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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... mantles on the wine of Champagne! Monsieur, the King’s elder Brother, has set up for a kind of wit; and leans towards the Philosophe side. Monseigneu... ...honour, who hast thy hands strengthened with dignities and moneys, and art set on thy world watch-tower solemnly, in sight of God, for such ends,— wha... ...rtois have has- tened to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant sum- mons: to w... ...chless of his time, glitters in the Versailles Oeil-de-Beouf; has his Bust set up in the Paris Hotel-de-Ville. Democracy stands inexpugnable, immeasur... ... Lafayette, for example, in Monseigneur d’Artois’ Bureau, took upon him to set forth more than one deprecatory oration about Lettres- de-Cachet, Liber... ...4 Janvier, 1792 (Gorsas’s Newspaper), in Hist. Parl. xiii. 83.) A miracle? Typical miracle? One knows not: only this one seems to know, that ‘the Keep...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... nature, full of faith, courage, and contempt for others, try earnestly to set forth as much as they can grasp of this inner law; but the vast majorit... ...e ground at noon, perfect, clear, and stable like the earth. But let a man set himself to mark out the boundary with cords and pegs, and were he never... ... intimately dic- tated to each man by himself, but can never be rigorously set forth in language, and never, above all, imposed upon an- other. The co... ...have none. An arctic torpor seizes upon men. Although built of nerves, and set adrift in a stimulating world, they develop a tendency to go bodily to ... ...s you tend to nod and become drowsy, here are twenty- four hours of Sunday set apart for you to hold counsel with your soul and look around you on the... ...m Fable is not very easy to define rigorously. In 107 Lay Morals the most typical form some moral precept is set forth by means of a conception purel...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...igher mental life which awakens during adolescence. One might then as well set up the thesis that the interest in mechan- ics, physics, chemistry, log... ...o a fraction of the sub- ject. And, although it would indeed be foolish to set up an abstract definition of religion’s essence, and then proceed to de... ...beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forevermore the ponderous equ... ...ate stages which dif- ferent individuals represent, yet when you place the typical extremes beside each other for comparison, you feel that two discon... ...wish, with- out disputing about words, to study first, so as to get at its typical differentia. This sort of happiness in the absolute and everlast- i... ...es us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of a set of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever. My obje... ...certainly as Edom or Moab, is de- clared to be no longer in place; and the typical form 109 William James of Christian prayer points to the abolition... ...ely his- toric, yet Stoicism and Epicureanism will probably be to all time typical attitudes, marking a certain defi- nite stage accomplished in the e... ...s are peculiar; but the melancholy presents two characters which make it a typical document for our present purpose. First it is a well-marked case of...

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Records of a Family of Engineers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e, and espy- ing one, I went and brought it. When the woman with me saw me set down the stone, she smiled, and asked what I was going to do with it. I... ...miled, and asked what I was going to do with it. I told her I was going to set it up as my Ebenezer, because hitherto, and in that place, the Lord had... ...tors over open fires of coal secured his appointment; and no sooner had he set his hand to the task than the interest of that employment mastered him.... ...ork- men, now in uninhabited, now in half-savage islands; his winters were set apart, first at the Andersonian Institution, then at the University of ... ...s-gang. And the zeal of volunteer patri- ots was at times embarrassing. ‘I set off on foot,’ writes my grandfather, ‘for Marazion, a town at the head ... ... a hun- dred a year! It shows a different reading of human nature, perhaps typical of Scotland and England, that I find in my grandfather’s diary the ...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...lly understood–especially upon the latter, without any appreciation of its typical character point- ing to Christianity as a final dispensation. 27 T... ...t the hands of his opponent, Abu Jahl, who had 33 The Koran threatened to set his foot on the Prophet’s neck when pros- trate in prayer. But the whol... ...uble cometh ease. Verily along with trouble cometh ease. But when thou art set at liberty, then prosecute thy toil. And seek thy Lord with fervour. SU... ... your dates.” So on they went whispering to each other, “No poor man shall set foot this day within your garden;” And they went out at daybreak with t... ...the night-comer is? ’Tis the star of piercing radiance. Over every soul is set a guardian. Let man then reflect out of what he was created. He was cre... ...LDED UP , 1 And when the stars shall fall, And when the mountains shall be set in motion, And when the she-camels shall be abandoned, And when the wil...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ations of modern date, they were mostly small, built entirely of wood, and typical of the most plodding unifor- mity of common life. Doubtless, howev... ...p wind out of a long-closed vault, the door of which has accidentally been set, ajar—here comes Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon! Forth she steps into the dusky... ...ss the ceiling, panelled with dark wood, and having a large chimney-piece, set round with pictured tiles, but now closed by an iron fire- board, throu... ... about to renew the enterprise of that departed wor- thy, with a different set of customers. Who could this bold adventurer be? And, of all places in ... ... since Hepzibah’s periwigged pre- decessor had retired from trade) at once set every nerve of her body in responsive and tumultuous vibration. The cri... ... fortune or failure of her shop might depend on the display of a different set of articles, or substituting a fairer apple for one which appeared to b... ...fable, however,—for such we choose to consider it, though, not impossibly, typical of Judge Pyncheon’s marital deportment,—that the lady got her death...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...mpany, with every external furtherance, it is of such internal quality as to set Neglect at defiance.... A work,” concludes 6 SARTOR RESARTUS the well... ...head alone, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a hear... ...ch I could reach by climbing, or still more eas ily if Father Andreas would set up the pruning ladder, my porringer was placed: there, many a sunset,... ...ll the Hierarch of this lower world?” It is maintained, by Helvetius and his set, that an infant of genius is quite the same as any other infant, only... ...enticeship, we have not much work to do; but, boarded and lodged gratis, are set down mostly to look about us over the workshop, and see others work, ... ...n those Paper bags, for such. Nothing but innuendoes, figurative crotchets: a typical Shadow, fitfully wavering, prophetico satiric; no clear logical Pi...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

...perma- nence. He dare not stop making hay while the sun shines; for it may set at any time. Men do not resist pressure of this intensity. When they co... ...Shaw swallow. These two cases of ordinary vaccination and home- opathy are typical of all the rest. Just as the object of a trade union under existing... ...ged. Nero argued in the same way about Rome. He em- ployed incendiaries to set it on fire; and he played the harp in scientific raptures whilst it was... ...t may be asked, do not I, as a public-spirited man, employ incendiaries to set it on fire, with a heroic disregard of the consequences to myself and o... ...deal that can be learnt from him? At all events, he is sacrificed, as this typical case shows. I may add (not that it touches the argu- ment) that the... ... strongly of the vivisectors who are so deeply hurt when their evidence is set aside as worthless. AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME THE ACHILL... ...nfidently expected to see the disease made harmless. It was not Jenner who set people declaring that smallpox, if not abolished by vaccination, had at...

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Joseph Andrews

By: Henry Fielding

...healthier, and happier days and ways. He came, moreover, just short of one set of men of letters, of whom we have a great deal of personal knowledge, ... ...e cramped by his single theological purpose, and his unvaried allegoric or typical form. Why Defoe did not discover the New World 18 Joseph Andrews o... ...ry men and women; some the warning that they are obviously caricatured, or set in designed profile, or merely sketched. But they are all alive. The fi... ... than causes habitually existing in the mind. Thirdly, that they are never set forth as the objects of ridicule, but detestation. Fourthly, that they ... ...hat the female readers are taught by the memoirs of Mrs Andrews is so well set forth in the excellent essays or letters prefixed to the second and sub... ...be his clerk; for which you know I am qualified, being able to read and to set a psalm. “I fancy I shall be discharged very soon; and the moment I am,... ...up from subscribing. “I can’t say but the term is apt enough, and somewhat typical,” said Adams; “for a man of large for- tune, who ties himself up, a...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...less accepted, still less paid and settled. However, I have Walden 17 not set my heart on that. Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell bas... ..., or that the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? “As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occa sion... ...shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle. With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and indepen dence, and t... ... the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free. Granted that the majority are able at last either to own o... ...less where man has broken ground. It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fash ions which the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who s... ...e see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any veg etable leaves; dest...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...dited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled. However, I have not set my heart on that. Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell bas... ...ou, or that the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? Economy 19 “As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not hav... ...s shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle. With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and independence, and t... ...to the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free. Granted that the majority are able at last either to own o... ..., unless where man has broken ground. It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so dili 22 Walden gently follow. The tr... ... we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable leaves; dest...

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Darya Alexandrovna Spent the Summer with Her Children at Pokrovskoe, At Her Sister Kitty Levin’S

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... and asked what they were talking of, and had got no answer. When they had set off on foot ahead of the others, and had come out of sight of the house... ...are for you!... Instead of that, I do it in these days like a task that is set me.” “Well, what would you say about papa?” asked Kitty. “Is he a poor ... ... work; now I can’t, and I’m ashamed; I do it just as though it were a task set me, I’m pretending....” “Well, but would you like to change this minute... ...“Would you like to do this work for the general good, and to love the task set you, as he does, and nothing else?” “Of course not,” said Levin. “But I... ... steps towards her. Chapter 5 “Varvara Andreevna, when I was very young, I set be- fore myself the ideal of the women I loved and should be happy to c... ...tepan Arkadyevitch, radiant in his rags, graceful, well-fed, and joyous, a typical Russian noble- man. And he made up his mind that next time he went ...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

... of a dark brown, with a regular, rather long, oval- shaped face, and wide-set dark grey , shining eyes; he was very *It would be neccessary to invent... ...multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the streng... ...tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. Alyosha would have found it strange and impossible ... ...e out into the portico to wait for the elder, but in a separate part of it set aside for women of rank. Madame Hohlakov was a wealthy lady, still youn... ...ything really was mixed up in a tangle in her head. The paragraph was very typical, and must have been a great shock to her, but, fortunately perhaps,... ...,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation. “I am poor, but… I won’ t say very honest, but…... ...assification and its character as a product of our social con- ditions, as typical of the national character, and so on, and so on. His attitude to th... ...he penalty. Let us remember, however, that he was a father, and one of the typical fathers of to-day . Am I unjust, indeed, in saying that he is typic... ...d daylight into a moneychanger’s shop with an axe, and with extraordinary, typical audacity killed the master of the shop and carried off fifteen hund...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...t became necessary to throw them overboard to save the crew. I say this to set myself right with respectable society; but I must still insist that if ... ...stianity after the capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, set up what was practically a new religious order, with new Scrip- tures an... ... virtue in money? The London School of Economics is, we must sup- pose, to set examination papers with such questions as, “T ak- ing the money value o... ...he fact being that she was short-sighted and could not see them. This is a typical illustration of the absur- dities and cruelties into which we are l... ...e garden of Eden. It was as if a preacher of our own time had described as typically British Frankenstein’s monster, and called him Smith, and some- b... ... sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. 79 Preface to Androcles and... ...aw jealous for it, because it marked them as the chosen people of God, and set them apart from the Gentiles, who were simply the uncircumcized. When P...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... at least the metal content of a .22-caliber handgun.Anyone who might have set off that detector would have been screened with a hand wand—a procedure... ... of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second metal detector. Mihdh... ...ot trigger the alarm and was permitted through the checkpoint. After Moqed set it off, a screener wanded him. He passed this inspection. 14 About 20 m... ...Hazmi cleared the metal detector and was permitted through; Nawaf al Hazmi set off the alarms for both the first and second metal detectors and was th... ...ate at 8:00, the Boeing 757’s takeoff was delayed because of the airport’s typically heavy morning traffic. 62 The hijackers had planned to take fligh... ...rorism officials at the State Department and the Pentagon stayed on, as is typically the case.The changes were at the cabi- net and subcabinet level a... ...owever, he decided that an event or an issue called for action, Rice would typically call on Hadley to have the Deputies Commit- tee develop and revie... ...cockpit would be about 10–15 minutes after takeoff, when the cockpit doors typically were opened for the first time.Atta did not believe they would ne... ...er divided into between four to seven battalions. Each battalion contained typically between three and four engine companies and two to four ladder co...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ived centred round the tattered dwelling of a sea-priest—one who had never set foot on black water, but had been chosen as ghostly coun- sellor by two... ...e two men stumbled, heavy limbed and heavy-eyed, over the ashes of a brick-set cooking-place, and dropped down under the shelter of the branches, whil... ...l word—a little lazy word among the Common Folk, saying (and none know who set that word afoot) that they weary of ye, Heavenly Ones.” The Gods laughe... ... waited till ‘twuz fixed each time. Y ou kin judge for yourselves. I don’t set up to be no better than my neighbours,—specially with my tail snipped o... ...ence I was three.” “Mean age; ugly age; teeth give heaps o’ trouble then. ‘Set a colt to actin’ crazy fer a while. You’ve kep’ it up, seemin’ly. D’ye ... ...h his bundle?” He stepped into the veran- dah, and shouted after the man—a typical new-joined subaltern’ s servant who speaks English and cheats in pr...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...d homely virtue. The tragic stage of De Maupassant’s life may, I think, be set down as beginning just before the drama of “Musotte” was issued, in con... ...eserved better of their country than Belfort and Strassburg, that they had set an equally valu- able example, and that the name of their little vil- l... ...general was told of it, he gave orders to hush up the affair, so as not to set a bad ex- ample to the army, but he severely censured the commandant, w... ...rrible night. I shall go away for a few weeks, for no doubt a journey will set 56 De Maupassant me up again. July 2. I have come back, quite cured, a... ...flags amused me like a child. Still, it is very foolish to make merry on a set date, by Government decree. People are like a flock of sheep, now stead... ...e Maupassant be, but grand in its monstrosity! “And you must note that the typical man of ac- tion so despised by the Countess was, in Bakounine, the ...

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Under the Deodars

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e- osophists and kiss Buddha’s big toe, did you? I tried to get into their set once, but they cast me out for a sceptic without a chance of im- 13 Ru... ...belong to a Service that ought to be able to command the Channel Fleet, or set a leg at twenty minutes’ notice, and yet you hesi- tate over asking to ... ...had once damned the collective eyes of his ‘intelligent local board’ for a set of haramzadas. Which act of ‘brutal and tyrannous oppression’ won him a... ...ric in its fashion of treating friendships. Certain attachments which have set and crystallised through half-a-dozen sea- 30 Under the Deodars sons a... ...nia from their ayahs taking them through damp pine-woods after the sun has set. In Cantonments, of course, the man’s size is more in request; these ar... ... many demanding consideration. Mr. Pagett would like to hear of one or two typical ex- amples. The Repeal of the Arms Act was at last named, and the s...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...arly in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitt... ...y, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it. Do... ...support such triviality. His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron gray hair and his deep eye sockets made him resemble the po... ...d the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the county on fire: hence he liked the prospect o... ... that,” Sir James said, as they continued walking at the rather brisk pace set by Dorothea. “I don’t quite understand what you mean.” “Your power of f... ...d further his thought as an instrument of larger inquiry. Was not this the typical pre eminence of his profession? He would be a good Middlemarch doct... ...what befell them in their after years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...arly in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitt... ... the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it. D... ...upport such triviality. His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the po... ...d the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the county on fire: hence he liked the pros- pec... ... that,” Sir James said, as they continued walking at the rather brisk pace set by Dorothea. “I don’t quite understand what you mean.” “Y our power of ... ...d further his thought as an instrument of larger inquiry. Was not this the typical pre-eminence of his profession? He would be a good Middlemarch doct... ...what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an...

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