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...ion for their efforts and the hazards they assume? Exclusive ownership is the most ancient type of such remuneration. First movers, entrepreneurs, ... ...ct poverty and ostentatious affluence in American - or, for that matter, Western - cities. Devastating riots do erupt, but these are reactions eith... ... Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...esting to note, as I said in my previous letter, that "Cybernetics" (derived from a greek word: kybernetes: "pilots", steersmen), which can be fair... ...an? Are we transforming ourselves into information (the modern version of what the ancients called the soul, the spirit)? Is the age of information...

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...n environment contains ever more risks, security systems, iron fencing. In cities, almost half of all marriages end in divorce, an increasing number o... ...ave been most interested in comparing the culture of Lampang villages with ancient Finnish tradition and changes that have taken place in Finland. It ... ...less willing to give. Here in the country, perhaps some, but not at all in cities. That's because there everything has to be bought and everything is ... ... . It is unlikely to happen. When children grow up, they want to move into cities and they become alienated from this life close to nature. It is unav... ... swidden cultivation and created stable, permanent rice villages. From the ancient centre of the province, habitation spread out towards the mountain... ... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ... REFERENCES With reference to ancient Finnish folk culture, my only source is Finnische Volksüberlieferun...

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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...ght a ticket in the Chinchon station and boarded a bus. All bus terminals in cities under a million people had cement floors and were dark and dirty l... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ...norant that more missiles were coming. "Let others die but not me; let other cities perish but not ours" was a dominant thought in everyone's head. It... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...a for some weed if you are living in Albany like there ainﾁOt drugs in other cities." "DonﾁOt know anybody else," she said. "Just the Candyman." Her... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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...“I just wish I knew how dressing like a sheep-herding strumpet fits in with Greek myth,” she muttered to the darkness. ***** Daniel wished h... ... poetic spells to run away with themselves. Morgan worried her choice of a Greek myth as her theme might tempt her to do that tonight. She’d made ... ... very little. I was fourteen.” “Mmmm.” He stroked his chin and nodded. “Ancient.” “It was only five years ago. And you didn’t think me so litt... ...d muddled, her brain bumped through jumbled memories until she extracted an ancient chestnut about one of Rupert’s last successes as Shylock in Merch... ...re than a pencil scribble of unfamiliar names followed by various dates and cities. “Amos Carew, 6-11-67-Brooklyn; 9-21-69-Wash; 10-4-69— Boston. ... ...me meant gapped rock, and it hunched above the sea like the remains of some ancient monster clove in two by an angry god. Nestled in the cleft were ... ...s Carew,” she declared. “And it was on it again and again. With dates and cities like Washington and Brooklyn and Boston.” “God, Morgan, no,” Dan...

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...ver an all natural Fast healing ointment. Treat Ant and nettle with a secret ancient medicine. Plus prevent bites and stings with this repellants: ... ... improve your skin complexion. No invasive surgery required! Find out how the ancient Chinese coped with menopause using a simple yet effective herb... ...ing effects of aging. Inhibits atrophy of thymus. 13. Maca- Lepidium meyenii Ancient Peruvian herb that increases vitality, strength and stamina. I... ...he word 'arthritis' means 'inflammation of the joints'. It is derived from two Greek words: athron, meaning joints; and itis, meaning inflammation. I... ...or: Dr Izharul Hasan Page 47 HOME REMEDIES FOR ASTHMA Asthma is an ancient Greek word meaning 'panting or short drawn breath'. It is an allergic ... ...th and asthma, evidence suggest that the percentage of people who live in big cities, and have asthma attacks is far greater, than those of people w... ...y such as the scalp, trunk and limbs. The word psoriasis is derived from the Greek psora, which means "to itch." Salmon-red bumps with a silvery sc...

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...l tongues and received the response; ‘I don’t think I would like to learn Greek or Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the ... ...o be put out of their misery. The sausages dried and shrivelled like some ancient artefact. The triangles of toast lay stiff as pavers on the bread ... ...the father incites arguments, wars, even opens the ground and swallows up cities, but it’s all part of some plan! The enemy’s plan you idiot!” The o... ... you always forget. And no, I’m not going to write you have the body of a Greek god and don’t have to bleach your teeth. It doesn’t sound right comi...

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...d cyber café, just as automated teller machines (ATMs) are dispersed around cities today. People could perform electronic document research over anot... ...orically, the adjective “plastic” has meant “moldable” or “sculptable,” from Greek; Notes to Pages 61–72 267 about a century ago it came to refer to ... ...ry application of force . . . from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ‘to mould’); see also Lawrence Lessig, Soc... ... THE LESSONS OF WIKIPEDIA 1. See Matthias Schulz, Controlled Chaos: European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs, S O I’, Nov. 16, 2006, htt... ...ing along a specific theme.” The Barnstar of High Culture, Epic Barnstar, and Ancient Ruin History Barn- star are examples of barnstars awarded “in rec...

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...o Chapter 2 34 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 34 ancient Persia. (In Mr. Helprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream wo... ...y men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. Who were these sheep? Bizarre Dolly-like clones? Transgenic kille... ...ight. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o... ...vanescent subject matter; a favorite title of mine is I. Trotter Hardy, “The Ancient Doctrine of T respass to Web Sites,” 1996, art. 7, Journal of Onl...

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...A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolu... ...nch Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, an... ...es to have a messenger at hand. This is to tell him you are there.” As the ancient clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, ... ...That’s quartering,” said Jerry. “Barbarous!” “It is the law,” remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him. “It is the law.” ... ...who drove a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom house. The rest of his time he passed in...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...nity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M... ...ome respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state. In Books IV ., V ., and VI. the ideal state seems far aw... .... If ever the class existed in unredeemed na- kedness, it was in the Greek cities of the fourth century, and its existence is abundantly recognised by... .... W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Anc... ...laktes, the children and the children’s children thereof: for which reason cities were originally governed by kings, as the barbarian states now are, ... ...a person to contrive to make a monopoly of anything; for which reason some cities also take this method when they want money, and monopolise their com... ...strengthen the bands of soci- ety, seems to have been known to some of the ancients; for Solon made a law, as did some others also, to restrain per- s... ...sfortuue has befallen them. They were 55 Aristotle also to preserve their ancient patrimony, which custom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, m...

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...eived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of Lond...

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... other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever ri- valled this astonishing metropolis in... ...g metropolis in the grandeur of magni- tude; and not many—if we except the cities of Greece, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Spe... ... was as true of one as of the other. For, if by comparison with Rome other cities were but villages, with even more propriety it may be asserted, that... ...s in breadth; and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of t... ...and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of the world in ev... ...for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the ha... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a ...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...profitable I was likely to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. Having therefore provided himself with all things ... ...of honour; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, ... ...rger in Greenland. The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages. To s... ... called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me upon his honour “that ...

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...CT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hi... ...te battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendere... ...e reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of ... ...the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon!” “Stand up, Isaac, and hearken to me,” sai... ...siness with him. Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his ... ...thou hast been, to the license of courts and of camps, and the luxuries of cities; and now I bethink me, Sir Sluggard, that when the chari- table keep... ... XXXII. T rust me each state must have its policies: Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters; Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk, Keeps... ...aid Malvoisin apart to Mont- Fitchet, “were it well directed—but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.” The Judges had now been two h...

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...Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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... is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation ... ... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ...- ity, rusticity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek Paganism, distinguishes this Scandinavian Sys- tem. It is Thought; th... ...l good Thought in all times. Not graceful lightness, half-sport, as in the Greek Paganism; a certain homely truthfulness and rustic strength, a great ... ...mbinations, and had ceased individually to be. Europe has made much; great cities, great empires, encyclopaedias, creeds, bodies of opinion and practi... ...anished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,—they are precious, great: but what do the...

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...IN JUNE that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be ca... ... rich, harmonious glow and variety of color. But the frescos were now very ancient. They had been rubbed and scrubbed by old Stein and many a predeces... ... in the hollow of a great tree, the pair spent a happy wedded life in that ancient neighborhood where now stood Donatello’s tower. From this union spr... ...ny of their spurs and midway declivities, and even on their summits, stood cities, some of them famous of old; for these had been the seats and nurser... ... questionable shapes are often seen gliding through the streets of Italian cities, and are understood to be usually persons of rank, who quit their pa... ...e was no redeeming element, such as exists in other dis- solute and wicked cities. For here was a priesthood, pampered, sensual, with red and bloated ... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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...QUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estua... ... a pride in their old home. Venice, it has been said, differs from another cities in the sentiment which she inspires. The rest may have admirers; she... ...nently Gothic, and all the more so since she has set herself off with some Greek airs, and erected classic temples on her crags. In a word, and above ... ...f the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe. Egyptian and Greek temples, Venetian palaces and Gothic spires, are huddled one over ano... ... a change of domicile and dweller, as was never excelled in the history of cities: the cobbler succeeded the earl; the beggar ensconced himself by the... ...ounger suburbs. It grew, under the law that regulates the growth of walled cities in precarious situations, not in extent, but in height and density. ... ...or is this the only memo- rial that the pavement keeps of former days. The ancient burying-ground of Edinburgh lay behind St. Giles’s Church, running ...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS................................................ ...MANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 1... ...arles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you ... ...heir vassals, the people; to respect the liberties of London and all other cities and boroughs; to protect foreign merchants who came to England; to i... ...for the destruction of the people, a cer tain terrible composition called Greek Fire, which could not be put out with water, but only burnt the fierc... ...lds were sent to proclaim with bra zen trumpets through all the principal cities of Europe, that, on a certain day, the Kings of France and England, ...

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...s, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style ...

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...natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin... ... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...ce of velvet and satin, embroidered with fine rib- bon, in the shape of an ancient vase, the lid of which exhaled a thousand superfine odours. Immedia... ...ary. Thinking of you, I wished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Maste... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...s into this field of Venus, she would there transmute it into the grain of cities, and this demon would swallow it like a strawberry. And a thousand o... ...e, my gallant rider—everything rides!’ And then I saw, as a thick fog, the cities of the earth, where by a special gift I perceived each one coupled w...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...g, it was fitting that he should see with his own eyes the coun- tries and cities which might hereafter be the subjects of his discourses.” Melesigene... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ...afresh on conversation, Homer narrating his wanderings, and telling of the cities he had visited. At length they retired to rest; but on the following... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...this principle, they make those acci- dents (such as the contention of the cities, &c.) to be the causes of his fame, which were in reality the conseq...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ... it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Right or wrong, justi- fied or not ... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...omen of all ranks, both amongst the Bedouin Hebrews and those who lived in cities. A very little further extension to the elbows and the calves of the... ...cumstances, we should naturally presume that the Jewish courtezans, in the cities of Palestine, would not omit so conspicuous a trinket, with its glan...