Download or read book Wild Doctor Consort Prince Regent Pesters written by Si YueHuaKai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: once transmigrated, the 21st century special forces military doctors became the newly initiated sickly princess.the side concubine was vicious, letting you taste what it was like to live rather than die.the son of an influential official came knocking on his door and directly sent him to yama for tea.i'm sorry, i don't know any empress dowager.with her good medical skills and martial arts, this woman had been doing well in the capital. the only accident was that illogical regent.she had clearly said that she was only putting on an act. would a certain prince be too involved in a play and wholeheartedly want to take over her people?"xiao feimo, what did you see in me?"a certain prince meaningfully glanced at her. "the whole of the wangfei's body is deeply rooted in this prince's heart."
Download or read book Wild Doctor Consort Prince Regent Pesters written by Si YueHuaKai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: once transmigrated, the 21st century special forces military doctors became the newly initiated sickly princess.the side concubine was vicious, letting you taste what it was like to live rather than die.the son of an influential official came knocking on his door and directly sent him to yama for tea.i'm sorry, i don't know any empress dowager.with her good medical skills and martial arts, this woman had been doing well in the capital. the only accident was that illogical regent.she had clearly said that she was only putting on an act. would a certain prince be too involved in a play and wholeheartedly want to take over her people?"xiao feimo, what did you see in me?"a certain prince meaningfully glanced at her. "the whole of the wangfei's body is deeply rooted in this prince's heart."
Download or read book Wild Doctor Consort Prince Regent Pesters written by Si YueHuaKai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: once transmigrated, the 21st century special forces military doctors became the newly initiated sickly princess.the side concubine was vicious, letting you taste what it was like to live rather than die.the son of an influential official came knocking on his door and directly sent him to yama for tea.i'm sorry, i don't know any empress dowager.with her good medical skills and martial arts, this woman had been doing well in the capital. the only accident was that illogical regent.she had clearly said that she was only putting on an act. would a certain prince be too involved in a play and wholeheartedly want to take over her people?"xiao feimo, what did you see in me?"a certain prince meaningfully glanced at her. "the whole of the wangfei's body is deeply rooted in this prince's heart."
Download or read book Wild Doctor Consort Prince Regent Pesters written by Si YueHuaKai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: once transmigrated, the 21st century special forces military doctors became the newly initiated sickly princess.the side concubine was vicious, letting you taste what it was like to live rather than die.the son of an influential official came knocking on his door and directly sent him to yama for tea.i'm sorry, i don't know any empress dowager.with her good medical skills and martial arts, this woman had been doing well in the capital. the only accident was that illogical regent.she had clearly said that she was only putting on an act. would a certain prince be too involved in a play and wholeheartedly want to take over her people?"xiao feimo, what did you see in me?"a certain prince meaningfully glanced at her. "the whole of the wangfei's body is deeply rooted in this prince's heart."
Download or read book Wild Doctor Consort Prince Regent Pesters written by Si YueHuaKai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: once transmigrated, the 21st century special forces military doctors became the newly initiated sickly princess.the side concubine was vicious, letting you taste what it was like to live rather than die.the son of an influential official came knocking on his door and directly sent him to yama for tea.i'm sorry, i don't know any empress dowager.with her good medical skills and martial arts, this woman had been doing well in the capital. the only accident was that illogical regent.she had clearly said that she was only putting on an act. would a certain prince be too involved in a play and wholeheartedly want to take over her people?"xiao feimo, what did you see in me?"a certain prince meaningfully glanced at her. "the whole of the wangfei's body is deeply rooted in this prince's heart."
Download or read book A Woman s Life in the Court of the Sun King written by Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orleans, "Monsieur, " the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans, or "Madame") was full of intellectual energy and moral rigor. Homesick for her native Germany, she felt temperamentally ill-suited to life at the French court. The homosexual Monsieur, deeply immersed in the pleasures and intrigues of the court, shared few of his wife's interests. Yet, for the next fifty years, Liselotte remained in France, never far from the center of one of the most glorious courts of Europe. And throughout this period, she wrote letters - sometimes as many as forty a week - to her friends and relatives in Germany. It is from this extraordinary body of correspondence that A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King has been fashioned. As introduced and translated by Elborg Forster, the letters have become the remarkable personal narrative of Liselotte's transformation from an innocent, yet outspoken, girl into a formidable observer of great events and human folly.
Download or read book The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
Download or read book The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton written by Lady Isabel Burton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Propertius in Love written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.
Download or read book World History as the History of Foundations 3000 BCE to 1500 CE written by Michael Borgolte and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE, Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as “total social phenomena” which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the economy, art and religion of the cultures in which they emerged. Cross-cultural in its approach and the result of decades of research, this work represents by far the most comprehensive account of the history of foundations that has hitherto been published.
Download or read book The History of Gambling in England written by John Ashton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1898 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.
Download or read book Kingsblood Royal written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Kingsblood is a white middle-class man who discovers, while researching his family background, that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier. Through various machinations, Kingsblood loses his banking job and takes a lesser one. He begins to be treated differently by former acquaintances, despite the lack of visible black African ancestry. He is forced to choose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community. After Kingsblood tells several white friends about his newfound ancestry, the news quickly spreads, and he finds that acquaintances change their behavior toward him. He engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism newly apparent but widespread in his community.
Download or read book Essays in Idleness written by Kenko and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes, advice and observations. From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court, Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience. Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the works. Chômei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155, at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important though minor poet of his day, and at the age of fifty, withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. He died in around 1216. Kenkô was born around 1283 in Kyoto. He probably became a monk in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms, 'Essays in Idleness'. Meredith McKinney, who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics, is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. '[Essays in Idleness is] a most delightful book, and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century. These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little, fleeting futile things, and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student
Download or read book The Poetical Works With a Life of the Author written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hojoki written by Kamo Chomei and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous translation of the classic Buddhist poem
Download or read book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos written by Primitivo Mijares and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's Foreword This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me. I wrote this volume very, very slowly. 1 could have done with it In three months after my defection from the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on February 20.1975. Instead, I found myself availing of every excuse to slow it down. A close associate, Marcelino P. Sarmiento, even warned me, "Baka mapanis 'yan." (Your book could become stale.)While I availed of almost any excuse not to finish the manuscript of this volume, I felt the tangible voices of a muted people back home in the Philippines beckoning to me from across the vast Pacific Ocean. In whichever way I turned, I was confronted by the distraught images of the Filipino multitudes cryingout to me to finish this work, lest the frailty of human memory -- or any incident a la Nalundasan - consign to oblivion the matters I had in mind to form the vital parts of this book. It was as if the Filipino multitudes and history itself were surging in an endless wave presenting a compelling demand on me toSan Francisco, California perpetuate the personal knowledge I have gained on the infamous machinations of Ferdinand E. Marcos and his overly ambitious wife, Imelda, that led to a day of infamy in my country, that Black Friday on September 22, 1972, when martial law was declared as a means to establish history's first conjugal dictatorship. The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills. This is a book for which so much has been offered and done by Marcos and his minions so that it would never see the light of print. Now that it is off the press. I entertain greater fear that so much more will be done to prevent its circulation, not only in the Philippines but also in the United States.But this work now belongs to history. Let it speak for itself in the context of developments within the coming months or years. Although it finds great relevance in the present life of the present life of the Filipinos and of Americans interested in the study of subversion of democratic governments by apparently legal means, this work seeks to find its proper niche in history which mustinevitably render its judgment on the seizure of government power from the people by a lame duck Philippine President.If I had finished this work immediately after my defection from the totalitarian regime of Ferdinand and Imelda, or after the vicious campaign of the dictatorship to vilify me in July-August. 1975, then I could have done so only in anger. Anger did influence my production of certain portions of the manu-script. However, as I put the finishing touches to my work, I found myself expurgating it of the personal venom, the virulence and intemperate language of my original draft.Some of the materials that went into this work had been of public knowledge in the Philippines. If I had used them, it was with the intention of utilizing them as links to heretofore unrevealed facets of the various ruses that Marcos employed to establish his dictatorship.Now, I have kept faith with the Filipino people. I have kept my rendezvous with history. I have, with this work, discharged my obligation to myself, my profession of journalism, my family and my country.I had one other compelling reason for coming out with this work at the great risks of being uprooted from my beloved country, of forced separation from my wife and children and losing their affection, and of losing everything I have in my name in the Philippines - or losing life itself. It is that I wanted to makea public expiation for the little influence that I had . . . .(more inside)
Download or read book The Time Ship written by Enrique Gaspar and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. G. Wells wasn’t the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronópete—“He who flies against time”—eight years before Wells’s influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo unveils his new invention—which looks like a giant sailing vessel. Soon the doctor embarks on a voyage back in time, accompanied by a motley crew of French prostitutes and Spanish soldiers. The purpose of his expedition is to track down the imprisoned wife of a third-century Chinese emperor, believed to possess the secret to immortality. A classic tale of obsession, high adventure, and star-crossed love, The Time Ship includes intricately drawn illustrations from the original 1887 edition, and a critical introduction that argues persuasively for The Time Ship’s historical importance to science fiction and world literature.
