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...9. Chapter XV translated by Alice Pinto and Martha Bache-Wiig, 2009. All translations authorized by the Author. 3 Note from the translato... ...ailable as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in brackets { }. A list of all the authors books ... ... • • • Just as a tree transforms energy (it transforms light energy into chemical energy), it also synthesizes energy (it makes a synthesis ... ... In fact, human beings transform biochemical energy and mechanical energy into relationship, individual and cultural energy; they make a synthesis... ...er to get revenge has been built on the model of the vindictive God of the Bible. If God, who is love and forgiveness, was not placated and did not... ...esent the Yin and the Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make... ...ted the universe from nothing. I am sorry to have to disagree with the Bible (a book that I love very much for many reasons) but this is not the... ...e cannot be perfect on the first try, like it seems instead the God of the Bible did when he created everything perfectly with his word, but that it ... ... the Yin and the 97 Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every liv...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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...VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived from the... ...here I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking i... ...h books using the SEARCH function on your own computer, import quotations into paper e-mails, etc., and copy the book. Reading Forward Or Backward ... ...tely captivated me. During the heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which... ...nne Lily Tomlin (1939–) Did Water Monkeys Swim Before We Spoke? In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or ... ... than two hundred million years ago.) Whence Cometh Our Language? The Bible makes no mention of from whence came such a wondrous gift. Believ... ...yptian, and Roman learning from being lost forever. Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscove... ...ern democracy. Bloody revolts against nobility and the church, furtive translations of the Bible into the vernacular, and the burnings of hundred... ...he ―Morning Star‖ of the Reformation. Martyrs‘ blood christened newer translations because the church feared the following:  People who coul...

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...973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the ...

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...VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived from the... ...here I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking i... ...h books using the SEARCH function on your own computer, import quotations into paper e-mails, etc., and copy the book. Reading forward or backward ... ...iately captivated me. During the heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which... ...ienne Lily Tomlin (1939–) Did Water Monkeys Swim Before We Spoke? In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or f... ...re than two hundred million years ago.) Whence cometh our language? The Bible makes no mention of from whence came such a wondrous gift. Believer... ...yptian, and Roman learning from being lost forever. Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscove... ...stern democracy. Bloody revolts against nobility and the church, furtive translations of the Bible into the vernacular, and the burnings of hundred... ... the ―Morning Star‖ of the Reformation. Martyrs‘ blood christened newer translations because the church feared the following:  People who coul...

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...s laws of Sharia. ―It would be nice if each of us thought our way into intelligent behavior, but most of the time we are guided by our psych... ...sor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University. She was taken into a sorority. All the ladies ate their meals together. She was appalled... ...ed by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Aristotle and Plato, Shakespeare... ...y but I did increase my knowledge a bit. And while I gazed from my window into the abyss of space, my mind did play with thoughts on how the illness... ...see it as a priest, the most informed approach to morality comes from the Bible, the learned church scholars and the considered opinions of the pope.... ...nsider alternative theories of the origin of the universe when we have the Bible? Why consider us to be animals when we then may be forced to drop t... ...the English language of a few hundred years ago seems to have stuck. Even translations of the Koran often use that older version of English.‖ ... ...t Lee. Did you know that if you look for the word ‗soul‘ in all the Bible translations, the various Bible translators vary considerably in their tran... ...Hebrews 2 verse 8 and Revelation 21:5 includes animals. But not all Bible translations use the term ‗all things‘ in these verses. The New Internatio...

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...vels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volum...

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...e of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the ... ... and what can be surmised about the person behind each voice, and he wove into each journal passages from their writings and the substance of the te... ...mission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1965. For cl... ...ay, 1965. For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been translated into our modern calendar. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL ... ...s dimmed a slave brought me fresh candles and volumes by Lucretius—recent translations. ...What’s this wanton lust for life To make us tremble in... ...e the painstaking calendar he had chiseled into the wall beside his cot...Chinese characters along the top section of the calendar—a dragon undernea... ...older have learned to ever expect it. The Anns and the boys with their Bibles. The White House As I study the office wall map of the war zones... ...ming in the Potomac with his son. Adams used to rise at five, to read the Bible, Commen- tary, and then read the newspapers. He was about fifty-seven... ...g absences when I rode circuit; he preached directly, discreetly from the Bible, eager to please his congregation. Today he is probably sermonizing ...

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...s can be included in future editions. Biblical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also... ...ointing out some of the possible preconceptions which may weave themselves into the fabric of the chapters to follow, even though in them I will try t... ... me to Sunday school. When I was about thirteen or fourteen I was baptized into a Baptist church—not, I must admit, out of religious conviction but be... ...irst religious experiences. As a child, as I lay beside a river looking up into the clouds and merging into the world around me, I had rather similar ... ...even though still quite scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instance... ...feld & Nicholson, London, 1961. 15. As described in such literature as the Bible, in the book of Exodus. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 12 The third major i... ...Christian sacred scriptures, which now constitute the New Testament in the Bible, were not compiled into a single book for several centuries after the... ...ingle book for several centuries after the foundation of Christianity. The Bible is divided into two sections, the Old Testament which deals with Jewi... ...ssence of God, not knowing at all where it is, knowing nothing but God. 77 Chinese Taoist: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name t...

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...om an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolved into a territorial, commercial, corporate extension of "brick and mortar" ... ...s users to select bits and pieces from a library of e-books, combine them into a totally new tome and print and bind the latter on demand. The client... ...iates the book from the realm of passive, inert objects and transforms it into a catalyst of human interactions across time and space. In other word... ...angerous" at its inception. The Church (formerly the largest publisher of bibles and other religious and "earthly" texts and the upholder and protec... ...and censored the printing of "heretical" books (especially the vernacular bibles of the Reformation) and restored the Inquisition for the specific p... ...bly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgaria... ...ur short movie of the lunar landing is twice as big as Shakespeare and the Bible combined in uncompressed format. It's only a couple minutes long, an... ...t came out? Obviously, as I mentioned earlier, some piracy has to do with translations that aren't available to the public, and some of it thrives i... ...pted and fitted with special fonts (Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Chinese - each present a different set of problems to overcome). This situ...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary ...

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...ling, and study its growth closely and wonder about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its... ... you have a wide range of experiences which you can evaluate, compare and put into perspective. Then you have a wider context of experience to put ... ...ctive. Then you have a wider context of experience to put your understanding into. What is the Sense of Wonder? The Sense of Wonder blends all... ...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ...l bitter human experience; sorrow, sadness, loss, grief … is described in the Bible, as the taste of ashes in your mouth. The bitterness of eating c... .... It grew oppression. It fostered cruelty. It created inhumanity. In the Bible: the God of the Semites: Yahweh: cast out Adam and Eve from the g... ...e them stop their sinning, Yahweh YA! We? Are you yelling at us? Well: the bible tells that the God called Yahweh was an angry god, and a god of r... ...ndom’ tossing of six round coins in all its possible permutations into linear translations of connected and unconnected lines. Without even understa... ...d. But too many people outside of the church learned to read Latin: too many translations became available. The hypocrisy of the church became a s...

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...n. You could perceive a taste well developed or, at least, having entered into the right way, and a state of spiritual alert desirous of being aware... ...tural way to the evaluation of the paradoxist concrete, of a movement put into action - to its exponential level, the one given by Smarandache. I... ...nt with premeditation, bizarre and obscure”. The negative categories come into the harmony of dissonant tensions and only poetry can give an accepta... ...order to be kept the conventional frame in a burlesque formula, these are “translations” either “en Points” or “en Rectangles” or “en Triangles” or “... ... of Smarandache function in the relations domain at the king court”) and “Chinese, Bengalis, Chemical, Physical, Martian, Astrological, Metagalactic... ...”. In seven languages (2000) is exactly what the title points out, that is translations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese,... ...istic diversity gives an idea on the paradoxism’s universality. Moreover, translations are made among the mentioned languages, an innovation that te... ...Dan Danila), essaystic repressing of the movement (starting just from the Bible), extrapolated theorems, folklore of the running to and fro fellows,...

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...VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY 3.1 Life and struggle of Periyar E.V.R 103 3.2 Translations of the Speeches and Writings of Periyar related to Unt... ...m the translation of Periyar’s writings and speeches. This book is organized into four chapters. In Chapter One we just introduce the basic Fuzzy ... ...ut the life and struggle of Periyar. We have provided more than 220 pages of translations of his writings and speeches that dealt with the issues o... ... Chakkiliyar refers to the Dalits. We have retained the original words in the translations. We feel that it was our lifetime duty to render this ... ... E p . Notation: Suppose A = (a 1 , … , a n ) is a vector which is passed into a dynamical system E. Then AE = (a' 1 , … , a' n ) after threshol... ...erts. We permute the rows and columns of the augmented matrices to bring them into mutual coincidence. Then we add the F i ’s point wise to yield th... ...anity or to Arya Samaj? I do not know what is said about Christianity in the Bible. But in practice they have in India especially, Paraiyar Christi... ...s. [Kudiarasu, 28-10-1938] Casteism and Racism There is a proverb in the Bible:“First remove the beam from your own eye and then you can see cl... ...Swaraj or nonsense! Whether the white man rules, or the Russian rules, or the Chinese rules, it is okay; I feel that this north Indian and Brahmin m...

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...Mass. .M.4UCI! iS, 1907 Inaugural With the present issue The Record passes into the hands of the 1908 board of editors. The pleasure experienced by th... ...llege activities, you were but a diop in the bucket. Bnt now, yon may pass into the ranks of the upiier classes. No longer need i you tremble at oiir ... ...roughwhich his hat passes in it< transition from a double handful of fi'.r into a styliih head covering. Thirty-five years experience hat furnished th... ...APRIL 14 10.80 a. m.—College Chapel. Prof. RuBsell will preach. U.30 a. m.—Bible clasBes, J. H. 7.30p. m.—Y. M. C. A. meeting, J. H. No Break in Debat... ...ll sweaters have arrived and will be distributed. The last session of tiie Bible study classes for the year was held Sunday morning. Dawson '09. who h... ...ntary college religion is the Y. M. C. A. After Mr. Sayre had outlined the Bible study work for the year, as planned by the Association, Rev. F. Boyd ... ...eek. CALENDAR MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 8.00 p. m.—Lecture on "A Camel Journey in Chinese Turkestan' ' by Mr. Huntington uf Yale. T. B. L. TUESDAY, DECEMBER ... ...ngers over the Himalaya moun- tains and across the salt and sand plains of Chinese Turkestan was described by Mr. Ellsworth Hunt- ington of Yale unive... ...erkshire country, and because of the close application of the subject. The translations from the German which are found in the collection do not seem ...

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...the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased emperors in coronation ceremonies or readi... ...mpassion for him. It was sorrow, the enlightening, sweet venom, and it sank into him. It was deep empathy. It was God. It was definitely something th... ... was spastic like a nervous twitch that would every now and then startle him into wakefulness and he would wonder where he was: Muguk, Chongju, Seoul,... ...ind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chinese friend, Yang Lin, if he knew anything at all: he was adopted and ... ...use for bickering. Thuc nodded her Vietnamese face at Gabriele's ostensible translations when really Gabriele was only giving a synopsis of what was ... ... one of his desk drawers she discovered a child's book called "Heroes of the Bible." It was published by the Latter Day Saints. She wondered whether... ...n to any arbitrary and barbaric whim that this godly tyrant entertained--the Bible was camauflaged brutality as was this book that catalogued Joseph t... ...w the herd? In this country the herd eats from the Christianity trough-- the Bible is like ground up bone marrow and the least edible parts of already... ...of the many miscellaneous parables in the thickets of pages that comprised a Chinese literature anthology; however, she had never radiated the enlight...

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...of parental training without dictation, and have been led, but not forced, into the way in which they should go. Therefore it will not be irrelevant t... ...self upon the only sister among them, made marriage with her an adop- tion into a group that could not fail to exercise a strong in- fluence on all co... ...nk God can forgive me?’ When Fanny’s love of teasing had exasperated Coley into stabbing her arm with a pencil, their mother had resolution enough to ... ...oley was able to read, and on his birthday he received from his father the Bible which was used at his consecration as Bishop twenty- seven years late... ...e, but rather lasting benefit and happy associations. Coley really enjoyed Bible-reading, and entered into explanations, and even then often picked up... ...se and told me to reflect upon what I had done. He also lectured me in the Bible, and asked me different questions about it. He told me that if I ever... ...midst of school, and printing Scripture histories and private prayers, and translations in Nengone, Bauro, Lifu; and as all my time out of school is s... ...nds of the Church of England. Mr. Patteson worked very hard these years at translations, and there was an immense enthusiasm about printing, the Lifui... ...om, and there- fore idiomatically, about sharks, cocoa-nuts, yams, &c. All translations must fail to represent a language adequately, and most of all ...

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...s great energy and cheerfulness, and if she can comfort him, and rouse him into activity, and be the kind mother she will be to his poor children, I d... ...ith sensible women.’ ‘When their children grew too old for India, she came into some little property at Bayford Bridge, which enabled him to retire. C... ...OCTIAL SUN had long set, and the blue haze of March east wind had deepened into twilight and darkness when Albinia Kendal found herself driving down t... ...ll do it to please me,’ said Albinia, ‘if for no better reason. Fetch your Bibles and Prayerbooks.’ ‘We shall never have time for our studies, I assur... ...x- horting her not to give way to sullenness—she ought to like to read the Bible—which of course made Sophy look crosser. The desire to establish her ... ...t nearly overthrew the young step-mother’s patience. When Albinia took her Bible upstairs, she gave Sophy time to say what Lucy reported instantly on ... ...begged to turn the page, and it was granted. There 76 Yo n g e were other translations, chiefly from curious oriental sources, and there were about t... ... on the floor in the loft, poring over old grammars, and phrase-books, and translations of missionary or govern- ment school-books there accumulated—a... ...reat illumina- tion of Colonel Bury’s coat-of-arms, with Roman candles and Chinese trees at the four corners, engrossed every eye, and flashing on eve...

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...when we indulged in a general melee, which resulted in all tum- bling over into the vestibule below. The others, to whom I served as cushion, were not... ... a change; even the scrawly pattern of the paper, which my weary eyes made into purple elves perpetually pursuing crimson ones, the foremost 5 Yo n g... ...lain as those of a workhouse, and when the London sun did shine, it glared into my eyes through the great unshaded windows. There was a deal table for... ...e elephant, or the lion and wolf fought in an embrace fatal to their legs. Bible stories and Watt’s hymns were more to Clarence than even to me, and h... ...she had been our only teacher, except that my father read a chapter of the Bible with us every morning before breakfast, and heard the Catechism on a ... ...ht’s time. The firm of Frith and Castleford was coming to the front in the Chinese trade. The junior partner was an old com- panion of my father’s boy... ...in our religious life, while the sponsors, whose names stood in the family Bible, and whose spoons reposed in the plate-chest, never troubled themselv... ...blown away by the Atlantic breezes, and be left open to the charms of some Chinese merchant’s daughter. 215 Yo n g e CHAPTER XXXVIII—T CHAPTER XXXVII... ...tory of Letter Writing which, what with collecting mate- rials, and making translations, lasted us three years altogether, and was a great resource an...

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...ation appeared like the elaboration of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities,... ...all trace of the original subject is lost. De Quincey divides his writings into three groups: first, that class which “proposes primarily to amuse the... ...ppen occasionally to reach a higher station, at which the amusement passes into an impassioned interest.” T o this class would belong the 8 The Engli... ...whom the learned more accu- rately called Fi Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ... who now, upon the least shadow of failure in him, must by the fiercest of translations—must 52 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc without time f... ...ed Dominican, that pressed her with an objection, which, if applied to the Bible, would tax every one of its miracles with unsoundness. The monk had t... ...iracles with unsoundness. The monk had the excuse of never having read the Bible. M. Michelet has no such excuse; and it makes one blush for him, as a... ...traductions among those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counting the e... ...of the book to the religious heart of the fifteenth century! Excepting the Bible, but excepting that only in Protestant lands, no book known to man ha...

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...of course I mean a sympathy of comprehension, a sympathy by which we enter into his feelings, and are made to understand them,—not a sympathy 1 of pi... ...usy, ambition, vengeance, hatred,—which will create a hell within him; and into this hell we are to look. In Macbeth, for the sake of gratifying his o... ...he world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested— laid asleep—tranced—racked into a dread armistice: time must be annihilated; relation to things withou... ...hed Dominican that pressed her with an objection, which, if applied to the Bible, would tax every one of its miracles with unsoundness. The monk had t... ...iracles with unsoundness. The monk had the excuse of never having read the Bible. M. Michelet has no such excuse; and it makes one blush for him, as a... ...of the book to the religious heart of the fifteenth century! Excepting the Bible, but excepting that only in Protestant lands, no book known to man ha... ...ductions, amongst those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counting the e... ...—whom the learned more accurately called Fi, Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...who now, upon the least shadow of failure in him, must, by the fiercest of translations—must, without time for a prayer—must, within seventy seconds, ...

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...her bosom one-third of her children; and these children are no sooner born into their earthly at- mosphere, than they turn, with unnatural passions, t... ...us, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely without interest to the nati... ... that, by the briefest of circuits, the church causes the power to revolve into her own hands. That was the first change—a change full of Jacobinism; ... ... greatly affected by her intercourse with the English church (as, e.g., in Bible Societ- ies, Missionary Societies, &c.); and the English church had b... ... to barbarous nations, of circulating the Scriptures, (whether through the Bible Society, that is the National Society, or Provincial Societies,) of t... ...etween them:—a process which is briefly and picturesquely described in the Bible. The effect of the black rim, which the pigment traced about the eyel... ...the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, even with regard to Latin, his own secretary doubts, upon one... ...s—the multiplication of copies, and even of separate editions and separate translations, ran beyond all power of registration. It is one amongst the w...

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...etimes mere caprices, pulling down in order to rebuild, or turning squares into rotundas, (diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpo... ...w papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your hous... ...great idea never even approximated by the utmost anxieties of man. Not the Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in ... ...r unusual conditions. By its harsh peremptory punctuality, it drives a man into hurried writing, possibly into saying the thing that is not. They won’... ...e better than I deserve. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 “Next to the bible in currency.”—That is, next in the fif- teenth century to the Bible o... ...ncluding any part of America) anticipated, in 1453, the dif- fusion of the Bible in 1853. But why? Through what causes? Elsewhere I have attempted to ... ...ation of the book, of which not merely the reimpressions, but the separate translations, are past all count- ing; though bibliographers have undertake... ... of Swedenborg; and still more as organizing a patronage to other people’s translations; and also, I believe, as republishing the original Latin works... ...ne under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural and healthy play of the...

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...e and capable engine, how would you proceed? Y.M. Drive tunnels and shafts into the hills; blast out the iron ore; crush it, smelt it, reduce it to pi... ...w, but indifferent to further progress. An outside influence beguiles it into the Bessemer furnace and refines it into steel of the first quality. I... ...e. And it has reached its limit. By no possible process can it be educated into gold. Will you set that down? Y.M. Yes. “Everything has its limit—iron... ...George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was teacher of the advanced Bible class. At twenty two George, through fighting habits and drinking hab... ...lish, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every k... ...had been the head Sunday school boy, and had once re cited three thousand Bible verses without making a break. Dick Savage, twenty, the baker’s appre... ...led the child: Aborigines, a system of mountains. Alias, a good man in the Bible. Amenable, anything that is mean. Ammonia, the food of the gods. Assi... ...lars resumed their labors. Three years of patient work produced eleven new translations; among them, this, by Gr:unfeldt, was received with considerab...

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... 5 Turgenev The following is the list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the Experiences of... ...“T o turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep plough going well into the earth, not a surface plough gliding lightly over the top.”—From a ... ...hinges. He did not ring the bell, but gave a loud sigh and walked straight into a small, dark passage. “Is Nejdanov at home?” he called out in a deep,... ...ully removing his goloshes, and hanging his shabby coat on a nail, he went into the room from whence issued the woman’s voice. It was a narrow, untidy... ... waist to sniff at the flowers with a smile on her lips, or arranging some Chinese vase, or quickly readjusting her glossy hair before the look- ing-g... ... the stroke of five Nejdanov went down to dinner, which was announced by a Chinese gong, not by a bell. The whole company was already assembled in the... ... translation; he always kept a translated manu- script of “Candide” in the bible box at the head of his bed. He used to come out with expressions like...

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... for the adventures. The time could only be before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest s... ...old never appears of the smallest use to him in any of the dire adventures into which he falls, but only stands complacently by, and in ef- fect may r... ..., the danger in the print is not appalling. Furwitz likewise inveigles him into putting the point (schnabel) of his shoe into the wheel of a mill for ... ...ts, and still quainter cities, of the Chronicle, with her explanations and translations, opened his mind to aspira- tions for intercourse with his fel... ...most be feared that some of her progeny were anticipating the invention of Chinese roasting-pigs. However, their propri- etor, Jobst, counted them out... ...ch re- mained with her when awake, and led her to seek it out in her Latin Bible in the morning. Reluctantly had she gone down to the noontide meal, f... ...; the young man’s hands are clasped over a harp, those of the other over a Bible, and the elder wears the insignia of the order of the Golden Fleece. ...

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...ts seeming to run ’upon what was inside it. At length she drew the article into her lap, and untied the paper covering; a small swing looking glass wa... ...he picture was a deli cate one. Woman’s prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.... ... the glass. She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her... ... Joseph had said. ‘Yes,’ added Joseph, beginning to feel like a man in the Bible; ‘for evil do thrive so in these times that ye may be as much deceive... ...ask thought, and yet enough to exercise it. On the table lay an old quarto Bible, bound in leather. Liddy looking at it said, — ‘Did you ever find out,... ... — ‘Did you ever find out, miss, who you are going to marry by means of the Bible and key?’ ‘Don’t be so foolish, Liddy. As if such things could be.’ ‘... ...ile he was there; and it was said he got on so far that he could take down Chinese in shorthand; but that I don’t answer for, as it was only reported.... ...ery voice in nature was unani mous in bespeaking change. But two distinct translations attached to these dumb expressions. Apparently there was to be...

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...aid Philip, when the flower had been duly admired, ‘you must let me put it into the window, for you. It is too heavy for you.’ ‘Oh, take care,’ cried ... ... such a poor little miserable thing as the one at Redclyffe?’ ‘He is grown into a fine spirited fellow,’ said Philip. ‘I suppose we must have him here... ... end,’ said Philip. ‘I was surprised to see Guy so sober, instead of going into one of his usual raptures. He took them home; but the first thing I he... ...Charles on his couch, one Monday evening, in a gorgeous dressing-gown of a Chinese pattern, all over pagodas, while little Charlotte sat opposite to h... ...dge. She hardly ever had been at church and though she had read one or two Bible stories, it seemed to have been from their having been used as lesson... ... used as lessons at school. She had a dim notion that good people read the Bible, and there was one on the little table at home, with the shell-turkey... ...les, who ever since October had been confined to bed, was able to wear the Chinese dressing-gown, be lifted to a couch, and wheeled into the dressing-... ... thing for him, she went to her daughter. Amabel was lying on her bed, her Bible open by her; not exactly reading, but as if she was now and then find... ...erses, almost all the poetry he had ever written. There were the classical translations that used to make him inaccurate, a scrap of a very boyish epi...

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...; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the b... ...uth there can be no thor- oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are s... ...be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any l... ... hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, the very same translations, or mistranslations, occur in it, and it is extremely unlikely... ...d Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudibrastic Verse” (1700), can scarcely be reck- oned a translation, b... ...ay. It has been the most freely used and the most freely abused of all the translations. It has seen far more editions than any other, it is admitted ... ... had been translated into the four leading languages of Europe. Except the Bible, in fact, no book has been so widely diffused as “Don Quixote.” The “... ...ging for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a special courier. He asked me, or to be...

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...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents TRANSLATIONS ................................................................. ......................... 272 ON LAUNCHING SOME BOTTLES FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE INTO THE BRISTOL CHANNEL 272 THE DEVIL’S WALK ............................... ...L TRANSL TRANSL TRANSL TRANSLA A A A ATIONS TIONS TIONS TIONS TIONS Of the Translations that follow a few were published by Shelley himself, others by... ... Forman (1876) and Locock (1903) from the manuscript originals. Shelley’s “Translations” fall between the years 1818 and 1822. HYMN HYMN HYMN HYMN HYM... ...on which it fed And grasping it in his delighted hold, His treasured prize into the cavern old. 9 Shelley 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. Then scooping with a chisel ... ...e world to work, and from her cell Sea-strewn, the Pallantean Moon sublime Into her watch-tower just began to climb. _125 1... ...s of all the world. A book is put into our hands when children, called the Bible, the purport of whose history is briefly this: That God made the eart... ...e of a popular belief, told the vulgar that if they did not believe in the Bible they would be damned to all eternity; and burned, imprisoned, and poi... ...eople, now become more enlightened, will allow. The belief in all that the Bible contains is called Christian- ity. A Roman governor of Judea, at the ...

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...xion; and the specific doctrine of Jesus has not in all that time been put into political or general social practice. I am no more a Christian than Pi... ...to how far the gospels are original, and how far they consist of Greek and Chinese interpolations. The record that Jesus said certain things is not in... ...esus as a man like himself and noth- ing more, that he slips unconsciously into the error of as- suming that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite c... ...was so utterly confounded that it was called the proper spirit to read the Bible in. Jesus was a baby; and he was older than cre- ation. He was a man ... ... pre- possession. Even sceptics who were specially on their guard, put the Bible in the dock, and read the gospels with the ob- ject of detecting disc... ...newspaper. All this has changed greatly within two generations. T oday the Bible is so little read that the language of the Authorized Version is rapi... ...ore strongly than any- where else except perhaps in Ulster, retranslations into mod- ern English have been introduced perforce to save its bare intell... ... are Greek manuscripts of the fourth century A.D., and the Syrian ones are translations from the Greek, the paleographic expert has no difficulty in a... ...could not possi- bly have written the epistles attributed to him, in which Chinese sages, Greek philosophers, Latin authors, and writ- ers of ancient ...

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...lect Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to enquire into the working of the censor- ship, against which it was alleged by mysel... ...of enormous value. Fourth, there was the powerful interest of the trade in intoxicating liquors, 8 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet fiercely determine... ...that unknown man a trial; but this does not occur often enough to be taken into account: his normal course is to resort to a well-known author and tak... ... and sex, would stop enlightenment, and pro- duce what used to be called a Chinese civilization until the Chinese lately took to immoral courses by pe... .... True, it is an equally strong case for preventing the circulation of the Bible, which was always in the hands of our regi- cides; but as the Roman C... ...ainst the publication of Carlyle’s essay on the prophet, or of the English translations of the Koran in the pref- aces to which Mahomet is criticized ... ...manufactures woollens instead of cottons, ginger- beer instead of whiskey, Bibles instead of playing- cards, he will be forbidden to place his product... ...p and coming at him] Reverent! Who taught you your reverent cant? Not your Bible. It says He cometh like a thief in the night—aye, like a thief—a hors...

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...e to him whom it fits. I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are sai... ...ural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;” or dwelling, chained for life, at the foot of a tree; ... .... But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, ... ...my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, calle... ...lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has bee... ...e made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the architects of our c... ...lor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of... ...accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakspeares, and all the centuries to ... ... read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their facul...

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...al position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”; or dwelling, chained for life, at the foot of a tree; ... ... But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, th... ...ight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, try ing to get into business and trying to get out of debt, Walden 6 a very ancient sloug... ...ved a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been ... ...de about the ornaments of style in litera ture, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the architects of our chu... ... to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my ... ...r and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of a... ...umulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the cen turies to... ...ead, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculti...

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...and flowing between Bedford and Carlisle, and through Billerica, emp ties into the Merrimack at Lowell. In Concord it is, in sum mer, from four to f... ...and when the wind blows freshly in a raw March day, heaving up the surface into dark and sober billows or regular swells, skirted as it is in the dist... ..., and under the new North Bridge between Ponkawtasset and the Poplar Hill, into the Great Meadows, which, like a broad moccason print, have levelled a... ...emn sacrament and with drawal from the world, just as the aged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on t... ... viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or ... ...gh it happens that I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. ... ...ians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. Give me one of these Bibles and you have silenced me for a while. When I recover the use of my t... ... home, to catch fish at the falls; and here also came John Eliot, with the Bible and Cat echism, and Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted, and other trac... ...ean oracles of Zoroaster, still surviving after a thousand revolutions and translations, alone make us doubt if the poetic form and dress are not tran...

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...I too, following many and follow’d by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena, (It may be I am destin’d to utter the loudest cries there... ...breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfu... ... with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I sa... ...ent of these arm pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship one thing more than another it s... ...n I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth. We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine, I say they ... ...s, I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demigod, I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past ... ...o has done work for the day to retire awhile, I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me... ...ants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Na...

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...course turned out 6 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers of the sunny beams into a dark wilderness. Shipwrecks and nightly conflagrations are sometimes... ...offence. It was little indeed that I, drawn by no necessities of situation into temptations of that nature, had done no in- jury to any man. That was ... ...miserable weak- ness from—what? Is it from reviving, from calling up again into fierce and insufferable light the images and features of a long-buried... ...Jupiter, for instance, could not move in the way alleged, because then the Bible would have pro- claimed it,—as they thus threw back upon God the burt... ...alileo, why did they not, by following out their own logic, throw upon the Bible the duty of discovering the telescope, or discovering the satellites ... ...that Scripture, on such subjects, will not condescend to teach at all. The Bible adopts the erroneous language of men, (which at any rate it must do, ... ...k,)—a work of a hundred years back, and, from mere ignorance, giving slang translations from Tom Brown, L’Estrange, and other jocular writers— had put... ...out the initial period of Coleridge, we need only look back to the several translations of Gray’s Elegy by three (if not four) of the reverend gentlem... ...ield, made himself merry, in his Pursuits of Litera- ture, with these Eton translations. In that he was right. But he was not right in praising a cont...

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...from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone into the requisite civility. “Good-morning, Ethel, good-morning, Flora,” sa... ...eded in deferring her hopes, by a reproof which caused her to draw herself into a rigid, melancholy attitude, a sort of penance of decorum, but a rapi... ...ay—” “No, the day before,” interposed Flora. “There was a poor man brought into the hospital. He had been terribly hurt in the quarry, and papa says h... ...advise Ethel and Norman to put away Henry V., and find the places in their Bibles, “or you will have the things mixed together in your heads,” said sh... ...le Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bible. “Now, go and mend that deplorable frock, and if you don’t dream over... ...arlet- cloaked, white-ruffed, and black doubletted, a desk bearing an open Bible before him, and a twisted pillar of Derbyshire spar on each side. He ... ...with 105 Yo n g e old Hoxton, and make a show,” said Harry. “They look at translations, and copy old stock verses. Oh, it was such fun the other day.... ...ou remember how Mrs. Ward’s sister told us that a whole crowd of tottering Chinese ladies would lean on her, because they felt her firm support, thoug... ... said Ethel, not in too complimentary a strain. “Yachting, farming, Cochin-Chinese—or something,” said Flora. “Anything not so wearing as this!” “That...

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...xenford INTRODUCTION By Thomas Carlyle I T WOULD APPEAR that for inquirers into Foreign Litera ture, for all men anxious to see and understand the Eu ... ... longer pos- sible. T raffic, with its swift ships, is uniting all nations into one; Europe at large is becoming more and more one public; and in this... ...er, and so much to forget, before we can transfer ourselves in any measure into his peculiar point of vision, that a right study of him, for an Englis... ...ook of 54 Autobiography the sort fell into our hands; but the large folio Bible, with copperplates by Merian, was diligently gone over leaf by leaf; ... ...e added Neukirch’s “Telemachus,” Koppen’s “Jerusalem Delivered,” and other translations. I had from my childhood diligently perused the whole of these... ...easier to me, from having previously committed to memory passages from the Bible which are generally unintelligible to a child, and accustomed myself ... ...ans. 132 Autobiography Still, my childish vivacity, which scrutinized the Bible on all sides, may have seemed to him tolerably serious and wor- thy o... ...s splendid original productions, offers us the other wealth of all ages in translations, and the works of the greatest scholars. I consequently read m... ...Breitkopf, on account of the great advan- tage which Gottsched’s writings, translations, and other aids had brought to the trade, had promised him a l...

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...peration, of reunion, is no more than sentimental dreaming. We have to get into line, and that we cannot do while over here and over there men hold th... ...iew, to those who are not so predisposed. These latter will either develop into adherents as they read, or, what is more likely, they will exchange a ... ... rules laid down and the particular instance there is al- ways a wide gap, into which doubts and alternatives enter and the private judgment has play.... ...al schemes of the conven- tional faith are riddled targets, that creed and Bible do not mean what they appear to mean, but something quite differ- ent... ...o be noted; it is the thing the Hebrew schoolboy, the Tamil schoolboy, the Chinese schoolboy, and the American schoolboy have in common. So much, at a... ... to-day to the Roman Catholic priest; such is Arabic to the Malay, written Chinese to the Cantonese or the Corean, and English to the Zulu or the Hind... ...xercising patronage on the other, there is added in the British system the Chinese method of selecting officials by competitive examination. Within it... ...er good can impart. Plato, for example, who has certainly in the very best translations, quite perceptibly no greater mind than Lord Bacon, New- ton, ... ...iterary appa- ratus that holds a people together to a common purpose, the “Bible” of that people, and suggests that the “Bible” of a modern people sho...

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...ledge nor skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. Th... ...d demanding eight, and saying we won’t wait, and so on, and then subsiding into indolence again. They are just the first-fruits of a steady, enduring ... ...end through these machines. There comes a time when men will be sorted out into those who will have the knowledge, nerve, and courage to do these sple... ...ll. He would set almost all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous introductions—and if there were no good tran... ...re no good translations he would give some good man £500 or so to make one—translations of all that is good in modern Euro- pean literatures, and, las... ...s economic organisations, its organisation for thought and education, its “Bible”—as Dr. Beattie Crozier would say—its housing and social atmosphere, ... ... tramps who sleep in the London parks, how to organise a soup kitchen or a Bible coffee van, how to prevent ignorant people, who have nothing else to ... ...om the responsibility of political and social work, than he will to make a Chinese toy of her and bind her feet. He and she will love that they may en...

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... truss of rotten straw, and a few ragged cloaks. In winter the surf bursts into the mouth and often forces them to abandon it. An emeute of disappoint... ...energy that we never feel except in dreams. I think this letter has turned into a sermon, but I had nothing interesting to talk about. 14 The Letters... ...overhead, and the black av- enues and white statues leapt out every minute into short- lived distinctness. I get up to add one thing more. There is in... ...ns, I lean a good deal upon him for opening a conversation, and read a few translations to every yawning audience that I can gather. I am grown most i... ...of Joan of Arc, Paston Letters Basin, etc., also Boswell daily by way of a Bible; I mean to read Boswell now until the day I die. And now and again a ... ...on’t eat; but, man, I can sleep. The car in front of mine is chock full of Chinese. MONDAY. – What it is to be ill in an emigrant train let those decl... ... get the material for their gloomy discourses. Faith is not to believe the Bible, but to believe in God; if you believe in God (or, for it’s the same ... ...magnitude, and shabbily fur- nished; there shall -, -, the revisers of the Bible and other absolutely loathsome literary lepers, dwell among broken pe...

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...perhaps a friendship, while he, though ever busy and solicitous, withdraws into the background. Some think that Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, did n... ... continually filling itself with literary schemes that came to nought. But into his Life of Johnson he poured all his artistic energies, as Milton pou... ... Life of Johnson he poured all his artistic energies, as Milton poured his into Paradise Lost, and Vergil his into the Aneid. First, Boswell had the i... ...read the black letter, and asked him to borrow for her, from his father, a bible in that character. When he was going to Oxford, she came to take leav... ...s by himself are admirably done. He acknowledges to have received ‘elegant translations’ of many of them from Mr. James Elphinston; and some are very ... ...he controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr. James Macpherson, as translations of Ossian, was at its height. Johnson had all along denied the... ...dered what this could mean. I afterwards learnt, that it was to give her a Bible, which he had brought from Lon- don as a present to her. He was for a... ...s an English poem; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation. Translations are, in general, for people who cannot read the origi- nal.’ I... ...through your whole life you will carefully say your prayers, and read your Bible. I am, my dear, your most humble servant, ‘May 10, 1784.’ ‘SAM. JOHNS...

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..., and with the ornaments likely to please a girl’s eye, she suddenly broke into a little irrepressible cry of joy and de- light. “Oh! oh! how lovely! ... ...hen of the song of the little bird with wounded wing who had been received into this nest. She had the dimmest remembrance of home or 6 Magnum Bonum ... ... looked up in his face bewildered, and then said shyly, the colour surging into her face— “Please, what did you say?” “I asked if you would stay with ... ...ph, and the few books and treasures that had been rescued agreed with it—a Bible with her father’s name, a few devotional books of her mother’s, and M... ... three houses on the hill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda... ...y. “Indeed I do try to do what must be done. My boys can hold their own in Bible and Catechism questions! Ask your brother if they can’t. And Army is ... ...lly well without disputes. There was a continual performance, endless as a Chinese tragedy, of Spenser’s Faery Queene, in which Elfie was always Glori... ...ther is always good,” said faithful little Armine. “The rich people in the Bible were all bad,” pondered Babie. “There was Dives, and the man with the... ... jokes hung fire, and he had so exhausted every one’s pa- tience, that the translations and small reviewing work which he could have done were now una...

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...e obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, an... ... husband’s hands. Immediately Fyodor Pavlovitch introduced a regular harem into the house, and abandoned himself to orgies of drunkenness. In the inte... ...ng tearfully to each and all of Adelaida Ivanovna’s having left him, going into details too disgraceful for a husband to mention in re- gard to his ow... ...le to think of anything better than everlasting entreaties for copying and translations from the French. Having once got into touch with the editors I... ...hat is precious. With my memories of home I count, too, my memories of the Bible, which, child as I was, I was very eager to read at home. I had a boo... ...vens, what a book it is, and what lessons there are in it! What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man! It is like... ...skilfully. I only speak from rapture, and forgive my tears, for I love the Bible. Let him too weep, the priest of God, and be sure that the hearts of ... ... officer at all now. He served in the customs in Siberia, somewhere on the Chinese frontier, some puny little beggar of a Pole, I expect. Lost his job... ...ble day. Ringing, and mounting the staircase, which was dimly lighted by a Chinese lantern, he saw a man coming down, and as they met, he recognised h...