dred miles northward of this point, and was denied a time piece, I could get along we... ...y signal hung out anywhere to call attention to it. There are twenty three lines in the quoted passage. After reading it several times aloud, one perc... ...unripe state: A straight line is any distance between two places. Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together. A circle is a ... ...in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. North America is separated by Spain. America consists from north to south a...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ................................................................129 THE GREAT NORTH ROAD ................................................................... ...erently share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher... ...Molokai Ahina,’ the ‘grey,’ lofty, and most desolate island– along all its northern side plunges a front of precipice into a sea of unusual profundity... ...ture of capital and competition; it stands and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the ... ...rivate property, the days of the independent jour- nal are numbered. State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspape... ...s will be fired on as they follow the high- way, the trains wrecked on the lines, the ploughman will go armed into the field of tillage; and if we hav... ... when the subjects are unpleasant, or even grisly. There are a few capital lines in this key on the last spasm of the battle before alluded to. Surely...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...us trough of stone from coast to coast and from island to island along the northern seas. At the age of eighty-four his high stature was bowed by his ... ...g and unflagging; and there runs through his work a steady vein of friend- liness for the old country which the succeeding gen- erations of his compat... ... shapes itself before one in the ring of sentences, it is seen between the lines—like the progress of a traveller in the jungle that may be traced by ... ...ime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian and provided by the State with the immortal Mr. Stiggins’... ...ome of late a maritime eagle, and has learned to box the compass. He gazes north and south, and east and west, and is inclined to look intemperately u... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave... ... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...rgeous heraldry on a hundred banners, surmounting as many towers. The long lines of battlemented walls spread down the mountain to the Loire, and were... ... there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentle- man, whom I shall danomminate Mun... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...uare, and humbly begged pardon of his master for not having instructed the Railway Sec- retaries who answered his applications to apply at the area-be... ...ve the fair.’”—Morning Paper. This announcement will explain the following lines, which have been put into our box* with a West End post-mark. If, as ...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...ich you take care to sign with the most extravagant flourishes between the lines. I am not sure that this is not a portent of Revolution. In eigh- tee... ...ng to read Ovid he does actu- ally read Schopenhaur and Nietzsche, studies Westermarck, and is concerned for the future of the race instead of for the... ...uperstitions. In fact, he is now more Hamlet than Don Juan; for though the lines put into the actor’s mouth to indicate to the pit that Hamlet is a ph... ... by instinct. Our ideal prosperity is not the prosperity of the industrial north, but the prosperity of the Isle of Wight, 20 GB Shaw of Folkestone a... ...as been disturbed by new fashions and methods, or by the enterprise of the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Satur- day to Monday of life a... .... [He comes to Octavius]. What would you not give, Tavy, to turn it into a railway accident, with all her bones broken or something equally respectabl... ...tones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north of a spot at which the high road over one of the passes crosses a tun...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...an. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much ... ...I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, something at once rougher and more tender, at once more reserve and ... ...al of 13 Memories and Portraits Scotland, was yet composed in the city of Westminster. The division of races is more sharply marked within the border... ... a quiet hotel; below, under a steep cliff, it beholds the traffic of many lines of rail, and the scream of the engine and the shock of meet- ing buff... ...k and forth, as they do for Mr. Gladstone; and crowd him to suffocation on railway platforms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy ... ... eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were rows of sheds, railways, travelling-cranes, a street of cottages, an iron house for the re... ...her. Wherever talk may range, it still runs half the time on these eternal lines. The theme being set, each plays on himself as on an instrument; asse...