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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ...st thirty years to be as the first droppings of the shower, and our religious works and societies to be a sickly uncertain hue of verdure which the ... ...g those who sleep in Jesus, and changing those of the Gentile church who still abide in life; and preserving the mourning Jewish church, as Goshen w... ...d which it desired and had been entertained with during the Cortez, they formed secret societies, of which the object was to procure and read those ... ...ion upon the great doctrine of the second advent, which was the brightest candle of the apostolic and primitive church. Now, first, let us look to th... ... unto our hope, one, common and free to all his saints. Now take into consideration the apostolic, and prophetical, and patriarchal, I may say the u... ...n the preaching and epistles of the apostles, then, and not till then, will she recover apostolic strength and primitive separation from the world; t...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope addressed the young priest in Italian. “Father, you loo... ...y designed to protect a Nation; but, in the end, he couldn't even protect the life of his own daughter. His eyes flooded with tears as he held the ... ...Gallucci asked, still feeling hungry. "The Chinese do not like either of the societies; and their position on all forms of drugs is clear. They wan... ...eat deal of money." "How much are you willing to pay the Chinese to stop the Societies that traffic in heroine, opiates, or any other form of narco... ...hat?" Kang asked warily and shifted in his chair. "The plague of the secret societies who deal in drugs. Recently, we have had discussions with th... ...bright, strong black face. The boy from the slums of Nigeria had risen to the Apostolic head of the Catholic Church. Pope John Francis’ day had be...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication ... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylva- n... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thomas Carlyle SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle [1831] BOOK I CHA... ...ot habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste 50 Sartor Resartus and ... ...f his were but some purifying “Temp- tation in the Wilderness,” before his apostolic work (such as it was) could begin; which Temptation is now happil...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...orks aside almost entirely, and have been read- ing Pearson, Bull, and the Apostolical Fathers, Clement and Ignatius. I shall probably read Justin Mar... ... him that he is a regenerate man, that all things are become new. A man in apostolic times had the lessons of the Apostles and disciples practically i... ...nd of simple and limited expansion of the Apostles’ Creed for doctrine and Apostolic practice for discipline. 428 Life of John Coleridge Patteson ‘No... ...oard the “Southern Cross” in these unknown seas? Tell it not to Missionary Societies! Let no platform orator divulge the great secret of the luxuri- ... ... trained to act in that way. It seems as if mere common sense would enable societies and men to see that it must be so. And yet how sadly we mismanage... ...doing; so do we, but yours is an exclusive and selfish system: your secret societies are like our clubs, with their entrance fees, &c. But Christ’s so...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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.................................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE ................................................

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...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...................................................................... 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ............................................................ ... 282 CHAPTER XXXII THAT WE ARE TO A VOID PLEASURES, EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF LIFE .......... 285 CHAPTER XXXIII THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED TO A... ...ier undertaking have occasionally been inserted at the foot of the page. A Life of the Author and all his recovered Letters, sixteen in number, have a... ...., p. 37 (1609).] Would to God that, for the good of our judicature, these societies were as well furnished with understanding and con- science as the... ...sody, contrary to the holy resolutions and pre- scriptions of the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, into which I was born and in which I will die. ...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously...

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...ott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a ... ...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ank the man whose science once saved me as to honor the friend of my daily life. De Balzac. 4 The Lily of the Valley THE LILY OF THE VALLEY ENVOI Fel... ...e! We shed our blood, we risk our future! You exact the history of my past life; here it is. But re- member this, Natalie; in obeying you I crush unde... ...ve guessed mine; and it is better you should know the whole truth. Yes, my life is shadowed by a phantom; a word evokes it; it hovers vaguely above me... ...ocracy ought to be, my common-sense as a woman of the people tells me that societies can exist only through a hierarchy. You are now at a turning-poin... ...t is concise, for to you a few words are sufficient. I do not know whether societies are of divine origin or whether they were invented by man. I am e... ...errupting herself. “Though he was severe, I miss and shall always miss his apostolic power. His successor is an angel of goodness, who pities but does...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...was killing two birds with one stone, address- ing two miseries,—a working life brought to despair, a suf- fering soul without a compass, the victim o... ...reamer came, and to which he was now return- ing, led by the faults of his life. This dreamer was named Godefroid. Whoever reads this history will und... ...felt him- self rich; and he was so, relatively to the past. Until then his life had been spent on acts without will, on wishes that were impotent; now... ...enetrating sweetness of her voice, which possessed, let us say it here, an apostolic unction. The sick soul contemplated with admiration the truly ext... ...ch we shall some day return/, are still impossible. Consequently, the only societies which actually exist are those of religious bodies, against whom ... ...d the old man. “Religion.” “Religion! is it possible?” “Yes, the catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion.” “Ah! do you belong to the order of Jesus?” ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... quite divest himself, even after he has retired from service into private life. Any other traveler would have been filled with wonder at the loveline... ...attlefield where Napoleon commanded. There had been nothing unusual in his life. He had fought valiantly in the ranks as a simple and loyal soldier, d... ...jor, in spite of the grayness of his moustaches. 6 The Country Doctor His life had been so blameless that no man in the army, not even the general hi... ...rful heads of Genestas and Benassis contrasted admirably with M. Janvier’s apostolic countenance; and in the same fashion the elderly faces of the jus... ...nd of sterile disputes about doctrine. The cult of a religion is its form; societies only exist by forms. You have your standard, we have the cross—” ...

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...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n certain reading, just as they are carefully prevented from seeing social life as it is. Must it not therefore be a source of pride to a writer to fi... ...pleased. What fancy of his could they ever refuse him? to what position of life might he not aspire as the son of a man about whom the whole countrysi... ...cal egoist, and a prac- tical miser, Minoret had enjoyed up to this time a life of unmixed happiness,—if we can call pure materialism happi- ness. A p... ...mperishable sentiment, closely allied to the very exist- ence of civilized societies and springing from the spirit of family. It rules in Geneva as in... ...o me, and of 190 Ursula which the sinner repents,” said the priest, in an apostolic tone. “Crime?” cried Minoret. “A crime frightful in its consequen... ...modeled on the system God has ordained for the uni- verse. In this respect societies have a divine origin. Man does not originate ideas, he invents no...

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...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm...

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...he Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...up again, with shooting sparks, and is con- sumed. In no other country has life ever been more ardent or acute. The social nature, even in fusion, see... ...vice blocks his way—if he has prospered—there is the sketch of this normal life. And, in the first place, hail to that king of Parisian activity, to w... ...he sleeps, he sleeps apace, and hurries through his slumber as he does his life. This man sums up all things—history, literature, politics, government... ...tlefield of interests and passions, just as in the midst of those marching societies where egoism triumphs, where every one is obliged to defend himse... ...th him (admirable type of the men whose genius will preserve the Catholic, Apostolic, and Ro- man Church, compromised for the moment by the feeble- ne...

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Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...as well as women from an appearance of old age. Yes, remember this: all of life, or rather all the el- egance that expresses life, is in the figure. A... ...France since the day when Fleury, Mole’s last pupil, vanished. The private life of this old bachelor was apparently open to all eyes, though in fact i... ...o the many dull people who related to him the petty miseries of provincial life,—an egg ill-boiled for breakfast, coffee with feathered cream, burlesq... ...ile all Alencon was deploring her misfortunes, for which the ladies of two Societies (Charity and Maternity) manifested the liveliest sympathy. Though... ...e hook. But these criticisms fall before the fact that the noble catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancie...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

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...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, ...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village... ...f May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of ... ...s. But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm. The young girls formed, indeed, the majority ... ...our with her wand and talked as usual. Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinc tured by experience. The dialect ... ...her, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up h... ... and bandages; even the one customary curb on the humours of English rural societies being absent in this place, Talbothays having no resident landlor... ...woman has not loved him as I do you!’ ‘Don’t, Tess; don’t argue. Different societies, different manners. You almost make me say you are an unapprehend... ...ked; thought no evil of his treatment of her. She might just now have been Apostolic Charity herself returned to a self seeking modern world. This eve...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...........................................................566 THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE ......................................................................... ......................................589 CANCELLED OPENING OF THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE. ........................................................................ ...belonging to the juvenile period, incorporated by him in the pages of the “Life of Shelley”. Professor Dowden has also been enabled, with the aid of t... ...he year 1821. The Spanish Revolu- tion had been a signal to Italy; secrete societies were formed; and, when Naples rose to declare the Constitution, t... ...rn the liturgy of the Holy Church, Refuse to obey her canons, and deny The apostolic power with which the Spirit Has filled its elect vessels, even fr...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the age of forty- six was discovered by the author of the “Comedy of Human Life” at Heidelberg, was born at Caux in Normandy. He was the author of a b... ...nded, Catherine and the Church proclaimed the salutary principle of modern societies, una fides, unus dominus, using their power of life and death upo... ...inciple of modern societies, una fides, unus dominus, using their power of life and death upon the inno- vators. Though Catherine was vanquished, succ... ...y? Surely you will not recognize that prostitute, the Roman, Catholic, and apostolic Church?” “My father wished it.” “But ought we not to leave father... ... occult science.” “You, the eldest son, the defender of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church?” said Marie. “I.” “What happened to you? Go on... ...s. Examination leads to doubt. Instead of faith, which is necessary to all societies, those two men drew after them, in the far distance, a strange ph...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...to be avenged on govern- ment and humanity by making himself miserable for life, either by hating or suspecting everything and everybody— this shallow... ...charmed with the character of a faithful wife, as there represented to the life, that nothing would do but he must marry upon it. So, marry he did, a ... ...he Hebrew governor, knew how to keep his hands clean, and who never in his life happened to be run suddenly against by hurrying house-painter, or swee... ...retty plainly intimating which of the two qualities in question enjoys his apostolic preference; I say, since St. Paul has so meaningly said, that, “s... ...of doing good, the gentleman expressed his regrets that so many benevolent societies as there were, here and there isolated in the land, should not ac... ...icent force and light. For the Satanic press, by its coappearance with the apostolic, it is no more an aspersion to that, than to the true sun is the ...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...lity to any worse objection, may happen to have no justifying principle of life within them; and if, any 5 Autobiographic Sketches where, I find such... ... slight invi- 8 Thomas de Quincey tation ab extra, I had called back into life what otherwise I had long since regarded as having already fulfilled i... ... into a far higher key. Most of all it does so at a period of the writer’s life where, of necessity, a severe abstraction takes place from all that co... ... to be paramount tragedy. Far different was Mr. Clowes: holy, vi- sionary, apostolic, he could not be treated disrespectfully. No man could deny him a... ...as to skill, of the two most elaborate and most success- ful of all secret societies recorded in history; one of which went before the Irish Society b... ...d literature of Athens. These two I call the most successful of all secret societies, because both were arrayed against the existing administrations t...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...Log and Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 126 The Life Buoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 127 The... ...take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two cart loads.” St... ...ble quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” Ibid. “History of Life and Death. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inw... ...m to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous societies. He only asked for water — fresh water — something to wipe the br... ...ntaining gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with lau danum. A strange, apostolic whim having seized him, he had left Niskyeuna for Nantucket, wher... ...bted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast Fish? And concernin...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...fering some restraint upon the levity of action or of declamation in Peace Societies. But all this is below the occasion. I feel that far grander inte... ... I feel that far grander interests are at stake in this contest. The Peace Societies are falsely appre- ciated, when they are described as merely deaf... ...ently upon the nobilities of human nature. But, on the contrary, the Peace Societies would, if their power kept pace with their guilty purposes, work ... ...as I had there witnessed them moving in ghostly silence; this duel between life and death narrowing itself to a point of such exquisite evanescence as... ...s, had read with religious fidelity every word of this tale, so thoroughly life-like, surrendering her perfect faith and her loving sympathy to the di... ...more homely, fervent, and pathetic, than would now be available. For their apostolic functions En- glish was the language most in demand. But in polem...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man’s whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragm... ...ready see our task begun; and this our Sartor Resartus, which is properly a “Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh,” hourly advancing. Of our fitne... ...f our acquaintance with him, seemed to lead a quite still and self contained life: a man devoted to the higher Philosophies, indeed; yet more likely, ... ...ot habitually wonder (and wor ship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole M´ ecanique C´ eleste and Hegel’s Philos... ... of his were but some pu rifying “Temptation in the Wilderness,” before his apostolic work (such as it was) could begin; which Temptation is now happ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...sirable that I should leave be hind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to... ... obtained an appointment in the India House. In this period of my father’s life there are two things which it is impossible not to be struck with: one... ...nal thinker in the field of political economy, now honourably known by his apostolic exertions for the improvement of education; George Graham, afterw... ...enera tion. Our debates were very different from those of common debating societies, for they habitually consisted of the stron gest arguments and m... ...ll socialistic experiments by select individuals (such as the Co operative Societies), which, whether they succeeded or failed, could not but operate ... ...sgow; and others which have done much valuable work for the cause. All the Societies take the title of branches of the National Society for Women’s Su...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...cs Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...mmon humanity and his subjection to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and false, tha... ...ject it as a delusion which led him to submit to torture and sacrifice his life without resis- 11 Preface to Androcles and the Lion tance in the conv... ...rother. Unless a religious turn in ourselves has led us to seek the little Societies to which these rare birds belong, we pass our lives among people ... ...nged for many centuries in primitive commu- nities where the conditions of life leave no room for poverty and riches, and the process of propitiating ... ...ade the Jews more determined to stone him. Thus from the very beginning of apostolic Christianity, it was hampered by a dispute as to whether salvatio...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...have left them helpless end ineffective in public affairs. Even in private life they were often helpless wasters of their inher- itance, like the peop... ...as been as recklessly neglected by Govern- ments and electorates during my lifetime as sanitary science was in the days of Charles the Second. In inte... ...by discoveries of extraor- dinary interest in physics, chemistry, and that lifeless method of evolution which its investigators called Natural Selecti... ...eatre it will not matter. Whatever Bastilles fall, the theatre will stand. Apostolic Hapsburg has collapsed; All Highest Hohenzollern languishes in Ho... ...inking about it? Why didn’t you do something? MAZZINI. But I did. I joined societies and made speeches and wrote pamphlets. That was all I could do. B... ...amphlets. That was all I could do. But, you know, though the people in the societies thought they knew more than Mangan, most of them wouldn’t have jo...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good sense, a kind of assurance so author... ...ore fully into its meaning. Yet there is no possibility of knowing his own life in the same fashion. In spite of all the efforts, often successful, th... ...ork is the best and richest mine in which to search for the details of his life. Like Descartes and Balzac, he was a native of Touraine, and T ours an... ...important in Rabelais’ life as were, in connection with other matters, the Apostolic Pastorals in his favour. Of course, in these the popes had not to... ...is work to like it. Who then will? some will cry. Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this bo... ...corporeal, and spiritual blessings? The holy decretals. What made the holy apostolic see and pope of Rome, in all times, and at this present, so dread...