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...—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could he set forth, in language o... ...ther calls “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” The reference is clear from the contents of the document: just as the Jews were carried away fr... ...f the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to the tyranny of the papacy. This ... ...). 11 Both sides of the controversy took the book very seriously. In ducal Saxony it was rigorously suppressed. Before the imperial council at Worm... ...furt during Luther’s student days, and was later secretary to Duke George of Saxony in Dresden. Luther is referring to the treatises both men publish... ..., S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven years. St. L. 19, ... ...h delicate and great heroes to do, and should by no means entrust it to the lower clergy as something common, for whatever human wisdom has decreed ... ...t marriage was not without precedent; common law in parts of Westphalia and Lower Saxony, for example, prescribed that a man who could not perform hi... ...iage was not without precedent; common law in parts of Westphalia and Lower Saxony, for example, prescribed that a man who could not perform his conj...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ... the soul, constantly strained by shameful and perpetual compromise, sinks lower, the spring of noble thoughts grows rusty, the hinges of familiarity ... ...g of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora- tion till certain writers took up the “rat” as a new subject. “What! after having seen Corali... ...king; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every soc... ...the most idiotic distrust to absolute confidence. In this respect they are lower than animals. Ex- treme in everything—in their joy and despair, in th... ...violent pressure. The strange conformation of the maxillary bones gave the lower part of this face a resemblance to that of the larger species of apes... ... narrated, and a book is now the weapon —less swift, but no more sure—that writers wield. In the course of this morning, amid the coming and going 16...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...f continued to keep his mouth and his eyes very wide open, and to drop his lower jaw, somewhat after the manner of a toy nut-cracker; and as his hat h... ...I dare say?’ ‘Oh yes I shall. What?’ ‘It led to my seeing,’ said Tom, in a lower voice, ‘one of the loveli- est and most beautiful faces you can possi... ...he had conceived for that young lady, or whether it had any reference to a lowering, not to say distinctly spiteful expression which had been visible ... ... favour in his button-hole, and a bran new extra super double- milled blue saxony dress coat (that was its description in the bill), with a variety of...

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...at the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...d. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ld get out a word.” “And yet, my dear father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if th... ... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...n the fash- ion. A mantle, thrown across his knees for a covering, hid the lower half of his body, while an enormous muffler of red cashmere covered h... ...s with his perfect self-possession. “What a Figaro!” cried Vinet. “Mustn’t lower one’s price,” said the infant. “My master calls me a little Robert-Ma... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ...ise. They are not willing that an underling, a journalist for instance, or lower than that, an artist, a cutter of images, should presume to slip into... ... Sallenauve, “you will find that neither the boasted strata of Bohemia and Saxony nor even those of Russia and Hungary can be compared to those hidden...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has be...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ...a principle extant throughout man’s whole history on earth. Or coming into lower, less unspeakable provinces, is not all Loyalty akin to religious Fai... ...to see in this in- destructibility of Hero-worship the everlasting adamant lower than which the confused wreck of revolutionary things can- not fall. ... ...n. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. Not happiness, but something higher: one sees this ev... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...fter the year 1204, by Layamon, an English priest of the country parish of Lower Arnley in Worcestershire. “There was a priest in the land, who was na... ... WORKS ON LAYAMON— Introduction, Madden’s ed. of Brut. H. Morley, English Writers, London, 1888 1890, III, 206 231. L. Stephen and S. Lee, Dictionar... ...chen Philologie, Strassburg, 1888 1902, II, i, 635 ff. H. Morley, English Writers , III, 55. G. Paris, Romania, IX, 592 ff. L. Stephens and S. Lee, ... ...st, made answer in the name of all his fellows. “We be of a country called Saxony,” said he, “there were we born and there we abode. If thou wilt lear... ...rd Guerin of Chartres turned him about. He set his buckler before him, and lowering the lance, hurtled upon his adversary. Guerin rode but the one cou... ... praise of their victory. Guitard and his company rode into the press with lowered lances and scarlet spurs. A hundred horsemen and more were hurled f...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ...e him to open the door. One step brought him to the head of the stairs: he lowered his head over the balustrade in order to listen; and at that moment... ...tain information; and in a neighborhood so dangerous, the win- dows of the lower story would not improbably be nailed down; those in the upper might b... ...r the regular means of egress, leaped down at once from the windows on the lower story; sick men rose from their beds; in one instance, as if expressl... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r...

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...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...der has been found in every robber, every pirate, and too often in all the lower grade of warriors, from the savage plun- derer of a besieged town up ... ...on of the body. The souls of evil-doers would, they thought, pass into the lower and more degraded animals, while those of good men would be gradually... ...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ... ... The like alarm notes rolling. ‘The peal rings out! echoes the shout! All Saxony’s astir; 162 A Book of Golden Deeds Groom, turn aside, swift must w... ... future line of kings. He was the son of the Elector Friedrich the mild of Saxony, and of Margarethe of Austria, whose dream presaged her children’s d... ...d porches, but these had been found inconvenient and were removed, and the lower story consisted of a large hall, and strong vault, with a spacious ro...

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...eaving school, lived on the family estate of Pokrovskoe, about forty miles from O——, with her aunt and her elder brother. This brother soon after obta... ...n round the house, which on one side looked out upon the open country away from the town. “And so,” decided Kalitin, who had a great distaste for the ... ...g the pleasantest in the town. She had a considerable fortune, not so much from her own property as from her husband’s savings. Her two daughters were... ...ISTOPHER THEODOR GOTTLIEB LEMM was born in 1786 in the town of Chemnitz in Saxony. His parents were poor musicians. His father played the French horn,... ...d to him; he felt an aversion for entering the government ser- vice in the lower grades, with nothing but hard work and obscurity before him,—this was... ...and not only of them alone, of Rousseau too, and Helvetius, and many other writers of the same kind—but they were in his head only. The retired abbe a... ...n a low voice, “Why, but you too are an artist, un confrere,” adding still lower, “venez!” with a nod towards the piano. The single word venez thrown ... ... was beginning. “Good-bye, good-bye!” she repeated, pulling her veil still lower and almost running forward. Lavretsky looked after her, and with bowe...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...ke care of himself, keep his place, and hold his own. He was placed in the lower remove of the fourth form, which was then ‘up to’ the Rev. Charles Ol... ... Coley had now been nearly a year at Eton, and had pro- ceeded through the lower and middle removes of the fourth form, when, on November 23, he achie... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...ched by men of earnest zeal for God’s glory in the salvation of souls. T o lower the standard of Christian life by exhibiting a feeble faint glimmerin... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ...e descended from their automobiles upon this pavement and went through the lower shops to the lifts and stairs to the new ways for pedestrians, the Ro... ... 2 ection 2 THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN of the Allies assigned the defence of the lower Meuse to the English, and the troop-trains were run direct from the v... ...on, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the German naval esta... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ...n Scotland, Calvin in France, took hold espe- cially of those minds in the lower classes into which thought had penetrated. The great lords sustained ... ...most friendship. With a stroke of his oars La Renaudie put the boat at the lower step of the stairway which led to the house. Christophe landed, and t... ...s beautiful royal residence, which had, as we have said, its upper and its lower gardens. Not far from the place des Jesuites may still be seen a pavi...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ... in hysterics?’ To a Children’s Parliament would I gladly consent; or even lower if ye wished it. Beloved Brothers! Liberty, one might fear, is actual... ... : than faith merely in the Everlasting Nothing and man’s Digestive Power; lower than which no faith can go. Not that such universally prevalent, univ... ...hers repugn as they will: all Titles of Nobility, from Duke to Esquire, or lower, are hence- forth abolished. Then, in like manner, Livery Servants, o... ...d pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph-writers, Placard-Jour- nalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applauders, at thre... ...tes, Austrian and Prussian, with Emigrants, were faring towards Pilnitz in Saxony; there, on the 27th of August, they, keeping to themselves what furt...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ...talk, took leave of Mrs. George Osborne for a while, and dived down to the lower regions of the house to a sort of kitchen-parlour (occupied by Mr. an... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ... to himself Poland, and was determined to keep it: another had robbed half Saxony, and was bent upon maintaining his acquisi- tion: Italy was the obje... ...r with bodily fingers was holding on to his master’s nose, and shaving the lower part of Jos’s face, his imagination was rambling along the Green Aven... ...rvellous care has awarded to the female in- stinct—joys how far higher and lower than reason—blind beau- tiful devotions which only women’s hearts kno...

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...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ...th a future history, and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blun... ... l’an 2003, par Leon Bollack, in La Revue, 15 Juillet, 1903. 19 H G Wells lower class of Plato’s Republic was not specifically of differ- ent race. B... ...ntain pinewoods, primrose-strewn tracks amidst the budding thickets of the lower country, paths running beside rushing streams, paths across the wide ... ...in other less wholesome places the presence of children will be taxed; the lower passes and fore hills of these very Alps, for example, will be populo... ... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...cs in Italy, and he was now going back through the mountains to lecture in Saxony, lecturing on the way, to perforate a lot more records, lecturing th... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...him one’s life was safe.” This pointed remark made much noise. M. du Maine lowered his eyes, and did not reply one word. As for the Marechal de Viller... ...however, another claimant to the throne of Po- land; I mean the Elector of Saxony , who had also been elected, and who had many partisans; so many, in... ... to you, says it to himself first? Everybody was silent, and all eyes were lowered. Many, however, were not sorry to see M. de Villeroy so pleasantly ... ...lfini, did not dare to imitate him. The cardinals considered that they had lowered themselves, since Richelieu and Mazarm, by treating even the Prince...

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...of long pine trunks with the bark peeled off, and its mill stream, brought from the bed of the torrent in great square wooden pipes, with masses of dr... ...ent in great square wooden pipes, with masses of dripping filament issuing from every crack. Little cottages, scattered here and there, with their gar... .... The subtle perfume of this undergrowth was mingled just then with scents from the wild mountain region and with the aromatic fragrance of young larc... ...ging light in the sky; the hues of the mountains, the soft shades of their lower slopes, the very shape of the valleys seemed to vary continu- ally. A... ...ck wooden rail- ing on either side of the square pillars of the gates. The lower part of the gates themselves was of solid wood that had been painted ... ...e in a position to supply him. I induced him to sell his baskets at rather lower prices than they asked for them in Grenoble, while, at the same time,... ...cussions on points of general interest which modern authorities and modern writers have called in question. In my opinion, a man who has thought out a... ...all the kings who came to lick Napoleon’s hand. Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Poland, and Italy, all speaking us fair and going along with us; it...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...nd word, except from you. I have been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my... ...y little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower form, a giant amongst them, with his downcast, stupefied look, his do... ...on of eyes passed between the other three ladies. The obedient bell in the lower regions began ringing the an- nouncement of the meal. The tolling ove... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ... to himself Poland, and was determined to keep it: another had robbed half Saxony, and was bent upon maintaining his acquisi- tion: Italy was the obje...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...awn with polka dots of a decayed red, the points astoundingly long. On the lower edge of it he wore a high-school button, a class button, and a fra- t... ...tt lived Howard Littlefield, Ph.D., in a strictly modern house whereof the lower part was dark red tapestry brick, with a leaded oriel, the upper part... ...enefit property-owners by increas- ing rental values, and help the poor by lowering rents. All his acquaintances turned to Littlefield when they desir... ...t, but when this proclamation came out, they rebelled. Or it may have been Saxony. But it just goes to show the dangers of invading the rights of pers... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...ante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earth...

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...tained to this position by inward necessity. In 1515 he received his appointment as the standing substitute for the sickly city pastor, Simon Heinse, from the city council of Wittenberg. Before this time he was obliged to preach only occasionally in the convent, apart from his activity as teacher in the University and convent. Through this appointment he was in duty bound,...

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...tment as the standing substitute for the sickly city pastor, Simon Heinse, from the city council of Wittenberg. Before this time he was obliged to pre... ...this time he was obliged to preach only occasionally in the convent, apart from his activ ity as teacher in the University and convent. Through this ... ...513, he declares his conviction that faith alone justifies, as can be seen from the com plete manuscript, published since 1885, and with still greate... ...book of consolation, which was originally intended for the sick Elector of Saxony, was written by him only upon solicitation from outside sources. T o... ...ady spread that Luther intended to do away with good works. Duke George of Saxony had received no good impression from a sermon Luther had delivered a... ...he faithful performance of the duties of one’s calling as a morality of a lower order. For these rea sons it is Luther’s highest object in this tre... ...an should think that by them he could be well pleasing to God, he would be lowering God to the level of a “broker or a laborer who will not dispense h... ...ICATION JESUS T o the Illustrious, High born Prince and Lord, John Duke of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, my gracious Lord and P... ...ven again, and God’s throne itself over turned. Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics. I will most gladly leave to any one els...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...h a pair of enormous ears had left their marks which no brush could efface from the underside of the brim; the silk tissue (as usual) fitted badly ove... ...e charming sex” in 1809, projected so far above the wearer’s chin that the lower part of his face was lost, as it were, in a muslin abyss. A silk watc... ...dence required him to make. He felt that he was capable of sinking to even lower depths for the sake of good living, if there were no other way of enj... ...reads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable cold which sensibly lowers the social temperature, especially if the old man is ugly and poor. ... ...tice to the Germans, it must be said that they have done admirable work in Saxony and in the Palatinate.” Mother and daughter looked at one another as... ...ity to the story, but truth is so much the more like fiction, since modern writers of fiction have been at such untold pains to imitate truth. It was ...

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...y, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

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...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...om the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies than from its union under one government. It is not, however, my design to dwell... ...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ... distress? The price of improved land in most parts of the country is much lower than can be accounted for by the quantity of waste land at market, an... ...d, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be sty... ...f was put to flight, and very near being made prisoner by the elec- tor of Saxony. The late king of Prussia was more than once pitted against his impe... ...ms might be a little larger or smaller, or the ceilings a little higher or lower than his fancy would have planned them. But waiving illustrations of ...

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...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ... Competition universal 5 Charles Darwin — Effects of climate — Protection from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plant... ...ection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common par- ent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. Chapt... ...ndamental belief: doubts have been thrown on this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a deviation appears not unfrequently, and we see it in ... ...ormously. The shape, as well as the breadth and length of the ramus of the lower jaw, varies in a highly remarkable manner. The num- ber of the caudal... ...encyclopaedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic ... ... less improved branches: this is represented in the diagram by some of the lower branches not reaching to the upper horizontal lines. In some cases I ... ...t and hind legs, and even in the jaws and limbs, varying together, for the lower jaw is believed to be homologous with the limbs. These tendencies, I ... ...re very generally sterile, has, I think, been much underrated by some late writers. On the theory of natural selection the case is espe- cially import...

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...ch sometimes enables them to bear at 65. But many times the menses proceed from some vio- lence done to nature, or some morbific matter, which often p... ...ess- ing of the Gods: not only so, but the sex, whether male or female, is from their disposal also, though it cannot be de- nied, that secondary caus... ... must be used for a considerable time, or you will reap but little benefit from them. The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on h... ...pear by the members, which are uncon- nected with such grievances; but the lower part of the body exactly sympathising with them, their liveliness, on... ... spike- nard, half a scruple, with oil of wormwood; make a plaster for the lower part of the belly, then let her eat candied eringo root, and make an ... ...sed they cause a woman pudor, or shame. The fissure magna reaches from the lower part of the os pubis, to within an inch of the anus, but it is less a... ... present. In order that the living may be distinguished from the dead, old writers prescribe three experiments. The first is, to lay a feather on the ... ..., camomiles, briony root, adding cows’ and goats’ dung. Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to to- bacco-water, injected into the womb by... ...plying the hand cold upon the stomach. SIGNS TAKEN FROM THE URINE The best writers affirm that the water of a pregnant woman is white and has little s...

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...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ...on to civil morality, is of use for keeping society in order, at least the lower classes, who have not the feeling of Honour in due force; and therefo... ...en Years’ War the whole of German culture had been French. Even now German writers found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the ... ..., to make, not only the first, but each successive, story project over the lower one, by which means narrow streets especially were ren- dered somewha... ...e fruitful, place for us, was the city-hall, named from the Romans. In its lower 41 Goethe vault-like rooms we liked but too well to lose ourselves. ... ...hough it had already been intelligibly and urgently recommended by popular writers, the German physicians hesitated to perform an operation that seeme... ...table disposi- tion, in such contrast with his own. He studied the English writers diligently: Pope, if not his model, was his aim; and, in opposition...

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.................................................................. 166 SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” .............................................................. ...rr in their patterns and colours. The soul of the apartment is the carpet. From it are deduced not only the hues but the forms of all objects incumben... ...—yet this is not all the knowl- edge in the world. As regards texture, the Saxony is alone admissible. Brussels is the preterpluperfect tense of fashi... ...y of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from the perversion of taste just specified., We are violently enamoured of... ...ilderness to the battlements—who seemeth any bigger than the letter Jod!” “Lower away the basket with the shekels of silver!” here shouted a Roman sol... ...ugh voice, which ap- 14 EA Poe peared to issue from the regions of Pluto—”lower away the basket with the accursed coin which it has broken the jaw of... ...ing by the walls of every ken- nel, to traffic with the dogs of the earth? Lower away! I say— and see that your trumpery be bright in color and just i... ...of his school-for we may as well designate in this way the entire class of writers whose poems are bound up in the volume before us, and throughout al... ...is preface :— “‘Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if they persist in reading this book to a conclu- sion (impossible...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...ntered the monastery of the Franciscan Cordeliers at Fontenay-le-Comte, in Lower Poitou, which was honoured by his long sojourn at the vital period of... ...nal studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value. La Bruyere, in the chapter Des ouvrages de l’esprit, not ... ...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe... ...easant tattle of drink- ing, Gargamelle began to be a little unwell in her lower parts; whereupon Grangousier arose from off the grass, and fell to co...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...d was especially charming when she oc- casionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is al- ways the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her ... ...middle of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually round ... ...ch it easily, Dolokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted hi... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ... ...e least of the transport soldiers. Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well p... ... they speak of that flank march. But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the pro...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ...gour and va- cuity is the lot of the Upper, and want and stagnation of the Lower, and universal misery is very certain, what other thing is certain? T... ...tasms, from its shafts of light; let the Absurd fly utterly forsaking this lower Earth for ever. It is Truth and Astraea Redux that (in the shape of P... ...th their long greasy hair; the up- per part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt at a cruel laugh and a sort of fer... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ... pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers, Placard-Journalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applaud- ers, at thre...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...eant approval, and delivered a bene diction; when he came with a frown he lowered the tem perature ten degrees. He was a well beloved man in the hou... ...tories 48 “Begin, Hester.” Fingering at the fringes of her shawl, and with lowered eyes, Hester said, timidly: “We should not have disobeyed for any o... ...g to hide it or excuse it. Daily, as the fair young idol of the house sank lower and lower, the sorrowful old aunts painted her glowing bloom and her ... ...from being mis taken for anybody else’s. Uncredited quotations from other writers often leave a reader in doubt as to their authorship, but McClintoc... ...een pleased to place her affections. Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest... ...did speak by and by? Is a German. I did think him Englishman. He is of the Saxony side. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 196 He speak the french...

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... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...nd aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and the... ... minutes earlier she would not have thought it; but humiliated pride falls lower than humbleness. She did not blame him; she fell in her own esteem; l... ...lse to ask, what changes? She stooped to pluck a cowslip. “I saw daffodils lower down the park,” she said. “One or two; they’re nearly over.” “We are ... ... is true; soon despairing and using the effort as a pre- text to fall back lower. Dr. Middleton withdrew Sir Willoughby’s attention from the impercept... ... might be doubled for the asking: and all the books he requires: and these writers and scholars no sooner think of a book than they must have it. And ... ...ely chosen, and I profess to be a connoisseur,” he said. “I am poor in Old Saxony, as you know; I can match the country in Savres, and my inherit- anc...