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Le fourbeLe fourbeDenis, bien qu'il ait mon ge, prside une imposante socit anglaise qui fabrique des explosifs de guerre en Ecosse, prs d'Aberdeen: c'est un personnage considrable, sans cesse occup d'affaires mouvantes avec le War Office et l'Amiraut, sinon avec les pays balkaniques, ou le...
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Le Grand ÉcartLe Grand ÉcartComme il cachait ses petites larmes dans l'ombre d'une loge ou seul avec un livre et que les vraies larmes sont rares il passait pour un homme insensible et spirituel. Sa rputation d'homme spirituel venait d'une rapidit d'esprit. Il appelait des rimes...
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GiphantiaGiphantia - Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World.No man ever had a stronger inclination for travelling than myself. I considerd the whole earth as my country, and all...
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The Uses of Diversity: A book of essaysThe Uses of Diversity: A book of essaysI do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol...
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Against This AgeAgainst This AgeHe knew that he was dead because his fingers had forgotten the art of touching and were trying to regain their ability. They were no longer able to separate different textures and surfaces, and everything held to them a preposterous smoothness that...
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Clipped WingsClipped WingsThe proud lady in the new runabout was homeward bound from a shopping raid. It was her first voyage down-town alone with the thing. She guided the old family horse up to her curb in a graceful sweep, but, like a new elevator-boy,...
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Lucien Leuwen ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome SecondLucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome SecondEn arrivant Paris, il me faut faire grands efforts pour ne pas tomber dans quelques personnalits. Ce n'est pas que je n'aime beaucoup la satire, mais en fixant l'il du lecteur sur la figure grotesque de...
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Lucien Leuwen ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome PremierLucien Leuwen; ou, l'Amarante et le Noir. Tome PremierRien a faire! inscrivit Mrime en tte du premier feuillet, lorsque Colomb lui porta les volumes manuscrits de Lucien Leuwen. Et Colomb les envoya chez Crozet Grenoble, o celui-ci les dposa la bibliothque de la ville....
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Wars and Treaties, 1815-1914Wars & Treaties, 1815 to 1914A growing number of people are devoting their attention to a closer study of foreign affairs. Many of them may not have the opportunity to read the larger volumes of histories; and, indeed, even if they had, they would...
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La mandragoreLa mandragoreQuand on sut que la reine avait accouch dune grenouille, ce fut une consternation la cour; les dames du palais en demeurrent muettes et lon ne saborda plus dans les hauts vestibules quavec des bouches cousues et des regards navrs qui en disaient...
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Sermons by the Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, Volume VISermons by the Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, Volume VI. The publication of another volume of Sermons by the Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, is due to the encouragement already given by the extensive sale of...
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Poems of NaturePoems of NatureThe fifty poems here brought together under the title Poems of Nature are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emersons Dial, or in his...
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KertoelmiaKertoelmia Hn oli itins kalleus ja isn riemu ja ihastus. Hn Herralle kasteessa kannettiin ja toivon maljoilla siunattiin. Mik murskasi kallihin toivon? Pihlajan talo oli varmaankin joskus saanut nimens pihlajapuista, jotka sen pihalla kasvoivat. Juhannuksen aikaan ne seisoivat valkokruunuisina kuin nuoret morsiamet, sitte kylvivt...
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The Drama League series of plays, v. 2A Thousand Years Ago: A Romance of the OrientThe present play is an original comedy, of which certain elements in the plot have been suggested by the old Persian tale which is the theme of the eighteenth century Italian comedy Turandotte, by Carlo Gozzi,...
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The Open Window: Tales of the MonthsThe Open Window: Tales of the MonthsWhen Christmas has passed it is useless to make believe that it is not winter, even if the snow has merely come in little flurries quickly disappearing in the leaves that now lie suppliant with brown palms curved...
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Halfway House: A Comedy of DegreesHalfway House: A Comedy of DegreesIt was when Mr. John Germain, a gentleman of fifty, and of fine landed estate in Berkshead of his family, Deputy-Lieutenant, Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and I dont know what notwas paying one of his yearly visits to his...
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Helvi: Kertomus nuorisolleHelvi: Kertomus nuorisolle Tnn min heti sen uudistan. Mutta tiedtk, iti, minua melkein pelottaa menn sinne kouluun. Niin ikv, ettei ollut useampia pyrkijit kolmannelle luokalle. Nyt min yksin tulen kaikkien entisten joukkoon, niinkuin vieras lammas karjaan. Niin, semmoinen hirve joukko! Min juuri laskin itsekseni,...
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Rhymes of the Survey and FrontierRhymes of the Survey and Frontier TO MY FATHER F. B. FIELD AND MY FRIEND C. D. MACKINTOSH THE FORMER FOR HIS INTEREST IN HIS SON'S LIFE ABROAD AND THE LATTER FOR HIS KIND INDULGENCE AND SYMPATHY. "There is no more courageous body of...
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The Love-Story of Aliette BruntonThe Love-Story of Aliette BruntonIn our heart of hearts--which we in England take almost as much pains to hide from ourselves as from our fellow-creatures--most of us realize that life without love is a weariness, a conflict bereft of hope, a struggle for no...
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Le blé en herbe: romanLe blé en herbe: romanD'un signe de tte hautain, la Pervenche Vinca aux yeux couleur de pluie printanire, rpondit qu'elle allait, en effet, la pche. Son chandail repris en tmoignait, et ses espadrilles racornies par le sel. On savait que sa jupe carreaux bleus...
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