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...oat skin bag. So did Jawahir 6 Kim Singh, the Museum carpenter, bent over new packing cases. So did everybody in sight except the peasants from the c... ...but parast [idolater],’ said Abdullah, the Mohammedan. Kim laughed. ‘He is new. Run to your mothers’ laps, and be safe. Come!’ Kim clicked round the s... ...there by the unfamiliar Greek convention, but delighted as a child at each new trove. Where the sequence failed, as in the Annunciation, the Cu rator... ...me now to ac quire merit. We be craftsmen together, thou and I. Here is a new book of white English paper: here be sharpened pencils two and three t... ... shadow. What he had overheard ex cited him wildly. This man was entirely new to all his expe rience, and he meant to investigate further, precisely... ...better knowledge I made that offering daily. It is the Sac rifice of the Universe to the Lord. Thus do we of Bhotiyal offer all the world daily to t...

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...holly be explained; nay, on the principle laid down in Hudibras, that ‘Still the less they understand, The more they admire the sleight-of-hand,’ many... ...al texture is a crowning beauty, yet in verse it may be dispensed with. You would think that here was a death-blow to all I have been saying; and far ... ... by an obvi- ous and triumphant effort, sometimes with a great air of ease and nature. The writer of verse, by virtue of conquering an- other difficul... ...t. Our judg- ments are based upon two things: first, upon the original preferences of our soul; but, second, upon the mass of testi- mony to the natur... ...els are a blessing to those in distress, not chloroform itself a greater. Our fine old sea-captain’s life was justified when Carlyle soothed his mind ... ...in a dozen ways a finer fellow, and held in a dozen ways a nobler view of life, than they or their contemporaries. The next book, in order of time, to...

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...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... can use it as adroitly as her pen; the woman’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gle... ...a frosted window, from the outside, while a young wedded pair sat at their new fireside within; and once it leaned from a chariot, which six horses we... ...doing it anything like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, b... ...of sin for those that follow. While there is a single guilty person in the universe, each innocent one must feel his innocence tor- tured by that guil... ...t of sin,” replied the sculptor; “not that it shall be made evident to the universe, which can profit nothing by such knowledge, but that it shall ins... ...elevated him. Is sin, then,—which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe,—is it, like sorrow, merely an element of human education, through...

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...CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five ... ... present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on... ...old coun- try mornings; more purple, brown, and smoky orange in those of the new. It may be from habit, but to me the com- ing of day is less fresh an... ...hattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The names of the States and T erritories themselves form a chor... ...po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall arise from the Western conti- nent, his verse will be enr... ...braskan settler? His is a wall-paper with a ven- geance – one quarter of the universe laid bare in all its gaunt- ness. His eye must embrace at every ... ...far- 139 Robert Louis Stevenson ther into the heart of this rough but noble universe. For nowadays the pride of man denies in vain his kinship with t...

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...ture, not even inutility it- self; nothing has insinuated itself into this universe that has not therein some fit and proper place. Our being is cemen... ...e yourself in it, ’tis so much the worse for your- self; and it will be no new thing, nor, peradventure, without some colour of justice, if the same p... ...hey who in my time have attempted to correct the man- ners of the world by new opinions, reform seeming vices; but the essential vices they leave as t... ...orm. I follow not the opinion of the Pythagorean sect, “that men take up a new soul when they repair to the images of the gods to receive their oracle... ... receive their oracles,” unless he mean that it must needs be extrin- sic, new, and lent for the time; our own showing so little sign of purification ... ...nything other- wise now than it formerly did, nor that it has acquired any new light: wherefore, if there be convalescence, ’tis an en- chanted one. M... ... will only enter into the light when this of ours shall make its exit; the universe will fall into paralysis; one member will be useless, the other in... ...nothing so empty 247 Montaigne and necessitous as thou, who embracest the universe; thou art the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate with-...

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...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... can use it as adroitly as her pen; the woman’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gle... ...a frosted window, from the outside, while a young wedded pair sat at their new fireside within; and once it leaned from a chariot, which six horses we... ...doing it anything like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, b... ...of sin for those that follow. While there is a single guilty person in the universe, each innocent one must feel his innocence tor- tured by that guil...

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... this clay? The present is hell, and the coming to morrow But brings, with new torture, the curse of to day. From my eye flows no tear, from my lips... ...And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe. Diodati, July 1816 16 Prometheus and Selected Short Poems of Lo... ...ed as Honor dies. 24 Prometheus and Selected Short Poems of Lord Byron Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again— But who would so...

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...n adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature a...

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... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES A new look at Homer’s Odyssey 2 ... ... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a new way of interpreting the Odyssey that is ingenious, beautiful and eleg... ................... 39 CHAPTER VIII: ULYSSES ACCEPTS ZEUS’ REQUEST TO CREATE NEW BEAUTY BY EXTRACTING IT FROM WISDOM, PAIN AND ART ...................... ...ese forces and create immortal beauty for the individual and for the entire Universe. He came to this conclusion centuries before the pre-Socratic ph... ...Ulysses and Penelope) most certainly will take place and from this union a new form of life will be created that is made up of true immortality and ... ...f the world. He has all the wisdom and intelligence necessary to guide the universe and humanity towards the goal of the creation of supreme beauty.... ...happy victims or as artists called to contribute to the life of the entire universe, by creating immortal beauty. n. The Odyssey is not an advent... ...earn to create beauty and immortality, both our own and that of the entire universe. o. It is only partially true that Ulysses faces obstacles tha... ...d it is what allows us to make continual syntheses of opposites and create new beauty. This particular type of beauty signals a next step in the ev...

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...pired by The LaRousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, Roy Chapman Andrews' The New Conquest of Central Asia (The American Museum of Natural History, 1932... ...ugh. Dawn cracked over the far plateau. A thin, eerie sound trembled the new day's air. The dew in the sand made it sing as the sun stole it away.... ...eated water collided in clouds and whirlpools. Ao Rue caught fragments: "New, it's good," "Yolbas . . . great," "My scales, we'll bake," "Leave?" "... ...icked up by many claws, carelessly abandoned amid the celebration of the new world to come. At first, Ao Rue could not believe he was dead. For a... ...would quiet until another gesture broke the map again. As he limped to a new place and gestured, Han Chung-li scuttled after him. With a silver si... ...our greatness. No longer need we weary ourselves chasing mere fish. The universe will fall to our pinions. We will catch the Great Northern Lights... ...u could be omnipotent, you'd go power mad! There are no real gods in the universe, only beings who think they are and those who worship them." Ao... ...wings wide to receive the egg of death. Suddenly, the stress broke. The universe burst into his eyes. The blackness of the force made the night s... ... stand against him. Not you! Not anyone! His eyes are the power of the universe. They spin the planets and the suns. His anger could shatter th...

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... include Sophia-Analysis, Sophia-Art, Cosmo-Art and Existential Personalistic Anthropology. Reading it can be useful to anyone who wants to discover new ways of thinking and acting, and who wants to transform him or herself as well as human history....

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...tic Anthropology. Reading it can be useful to anyone who wants to discover new ways of thinking and acting, and who wants to transform him or hersel... ...ives in the cosmic consciousness that surrounds this planet and the entire universe, just as an aura surrounds our bodies and is only visible with K... ...e with Kirlian photographs. It is immortal because it can travel from one universe to another, without end. Primary beauty has to do with form a... ...ept alive, and it will no longer remain closed within the confines of this universe’s space-time. There is then a third type of beauty, the beauty ... ... as proposed in Cosmo-Art, if we are convinced we can become pioneers of a new art form that opens up new prospects and infinite creative opportunit... ...eir existential unconscious (I still do so and continuously find something new, and I began thirty years ago) are not making proper use of Sophia-An... ...through it again so he could become aware of it, transform it and create a new way of being. This new way of being is no longer based on a choice be... ...d on a decision to become an artist of his own life and of the life of the universe. Our decisions of love and hate, which determine our lives a... ...f the I that work for our transformation and for the creation of the I’s new identity. Life will give us continual opportunities to face this a...

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...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...provided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars ... ...entricity, and may the god of gales, who took him away so abruptly between New Zealand and the Horn, let his soul rest in some Paradise of true seamen... ... get up early for no reason whatever except that I was in sole charge. The new captain had not been appointed yet. Almost each morning a letter from m... ...f a hurricane—except for that un- forgettable sound, as if the soul of the universe had been goaded into a mournful groan—it is, after all, the human ...

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...trange birds,--having breakfasted one morning at about this eventful period of time, on her customary viands; to wit, one French roll rasped, one egg new laid (or warranted to be), and one little pot of tea, wherein was infused one little silver scoopful of that herb on behalf of Miss Tox, and one little silver scoopful on behalf of the teapot--a flight of fancy in which g...

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... of time, on her customary viands; to wit, one French roll rasped, one egg new laid (or warranted to be), and one little pot of tea, wherein was infus... ...ere welcome company. Peeping at the rosy children her neighbours, it was a new and precious sensation to think that they might soon speak together and... ... to see her in her black dress sitting there alone! In her thoughts of her new mother, and in the love and trust overflowing her pure heart towards he... ...er more and more. She had no fear of setting up a rival in her breast. The new flower sprang from the deep-planted and long-cherished root, she knew .... ...!’ smiled Florence, hastily. She hesitated and cast down her eyes; for her new Mama was very earnest in her look, and the look was intently and though... ...cordial face she lifted up to his to kiss him, was his home, his life, his universe, and yet it was a portion of his punishment and grief; for in the ...

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... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...ng with that parcel.” He strode into the booking-office, and called with a new voice: “Hi! hi, you there! Are you going to keep me waiting all day? Pa... ...girls was over the Wilcox business.” But Helen was a more serious patient. New ideas had burst upon her like a thunderclap, and by them and by their r... ...into his key. The energy of the Wilcoxes had fas- cinated her, had created new images of beauty in her responsive mind. To be all day with them in the... ...reathed Helen, as the music started with a goblin walking quietly over the universe, from end to end. Others followed him. They were not aggressive cr... ...nous note, and a goblin, with increased malignity, walked quietly over the universe from end to end. Panic and empti- ness! Panic and emptiness! Even ... ...y Watts, he would one day push his head out of the grey waters and see the universe. He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, bu... ...n beyond the 106 Howards End fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human fac...

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...d merely wishes to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth throughout the universe. [He fin- ishes behind Schneidekind’s chair.] THE GRAND DUCHESS. D... ...o tire of it. You were mostly soldiering; and when you came home to have a new order pinned on your breast, your happiness came through looking at my ...

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...n of them, dog a great House for centuries, and be at the birth of all the new heirs in succession, diligently taking confirmatory notes, to join hand... ...ll you in advance, madam,” said he, “that I will do everything to obtain a new lease of it, except divorce you.” They were infinitely wittier, but so ... ...he name of their first husband, or do not ham- per his title with a little new squire at their skirts, that they can partially approve the objections ... ...f student. One was the English gentleman wherever he went; the other was a new kind of thing, nondescript, pro- duced in England of late, and not like... ...ear, sweeps against the hard-binding East and melts the air and brings out new colours, makes life flow; and her thoughts recurred in won- derment to ... ...an of anything else that I had on earth. It was a part of the order of the universe to me. A doubt of it would have disturbed my creed. Why, good heav...

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...ghest characteristic of art, which is simplicity. Most great works receive a new light from a new and original mind. But whether these new lights are ... ...k. Like Anytus in the Meno, he is the enemy of the Sophists; but favours the new art of rhetoric, which he re- gards as an excellent weapon of attack ... ...s Polus laughs out- right, which leads Socrates to remark that laughter is a new species of refutation. Polus replies, that he is already re- futed; f... ...igures derived from visible objects. If these figures are suggestive of some new aspect under which the mind may be considered, we cannot find fault w... ...lic opinion have hitherto provided for them (compare Swift s notion that the universe is a suit of clothes, Tale of a Tub). The fiction seems to have ... ...m- selves. The disguises which Socrates assumes are like the parables of the New Testament, or the oracles of the Del- phian God; they half conceal, h... ... when the mind of a nation is unprepared for them; but like the Ruler of the Universe Himself, working in the appointed time, for he knows that human ... ...e and justice bind together heaven and earth and gods and men, and that this universe is therefore called Cosmos or order, not disorder or misrule, my...

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...ed metres up river then drifted back on the lazy current. ‘Why have I never done this before?’ ‘Because you were born and bred in the arse end of the universe.’ ‘Is this place really so bad?’ ‘The place is fine; the people are narrow-minded, racist, bigoted, fundie fuckwits.’ ‘Yeah. I guess you’re right.’ They jumped up and down to shake off excess water. ‘Fuck! You really...

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... god forbid that made me first your slave, .......36 59 If there be nothing new, but that which is ...............36 60 Like as the waves make towar... ...thoughts as food to life, ...............44 76 Why is my verse so barren of new pride, ................45 77 Thy glass will show thee how thy beauti... ...ke my old excuse,’ Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it... ... gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new appearing sight, Serving with looks his sacred majesty; And having cl... ... all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 14 16 But wherefore do not you a mightier way... ...e stain’d, To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Shakespeare...

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...NSLATED BY L. AND A. MAUDE Originally published by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This volume is divided into seven parts. First we hav... ...der. The date when each story was published is given. The translations are new ones, and for the footnotes I am responsible. AYLMER MAUDE. GREAT BADDO... ...s came to the prison. In the evening the old prisoners collected round the new ones and asked them what towns or villages they came from, and what the... ...nd what they were sentenced for. Among the rest Aksyónof sat down near the new comers, and listened with downcast air to what was said. One of the new... ...ve deserved it!’ He would have said no more, but his com panions told the new comer how Aksyónof came to be in Siberia: how some one had killed a mer... ... reason, he began to think that there was no higher Reason controlling the universe. This man had an African slave who followed him ev erywhere. When...

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...ble flesh!” 16 EA Poe THE SPHINX DURING THE DREAD REIGN of the Cholera in New Y ork, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight... ... frolics—often enacted among us, at our mas- querades: but here it will be new altogether. Unfortunately, however, it requires a company of eight pers... ... had an odd effect upon the crowd, the whole of which was at once put into new commotion, and overshadowed by a world of umbrellas. The waver, the jos... ...monstrate a hidden meaning in “The Antediluvians,” a parable in Powhatan,” new views in “Cock Robin,” and tran- scendentalism in “Hop O’ My Thumb.” In... ...fortune of his uncle, profited by the lessons of experience, turned over a new leaf, and led happily ever afterward a new life. 61 V olume Five WHY T... ... my time I never knew any one to entertain so singular a fancy as that the universe (or this world if you will have it so) ever had a beginning at all...

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...e for me to face both ways I had elected to face nothing. The discovery of new values in life is a very chaotic 4 An Outcast of the Islands experienc... ...nd that thing is the only thing worth knowing; it fills the ignorant man’s universe. Willems knew all about himself. On the day when, with many misgiv... ...iting out-of-the-way places of that part of the world, always in search of new markets for his cargoes—not so much for profit as for the plea- sure of... ...all now.” As he spoke those words he thought he was a fine fellow. Nothing new that. Still, he surpassed there his own expectations. Hang it all, ther... ...on one side, giving to her melancholy face a vicious expression altogether new to his experience. He 27 Joseph Conrad stepped back in his surprise. “... ... It would not do to let it be seen that they had any hand in introducing a new element into the so- cial and political life of Sambir. There was alway... ...a, a cool breath as if a door had been swung upon the frozen spaces of the universe, and with a stir of leaves, with the nod of boughs, with the tremb... ... respected him so much; the whole world to him—for to us the limits of the universe are strictly defined by those we know. There is nothing for us out... ...ture of Willems ranging over the islands and disturbing the harmony of the universe by robbery, treachery, and violence, held him silent, entranced—pa...

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...n the printer, even in common practice, rather than to venture abroad upon new quests. And the Scots tongue has an orthogra- phy of its own, lacking ... ...te oor instead of our; many have done so and lived, and the pillars of the universe remained unshaken. But if I did so, and came presently to doun, w... ...r English readers, and to a page of print in my native tongue, have lent a new uncouthness. Sed Non Nobis. I note again, that among our new dialectic... ...k o’ mankind, near the dregs, Rins unco law. “Your book, that in some braw new tongue, Ye wrote or prentit, preached or sung, Will still be just a bai... ...ny congregation. Syne, while I still was on the tenter, I scunnered at the new prezentor; I thocht him gesterin’ an’ cauld – A sair declension frae th... ...’ aulder frien’s; an’ his breist-bane An’ stumpie tailie, He birstles at a new hearth stane By James and Ailie. 62 Underwoods XVI It’s an owercome so...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors...

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...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...arliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Walden episode. Second, it appears, and the point is ... ...esting philosophy to the needs of his own sorrow. But in the light of this new fact, those pages, seemingly so cold, are seen to be alive with feeling... ...ovement and the consequent in- troduction into fiction of a vast amount of new material. Fielding tells us as much as he thought necessary to account ... ...significance of the book; here, indeed, is the true position of man in the universe. But in Les Travailleurs, with all its strength, with all its eloq... ...ence in one love, he is then most eager to find and lean upon another. The universe could not be yet exhausted; there must be hope and love waiting fo... ...n the middle of God’s beau- 66 Robert Louis Stevenson tiful and wonderful universe; the drowsy heads have nodded together in the same position since ... ...magic; and the youth, after a short course of reading, ceases to carry the universe upon his shoulders. III. WHITMAN IS NOT ONE of those who can be de...