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...t’s not Lent yet, and people are keen on diversions, and so I say again, the great thing is that Ivan Matveitch should preserve his incognito, don’t l... ...odile, and we will refuse to believe it. That is how it can be managed. The great thing is that he should wait; and why should he be in a hurry?” ... ...he sake of accumulat ing facts.” “You mean as statistics. Well, I am no great authority on that subject, indeed I am no philosopher at all. You s... ...idea about a special commission is not altogether absurd. I certainly have a great deal to report, both from a scien tific and from an ethical point ... ...I shall teach the idle crowd. Taught by experience, I shall be an example of greatness and resignation to fate! I shall be, so to say, a pulpit from w... ...r these interesting strangers, there are ponds in the capital and rivers and lakes outside it. Why not breed crocodiles at Pargolovo, for instance, or...

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...tive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they h... ...e first. “The fruit of the Crab in the forests of France” is said to be “a great resource for the wild boar.” Not only the Indian, but many indigenous... ...ey ripen late, and they are still, perhaps, as beautiful as ever. I make a great account of these fruits, which the farmers do not think it worth the ... ... to those of a larger size, in order that the rind and kernel may bear the greatest propor- tion to the pulp, which affords the weakest and most water... ...ythe; Iduna’s Apples, and the Apples which Loki found in the Wood;** and a great many more I have on my list, too nu- merous to mention,—all of them g... ...wild apples have lost some of their brilliancy, and have chiefly fallen. A great part are decayed on the ground, and the sound ones are more palatable...

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...has disappeared, and those who have no taste for abstruse meta physics will greatly prefer the earlier dialogues to the later ones. Plato is consciou... ...rly approaches to the Hegelian identity of Being and Not being. Nor will the great importance of the two dia logues be doubted by any one who forms a... ...science. But he is not to be regarded as the original inventor of any of the great logical forms, with the exception of the syllogism. There is little... ...traces of a similar tem per may also be observed in the description of the ‘great brute’ in the Republic, and in the contrast of the lawyer and philo... ...assages, notwithstanding the decline of the style, retain the impress of the great master of language. But the equably diffused grace is gone; instead... ...animal hunting; the one going to the sea shore, and to the rivers and to the lakes, and angling for the animals which are in them. THEAETETUS: Very tr...

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...ed, and it is still perennial grass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” accor... ... nearly a mile wide. Between Sudbury and Wayland the meadows acquire their greatest breadth, and when covered with water, they form a handsome chain o... ... and when covered with water, they form a handsome chain of shallow vernal lakes, resorted to by nu merous gulls and ducks. Just above Sherman’s Brid... ...s season. The shore is more flat on the Wayland side, and this town is the greatest loser by the flood. Its farmers tell me that thou sands of acres ... ...r than Sudbury, only to see how much coun try there is in the rear of us; great hills, and a hundred brooks, and farm houses, and barns, and haystack... ... out not only in ’75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare, only they never got tim... ...t as the aged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prairie, it concerns us to attend to the nature... ... or the water birds to trans port them to the mountain tarns and interior lakes. There are fishes wherever there is a fluid medium, and even in cloud... ...inding us of trim Persian gardens, of Haroun Alraschid, and the artificial lakes of the East. As we thus dipped our way along between fresh masses of ...

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... thou, for whose delight the war horse first Sprang from earth’s womb at thy great trident’s stroke, Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom Thre... ...of the skies shall hold thee soon, Whether to watch o’er cities be thy will, Great Caesar, and to take the earth in charge, That so the mighty world m... ...g cranes And succory’s bitter fibres cease to harm, Or shade not injure. The great Sire himself No easy road to husbandry assigned, THE GEORGICS 6 An... ...ped and grim With angry showers: down falls the height of heaven, And with a great rain floods the smiling crops, The oxen’s labour: now the dikes fil... ...les wandereth The glowing orb Cyllenian. Before all Worship the Gods, and to great Ceres pay Her yearly dues upon the happy sward With sacrifice, anig... ...ld I celebrate the sea that laves Her upper shores and lower? or those broad lakes? Thee, Larius, greatest and, Benacus, thee With billowy uproar surg... ... rich enow With various treasures, yet broad acred ease, Grottoes and living lakes, yet T empes cool, Lowing of kine, and sylvan slumbers soft, They l...

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... like those of other men. For they are courageous because they are afraid of greater dangers, and temperate because they desire greater pleasures. But... ...ttempts to found on a philosophical assumption that all opposites—e.g. less, greater; weaker, stronger; sleeping, waking; life, death—are generated ou... ...ore she ab stains from bodily pleasures—not from a desire of having more or greater ones, but because she knows that only when calm and free from the... ...ss; he desires to be impar tial, but he cannot help feeling that he has too great an in terest in the truth of the argument. And therefore he would ... ...on and number. At first he had imagined himself to understand differences of greater and less, and to know that ten is two more than eight, and the li... ... pass into the depths of the earth and return again, in their course forming lakes and rivers, but never descending below the centre of the earth; for... ...anean channels and find their way to their several places, forming seas, and lakes, and rivers, and springs. Thence they again enter the earth, some o...

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...cted authority. Accept, then, here, the homage of my gratitude, which, how great soever it is, will never attain the height of your eloquence and your... ...harbovari”), then died away into single notes, growing qui- eter only with great difficulty, and now and again suddenly recommencing along the line of... ... ridiculous. 6 Madame Bovary every word in the dictionary, and taking the greatest pains. Thanks, no doubt, to the willingness he showed, he had not ... ...sier’s daughter who had fallen in love with his good looks. A fine man, a great talker, making his spurs ring as he walked, wearing whiskers that ran... ...d 8 Madame Bovary hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang... ...anges; and finally , on the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and a small Cupid balancing himself in a choc... ...e let herself glide along with Lamartine meanderings, listened to harps on lakes, to all the songs of dying swans, to the fall- ing of the leaves, the... ... last year told me that one could not picture to oneself the poetry of the lakes, the charm of the waterfalls, the gigantic effect of the glaciers. On... ...rt into the abyss. She did not know that on the terrace of houses it makes lakes when the pipes are choked, and she would thus have remained in her se...

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...................................................................... 30 THE GREAT CHANGE ................................................................. ... Christian than Pilate was, or you, gentle reader; and yet, like Pilate, I greatly pre- fer Jesus to Annas and Caiaphas; and I am ready to admit that ... ...tific and modern a thinker as you will find anywhere. I grant you I know a great deal more about economics and politics than Jesus did, and can do thi... ... Barabbasque standards a person of much better character and standing, and greater practical sense. I have no sympa- thy with vagabonds and talkers wh... ...by his contemporaries as a dangerous anarchist and blasphemous madman, was greater than his judges. WAS JESUS A COWARD? I know quite well that this im... ...f people are hungry, and when his disciples are terrified by storms on the lakes. He asks for no reward, but begs the people not to mention these powe...

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... opinion of my friend, about some official business which had occasioned a great deal of trouble. “If it is any point requiring reflection,” observed ... ...t, before I begin, let me caution you that this is an affair demanding the greatest se- crecy, and that I should most probably lose the position I now... ... this reason I did not despair. The habits of the minister gave me, too, a great advantage. He is frequently absent from home all night. His servants ... ...r or cabinet in Paris. For three months a night has not passed, during the greater part of which I have not been engaged, per- sonally, in ransacking ... ...lly, in ransacking the D— Hotel. My honor is interested, and, to mention a great secret, the reward is enormous. So I did not abandon the search until... ...rn trees—bosky shrubberies—flocks of golden and crimson birds—lily-fringed lakes—meadows of violets, tulips, poppies, hyacinths, and tuberoses—long in...

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...e had to lay Ansell’s tablecloth; for there was not a breath stirring. The great elms were mo- tionless, and seemed still in the glory of midsum- mer,... ...in the far East their flanks were 5 EM Forster shining in the rising sun. Great herds of them stood browsing in pastures where no man came nor need e... ...nt eyes. In the morning he had read Theocritus, whom he believed to be the greatest of Greek poets; he had lunched with a merry don and had tasted Zwi... ...none of these joys. He had crept cold and friendless and ignorant out of a great public school, preparing for a silent and solitary journey, and prayi... ... in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” he said nervously, limping towards the door (he was... ..., lives in the choicest scenery—among rocks, forests, emerald lawns, azure lakes. To keep people out he has built round his domain a high wall, on whi...

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... nor the black flocks of birds flying over the huge puddles that were like lakes, nor the marvelous fathomless sky, into which it seemed one would hav... ...terate peasant, the head of a tanning business, unintelligent, rude, and a great friend of the watchman’s — and goodness knows to whom she could ap- p... ...im from ruin. His wife! Life was so ordered that here he was living in his great house alone, and she was living in a God- forsaken village alone, and... ...earth, where the snow was still lying, there stood wagons that had brought great bottles of crude sulphuric acid. There were a great many people in th... ...that she collected from the children for the firewood and the watchman the greater part she kept for herself. The guardian thought the same as the pea... ... long time Vassilyev would not consent to go, but in the end he put on his greatcoat and went with them. He knew nothing of fallen women except by hea... ... and cleaving the storm-clouds. I have seen green forests, fields, rivers, lakes, towns. I have heard the singing of the sirens, and the strains of th...

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...we expected. Not if you open them. The dog-roses are too sweet. There is a great hedge of them over the lawn—magnificently tall, so that they fall dow... ...ut to be- gin from King’s Cross. Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various rail- way termini.... ...rs of St. Pancras— implied a comment on the materialism of life. Those two great arches, colourless, indifferent, shoulder- ing between them an unlove... ...my flow of Tewin Water. She skirted the parks of politicians. At times the Great North 15 EM Forster Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinit... ...ne, and performing other actions with which this story has no concern. The great car began to rock, and the form of Mrs. Munt, trying to explain thing... ...ht this would be, water being safer when it moved about. “And your English lakes—Vindermere, Grasmere they, then, unhealthy?” “No, Frau Liesecke; but ...

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...n Cournos INTRODUCTION Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol (1809- 1852), who h... ...French, and English words. Between them the two friends, by force of their great genius, cleared away the debris which made for sterility and erected ... ...y knows nothing of the past of this blooming region of Russia.” Indeed, so great was his enthusiasm for his own land that after collecting material fo... ...which, even if nature had made it inactive, was compelled to go forward to great affairs and deeds because of its neighbours, its geographic situation... ...d Asiatic indiffer- ence, niavete and cunning, an intense activity and the greatest laziness and indulgence, an aspiration to devel- opment and perfec... ...ble steppe-birds of every sort, deer, and goats. Or they went out upon the lakes, the river, and its tribu- taries allotted to each kuren, to throw th...

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...th a young girl. Lucy tried to look demure, but could not help feel- ing a great fool. No one was careful with her at home; or, at all events, she had... ...king, undersized men—wearing each a knapsack covered with mangy fur, and a great- coat which had been cut for some larger soldier. Be- side them walke... ...ly of the paper in which it was wrapped, partly of hair oil, partly of the great unknown. But it gave them strength to drift into another Piazza, larg... ..., would get full marks. In this exalted mood they reached the steps of the great church, and were about to enter it when Miss Lavish stopped, squeaked... ... giving us your rooms last night. I hope that you have not been put to any great inconvenience.” “My dear,” said the old man gently, “I think that you... ...or my brother. Per- haps Italy bores him; you ought to try the Alps or the Lakes.” The old man’s face saddened, and he touched her gently with his han...

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...meal. The men, holding their oval mess kits in front of them, filed by the great tin buckets at the door, out of which meat and potatoes were splashed... ...e were of plain boards, and some were still mere skeletons. Above his head great piled, rose-tinted clouds were moving slowly across the im- measura... ... a general, like Caesar, he was to conquer the world and die murdered in a great marble hall; a wandering minstrel, he would go through all countries ... ... go through all countries singing and have intricate endless adventures; a great musician, he would sit at the piano playing, like Chopin in the engra... ... and snored in the dark barracks. A certain terror held him. In a week the great structure of his romantic world, so full of many colors and harmonies... ...m Cranston, Wisconsin. D’you know that coun- try? It’s a great country for lakes. You can canoe for days an’ days without a portage. We have a camp on...

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...n life but little written about heretofore. Like the other stories of this great writer, “Polikushka” has a moral to which we all might profitably giv... ..., sud- denly, after a pause. “No, I have not had that pleasure.” “It is no great pleasure. I am Posdnicheff.” New silence. He blushed, then turned pal... ...a very gay student, one of those who are called good fellows,—that is, the greatest of scamps,— and who had taught us to drink and play cards, took ad... ...scribed down to the smallest details the feel- ings of the characters, the lakes and brambles around which they walk; but, when it comes to describing... ...nd brambles around which they walk; but, when it comes to describing their GREAT love, not a word is breathed of what HE, the interesting character, h... ...uxury of life is demanded and sustained by woman. Count the factories; the greater part of them are engaged in making feminine ornaments. Millions of ...

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...r him. “Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a great deal from the deceased,” said Prince V asili to him, handing him a de... ...v (everyone constantly consid- ered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her ... ...h a worthy and excellent man, our dear V yazmitinov….” Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the honored guests sat, everyon... ...’s devilish ugly!” thought Anatole. Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement 33 Tolstoy by Anatole’s arrival, thought in another way. ... ...ourienne that passionate animal feel- ing which was apt to master him with great suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. ... ...e Russian force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to atta...

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... experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An important writer... I find great pleasure in his work. Really beautiful and distinguished.” ALICE S.... ...erception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBAUM, historian: “...written with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...bri... ...er Bartlett, whose kindness, love of beauty and of place will always be greatly missed. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL ... ... early morning yellow. 9 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, ... ...ervant; he moved forward then and gripped me hard, twisting my flesh, his great muscles rising in his hands. “Take me to my room... You haven’t for... ...r the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes to the Dantesque. Savonarola’s ashes were thrown into the Arno... I ...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has cre...

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...ON ODUCTION THE K ORAN admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making... ...itico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day. The secr... ...m ever passed on Muhammed’s style has in fact been penned by the prophet’s greatest British admirer, Carlyle himself; and there are prob- ably many no... ... are prob- ably many now who find themselves in the same dilemma with that great writer. The fault appears, however, to lie partly in our difficulty t... ...red but fervent mind, try- ing to realise itself and to assimilate certain great truths which have been powerfully borne in upon him, in order to impa... ...so called, but the great masses of fresh water in the Nile, Tigris, inland lakes, etc. 3 The Gos- pel. 4 This idea was probably suggested by Muhammad...

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...e, to resist provides. I The sacred armies, and the godly knight, That the great sepulchre of Christ did free, I sing; much wrought his valor and fore... ...y shall gladly take thee. XVII “I, messenger from everlasting Jove, In his great name thus his behests do tell; Oh, what sure hope of conquest ought t... ...ide therefore, That Heaven on him above this charge had laid, But, for his great Creator would the same, His will increased: so fire augmenteth flame.... ...ly to his faith Some provinces rebellious long before: And after conquests great, have in the same Erected trophies to his cross and name. 9 Torquato... ...courage move, Now every passage plain and open lies: What lets us then the great Jerusalem With valiant squadrons round about to hem? XXVIII “Lords, I... ...keeps, And thence to moisten all the earth he brings Seas, rivers, floods, lakes, fountains, wells and springs: XXXVIII Whence Ganges, Indus, V olga, ...

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...advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselve... ...r arrows, which for the lack of iron are tipped with bone.” Strabo and the great geographer, Ptolemy, also mention this curious people. There is evide... ...Canon Isaac T aylor, and Professor Sayce have but very recently awak ened great interest in this question, in Europe especially, by the reading of pa... ...ected with the powers and elements of nature must be given its fall value, great care has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance... ...wer grades of the Finnish gods are sometimes subservient to the deities of greater pow ers, especially to those who rule respectively the air, the wa... ... moon and moon god; and Taehti and Ottava designate the Polar star and the Great Bear respectively, as well as the dei ties of these bodies. The Sun ... ... the other water hosts living not only in the sea, but also in the rivers, lakes, cataracts, and fountains, is Ahtolaiset (inhabitants of Ahtola), “W ... ...flies, “feath ers from the wings of God.” As to inanimate nature, certain lakes, rivers, springs, and fountains, are held in high reverence. In the ... ...f the Finnish people, sitting by the fireside of the aged, row ing on the lakes with the fishermen, and following the flocks with the shepherds. In 1...

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...uch a tiny compass,” said another set; “and this, to be sure, is England’s great poet!” Besides these personal objections, there were others of a more... ... one hand, Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thru... ...ntiate the assertion, that Pope has sunk in estimation. Had he sunk to any great extent, the Commissioners would not have dared to put his name and st... ...and Abelard,” are probably in every good library, public and pri- vate, in Great Britain. Can we say as much of Chaucer and Spenser? Passages and line... ...sle found, he tells us, the most cul- tivated and literary portion of that great community warmly imbued with an admiration of Pope. What more would, ... ...:’ And when in youth he seeks the shady woods, Oh! let him fly the crystal lakes and floods, Nor touch the fatal flowers; but, warn’d by me, Believe a... ... clerk, and, muttering, seals his eyes, As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle first, and then a second makes; What Dulness dropp’d amon...

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...s, was by the command of God driven out of heaven with all his crew into the great deep. Which action passed over, the poem hastes into the midst of t... ...e Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heav’nly Muse,... ...ilton 4 Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of G... ...smal situation waste and wild, A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness... ...ds And this empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with mo... ...any a Region dolorous, O’re many a Frozen, many a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death, which ... ...s good, and bless’d them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and in the Seas And Lakes and running Streams the waters fill; And let the Fowle be multiply’... ...tingal Ceas’d warbling, but all night tun’d her soft layes: Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bath’d Thir downie Brest; the Swan with Arched neck Betw...

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...is to be settled by a religious doctrine; but the diffi- culties are still greater in this direction. First of all, this in- volves a thorough and jud... ...men of history have been criminals; their lives and teachings have been in greater or lesser conflict with the doctrines, habits and be- liefs of the ... ...ipulate business and property for purely selfish ends? What of many of our great financiers who use every possible reform and conventional catch word ... ...he most servile and obedient to the opinions and life of the crowd are the greatest enemies to change and individuality. The fact is, none of the gene... ...eresting portion of this docu- ment: And the Lord showed me [Peter] a very great country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and... ...e may be a convenient city “flat.” The woods, the fields, the streams, the lakes, the wide com- mon with plenty of room, have always made their natura... ...y leaves civilization and goes to the woods to kill wild animals or to the lakes and streams to fish. The call to live a simple life, free from the co...

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...ot I by that strong arm be slain, And lie by noble Hector on the plain, Or great Sarpedon, in those bloody fields Where Simois rolls the bodies and th... ...cks of Scylla you have tried; Th’ inhuman Cyclops and his den defied. What greater ills hereafter can you bear? Resume your courage and dismiss your c... ... rules the growing state, Who fled from T yre, to shun her brother’s hate. Great were her wrongs, her story full of fate; Which I will sum in short. S... ...h Dido was; with such becoming state, Amidst the crowd, she walks serenely great. Their labor to her future sway she speeds, And passing with a gracio... ...aws this vital air, Nor we, his friends, of safety shall despair; Nor you, great queen, these offices repent, Which he will equal, and perhaps augment... ...d Virgil 74 And, shiver’d by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below. ... ...ky, When, homeward from their wat’ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia’s lakes their notes return. Not one who heard their music from afar, Would th... ... Now made the Nais of the neighb’ring flood. “O nymph, the pride of living lakes,” said she, “O most renown’d, and most belov’d by me, Long hast thou ... ...in pomp th’ imperial bird of Jove: A plump of fowl he spies, that swim the lakes, And o’er their heads his sounding pinions shakes; Then, stooping on ...

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...from both the wives of Mathew Grant. In the fifth descending generation my great grandfather, Noah Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- ... ...the same house, but he knew him after- wards, and regarded him as a man of great purity of charac- ter, of high moral and physical courage, but a fana... ... Georgetown. He supported Jackson for the Presidency; but he was a Whig, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat for hig... ...ld, knew only back to his grandfather. On the other side, my father took a great interest in the subject, and in his researches, he found that there w... ...ved. Mindful of his own lack of facilities for acquiring an education, his greatest desire in maturer years was for the education of his children. Con... ...er at Resaca had become filled at places, leaving a succes- sion of little lakes. The timber that had formerly grown upon both banks, and for a consid... ...etween the western base of Rio Frio and the City of Mexico there are three lakes, Chalco and Xochimilco on the left and T excoco on the right, extendi... ... the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit,... ...alley, and the surface of the land is only a little above the level of the lakes, and, except to the south-west, it was cut up by deep ditches filled ...

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...it, partly on account of its flashiness, but principally on account of its greater rest, is a good commentary on the proposition with which we began. ... ...also, to the exaggerated employment of mirrors. We line our dwellings with great British plates, and then imagine we have done a fine thing. Now the s... ...t the Am- monites proved wanting to their own interests? Methinks it is no great stretch of generosity to allow us lambs for the altar of the Lord, re... ...ircumvallatory trench, hewn from the solid rock, was defended by a wall of great strength erected upon its in- ner edge. This wall was adorned, at reg... ...any thing else. My host was of a less excitable temperament, and, although greatly depressed in spirits, exerted himself to sustain my own. His richly... ...en brooks—in the gleaming of sil- ver rivers —in the repose of sequestered lakes—in the star- mirroring depths of lonely wells. He perceives it in the... ...t a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters—lone and dead,— 165 V o... ...ill waters—still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone waters, lone and dead,— Their sad ... ...golden west? A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sunshine, And crystal lakes, and over-arching forests, And mountains, around whose towering summi...

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...fficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will b... ... and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to ... ...t, no doubt, deeply 9 The Federalist Papers engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every State, and one, which it may be imagined,... ...those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of necessity resort t... ...nment instituted in times so inaus- picious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer. ... ...s of the Union—I allude to the fisheries, to the navigation of the Western lakes, and to that of the Missis- sippi. The dissolution of the Confederacy...

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...ally pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution, impressing a political or other... ... significance and tendency of his Friend’s V olume; and then, at length, with great circumlocution, hinted at the practicability of con veying “some k... ...ly Courtesy of inward nature, the visible rudiments of such speculation? But great men are too often unknown, or what is worse, misknown. Already, whe... ...edek, without father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expre... ...m mended by the highest Names,” had been promoted thereby to a Name merely. Great, among the more enlightened classes, was the admiration of this new... ...her: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now v...

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...le with habits of dissipation. This does not mean that the writer of these great romances had no love for pleasure and had not tasted the world, but t... ...nief, or of a Merimee, and of a Moliere or a Shakespeare among the classic great, reveals, to a person of instinct, a nervous sensibil- ity of extreme... ...tion above, Gustave Flaubert. These meetings of a pupil and a master, both great, are indeed rare. They present, in fact, some troublesome conditions,... ...s adventures. 12 De Maupassant From this point of view, examine the three great romances of the Master from Rouen, and you will see that he has not l... ... from Rouen, and you will see that he has not lost sight of this first and great- est principle of his art, any more than he has of the second, which ... ...ole deep valley, filled up the crevasses, obliterated all signs of the two lakes and covered the rocks, so that between the high summits there was not...

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...ts back to the original in point of impenitence; but in piety he falls off greatly. T rue, he also proposes to repent; but in what terms? “Oui, ma foi... ...m the empress Catherine. Byron was as little of a philosopher as Peter the Great: both were instances of that rare and useful, but unedifying variatio... ...n- temporaries. The resultant unscrupulous freedom of thought made Byron a greater poet than Wordsworth just as it made Peter a greater king than Geor... ...on Juan’s super- natural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and ... ...ous superiority of Woman’s natural position in this matter is telling with greater and greater force. As to pulling the Nonconformist Conscience by th... ..., has a dream in which his Mozartian ancestor appears and philosophizes at great length in a Shavio-Socratic dialogue with the lady, the statue, and t...

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...w Home Secre- tary or chief of police without an idea in his head that his great-grandmother might not have had to apologize for, had refused to “reco... ... plagues of which Egypt never dreamed. They were all as preventable as the great Plague of London, and came solely because they had not been prevented... ...e- parture in scientific doctrine which is associated with the name of the great naturalist Charles Darwin began, it was not only a reaction against a... ...every ten minutes. T ravelling must be stopped, or, that being impossible, greatly hindered. All pretences about fine art and culture and the like mus... ... for Lynch law. The climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a ge... ...? ELLIE. Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with. In this coun...

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...tiently with his cap, angrily flung it near the stove. Then taking off his greatcoat, he threw that down beside it, and, without saying good-evening, ... ...rasol she had taken out of her mother’ s hands. “Poverty,” said Rodion, “a great deal of anxiety — you see no end to it. Here, God sends no rain … our... ... ravine, or a bundle of hay dropped by a passer-by, the brief glimmer of a great muddy puddle, or, suddenly , a shadow with vague outlines would come ... ...fearing, but she did not keep her maiden purity. It is a sin, of course, a great sin, there’s no doubt about it, but to make up for it there is, maybe... ... now I remember that our master had taken another mis- tress and mamma was greatly disturbed. Our trial lasted nearly two years… . Mamma was condemned... ...you that the fish are not at all what they used to be. In the seas, in the lakes, and in the rivers, there are fewer fish from year to year. In our Pe...

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...expectedly kind and pleasant smile. “There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to Pierre. “I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre... ...ierre, “was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole responsibilit... ...sper. “What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that as- sassination shows greatness of soul?” said the little prin- cess, smiling and drawing her wor... ... heeding her. “No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Na- poleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolu- 12 War & Peace tion, suppres... ...rder he had restored it to the right- ful king, I should have called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. “He could not do that. The people only ga... ...e Russian force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to atta...

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... sult has differed from my expectation in this only, that I have pleased a greater number, than I ventured to hope I should please. For the sake of va... ...this assistance, had I not believed that the poems of my Friend would in a great measure have the same tendency as my own, and that, though there woul... ...e; because in that situation our elemen tary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity and con sequently may be more accurately contemplated a... ..., it is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated by the great and simple affections of our nature. This ob ject I have endeavoured... ...k more philosophically, of moral attachment when early associated with the great and beau tiful objects of nature, as in The Brothers; or, as in the... ...e birds in May. When we began to tire of childish play 3 Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to different Fishermen, in parcel...