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...t you believe could become facts tomorrow, or that you believe have more fact than fiction hidden in them? A. Superstitions stem from one of the... ... is possible. As Arthur Clark, the British scientist and renowned author of science fiction, said: " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indist... ...Did God, like certain software developers, embed in the world some "backdoors" or "Easter eggs" that allow Him to intervene in exceptional circumst... ...he Links and Factoid Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe categories in various Web directories (Open Dire... ..., 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Economy at a Crossro...

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... you, Remen?” And these heroes, gathered from all the roving population of Eastern Russia, kissed each other and began to ask questions. “But what has... ... the dog of a Jew does not make a sign with his unclean hand over the holy Easter-bread, it cannot be consecrated.” 46 Gogol “He lies, brother gentle... ...ther gentles. It cannot be that an unclean Jew puts his mark upon the holy Easter-bread.” “Listen! I have not yet told all. Catholic priests are going... ...f blessed memory. Observing that Basavriuk did not come to church, even at Easter, he determined to reprove him and impose penance upon him. Well, he ... ...e him? Was he not to me as my own son?” And the old fellow re- peated this fiction until he wept over it himself. Pidorka began to tell Peter how some...

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...o join at the back with the pasture land of the Bray country, while on the eastern side, the plain, gently rising, broadens out, showing as far as eye... ...ther whence it should come—that is to say , the southern side—by the south-eastern winds, which, having cooled themselves 71 Flaubert passing over th... ...we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. I... ...ing on the grass. A few daisies had sprung up again. “Here are some pretty Easter daisies,” he said, “and enough of them to furnish oracles to all the... ...an took pleasure in this quiet house, and she even stayed there till after Easter, to escape the sar- casms of old Bovary, who never failed on Good Fr...

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..., against my will, was in- venting and breathing into me the most terrible fictions. A conversation which dated a long time back, with the brother of ... ...h the young woman collected each morn- ing, intending to keep them for the Easter holidays. She made daily visits to the barn, where, under an old wag... ...ot a sin to kill such a devil in human form.” It happened once, before the Easter holidays, that one of these meetings was held in the woods, where Mi... ...er had already given orders that they should be ready to plough during the Easter holidays, and to sow the field with oats, whereupon the serfs became... ...hy don’t you think of the sin we shall be committing if we work during the Easter holidays— for you will refuse to work then yourself?” “Well, then,” ... ...ups: the followers of Vasili and those who held the views of Mikhayeff. On Easter Sunday no work was done. Toward the evening an elder came to the pea...

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... miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride. The story begins on an evening near Easter. In the final chapter—the seventh day—CRC is knighted; the year is 1459. It was on Easter-day 1459 that the Constitutions of the Freemasons of Strasburg was first signed in Regensburg, with a second signed shortly afte...

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... 7 Easily enough we ascended it, 2 The year 1299-1300, from Christmas to Easter. 3 Of Sant’ Angelo. 4 The Capitoline. 5 His own sister; the unseem... ...lector,” says Benvenuto da Imola, “nescio per me videre quomodo istae duae fictiones habeant inter se tantam convenientam. Ad quod respondeo, quod pas...

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...Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. ...

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..................................6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Da... ...NT CANT CANT CANTO I. O I. O I. O I. O I. Invocation to the Muses.—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Da... ...the Sun. The time indicated is therefore an hour or more before sunrise on Easter morning, April 10. 4 These stars are the symbols of the four Cardin... ...of these verses is that “ the Aurora before moon- rise was lighting up the eastern sky, the brilliant stars of the sign Scorpio were on the horizon, a... ... Atque ignota videt, dubitatque agnoscere matrem—249-50. 7 The morning of Easter Monday. 36 Purgatory was sleeping within thee, upon the flowers whe...

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...nd marked by no other events than the return of the great church holidays: Easter, Assump- tion, All Saints’ Day . Household happenings constituted th... ... were rotting away, and during one whole winter her bolster was wet. After Easter she spit blood. Then Mother Simon went for a doctor. Felicite wished...

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...ce, such ravages have been made! Some soils, like a rocky tract called the Easterbrooks Coun- try in my neighborhood, are so suited to the apple, that... ...inging up in the pastures where cattle have been,—as the rocky ones of our Easter-brooks Country, or the top of Nobscot Hill in Sudbury. One or two of...

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... night with his aunts, but when he had seen Katusha he agreed to stay over Easter with them and telegraphed to his friend Schonbock, whom he was to ha... ...in him raised its head once more and began to assert its rights. And up to Easter, during two whole days, an unconscious, ceaseless inner struggle wen... ...t he did not honestly ac- knowledge the facts to himself and stayed on. On Easter eve, the priest and the deacon who came to the house to say mass had... ...censers for the priests. Then hav- ing given the priests and his aunts the Easter kiss, though it was not midnight and therefore not Easter yet, he wa... ...paring to go to the church to get the koulitch 56 Resurrection and paski [Easter cakes] blest after the midnight service. “I shall go too,” he though...

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...t last another year; and he has fully made up his mind not to survive next Easter, just to oblige them. 19 GB Shaw CRAVEN (with military affectation)...

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...yed morn smiles on the frowning night, Act II, scene ii 35 Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, And flecked darkness like a drunkard ... ...: didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou...

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...long Had stood against the wave Of love which set so deep and strong From Christ’s then open grave. “No cloister-floor of humid stone Had been too c... ...a far-off bell. She sigh’d, she look’d up through the clear green sea; She said: “I must go, to} my kinsfolk pray In the little grey church on the sho...

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...d of going down, on reaching North Point they went up the bay, in a north- easterly direction. I deemed this knowledge of the utmost importance. My de... ...e canoe belonging to Mr. Hamilton, and upon the Saturday night previous to Easter holidays, paddle directly up the Chesapeake Bay. On our arrival at t... ...ven the bearer, my servant, full liberty to go to Baltimore, and spend the Easter holidays. Written with mine own hand, &c., 1835. “William Hamilton, ...

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...at Tunbridge Wells when you helped the Vicar of St. Peter’s that very cold Easter.” The clergyman, who had the air of one on a holi- day, did not reme... ...ose grey-brown streets, neither commodious nor pictur- esque, in which the eastern quarter of the city abounds. Lucy soon lost interest in the discont... ...uld not con- trol her mirth. “He is the image of a porter—on, on the South-Eastern.” “Eleanor, be quiet,” plucking at her vivacious com- panion. “Hush... ...s, Miss Bartlett contrived to bungle her arrival. She was due at the South-Eastern station at Dorking, whither Mrs. Honeychurch drove to meet her. She...

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...said, yawning. “I feel as though I had woken up after breaking the fast at Easter. I shall often come and see you now. T ell me, did my wife ever dine... ...n the place such as I had been accustomed to see only before Christmas and Easter. The sky above and the water in the river were all that escaped; eve... ..., and I used to give him something and send him presents for Christmas and Easter, but he used to save that too. Once a man is absorbed by an idea the...

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...ed her brother-in-law and his wife to dinner twice a year—at midsummer and Easter; but she never admitted that either Wallace Parker or Cashel Byron w...

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...can see for yourself, the water, the bare banks, clay, and nothing else… . Easter has long passed and yet there is ice on the river, and this morning ... ...ry day since. Other people have holidays, but I am always going. When it’s Easter and the church bells are ringing and Christ has risen, I still go ab... ...nefactor!” a petty clerk called Nevyrazimov was writing a rough copy of an Easter congratu- latory letter. “I trust that you may spend this Holy Day e... ...pen. “Already!” Nevyrazimov put his ear to the open pane and listened. The Easter chimes floated into the room with a whiff of fresh spring air. The b... ...f supper and tumble off to sleep… . One sits down to the table, there’s an Easter cake and the samovar hissing, and some charming little thing be- sid...

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... most gratifying. We never expected to manage it this year. But before the Easter holidays every boy received a subscription card, and was given to un... ...ut modern lan- guages? Thus they got to Germany, which he had visited last Easter with Ansell; and thence to the German Emperor, and what a to-do he m... ... the conversation,” said Agnes. “If we did marry, we might get to Italy at Easter and escape this horrible fog.” “Yes. Perhaps there—” Perhaps life wo... ...al union could take place? Surely the dust would settle soon: in Italy, at Easter, he might perceive the infinities of love. But love had shown him it... ...ought sixty pounds a year to their hotel. XIX THEY DID NOT GET TO ITALY AT EASTER. Herbert had the offer of some private pupils, and needed Rickie’s h...

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...re them,—especially Minna the youngest. 26 Hermann and Dorothea It was on Easter-day that last I went over to see them; Wearing my best new coat, tha...

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...nstance. You know Mrs Jack Foljambe: the smart Mrs Foljambe? I operated at Easter on her sister- in-law, Lady Gorran, and found she had the biggest sa...

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...the summer, that is, would pay for about three hun- dred working days from Easter to Ash Wednesday, and each a day of hard work from early morning to ... ...l, wages, and rent. He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern—much the larger— part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nine-... ...e had to go to the concert and some public meeting of a commit- tee on the Eastern Question, there was a great deal to consider and settle. Levin had ...

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...coundrels I should see there. You know I haven’t been off this place since Easter. IVANOFF . [Exasperated] Oh, very well! Come along then! How tiresom...

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...hase a new home. Tibby, now in his second year at Oxford, was down for the Easter vacation, and Margaret took the op- portunity of having a serious ta... ...ot travel as quickly as he had hoped, for the Great North Road was full of Easter traffic. But he went quite quick enough for Marga- ret, a poor-spiri... ...ore the west was retreating, once again the orderly stars were dotting the eastern sky. There is certainly no rest for us on the earth. But there is h... ...insbury Park he had his first sight of the sun. It rolled along behind the eastern smokes—a wheel, whose fellow was the descending moon—and as yet it ...

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...zen surface on the snow that they drove the wagons anywhere off the roads. Easter came in the snow. Then all of a sudden, on Easter Monday, a warm win...

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...hs before I went up to Dublin to study. When I went home for Christmas and Easter, she was there: I suppose it used to be something of an event for he...

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...ices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, 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 ...

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...uthor Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private ... ...d living...it is so beautifully done, one finds oneself feeling it is not fiction but actually experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An importa... ...s has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, ... ...rovided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 1. Sappho--Diaries--Fiction. 2. Jesus Christ--Diaries--Fiction. 3. Leonardo, da Vinci, 14... ... Christ--Diaries--Fiction. 3. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519--Diaries--Fiction. 4. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-- Diaries--Fiction. 5. Lin... ...ect again. In the wilderness each Christmas was a day for sober thoughts. Easter was a day of inner conflict. When was time both gentle and kind? Un...

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...” added the monk, growing more confident, “for all the year round, even at Easter, you take nothing but bread and water, and what we should eat in two... ...g here as I am now, when I saw that very general come in who came here for Easter, and I asked him: ‘Your Excellency ,’ said I, ‘can a lady’ s breath ... ...ed, so he had to confess and take the sacrament at home. It was a late Easter, and the days were bright, fine, and full of fragrance. I remember h... ...hough we did not understand them at the time. He died the third week after Easter. He was fully conscious though he could not talk; up to his last hou... ...s (I don’t remember where my brother was at the time) on the Monday before Easter. It was a fine day, and I remember to-day, as though I saw it now, h... ..., and Karamazov always lives in the present. Possibly he regarded him as a fiction. But his wounded heart grasped instantly that the woman had been co... ...concealing this new rival and deceiving him, because he was anything but a fiction to her, because he was the one hope of her life. Grasping this inst... ...m, only half of it. And no doubt only at that moment of angry silence, the fiction of the little bag first occurred to him. No doubt he was conscious ...

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...ilosophers, on the other hand, have maintained often that matter is a mere fiction imagined by mind, and sometimes that mind is a mere prop- erty of a... ...ure—that desire, like force in mechanics, is of the nature of a convenient fiction for describing shortly certain laws of behaviour. A hun- gry animal... ...ish it from the sensa- tion. The subject, however, appears to be a logical fiction, like mathematical points and instants. It is introduced, not 99 T... ... from among things that actu- ally occur, and makes it merely a convenient fiction, like force in mechanics.* With such a view, desire is no longer a ... ...own become different. For example, you look in your calendar and find that Easter will be early next year. Here the stimulus is the calendar, whereas ... ..., wholly true even if not the whole of truth, and free from all convenient fictions or unwarrant- able assumptions of metaphysical entities. A causal ...

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...e world we recognize officially in literature and in soci- ety is a poetic fiction far handsomer and cleaner and better than the world that really is.... ... God, it has let me off clear this time!” Is not its blessedness a fragile fiction? Is not your joy in it a very vulgar glee, not much unlike the snic... ...on. The beautiful joyousness of their poly- theism is only a poetic modern fiction. They knew no joys comparable in quality of preciousness to those w... ...ing promised her to a rich French merchant, she prevented the time, and on Easter evening, having cut her hair, put on the habit, and slept a little, ...

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...ealize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their own lives; and, when they could, they lived wit... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra...

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...n, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. The Scotch are poor deco... ...rint, or are laid definitely upon the shelf through lack of readers. Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics ... ...; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has. Philip Melanchthon, some time ago, wrote a commentary upon the... ... he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the “Dial,” or the “Down- Easter,” together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest tha... ... low shrubberies—in the waving of the grain-fields—in the slanting of tall eastern trees— in the blue distance of mountains—in the grouping of clouds—... ...hath known Have dream’d for thy Infinity A model of their own—* ‡It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating in one of these ...

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...who doesn’t re- member his name, and it’s the very most if they send me to Eastern Siberia and give me thirty or forty lashes; but if I were to tell t... ...” The tramp took off his cap and crossed himself. “And let them send me to Eastern Siberia,” he said; “I am not afraid of that.” “Surely that’ s no be... ...ind was blowing, winter really had come back and it did not feel as though Easter would be the day after to-morrow. Now the student was thinking about... ... s moving shoul- ders. “I have not seen you since you came into our hut at Easter for a drink of water … you came in at Easter for a minute and then G... ...p. Against the grey background of the dawn, already beginning to cover the eastern part of the sky, the silhouettes of sheep that were not asleep coul...

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...755, who first adopted in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter. 4 History of the Britons the labour thus imposed on me; I humbly e... ...after Pentecost, with all her followers, both men and women. The following Easter Edwin himself received baptism, and twelve thousand of his subjects ...

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...laying rather early in the season, and she started collecting its eggs for Easter. Every day she went to the cart shed, and found an egg in the cart; ... ...The other day the women folk at home were wash ing and house cleaning for Easter. Here something needed doing, there something else, and they could n... ...s, he learnt in one, and soon there was nothing more they could teach him. Easter came round, and the boy went to see his god mother, to give her his... ...aster came round, and the boy went to see his god mother, to give her his Easter greeting. ‘Father and mother, ’ said he when he got home again, ‘whe... ...ot home again, ‘where does my godfather live? I should like to give him my Easter greeting, too.’ And his father answered: ‘We know nothing about your...

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...lover’s prayer, And paid a tradesman once, to make him stare; Gave alms at Easter, in a Christian trim, And made a widow happy, for a whim. Why then d... ...rtals Juno’s power invoke, 370 Her fanes no more with Eastern incense smoke, Nor victims sink beneath the sacred stroke! But to y... ...; Who view the western sea’s extremest bounds, Or drink of Ganges in their eastern grounds; All these the woes of Oedipus have known, Your fates, your... ... he leans his ear, And hears the various vows of fond mankind; Some beg an eastern, some a western wind: All vain petitions, mounting to the sky, With... ...ess others. That once was Britain—happy! had she seen No fiercer sons, had Easter never been. 357 In peace, great goddess, ever be adored; How keen th... ...- ness making a wit (which could be done no other way than by chance). The fiction is the more reconciled to probabil- ity, by the known story of Apel... ...Cross-keys, Lintot’s. 304 ‘Seas:’ see Lucian’s Icaro-Menippus, where this fiction is more extended.—P . 305 ‘Evans, Young, and Swift:’ some of those... ...f Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fiction of the poet, is justified by a true relation in Spon’s Voyages. Vai...