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Excerpt #1, from Psychology and Social Practice, by John Dewey

…CORRECTIONS: page original text correction 34 II II. 40 reciprocal influence reciprocal influence. The following sentence on page 26 is left unchanged: “… he gets only misleading from taking the psychical point of view,” A reprint of the essay in Educational Essays by John Dewey (edited by J. J. Finlay) has “… he is only misled by taking the psychical point of view,” End of Project Gutenberg’s Psychology and Social Practice, by John Dewey *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL PRACTICE ** This file should be named 40744-8.txt or 40744-8.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/7/4/40744/ Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one–the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,…

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Excerpt #2, from A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, by William Smith

…libertini to attend to the religions rites connected with the worship of the Lares, which that emperor was said to have put up in places where two or more ways met; but there are good reasons for thinking that they were instituted in imitation of the Augustales at Rome, and for the same object, namely, to attend to the worship of Augustus. They formed a collegium and were appointed by the decuriones, or senate of the municipia. The six principal members of the college were called Seviri, a title which seems to have been imitated from the Seviri in the equestrian order at Rome. AUGUSTUS, a name bestowed upon Octavianus in B.C. 27, by the senate and the Roman people. It was a word used in connection with religion, and designated a person as sacred and worthy of worship; hence the Greek writers translate it by Σεβαστός. It was adopted by all succeeding emperors, as if descended, either by birth or adoption, from the first emperor of the Roman world. The name of Augusta was frequently bestowed upon females of the imperial family; but Augustus belonged exclusively to the reigning emperor till towards the end of the second century of the Christian aera, when M. Aurelius and L. Verus both received this surname. From this time we frequently find two or even a greater number of Augusti. From the time of Probus the title became perpetuus Augustus, and from Philippus or…

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Excerpt #3, from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic, by Sprunt

…Colonel Scharf, writing of the Confederate States Navy, mentions the shore lights: “At the beginning of the war,” he says, “nearly all the lights along the Southern coast had been discontinued, the apparatus being removed to places of safety. In 1864 it was deemed expedient to re-establish the light on Smith’s Island, which had been discontinued ever since the beginning of hostilities, and to erect a structure for a light on the ‘Mound.’ The ‘Mound’ was an artificial one, erected by Colonel Lamb, who commanded Fort Fisher.” Captain Wilkinson says of the “Mound” and the range lights: "Two heavy guns were mounted upon it, and it eventually became a site for a light, and very serviceable for blockade runners; but even at this period it was an excellent landmark. Joined by a long, low isthmus of sand with the higher mainland, its regular conical shape enabled the blockade runners easily to identify it from the offing; and in clear weather, it showed plain and distinct against the sky at night. I believe the military men used to laugh slyly at the colonel for undertaking its erection, predicting that it would not stand; but the result showed the contrary; and whatever difference of opinion may have existed with regard to its value as a military position, there can be but one as to its utility to the blockade runners, for it was not a landmark alone, along this monotonous coast, but one of the range lights for crossing New Inlet…

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Excerpt #4, from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

…Milk.[125] To dream of drinking milk, denotes abundant harvest to the farmer and pleasure in the home; for a traveler, it foretells a fortunate voyage. This is a very propitious dream for women. To see milk in large quantities, signifies riches and health. To dream of dealing in milk commercially, denotes great increase in fortune. To give milk away, shows that you will be too benevolent for the good of your own fortune. To spill milk, denotes that you will experience a slight loss and suffer temporary unhappiness at the hands of friends. To dream of impure milk, denotes that you will be tormented with petty troubles. To dream of sour milk, denotes that you will be disturbed over the distress of friends. To dream of trying unsuccessfully to drink milk, signifies that you will be in danger of losing something of value or the friendship of a highly esteemed person. To dream of hot milk, foretells a struggle, but the final winning of riches and desires. To dream of bathing in milk, denotes pleasures and companionships of congenial friends….

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Excerpt #5, from The Influence of the Stars: A book of old world lore, by Rosa Baughan

…children and they will all live. She herself will die before sixty. MAY.–GEMINI The influences of this sign will last from the Twenty-second of May till the Twenty-first of June. The man born under the influence of this sign will be subject to ulcers and all skin diseases. He will be tall, well formed and of florid complexion. He will be much liked for his amiable qualities and will govern his family well. He will travel much in foreign countries and will acquire many beautiful things in the course of his travels. He will be attentive to women, very conscientious, gracious and valiant. He will not be at all given up to luxury, but will be of a pious and self-denying temperament. He will be bitten by some venomous reptile, yet will not die of the wound, but will recover entirely from it in a short time. He will be falsely accused of some sin and will be imprisoned for it; but he will come out victorious and his innocence will be acknowledged by all. His marriage is uncertain. The woman who is born at this time will be fluent of speech, gracious in manners, witty and intelligent, but rather sensitive in temper. She will be small of stature, slight in figure and of a fair complexion. She will have well marked yet delicate eyebrows, brilliant eyes and small white teeth; her hands will be slender, with pointed fingers. By…

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Excerpt #6, from The Story of Sir Francis Drake, by Letitia MacColl Elton

…a thousand deaths.” After taking the Communion and listening to a sermon, they eased the ship by casting goods into the sea–“three ton of cloves, eight big guns, and certain meal and beans”; making, as an old writer says, a kind of gruel of the sea round about. After they had been in this state from eight o’clock at night till four o’clock next afternoon, all in a moment the wind changed, and “the happy gale drove them off the rocks again, and made of them glad men.” The rest of the homeward voyage was less adventurous, and on the 18th of June they passed the Cape of Good Hope, “a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.” On the 26th of September they “safely, and with joyful minds and thankful hearts, arrived at Plymouth, having been away three years.” CHAPTER IX SIR FRANCIS It was in the autumn of 1580 that Drake returned from his three years’ voyage. Wynter had brought the news home that Drake had entered the Straits of Magellan, but since then only vague rumours of his death at the hands of the Spaniards had reached England. Had he met such a fate, Sir William Cecil (now Lord Burghley) and his party at Court would not have been sorry; for they disliked piracy, and wished to avoid a war…

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Excerpt #7, from The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

…“Paris is a fine town all right,” said the count. “But I guess you have pretty big doings yourself over in London.” “Oh, yes,” said Brett. “Enormous.” Braddocks called to me from a table. “Barnes,” he said, “have a drink. That girl of yours got in a frightful row.” “What about?” “Something the patronne’s daughter said. A corking row. She was rather splendid, you know. Showed her yellow card and demanded the patronne’s daughter’s too. I say it was a row.” “What finally happened?” “Oh, some one took her home. Not a bad-looking girl. Wonderful command of the idiom. Do stay and have a drink.” “No,” I said. “I must shove off. Seen Cohn?” “He went home with Frances,” Mrs. Braddock put in. “Poor chap, he looks awfully down,” Braddocks said. “I dare say he is,” said Mrs. Braddocks. “I have to shove off,” I said. “Good night.” I said good night to Brett at the bar. The count was buying champagne. “Will you take a glass of wine with us, sir?” he asked. “No. Thanks awfully. I have to go.” “Really going?” Brett asked….

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Excerpt #8, from Uncle Wiggily’s Travels, by Howard Roger Garis

…What it was I’ll tell you soon, when, in case the boys who go in swimming don’t duck my typewriter under water and make it catch the measles, I’ll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the toadstool. STORY XXIII UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE TOADSTOOL “Were you much frightened when you were in the bear’s den?” asked the prickly porcupine as he and Uncle Wiggily went along the road next day. They had slept that night in a hole where an old fox used to live, but just then he was away on his summer vacation at Asbury Park, and so he wasn’t home. “Was I frightened?” repeated the old gentleman rabbit, as he looked to see if there was any mud on his crutch, “why I was so scared that my heart almost stopped beating. But I’m glad you happened to come along, and that you stuck your stickery-ickery quills into the bear’s nose. It was very lucky that you chanced to come past the den.” “Oh, I did it on purpose,” said the porcupine. “After you got me out of the trap, and I scurried away, I happened to think that you might go past the bear’s house, so I hurried after you, and–well, I’m glad that I did.” [Illustration] “So am I,” said the rabbit. “Will you have a bit of my carrot sandwich?”…

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Excerpt #9, from The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers

…“They are very beautiful–these moors,” she said quietly. “Beautiful, but cruel to strangers,” I answered. “Beautiful and cruel,” she repeated dreamily, “beautiful and cruel.” “Like a woman,” I said stupidly. “Oh,” she cried with a little catch in her breath, and looked at me. Her dark eyes met mine, and I thought she seemed angry or frightened. “Like a woman,” she repeated under her breath, “How cruel to say so!” Then after a pause, as though speaking aloud to herself, “How cruel for him to say that!” I don’t know what sort of an apology I offered for my inane, though harmless speech, but I know that she seemed so troubled about it that I began to think I had said something very dreadful without knowing it, and remembered with horror the pitfalls and snares which the French language sets for foreigners. While I was trying to imagine what I might have said, a sound of voices came across the moor, and the girl rose to her feet. “No,” she said, with a trace of a smile on her pale face, “I will not accept your apologies, monsieur, but I must prove you wrong, and that shall be my revenge. Look. Here come Hastur and Raoul.” Two men loomed up in the twilight. One had a sack across his shoulders and the other carried a hoop before him as a waiter carries a tray. The…

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Excerpt #10, from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman

…should not agree with those of Arsène Lupin.” After a short silence, Ganimard asked: “What are you going to do now?” “Now,” replied Lupin, “I am going to take a rest, enjoy the best of food and drink and gradually recover my former healthy condition. It is all very well to become Baudru or some other person, on occasion, and to change your personality as you do your shirt, but you soon grow weary of the change. I feel exactly as I imagine the man who lost his shadow must have felt, and I shall be glad to be Arsène Lupin once more.” He walked to and fro for a few minutes, then, stopping in front of Ganimard, he said: “You have nothing more to say, I suppose?” “Yes. I should like to know if you intend to reveal the true state of facts connected with your escape. The mistake that I made—” “Oh! no one will ever know that it was Arsène Lupin who was discharged. It is to my own interest to surround myself with mystery, and therefore I shall permit my escape to retain its almost miraculous character. So, have no fear on that score, my dear friend. I shall say nothing. And now, good-bye. I am going out to dinner this evening, and have only sufficient time to dress.” “I though you wanted a rest.”…

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Excerpt #11, from Tanks in the Great War, 1914 to 1918, by J. F. C. Fuller

…closely under the War Office it was also decided, at about this time, to dissolve the Tank Directorate, first created in May 1917, and to replace it by a new sub-branch of the Directorate of Staff Duties. This change took place on August 1, when a new branch known as S.D.7 was added to the Directorate of Staff Duties at the War Office to deal with the administration of tanks generally, and the 1919 tank programme in particular. At the same time the Tank Committee was abolished, its place being taken by the Tank Board, which was constituted as follows: Major-General the Right Honourable J. E. B. Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P., President (Deputy Minister of Munitions). Sir Eustace Tennyson D’Eyncourt, K.C.B., Vice-President (Director of Naval Construction). Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O. (Controller Munitions Inventions). Major-General Sir William Furse, K.C.B., D.S.O. (Master General of Ordnance, representing the Army Council). Major-General E. D. Swinton, C.B., D.S.O. Major-General H. J. Elles, C.B., D.S.O. (Commanding Tank Corps, France). Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert Stern, K.B.E., C.M.G. (Commissioner…

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Excerpt #12, from The Radio Amateur’s Hand Book, by A. Frederick Collins

…ampere-hours amp.-hr. centimeter cm. centimeter-gram-second c.g.s. cubic centimeters cm.^3 cubic inches cu. in. cycles per second ~ degrees Centigrade °C. degrees Fahrenheit °F. feet ft. foot-pounds ft.-lb. grams g. henries h. inches in. kilograms kg. kilometers km. kilowatts kw. kilowatt-hours kw.-hr. kilovolt-amperes kv.-a. meters m. microfarads [Greek: mu]f. micromicrofarads [Greek: mu mu]f….

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