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...in the object beheld. Let a planet be wheeling with heavenly science, upon arches of divine geometry: suddenly, to us, it shall appear unaccountably r... ...genious, but it will not do. It is cracked in the ring. Perhaps as many as three objections might be mustered to such a derivation: but the last of th... ...ree objections might be mustered to such a derivation: but the last of the three is conclusive. The ancients never did view morality as a mode of obli... ...could have been opened between the new world of Christian feeling, and the old world so deaf to its music. Here, therefore, we may observe two prepara... ..., they denomi- nate ‘religions of the book.’ There are, of such religions, three, viz., Judaism, Christianity, and Islamism. The first builds upon the... ..., but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the good old ferocious times of paganism, as may be seen in the Iliad: it was not sa... ...ery far’ from every one of us. And I will venture to say, that many a poor old woman has, by virtue of her Christian inoculation, Sir Isaac’s great id... ...ecret implications of the truth, have escaped at a thousand points in vast arches above our heads, rising high above the garden wall, and have sown th...

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... eternal space, Where thou shalt hear despairing shrieks, and see Spirits of old tormented, who invoke A second death; and those next view, who dwell ... ...breast Harbour vile fear? why hast not courage there And noble daring? Since three maids so blest Thy safety plan, e’en in the court of heaven; And so... ...the river, I from speech Abstain’d. And lo! toward us in a bark Comes on an old man hoary white with eld, 10 The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell Cryi... ... began: “Mark him, Who in his right hand bears that falchion keen, The other three preceding, as their lord. This is that Homer, of all bards supreme:... ...’s eye Caesar all arm’d, and by Camilla there Penthesilea. On the other side Old King Latinus, seated by his child Lavinia, and that Brutus I beheld, ... ...est fell. Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange, Through his wide threefold throat barks as a dog Over the multitude immers’d beneath. His ... ...our doth its faint reflex. As when, if Juno bid her handmaid forth, Two arches parallel, and trick’d alike, Span the thin cloud, the outer taking...

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...incidence, when the door of our apartment was thrown open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G—, the Prefect of the Parisian police. We gave ... ...s, as you know, with which I can open any chamber or cabinet in Paris. For three months a night has not passed, during the greater part of which I hav... ...ual emergency—by some extraordinary reward—they extend or exaggerate their old modes of practice, without touching their principles. What, for example... ...nob just be- neath the middle of the mantel-piece. In this rack, which had three or four compartments, were five or six visiting cards and a solitary ... ... THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction. —OLD SA YING HA VING HAD OCCASION, lately, in the course of some Oriental in... ...thing drew near we saw it very distinctly. Its length was equal to that of three of the loftiest trees that grow, and it was as wide as the great hall... ...d our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt...

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... E MERSON THE M USKETAQUID, or Grass ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized hi... ...t is, in sum mer, from four to fifteen feet deep, and from one hundred to three hundred feet wide, but in the spring freshets, when it overflows its ... ...w is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which... ...r in the spring, was in form like a fisherman’s dory, fifteen feet long by three and a half in breadth at the widest part, painted green below, with a... ...urpose of a ship, so our boat, being of wood, gladly availed itself of the old law that the heavier shall float the lighter, and though a dull water f... ...elestial lights, do plainly see, And gladly hail them, numbering two or three; 16 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers For lore that’s deep must... ...is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which 75 HenryDavidThoreau the arches of science can never span. A book should contain pure discoveries, g...

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... is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innu- merable variations. Nature is full of a su... ...h resemblances in the most unexpected quarters. I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain ... ...uld ever add. The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which w... ...he nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch’s heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive... ...nd cheering discourse at sev- eral times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word. ... ...hall not have one new and hearty word. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and search- in... ...t was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart ...

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...ust be for the geographical don, who never came in for Hall; cold food for three, appar- ently at half-a-crown a head, for some one he did not know; h... ... We accept. At the station, no Rickie. We drive to where 7 EM Forster his old lodgings were—Trumpery Road or some such name—and he’s left them. I’m f... ...ss, but might I ask how many to lay?” It was the bedmaker, Mrs. Aberdeen. “Three, I think,” said Agnes, smiling pleasantly. “Mr. Elliot’ll be back in ... ... notice a great change in university tone. I can never remember swaggering three abreast along the pavement and charging inoffensive visitors into a g... ...ather more irritable, and a little weaker. Mrs. Elliot was quickly growing old. She had to manage the servants, to hush the neighbouring children, to ... ...a ‘Varsity man and hobnobbing with Lords.” Rickie was prepared to find his old schoolfellow ungrammatical and bumptious, but he was not pre- pared to ... ...to sight, and then the flower sailed into deep water, and up leapt the two arches of a bridge. “It’ll strike!” they cried; “no, it won’t; it’s chosen ...

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...- panion throbs of your pulses. Interrogate them. They lump along like the old loblegs of Dobbin the horse; or do their business like cudgels of carpe... ... House, when his turn arrives; as if they had (possibly they had) smelt of old date a doomed colossus of Egoism in that unborn, unconceived inheritor ... ...le socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the House. It would appear that ever finer essences of it ... ...escued British sailor inebriate, and the haul- ing off to captivity of the three braves of the black dragon on a yellow ground, and the tying of them ... ...ity as the dogs and pets of the Comic Spirit, had been curiously attentive three years earlier, long before the public announcement of his engagement ... ...c people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: three mighty qualifications for a Patterne bride. Her father, Sir John Durh... ...could. But history! there I am with you. Walking over ruins: at night: the arches of the solemn black amphitheatre pouring moonlight on us— the moonli...

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...er ersonal Mer ersonal Mer it it it it it [T T T T The O he O he O he O he Old M ld M ld M ld M ld Man and the an and the an and the an and the an... ... ersing ersing ersing ersing.. ... T T T T The O he O he O he O he Old ld ld ld ld M M M M Man had asser an had asser an had asser an had asse... ...osition or his position or his position or his position or his position .] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam en gine is made? Young Ma... ...M. Well, then, for instance. Take the case in the book here. The man lives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about... ...enerous heart with a sharp pain. He could not bear it. He could endure the three mile walk in the storm, but he could not endure the tortures his cons... ... do? Not a solitary soul capture was sure. He played for a possible thirty three hundred per cent profit. It was gambling—with his family for “chips.”... ...t. There was marvelous freshness in the colors of the mosaics in the great arches of the fa cade, and all that gracious harmony into which the temple...

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...ER 1 WASHINGTON The site of the present City of Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the f... ...o all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three advantages would be secured by the selected position. As regards the ... ... States of America, but I think none so desolate in its state of nature as three-fourths of the ground on which is supposed to stand the City of Washi... ...seems to answer the expectation of the builders; but at Munich there is an old city as well, and commerce had already got some con- siderable hold on ... ... of them are well known, and they are very fine. They now stand within the old chamber of the Representative House, and the pity is that, if el- evate... ...d- age to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old white hat. But had I been a man of science, what a tale it might have t... ...een well copied from Cologne. But windows have been fitted in with stilted arches, of which the stilts seem to crack and bend, so narrow are they and ... ...ind. The outside boundaries of the nearest regiment were orna- mented with arches, crosses, and columns, constructed in the same way; so that the quar...

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...DISCOURSES ................................................................................................................................ 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................................................................................... 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE................................................

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..................................................................... 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................ ..................................................................... 65 XVIII. OLD AND YOUNG WOMEN ........................................................ ................................................................. 166 LIV . THE THREE EVIL THINGS .......................................................... ..................................................................... 174 L VI. OLD AND NEW TABLES ......................................................... ...overpowering passion as the aim of our life, hope, and will. And just as the old system of valuing, which only extolled the qualities favourable to th... ...ch of some manuscript, he wrote as follows: “I have engaged a place here for three months: forsooth, I am the greatest fool to allow my courage to be ... ...sedly shouting, Circumambling on fabricated word- bridges, On motley rainbow-arches, ‘Twixt the spurious heavenly, And spurious earthly, Round us rovi...

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........ 113 PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D?URFEY?S LAST PLAY. ....................................................................... 114 PROLOGUE TO ?THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE? ...................................................................... 115 EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE?S ?JANE SHORE.? .........................................................................................

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........................................................ 114 PROLOGUE TO ‘THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE’ .................................................. ..................................................................... 132 THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS. ...................................................... ................................................................... 159 ON AN OLD GATE. .................................................................... ...and, Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him... ...ilton has winged his daring flight from heaven to earth, through Chaos and old Night; Pope’s Muse never wan- dered in safety, but from his library to ... ...elations, be- comes the foundation, and furnishes out the subjects, of the three following; so that— The second book takes up again the first and seco... ... all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanish’d, like their dead... ...ed; No labour’d columns in long order placed, No Grecian stone the pompous arches graced: No nightly bands in glittering armour wait Before the sleepl...

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... on,’ Kilne assented. ‘Well, he was like a Marquis,’ said Barnes. Here the three regarded each other, and laughed, though not loudly. They instantly c... ...id out; with directions that he should be so buried at the expira- tion of three days, that havoc in his features might be hidden 16 Evan Harrington ... ...’s forehead with her lips, unseen. CHAPTER III THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SHEARS THREE DAUGHTERS and a son were left to the world by Mr. Melchisedec. Love, ... ...isedec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth... ...not identify me. And then he told an anecdote of Papa. It was the dreadful old “Bath” story. I thought I should have died. I could not but fancy the A... ...t year? I brought it on myself. “Gentleman, ma’am,—ma’am!” says the horrid old creature, laughing,” gentleman! he’s a— “I can- not speak it: I choke! ... ...She put a corner of the letter in the box. ‘Must I?’ All was done with the archest elegance: the bewildering con- descension of a Goddess to a boor. ‘... ... lean, worldly curate of your Church, and he knows that. Y our bishops and arches are quite susceptible to beauti- ful petitioners, and we know here h...

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...nd rules of skill, and courage bold, He took from Guelpho, and his fathers old. XI Thus when the Lord discovered had, and seen The hidden secrets of e... ...l of heavenly majesty and might, A stripling seemed he thrive five winters old, And radiant beams adorned his locks of gold. 7 Torquato Tasso XIV Of ... ...ay, yet was his courage green, Of worth and might the noble badge he bore, Old scars of grievous wounds received of yore. 17 Torquato Tasso LIV After... ...bizo of Tuscain land, Well worthy praise for many a worthy deed; Nor those three brethren, Lombards fierce and yond, Achilles, Sforza, and stern Palam... ...That soundeth glory, fame, praise in his ears. LX And then, though scantly three times five years old, He fled alone, by many an unknown coast, O’er A... ...adventurous, brave, and bold, Whereon a valiant prince might justly boast, Three years he served in field, when scant begin Few golden hairs to deck h... ... a wondrous bridge appeared, A bridge of gold, a huge and weighty mass, On arches great of that rich metal reared; When through that golden way he ent...

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...ted anec- dotes. I wish to indicate here how this work, illu- mined by the three or four positive data which I have given, appears to me to demand it.... ... me instance “Saint-Antonin,” “ A Midnight Revel,” “The Little Cask,” and “Old Amable.” You close the book at the end of these vigorous sketches, and ... ...sensations are in turn those of a hunter and of a sailor, who have, as the old French say- ing expressively puts it, “swift foot, eagle eye,” and who ... ...tion, which does not often obtain between a renowned senior who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupas... ...e-class adventures. 12 De Maupassant From this point of view, examine the three great romances of the Master from Rouen, and you will see that he has... ...riticism, Tolstoi adds: “I find in the book, in almost equal strength, the three cardinal qualities essential to great work, viz: moral purpose, perfe... ...tic ani-mals, with monstrous flowers, are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky by night. When I had r...

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...vas and the sky god Ukko. The word, Ukko, seems related to the Magyar Agg, old, and meant, therefore, an old being, a grandfather; but ultimately it c... .... Among the other deities of the air are the Luonnotars, mys tic maidens, three of whom were created by the rubbing of Ukko’s hands upon his left kne... ...ecame 13 The Kalevala green, and the people danced around it, so that the old men grew joyous as the youth.” The chief water god is Ahto, on the etym... ...is own, and received it with gratitude. To the shepherd lad Ahto gave the three knives as a reward for his honesty. A general term for the other wate... ...ian of hidden treasures. This important office is also filled by a hideous old deity named Mammelainen, whom Renwall, the Finnish lexicographer, descr... ...dead. Thus, as described in The Kalevala, when the hero of Wainola needed three words of master magic wherewith 17 The Kalevala to finish the boat i... ...drous beauty, Lasting joy and pride of Suomi. Whence the harp’s enchanting arches? From the jaw bones of the monster. Whence the necessary harp pins? ...

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...rn, descending down the steep, Thro’ gaping waves behold the boiling deep. Three ships were hurried by the southern blast, And on the secret shelves w... ..., when they rose in view, And show’d their spacious backs above the flood. Three more fierce Eurus, in his angry mood, Dash’d on the shallows of the m... ...k’d thro’ loosen’d planks the rushing sea. Ilioneus was her chief: Alethes old, Achates faithful, Abas young and bold, Endur’d not less; their ships, ... ...e the streamers of Caicus fly. No vessels were in view; but, on the plain, Three beamy stags command a lordly train Of branching heads: the more ignob... ...woes appear! Our known disasters fill ev’n foreign lands: See there, where old unhappy Priam stands! Ev’n the mute walls relate the warrior’s fame, An... ... griev’d hero’s breast, T o see the figure of his lifeless friend, And his old sire his helpless hand extend. Himself he saw amidst the Grecian train,... ...from a servile train. Ambitious fool! with horny hoofs to pass O’er hollow arches of resounding brass, T o rival thunder in its rapid course, And imit... .... As the black swallow near the palace plies; O’er empty courts, and under arches, flies; Now hawks aloft, now skims along the flood, T o furnish her ...

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... by her first marriage, and others by her second. By intermarriage, two or three generations later, I am descended from both the wives of Mathew Grant... ...killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of... ...nt. The elder, Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies.... ...e had ever known. He remained with the T od family only a few years, until old enough to learn a trade. He went first, I believe, with his half-brothe... ...eyond dispute, and perfected the claim of the owners for a consider- ation—three thousand dollars, I think. I remember the cir- cumstance well, and re... ...mont County, Ohio, about the year 1819, taking with him his four children, three daugh- ters and one son. My mother, Hannah Simpson, was the third of ... ... Mexico is supplied with water by two aque- ducts, resting on strong stone arches. One of these aque- ducts draws its supply of water from a mountain ... ...n the middle of a broad road-way, thus leav- ing a space on each side. The arches supporting the aque- duct afforded protection for advancing troops a... ... tion was encountered our troops sheltered themselves by keeping under the arches supporting the aqueduct, advanc- ing an arch at a time. We encounter...

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...be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three hands to one figure of speech), that the public has heard so much of ... ...d, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught from the St... ...Orange, who made us pay and fight for his Dutch provinces; or whether poor old Louis Quatorze did really frighten her; or whether Sarah Jennings and h... ...gentlemen now reposing at the “Bugle:” one young with gold hair, the other old with grizzled locks; both in red coats; both in jack-boots; putting the... ...lodpole, whose name was really Bullock, stated that his wages amounted to “three shillings and a puddn.” “Three shillings and a puddn!—monstrous!—and ... ...ones, and well-nigh fried the soul out of your body, you go home, to what?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get pud- ding every day?” “No; o... ...s Castle, Arundel House, the Temple; of Old London Bridge, with its twenty arches, “on which be houses builded, so that it seemeth rather a continuall...

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...llowing week it returned again, and the distem- per was spread into two or three other parishes, viz., St Andrew’s, Holborn; St Clement Danes; and, to... ...e the next week, which was from the 9th of May to the 16th, there died but three, of which not one within the whole city or liberties; and St Andrew’s... ...mber of the plague was seventeen. But the burials in St Giles’s were fifty-three – a frightful number! – of whom they set down but nine of the plague;... ...because all the ruined families of the royal party flocked hither. All the old soldiers set up trades here, and abundance of families settled here. Ag... ...ague, as there did the year after an- other, a little before the fire. The old women and the phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I ... ...phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I could almost call old women too, remarked (especially afterward, though not till both those j... ...ially used with them in Spain and Italy. In T urkey and the islands of the Arches indeed, as they are called, as well those belonging to the T urks as...