a story of two mechanisms

... January It is an old story, and perhaps only deserves the light tone in which the soaring of a young man into the empyrean, and his descent again, is always narrated But as has often been said, ... implied a large congregation within, to whom it was plainly as familiar as it had been to church-goers of a past generation With a whimsical sense of regret at the secession of his once favourite air ... trick he was endeavouring to acquire six hundred years after the original performance had ceased and the performers passed into the unseen By means of a strip of lead called a leaden tape, which...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... superlative degree of comparison only There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, ... Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter I Five Years Later II A Sight III A Disappointment ... were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,...

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... reiterated praise of Germany and the Germans had at last produced the desired effect on Gard He was prevailed upon to break away from the old associations, go abroad for a year and get a fresh and ... beer-drunken syntax "He had got mad at the language." It was natural that he should get mad at the people Gard saw a light "Perhaps," he said, "that's what the Buchers really mean about the German army conquering ... that quite naturally haunted him after a wearying day of travel and as nightfall drew down about his loneliness He was bound for the home of a strange family, speaking a tongue in which he was...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20

... science of the “beautiful” in a work of art The aesthetic appeal of a work of art is defined by the visual Social, ethical moral, and contemporary standards of a society armature A structure of wood ... Compare the "god-like" qualities of a particular character (such as Diana, goddess of the hunt) to a modern character (such as Mia Hamm, huntress of a soccer goal) The Huntington Library, Art ... stick and two baseballs on the other—balancing out the picture balance A principal of art and design concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... their Kalidasa We cannot understand a great man all at once It takes strength, effort, and perseverance, and it is singular that what pleases us at first sight seldom captivates us any length of ... and kiss her hand." I was about six years of age and as delighted as only one can be at six years of age I had already indulged in many quiet fancies about the shadows which I had seen evenings ... soul of our Luther I never heard it again, but many a time even now when I hear an adagio of Beethoven's, or a psalm of Marcellus, or a chorus of Handel's, or a simple song in the Scotch Highlands...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... invective CHAPTER III 11 Katherine was always afraid of him, and of what he might to her father if he had the chance; for his nature was small and mean, so small and so mean that, though he ... down, smash it, anything; only be quick, please," she said sharply, marvelling a little at his unconcern in the face of such grave danger Again he disappeared, and Katherine heard a rain of heavy ... heard him thumping away all the time I was there, and he was sitting and banging when I came back." "Was it Jean Doulais who made all that noise?" said Katherine "I was demonstrating on the blackboard,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:21

... Tom had won a dozen games more than Dave, and so was a dollar and a half ahead, and had got his pulses well warmed up, Dave manifested great vexation, and asked Grayson to increase the stakes ... between Barbara and Hiram Mason more friendly than that of master and pupil, was a little surprised at the apparently advanced stage of their acquaintance; but she liked it, because it showed that ... law again But all of Barbara's projects were moderate and took full account of difficulties Tom had little heart for a process that demanded plodding and patient waiting; nor did any of Barbara's...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... carried on in Arabic The speakers were of about the same age, but Edgar Blagrove was half a head taller than his Arab friend His father was a merchant settled in Alexandria, where Edgar had been born ... three of 80, and nine of 74, together with four frigates, four mortar vessels, and a number of gun-boats, while on an island ahead of the line was a battery of guns and mortars Many parties of Arabs ... among the native population, and this may not improbably find vent in a fanatical attack upon the Christians At any rate, we will get the rest of our goods of any value on board, and then await...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... floras of Australia, Asia, and South America, and has a flora of its own entirely distinct from any of these Now let me advise you as to the stowing away of your traps There is a good deal of knack ... Wars St George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers The Cat of Bubastes: A Story of Ancient Egypt The Dragon and the Raven: The Days of King Alfred The Treasure of the Incas: A Tale of Adventure ... they are of importance make a point of getting seats as near as they can to the captain, and important people are not, as a rule, anything like as pleasant as the rest of us." Wilfrid walked across...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... the surface, and then emerging amid the spray of the waterfall, where the shafts of sunlight made a rainbow arc And at last Olaf came out and ran swiftly backward and forward on the grassy level ... the man who had spoken He was a tall, red bearded man, whose nose was flat against his scarred, bronzed face At sight of him the boy drew back a pace as if in fear "Ay What thinks the babe that ... taken was in old times called Gardarike It lay to the southeast of Esthonia, and it was a part of what is now known as the Russian Empire Many Norsemen lived in that land, and King Valdemar was...

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... seemed a great distance off, but it was very clear Doctor Cardigan had made an error, it was saying And Doctor Cardigan, because of that error, was like a man whose heart had been taken out of him ... than he No man had lived nearer it It had been a passion with him Full of dreams, and always with anticipations ahead, no matter how far short realizations fell, he was an optimist, a lover of ... her And it was so soft and warm that again he was tempted to reach out and touch it She was wonderful, and yet it was not possible that she had a heart Her apparent disregard of the fact that...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... books that they had read Scott and Dickens, Thackeray and Hugo and of the music that they had heard, particularly the favourite arias of Italian opera Mrs Markham and Miss Harley were twin stars ... he had read of the agile Italian politicians of the Middle Ages, and for a moment paused at the doctrine of reincarnation Then he was ashamed of himself He was wronging Mr Sefton, an able man ... his maturity to win him fame in a reunited nation "He's a great gamester and thinks that he's a master of chance," said Talbot, "but as a matter of fact he always loses See how fast his pile of...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:24

... hierarchy of saints, but a traitor like de Marmont I cannot stomach What was he before Bonaparte made him a marshal of France and created him Duc de Raguse? An out-at-elbows ragamuffin in the ranks ... that he had come back General Masséna, who is in command at Marseilles, thought fit to spread the news that a band of Corsican pirates had landed on the littoral and were marching inland devastating ... Raguse just about the same judgment as I passed on him in my heart last year God knows I hate that Bonaparte as much as anyone, and our Bourbon kings are almost as much a part of my religion as...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... hear that I am a fan, ask: ‘What, you are a football fan, as a woman?’ I hear that very often (Sabine, Borussia Mönchengladbach fan) While the majority of male interviewees said they were happy ... because it is an attack on Chelsea as opposed to an attack on an Italian or Romanian or whatever (Dan, Chelsea fan, lawyer) My family had affinities to the Mediterranean, we are Mediterranean ... Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Sandvoss, Cornel A game of two halves:...

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Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:58

... analysis of data and drafting the manuscript, WN has contributed in revising the manuscript, and JHY has contributed in interpretation of data and final approval of manuscript All authors read ... renal failure and poor cardiac function of patient, one-stage posterior approach was performed without instrumentation: laminectomy of L3-and L4 and partial laminectomy of L2 was performed to achieve ... al.: Epidural cement leakage through pedicle violation after balloon kyphoplasty causing paraparesis in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures - a report of two cases Journal of Orthopaedic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... The Acutrak screw has a head diameter of 4.1 mm and a tip diameter of 4.0 mm The variable thread pitch causes the screw to advance through the two bone fragments at different rates, causing gradual ... Dias JJ, Dhukaram V, Abhinav A, Bhowal B, Wildin CJ: Clinical and radiological outcome of cast immobilization versus surgical treatment of acute scaphoid fractures at a mean follow-up of 93 months ... reason that the Acutrak screw provided greater final compression than the Synthes system may relate to the thread pattern The Acutrak is a fully threaded design that generates a large amount of...

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