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... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loom... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ’balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, a... ...a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looki... ...ing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head — a ghastly thing enough — and crammed it down into the bag. H... ...ugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. We had been sitting in this crouch... ... may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious ble... ...e unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag...

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...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the les... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ‘balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ‘em but one, a... ...a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looki... ...ing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly thing enough—and crammed it down into the bag. He no... ...ugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. We had been sitting in this crouch... ...rth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air. “Clear away the boats! Luff!” cried Ahab. And... ...on, began slashing at the largest fluke-chains. But a few strokes, full of sparks, were given, when the exceeding strain effected the rest. With a ter...

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...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ive happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ---―That adds some new evidence. I still couldn‘t go for it because of my traditional beliefs... ...does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list ... ...ies by their absence of corruption. Finland is number one, Denmark and New Zealand are tied for second with the UK at number 10 and the U.S. at 16. L... ...al decisions? ―I remember a case of a dolphin, I think it was in New Zealand. The dolphin would guide ships through the narrow inlet to the por... ...ve a problem when defining when life starts since death would be when that spark was no longer there. If life starts with a single cell, is death whe...

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...ospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi....

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... on the sea and broad champaigns. T o the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean;... ...ubles are supposed to end. They lean over the great bridge which joins the New Town with the Old – that windiest spot, or high altar, in this northern... ... houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers; from time to time the old volcano smokes. Edinburgh... ...e are the Heralds and Pursuivants of Scotland, who are about to proclaim a new law of the United Kingdom before two-score boys, and thieves, and hackn... ...g its war-like shadow over the liveliest and brightest thoroughfare of the new town. From their smoky beehives, ten stories high, the unwashed look do... ...in an unwonted place. And all over the world, in London, in Canada, in New Zealand, fancy what a multitude of people could exclaim with truth: ‘The ho...

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...miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an erra...

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... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ssion; and a curious accident put me for a time in the very nucleus of the new order. My memory takes me back across the interval of fifty years to a ... ...rossed the longer street, up which a clumsy steam tram, vomiting smoke and sparks, made its clangorous way, and adown which one saw the greasy brillia... ...r miles out, steaming fast across the dappled silver, and from its funnels sparks, in- tensely red, poured out into the night. As I turned, came the h... ...ad its carpet and was taken in prayer. And in Sydney, in Melbourne, in New Zealand, the thing was a fog in the afternoon, that scattered the crowd on ... ...me across the street to break the hostile silence of a score of years. The sparkle of the Change was in their eyes, their slightly flushed cheeks, the... ...hem then—the United States of America, the Cape Colony, Australia, and New Zealand—spent much of the nineteenth century in the frantic giving away of ...

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... months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. It was then no longer a scien- ti... ...tached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My dep... ...e invited to put their finger on the wound of the Scotia. On my arrival at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island,... ...th their night glasses scoured the growing dark- ness: sometimes the ocean sparkled under the rays of the moon, which darted between two clouds, then ... ...china, porcelain, and glass of inesti- mable value. The plate on the table sparkled in the rays which the luminous ceiling shed around, while the ligh... ...earls of the greatest beauty, which reflected the electric light in little sparks of fire; pink pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; gre... ... on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand 94 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and New Caledonia, and from thence... ...ill October. Then he quitted Vanikoro, and directed his course towards New Zealand; put into Calcutta, 7th April, 1828, and returned to France, where ...

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...l it would be to be a governess! To go out into the world; to enter upon a new life; to act for myself; to exercise my unused faculties; to try my unk... ...t expectations. With what peculiar pleasure I assisted at the making of my new clothes, and, subsequently, the pack- ing of my trunks! But there was a... ...ts revived again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the contemplation of the new life upon which I was entering. But though it was not far past the midd... ...hat it is to awake some morn- ing, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him. I sh... ...f one bright lavender glove, to give the congregation the ben- efit of his sparkling rings, lightly pass his fingers through his well-curled hair, flo... ... tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tin- ... ... very desolation, with the narrow vales between, smiling in green wood and sparkling water—the house where I was born, the scene of all my early assoc... ...e you might meet again: he might have said so if you had been going to New Zealand; but that did not imply any intention of seeing you—and then, as to...

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...needna be feared—I never saw ony mysell, and we’re just at the door o’ the New Place.” Accordingly, leaving the ruins on the right, a few steps brough... ...r and with- drawing room, full of all manner of cross lights. This was the New Place of Ellangowan, in which we left our hero, better amused perhaps t... ...kings miscarried, and became either abortive or perilous. Without a single spark of energy to meet or re- pel these misfortunes, Godfrey put his faith... ...ght hand. In his front was the quiet bay, whose little waves, crisping and sparkling to the moonbeams, rolled successively along its sur- face, and da... ...positions of these luminaries their probable effects on the destiny of the new-born infant, as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded, o... ... those who first discovered the body thought that life remained. But every spark had been long extinguished. “My bairn! my bairn!” cried the distracte... ... which my youthful mind experienced in gazing on the levels of the isle of Zealand, than on any- thing which preceded that feeling; but I am confident... ...ue, as you say,” replied Glossin. “And yet if she could be carried over to Zealand, or Hamburg, or—or— anywhere else, you know, it were as well.” Hatt...

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...hundred tons, Yankee-built and very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a ... ...haleboats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in ... ...boats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the ... ..., and ran about the decks mak- ing himself heard at all hours. Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, w... ...d ran about the decks mak- ing himself heard at all hours. Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, who c... ...ed a long flake of foam, the tiny craft shot up the beach amid a shower of sparkles. Not a soul was there. Leaving one of their number by the water, t... ... less than a cable’s length of the shore which was margined with foam that sparkled all round. Within, nestled the still, blue lagoon. No living thing... ...th. As may be believed, Bembo was a wild one after a fish; indeed, all New Zealanders engaged in this business are; it seems to harmonize sweetly with... ...rmured along until the waters, spreading themselves upon a beach of small, sparkling shells, trickled into the sea; on the other was a long defile, wh...

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... fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melvil... ...father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an extensive traveller fo... ...sequently resi- 6 Typee dents of Albany, N.Y. Herman Melville was born in New Y ork on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city. ... ... Pacific came rolling along, with its surface broken by little tiny waves, sparkling in the sunshine. Every now and then a shoal of flying fish, scare... ...l- ders, and half enveloping their otherwise naked forms. There they hung, sparkling with savage vivacity, laughing gaily at one another, and chatteri... ...e waist, with their long tresses dancing about their shoulders, their eyes sparkling like drops of dew in the sun, and their gay laughter pealing fort... ... * * There is little more to be related. T oby left this vessel at New Zealand, and after some further adventures, arrived home in less than two y...

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...f some quiet color, with old yellow-tinted lace for ornament, to which the spark of an ancient jewel gave its one red gleam. Denham noticed that, alth... ...he train towards Highgate. Although thus supported by the knowledge of his new possession of considerable value, he was not proof against the familiar... ... have the time. Why do you ask?” “It might be a good thing, to get to know new people, that’s all.” “Poor Ralph!” said Joan suddenly, with a smile. “Y... ...resent surroundings and, needless to say, by her surpassing ability in her new vocation. When she was rid of the pretense of paper and pen, phrase-mak... ...of wood fires; and on both sides of the road the shop windows were full of sparkling chains and highly polished leather cases, which stood upon shelve... ... whole mass of the world was insubstantial vapor, surrounding the solitary spark in his mind, whose burning point he could remember, for it burnt no m... ...stical diagram showing the proportion of married women to spinsters in New Zealand; or that the net profits of Mrs. Hipsley’s Bazaar had reached a tot...

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...s, and still-fragile financial institutions. Moreover, the foundations supporting the new financial regulatory regime need to be put into place. The ... ...lic of Korea 48.9 1,007.1 20,591 Malaysia 28.3 238 8,423 Mexico 108.6 1,039.1 9,566 New Zealand 4.4 140.4 32,145 Papua New Guinea 6.5 9.7 1,488 P... ...of Korea 48.9 1,007.1 20,591 Malaysia 28.3 238 8,423 Mexico 108.6 1,039.1 9,566 New Zealand 4.4 140.4 32,145 Papua New Guinea 6.5 9.7 1,488 Peru ... ... 13 at US$ 5.9 trillion and US$ 5.5 trillion respectively. On the contrary, Papua New Guinea’s GDP was recorded at US$ 9.7 billion in 2010, the ... ...romoting free and more stable capital flows which was sponsored in 1997 by Chile, New Zealand, and Viet Nam and endorsed by APEC ministers in 2000; ... ...cts of capital draw-downs necessitated by high levels of write downs and write offs sparked by high doubtful debts and non-performing loans 5 , ca... ...10 243,697 Japan 6,742,123 8,961,855 8,693,182 Malaysia 346,534 369,317 388,935 New Zealand 428,069 717,786 526,026 Papua New Guinea 30,485 34,176... ... 2009 when it hits the lowest level of -2.4 percent before rebound into modest growth sparked off by emerging economic recovery in 2010 as the impact... ...the challenge of reducing and finally phasing out economic stimulus packages, without sparking on jitters in the still volatile economy which may ha...

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...mb with self-loathing, she took her books up to her bed and lay down. This new hurt was tempered by the knowledge that boys were like that. In her sto... ... turned right back to his TV show. His mother hugged him. “Hi, Mum. What’s new?” he asked, not really interested and not expecting any answer other th... ...ense Dad ever had is here! My goodness, he kept all my old report cards. A new pang of sorrow gripped her as she leafed through these, reliving the ta... ... 45 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE writer within. Her cheeks grew rosy, and her eyes sparkled. “Scuse me,” she said. “I do not drink much, and I’ve never had sh... ....” Lacey went to the bathroom and applied a bit of lipstick. She liked the sparkly, happy face that looked back at her in the mirror. Jake took her ar... ...iles, they sat on a fallen tree trunk and surveyed their work. The sun was sparkling on the bay and dappling through the trees onto their backs. Sudde... ..., www.saves.asn.au {info@saves.asn.au} Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New Zealand, Epsom, Auckland, N.Z., 64-9-630-7035; www.ves.org.nz West Australi...

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...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ...ame - Canib - gave rise to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). Th... ...Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying a morbid revival of interest, i... ...idered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all. The post-mortem integrity of this sh... ...aking financial instruments regularly. Governments - from the United Kingdom to New Zealand - set up "innovation teams or units" to foster innovatio... ...nel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium... ...is a confluence of all our dreams and all our nightmares gushing forth, foaming and sparkling and exploding in amazingly colourful jets and rainbows...

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...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ...ame - Canib - gave rise to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). Th... ...Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying a morbid revival of interest, i... ...idered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all. The post-mortem integrity of this sh... ...aking financial instruments regularly. Governments - from the United Kingdom to New Zealand - set up "innovation teams or units" to foster innovatio... ...nel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium... ...is a confluence of all our dreams and all our nightmares gushing forth, foaming and sparkling and exploding in amazingly colourful jets and rainbows...

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...He had risen out of his drug created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had ... ...actories and paper mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?” His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigaret... ... a monograph upon the deep sea fishes. “Let me see!” said Holmes. “Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto — hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donn... ...“That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I prepare for the new role I have to play.” He disappeared into his bedroom and returned ... ...floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of a light. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then it lengthened out until it became a... ...drawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. Its disappearance, howev... ...It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds w...

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...nwel- come; while I have tried to make the story stand indepen- dently for new readers, unacquainted with the tale in which Lady Merrifield and her br... ...hem, I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then t... ... I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then there... ...ndia. Come along, Dora,’ grasping her hand. ‘My name isn’t Dora,’ said the new-comer, as they went down the passage. ‘No,’ said Mysie, in a low voice;... ... to judge of the day, which threatened show- ers, the grass being dank and sparkling with something more than September dews. ‘The tables must be in t... ...ad been time for letters to come from Mr. Mohun, posted from Auckland, New Zealand, where he had made a halt with his sister, Mrs. Harry May, otherwis... ...ore freely and unreservedly than to any one else. So the day after the New Zealand letters came, just as the historical reading and needlework were in... ...use at the sta- tions, but quite conscious that Colonel Mohun said, ‘Not a spark of feeling for anybody, not even for that man! As hard as a stone!’ ‘...

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...ng under the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. Matthew’s w... ...zing how far life is from having its final crisis over at one-and-twenty . New Sisters came in, old ones went to found fresh branches; stricter rules ... ...elegram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible ... ...is musical tones subdued; and Geraldine, pensive in eye and lip, but often sparkling up with flashes of her inborn playfulness, and, like Clement, res... ...ul person as ever I saw. We tell my father that if she were not out in New Zealand we should all begin to be jealous, he is so enthusiastic about Phyl... ...o to twelve years old, and one cousin, Dolores Mohun, with a father in New Zealand. “Won’t you be in the Mouse-trap?” presently asked num- ber three, ... ...iving with the Merrifields for a year, had been taken by her father to New Zealand, where he had an appointment. He was a man of science, and she had ... ... what had been a sheet of mud before had been almost entirely covered with sparkling waves, and there was white foam beat- ing against some of the roc... ...ailures, and so they 92 The Long Vacation try to walk in the light of the sparks that they have kindled.” “Altruism as they call it—love of the neigh...

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...t is about half-way down this shore – no, six-sevenths way down – that the new breakwater extends athwart the bay. Certainly Wick in itself possesses ... ... | +——————\ A\ \ B\ 11 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 C D is the new pier. A the schooner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: c... ...Some of the waves were twenty feet high. The spray rose eighty feet at the new pier. Some wood has come ashore, and the roadway seems carried away. Th... ... air was as 37 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 pure and clear and sparkling as spring water; beautiful, graceful outlines of hill and wood sh... ... OCTOBER 4, 1873. It is a little sharp to-day; but bright and sunny with a sparkle in the air, which is delightful after four days of unintermitting r... ... couldn’t get it off. Awfully nice man here to-night. Public servant – New Zealand. Telling us all about the South Sea Islands till I was sick with de... ...here. See, for example, if England has shown (I put it hypothetically) one spark of manly sensibility, they have been shamed into it by the spec- tacl...

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...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...Ruth’s portion, the despairing stoicism of her race, and Male mute Kid adding new lines to his face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, ... ...horse! He could not believe his eyes. A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light. He rubbed his eyes savagely to clear his vis... ...all competition at the start. But one of the voyageurs, looking on El Soo with sparkling eyes, raised the bid a hundred. “Seven hundred!” Porportuk re... ...ine. The mules trotted through a cocoanut grove and for half a mile beside the sparkling sea before Ah Cho spoke again. “I tell you I am not Ah Chow. ... ...the youngsters on him. There was that bloke, Sandel. He had come over from New Zealand with a record behind him. But nobody in Australia knew anything...

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... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpillar... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...ense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to star- board, and rushed headlong... ...lace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes whose sweet duty Was bu... ....” “And the motto ?” “Nemo me impune lacessit.” “Good !” he said. The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with th... ...nd, set with the flowers of light. The flowers de luce, and the round sparks of dew. That hung upon their azure leaves did shew Like tw...

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... to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious...

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...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ... assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard t... ...ically a case in which originality consists not so much in the creation of new materials of thought as in the manner in which existing traditions of v... ...12 The Koran TO SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, K.T., D.C.L. LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, WITH SINCERE FEELINGS OF ESTEEM FOR HIS ... ...passionate, the Merciful By the snorting CHARGERS! And those that dash off sparks of fire! And those that scour to the attack at morn! And stir therei... ...ple masses; “But not against the flame shall they shade or help you:”– The sparks which it casteth out are like towers– Like tawny camels. Woe on that...

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...s the Swedes. — The Weimerian Cavalry go over to the Swedes. — Conquest of New Prague by Koenigsmark, and Termination of the Thirty Years’ War. Histor... ... Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relations sprang... ...e- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange course of events, religious disp... ...any thousand combatants, and for half a century smothered the glimmer- ing sparks of civilization in Germany, and threw back the improving manners of ... ... for the continuance of that peace which was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Morav... ...nted disorders. In Bohemia, a century before the days of Luther, the first spark of the religious war had been kindled; a century after Luther, the fi... ... enemy from passing the Lesser Baltic, and carrying the war into Funen and Zealand. The Danish fleet was unsuccessful at Femern; and Christian himself...