Introduction
The geography of the Aran Islands is very simple, yet it may need a
word to itself. There are three islands: Aranmor, the north island,
about nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island, about three
miles and a half across, and nearly round in form; and the south
island, Inishere--in Irish, east island,--like the middle island but
slightly smaller. They lie about thirty miles from Galway, up the
centre of the bay, but they are not far from the cliffs of County
Clare, on the south, or the corner of Connemara on the north.
Kilronan, the principal village on Aranmor, has been so much changed
by the fishing industry, developed there by the Congested Districts
Board, that it has now very little to distinguish it from any
fishing village on the west coast of Ireland. The other islands are
more primitive, but even on them many changes are being made, that
it was not worth while to deal with in the text.
In the pages that follow I have given a direct account of my life on
the islands, and of what I met with among them, inventing nothing,
and changing nothing that is essential. As far as possible, however,
I have disguised the identity of the people I speak of, by making
changes in their names, and in the letters I quote, and by altering
some local and family relationships. I have had nothing to say about
them that was not wholly in their favour, but I have made this
disguise to keep them from ever feeling that a too direct use had
been made of their kindness, and friendship, for which I am more
grateful than it is easy to say.
DOWNLOAD HERE
Showing posts with label Ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebooks. Show all posts
Monday, March 2, 2009
Notes on the Indian tribes of British North America and the northwest coast
| Title: | Notes on the Indian tribes of British North America and the northwest coast |
| Additional Title: | Historical magazine, and notes and queries concerning the antiquities, history, and biography of America. |
| Principal Author: | Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884. |
| Imprint: | [New York? : s.n., 1863?] |
| General Note: | Caption title. |
| At head of title : General department. | |
| "And read before the New York Historical Society, November, 1862." | |
| Manuscript annotations. | |
| Title from title screen. | |
| From the Historical Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3 (March, 1863). | |
| Document Source: | Scanned from a CIHM microfiche of the original publication held by the Library Division, Provincial Archives of British Columbia. |
| Subject: | Indians of North America -- British Columbia. |
| Collection: | Native Studies |
| CIHM no.: | 16598 |
| Page Count: | 11 |
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.
Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein; no outlaw durst flee thereto; no man of God had such trust in the saints that he durst build him a cell in that wood.
Embracing Biographical Sketches Of Representative Michigan Men
SUMMARY
This book provides full-page biographies of men prominent in Michigan's business, professional, political, educational, and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Although the entries are not in alphabetical order, there is an alphabetical index on pp. xi-xiv. The entries are preceded by an extensive selection of historical background materials under such headings as "The Civil Commonwealth," "The Military Record," "Educational," "Material Interests," "Religious Organizations," and "Miscellaneous" (which discusses the political parties, liquor traffic, including prohibition laws, and also provides tables). The religion section includes information about church doctrine and polity for mainline denominations, and the educational section summarizes major institutional issues and conflicts at the University of Michigan.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Jewel City
Illustrations
Unless otherwise noted, these are from photographs by the official photographers, the Cardinell-Vincent Company.
Roman Arch of the Setting Sun, Color Plate from Photo by Gabriel Moulin
Ground Plan of the Palace of Fine Arts
Aeroplane View of the Exposition, Photo copyrighted by Gabriel Moulin
Avenue of Palms
The South Gardens
The Palace of Horticulture
Festival Hall—George H. Kahn
Map of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
"Listening Woman" and "Young Girl," Festival Hall
South Portal, Palace of Varied Industries—J. L. Padilla
Palace of Liberal Arts
Sixteenth-Century Spanish Portal, North Facade
"The Pirate," North Portal
"The Priest," Tower of Jewels
The Tower of Jewels and Fountain of Energy
"Cortez"—J. L. Padilla
Under the Arch, Tower of Jewels
Fountain of El Dorado
Column of Progress—Pacific Photo and Art Co.
"The Adventurous Bowman"
Arch of the Setting Sun—J. L. Padilla
Frieze at Base of the Column of Progress (2)
The Court of the Universe and Arch of the Rising Sun
"Earth" and "Fire" (2)
"The Rising Sun" and "The Setting Sun" (2)
Tower of the Ages—J. L. Padilla
Fountain of the Earth—J. L. Padilla
"Air," one of Brangwyn's Murals
The Court of Seasons
Arch in the Court of Seasons—George H. Kahn
Court of Flowers, Detail—Pacific Photo and Art Co.
"The End of the Trail"—J. L. Padilla
"The Pioneer"
The Court of Palms.
Portal between the Courts of Palms and Seasons—Pacific Photo and Art Co.
Fountain of Summer—J. L. Padilla
The Mermaid Fountain
Fountain of "Beauty and the Beast"
The Palace of Machinery
Palace of Machinery, Interior
Vestibule, Palace of Machinery—Gabriel Moulin
Palace of Fine Arts
Open Corridor, Palace of Fine Arts
Detail of Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts
Colonnade, Fine Arts, and Half-Dome, Food Products Palace
—J. L. Padilla
"The Mother of the Dead"
"High Tide; the Return of the Fishermen"—Gabriel Moulin
"Among the White Birch Trunks"—Gabriel
Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore
Introduction by Floyd Dell
INTRODUCTION
These "Confessions of a Young Man" constitute one of the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition. It is significant because it reveals so clearly the sources of that revolt. It is in a sense the history of an epoch—an epoch that is just closing. It represents one of the great discoveries of English literature: a discovery that had been made from time to time before, and that is now being made anew in our own generation—the discovery of human nature.
The reason why this discovery has had to be made so often is that it shocks people. They try to hush it up; and they do succeed in forgetting about it for long periods of time, and pretending that it doesn't exist. They are shocked because human nature is not at all like the pretty pictures we like to
Ohio state gazetteer and business directory for 1860 to 61
Extent: 918 p. : ill.
Place of publication: Indianapolis,
Date of publication: 1860.
Availability: These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please go to http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ for more information.
Sketches of Jewish Social Life
| Title: | Sketches of Jewish Social Life | |
| Creator(s): | Edersheim, Alfred (1825-1889) | |
| Publisher: | Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library | |
| Print Basis: | London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 | |
| Rights: | Public Domain | |
| Date Created: | 2000-07-09 | |
| CCEL Subjects: | All; Classic; History | |
| LC Call no: | DS112 | |
| LC Subjects: | History of Asia |
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Works of Mencius
information
author: Mencius
title: The Works of Mencius
publisher: Clarendon Press, 1895
subject: Confucianism - Ethics - Philosophy
language: English alt. author: James Legge, trans.
other notes
This site presents James Legge's translation of The Works of Mencius as it appeared in the series called The Chinese Classics in 1895. Mr. Legge reproduced in his translation the original Chinese and wrote a great deal of commentary concerning how he arrived at his particular translation of the original Chinese. These are left out. On the other hand, Mr. Legge also wrote a brief description of each chapter, which this site provides as part of each chapter header.
The Sett And Weaving Of Tartans
This ia a study of tartans,with emphasis on the tartansett and the technique of weaving it rather than on its adaptation to specifc uses
Certain Noble Plays of Japan
In the series of books I edit for my sister I confine myself to those
that have I believe some special value to Ireland, now or in the future.
I have asked Mr. Pound for these beautiful plays because I think they
will help me to explain a certain possibility of the Irish dramatic
movement. I am writing these words with my imagination stirred by a visit
to the studio of Mr. Dulac, the distinguished illustrator of the Arabian
Nights. I saw there the mask and head-dress to be worn in a play of mine
by the player who will speak the part of Cuchulain, and who wearing
this noble half-Greek half-Asiatic face will appear perhaps like an image
seen in revery by some Orphic worshipper. I hope to have attained the
distance from life which can make credible strange events, elaborate
words. I have written a little play that can be played in a room for so
little money that forty or fifty readers of poetry can pay the price.
There will be no scenery, for three musicians, whose seeming sun-burned
faces will I hope suggest that they have wandered from village to village
in some country of our dreams, can describe place and weather, and at
moments action, and accompany it all by drum and gong or flute and
dulcimer. Instead of the players working themselves into a violence of
passion indecorous in our sitting-room, the music, the beauty of form and
voice all come to climax in pantomimic dance.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Fruit Gathering
Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets
into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe.
For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a
plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
Bid me and I shall set sail on the river.
The March wind is fretful, fretting the languid waves into
murmurs.
The garden has yielded its all, and in the weary hour of evening
the call comes from your house on the shore in the sunset.
The Roly Poly Pudding
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943
Creation of machine-readable version: Charles Keller for Tina
Creation of digital images: Matthew Gibson, Electronic Text Center
Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. ca. 45 kilobytes
This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Virginia
Download
The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A Hart Artist
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are also due to Gary Kurutz, curator of special collections at the California State Library; Jennifer Watts, associate curator of photographs at The Huntington Library, for her numerous letters and assistance in identifying persons in the Hart photographs; Tony Troncale, photography collection, New York Public Library; Kathryn Totten, Special Collections, University of Nevada Library; Maja Keech, Prints and Photographs division, Library of Congress; KD Kurutz, curator of education, Crocker Art Museum; Walter Gray, director, and Ellen Halteman, librarian, California State Railroad Museum for providing information on early California railroad construction; James Henley, manager, Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center for information on Sacramento history and access to the extensive photographic collection at the Archives. Special thanks to Pauline Grenbeaux Spear who did so much early research on the life of Alfred Hart and who was the first to plan a history of his life. To Glen Willumson who completed Pauline's work and shared much of his research on Hart's railroad years; to Benjamin Biaggini, former president of the Southern Pacific Railroad who generously provided my first Hart views (on glass lantern slides) and many facts on the early history of the railroad; to Jeneane Crawford who worked tirelessly with me in taking, developing and printing the hundreds of photographs appearing here, as well as taking field notes and identifying locations on numerous trips along the CPRR route. Barry Swackhamer permitted the photographing of many of his rare Hart stereographs appearing in Appendix A, and later proofread parts of the text and provided many of the correct railroad terms needed | |
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Royal Museum at Naples
The ancient Roman and Greek cultures had a very different attitude about sexuality than successive European cultures, more akin to that of the Kama Sutra. This, of course, was unimaginable to latter day Europeans, who rigidly compartmentalized body, mind and spirit, and to whom any sexuality was sinful and morbid.
Some of the best artistic expressions of this can be found in the recovered city of Pompeii. Pompeii was frozen in time by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., and not unearthed until 1748. Pompeii was a seaside resort, devoted to the arts, relaxation, and the pursuit of pleasure. The excavators were horrified to discover erotic frescos, mosaics, statuary and phallic votive objects.
The moveable erotic artifacts were taken to Naples and kept in seclusion in the Royal Museum. The erotic wall and floor art had lockable metal boxes constructed over them and were displayed to tourists for an extra fee (women and children excluded). When I visited Pompeii in the late 1960s, this peepshow was still in operation.
Explosion hazards in the process industry
Explosion Hazards in the Process Industry Publisher: Gulf Publishing | Pages: 439 | 2005-10-15 | ISBN 0976511347 | PDF | 17 MB Explosions in the process industries injure or kill hundreds, if not thousands, of workers every year. They occur in process plants, refineries, platforms and pipelines all over the world. Millions of dollars are spent repairing damages, replacing equipment and rebuilding facilities in the wake of this destruction. The loss of human life adds another dimension to these tragedies. This book explores different types of explosions that can occur in a facility and the necessary steps to guard against them. A clear set of preventative measures, rules and standards combine to make this book a convenient guide to real-world applications. Additional theoretical issues in the use of probabilistic equations and scenarios make this book an absolute neccesity for process industry safety.
DOWNLOAD HERE
Hand book Of Wood Engraving by William A Emerson
Title: Hand-Book of Wood Engraving Illustrated. | |
Longman new junior english dictionary
Longman New Junior English Dictionary Longman Publishing Group | 1993-12 | ISBN: 0582094852 | 396 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB
DOWNLOAD HERE
DOWNLOAD HERE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
