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...d not encountering between this and Nebuchadnezzar any other empire besides that of the Greeks, fell upon the expedient of dividing the first into t... ...ured in the statue, by the belly and thighs of brass, they would have to be that of the Greeks, founded by Alexander. But how? Will the kingdom of th... ... quiet before him. But first, these words speak of Alexander, not of the kingdom of the Greeks, neither can it be said with propriety of Alexander, ... ... neither can it be said with propriety of Alexander, that he founded the kingdom of the Greeks, but that he destroyed that of the Persians. Secondly... ...he statue, by the breast and arms of silver, they say, can be no other than that of the Greeks; as well by the distinctive peculiarity given to it by... ...thousand years, without, as it were, taking a step or movement beyond; for although the Ottoman princes, who professed that religion, have made great...

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...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...l aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity an... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...rom joining its Greek enemy) encouraged King Ferdinand to help the Serbs fight the Greeks. Thus, the Balkanian kaleidoscope of loyalties, alliances... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania... ...e warfare over the spoils of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficientl... ... Bulgaria and he is the closest to a saint a secular regime can have. In 1923, the Greeks transferred his bones to Bulgaria. Stalin, in a last effo...

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...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea... ...it up thus: "The Ottoman Empire had now superseded the Byzantine Empire; and some Greeks, like the contemporary historian Critobulus of Imbros, r... ...he Jewish community or Israel to either Armenians or to European Union cardholding Greeks who have long permitted Palestinian terrorists to operate...

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...nations that inhabit the territories that once belonged to Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire). Cultures and civilizations which frown upon individua... ...ven implicitly. He then went on a rampage that alienated and united all the Greeks against him. Even his famed campaign against the Persians owed i... ...ely to Alexander's military genius. Long before he came on the scene, other Greeks (the Ten Thousand, Agesilaus of Sparta) have defeated the Persia...

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... youth group or volunteering in a hospice are examples of this type of love. “Altruistic love expands the idea of brotherly love. The Greeks... ...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma...

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...(s); adjec- tive Albanian Ethnic divisions: 96% Albanian; remain- ing 4% are Greeks, Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Religion: Albania claims t... ...pital: Beirut Administrative divisions: 4 provinces Legal system: mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, and civil law; constitution mandated in 1926; no ... ...noun Libyan(s); adjective Libyan Ethnic divisions: 97% Berber and Arab; some Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tun... ...orn or first generation immi- grants (Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwe- gians, Greeks) Religion: 93.5% Evangelical Lutheran, 1.0% Roman Catholic, 5.5% o...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...rivate case to general rule. In historiography we discuss "the Romans" or "ancient Greeks" and characterize them as a group. "Nazi Germany", "Commu... ...telos" in ancient Greek meant: "goal, target, mission, completion, perfection". The Greeks seem to have associated the attaining of a goal with perf... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...rivate case to general rule. In historiography we discuss "the Romans" or "ancient Greeks" and characterize them as a group. "Nazi Germany", "Commu... ...telos" in ancient Greek meant: "goal, target, mission, completion, perfection". The Greeks seem to have associated the attaining of a goal with perf... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...Antonius in Tullie, the one seemed to contemne, the other not to know the Greeks, whereas the one so spake Greeke as he seemed to know no other tong... ...t. -- Lucr. iii. 100. There of the body is a vitall frame, The which the Greeks a harmony doe name. And not forgetting Aristotle, that which nat... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa... ...ant of Siracusa, suspend his inclination in the Barbarian wars against the Greeks, keeping Ambasdours at Delphos, with presents, to watch on what sid...

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...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...body of doctrinal truths, moral and spiritual. But to the ancients (to the Greeks and Romans, for instance), it meant nothing of the kind. A religion ... ...recall, even in the case of Greek, in spite of the Asiatic and the Insular Greeks—what we de- manded in vain was any pronunciation whatever that shoul... ...he Christian idea of sin is an idea utterly unknown to the Pagan mind? The Greeks and Romans had a clear conception of a moral ideal, as we have; but ... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...istorical story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their time... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w...

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...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ...ple generally,were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...istorical story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their time... ... covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the ... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, for ... ...f, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman 378 Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters whale, must have read the...

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...bly—and there the combined unknowns do malignant things with their legs to ottomans, and take as much as pos- sible out of the splendid furniture. And... ...orthy 332 Our Mutual Friend soul, taking her comfortable place on a large ottoman in the centre of the room, and drawing her arm through Bella’ s; ‘a... ...se you look so white.’ ‘Do I? I have had a busy evening.’ She was on a low ottoman before the fire, with a little shining jewel of a table, and her bo... ...n Harmon’s, if it had been his happy privilege to take his place upon that ottoman, and draw his arm about that waist, and say , ‘I hope the time has ... ...in her wilful inconsistent way . Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, ‘I didn’t know the lovely woman was such a Dragon!’ Then... ...s as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good T urks.’ Not so with the Jew...

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...e themselves but lordly, beautiful, brilliant, brave, and wise?We saw four Greeks on donkeys on the road (which is a dust-whirlwind where it is not a ... ... would rather have two hundred a year in Fleet Street, than be King of the Greeks, with Basileus written before my name round their beggarly coin; wit... ...ry different in look and demeanour from the sleek inhabitants of the town. Greeks and Jews squatted and smoked, their shops tended by sallow-faced boy... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ...n the cabin we were Poles and Russians, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squatted several little colonies of people of dif-... ... dirty fingers hooking Their swarm- ing fleas away. To starboard Turks and Greeks were, Whiskered, and brown their cheeks were, Enormous wide their br...

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...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,... ...essiveness. The historical ideas of Europe range between the time when the Greeks were going about the world on foot or horseback or in galleys or sai... ...he modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems of states so vast and ... ...render clear first, that what we moderns mean by democracy is not what the Greeks meant at all, that is to say, direct govern- ment by the assembly of...

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...that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, and the devil, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we were to s... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic... ... don’t cultivate at all; that’s their style of farming. The T urks and the Greeks, they eat onions or rise. They get opium from poppies, and it gives ...

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...to in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is ... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ...

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...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...nd placed him on the door the granary, after the 84 Balzac fashion of the Ottoman Porte, where my good Panurge was within an ace of being spitted. At... ...ising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; and the good...

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...ence which happy childhood blesses, Made quite a picture of these little Greeks; So that the philosophical beholder Sigh’d for their sakes—tha... ... He did not know (alas! how men will lie) That a report (especially the Greeks) Avouch’d his death (such people never die), And put his hou... ...I sing, suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o’er days more... ...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...nka, too; and with a gentle bow (Curt’sies are neither used by Turks nor Greeks) She took Juanna by the hand to show Their place of rest, an... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th...

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... some the garrets, was really the drawing- room, and the box was the chief ottoman or sofa in that draw- ing-room; whilst it appeared that the inside,... ...as allowed in the most limited quantities; for which reason it is that the Greeks called this apology for a a meal by the name of [Greek: bouchismos],... ... reader, upon this truly hea- then meal, fit for idolatrous dogs like your Greeks and your Romans; survey, through the vista of ages, that thrice-curs... ...lliant hue. The wealth of the patricians, and their in- tercourse with the Greeks, made them masters of the first performances of the arts. Copies of ...

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...open and there was a long buff and crimson-striped shape, by day indeed an ottoman, but by night—. Could an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of ... ...ld an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of a passing candle? Could an ottoman come after you noiselessly, and so close that you could not even tu... ...conquered these people.” “Any one could, the Servians, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Austrians. Why, they can’t even shoot! It’s just ... ... beside her and stared stupidly. “It’s a band,” he said. “It’s—propaganda. Greeks or T urks or Bulgarians.” “But their feet and hands are fastened! An... ...e Bulgarians—traitors. They had been converted to the Patriarchists by the Greeks—by a Greek band, that is to say. They had betrayed one of their own ...

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...my friends, and I will teach you.” Ned and Conseil seated themselves on an ottoman, and 141 Jules Verne the first thing the Canadian asked was: “Sir,... ... blue sea par excellence, “the great sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, al- oes... ...rful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged. Thus, led by the strangest destiny, I was treading under... ...aloon to the library. My companions were silent. I soon threw myself on an ottoman, and took a book, which my eyes overran me- chanically. A quarter o...

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...atriotic German upon the superiority of the “Teuton” over the Italians and Greeks—to whom we owe most things of importance in European civilisation. E... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes...

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...s. Inchling dreaded Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry,... ...rand piano, the ebony inlaid music-stands, the firegrates and plaques, the ottomans, the tone of neutral colour that, as in sound, muted splendour. He... ...arcase prose: this is epical. In Drink we have Old England’s organic Epic; Greeks and T rojans; Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatic...

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...s as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good T urks.’ Not so with the Jew... ...strust, that twisted his visage then? Mrs Boffin seated Bella on the large ottoman, and seated herself beside her, and John her husband seated himself...

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... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride 306 Don Quixote and arrogance were broken, among all that we... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname... ...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph... ...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ... their town exulting; and had they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have erected a trophy on the spot. CHAPTER XXVIII Of mat... ...ive me, I have read in Virgil of the Palladium of Troy, a wooden horse the Greeks offered to the goddess Pallas, which was big with armed knights, who...

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...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph... ...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ... their town exulting; and had they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have erected a trophy on the spot. CHAPTER XXVIII Of mat... ...ive me, I have read in Virgil of the Palladium of Troy, a wooden horse the Greeks offered to the goddess Pallas, which was big with armed knights, who...

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... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made hap... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname...

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...into Mr. Osborne’s, who, of course, could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could. But this ar- rangement left Mr... ...Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks— muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom. Il. A. 2). The selfishness of the l...

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...men armed with long guns and pistols, and dressed in the costume which the Greeks have assumed since they have again become a nation. You may imagine ... ...er Ali Pasha?” “Yes; that is to say, he fought for the independence of the Greeks, and hence arises the calumny.” “Oh, my dear viscount, do talk reaso... ...pale brow. He then entered the room. Madame de Villefort was sitting on an ottoman and impatiently turning over the leaves of some newspa- pers and pa...

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..., Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit ‘Also professional?’ said Mrs M... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ... ...and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each... ..., he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans and chairs and tables as if he were his own Police officer, saying...

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...re we venture to receive it as offered in good faith and loyalty. Even the Greeks are nearly in the same [Greek text], when they wish to speak of reli... ...ly St. Matthew’s, was the Greek.’ Yes, reader; but what Greek? Had not the Greeks been, for a long time, colonizing Syria under princes of Grecian blo... ...r as regards our planet. But what has been apparently may be. God made the Greeks and Romans of one blood with himself; he cannot deny that intellectu... ...d Romans of one blood with himself; he cannot deny that intellectually the Greeks— he cannot deny that morally the Romans—were amongst the foremost of... ...for an eternal purpose; but es- sentially and by overruling necessity. The Greeks could not conceive of spirituality. Neither can we, metaphysically, ... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em...

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...e swords of the enemy, the action is commendable, not the man. Many of the Greeks, says Cicero,—[Cicero, T usc. Quaes., ii. 27.]—cannot endure the sig... ...t least, I seldom taste the first glass well. Anacharsis wondered that the Greeks drank in greater glasses towards the end of a meal than at the be- g... ...ittle purpose, in my opinion. Many nations less barbarous in this than the Greeks and Romans who call them so, repute it horrible and cruel to torment... ...are recorded, in all sorts of examples. Is it not strange that even of the Greeks and Romans, with so many writers and witnesses, and so many rare and... ...espondence and negotiation, by this example of infidelity. Soliman, of the Ottoman race, a race not very solicitous of keeping their words or compacts... ...; for it is easy to judge that it was not anciently amongst the Romans and Greeks. And it has often seemed to me strange to see them rail at and give ...

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... as I entered the room, and throwing him- self back at full-length upon an ottoman. “I see,” said he, per- ceiving that I could not immediately reconc... ... my arm as he sauntered around the apartment, “here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, a... ...he Orfeo,” (the first native Ital- ian tragedy,) which lay near me upon an ottoman, I discovered a passage underlined in pencil. It was a passage tow... ... confessing the power of the wine, he threw himself at full-length upon an ottoman. A quick step was now heard upon the staircase, and a loud knock at... ...isoned! Oh, beautiful—oh, beautiful Aphrodite !” Bewildered, I flew to the ottoman, and endeavored to arouse the sleeper to a sense of the startling i...

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...erto in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is... ...“ ‘A Dressing room splendidly furnished; violet colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full length Mirrors are placed, one on each...

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...ese to become no bet ter than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun shades, and a hundred other orien tal things, which we a... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...at Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the Walden 176 country’s champion, the Moore of Moore Hil...

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...g these to become no better than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sunshades, and a hun dred other oriental things, which we ... ...e, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exerc... ...that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country’s champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet...

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...s. They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets. Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: ‘Graiis … praeter, laud... ...as at the half hour after twelve. He flung the silken thing on the central ottoman, extinguished the lamps, and walked out of the room, charging the a... ...he drawing-room, invitingly open, and there stag- gered in darkness to the ottoman and rolled himself in some- thing sleek and warm, soft as hands of ... ...” was the answer. “I came to speak of Crossjay.” “Will you sit here on the ottoman?” “No, I cannot wait. I hoped I had heard Crossjay return. I would ... ...ughby’s laboratory door shut with a slam. Crossjay tumbled himself off the ottoman. He stole up to the unclosed drawing-room door, and peeped. Never w... ...he Egoist and he ran down to the drawing-room and curled himself up on the ottoman, and fell asleep, under that padded silken coverlet of the ladies—b...

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...s of Christendom. Indeed, whether on carpets, or curtains, or tapestry, or ottoman cov- erings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabes... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo...

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..., Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit – Book One ‘Also professional?’... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ...

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... had become, in fact, satellites of the orbs of primary magnitude. Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they wou... ...ts former oppressor. The latter expedient was adopted. The contests of the Greeks always afforded a pleasing opportunity to that powerful neighbor of ... ...e of Macedon, soon provoked by his tyrannies, fresh combinations among the Greeks. The Achaeans, though weakenened by internal dissensions and by the ... ... sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of time, perish. In the Ottoman or T urkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolut... ...of citizens. Whence could it have proceeded, that a people, jealous as the Greeks were of their liberty, should so far abandon the rules of caution as...

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... his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised man into our carriage and d... ...humane. For though he was an absentee sucking the earth through a tube, in Ottoman ease, he had never omitted the duty of personally attending on the ...