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...co- phant son of Chenaannah better; yet might Ahab have es- caped a bloody death, had he but stopped his ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful... ...-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally, I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, beca... ... the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.” Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-c... ... his sisters) Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain—bad animal!” “It is well I drew the curtain,” thought I; and I wished fer- vent... ...t be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault u... ... not, when he went out? and Pilot was with him:- what has he done with the animals?” As she said this, she approached her tall person and ample garmen... ...i- dery, she suddenly took her up thus— “Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. Y ou had n... ...hus started up and poured out the venom of your mind: I felt fear as if an animal that I had struck or pushed had Madam,—Will you have the goodness to... ... seem- ingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled ...

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...ty allowance. He treated his aunt and sister very shabbily till his sudden death cut short his career. Marya Dmitrievna inherited Pokrovskoe, but she ... ...er gave way in any- thing to her husband, who almost killed her, and whose death she did not survive, though she had been for ever quarrelling with hi... ...visits herself, though being pow- dered, she used to declare, would be the death of her. “They put,” she used to say in her old age, “a fox’s brush on... ...h year when this unexpected blow (we mean the princess’s marriage, not her death) fell upon him; he did not care to stay in his aunt’s house, where he... ...e against her illness. When she could no longer speak, when the shadows of death were already on her face, her features expressed, as of old, bewilder... ...’s for you to straighten yourself! What’s the good of being a man, a male animal? And however that may be, is it possible, is it permissible, to redu... ... a first- rate girl for that. Only don’t you go sitting of nights with any animals of that sort; don’t break my old heart, or else you’ll see I’m not ...

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...905. INTRODUCTORY NOTE “I HAVE ENDURED,” wrote Lincoln not long before his death, “a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a g... ...spect of the tortured wood turtle to com- pose an essay against cruelty to animals in general, so the aspect of other cases of suffering and wrong wro... ...m there was one tree of the fruit of which he should not eat, upon pain of death.” He did not, however, place him- self on the most advanced ground ta... ...ing appointments to office, resigned from the treasury; and, after Taney’s death, the President made him Chief Justice. The rest of the cabinet consis... ...ated the destruction of slavery; a short war might only have prolonged its death struggle. Lincoln saw this clearly; but he saw also that, in a protra... ... struggle. Lincoln saw this clearly; but he saw also that, in a protracted death struggle, it might still have kept dis- loyal sentiments alive, bred ...

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...nd without defeats, a vast stagna- tion, a universe of inconsequent matter—Death. Not only does the substance of life vanish if we eliminate births an... ...n to be—kittens! And this way of regarding life is by no means confined to animals and savages. I would even go so far as to suggest that it is only w... ...ly and even plainly towards waste, towards sterility, towards futility and death and extinction. 18 Mankind in the Making But not deliberately toward... ...ath and extinction. 18 Mankind in the Making But not deliberately towards Death. It is only in the theo- retical aspirations of Schopenhauer that he ... ..., lies not in selective breed- ing, but in the disproportionately numerous deaths of the individuals below the average. And even the methods of the br... ...od, go I”—when the convict tramps past us—but, “There goes another sort of animal that is differentiating from my species and which I would gladly see... ...ture in this sense of the repudiation of expedients. Man is the tool-using animal, the word-using animal, the animal of artifice and reason, and the o... ...GE GE GE § 1 § 1 § 1 § 1 § 1 THE NEWBORN CHILD is at first no more than an animal. In- deed, it is among the lowest and most helpless of all animals, ... ...or a wiser selection in these early gifts. At present it is chiefly woolly animals with bells inside them, woolly balls, and so forth, that reach the ...

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... A. Grant, 1885; I. Bywater (Nicomachean), 1890; J. Burnet, 1900. Historia Animalium : Schneider, 1812; Aubert and Wimmer, 1860, Dittmeyer, 1907. Meta... ... E. C. Welldon, 1892; J. Gillies (Lubbock’s Hundred Books), 1893. Historia Animalium, by R. Creswell (Bohn’s Classical Library), 1848; with Treatise o... ... 1906; with De Anima, by W . A. Hammond, 1902. Youth and Old Age, Life and Death and Respiration, W. Ogle, 1897. Poetica, with Notes from the French o... ...edition, 1902; E. S. Bourchier, 1907; by Ingram Bywater, 1909. De Partibus Animalium, W. Ogle, 1882. De Republica Athenientium, by E. Poste, 1891; F .... ...hrough choice, but by that natural impulse which acts both upon plants and animals also, for the pur- pose of their leaving behind them others like th... ...that a city is a natural production, and that man is naturally a political animal, and that whosoever is naturally and not accidentally unfit for soci... ...sorts of actions which can be brought, namely, for assault, trespasses, or death. He ordered also that there should be a particular court of appeal, i... ...nduct, and whose command is for life: for he has not the power of life and death, except as a general; as they frequently had in their expeditions by ... ...l shun th’ impending fight, To dogs and vultures soon shall be a prey; For death is mine….” This, then, is one species of monarchical government in wh...

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... number of brothers and sisters of the whole blood. After his first wife’s death, General Fielding (for he attained that rank) married again. The most... ...t East Stour in Dorsetshire, to which his father removed after the judge’s death. He is said to have received his first education under a parson of th... ...ding’s biographers. This legend was that Fielding, having succeeded by the death of his mother to a small estate at East Stour, worth about £200 a yea... ...hest interest and value, it was written far in the valley of the shadow of death, it is not in the least retrospective, and it affords but dim and inf... ...nough, was no sooner on his legs than he es- caped out of the reach of the animals, and cried out, “Nihil habeo cum porcis: I am a clergyman, sir, and... ... which Adams said, with some vehemence, “Sir, this is below the life of an animal, hardly above vegetation: and I am surprized what could lead a man o... ... ranked in the order of creation according to their usefulness, I know few animals that would not take place of a coquette; nor indeed hath this creat... ...was stretched on his back, and snored louder than the usual braying of the animal with long ears, than he turned towards Fanny, and, taking her by the... ...in her eyes, against the barbarity of worrying a poor innocent defenceless animal out of its life, and putting it to the extremest torture for diversi...

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... believe that either Archinus or Dion will be chosen. SOCRATES: O Menexenus! Death in battle is certainly in many respects a noble thing. The dead man... ...? In their life they rejoiced their own friends with their valour, and their death they gave in exchange for the salvation of the living. And I think ... ...that at the time when the whole earth was sending forth and creating diverse animals, tame and wild, she our mother was free and pure from savage mons... ... wild, she our mother was free and pure from savage monsters, and out of all animals se- lected and brought forth man, who is superior to the rest in ... ...e common interest of Hellas; but that with barbarians they should war to the death. Worthy of praise are they also who waged this war, and are here in... ... neither men nor Gods are friendly, either while he is on the earth or after death in the world below. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your ...

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...Caux, not Caus. That great man has always been unfortunate; even after his death his name is mangled. Salomon, whose portrait taken at the age of fort... ...nal made, and imparted to Louis XIII., of secret documents relating to the death of Henri IV . Catherine dé Medici, on the contrary, saved the crown o... ...t time, de Thou, knew well the value of this woman when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has die... ...n. Catherine wrote, from the cabinet of the kings of France, a sentence of death to that spirit of inquiry which then began to threaten modern society... ...different storeys, was covered with arabesques of fantastic personages and animals wreathed with conven- tional foliage. On the street side, as on the... ...tone is made to look like lace-work. The flow- ers, the figures of men and animals clinging to the structure of the stairway, are multiplied, step by ... ...ar intervals through those long gargoyles carved in the shape of fantastic animals with gaping mouths. In spite of 211 Balzac the zeal with which our... ...tory could be seen, because of the myriads of hanging skeletons, bodies of animals, dried plants, minerals, and articles of all kinds that masked the ... ...h,—the whole purpose of alchemy lies there, sire. If man, the most perfect animal on this globe, bore within himself a portion of the divine, he would...

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...ing at Nettleton, where he had begun his legal career. After Mrs. Royall’s death there was some talk of sending her to a boarding-school. Miss Hatchar... ...ed in a moist earth-smell that was like the breath of some huge sun-warmed animal. Charity had lain there a long time, passive and sun-warmed as the s... ...verish hollows below the cheekbones and the pale yellow eyes of a harmless animal. “I wonder if he’s related to me?” she thought, with a shiver of dis... ...as unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her. But the street was empty, and she passe... ...al since their departure from Nettleton; but the secretive instinct of the animal in pain was so strong in her that she had a sense of relief when Har... ...otionless, in their atti- tude of confident endearment, as if some strange death had surprised them. At length Harney sprang to his feet with a slight... ...le aguish heads that started out of the shadow like the heads of nocturnal animals. “Mary’s over there,” someone said; and Mr. Miles, taking the bottl... ...living faces which too horribly showed by what stages hers had lapsed into death. “I am the Resurrection and the Life,” Mr. Miles began; “he that beli... ... on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in Victory….” One by one the mighty words fell on Cha...

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... have elaborated with so much effort, only to find ourselves elaborated to death at last. But Godfrey Marshall was of tough, rough fibre, not without ... ...ht to sacrifice the child to God, like Isaac. Fatherhood that had life-and-death authority over the children: a great natural power. And till his chil... ... She would do her very best for them, and have command over their life and death. But no! Egbert would not take the re- sponsibility. He would not eve... ...ut in her soul she died, her heart of pride and passion and desire bled to death, her soul belonged to her church, her body belonged to her duty as a ... ...glittering strangely. He lay at last quite still, with face averted, as an animal lies when it is defeated and at the mercy of the captor. Sometimes h... ...und of her terrifying, cold triumph, he suddenly started to struggle as an animal might, but the girls threw themselves upon him with unnatural streng... ... the darkness. She knew the rain and wind blew in upon the horses, the hot animal life. Feeling it wrong, she entered the stable, and drew the lower h... ...ons of repose and beauty. She was a little afraid of him, out there in the animal gross- ness of the back. His bearing also changed, as he smelt the f... ... would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes, like a bound animal. There was a space of perplexed silence. ‘Well, then, do as you say,...

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...for the fulfilment of his or its destiny. Plants have sensation as well as animals. The latter, how- ever, have no consciousness anterior to their phy... ...ted altogether differently from ourselves. Nothing that has life, ei- ther animal or vegetable as we know them, can exist without air, and it follows ... ...ishes. “I fear I have not so much money with me, madame” she said, pale as death, for all sense of shame was lost in intense apprehension. Still her t... ...age, disappointments and poverty were working out their usual results, and death was near to close the scene. So gradual were the changes, however, th... ...amma!—dearest grand-mamma!” “Nay, love, God wills it. I am old, and I feel death upon me. It is happy that he comes so gently, and when I am so well p... ... had furnished the breakfast of the preceding day. A sickness like that of death came over her, when, cast- 45 James Fenimore Cooper ing her eyes aro... ...till remained. Although it was all that seemed to sepa- rate the girl from death, she hesitated about using it. There was an appearance of sacrilege, ...

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.... She went floundering towards it like an exhausted creature driven to its death. The coppery twilight retired slowly, and the darkness brought out 2... ...re the Captain was. The second mate was lying low, like a malignant little animal under a hedge. “Captain? Gone overboard, after getting us into this ... ... a lot of water had got in and splashed in the dark, the men were still as death, till Jukes stumbled against one of them and cursed him savagely for ... ...h lay in the hollow of his throat, and his face was still and sunken as in death. Captain MacWhirr wiped his eyes. The sea that had nearly taken him o... ...een in his rushes, he appeared formidable -busied with matters of life and death that brooked no delay. At his first word he heard them drop into the ... ...wain yelled excitedly: “Come along. Get the mate out. He’ll be trampled to death. Come on.” They charged in, stamping on breasts, on fingers, on faces...

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.... I am thankful for it. Use me as your right hand, and rely upon me to the death. Don’t think the worse of me if I protest to you that my uppermost fe... ..., if he shall be found and identified within two years after the day of my death. Failing that, in trust to you two to pay over the whole as a benefac... ... had been made already by Wilding himself; with this result, that time and death together had not left a trace of him discoverable. To advertise for t... ...let us meet for another consultation on the first anniversary of Wilding’s death.” So Bintrey advised. And so, with the most earnest desire to fulfil ... ... Marguerite had an interest in it now! The whole machinery which Wilding’s death had set in motion, to realise the value of the business—the balancing... ... V endale’s energy, hated him with the animosity of a fierce cunning lower animal. He had always had instinctive movements in his breast against him; ...

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...ey were all used, every reek- ing one of them. Just before I began to feel deathly sick another reporter grappled me. What he wanted to know was the p... ...o (I could not help being interested, but they were not pretty tricks), of deaths sudden and violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed... ...es a town-ship of cattle- pens, cunningly divided into blocks, so that the animals of any pen can be speedily driven out close to an inclined tim- ber... ...t be distressed by the sight of their fellows running about in the fear of death. All they know is that a man on horseback causes their next-door neig... ...tood in two lines six a side. Between them and overhead ran the railway of death that had nearly shunted me through the window. Each man carried a kni... ...r hinder legs, so that they rose in the air, suspended from the railway of death. Oh! it was then they shrieked and called on their moth- ers, and mad... ...four friends with him had shrieked and died. But a pig is only the unclean animal—the forbidden of the prophet. VI VI VI VI VI The Amer The Amer The A... ...ousers and light saddles. Fate in derision had made each youth bedizen his animal with a checkered enam-elled leather brow-band visible half a mile aw...

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...mn, the solitary witness to an appalling scene, which threatened in- stant death, in a shape the most terrific, to two young people, whom I had no mea... ...e very shadow of the catastrophe, being divided from the most frightful of deaths by scarcely more, if more at all, than seventy seconds. Such was the... ...stantially narrated in Section the Second, entitled, “The Vision of Sudden Death.” But a movement of horror and of spontaneous recoil from this dreadf... ...rted in Section the Third, entitled, “Dream-Fugue upon the Theme of Sudden Death.” What I had beheld from my seat upon the mail,—the scenical strife o... ... though too ostentatiously levelled to his particular knowledge, or to his animal condition of taste. But easily I slipped off into another key. At La... ... Miss W atson used to surrender themselves without restraint to their glad animal impulses of girlish gayety, like the fawns of antelopes when suddenl... ...eigh- teenth century, the very noblest specimens of man consid- ered as an animal, were beyond a doubt the mounted rob- bers who cultivated their prof... ... be plainer in most colleges—a simple choice between two or three sorts of animal food, and the common vegetables. No fish, even as a regular part of ... ...ic or predomi- nating quality. Thus, because impetuosity, self-esteem, and animal or irreflective courage, are qualities most intense in youth, next i...

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... a world teeming with life and motion.* Underneath this brilliant exterior death was concealed. But the air of these climates had so enervating an inf... ...ndian could live without wants, suffer without complaint, and pour out his death- song at the stake.* Like all the other members of the great human fa... ...d to fly or to survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. F... ...mies, begged for his life; on the contrary, the cap- tive sought to obtain death at the hands of his conquerors by the use of insult and provocation. ... ... the European is to the other races of man- kind, what man is to the lower animals; – he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue,... ...nk was the water of the brook, and their clothes consisted of the skins of animals, whose flesh furnished them with food. The Europeans introduced amo... ...ve where immense herds of buffalo are yet to be found and who follow those animals in *In the thirteen original States there are only 6,273 Indians re... ...y of his manufactures. But the buffalo is constantly receding. The smaller animals, the bear, the deer, the beaver, the otter, the muskrat, etc., prin... ...tions at a considerable distance from each other, soon drive away the wild animals which remain between their places of abode. The Indians, who had pr...

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...am Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH AT JERSEY CITY , JUNE 24, 1862. When birds and animals are looked at through a fog, they are seen to disadvantage, and so ... ...ent battles and victories. How does it all sum up? I especially regret the death of General Hackleman, and am very anxious to know the con- dition of ... ...ul, Minnesota: Y our despatch giving the names of 300 Indians condemned to death is received. Please forward as soon as possible the full and complete... ...ou had the articles of this requisition upon the wharf, with the necessary animals to make them of any use, and forage for the animals, you could not ... ... not having a thousand wagons doing nothing but hauling forage to feed the animals that draw them, and taking at least two thousand men to care for th... ...draw them, and taking at least two thousand men to care for the wagons and animals, who otherwise might be two thou- sand good soldiers. Now, dear Ge... ... JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL. SIR:—Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a military commission, and execution only awaits my a... ...hich some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,” I have the honor to state that on receipt of said resolution, I tra... ...l of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere; could you not break him? A. LINCOLN. 3...

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...n Virginia, a man—the owner of slaves—made a will providing that after his death certain of his slaves should have their freedom if they should so cho... ...d Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he described to us a death- bed scene. He had been called to the side of Mr. Clay, in his last m... ...wn apples. Mr. Webster, too, was mentioned; but it did not quite come to a death-bed scene as to him. It would be amusing, if it were not disgusting, ... ...ge Douglas’s teeth loose from the Dred Scott decision. Like some obstinate animal (I mean no disrespect) that will hang on when he has once got his te... ...to the Dred Scott decision. These things show there is a purpose strong as death and eternity for which he adheres to this decision, and for which he ... ... the truth? Did the Judge talk of trotting me down to Egypt to scare me to death? Why, I know this people better than he does. I was raised just a lit...

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...n of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this ?landowner?--for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his ow...

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... his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its... ...to dine at other men’s tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thou- sand roubles in hard cash. At... ...drinking. And just at that time his wife’s family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly in a garret, according to ... ...it, of starvation. Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife’s death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting ... ...hat he remembered his mother all his life, like a dream, of course. At her death almost exactly the same thing happened to the two little boys as to t... ...make the whimsical inquiry whether anyone could possibly look upon such an animal as a woman, and so forth…. They all pronounced with lofty repugnance...

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...his own day , and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its... ...o dine at other men’s tables, and fastened on them as a toady , yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thou- sand roubles in hard cash. At... ...drinking. And just at that time his wife’s family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly in a garret, according to ... ...t, of starvation. Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife’ s death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting ... ...make the whimsical inquiry whether anyone could possibly look upon such an animal as a woman, and so forth…. They all pronounced with lofty repugnance... ...y grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will... ... come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do... ...ork against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the ear... ...ould be happier at your side—a little happier, anyway—and children and all animals, if you were nobler than you are now. It’ s all like an ocean, I te...