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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...ermined by the learned, whether the word Devil be singular, that is to say, the name of a person standing by himself, or a noun of multitude; if it ... ...ultitude; if it be a singular, and so must be used, personally only as a proper name, it consequently implies one imperial devil, monarch, or god of... ...singular; and our Saviour asks him, as speaking to a single person, WHAT IS THY NAME? and is answered in the plural and singular together, MY NAME IS... ..., monstrous in its effects, is called the Devil; in a word, Devil is the common name for all devils, that is to say, for all evil spirits, all ev... ...other class of witches, not otherwise resembling her than as called by the same name, either existed at a more recent period, or were liable to the ... ...e playing at dice with a company at the court of Charles IX., on the eve of St. Bartholomew, observed several drops of blood to fall upon the cloth,...

...ading what he has bequeathed to mankind. It is a question not yet determined by the learned, whether the word Devil be singular, that is to say, the name of a person standing by himself, or a noun of multitude; if it be a singular, and so must be used, personally only as a proper name, it consequently implies one imperial devil, monarch, or god of the whole clan of Hell; ...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...ther side of the planet. Only one of the Bloons, a tubby youngster by the name of Bozo, ever sought out the company of the Storyteller during the da... ...spear of a sky god. This rather terrif ed creature, known back home by the name of Bozo, looked down and screamed as he saw the ground approaching fa... ...ay. There was no clue as to where he had come from and they knew only his name, since it was sewn into the jacket he was wearing when they found him... ...that didn’t seem in the least friendly. ‘Good morning, Theo,’ he said. ‘My name is Dr Bunsen. Can you hear me?’ ‘Perfectly well, thank you,’ the boy ... ...s hand and ref ected that he was still no wiser for knowing his visitor’s name. Moreover, Bozo made no sign that he had any plans to stop yanking Th... .... The car pulled up at the traff c lights down the road from where the St Bartholomew Hospital could be seen. ‘Don’t worry, kid,’ Bozo said. ‘I’ll go...

...has gotten out of control. The Hoomans appear set on a course of self-destruction and the Storyteller's health is failing as a result. A Bloon by the name of Bozo volunteers to enter the Story and the Storyteller writes in a boy called Theo to accompany him. Traveling the planet in search of a Cure, they seek the counsel of the Awakened Ones and are pursued by a terrible f...

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Christ's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...see his tortured face, dirty beard, beggar’s clothes. Forty years... His name is Simeon. Probably I will see Simeon soon. And what shall I say when... ...vination. “Casper...Melchior...Balthasar...” Mother is pronouncing their names. She is fondest of the Babylonian king. “ He was tall and stately an... ...their nets on the beach... Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name... He is our guide, Father of us all, brother of us all, master of al... ...er, the words came to me: Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day ou... ...of a nearby hill. A young man lay on a flower-covered bier. I learned his name from a man in the procession: it was David. He and his mother had bee... ...preaching the gospel. Faith is our church.” I loved each man. Such faces! Bartholomew, Matthew, Luke, James, Simon, Peter, Thaddeus, Judas, John, Ph...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

... to water paradise, which from thence is di- vided into four heads. 11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevi... ...there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone. Book of Genesis 5 13 And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the l... ...Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians.... ... call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls o... ...for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. 20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. 21 And ... ... his brother, 3 James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of Alpheus,... ... Boan- erges, which is, The sons of thunder: 18 And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and... ...om he surnamed Peter, and An- drew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who... ...per room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...d it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit. In 1687 John Phillips, ... ...s’s. It was not published until after his death, and the printers gave the name according to the current pronunciation of the day. It has been the mos... ...as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar names and phrases should not be changed without good reason. Of course a tr... ...sk, who and what manner of man was this Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra whose name is on the title-page; and it was too late for a satisfactory answer to... ...upon his life as they could find. This, however, has been done by the last-named biographer to such good purpose that he has superseded all predecesso... ...r, not for the world; for once alone with me, he would ray me like a Saint Bartholomew.” “He will do nothing of the kind,” said Don Quixote; “I have o... ...he same oak and gave me a fresh flogging, that left me like a flayed Saint Bartholomew; and every stroke he gave me he followed up with some jest or g... ...l you the whole of them without missing an atom; for last night the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been study- 414 Don Quixote ing at Salamanca...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ality. “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignora... ...hich is not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —... ...f some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, lime- stone, juniper-wood, and some other articles o... ... wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a th... ...Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant f... ... a day would wrest the honour of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...mology “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignor... ...ch is not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” W... ...f some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, brim stone, juniper wood, and some other articles of... ... wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a th... ...Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant f... ...y a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...n’t Want You to Know . . . 13 2. Find the property address 3. Find the owner’s name 4. Find the assessed value 5. Find the size of the parcel and... ...h to practice, go to the County Records room (different Counties have different names for it) and do a title search of the house where you live or ... ...-unit project, condominiums actually date back to ancient Rome, hence the Latin name. The owner of the condominium also owns a common tenancy with ... ...____ __________ (hereinafter and hereinafter referred to as “____________”). 1. NAME AND BUSINESS. The parties have executed this agreement in orde... ...he parties have executed this agreement in order to form a partnership under the name of ________________________. The purposes of the business are... ...bago, Woodford Indiana: Tax Lien Certificate State 92 Counties Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark,...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...resents the huge expansion of human awareness which had never existed before: namely the revolutionary new concept of a universal humanity, which ch... ...epest origins of the earliest, most basic aspects of the Universe we live in, namely: Impetus, and the Totality of Formlessness. Impetus was the or... ... had finally trained the human brain to use the same dynamic process it did…. namely the dynamic process of separation-segmentation and accumulation... ...ly creative. It produced an entire array of things that we call by different names, but all are a product of creative abstraction. The products of ... ... up a viral can of mechanical worms to do his bidding. Cape Canaveral was re-named Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who cr... ...ning the Rwandan genocide, or the beginning of the 1 st World War; or the St Bartholomew’s massacre, and all the other atrocities of mankind: it was...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nt points are still ob- scure, and the most odious calumnies still rest on names that ought to be respected? And let me remark, in passing, that Hanni... ... Reformation, is full of such obscurities that we are ignorant of the real name of the man who navigated a vessel by steam to Barcelona at the period ... ...ic homage which may, per- haps, be valuable on account of its rarity. *The name of the man who tried this experiment at Barcelona should be given as S... ...Caus. That great man has always been unfortunate; even after his death his name is mangled. Salomon, whose portrait taken at the age of forty- six was... ...it? The massacres of the Revolution have replied to the massacres of Saint-Bartholomew. The people, become king, have done against the king and the no... ...er of the Palais de Justice, from which the signal was given for the Saint Bartholomew. Strange cir- cumstance! one of the houses standing at the foot... ...enewed twelve years later in Paris, August 24, 1572, on the feast of Saint-Bartholomew. During the night three seigneurs, who each played a great part... ...boise; failing there they tried it again, twelve years later, at the Saint-Bartholomew,—on the latter occasion in conjunction with Catherine dé Medici... ...t was young Teligny, who afterwards perished so miserably during the Saint-Bartholomew) cried out:— “The king!” Hearing the words, the two soldiers of...

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Three Ghost Stories

By: Charles Dickens

...th his left sleeve across his eyes, pas sionately waving his right arm. The nameless horror that oppressed me passed in a mo ment, for in a moment I... ...llow ing phenomena had occurred. Bishop Butler had insisted on spelling his name, “Bubler,” for which offence against or thography and good manners ... ...oduced, as joint authors of that poem, two Unknown gentle men, respectively named Grungers and Scadgingtone. And Prince Arthur, nephew of King John o... ... dimly described as “a hold chap, a sort of one eyed tramp, answering to the name of Joby, unless you challenged him as Greenwood, and then he said, ‘... ...considerations to the landlord. And as to this particular house having a bad name, I reasoned with him, Why, how many things had bad names undeservedl... ...an name was Ben jamin, Bissextile (from his having been born in Leap Year), Bartholomew, or Bill. Whether the initial letter belonged to his family n...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

... To His Highness Prince Alfonso Serafino di Porcia. Allow me to place your name at the beginning of an es- sentially Parisian work, thought out in you... ...y be dedicated to a Milanese lady, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom ... ...n all, by sacrificing to the god who has most votaries in this royal city, namely, Chance. At the 6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life same time, his dre... ...telet,” replied the young man, “that lady taught me how ridiculous was the name by which you ad- dress me. A patent from the king has restored to me t... ...n!” cried Bixiou; “what is more imperative than the duty of saving a great name from oblivion, of endowing the indigent aristocracy with a man of tale... ... T our de l’Horloge, whence the signal was given for the massacre of Saint-Bartholomew—a tower almost as tall as that of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...tion to find, over and above this resistance from within, that he bore the name of ‘intruder’ from without. He was supposed by the fiction of the case... ...not be at a loss to know what we mean—the renunciation in one hour, on St. Bartholomew’s Day in 1662, of two thousand benefices by the nonconforming c... ...e section in that establishment—viz., the section technically known by the name of the Evangelical clergy—as brothers after their own hearts, and corr... ...Societies,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organizing and propagating educati... ...bly of a quarrel, together with the natural inter- est in seeing men whose names had been long before the public in books and periodical journals. The... ...synodos. Rarely, indeed, can we applaud the Seceders in the fabrication of names. They distinguish as quoad sacra par- ishes those which were peculiar...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...possible. This letter completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary—the inte... ...; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, the Lexicographer’s name was always on the lips of this majestic woman, and a visit he had paid... ...s sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of t... ...Rebecca, gasping. “Oh yes!” She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served 26 V anity Fair with some. “How fresh and gr... ... visit the house, nor during that period did Miss Rebecca ever mention his name. She was all respectful grati- tude to Mrs. Sedley; delighted beyond m... ...he Reverend Mr. Irons to her instantly. Jane, write a line to the Reverend Bartholomew Irons, in the third person, and say that I desire the pleasure ... ...r heart to be freed now and again from the dreary spouting of the Reverend Bartholomew Irons, and the serious toadies who gathered round the footstool... ...down gave away his sister—she was married by a Bishop, and not by the Rev. Bartholomew Irons—to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. When they... ...e was an officer of the great Duke and distin- guished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. During the whole of Mary’s confinement, the house o...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...ds were taken down at the time, and signed by six witnesses, each with his name and address in full: ‘The Lord No Zoo.’ It may be said—it has been sai... ...een said, for human wickedness has no limits—that there is no Lord of that name, and that among the titles which have become extinct, none at all rese... ...n persons, that this Mr Toby Chuzzlewit’s grandfa- ther, to judge from his name, must surely have been a Mandarin (which is wholly insupportable, for ... ...esis, is it not manifest that Mr Toby Chuzzlewit had ei- ther received the name imperfectly from his father, or that he had forgotten it, or that he h... ...and speech—and he had had her christened Mercy. Mercy! oh, what a charming name for such a pure-souled Being as the youngest Miss Pecksniff! Her siste... ...ewit there, and is bad abed. They have a day nurse as was recommended from Bartholomew’s; and well I knows her, Mr Mould, her name bein’ Mrs Prig, the... ...y all these endearing and familiar appellations, had the hospital of Saint Bartholomew become a household word among the sisterhood which Betsey Prig ... ...elf much against the chest of drawers, or qualifying as a patient of Saint Bartholomew, by falling into the fire. Visitors were much assisted in their...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...eits -- The shock of a sneeze that was always fatal -- Lucky and unlucky days, names, and events -- Forebodings, and fortune amulets -- Witches and st... ...ter robs his own men and squanders his fortune in France 275- 282 CHAPTER XXV. Bartholomew the Exterminator. -- His desperate fight with an armed gall... ... are encountered -- Making a club by aid of a fire -- A fight with a jaguar -- Bartholomew finds safety at last -- Rejoins his followers and captures ... ................................ 254 Magellan exploring the Strait that bears his name....................... 256 Starvation confronts the crew............. .................................... 514 John Davis in the straits which bear his name........................... 518 Ice-fields of the Arctic.............. ...ch designations have reference to their living in holes and caves. The Grecian name of Troglodytes, with which we are so familiar, is but a translatio... ...Alonzo de Salazar, who steered for the Ladrones, discovering the Island of St. Bartholomew on the way, which lies between Magellan's Strait and the La... ...ter himself was when he ran away from Dieppe to become a pirate. CHAPTER XXV. BARTHOLOMEW THE EXTERMINATOR. MORE desperate than any of his predecesso... ...OR. MORE desperate than any of his predecessors was the ocean scourge known as Bartholomew the Exterminator. Who he was, or where he came from, nobody...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ge slowly and saw the sail topple into the water and heard a man cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Voices caught our song, way out at... ... And I slipped away, not daring to meet him, hoping someone would shout a name and confirm that this was another, not Alcaeus. But no, I knew. A woma... ...nt about building a fire and preparing supper. I have forgotten the boy’s name, but not his face. Forever after, I thought of him as my first lover.... ...the past. Not only Alcaeus...but Dio- scurides...Pylades...Milo...the very names make me unhappy. All destroyed by war. What special stupidity do men... ...ch way to go. Nothing is hotter than the heat of anger. Charaxos—how the name burns my tongue, sears my tablet. It is impossible to concentrate! I... ...preaching the gospel. Faith is our church.” I loved each man. Such faces! Bartholomew, Matthew, Luke, James, Simon, Peter, Thaddeus, Judas, John, Ph...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

... [Pere] AUTHOR’S PREFACE IN WHICH IT IS PROVED that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to h... ...orps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. 4 The Three Musketeers We must confes... ...s, and Aramis. 4 The Three Musketeers We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseud... ... to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which D’Artagnan had disguised names perhaps il- lustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed nam... ...till we could find some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity. The catalogue alone of ... ...ves to be killed, would resemble too closely, in 1628, the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572; and then, above all this, this ex- treme measure, whic... ... that of the King of France, where, in spite of the remembrance of the St. Bartholomew, they sometimes came to seek refuge. She then had one of those ...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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King Henry V

By: William Shakespeare

...n our person, How you awake our sleeping sword of war: We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; For never two such kingdoms did contend Without m... ...defend our own doors from the dog, Let us be worried and our nation lose The name of hardiness and policy. KING HENRY V : Call in the messengers sent... ... But this lies all within the will of God, To whom I do appeal; and in whose name Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on, To venge me as I may and to put... ...f infamy Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid’s kind, Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse: I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly For t... ...e thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. If that same demon that hath gull’d thee thus Should wit... ... know my meaning: for maids, well summered and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew tide, blind, though they have their eyes; and then they will...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...d call’d the Guadalquivir. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 7 His father’s name was Jose — Don, of course,— A true Hidalgo, free from every stai... ... For every branch of every science known In every Christian language ever named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the clevere... ...n outran Discretion, and were not so peaceable As Numa’s (who was also named Pompilius), He had been ill brought up, and was born bilious. W... ...t pay a handsome price, Because it is a marketable vice. Alfonso was the name of Julia’s lord, A man well looking for his years, and who Was... ...came away.’ Now Julia found at length a voice, and cried, ‘In heaven’s name, Don Alfonso, what d’ ye mean? Has madness seized you? would that ... ...devil got we in? And when we once were fairly out, and when From Saint Bartholomew we have saved our skin, To morrow ‘d see us in some other d...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...ickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens Chapter 1 M Y FATHER’S FAMILY name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could mak... ... Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, an... ...yself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’ s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs. Joe Gargery, w... ...lso Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, T obias, and Roger, infant children 4 Great Expectat... ...throat, sir,” I pleaded in terror. “Pray don’t do it, sir.” “T ell us your name!” said the man. “Quick!” “Pip, sir.” “Once more,” said the man, starin... ...tly. Hulks are prison-ships, right ‘cross th’ meshes.” We always used that name for marshes, in our country. “I wonder who’ s put into prison-ships, a... ...d out again. This time, I made the tour of Little Britain, and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting ab... ...Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of t... ...ndered more than ever. At length, as I was looking out at the iron gate of Bartholomew Close into Little Britain, I saw Mr. Jaggers com- ing across th...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... “No? Well; the disclosure of the document to a third person, who shall be nameless, would bring in question the honor of a personage of most exalted ... ...ed upon a map. One party playing requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river, state or empire—any word, in short, upon the motley an... ...eks to embarrass his oppo- nents by giving them the most minutely lettered names; but the adept selects such words as stretch, in large characters, fr... ...and vizier, to whose daughter, it appears, there had occurred an idea. Her name was Scheherazade, and her idea was, that she would either redeem the l... ...cented flowers, that made the whole territory one gorgeous garden; but the name of this luxuriant land was the Kingdom of Horror, and to enter it was ... ...he Earthquake at Lisbon, of the Plague at Lon- don, of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners i...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...ions of his readers. At the heart of fiction, even the least worthy of the name, some sort of truth can be found— if only the truth of a childish thea... ... it becomes very easy to be grateful to the au- thor of The Ambassadors—to name the latest of his works. The favours are sure to come; the spring of t... ...s which make up the sum of our activity. But no man or woman worthy of the name can pretend to anything more, to anything greater. And Mr. Henry James... ...to anything greater. And Mr. Henry James’s men and women are worthy of the name, within the limits his art, so clear, so sure of itself, has drawn rou... ... life the simple man whose business it ought to have been to climb, in the name of Art, some elevation or other, was content to remain below, on the p... ...of Russia, when the Grand Duke Nicholas (the gentleman who advocated a St. Bartholomew’s Night for the suppression of Russian liberalism) was displayi...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...exhausted. The terrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s, procured for the Prince of Or- ange, the Admiral Coligny, th... ... violence of a sovereign might inflict on an ob- noxious subject; from the nameless oppressions by which he might harass and annoy the emi- grant; fro... ...estants. The latter, indeed, were now solemnly excommunicated by it in the name of the church, whose representative the Council gave itself out to be.... ...y important distinction of their body, they were usually designated by the name of Utraquists; and they readily adopted an appellation which reminded ... ...the German and Swiss opin- ions on religion made rapid progress; while the name of Utraquists, under which they managed to disguise the change of thei... ...secution. In truth, they had nothing in common with the Utraquists but the name; essentially, they were altogether Protestant. Confident in the streng... ... terrified the deluded populace with threat- ened horrors of another Saint Bartholomew’s that existed only in their own imagination. All Bohemia, with... ...remberg, on the fifty-eighth day of his en- campment, (the festival of St. Bartholomew,) he advanced in full order of battle, and passing the Rednitz ...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...t wor- thy in the Primer. “The Pope of Rome has given orders for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” N... ...mes? Doubtless, he thinks to put us down with a proclamation in Old Noll’s name!” “Are you mad, old man?” demanded Sir Edmund Andros, in loud and hars... ...onger a Popish tyrant on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very street, where ye would make it a word o... ..., nor where his gravestone was. And who was the Gray Champion? Perhaps his name might be found in the records of that stern Court of Justice, which 1... ... years wore on, shed- ding their snows above his sable veil, he acquired a name throughout the New England churches, and they called him Father Hooper... ...u tremble at a friend’s touch. Take heart, child, and tell me what is your name and where is your home?” “Friend,” replied the little boy, in a sweet ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...press by her sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna’s face suddenly assumed an expression of p... ... her eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting th... ...olkonski, speaking French and stressing the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been pleased to take me as an aide- de-camp....... ..., and it was plain that he had made a great effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it really...” But he did not say what “it rea... ... to join them on the march to Radzivilov. It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostovs—the mother and the youngest daughter— both n... ...thout knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was due to Charles IX’s stomach being deranged. But to men who ... ...Strange as at first glance it may seem to suppose that the Massacre of St. Bartholomew was not due to Charles IX’s will, though he gave the order for ...

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The Works of Aristotle

By: Aristotle

...ing sage, which Agrippa, wondering at its operation, has honoured with the name of sacra herba, a holy herb. It is recorded by Dodonoeus in the Histor... ...as appears by the example of a child who was christened in Paris under the name of Ivan, as a girl, and who afterwards turned out to be a boy, and on ... ...house for big-bellied women to discharge their load, lest it get her a bad name and she by such means loses her practice. In attending on women, if th... ...., erection; and its lower end is the glans of the penis, and has the same name. And as the glans of man are the seat of the greatest pleasure in copu... ... chastity, by only strewing it on the bed on which they lay, and hence the name of agnus castus, which was given to it, as denoting its effects. Make ... ...rary affirming it; but experience has testified there is such a thing, for Bartholomew Carbrolius, the ordinary doctor of 127 The Works of Aristotle ...

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