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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... ...yself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothes, putt... ...n you tell us at such crucial times? For an infinitude, the oars paced, a boat swung, another boat anchoring alongside, the armor on deck flashing, ... ...ur fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the community...never mentioning that our fleet was r... ...th and sat beside me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and the boats and the sea birds, and hearing the choral virgins sing. Evenings, h... ...ur clothes, we toss rover reeds, have a try at archery, play catch. Or we race or go in for leap-frog or tug-of-war. Little boys like to pester us ... ...e beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless. Together, we raced for the square, shouting at everyone we met. Together, we dashed for...

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...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ...mental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third ... ...e derived - is the positive statement "I am a human being". Belonging to the human race is an immutable and inalienable position. Denying this lead... ...h my compatriots two affiliations rather than one. We are all members of the human race - but we are also citizens of the same state. This patrioti... ... the malign and from the divine to the pedestrian - have driven the gullible human race to the verge of annihilation and back. Participatory democr... ...s of horrid accidents (the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., d... ..., the shipping company that owned the now-sinking Unsinkable, joins a lowered life-boat. The tortured expression on his face demonstrates that even... ...o the lifeboats. Another was the discrimination against Third Class passengers. The boats sufficed only to half the number of those on board and the...

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...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan was traveling. Then the ...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks a...

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...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?at...

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...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... .... . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyss... ...4 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . ... ...ut the young policeman was badly exhausted. Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he droppe... ...tiless night crept slowly by, — Ruth’s portion, the despairing stoicism of her race, and Male mute Kid adding new lines to his face of bronze. In fac... ...ter like hailstones? — and the time of the famine at Nuklukyeto? — or when she raced the ice run to bring the news? Yes, she ’s been a good wife to me... ...ey toiled at the oars, they slyly cut the water at each stroke and allowed the boat’s momentum to In a Far Country 27 float up the blade. They thought... ...s among its blankets as they listened to the tale of one who had served on the boat brigade with Wolseley when he fought his way to Khar toum. And wh... ...In the sands of the beach were the crooked timbers and wave warped planks of a boat such as my people never built; and I remember on the point of the ...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond ...

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...itors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...he Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The Ponds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...e do. The same is true of the more modern reformers and benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from th... ...ically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men. But why do men degenerate ever? What makes families run out?... ...ot be removed without girdling and so destroying the man. I believe that all races at some seasons wear something equivalent to the shirt. It is desir... ...th every where. The only house I had been the owner of before, if I except a boat, was a tent, which I used occasionally when making excursions in the... ... excursions in the summer, and this is still rolled up in my garret; but the boat, after passing from hand to hand, has gone down the stream of time. ... ...his lines. Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he ha...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended ...

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...Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica .................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE........................................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief d...

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... IIIWAINAMOINENANDYOUKAHAINEN............................................................................................................. 46 RUNE IV THE FATE OFAINO................................................................................................................................................ 58 RUNE VWAINAVOINEN’S LAMENTATION..................................

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

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA...

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...ted Poems William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEP... .... 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANASHUYA AND... ...PHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . .... ... . . 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE ... ... ARE THE CLOUDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 AT GALWAY RACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 A FRIEND’S ILL... ...articulate moan Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES ‘WHAT do you make so fair and bright?’ ‘I make the cloa... ... In all men’s sight.’ ‘What do you build with sails for flight?’ ‘I build a boat for Sorrow: O swift on the seas all day and night Saileth the rover So... ...own snipe and trout. In trust took he John’s lands; Sleiveens were all his race; And he gave them as dowers to his daughters. And they married beyond ... ...en’s souls, that waver and give place Like the pale waters in their wintry race, Under the passing stars, foam of the sky, Lives on this lonely face. ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken image...

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..............................................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS..................................................

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...Contents THE WITCH .................................................................................................................................... 4 PEASANT WIVES......................................................................

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...ries by ANTON CHEKHOV A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Witch and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by Obrutchanovo. One morning the engineer’s ... ...father and son, the village elder and V olodka, punted over the river in a boat and went to a hamlet on the other side where there was a tavern, and t... ...nywhere; what do we want with a bridge? If we have to, we can cross by the boat.” Someone from the yard outside knocked at the window so violently tha... ...asion of each quarrel. On holidays Kostukov and the Juniors used to get up races, used to dash about Ukleevo and run over calves. Aksinya, rustling he... ...to show his new horse and take Varvara with him. In the evening, after the races, when people were going to bed, an expensive concertina was played in... ... dignified nose. Little circles of light danced from his hands to his cap, raced over the saddle along the horse’s back, and vanished in its mane near...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwa...

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