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...on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could not go on living in... ...the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of thei... ...ot only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house ... ...would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat u... ...m a sense of fairness to take an indulgent view. It had turned out quite the other way. “Oh, it’s awful! oh dear! awful!” Stepan Arkadyevitch kept rep... ...shtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife’s bedroom. Chapter 4 D ARYA Alexandrovna, in a d... ... always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another frien... ...ly in her heart she thought that one could not talk about exaggeration where Christianity was concerned. What exaggeration could there be in the pract... ... and I consider it’s premature, but rational, and it has a future, just like Christianity in its first ages.” “All that I maintain is that the labor fo...

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...bande Eik noor te sab jag upjeya kaun bhale ko mande. (1349) (From the One and the same Light, the entire universe came into existence. How can there... ...there be good or bad among them?) “I have studied the scriptures of great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the hea... ...igions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find in these volumes (of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ).” - Pearl ... ...S. Buck, Noble Laureate “In the coming religious debate, the Sikh religion and its scripture, Guru Granth, will have something special of value to sa... ... Arnold Toynbee, historian “It would rank almost first in the world. Of no other religion can it be said that it has made a nation in so short a time... ...airi nahi bigaana sagal sang ham ko ban aayee (1299) (There is no enemy or other one as I have equal affection for all.) Those who were administering... ... Pearl S. Buck in following words: “I have studied the scriptures of great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the hea... ... distance constantly. That beehive gave three times the honey compared to other beehives. Universality of God and monotheism Guru Granth Sahib's tota... ...e detailed the principles of his moral and social system. The founder of Christianity did not reduce his doctrines to writings and for them we are ...

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...ore about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he wo...

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...ETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC... ...l Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...nd plausibly urged that it was not of the purest or most creditable order. Others have contended that it did not go further than the manners of the ag... ...reater, better, and truer man than himself, Joseph Addison. Warburton, and others, have sadly misrepresented the connexion between these two famous wi... ...rtak- ing by Parnell (who wrote the Life of Homer), by Broome, Jortin, and others. The first volume appeared in June 1715, and the other volumes follo... ...den. 20 Hall has imitated and excelled this passage. See his pam- phlet, ‘Christianity consistent with a Love of Freedom.’ 66 The Poetical Works of ... ...Monsieur.’ 3 Obscure by birth, renown’d by crimes, Still changing names, religions, climes, At length she turns a bride: In diamonds, pearls, ... ...n of Lord Clarendon, the historian. 139 ‘Tindal:’ the infidel, author of ‘Christianity as Old as the Creation.’ 227 The Poetical Works of Alexander ...

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... my mantle your musk clothes me with alarm, allows my guard be more gentle. Oh, who could resist such charm! Oh, let’s elope to foreign parts, and reveal to me your realm; there let us practice lovers’ arts for we’ll both be overwhelmed. Yes, no one could resist such charm! Sisters of our sober town, You see my skin so sunned from farm, its like a richly gi...

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...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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...h. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic...

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...spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the...

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