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...bility by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) CHAPTER 1 THE FAMILY OF DASHWOO... ...roperty, could be but small. Their mother had nothing, and their father 4 Sense & Sensibility only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the... ...on feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;—but in her mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the k... ...uld have quitted the house for ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest 6 Sense & Sensibility girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of g... ...eady imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more ad... ...; ten to one but he was light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as beg- ging you to give ... ...hem, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power 8 Sense & Sensibility to do. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had lef...

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...…………………………………………………………………………………………72 CHAPTER VI: Albert Einstein: How He Changed History……………………………………………………………………………………………….83 CHAPTER VII: Making Sense of the Physical World to Understand Scientific Progress………….……………………............................91 1. The Structure of Atoms and Molecules………………………………………………………………………………………………………..91 2. Atomic Orbitals……………………………………………...

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...rinsic value. Two possibilities are deemed not indifferent in this regard: either reading the whole set of empirically-found realities or facts makes sense in both directions (palindromic reading of nature), or, rather, that sense can only be ascribed to such a set by reading it in some single direction. A single direction means reading nature in a classic, materialist or ...

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...ll give the right understanding about keeping discretion in proper diet, to the seekers. Those who want to go to moksha, do not have right to eat two-sense developed or more than two-sense developed life forms. There is some violence in eating one-sense developed living beings, but Lord does not forbid the consumption of single-sense developed organisms because they do not...

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...A living being (jiva), after coming into human life-form continues to dwell in five sense pleasures as per its understanding. Amongst the vishaya of the five senses, the tongue is the only correct and acceptable one. A discipline in diet becomes a very important part in practicing brahmacharya. One who wants...

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...m more trouble and horror than ever Georgiana’s beauty, whether of soul or sense, had given him delight. At all the seasons which should have been the... ...could imagine it the elixir of life.” 12 Mosses from an Old Manse “In one sense it is,” replied Aylmer; “or, rather, the elixir of immortality. It is... ...here are pages in that volume which I can scarcely glance over and keep my senses. Take heed lest it prove as detrimental to you.” “It has made me wor... ... that had parched me for many days. Now, dearest, let me sleep. My earthly senses are closing over my spirit like the leaves around the heart of a ros... ...— earth and heaven —have both done their part in this! Laugh, thing of the senses! You have earned the right to laugh.” These exclamations broke Georg... ... her bosom. But now, unless Giovanni’s draughts of wine had bewildered his senses, a singular inci dent occurred. A small orange colored reptile, of ... ...orward and shrank back, and murmured and trembled. “ Am I awake? Have I my senses?” said he to himself. “What is this being? Beautiful shall I call he... ...rget whatever you may have fancied in regard to me. If true to the outward senses, still it may be false in its essence; but the words of Beatrice Rap... ...of the fountain. Ever and anon there gleamed across the young man’s mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who h...

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... very pleased with it. I had it on the tip of my tongue to say that common sense had nothing to do with my action, and that therefore it didn’t de- se... ...at remark was so irrelevant that one could make no an- swer to it. But the sense of the absurdity was beginning at last to exercise its wellknown fasc... ... power higher than the prosaic agencies of the commercial world. A strange sense of exultation began to creep into me. If I had worked for that comman... ...dden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins, gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since. I... ...resounded there like a tolling bell which maddens the ear, affected all my senses, took on a black colouring, a bitter taste, a deadly meaning. “I am ... ... undoubtedly, was a relaxation of ten- sion which translated itself into a sense of weariness after an inglorious fight. About midday we anchored a mi... ...ppointed path in a space of infinite silence. I clung to the rail as if my sense of balance were leaving me for good. How absurd. I failed nervously. ... ...izon of a windless day. But its spaciousness alone was enough to give me a sense of a fortunate escape, a momentary exultation of freedom. I stepped o... ...elf. It contained a half-sheet of notepaper, which I unfolded with a queer sense of dealing with the uncanny, but without any excitement as people mee...

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... portion of the Bible, listened to the most adventurous ro- mances, with a sense of pleasure and duty in keeping the girl to her book. She loved the ... ...lth and prosperity, the excitement exercises such a fasci- nation over the senses that the judgment loses balance. Bold assumptions are taken as certa... ...ho came forward 19 Yo n g e with sound judgment and upright dispassionate sense of justice to cope with the difficulties and clear away the involveme... ... were fulfilled. Nay, were they the worst fears? Was there not an unavowed sense that it was safer that she should die, while innocent of all but wayw... ... me dig, and I could not come to help you!’ ‘On duty in the trenches. Your sense of duty was exem- plary. I remember your digging on, like a very Casa... ... very kind that she would have chosen. Mary was intelligent, but with more sense than fancy, more practical than intellectual, and preferring the home... ... and nurse, unfailing in deeds of love or words of cheer, and removing all sense of dreariness and solitude. And Mary had found her mother all, and mo... ...as a formidable be- ing; but was always recurring to the almost monitorial sense of protection, with which she formerly used to regard him, when she s... ...Louis, ‘but I never could love that monument. It used to oppress me with a sense of having a white marble mother! And, seriously, it fills up the chan...

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... and even to detest him?’ (I may stop to remark that this was no proof of my sense. An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some app... ...k enough, with something quicker? Have I never seen you, when you thought my senses gone, pouring from your little bottle into my glass? Why, you Murd...

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...irony and logical grasp of Jonathan Wild, might have left us with a slight sense of hard- ness, a vague desire for unction, if it had not been for thi... ... of knaves, the calamities of fools, with all the miseries in which men of sense sometimes involve them- selves, by quitting the directions of Prudenc... ...x In which Miss Matthews concludes her relation. BEFORE I HAD RECOVERED my senses I had sufficiently be- trayed myself to the best of men, who, instea... ...allery, with a daughter of the woman of the house. A girl, indeed, of good sense and many good qualities; but how much beneath me was it to be the com... ...an before I was so shocked with the sight that it almost deprived me of my senses; for the villain Hebbers came presently in and seated himself behind... ...me rather as a monster than a woman. “Scarce had I recovered the use of my senses when I re- ceived a letter from the villain, declaring he had not as... ...l the particulars of the tender scene which ensued. I was not enough in my senses to remember it all. Let it suffice to say, that that behaviour with ... ... took me by the hand and burst forth into the warmest commendations of the sense and gen- erosity which he was pleased to say discovered themselves in... ...distemper had, before my arrival, en- tirely deprived the poor girl of her senses, as it soon after did of her life. “Not all the love I bore Amelia, ...

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...u. Eh?” Their eyes met. “Sorry to upset your ideals,” said Isbister with a sense of devil-may-careish brilliance. “But a suicide over that cliff (or a... ...t a flutter. That doesn’t make me feel as if there was a man present. In a sense it’s more dead than death, for these doctors tell me that even the 1... ...less misery of one who wakes towards the hour of dawn. He had an uncertain sense of whispers and footsteps hastily receding. The movement of his head ... ...ss. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a strange sense of inse- curity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. Abo... ...glass of the colourless fluid. What was this place?—this place that to his senses seemed subtly quivering like a thing alive? He looked about him at t... ...ween life and death, for the better part of an hour. When he recovered his senses, he was back on his translucent couch, and there was a stirring warm... ...ling spray, a fragrant mist played over his forehead for a moment, and his sense of refreshment increased. He closed his eyes in satisfaction. “Better... ...g alive at all in this remote age touched every- thing with wonder, with a sense of the irrational, with some- thing of the quality of a realistic dre... ...apping the table. The conversation lasted an interminable time to Graham’s sense. His eyes rose to the still giant at whose feet the Council sat. Then...

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...eulogiums which the Earl pronounced successively on the prudence, and good sense, and admirable dispositions, of his first, second, third, fourth, and... ...m; for perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive, and inexperienced youth... ...version of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgement, which appre- ... ...der. This he could himself say, that he knew his Maj- esty had such a just sense of Mr. Richard W averley’s merits, that if his son adopted the army f... ...ing; but as, unfortunately, that word conveyed a double and embarrass- ing sense, one meaning de facto, and the other de jure, the knight filled up th... ...ut come, let’s see the other. ‘Right Hereditary righted!’ ah, there’s some sense in this! Hum—hum—hum—pages so many, paper so much, letterpress—Ah! I’... ...hat a supernatural communication, of a nature obvious even to the exterior senses, had produced this wonderful change; and though some mentioned the p... ...called down some re- proof. This circumstance impressed him with a painful sense of inferiority in those qualities which appeared most to de- serve an... ...or in order to preserve that proper declination of per- son which showed a sense that he was in the presence of his patron, he sat upon the edge of hi...

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...odern phrase not altogether suitable, yet the nearest ap proaching to the sense). It argued a new way of looking at the old epical treasures of the p... ...ght over the same battles, woo the same loves, burn 25 Pope with the same sense of injury, as an Achilles or a Hector. And if we can but attain this ... ...work bears the impress of a disposition to be satis fied with the general sense, rather than to dive deeply into the minute and delicate features of ... ... lation was less cultivated than at present. If something like the general sense could be decorated with the easy graceful ness of a practised poet; ... ...e pass’d the wide immeasurable main. Meet then the senior far renown’d for sense With reverend awe, but decent confidence: Urge him with truth to fram... ...uices of Despair; Charm’d with that virtuous draught, the exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Though on the blazing pile his parent la... ...bright sea maid’s gentle power implored, With nectar’d drops the sickening sense restored. “Thus till the sun had travell’d half the skies, Ambush’d w... ...te the same. Heaven has not cursed me with a heart of steel, But given the sense to pity, and to feel.” Thus having said, the goddess marched before: ... ...in’d to that the experience of the last. Fit words attended on his weighty sense, And mild persuasion flow’d in eloquence. “Oh sight (he cried) dishon...

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...pencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can—begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any non- sense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them re... ...ugly things he had expected, the ugly things of his far-away youth, when he had too promptly waked up to a sense of the ugly—these uncanny phe- nomena... ...of this lively stir, in a compartment of his mind never yet pen- etrated, of a capacity for business and a sense for con- struction. These virtues, so... ...nt to live here.” It rather indeed pulled him up, for it wasn’t what he had been thinking, at least in her sense of the words, “You mean I may decide ... ...his own a mo- ment. “Are you very sure the ‘ghost’ of one doesn’t, much rather, serve—?” He had a positive sense of turning pale. But it was as near a... ...y James Their eyes met for a minute while he guessed from some- thing in hers that she divined his strange sense. But nei- ther of them otherwise expr... ...shouldn’t notice: he liked—oh this he did like, and above all in the upper 20 The Jolly Corner rooms!—the sense of the hard silver of the autumn star... ...ut ministered to his intenser gravity. He had made, as I have said, to create on the premises the baseless sense of a reprieve, his three absences; an... ...ing clear to him that I’ve come, as they say, ‘to stay.’ He finally doesn’t like and can’t bear it, in the sense, I mean, that his wrath, his menaced ...

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...p. Only he came late to the eating, with a growing set of teeth. He had no sense of balance—just like the puppy—and could not understand why he was no... ...tually “going Fantee” among the natives, which, of course, no man with any sense believes in. He was initiated into the Sat Bhai at Allahabad once, wh... ... but cry , which might have helped her. She tried to scream as soon as her senses came back, and then she began praying for the Other Man’s soul. Had ... ...eal-cutter, and he shall refund. The whole thing is child’s talk—shame—and senseless.” “Suddhoo IS an old child,” said Janoo. “He has lived on the roo... ...ild,” said Janoo. “He has lived on the roofs these seventy years and is as senseless as a milch-goat. He brought you here to assure himself that he wa... ...ANY curses of our life out here is the want of atmosphere in the painter’s sense. There are no half-tints worth noticing. Men stand out all crude and ... ...ast Gymkhana. Wressley didn’t press her to wait for him any longer. He had sense enough for that. Then came the reaction after the year’s strain, and ...

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...mething in the act of creeping upon me. I saw nothing, and nevertheless my sense of another presence grew steadily. I increased my pace, and after som... ...ntly through the unglazed window, and that and the food contributed to the sense of animal comfort which I experienced. Presently the door behind me—t... ...hreatened him, told him the inhu- manity of such a proceeding, aroused his sense of shame, and came home resolved to do better before I took my work b... ...e of those beasts. It’s his business, not mine. They only sicken me with a sense of failure. I take no interest in them. I fancy they follow in the li... ...es—the females, I mean—had in the ear- lier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repul- sive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a m... ...H. G . Wells I was delighted with it. But with a certain lack of practical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the ... ...of astronomy. There is—though I do not know how there is or why there is—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. T...

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...re, 1454 conuey, conuey him out. Be not amaz’d, call all your 1455 senses to you, defend your reputation, or bid farwell to 1456 your good...

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...e the office. From the Barge 925 A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense 926 Of the adiacent Wharfes. The Citty cast 927 Her people ... ...’s all take hands, 1457 Till that the conquering Wine hath steep’t our sense, 1458 In soft and delicate Lethe. 1459 Eno. All take hand... ...hose drops fall (my hearty Friends) 2460 You take me in too dolorous a sense, 2461 For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you 2462 ...

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... far more than money and power that often serve private purposes. In this sense, our ancients are educated to abandon selfishness to maintain the pea... ...th” is merely what the majority believes but is far from validity. In this sense, science plays merely the 7 portrayal of the internal realm – a r... ... a malicious God to create their neutrality “DevGod” – a monster. In this sense: If someone lives in heaven, he should have gone to the hell to exp... ...one to the hell to experience the suffering. It is only reasonable in the sense that heaven is not a perfect place where samsara still exists. If s... ...ll – sheer nonsense. It is only reasonable for an ordinary person, in the sense that his merit is mixed more or less with selfishness. When someon... ...ith bad 9 nor to blend good ambition with malicious ambition. In this sense Dr. Smarandache is not showing wisdom at the moment. On the contrary,... ... ignoring and even blind to its own treasures. Of course, science has no sense of merit or evil. However, men apply the most advanced technologies i... ...n opinions and wants to try the correct education, they should avoid the (senseless) busy modernization of life. 5. If one foresees the disaster of ... ...It has no form.), and therefore is inexpressible with symbols. So in this sense, it is absolutely absurd to sedulously look for absolute truth in the...

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...if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang?rous is th? Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose....

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...wo, less dang’rous is th’ Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for ... ...Is by ill Colouring but the more disgrac’d, So by false Learning is good Sense defac’d. Some are bewilder’d in the Maze of Schools, And some made... ...Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools. In search of Wit these lose their common Sense , And then turn Criticks in their own Defence. Each burns alike, wh... ...; Launch not beyond your Depth, but be discreet, And mark that Point where Sense and Dulness meet. Nature to all things fix’d the Limits fit, And w... ... Invention’s Aid, Write dull Receits how Poems may be made: These leave the Sense, their Learning to display, And theme explain the Meaning quite awa... ...he writes) To teach vain Wits a Science little known , T’ admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Ma... ...ere Wit fails, steps in to our Defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense ! If once right Reason drives that Cloud away, Truth breaks upon u... ...Women Men, for Dress: Their Praise is still— The Stile is excellent : The Sense, they humbly take upon Content. Words are like Leaves; and where t... ...Content. Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence , like the Prismatic Glas...