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...smiling goddess of gardeners, been honored with a purer or more scrupulous worship than that which was paid to her in this little enclosure. In fact, ... ...r to the Turks, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title o...

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...nion is clearly meant. In this curious book, Konig Romreich, by whom every contemporary understood poor Charles of Burgundy—thus posthumously made Kin... ...ld, uncanny ceremony he was engaged in, not knowing indeed that it was sun-worship, but afraid that it could be no other than unholy sorcery. The whee... ...nce of the city in sending him heralds, ‘as if,’ said he, ‘the dogs,’ your worships, ‘were his equals.’ Then having cursed your worships, he reviled t... ...limb a wall on foot in company with lanzknechts! On horse- back must their worships fight, or not at all; and when to shame them I called myself a mou...

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...mote from one another. Women are made like the potter’s vessels—either for worship or contumely, and are withal fragile vessels. He had never wanted d... ...fully, and politics are by their very nature ugly. You see, I—I am a woman worshipper. I worshipped women long before I found any woman I might ever h... ...per. I worshipped women long before I found any woman I might ever hope to worship. Long ago. And—the idea of committees, of hustings, of agenda-paper... ... chivalrous indeed to all women, choose for himself his own particular and worshipful queen.” “So far as one can judge from the system in practice,” s... ...r aunt. “I don’t see what he has to do with my coming to Lon- don?” “He—he worships the ground you tread on. You don’t de- serve it, but he does. Or a... ...changes, of a New Age that is to replace all the stresses and disorders of contemporary life. Miss Miniver learned of her flight and got her address f... ...point of view you’re grown up—you’re as old as all the god- desses and the contemporary of any man alive. But from the—the economic point of view you’...

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...ant sensation of a conventional role, of being expected to play the minute worshipper in the presence of the Great Image. I was so moved by the common... ...t depends not upon the advance of the species but upon the uncritical hero-worship of the crowd. You may see the monster drawn twenty times the size o... ... staggers towards the bonfire. 5 5 5 5 5 I had the experience of meeting a contemporary king upon this journey. He was the first king I had ever met. ... ...torical memories; it was rather like leaving a card on Gibbon en route for contemporary history. By devious routes I went on to certain batteries of b... ...ut guns that look like stalked eyes. That is the general appearance of the contemporary tank. It slides on the ground; the silly little wheels that so... ...n at Timbuctoo. Every man who is taken from mu- nition making at X to spur-worshipping in khaki, is a dead loss to the military efficiency of the coun... ... to the people whose lives are permanently changed. The effort needed if a contemporary is to blow off the froth, is always very considerable. Among t... ...e undying king, and that the service of men’s collective needs is the true worship of God. But eagerly as I would grasp at any evidence that this idea... ...ingdom of God, and I have heard English people use it too. But much of the contemporary thought of England stills wanders with its back to the light. ...

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...us opinions. They began to look around them for some spot where they might worship God, not as the king and bishops thought fit, but according to the ... ...ngland. In every family, when the good man lifted up his heart in domestic worship, the burden of his petition was for the safety of those dear ones w... ... immortality of Washington. And at this very time a vener able friend and contemporary of your Grandfather, after long pilgrimages beyond the sea, ha...

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...viduals, who have grown devout all on a sudden, (Toulongeon, i. 262.) they worship or pretend to worship in their strait- laced contumacious manner; t... ...martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation. At the refractory places of worship, Patriot men appear; Patriot women with strong hazel wands, which t... ... Munici- pality ‘invokes the Principles of Toleration;’ grants Dissi- dent worshippers the Church of the Theatins; promising protection. But it is to ... ...ciples of Toleration must do the best they may: but no Dissident man shall worship contumaciously; there is a Plebi- scitum to that effect; which, tho... ...cords; but the answer to it was a shrieking howl from the Aristocrat Papal worshippers, many of them women. A 189 Thomas Carlyle thousand-voiced shri... ...s was lit for an Accepted Consti- tution, there had risen, and was burning contemporary with it, quite another variegated Glitter and nocturnal Fulgor...

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...going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense. And yet, for all its actualit... ...is almost ceaseless. The boat- man sings at the oar, the family at evening worship, the girls at night in the guest-house, sometimes the workman at hi...

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... of Croftangry, while it continued to be called of that Ilk, produced many worship- ful and famous patriots, of quhom I now praetermit the names; it b... ... on this particular occasion, that I did not meet all the respect from the worshipful company in his Majesty’s carriage that I think I was entitled to... ...swain, of somewhere inclining to sixty could resist the advances of a fair contemporary? So we allowed the full degree of kind- ness to the meeting—ho... ...e one to me, and say that my son lives. Say this, and I too will be of thy worship; I will bend my knees on the seventh day in thy house of worship, a...

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...ce, into contrast with his present condition of life. These two people had worshipped him from the crown of his head to the soles of his exquisite fee... ...lt it marked an epoch. He had had no sisters, and was innately disposed to worship womankind. But he did not betray as much to Platt and Parsons. To P... ...titude of seasoned depravity towards womankind. Platt and Parsons were his contemporary apprentices in departments of the drapery shop, and the three ...

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... old Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of ... ...the terrible hu man past was heavy to her, but that of something altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue.... ...ical as for spiritual exercise, the different figures and groups, the mingled worshippers and spectators, may follow their various intentions without c... ...tronizing. You say you don’t know me, but when you do you’ll discover what a worship I have for propriety.” “You’re not conventional?” Isabel gravely ... ...n warm afternoons. They had afterwards reached the French capital, which was worshipped, and with costly ceremonies, by Lily, but thought of as noisil... ...’s friend; the Count ess could see at a glance that this lady was much more contemporary; and she received an impression of the improvements that wer... ...here was no gentler nor less consis tent heretic than Isabel; the firmest of worshippers, gazing at dark altar pictures or CHAPTER 49 431 clustered c... ...t all events, for reasons of her own, drawn back: she had always had, too, a worship of appearances so intense that even Osmond himself had got bored ...

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...tice rather than affection, to a concep- tion of aloofness and awestriking worshipfulness. The sec- ond idea, which is opposed to this idea of an abso... ... and the suggestive influence of the Egyptian T rinity that was then being worshipped at the Serapeum, and which had saturated the thought of Alexan- ... ...ny recognised form of Christianity is that, know- ingly or unknowingly, it worships a finite God. Directly the believer is fairly confronted with the ... ...ly to a contrary proposition. The Christians would neither admit that they worshipped more gods than one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity ... ...life about us is the Dark God of the Manichees, the evil spirit of the sun worshippers. But in contemporary thought there is no conviction apparent th... ... Dark God of the Manichees, the evil spirit of the sun worshippers. But in contemporary thought there is no conviction apparent that this Demiurge is ... ...ousness, as the Collective Mind. I believe that this resistance in so many contemporary minds to the idea of God as a person is due very largely to th... ...f the barrister. A practising bar- 78 God The Invisible King rister under contemporary conditions does indeed give most typically the opportunity for... ...gion, those questions of physical status that play so large a part in most contemporary religions, have disappeared from modern faith. Let us be as cl...

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...the outbreak of the war. I judged Germany by the Kaiser, and by the Kaiser-worship which I saw in Berlin. I thought that he was a theatrical person wh... ... illusions about the conduct of the war by the gov- erning classes, or the worshipful heroism of peers and princes. They will know just how easy is co... ...ialistic organisations anything better than a shabby little back-door into contemporary politics, those demonstrations would be hammering at the mind ... ... Press; by which I mean not simply the periodical Press, but all books and contemporary discussion. It is only by the natural playing off of Press aga... ...German, or English literature and literary development up to and including contemporary work is, of course, an entirely different matter. But there ca... ...ttery that prevailed in the Victorian age, and which is so closely akin to contemporary German follies, fostered and cultivated this sweet delusion. T... ...rantic, the German comic papers were by no means sugges- tive of an abject worship of authority and royalty for their own sakes. The teaching of all f...

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...the same title; and I will there- fore retrace rapidly the outline of that contemporary case so familiarly known to myself. Colonel Watson and General... ...rd in Chancery) had all his legal jealousies awakened on their behalf. The worshipful order of adventurers and fortune-hunters, at that time chiefly i... ...of the kind. A religion was simply a cultus, a thræskeia, a mode of ritual worship, in which there might be two differences, namely: 1. As to the part... ...s, namely: 1. As to the particular deity who furnished the mo- tive to the worship; 2. As to the ceremonial, or mode of conducting the worship. But in... ...the only end and purpose of the mysteries was a more solemn and impressive worship of a particular goddess. Warburton, on the other hand, would insist... ... might have been convinced themselves by innumerable passages in au- thors contemporary with themselves; and that it was con- tinually throwing out fi... ...ontradictions, the irreconcilable discrepancies, between the statements of contemporary Christian bishops, locally at a vast distance from each other,... ... are pri- marily concerned, but with those deceptions as they affected the contemporary people of Greece. It is important to know whether the general ... ...y the pompous name of Ecbatana. Josephus tells a similar story of some man contemporary with Herod the Great. And we must all re- member that case in ...

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...l account for his character of wisdom; since men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imp... ...urious thing here in my pocket, which I found about two miles off, if your worship will please to buy it. I should not venture to pull it out to every... ...ut on a dis contented look, and, scratching his head, said, “He hoped his worship would give him something more. Your worship,” said he, “will, I hop... ... am sure the finding it deserves more than a guinea. Besides, suppose your worship should never see the lady, nor give it her— and, though your worshi... ...r worship looks and talks very much like a gentleman, yet I have only your worship’s bare word; and, certainly, if the right owner ben’t to be found, ... ...ree topics, viz., an abuse of the taste of the town, a condemnation of all contemporary authors, and an eulogium 658 The History of Tom Jones, A Found...

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.... She is a little skittish elf—Rotherwood himself all over; and doesn’t he worship her! and doesn’t he think it a holiday to carry her off to play 81... ...ayers together in Dolores’s room unmo- lested; and what was a reality to a contemporary became less and less to Dolores a mere lesson imposed by the a...

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... which the social action of Chris- tianity involves itself to the eye of a contemporary. Simplic- ity the most absolute is reconcilable with intricacy... ... to my own view, four.* I will state them, and number them. 1st. A form of worship, a cultus. 2dly. An idea of God; and (pointing the analysis to Chri... ...en a doctrinal part. There might have been interwo- ven with the ritual or worship, a system of economics, or a code of civil prudence, or a code of h... ... be false; and he is perfectly right. Wherever religions consist only of a worship, as the Hindoo religion does, there can be no competition amongst t... ... esteem them,) which rise above the mere pomps and tympanies of ceremonial worship, they denomi- nate ‘religions of the book.’ There are, of such reli... ...which the religion is built. If a religion consists only of a ceremo- nial worship, in that case there can be no opening for a book; because the forms... ...dox thinker, one or other, amongst the whole bri- gade of fifteen thousand contemporary clerks who had sub- scribed the Thirty-nine Articles. Saving y...

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...f the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary chronicles, and from several official sources scattered in and... ...ugh quite unknown to herself. He looked so sternly, that Kate asked if his worship had any commands. ‘These men,’ said the Alcalde, ‘these two soldier... ...ed, ‘that she had bought and paid for the horse at La Plata. But now, your worship, if this horse has really been stolen from these men, they must kno... ...e has nothing the matter with either eye.’ And in fact it was so. Then his worship ordered his alguazils to apprehend the two witnesses, who posted of... ...g gaily together at the locanda, and possibly tak- ing a ‘rise’ out of his worship the Corregidor, as a repeating echo of Don Quixote, (then growing p... ...e had ridden too many years in the Spanish cavalry to have any fear of his worship’s horse- manship; but it was a prodigious disadvantage that her hor... ...ton translations. In that he was right. But he was not right in praising a contemporary translation by Cook, who (we believe) was the immediate predec... ...century. It is singular that only one blem- ish is suggested by any of the contemporary critics in Dr. Cook’s verses, viz., in the word xunon, for whi...

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...tburst! Sneering Paris has sud- denly grown reverent; devotional with Hero-worship. Nobles have disguised themselves as tavern-waiters to obtain sight... ...n’s existence has been to wither up and annihilate all whereon Majesty and Worship for the present rests: and is it so that the world recognises him? ... ...viduals, who have grown devout all on a sudden, (Toulongeon, i. 262.) they worship or pretend to worship in their strait- laced contumacious manner; t... ...martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation. At the refractory places of worship, Patriot men appear; Patriot women with strong hazel wands, which t... ...can: Municipality ‘invokes the Principles of Toleration;’ grants Dissident worshippers the Church of the Theatins; prom- ising protection. But it is t... ...ees was lit for an Accepted Constitution, there had risen, and was burning contemporary with it, quite an- other variegated Glitter and nocturnal Fulg...

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...m Harrison, Esq., a relation of Archdeacon Harrison, a very old friend and contemporary. It followed the lines of the existing church, which were foun... ...alter- ations made, with the view of rendering it more suitable for devout worship than knowledge or means had made practi- cable when the church was ... ... except in the eyes of an old woman, some sixty years ago, who objected to worshipping in a grove. At a short distance eastward of the churchyard begi...

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...ing out its problems and bringing it about, is to be living outside of the contemporary life of the world. For a book upon any other subject at the pr... ...obstetrics of this amazing breed of idols were matters of almost universal worship. The Czar and Queen Victoria professed also to be the heads of reli...

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... ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...................................................................... 99 THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL ........................................................... ...NGLISH- MAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 THE COMING OF BLÉRIO THE COMING OF ... ...or anyone in authority has worked out a tithe of the essential problems of contemporary war. If they have, then it does not show. Our military imagina... ...edge and philosophical thought, or see many good plays or under- stand the contemporary European mind, German. And yet it would cost amazingly little ... ...l sorts of collective concerns, social and political discussion, religious worship, philosophy, and the like to the free personal initiatives of entir...

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...rd; her whole thoughts being centred on this one object of affec- tion and worship. I know that, before her, my dear father did not show the love whic... ...tched by the outlying sentries. ’Twas lucky that we had a gate which their Worships knew nothing about. My lord and Father Holt must have made constan... ...tle more than a menial, felt for an exalted lady, his mistress: but it was worship. To catch her glance, to divine her errand and run on it before she... ... his character of divinity, and yawns on his altar as his bonzes kneel and worship him, many a home-god grows heartily sick of the reverence with whic... ... and the magic spell and infatuation removed from her which had led her to worship as a god a very ordinary mortal—and what follows? They live togethe... ...ncestor’s memoirs, I would not have him judge of the great Duke* by what a contemporary has written of him. No man hath been so immensely lauded and d...

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...ishable. Brightest of the Divinities, where hast thou not been sung? Other worships pass away; the idols for whom pyramids were raised lie in the dese... ...o the chaussure of Cinderella. 53 Burlesques With all this splendor, this worship, this beauty; with these cheers following her, and these crowds at ... ...fall in love with her. We were not out of the Channel before I adored her, worshipped the deck which she trod upon, kissed a thousand times the cuddy-... ...ernly bade them never more to kneel to human clay, But alone to praise and worship That which earth and seas obey: And his golden crown of empire neve... ... after the battle,” said the fool; “marry, I have a knack of that.” “Y our worship rode so deucedly quick, there was no keep- ing up with your worship... ...s and parties engaged, we cannot better describe them than by referring to contemporary documents, of which there is no lack. It is amusing at the pre... ...st seem to have been, however, an effeminate race; they are represented by contemporary historians as being passionately fond of flying kites. Others ...

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...g a mind marvellously incisive in its scepticism, and a heart that, of all contemporary hearts gifted with a voice, contains the greatest trea- sure o... ...al conception alone. His fame, as wide but less brilliant than that of his contemporary, rests mostly on a novel which is not of the sea. But he loved... ...dvent of Concord and Justice; an advent that, however delayed by the fatal worship of force and the errors of national selfishness, has been, and rema... ...ished in- stitution begins to grow old at once in the discus- sion, abuse, worship, and execration of men. It grows obsolete, odious, and intolerable;... ...umbers will still exercise upon the imagination of a people trained to the worship of force. Germany may be willing to lend its support to a tottering...

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..., and cried to him, “Don’t you know you are to appear uncovered before his worship?” Fox presented his other cheek to the officer, and begged him to g... ...nsidered as the Corneille of the first-mentioned nation, was pretty nearly contemporary with Lopez de V ega, and he cre- ated, as it were, the English... ...lost! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping. On Œta’s top thus Hercules lay dead, With ruined oaks and pine...

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...David Dunbar, younger, of Baldoon, only son and apparent heir to the right worshipful Sir David Dunbar of Baldoon, Knight Baronet. He departed this li... ...th the deceased, and the constancy of the young man’s attendance on public worship, which was regular, and had such effect upon two or three other tha... ... head of the stair by Jamie of Jenklebrae, on account of the honour of the worshipful Lady Muirend, wha was in some sort an ally of the family; nathel... ...think as he thinks, vote as he votes, and call your father’s murderer your worshipful father-in-law and revered patron? Master of Ravenswood, I am the... ...nded to them the charge 230 Bride of Lammermoor of the dead body of their contemporary, an office which they willingly undertook; intimating to him a... ...most likely to be placed; and pray, Captain Craigengelt, if it please your worship, why should I look merry, when I’m sad, and devilish sad too?” “And...

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...ction—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the savings-bank, and the worship of the solar guinea be- came extinct; while squires and baronets, a... ... than the fact. He had formerly observed with approbation her capacity for worshipping the right object; he now foresaw with sudden terror that this c... ...th sudden terror that this capacity might be replaced by presumption, this worship by the most exasperat- ing of all criticism,—that which sees vaguel... ...slike towards Mr. Casaubon. It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshipping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleas- ant to no man ... ... ardent good-will, reach he saw was her usual state of feeling. The remote worship of a woman throned out of their reach plays a great part in men’s l... ...l furniture, to be sold without reserve, comprised a piece of carving by a contemporary of Gibbons. At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was reg...

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...ction—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the savings bank, and the worship of the solar guinea became extinct; while squires and baronets, and... ... than the fact. He had formerly observed with approbation her capacity for worshipping the right object; he now foresaw with sudden terror that this c... ...th sudden terror that this capacity might be replaced by presumption, this worship by the most exas perating of all criticism,—that which sees vaguel... ...slike towards Mr. Casaubon. It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshipping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man bu... ... ardent good will, reach he saw was her usual state of feeling. The remote worship of a woman throned out of their reach plays a great part in men’s l... ...l furniture, to be sold without reserve, comprised a piece of carving by a contemporary of Gibbons. At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was reg...