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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...iversal Law. The sustained orbiting of planets; is a result of gravitational attractions naturally finding and sustaining a Dynamic Balance that is ... ...iversal Law. The sustained orbiting of planets; is a result of gravitational attractions naturally finding and sustaining a Dynamic Balance that is ... ... without any sides or walls to it. It exists only because of the intersecting attractions between all four molecules. While a 4-sided box structure... ...ich the idiots forgot to include. In fact these human scientists ended up as visitors to the Biosphere they had originally planned to live-in.. The... ...out of white marble, made of white, fake. Greco-Roman buildings. To distract visitors from the blackened ugliness and horrors of the actual city. ... ...he elements they had so effortlessly withstood for centuries. Later European visitors; who thought to establish forts there: exterminated them. ...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gen...

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...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marr... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage i... ...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. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d kept her journey a profound secret, as she thought. At three o’clock the visitor was admitted. “I have risked a reprimand from headquarters to follo... ...obby. He would do the same. In the first place, not one of Mme. d’Espard’s visitors recognized him nor paid any attention to him, their conduct seemed... ...er, Lucien went home with downcast eyes, through streets lined with living attractions, and perhaps fell in with one of those commonplace adventures w... ...s’ agents. There was a pause. “You are simply cutting my throat!” said the visitor. “But in a year’s time shall we have placed a hundred copies of Leo...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1; Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, becau...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Book First Chapter 1 O live will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is ex... ...very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to... ...volubility by a fair, plump, smiling woman who entered a narrow drawing room in which a visitor, kept waiting for a few moments, was already absorbed ... ...by a fair, plump, smiling woman who entered a narrow drawing room in which a visitor, kept waiting for a few moments, was already absorbed in a book. ... ..., she does really hope it. She is willing to risk that.’ ‘Just as I am?’ the visitor inquired, presenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mr... ...nd agreeable—a cultivated voice—and she extended a slender white hand to her visitor, who remarked with some solemnity (he felt a certain guilt of par... ... a tree. I believe it’s some oriental idea; it has lately been introduced in Paris. She doesn’t like French ideas as a general thing; Chapter 13 79 b... ...y visited the animals in the little zoological garden which forms one of the attractions of the Central Park; they observed the swans in the ornamenta... ...nd torn to pieces. She might have suggested to him some feminine firebrand of Paris revolutions, erect on a barricade, or even the sacrifi cial figure o...

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...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

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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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...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...serva tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could har... ...e than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work imp... ...blances; while deep unsuspected. similarities and disagreements, deep common attractions and repulsions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundam... ...heir statues of Bismarck as “Liberty Enlightening the World” when democratic visitors were expected. An amusing instance of this kind of camouflage, wh... ...untidiness and squalor. When industrialism came to the wise old Latin cities—Paris, Lyons, Bor deaux, Florence —their river banks were already firmly ... ...f the “Bon jour, Madame,” on entering and leaving a shop, of the fact that a visitor should always, on taking leave, be conducted to the outer door, a... ...o forever on the accursed air,” telling their beautiful tale to sympathising visitors from above; and as, unlike the majority of mortal lovers, they s...

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...Excerpt: In the early spring of 1822, the Paris doctors sent to Lower Normandy a young man just recovering from an inflammatory complaint, brought on by overstudy, or perhaps by excess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded co...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspec...

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...side France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magnificence, grandeur, and luxury; they lack neither grace nor noble manners; but the life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the ?Attic salt? so familiar at P...

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... of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this documen... ... anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as... ... Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring cl... ...He has got a tremendously pretty wife.” It was natural that in the hour of tribulation Lord Lambeth and Mr. Percy Beaumont should have bethought them-... ... white jacket, who grinned familiarly when Lord Lambeth asked for Mr. Westgate. 9 Henry James “He ain’t at home, sah; he’s downtown at his o’fice.” “... ...please to say, ‘Hands off; too late for the market.’ But let’s see,” continued the American, in his slow, humorous voice, with a distinct- ness of utt... ...Episode not resisting Mrs. Westgate by submitting, with great do- cility and thankfulness, to her husband. He was evidently a very good fellow, and he... ...f yourself,” said the object of maternal and ducal solicitude. “Ah,” rejoined the young barrister, “I haven’t the ex- pectation of a hundred thousand ... ...d contradicting you. Upon my word I don’t think I was ever treated so by a woman before. She’s so devilish positive.” Mrs. Westgate’s positive quality...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...nanimity of this speech, for it was a secret neither for his son nor for his visitor that his own experiment in matrimony had not been a happy one. As... ...ny difference, upon my word! As for my being a good husband,” Mr. Touchett’s visitor pursued, “I’m not sure of that either. One can but try!” “Try as ... ...onveyed perplexity to the son of its master, conscious of that immunity from visitors which had for some time been rendered necessary by the latter’s ... ...eceived too often; I’ve ceased to form attachments, to permit myself to feel attractions. You mean to stay—to settle? That would be really comfortable... ...staken,” Isabel declared with a sort of ardent coldness. “You mean that your attractions were sufficient, without the gentleman having had to be lashed... ...tleman having had to be lashed up? You’re quite right. They’re immense, your attractions, and he would never have presumed to think of you if she hadn...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...least re-vealed by BaIzac, if by any one, and are now easily accessible to visitors. It is true, I met no visitors, or only one or two, whom it was pl... ...stored more than enough, as I have said, by architects and decorators; the visitor, as he moves through its empty rooms, which are at once brilliant a... ...he ineffaceable stain which they left wherever they passed. An imaginative visitor at Amboise to-day may fancy that the traces of blood are mixed with... ... really more interesting,—a group of stunted savages who formed one of the attractions of the place, and were confined in a pen in the open air, with ... ...- ally more concentrated; but the school of medicine passed for one of the attractions of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado ... ...f it, I lost no time in taking the train for Orange, which, with its other attractions, had the merit of not being seated on the Rhone. It was my dest...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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