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...The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) Dictated by Sojourner Truth (ca.1797-1883) Edited by Olive Gil... ...ourner Truth (ca.1797-1883) Edited by Olive Gilbert NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner ... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert is a pub... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert, the Pen... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. Contents NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH ........................................................................ ............................................ 93 4 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) Dictated by Sojourner Truth (... ...ourner Truth (ca.1797-1883) Edited by Olive Gilbert NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner ... ...ed on information provided by Sojourner Truth. 1850 NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE The subject of this biography, Sojourner Trut... ... Master Charles was the best of the family,— 5 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth being, comparatively speaking, a kind master to his slaves. James and...

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...Translated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans.... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans.... ...an equal opportunity university. 3 Goethe Gottingen Edition Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated... ...eted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no one should lose sight of; though, whether in love or in an... ...y related with each other; at first view, in strong contradiction, yet, in truth, connected together by the strictest sequence. For Goethe has not onl... ...ill call it, however basely alloyed, a glow of real enthusiasm and love of truth, may have animated the minds of these men, as they looked abroad on t... ...t was altogether im- possible for me to find any external criterion of the truth: I even ceased from producing, until at length I was quieted by my ow... ...ot wanting. Lord Anson’s “V oyage round the Globe” combined the dignity of truth with the rich fan- cies of fable; and, while our thoughts accompanied... ...carcely heard it. He now showed me the workmanship on the inside, which in truth was still more artistic than the outside, explained it to me, and at ...

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...DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes This Electronic Book Is a Publicati... ...um DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes , is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...way. DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes, the Pennsylvania State Universit... .... DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REA SON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR If thi... ...held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, i... ...om the progress I conceive myself to have already made in the search after truth, and cannot help entertaining such expectations of the future as to b... ...; that philosophy affords the means of dis coursing with an appearance of truth on all matters, and commands the admiration of the more simple; that ... ... circumstances; hence it happens that the remainder does not represent the truth, and that such as regulate their conduct by examples drawn from this ... ...clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language ...

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my fr...

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...dous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER I “Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.” I THINK IT BUT RIGHT that in maki... ...steal from me that which is my sole wealth—my character as a teller of the truth. The reader will understand that it is to the illiberal strictures of... ...aordinary, it is nevertheless authentic: and never never would I sacrifice truth for the mere sake of effect. The fact is this:—the citadel of Allyghu... ...iles away from proof-sheets as I write, and, were I not writing the simple truth, must contradict myself a thousand times in the course of my tale)—I ...

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... eyes . . . . . . . . . 140 138: When my loue sweares that she is made of truth . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 139: O call not me to iustifie the wrong... ...ies my knowledge I deriue, And constant stars in them I read such art As truth and beautie shal together thriue If from thy selfe, to store thou wo... ...e thou wouldst conuert: Or else of thee this I prognosticate, Thy end is Truthes and Beauties doome and date. - 16 - 14: Not from the stars do I my... ...uld my papers (yellowed with their age) Be scorn’d, like old men of lesse truth then tongue, And your true rights be termd a Poets rage, And stretc... ...made lame by Fortunes dearest spight Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit, Or any of these all,... ...d thee in their ryot euen there Where thou art forst to breake a two-fold truth: Hers by thy beauty temdiv.1.titleng her to thee, Thine by thy beau... ...ou maist come and part, And euen thence thou wilt be stolne I feare, For truth prooues theeuish for a prize so deare. - 50 - 48: How carefull was I... ... how much more doth beautie beautious seeme, By that sweet ornament which truth doth giue, The Rose lookes faire, but fairer we it deeme For that s... ..., beautious and louely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth. - 56 - 54: Oh how much more doth beautie beautious seeme Shakespear...

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... garded as a piece of proverbial or popular moral ity , is not far from the truth. But the objection is urged, ‘that the honourable is the good,’ and... ...has been constantly tending in the previous Dia 8 Meno logues. But the new truth is no sooner found than it vanishes away. ‘If there is knowledge, ... ... nature are de pendent on one another; the ancient philosopher had the same truth latent in his mind when he affirmed that out of one thing all the r... ...norance; (6) the experiment of eliciting from the slave boy the mathematical truth which is latent in him, and (7) the remark that he is all the bette... ... a tendency in men’s minds. Or he may have been regardless of the historical truth of the characters of his dialogue, as in the case of Meno and Criti... ...s of phi losophy . But at the moment when we approach 13 Meno nearest, the truth doubles upon us and passes out of our reach. We seem to find that t... ...he sensible things are not realities, but shadows only , in relation to the truth.’ These unmeaning propositions are hardly suspected to be a caricat... ...by an experiment tried on one of Meno’s slaves, from whom Socrates elic its truths of arithmetic and geometry , which he 18 Meno had never learned i... ...e present to Plato’s mind, namely , the remark that the soul, which had seen truths in the form of the universal, cannot again return to the nature of...

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...iginal Sanskrit Text This volume is reverently dedicated to all seekers of truth and lovers of wisdom. Preface The translator’s idea of rendering the ... ...seclusion of an Himalayan forest, in order to learn of him the profoundest truths regarding the cosmic universe and God. Because these teachings were ... ... and it is this dominant ideal of the unity of all life and the oneness of Truth which makes the study of the Upanishads especially beneficial at the ... ...ver sepa- rated from Him. They exist in Him and He in them. XV The face of Truth is hidden by a golden disk. O Pushan (Effulgent Being)! Uncover (Thy ... ...O Pushan (Effulgent Being)! Uncover (Thy face) that I, the wor- shipper of Truth, may behold Thee. XVI O Pushan! O Sun, sole traveller of the heavens,... ... used as the symbol of the Infinite, giver of all wisdom. The seeker after Truth prays to the Effulgent One to control His daz- zling rays, that his e... ... daz- zling rays, that his eyes, no longer blinded by them, may behold the Truth. Having perceived It, he proclaims: “Now I see that that Effulgent Be... ...and I are one and the same, and my delusion is destroyed.” By the light of Truth he is able to discriminate between the real and the un- real, and the... ...h the Supreme; that there is no difference between himself and the Supreme Truth; or as Christ said, “I and my Father are one.” XVII May my life-breat...

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...ll other sciences, reduced to a few clear points: there are not many certain truths in this world. It is there fore in the anatomy of the mind as in ... ...ial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, ‘Whatever is, is right.’ EPISTLE II OF THE NATURE AND ST... ...and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl’d: The glory , jest, and riddle of the world... ...perfluous health, The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth, Let this great truth be present night and day; But most be present, if we preach or pray... ...ness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Oh blind to truth, and God’s whole scheme below Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue wo... ... you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conq’ror’s sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish man... ...mn’d in bus’ness or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge: Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, a... ...rmous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame! Know then this truth, enough for man to know , Virtue alone is happiness below. The only...

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... her to a part of the peak hitherto supposed to be inaccessible. Never, in truth, had Seraphitus shone with so bright a ra- diance,—the only word whic... ... not immediately satisfied. A sceptical Englishman, determined to know the truth, followed him to Paris, and relates that there his doors stood always... ...etter may rest assured that I am not a follower of Swedenborg. The love of truth alone impels me to give this faithful account of a fact which has bee... ...een so often stated with details that are entirely false. I certify to the truth of what I have writ- ten by adding my signature. Charles-Leonhard de ... ...ar from denying the value of his writings Swedenborg firmly asserted their truth. ‘In one hundred years,’ Monsieur Ferelius quotes him as saying, ‘my ... ...y, beryl, the Urim and Thummim, are endowed with motion, express celestial truths, and reply by variations of light to questions put to them (‘True Ch... ... deep emotions, inward joys, which alone can reveal to us the plenitude of truth,—the evidence of celestial Light. All things here below seem small in... ...at in the short space of thirty years this man wrote and published, on the truths of the Spiritual World, twenty- five quarto volumes, composed in Lat... ...being is only used to preserve his aptitude for the perception of external truths. The Angelic Spirit goes far beyond that; his knowledge is the thoug...

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...emes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS. Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclos’d in cinders lie. D... ... Leaving no posterity: ‘Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ‘tis not she; Truth and bea...

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... All the poet can do to-day is to warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. If I thought the letter of this book would last, I might have use... ...And of my weeping something has been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled. Now men will go cont... ...eir chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without s... ...ld Into old citadels that are not walled. Let us lie out and hold the open truth. Then when their blood hath clogged the chariot wheels We will go up ... ...th their riling. With him they buried the muzzle his teeth had kissed, And truthfully wrote the Mother “Tim died smiling.” Futility Move him into the ... ...he bronze west long retreat is blown, Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins ...

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...lly do for me what I hadn’t been able to do for myself. “Some sweet little truths that needed to be spoken,” I heard her declare, thrusting the paper ... ...le long enough to deprive Lady Jane of a triumph. I was just reflecting in truth that this intermi- nable board would deprive ME of one when the guest... ... of this— jocosely exaggerated—that made me, as an ardent young seeker for truth, blush to the roots of my hair. I’m as much in the dark as ever, thou... ...ed to withdraw it if he should, under specious pretexts, turn for superior truth to Paris— Paris being somehow, for a Cheltenham aunt, the school of e... ...ted, was to turn on the new light, to utter—oh, so quietly!—the unimagined truth. It was in other words to trace the figure in the carpet through ever... ...ubjects, but never on the subject of Vereker. His special line was to tell truths that other people either “funked,” as he said, or overlooked, but he... ...ple either “funked,” as he said, or overlooked, but he never told the only truth that seemed to me in these days to signify. I met the couple in those... ... don’t know what you’re talking about.” He wasn’t acting—it was the absurd truth. “She didn’t tell you—?” “Nothing about Hugh Vereker.” I was stupefie...

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... “P . P . , Clerk of this Parish,” was never more faithfully followed. The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wi... ...y than any other form of humanity there presented to my notice. He was, in truth, a rare phe nomenon; so perfect, in one point of view; so shallow, s... ...te, I learned it thoroughly: nor, it gives me pleasure to reflect, did the truth, as it came home to my perception, ever cost me a pang, or require to... ...f into voluntary motion—was to get an appetite for dinner. And, to say the truth, an appetite, sharpened by the east wind that generally blew along th... ... sit ting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. But, for myself, during the who... ...of its better attributes; its sturdy force, its courage and constancy, its truth, its self reliance, and all that gives the emphasis to manly charact... ...r I could stay in the Custom House, and yet go forth a man. To confess the truth, it was my greatest appre hension—as it would never be a measure of ... ...The magistrates are God fearing gentlemen, but merciful overmuch—that is a truth,” added a third autumnal ma tron. “At the very least, they should ha... ...old, I should judge—which Mistress Prynne is hold ing in her arms?” “Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall exp...

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...interior of this pal ace; but it was reported, and with good semblance of truth, to be far more gorgeous than the outside, insomuch that whatever was... ...at dropped silently from his hand, flowed also forth in speech. He uttered truths that wrought upon and moulded the lives of those who heard him. His ... ...nd it seemed to have a heart in it, when there was no such matter. In good truth, he was a wondrous man; and when his tongue had acquired him all othe... ...ne were made. As respects all things else, the peet’s ideal was the truest truth. 20 TheGreatStone Face The songs of this poet found their way to Ern... ...hts and feelings gushed up with such a natural feeling, and who made great truths so familiar by his simple utterance of them. Angels, as had been so ... ...all gone! Up, this very minute, or we shall loose the Great Carbuncle!’ In truth, so little did these poor young people deserve the mighty prize which... ...sed both hands across his mis erable eyes. Thenceforth there was, in very truth, no light of the Great Carbuncle, nor any other light on earth, nor l...

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... and seeme to feare 152 Things that doe sound so faire? i’th’ name of truth 153 Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed 154 Which outwardly... ...s, to winne vs to our harme, 234 The Instruments of Darknesse tell vs Truths, 235 Winne vs with honest Trifles, to betray’s 236 In deep... ... consequence. 237 Cousins, a word, I pray you. 238 Macb. Two Truths are told, 239 As happy Prologues to the swelling Act 240 O... ...If ill? why hath it giuen me earnest of successe, 244 Commencing in a Truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. 245 If good? why doe I yeeld to that sug... ... Night of the three weyward Sisters: 597 To you they haue shew’d some truth. 598 Macb. I thinke not of them: 599 Yet when we can en... ...elfe should be the Roote, and Father 987 Of many Kings. If there come truth from them, 988 As vpon thee Macbeth, their Speeches shine, 989... ... Wip’d the blacke Scruples, reconcil’d my thoughts 1945 To thy good Truth, and Honor. Diuellish Macbeth, 1946 By many of these traines, ha... ...betray 1957 The Deuill to his Fellow, and delight 1958 No lesse in truth then life. My first false speaking 1959 Was this vpon my selfe. W... ... Doct. I haue too Nights watch’d with you, but can 2096 perceiue no truth in your report. When was it shee last 2097 walk’d? 2098 G...

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... that Hero shall 824 be absent, and there shall appeare such seeming truths of - 18 - Much adoe about Nothing Shakespeare: First Folio 825 ... ...s can be no tricke, the conference was sadly 1045 borne, they haue the truth of this from Hero, they seeme 1046 to pittie the Lady: it seemes... ..., and can put them to 1053 mending: they say the Lady is faire, ’tis a truth, I can 1054 beare them witnesse: and vertuous, tis so, I cannot r... ...new his loue, lest she make sport at it. 1149 Hero. Why you speake truth, I neuer yet saw man, 1150 How wise, how noble, yong, how rarely ... ... So turnes she euery man the wrong side out, 1159 And neuer giues to Truth and Vertue, that 1160 Which simplenesse and merit purchaseth. 11... ...e. 1601 Const.Dog. Mary this it is sir. 1602 Headb. Yes in truth it is sir. 1603 Leon. What is it my good friends? 1604 ... ... how like a maid she blushes heere! 1691 O what authoritie and shew of truth 1692 Can cunning sinne couer it selfe withall! - 37 - Much adoe ... ... To burne the errors that these Princes hold 1826 Against her maiden truth. Call me a foole, 1827 Trust not my reading, nor my obseruations,... ...le in frame of villanies. 1853 Leo. I know not: if they speake but truth of her, 1854 These hands shall teare her: If they wrong her honou...

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...n musings of every hue, from the brightest to the most som bre; being, in truth, not so very confident as at some former periods that this final step... ... ourselves almost loath to bid the rude blusterer good by. But, to own the truth, I was little better than an icicle, and began to be suspicious that ... ...e over the outside barbarians in their own field of labor. But, to own the truth, I very soon became sensible that, as regarded society at large, we s... ...if something were already accomplished towards the millennium of love. The truth is, however, that the laboring oar was with our unpolished companions... ... it was back ward, cursing my day as bitterly as patient Job himself. The truth was, the hot house warmth of a town residence, and the luxurious life... ...t me my gruel every day, made by her own hands (not very skilfully, if the truth must be told), and, whenever I seemed inclined to converse, would sit... ... to the brain, and take shapes that often image false hood, but sometimes truth. The spheres of our companions have, at such periods, a vastly greate... ...iscover in me?” “The mystery of your life,” answered I, surprised into the truth by the unexpectedness of her attack. “And you will never tell me.” Sh... ...much more satisfactorily than in my previous suit. In literal and physical truth, I was quite another man. I had a lively sense of the exultation with...

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... materials—I need hardly say to the immediate family and relations—for, in truth, I act chiefly as their amanuensis; but likewise to the Bishop of Lic... ... are now familiar with his masterly judgments; but I feel that I speak the truth when I describe him as a man of singularly strong common sense, of gr... ...scribe him as a man of singularly strong common sense, of great acuteness, truthfulness, and integrity of judgment. These were great judicial qualitie... ...leridge taking a double portion of his work to set him at liberty, and the truth began to dawn on the poor boys at Eton. ‘Do you really mean that ther... ...s a scholar, and what is of more consequence, with perfect character as to truth and conduct in every way. This can only be accounted for by the assis... ...as soon to kindle and make him what he afterwards became.’ 37 Yo n g e In truth he was taking deep interest in the religious move- ment, though in th... ...ards the Bar and the witnesses in Court, as if they were to blame when, in truth, it was my own deficiency; and heartily sorry have I been and am for ... ...espectful and silent, except for some suppressed tokens of emotion, for in truth to many the parting was from an old familiar and much trusted friend.... ... may come, un- der God’s blessing, if a man’s mind is earnestly set on the truth; but the danger is of setting up your own exclusive standard of truth...

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...iar with the original, it savours of truism or platitude to say so, for in truth there can be no thor- oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote... ...- ment is that “‘t is his virtue makes him mad!” The exact opposite is the truth; it is his madness makes him virtuous. In the Second Part, Cervantes ... ... ideas and aims of his master, quite as much as the wonderful vitality and truth to nature of the character, that makes him the most humorous creation... ...reed; Great were my feats, eternal fame their meed; In love I proved my truth and loyalty; The hugest giant was a dwarf for me; Ever to knightho... ... and too little knowledge of life. Do you want to know if I am telling the truth? Well, then, attend to me, and you will see how, in the opening and s... ...t. Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge; nor do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fancif... ...hristian understanding should dress itself. It has only to avail itself of truth to nature in its composition, and the more perfect the imitation the ... ...ance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair’s breadth from the truth in the telling of it. You must know, then, that the above-named gentl... ...disposed to join the damsels in their manifestations of amusement; but, in truth, standing in awe of such a complicated armament, he thought it best t...

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...burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth. Here, however, difficulties occurred. The first thought naturally wa... ...what then? Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we ... ... Tool-using Animal,” concludes Teufelsdrockh, in his abrupt way; “of which truth Clothes are but one example: and surely if we consider the interval b... ...essor’s method is not, in any case, that of common school Logic, where the truths all stand in a row, each holding by the skirts of the other; but at ... ...altered to serve better; must they of necessity be thrown to the dogs? The truth is, Teufelsdrockh, though a Sansculottist, is no Adamite; and much pe... ...ysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou callest Truth, or even by the hand-lamp of what I call Attorney- Logic; and ‘explai... ...cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava? Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow-burning marl... ...ophico-poetically read.... Nay,” adds he, “were the speculative scientific Truth even known, you still, in this inquiring age, ask yourself, Whence ca... ...tree; either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note d...