Posts Tagged multipurpose

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
— Charlie Chaplin

Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul

The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild blue hill-sides; as over these there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied children lie sleeping in these solitudes, in some glad May-time, when the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way […]

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Its air is much more attenuated than ours

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans […]

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The priests took their places in front of the judge

„Have you been ill-treated?“ „Not at all.“ „Very well; let the complainants come in.“ A door was swung open by order of the judge, and three Indian priests entered. „That’s it,“ muttered Passepartout; „these are the rogues who were going to burn our young lady.“ The priests took their places in front of the judge, […]

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