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... life, which will come naturally to the surface in the de- scription of an ancient house which, at the period when this history begins, was one of the... ... and modes of life now rule the day, and soon nothing will be left of that ancient Flemish life but the warmth of its hospitality, its traditional Spa... ...hich found expression in the name,—the House of Claes. The whole spirit of ancient Flanders breathed in that mansion, which afforded to the lovers of ... ...eavy iron bands, through which the cellars were entered,—a last vestige of ancient usages. From the time the house was built, this facade had been car... ... he opened the door upon the little antechamber, and ran so rapidly up the ancient wooden staircase that his wife’s dress having caught on the jaws of... ...lay comedies like the sham embassies from the King of Siam and the Shah of Persia. After wasting 74 The Alkahest the revenues of France, Louis XIV .,...

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...lation of the wise man who, being told to choose a reward from the king of Persia for inventing chess, asked for one ear of wheat for the first move o... ... I rely on your friendship to buy the Rouvre estate for me.” “It is a very ancient marquisate,” said Goupil, maliciously; “which will soon be worth in...

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...tland, I’ll thank you to remember that you are a member of one of the most ancient houses in the United Kingdom—and not to get found out.’” Susy laugh... ... year at Bryn Mawr. She means to go to Bagdad next spring, and back by the Persian plateau and Turkestan.” Susy laughed luxuriously: she was sitting w... ...nted to speak to you—to explain about father’s invitation to go with us to Persia and Turkestan.” “T o explain?” 55 Edith Wharton “Y es. Y ou found t... ...med her: it was too vast, too venerable, too like a huge monument built of ancient territorial traditions and obligations. Perhaps it had been lived i...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...the other, sad, fuscous, begrimed with the snuff of ages, namely, the most ancient Schreiber. Ah! if they could have been divided—these twin yoke-fell... ...ly; such me- mentos, I mean, as, by reviving painful recollections of that ancient Schreiber, who was or ought to be by this time ex- tinct, would nat... ...ith him to England some Arabian horses, and amongst them a beautiful young Persian mare, called Sumroo, the gentlest of her race. Sumroo it was that h... ... consequence of that event, were the Jews inoculated with this Babylonian, Persian, and Me- dian superstition. Now, if Eichhorn and others are right, ... ...racle of the Branchides, in Asia Minor. But this had been destroyed by the Persians, in retaliation of the Athenian out- rages at Sardis. 191 Thomas ... ...sited every country in Europe. He has travelled also in Asiatic Turkey, in Persia, and in Barbary. From this personal resi- dence in foreign countries...

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...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...fe as creative opportunity. We want to emancipate this profession from its ancient guild restrictions—the most anti-social and disastrous of all such ... ... of fact it is the lawyer-politicians, split by factions that simulate the ancient government and opposition, who rule, under a steadily growing press... ...he last three thousand years. The shapes and colours come and go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now the Eastern Empire, now the Arab, now the ... ... through all that time there exists ob- stinately an Armenia, an essential Persia, an Arabia; they, too, advance or recede a little. I do not claim th... ...t of the Levant or, least probable and least desirable of all, through the Persian Gulf. The Constantinople route is the most natu- ral and least cont...

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...s in life and euery vertuous lore, And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from ... ... clad in scarlot red, Purfled with gold and pearle of rich assay, And like a Persian mitre on her hed She wore, with crownes and owches garnished, The... ...inces court none euer knew Such endlesse richesse, and so sumptuous shew; Ne Persia selfe, the nourse of pompous pride Like euer saw. And there a nobl... ...and shaftes, and buskins to her knee. By vew of her he ginneth to reuiue His ancient loue, and dearest Cyparisse, And calles to mind his pourtraiture ... ...hee is vnknowne the cradle of thy brood. For well I wote, thou springst from ancient race Of Saxon kings, that haue with mightie hand And many bloudie...

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.........................554 A Voice from Death...........................554 A Persian Lesson...............................556 The Commonplace............ ... summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the mode... ...y faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern, Believing I shall ... ...f Egina bay. 6 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India, I see the falling of the Ganges over the high ... ... the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. I see the nameless masonries, venerable m... ...h horse herd watching your mares and stallions feeding! You beautiful bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark! You Chin... ... in building the buildings that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mis... ...uildings that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mississippi, served t... ... rolling, Upon this very scene. The dame of dames! can I believe then, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her? Nor s...

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...ussian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or one piastre from the new, without of- fering you anything... ...e it! “So you read Sanskrit fluently,” said the old man. “You have been in Persia perhaps, or in Bengal?” “No, sir,” said the stranger, as he felt the... ...least!” “So you want to discount heaven, a thoroughly commer- cial notion. Ancient religions were but the unchecked devel- opment of physical pleasure... ...nd gives free play to civilization, that Titan queen who has succeeded the ancient terrible figure of the king, that sham Providence, reared by man be... ...e of the Empire, appeared to be on the point of restoring to our house its ancient splendor. “The Restoration, while it brought back considerable prop... ...moirs are falling out of fashion.’ “‘What are the memoirs—contemporaneous, ancient, or memoirs of the court, or what?’ “‘They relate to the Necklace a... ....” “Yes, I know,” said the young man. “A very rare variety of ass found in Persia,” the naturalist continued, “the onager of the ancients, equus asinu... ... II., that these bizarre excesses are still devoutly believed in among the Persians and the Nogais as a sovereign remedy for lumbago and sciatic gout.... ...pared with the flight of birds; an onager, sir, would run the best Arab or Persian horses to death. Accord- ing to the father of the conscientious Doc...

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...Cossack soul” trying to break through the shell of sordid to-day like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they a... ... are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness... ...ian host, still dressed in the skins of wild beasts, still worshipping the ancient fire and practising pagan rites: “Then Southern Russia, under the m... ...“Taras Bulba” could not have been written without the “Odyssey.” Once more ancient fire gave life to new beauty. And yet at the time Gogol could not h... ...n having no understanding whatever of God.” Then he goes on to compare the ancient har- mony, perfect down to every detail of dress, to the slight- es... ... all the vineyards. In the mosques they left heaps of dung. They used rich Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them. Lon... ...thern origin, but to what particular nation he belonged, India, Greece, or Persia, no one could say with certainty. Of tall, almost colossal stature, ...

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...od hates? XII. A suggestion of this common prayer has been re tained from ancient practice, when at the end of the sermon the Confession of Sins is s... ...skill in ruling than in all the books of law; as we read that the kings of Persia did, Esther vi. For examples and histories ben efit and teach more ...

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...h, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look into ancient authors, and thou 8 Letters on England wilt find that John only re... ... still have seats in the House of Lords in spite of the Whigs, because the ancient abuse of considering them as barons subsists to this day. There is ... ...to be always governed by their Druids and the chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of barons, not so tyrannical as their successors. These Druids... ...The power of the House of Commons increased every day. The families of the ancient peers were at last extinct; and as peers only are properly noble in... ...de. They furnish with beauties the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those who are wealthy enough to purchase and main... ...pended for several years, which thinned very considerably the seraglios of Persia and T urkey. A trading nation is always watchful over its own intere... ...their being weaned. Some pretend that the Circassians borrowed this custom anciently from the Arabians; but we shall leave the clearing up of this poi...

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...the way for our generation. His writings enable all of us to con- nect to the ancient, authentic sources that the past giants left behind. The Kabba... ...ct humanity was Abraham. He was one of many peo- ple who lived in Mesopotamia (ancient Persia), and in those days there was no division into nations.... ...ity was Abraham. He was one of many peo- ple who lived in Mesopotamia (ancient Persia), and in those days there was no division into nations. He disc... ...- til a time when all of humanity would need it. Today, we must re- kindle the ancient science, revive the study of Kabbalah, discover the Upper Real... ...ense before, I congratulate you, because they are not supposed to make sense. Ancient Kabbalists said that it is impossible to imagine the true natu... ...what those who perceive our Torah do for the glory of the name of God, as the ancient sages from Israel had done. Many of them glorified the name of...