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...are full of self-adulations, and flatteries, and merry jokes and jests against the poor heavy-hearted wo-begone prophets of evil; we are full of sorr... ..., and permitted to have free course; that it shall not be reckoned a fault, either of a heavy or a venial kind, n or even an extravagance, to propos... ...ns. Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Part II. -218- PHENOMENON I. The statue of the four metals, from the second chapter of Daniel. Preparation. § 1... ...tion. Under the figure of a great statue of terrible aspect, composed of four different metals, are represented to us, the four great and famous king... ... by the same prophet of the whole of this vision, reduces itself to this; That the four metals whereof the statue is composed signify four empires o... ...e clouds, and to the people of the saints of the Most High, are things which lie like a heavy burden upon all such, as think that the Lord shall com... ... of religion, went forward; continual sacrifice, prayer at its set times, fasts, solemn festivals, the sabbath, &c. all was scrupulously observed, i...

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... the bodies were deflating like tires. He wanted to sit at one of the red metallic tables on a plastic stool among a group of saffron robed monks, wi... ...es into plastic bags sealed with rubber bands or put the plates of food on metallic tables. So many city residents (all of whom lived in apartments) d... ... faces in the familiar space: an area no different than a garage with some metallic tables and chairs in the center and woks, burners, a refrigerator,... ...y in front of the park bench there was a woman before him who carried two heavy buckets of ice and drinks. Startled to an awakened state by the woma... ...re definitely a divergent species of animal. He thought about Songkran Festivals. All of his grandparents were deceased early into his boyhood. ... ...ed becoming a Luk Thung singer of Traditional Thai music. They wore their heavy makeup and pointed golden tiaras for beggarly bits of baht. However, ... ...round him. His hallucination took him through the drenching storms of heavy rains and again to the heavily billboarded world of downtown opulence...

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...e from the neck and shoulders of the men of Israel that yoke and that burden so heavy, which they had borne in their long captivity. “And it shall c... ... holy Virgin Mary, as do the books of Wisdom. It is true that the church in the festivals of the mother of Christ, do read certain passages of those ... ... tempting of God, to seek to place upon the necks of those new disciples a very heavy yoke, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear.... ...h shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,…and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.” Isa. xxiv. 19... ...s,” 1 Kings xi. 4. did not refrain himself from honouring with his presence the festivals and sacrifices of his wives. Who then is the author, or th... ...d? Is this heaven haply solid like molten brass? Is it a liquid like some fused metal which yields to the action of a very violent heat? For the one...

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... overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti...

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...us of life 136 Pictures 138-171 Inside the village community Annual festivals 172 Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals ... ...ed the road to the corner of the Phahonlyothin road. It was midday and the heavy heat shimmered around me, the shop next to me sold dried fish. With m... ... ethics of fellow man - community morality - community tradition - village festivals (shared meals) - temple festivals - village weddings - village fu... ...ltural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocracy - organizational integration and... ...he problems? What is light today, will really sink, to the bottom. What is heavy today, or people's opinions and what people today want, will rise to ... ...joints in load-bearing structures were solid without the need for nails or metal fixings, for example, the ends of floor joists were slotted through ... ...the new house would be erected together. In Ban Dong, I have photographed heavy teak beams being manhandled into upright positions, using an ox car...

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...chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Grasping the heavy frame, he lowered himself and the taut leather squeaked. I placed a ... ... leers, their whispers. I lifted his face toward mine and kissed him, his heavy beard sticking my mouth. There was a sob—a broken gasp. How ill he l... ...collection of war shields displayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and c... ...r. Arms around her, I forced her to tow me toward shore, making myself as heavy as possible. As the four of us played on the beach, I thought: When ... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...age will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see anywhere e... ...a chain...taking it, I made out the letters my mother had gouged...in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, sen... ... 141 “My coin didn’t bring luck to him,” I said. “A coin means what? Metal can’t tell us about life...only we can tell...to one another...” “W... ... to throw yourself into the hands of your enemies.” There will be no more Festivals of Light. At Nazareth I used to have a pet goat. Memories... ...

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... -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at which numbers of humans are sacrificed -- Differences in d... ... a hut in a native village, he heard a great noise as if some one was striking heavy blows, which inducing him to rise, he went out and demanded the c... ...sis of the armor which was thus resurrected proves to have been identical with metal used in the composition of the armor of the Norsemen of the tenth... ...s before, four fishing boats put out to sea from Friesland, but encountering a heavy storm were helplessly driven for many days until at length they w... ...Polo says, "The money of the Great Khan is not made of gold or silver or other metal; but they take the middle bark from the mulberry tree, and this t... ... Khan, either by conquest or commercial relations, the vast stores of precious metal which he must have had in his treasury; for Marco Polo says that ... ... rolled back and disclosed a large chest. Here was a mystery; the great box of heavy oak was securely locked, and no key could be found. A smith came,...

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...chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Grasping the heavy frame, he lowered himself and the taut leather squeaked. I placed a ... ... leers, their whispers. I lifted his face toward mine and kissed him, his heavy beard sticking my mouth. There was a sob—a broken gasp. How ill he l... ...collection of war shields displayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and c... ...r. Arms around her, I forced her to tow me toward shore, making myself as heavy as possible. As the four of us played on the beach, I thought: When ... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...age will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see anywhere e... ...a chain...taking it, I made out the letters my mother had gouged...in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, sen... ... 137 “My coin didn’t bring luck to him,” I said. “A coin means what? Metal can’t tell us about life...only we can tell...to one another...” “W...

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...eat Day and her family table was bare of flesh. It was her turn to dress in heavy canvas and leggings and shoulder her rifle. She opened her eyes, b... ...robust, roughly three-fourths TripStone's height. Blue-black hair fell in a heavy braid down his bronze- toned back. Sunlight dappled his pectorals ... ...hat they would take in their hands, when among sweet cakes and wine and the festivals of adulthood they each received a vessel filled with ink and s... ...refused to use bone inlays in his carvings. Now his eyes crinkled above the heavy chops at his jowl, and his open vest revealed a thick brush of rud... ...ii once?" WindTamer and NightShout had spoken at seed exchanges and harvest festivals, but had not spent much time in each other's company beyond so... ...Malcohn Deviations: Covenant CHAPTER 9 FeatherFly gripped the smooth, gray metal empty of intricate engravings and peered through the viewfinder of... ...an do." Zai gingerly touched the warm wood, running her fingers along gray metal. The muscles in her arms jumped when Gria let go of the gun. "Don'... ...e advanced years. ShadowGrass removed her kerchief and vest. She bent to a metal tub to wash her face and arms and to scrub at her fur and hair. Tr...

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...ng at a curb with other pedestrians waiting for the light to change rocked a metal, rectangular trash container, which swung back and forth on a hinge... ...t the door. He stepped out over the crevice of a yard. A light sprinkling or heavy mist was falling upon him. Past the gate and into the street the ge... ...nection, looked like a man suffering from some neuron-entangled nervousness, heavy neurosis, or a bad prion making the holes in his head to match the ... ...seemed tactile and to have a visible substance that was ochre but thick as a heavy fog. Although they were no louder than whispers, these whispers wer... ...'s "New House Rules for Immigrants" to the Latinos as they sat before her on metal seats. They were lectured that the food given to them should be pu... ...ted foray into childhood, which so many years ago had been smashed under the metal belt wheels of a metaphorical tank. With her son, she dived into pi... ...rnal shapes of the ice sculptures that she and Kato had made during the snow festivals of Sapporo. With her fingers she traced these suds-sculptures ...

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...is custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bou...

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...the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; ... ...vercome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird,... ...ten years before. He remembered the years he had spent there trundling the heavy cars of ore in and out of the tunnel under the direction of his fathe... ...ery in- stant he seemed to feel the generous solid weight of the crude fat metal in his palms. The glint of it was constantly in his eyes; the jangle ... ...- 33 Frank Norris denly flashed in Maria’s palm. There it was, the virgin metal, the pure, unalloyed ore, his dream, his consuming desire. His finger... ... face in it, delighted at the smell of it and the feel of the smooth, cool metal on her cheeks. She even put the smaller gold pieces in her mouth, and... ...day was to be a fete day at the kindergar- ten, the Christmas and New Year festivals combined. All that afternoon the little two-story building on Pac...

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...ught and mountings of the mind Come fast upon me. It is shaken off, As by miraculous gift ?tis shaken off, That burthen of my own unnatural self, The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me. Long months of peace--if such bold word accord ......

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... miraculous gift ’tis shaken off, That burthen of my own unnatural self, The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for ... ...s, surly at the wrongs sustain’d 565 By royal visages. Meanwhile, abroad The heavy rain was falling, or the frost Raged bitterly, with keen and silent... ...me personal concerns That hung about me in my own despite 35 Perpetually, no heavy weight, but still A baffling and a hindrance, a controul Which made ... ...ld Who have as ardent hearts as he had then. 440 Along that very Loire, with festivals Resounding at all hours, and innocent yet Of civil slaughter, w... ...n side, And would have fought even to the death to attest The quality of the metal which I saw. What there is best in individual man, 670 Of wise in p...

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... tapestry, used for a curtain and fastened to a stick, hung be- fore it in heavy folds. Nothing in the room was picturesque, nothing brilliant; everyt... ...overed and applied the simplest methods of ex- tracting ore and of working metals. In fact he studied no science without advancing it. In youth he lea... ...em. The clock struck twelve. Suddenly the outer door was opened violently. Heavy but hurried steps, the steps of a terrified old man, were heard in th... ... active mental alienation or the stupid stare of drunkenness. His slow and heavy movements betrayed the glacial weight of age, and communicated an icy... ...and those of the small. Everywhere do they go; they are worn with pride at festivals, carried in despair to usurers, borne off in triumph amid blood a... ...hose raiment is less glorious than that of the flowers of the field. These festivals, splendid in light, bathed in music which the hand of man creates... ... filaments of heat or light conducted and pro- jected by the affinities of metal or vitrified flint. You obtain none but dead substances, from which y... ...ostles would have told you whence come those vast trains of gas and melted metals, at- tached to cores which revolve and solidify as they dart through...

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...by which the wall of each facade was sup- ported. From time immemorial the heavy shutters had been rolled along these grooves, held there by enormous ... ...ells, anything in short which the destruction of buildings afforded of old metals, persons in- terested in the relics of the old town noticed signs of... ...articles of the poorest households, —for old iron, brass, and lead, or any metal under any shape it might lurk in. The Auvergnat would give, for insta... ...d bells and rusty bars, chains and scales, his twisted leaden gutters, and metal rubbish of all kinds. We must do him the justice to say that he knew ... ...mparison with that of the Sauviats, who never ate meat except on the great festivals of the Church. Before paying out the money absolutely needed for ... ...her pure warm blood. Her chin and the lower part of her face were a little heavy, in the acceptation given by painters to that term,—a heaviness which... ...ite cravat. His strong and vigorous shoulders, which began life by bearing heavy burdens, were now rather bent; and be- neath this torso, unduly devel...

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...’s infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember eves and holy ales; And lords and ladies in their liv... ...reets: Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears, But to relieve them of their heavy load; And these our ships, you happily may think Are like the Troja... ...familiar To me and to my aid the blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; And I can speak of the disturbances That nature works, an... ... coffin, sir. CERIMON: Whate’er it be, ’Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight: If the sea’s stomach be o’ercharged with ... ...be ordered By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play His daughter’s woe and heavy well a day In her unholy service. Patience, then, And think you now...

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... see Danton enter;—the black brows clouded, the colossus-fig- ure tramping heavy; grim energy looking from all features of the rugged man! Strong is t... ...nt, also on an Autumn Sunday, this very Bell (they say it is the identical metal) of St. Germain l’Auxerrois was set a-pealing—with effect. (9th to 13... ...rs could not bring their load along, they cut them also loose, tumbled the heavy- packed vehicle into the ditch; and, with the smallest retar- dation,... ...e fulfilment thereof? Hunger and nakedness, and nightmare oppression lying heavy on Twenty-five million 105 Thomas Carlyle hearts; this, not the woun... ...nd cord? The Statue of Liberty! She too is of plaster, hoping to become of metal; stands where a Tyrant Louis Quinze once stood. ‘Three thousand birds... ... The five odd days we 164 The French Revolution - V olume Three will make Festivals, and name the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Fest... ...dance the Carmagnole all night about the bonfire. All highways jingle with metallic Priest-tackle, beaten broad; sent to the Convention, to the povert...

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...r, where good account was taken of it. So tremendous had the force of the sea been when it broke the ship, that it had beaten one great ingot of gold,... ...loured and yellow, looking passively upward from the pillow; the haggard mouth a little dropped, the hand outside the coverlet, so dull and indifferen... ...no one complained; all who could speak, said that as much was done for them as could be done there, that the attendance was kind and pa- tient, that t... ... were comfortable things to see in conjunction with the toll- keeper; also his brisk wakefulness was excellent company when he rattled the change of h... ...ling-house very lonely, but isolating suites of rooms and calling them chambers, but you cannot make the true kind of loneliness. In dwelling- houses,... ...dfather before him.’ Says Chips, ‘I like the copper, and I like the nails, and I don’t mind the pot, but I don’t like the rat.’ Says the Devil, fierce... ... so forgot- ten, except by the few people who ever look down into them from their smoky windows. As I stand peeping in through the iron gates and rail...

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...value, which were then unique. But Francois I., who loved the dis- play of festivals, distinguished himself on this occasion. The wedding festivities ... ...wall three feet thick or through the double doors draped on each side with heavy curtains. Seated at the upper end of a long table covered with blue v... ...our day, shows at the base of these panels and close to the floor a rather heavy foot-board, which can be lifted, and beneath which still remain the i... ...low that he stooped almost double on enter- ing it. Beside this door was a heavy iron grating, opening upon a sort of corridor, which gave a little li... ...,’ 255 Balzac replied Lorenzo. ‘This morning Bernard Palissy told me that metals were the result of compression, and that fire, which divides all, al... ...death each into its own element, water to water, fire to 263 Balzac fire, metal to metal, just as the elements of my coal, when burned, return to the... ...ute our world—for this phenomenon of life is the same everywhere. Yes, for metals as for human beings, for plants as for men, life begins in an imperc...

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...k, had found immediate employ- ment with the firm of Brezac, collectors of metals and other relics from all chateaux in the provinces. About twenty-se... ...d scarcely more than sixteen. Her eyes, of porcelain blue, overweighted by heavy eyelids which fell nearly straight from the arch of the eyebrows, had... ...birth and marriage, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded by great domestic sweepings and a universal clearin... ... black gauze scarf, her hair smoothly bound about her head and raised in a heavy braided mass, with long curls a l’Anglaise falling on either side of ... ... wooden footstool under his feet; the man with a bilious temperament has a metal mat; the lymphatic being who dreads draughts constructs a fortifica- ... ...blong face and bilious skin, grizzled hair always cut close, low forehead, heavy eyebrows meeting together, a crooked nose and pinched lips; tall, the... ...s softer.” The usurers all applauded these doctrines with a shake of their metallic heads. An onlooker would have fancied he heard the creaking of ill...

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...- crease. Often pacing the deck with Almayer, when the faint night breeze, heavy with aromatic exhalations of the islands, shoved the brig gently alon... ...nd surprised at anybody being on the river at this late hour during such a heavy freshet. Now he could hear the paddles distinctly, and even a rapidly... ...he paddles distinctly, and even a rapidly exchanged word in low tones, the heavy breathing of men fighting with the current, and hugging the bank on w... ...ing connected with some vague talis- manic properties of the little bit of metal, and the still more hazy but terrible notion of some bad Djinns and h... ...several men, the occasional light tinkling of some ornaments, the clink of metal scabbards, or of brass siri-vessels passed from hand to hand, was aud... ...s peeped out the silver hilt of the kriss that saw the light only on great festivals or during official receptions. Over the left shoulder and across ...

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...f the ap- prentices retired and came back holding an instrument whose hard metal pipe is now superseded by a leather tube; and they all grinned with m... ...unners, of which the pulley so often sud- denly gives way and releases the heavy panes it ought to hold up. The watcher was then rewarded for his long... ...e, given high relief to a superabundance of life, and the antiquity of the heavy window with its clumsy shape and black sill. Like those day-blowing f... ... morning seemed to be hidden by a cloud. During these little incidents the heavy inside shutters that protected the slight windows of the shop of the ... ...ar clothed his slightly bent figure in greenish cloth, finished with white metal buttons, tawny from wear. His gray hair was so accu- rately combed an... ...eight hundred francs a year as the reward of his labors. On certain family festivals he received as a gratuity some little gift, to which Madame Guill...