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... the wan light of the moon. He wheezed as he approached Dirkk. “How goes it, Thomas? Or should I say Healer Kerry Daemon?” Dirkk said. Gray eyes, the ... ...r Kerry Daemon?” Dirkk said. Gray eyes, the only thing recognizable from the Thomas Dirkk had known from before, hardened to gran- ite. “Don’t call me... ... four-inch fangs and a deep growl rumbled from their throats as they circled Thomas. He froze in place and grew paler still. “You fear my fenris-ena?... ... my finger they would shred you and then feed on your flesh.” “Aye, Master,” Thomas choked out. Dirkk looked beyond Thomas. “You come empty-handed?” “... ...ck into the cave. He snapped his fingers and the fenris-ena leapt to follow. Thomas moved back into the towering trees. “Come,” he ordered. Ten small,... ...r as Rourk swaggered, inspecting the new scum who vied to become the queen’s knights, to be honored with the scarlet tabard bearing the silver rearing...

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...rlie, upon the word and honor of the assailant; witnes Henrie of Vaulx, a knight of Champaigns, who being beleagred by the English-men in the Castle ... ... death to such as give her scope to worke her will and applaud her. Simon Thomas was a great Physitian in his daies. I remember upon a time comming ... ...troubled with the cough of the lungs, who discoursing with the said Simon Thomas of the meanes of his recoverie, he told him, that one of the best wa... ...Divinitie bridle and restraine the same. I remember to have read in Saint Thomas, in a place where he condemneth marriages of kinsfolkes in forbidde... ...ivided into severall companies: in the first were found a hundred and ten Knights sitting at one table and all called Williams; besides private gent... ...ted Pigge:) Alphonsus, King of Spaine that first established the order of Knights called the order of the Bend or skarfe, amongst other rules devise... ... it sufficed to be thirtie yeares old. Servius Tullius dispensed with the Knights who were seven and fortie yeares of age from all voluntarie service... ... that he deemed the same to be some Quintessence extracted from out Saint Thomas Aquinas: For, in good truth, onely such a spirit fraught with so in... ... What more? they learned are in copulation. And alledge Plato and Saint Thomas for things, which the first man they meete would decide as well, an...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round T... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Sixteen A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Sixteen by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Sixteen by Sir Thomas Malory, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...rtunity university. 3 Le Morte Darthur – Book Sixteen Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knig... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Sixteen BOOK XVI CHAPTER I How Sir Gawaine ... ... countries. One thing marvelled me, said Sir Ector, I have met with twenty knights, fellows of mine, and all they complain as I do. I have marvel, sai... ...ine, where that Sir Launcelot, your brother, is. Truly, said Sir Ector, 4 Thomas Malory I cannot hear of him, nor of Sir Galahad, Percivale, nor Sir ... ...use where there was a wedding. And there he saw a king the which said: Sir knight, here is no place for you. And then he turned again unto the chair t...

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...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . .... ...AN INTERIOR — AN OTHER INTERIOR I T was nearly midnight on the eve of St. Thomas’s, the shortest day in the year. A desolating wind wandered from the... ...ure; and nobody could deny that he was doing the mistress of the farm real knight service by this voluntary contribution of his labour at a busy time....

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... -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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...tscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 26 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv... ...quires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENTS 27 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 28 ... ...as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen foot water.” Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass. “In their way they s... ...imal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.” Extracts 9 Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1788. “And pray... ...dant and the most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes.” Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm Whale, 1839. 12 Extracts “The Cachalot... ...e whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26 Knights and Squires T he chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of... ... his. And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his Chapter 26 Knights and Squires 119 soul, much more did his far away domestic memories ... ...ul, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and na... ... over a few: — The Authors of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas 136 Chapter 32 Cetology Browne; Gesner; Ray; Linnaeus; Rondeletius;...

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...utumn winds are sobbing? Art thou the Peter of Norway Boors? Their Thomas in Finland, And Russia far inland? The Bird, whom by some na... ... seven Lilies wrought! Seven Sisters that together dwell; But he, bold Knight as ever fought, Their Father, took of them no thought, He loved ... ... Steed, Away they fly to left to right— Of your fair household, Father Knight, 30 Methinks you take small heed! Sing, m... ... good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shake... ....— “.... persevering to the last, From well to better.” ‘For Knightes ever should be persevering To seek honour without feintise or sl...

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...ng on “Don Quixote.” A man who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of ... ...g over with merriment gazing at one of those preposterous por- traits of a knight-errant in outrageous panoply and plumes with which the publishers of... ...on Quixote” has been thoroughly naturalised among people whose ideas about knight-errantry, if they had any at all, were of the vagu- est, who had nev... ...ld have imagined the whole nation to have been nothing less than a race of knight-errants. But after the world became a little acquainted with that no... ...e expected to follow the attempt of a crazy gentleman to act the part of a knight-errant in modern life. It is plain, for one thing, that Sancho Panza... ...d then, when they quote the Holy Scriptures!—anyone would say they are St. Thomases or other doctors of the Church, observing as they do a decorum so ... ...n. Here is Don Kyrieleison of Montalvan, a valiant knight, and his brother Thomas of Montalvan, and the knight Fonseca, with the battle the bold Tiran...

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... Court, which is said to have origi- nated from the celebrated lawyer, Sir Thomas Hope, having two sons on the bench while he himself remained at the ... ...wilt, but it reminded me of the magician Atlantes on his hippogriff with a knight trussed up behind him, in the man- ner Ariosto has depicted that mat... ...e stake-net, and of the sad-coloured gar- ment, I pronounce you but a lost knight; for, as I said be- fore, I doubt if these potent redressers of wron... ... Second came in, wha was in sic favour as the Laird of Redgauntlet? He was knighted at Lonon court, wi’ the king’s ain sword; and being a redhot prela... ...awn hearthstane. Some thought it was easier count- ing with the auld rough knight than the fair-spoken young ane—but mair of that anon. Dougal MacCall... ...erson to whom he was directed, he asked if he spoke to Mr. T rumbull. ‘T o Thomas T rumbull,’ answered the old man—’What may be your business, sir?’ A... ...e than the casting the burden of our sins where they should be laid,’ said Thomas Trumbull, about to shut 287 Sir W alter Scott the door in the inqui... ...f all Aberdeen Almanacks!’ ‘And plague of all fools that waste time,’ said Thomas Trumbull, ‘Could you not have said as much at first? And standing wa... ...I thank Heaven, no disguises to keep with any man, and wear my own name of Thomas Trumbull, without any chance that the same may be polluted. Whereas,...

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...s it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” —Thomas Edge’ s Ten V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas. “In their way they ... ... fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pra... ...t and the most convenient opportuni- ties of witnessing their habitudes.” —Thomas Beale’ s His- tory of the Sperm Whale, 1839. “The Cachalot” (Sperm W... ...we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires T HE CHIEF MATE of the Pequod was Starbuck, a na- tive ... ...st champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God! CHAPTER 27 Knights and Squires S TUBB WA S THE SECOND MATE. He was a native of Cape Co... ...ns. And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who... ...atest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be your boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and... ...un over a few:—The Authors of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne; Gesner; Ray; Linnaeus; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Arted... ... crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain gen- erous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase t...

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...ne" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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...Paris promptly condemned the document. One of Luther’s most bitter enemies, Thomas Murner, translated it into German, confident that it would expose ... ... (1519). WA 2, 180–240. 6 Trossulorum, originally a designation for Roman knights who had conquered the city Trossulum, later came to have the der... ...tam sedem by Isidoro Isolani. Cf. the Introduction. Cf. WA 6, 486– 487. 10 Thomas Cajetan (1469–1534), Italian cardinal, general of the Dominican or... ...on may be held as an opinion, but need not be believed. But this opinion of Thomas hangs so completely in the air without support of Scripture or rea... ... Aristotle speaks of subject and accidents so very differently 64 from St. Thomas that it seems to me this great man is to be pitied not only for a... ...nd wine (such as shape, color, and taste) remained. 62 The name refers to Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a Dominican, greatest of the scholastic theol...

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... tales presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. This is a modernized translation, retaining Chaucer's rhyme scheme, and close to the original, b...

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...Section I - The General Prologue Section II - The Knight’s Tale Section III - The Miller’s Prologue and Tale Section IV -The Reeve’s Prologue and Tale, and the Cook’s Prologue and Tale Section V - The Man of Law’s Prologue, Tale and Epilogue Section VI - The Wife of Bath...

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...ll human civilization: is the mythic 12 disciples of Jesus, and the 12 mythic knights of King Arthur. The trouble with these groups is the unlucky ... ...e unlucky number of 13. There were 12 disciples plus one more; there were 12 Knights of the Round Table plus one more. Neither of these two mythic... ...c number of 12 + 1 has never existed except in myth of King Arthur and his 12 knights… and for one short, tiny span of time in history… when Jesus fi... ...eel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the... ...heel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the ... ... upon this: the willingness to die rather than being conquered and enslaved. Thomas Paine’s famous line: ‘Give me Liberty, or give me Death’, is the... ...y were snubbed. They were sneered at. But if they succeeded: then they were knighted and raised in status. They became upwardly mobile. The entir... ...ature tried to stop this European evil from spreading to the New World? Sir Thomas Gates, Virginia's deputy governor, bound for the colony, was shi... ... 1362 The illustrator who created the Coca Cola Santa Claus was Thomas Nast: a commercial artist who made his money posting nasty pol...

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...arted when the child 49 was born. The Christian idea, as developed by Thomas Aquinas based on the ideas of Aristotle, was that boy babies got th... ...eption and girl babies got theirs 6 to 8 seeks after conception. Although Thomas seemed to settle on 40 days as being the magical moment. However an... ...p, thrown into the fire and burned.‘ ―Christian theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, approved of the inquisitional methods. ‗Wherefore if forge... ...arantees in your Constitution. Among your American deistic founders were: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Th... ...enced by the ‗freethinker‘ John Locke. John Adams, your second president, Thomas Jefferson, your third president, and James Madison, your fourth pres... ...egiance‘ to its flag and its country in 1954 when the Catholic group, the Knights of Columbus, asked President Eisenhower to put it in the Pledge.‖ ... ...ejudice by arguing, ‗For every Jew you show me who's not a Christian, Sir Knight, I'll show you a Christian who's not a Christian.' People often sp...

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... poor. ―We can glean some of these trends from the predictions of Thomas Malthus in his essays on the principles of population from 1798 to ... ... We have already adopted paid temporary sterilizations 31 ―Your Thomas Jefferson said that ‗The art of government consists in the art of be... ...eir share of heretics, but I think that secular witches like Socrates and Thomas More suffered similarly for their intelligent views. I believe that... ...er of Pisa. The two objects fell at the same speed. ―I dare say that Thomas Jefferson or George Washington would be ardent physical scientists ... ...different spelling and meanings. Red and read, the past tense of read, or knight and night. Homographs are words with the same spelling but have dif...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...ansmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsyl- vania State University, Electronic Classics... ...says and Other Papers – V olume Two THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ET... ...en the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The process of ordination and induction is totall... ...erchant, who basely paid for what he took. It was plainly asking—Are you a knight grand-cross of some martial order, or a sort of costermonger? And we... ...at it is that we mean by Radcliffian romance. The old ancestral romance of knightly adventure, the Sangreal, the Round T able, &c., exists for Souther...

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........................................................... 14 THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT ....................................................................... ...ard the recruiters come, I left my all to follow the drum. THE V ANQUISHED KNIGHT I have left all upon the shameful field, Honour and Hope, my God, an... ...d of air That lingers in the garden there. FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL When Thomas set this tablet here, Time laughed at the vain chanticleer; And ere ... ...! I have great dreams, and still they stir my soul on high – Dreams of the knight’s stout heart and tempered will. Not in Elysian lands they take thei... ...lady has grown great and staid, 87 When the sun comes after rain 76 When Thomas set this tablet here, 62 Whether upon the garden seat 61 With caws...

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...Excerpt: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed...

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...ngdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be ... ...Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Man... ...it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride—from a ... ...ss, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflec- tions on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all... ...the eleven following years, or, at least, to make it very wonderful to Sir Thomas that Mrs. Norris should ever have it in her power to tell them, as s... ...nse To Templars modesty, to Parsons sense. I will parody them— Blest Knight! whose dictatorial looks dispense 138 Mansfield Park To Children... ...name of Edmund. It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.” ...

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...the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights T emplars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a so... ...r it as ye will; I will trust your giving true response, on your word as a knight and as a church- man. Yet, brother, take my advice, and file your to... ...is noway slack in tak- ing offence, —is a man who, without respect to your knight- hood, my high office, or the sanctity of either, would clear his ho... ...e recovery of the Holy Sepulchre,” said the T emplar. “T rue, Reverend Sir Knight,” answered the Palmer, to whom the appearance of the T emplar seemed... ...am.” “The Earl of Leicester was the second,” continued the Pil- grim; “Sir Thomas Multon of Gilsland was the third.” “Of Saxon descent, he at least,” ... ... the Earl of Salisbury,” said De Bracy; “he is about the same pitch.” “Sir Thomas de Multon, the Knight of Gilsland, rather,” said Fitzurse; “Salisbur... ...lted by the sarcasms of Prince John and his courtiers. “By the bones of St Thomas,” said Prince John, as they retreated, “the Saxon churls have borne ... ...nibald, Saint Winifred, Saint Swibert, Saint Willick, not forgetting Saint Thomas a Kent, and my own poor merits to speed, I defy every devil of them,... ...ccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress?” said the T emplar. “By the bones of Thomas a Becket,” answered De Bracy, “the Lady Rowena must have heard that ...

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...y my single arm, whom, ac- cording to all laws of chivalry, thine own true knight thus lays at thy feet, fair lady mine, to be disposed of at thine ow... ...o maintain its honour. My page once, wilt thou be so again? and one day my knight—my trusty baron?” “How can I?” said Richard, still in the same under... ...DGE ODGE “Ever were his sons hawtayn, And bold for their vilanye; Bothe to knight and sweyn Did they vilanye.” —Old Ballad of Simon de Montforte. FOR ... ...cious enemy, and was much taken by surprise to find him a graceful courtly knight, peculiarly gentle in manner, loving music, romances, and all chival... ... his father had told him that here he would see the mirror of all that was knightly and virtuous; and had added, on the loud outcry of the more prejud... ...- cess. “Was there not a time when thou didst overhear him concerting with Thomas de Clare the plan of an escape, and thou didst warn them that thou w... ... Savoy Palace had been built for Queen Eleanor’s ob- noxious uncle, Prince Thomas of Savoy, and had recently been purchased by the Queen herself, as a... ...ke her back, as well as somewhat put out of countenance by the laughter of Thomas de Clare, and other young nobles, who rallied him on his strange cha...

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...ristocratic fami- 5 Balzac lies in Flanders. First among them was a young knight with two beautiful greyhounds; his long hair flowed from beneath a j... ...d,” in the beautiful phrase that the common people use. “Thank you kindly, Thomas,” the old woman had said. “I will say two Paters and two Aves for yo... ...diately, and let their oars lie on the water. “The skipper is right,” said Thomas coolly. A great wave caught up the boat, carried it high on its cres... ...e sea and sky in turn. “The skipper always laughs at everything,” muttered Thomas. “Will God leave us to perish along with those wretched crea- tures?... ... absolution of the Bishop, who did not heed her. In the beautiful eyes the knight read a vague feeling of filial piety, and spoke in a smothered voice... ... we not do as they do?” and they also arose and hastened after the others. Thomas tried to follow, but his faith tottered; he sank in the sea more tha...