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...Table of Contents: 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK? AN INCIDENT, 1 -- 2 NIGHT ? THE FLOCK ? AN INTERIOR ? ANOTHER INTERIOR -- ., 6 -- 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK? CONVERSATION, 13 -- 4 GABRIEL?S RESOLVE ? THE VISIT ? THE MISTAKE, 20 -- 5 DEP...

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...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR —... ... Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR — ANOTHER IN TERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... GIRL ON HORSEBACK — CONVERSATION . . . . . . . . 13 4 GABRIEL’S RESOLVE — THE VISIT — THE MISTAKE . . . 20 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA — A PASTORAL TRAG... ...E HIGHWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 41 SUSPICION — FANNY IS SENT FOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 42 JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN — BUCK’S HEAD ... ...ection, — that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be f... ... congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his ch... ...ion. Chapter 16 ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL SOULS’ O N a week day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in ... ...ich is characteristic of the barley corn. ‘But I’ve never changed a single doctrine: I’ve stuck like a plaster to the old faith I was born in. Yes; th... ...nd bide in his cheerful old inn, and never trouble or worry his mind about doctrines at all. But to be a meetinger, you must go to chapel in all winds...

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... DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (164... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) ... ... . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who... ...o the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wan... ...this whole discourse proposed will be a certain testimony, if not a trophy. For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever sho... ..., and those in great abundance, which are likeliest to taint both life and doctrine, cannot be suppressed without the fall of learning and of all a... ...earnt without books a thousand other ways which cannot be stopped, and evil doctrine not with books can propagate, except a teacher guide, which he ... ...nts us. We stumble and are impatient at the least dividing of one visible congregation from another, though it be not in fundamentals; and through...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . .... ...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Phase the Second — Maiden No More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 XII . . ... ...discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedi grees for the new county history. I am Parson Tringham, the antiquary, of Stagfoo... ..., and in Charles the Second’s reign you were made Knights of the Royal Oak for your loyalty. Aye, there have been generations of Sir Johns among you, ... ...he New Testament by the light of what they deemed a pernicious Calvinistic doctrine. ‘Pernicious!’ said Mr. Clare, with genial scorn; and he proceeded... ... I imagine my poor father fears that I am one of the eternally lost for my doctrines, I am of course, a believer in good morals, Tess, as much as you.... ...square tower, beneath which she knew that at that moment the Vicar and his congregation were gathered, had a severe look in her eyes. She wished that ... ...an pouring out, and Tess found herself in the midst of them. The Emminster congregation looked at her as only a congregation of small country townsfol...

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...Excerpt: PART I; CHAPTER I -- IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak --there might be seen in districts far away among the la...

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...Silas Marner GEORGE ELIOT 1861 SILAS MARNER: THE WEA VER OF RA VELOE. “A child, more than all other gifts That earth can... ...Silas Marner GEORGE ELIOT 1861 SILAS MARNER: THE WEA VER OF RA VELOE. “A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to de... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 ii CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I I N the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses — and eve... ... looking men appeared on the upland, dark against the early winter sunset; for what dog likes a figure bent under a heavy bag? — and these pale men rar... ...ad ended in the commission of a crime; especially if he had any reputation for knowledge, or showed any skill in handicraft. All cleverness, whether i... ...et worn on the heart; the pulpit where the minister delivered unquestioned doctrine, and swayed to and fro, and handled the book in a long accustomed ... ...m because he thought too much of it and never came to church, enforced the doctrine by a present of pigs’ pettitoes, well calculated to dissipate unfo... ...t was the rural fashion of that time for the more important members of the congregation to depart first, while their humbler neighbors waited and looke... ...ll not follow them now; for may there not be some others in this departing congregation whom we should like to see again — some of those who are not l...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Et... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... .... * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * ... ...ght my way against the stubborn storm. Entering, I found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors’ wives and widows. A muffled silence re... ... the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fi... ...d concerning all these, is not Possession the whole of the law? But if the doctrine of Fast Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Book III — Waiting For Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chapter XXIII. .... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far r... ...ly infusing them with that common sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agita tion. Dorothea knew many passages of... ...er usual eagerness for a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict connection with that amazing past, and give the remote... ...le are obliged to do. I have always liked the quaintness of the church and congregation; besides, I know the Tuckers: I shall go into their pew.” Havi... ...ore any one else arrived there. But he was still left alone in it when the congregation had assembled. The curate’s pew was opposite the rector’s at t...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...m, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of... ...ted with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram’s sister; but her husband’s professio... ...could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period. Their homes were so distant, and the circles... ...o all that you speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation for the rest of the week? One scarcely sees a clergyman ou... ...onduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and recommend; and it will, I... ...rvation and taste, a more critical knowledge diffused, than formerly; in every congregation, there is a larger proportion who know a little of the mat...