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...ish, and be- came on the strength of that an universal favourite—it takes so little in this world of shipboard to create a popularity. There was, besi... ...riend Mr. Jones. It would be difficult to say whether I was his right-hand man, or he mine, during the voyage. Thus at table I carved, while he only s... ...self-help. The epic is composed of individual heroisms; it stands to them as the victorious war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of ... ...ge, we exchanged pieces of information, naming our trades, what we hoped to find in the new world, or what we were fleeing from in the old; and, above... ... these two syllables in the dark- ness of a night at sea. The day dawned fairly enough, and during the early part we had some pleasant hours to improv... ...as rendered; for nearly all with whom I conversed upon the subject were bitterly opposed to war, and attributed their own misfortunes, and frequently ... ...nd far less agreeable chapter of my emigrant experience. 63 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER II—COCKERMOUTH AND KESWICK—A FRAGMENT—1871 VERY MUCH AS A ... ...ok hold upon me. I went up, and, not without some trouble on my part, and much distrust and resistance on the part of Neddy, got him forced backwards ... ... my mind serves me to the last, I never shall, for it was then that I knew I loved reading. II TO PASS FROM HEARING literature to reading it is to tak...

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...d into their places, hide their faces; and then the intoned words, ‘When the wicked man – ‘rise among groins of arches and beams of roof, awakening mu... ...ed man – ‘rise among groins of arches and beams of roof, awakening muttered thunder. CHAPTER II - A DEAN, AND A CHAPTER II - A DEAN, AND A CHAPTER II ... ...sprightly air of breaking up the little conference, ‘I hope Mr. Jasper’s heart may not be too much set upon his nephew. Our affections, however laudab... ...ingly. ‘Isn’t it unsatisfactory to be cut off from choice in such a matter? There, Jack! I tell you! If I could choose, I would choose Pussy from all ... ...ess wife of a clergyman holding Corporation preferment in London City. Mr. Honeythunder in his public character of Professor of Philanthropy had come ... ... military force, but you were first to bring all commanding officers who had done their duty, to trial by court-martial for that offence, and shoot th... ...r duty, to trial by court-martial for that offence, and shoot them. You were to abolish war, but were to make converts by making war upon them, and ch... ...eant to open them. Or he would say: ‘Now see, sir, to what a position you are reduced. I will leave you no escape. After exhausting all the resources ... ...other sat bridling, with tears in her eyes, and the remainder of the party lapsed into a sort of gelatinous state, in which there was no flavour or so...

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...reat family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant’s life during its two earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit the ... ...on and rebellion, and partly to the licentious taste encouraged in Charles II’s time, and perhaps partly to the incorrect state of his works, he was A... ...” we shall meet this scandalous falsehood, by a rapid view of his fortunes during the century in ques- tion. The tradition has always been, that Shaks... ...wenty-six years after Shakspeare’s death commenced the great parliamentary war. This it was, and the local feuds arising to divide family from family,... ...even if we extend its duration to the surrender of the last garrison, that war ter- minated in the spring of 1646. And the brief explosions of insurre... ...akspeare’s posthumous reputation, it is cer- tain that the splendor of his worldly success must have done much to obliterate that effect; his admirabl... ... it is certain that to her chiefly this family was also indebted for their worldly comfort. Mary Arden was the youngest daughter and the heiress of Ro... ...ife- long duration; and, in the last place, considering the quality of the resistance by which it was met, and under what cir- cumstances of humble re... ...esolation of her position; what had been the grandeur of her conscientious resistance. Anxious that our readers should see Lamb from as many angles as...

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......................................................................... 107 II. THE BLUEBELL. ............................................................ ...eed, the blood self-spilt. More I recall not, yet the vision spread Into a world remote, an age to come— And still the illumined name of Jesus shed A ... ...e ray of Deity that rests on him, In my eyes makes Olympian glory dim. The world advances; Greek or Roman rite Suffices not the inquiring mind to stay... ...g and ne’er repine, Be calm in frenzy, smile at pain. Pale with the secret war of feeling, Sustained with courage, mute, yet high; The wounds at which... ...The preceding composition refers, doubtless, to the scenes acted in France during the last year of the Consulate.] FRANCES She will not sleep, for fea... ...ore; ‘T will sink like stone in placid pool, And calm close smoothly o’er. II. THE PARLOUR Warm is the parlour atmosphere, Serene the lamp’s soft ligh... ...nse overcast, Each moment denser grows. He nothing knows—nor clearly sees, Resistance checks his breath, The high, impetuous, ceaseless breeze Blows o... ...ong, a trumpet sounds afar; Bid me—bid me go Where Seik and Briton meet in war, On Indian Sutlej’s flow. 44 Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë...

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...ished divers histories, as well of contemplation as of other historial and worldly acts of great conquerors and princes, and also certain books of ens... ... all other Christian kings; for it is notoyrly known through the universal world, that there be nine worthy and the best that ever were, that is to wi... ...containeth xv chap- ters. The Fourth Book, how Merlin was assotted, and of war made to King Arthur, and containeth xxix chapters. The Fifth Book treat... ...ngland, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the Duke of Tintagil. An... ...ride on your way, for I will not be long behind. 12 Thomas Malory CHAPTER II How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mea... ...word. Explicit liber primus. Incipit liber secundus 54 Thomas Malory BOOK II CHAPTER I Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of... ...meth by the knight that he suffereth them to bind him so, for he maketh no resistance. No, said his host, that is truth, for an he would they all were... ...rrow, and the Damosel of the Lake rejoiced Sir Pelleas, and loved together during their life days. 138 Thomas Malory CHAPTER XXIV How Sir Marhaus rod... ...s moun- tain? for if ye were such fifty as ye be, ye were not able to make resistance against this devil: here lieth a duchess dead, the which was the...

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...the child's choice - why? A small champion for a new way, a new life, a new world of humanity? A sign of hope that in the future we can finally be ... ...oo, have gone to fight and die in honor, they say, on the Eastern front. But war or no war, nothing deflects from her goal of study. A levels 3 she... ... borders. Soldiers there, odd-looking helmets, the Americans, how come? 'The war's over,' she hears. Relief overwhelmed by fatigue and pain, and a doc... ...ved them! Isn't that an accomplishment more valuable than all the prizes the world of men offers and more precious than all the gold and jewels we hid... ...coming out of bad, warmth radiating from cold, sunshine pouring out of snow. Resistance makes us all grow stronger and fly ever higher on the wind o... ...inly is not. Had he fought against that foreign uncle on some distant shore during those warring days? And being on victory's side is deserving of a ...

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...ion of historical events or their analogy is often accompanied by high correlations between names of participants or places of battles (e.g. the Boer War and the Boxers' Revolt)....

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... the notions of correlation and resemblance by some examples. The resemblance between the names of (Aimé-Joseph) Darnand, head of the French Militia during the German occupation in World War II, and of the admiral (Jean Louis Xavier François) Darlan, commander of the army, navy and air force during the same period, is evident – except the correlation of 5/6, their first t...

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...t Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with Ind...

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... J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LAND... ...d Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVE... ...ass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The ... ...attle. -- Genghis demands the daughter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- ... ... -- A meeting with the Tlascalans -- Their Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A blo... ...e crew came in sight of the coast of a country nine days' sail from Greenland. During this time the ship was enveloped in such a fog and mist that at,... ...ished a comfortable habitation ,and made his home for a period of three years, during which time Gudrid bore her husband a son which she named Snorre.... ...o made such an onslaught upon the city that it fell into his hands with small resistance; but while if was the custom to demolish or burn the buildin... ...former voyage had sent him on his way with presents and benedictions. Forcible resistance gave no security, for what native arms could withstand the P...

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...tionaries or encyclopedias) - poems which exist by their absence; - after-war literature: pages and pages bombed by filthiness, triteness, and non­ p... ...ache/Aesthetics.pdf. [4] Smarandache, Florentin, "Collected Papers", Vol. II, University of Kishinev Press, Kishinev, 1997. [5] Soare, Ion, "Parado... ...ons with sets 1991 MSC: 00A30, 03-02, 03B50 1.1. Foreword. Because world is full of indeterminacy, a more precise imprecision is required. Th... ...nd the momentum of particles, and, because the particles in the subatomic world don't have exact positions, we better calculate their neutrosophic p... ...be false in another one, and vice versa; - attempts to make peace in the war of ideas, and to make war in the peaceful ideas; - measures the stab... ...cause He has to prove it, therefore God is not immortal. Divine Paradox (II): Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws? If God can be a... ...there is no doubt that you need to defend your attack from the opponents' resistance. As a defender, it is not doubt that you need to attack the att... ...he hazard: sickness of players, referee's mistakes, atmospheric conditions during the game). These parameters act on players' psychology. 4.4. Rema...

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...ally a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work impossible also ga...

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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 3...

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............................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUT...

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...DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM....................................... ...scourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world’s business, how they have shaped themselves in the world’s history, w... ...ke it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They... ...y their union first constitute the T rue Religion.” [May 8, 1840.] LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM. F ROM THE FIRST RUDE TIMES of Paga... ...ral: herdsmen, carriers, traders, generally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no o... ...ike; in his eighteenth year one finds him a fighter following his Uncle in war. But perhaps the most significant of all his journeys is one we find no... ...worthy chiefly of dismissal by us. Mahomet had been wont to retire yearly, during the month Ramadhan, into solitude and silence; as indeed was the Ara... ...ortieth year, when having withdrawn to a cavern in Mount Hara, near Mecca, during this Ramadhan, to pass the month in prayer, and meditation on those ... ...comes out once into public view; he, since no other is willing to come: in resistance to a public grievance. I mean, in that matter of the Bedford Fen...

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...hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the ... ...he dullness that cannot be interested in anything beyond its own immediate world, nor care for what it neither sees, touches, tastes, nor puts to any ... ... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...hat the same character sur- vived in a Slesvig family, now extinct. It was during the wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick III of Den... ... gallantry. In like manner, Robert Bruce, in the time of his wander- ings, during the year 1306, saved his whole band by his sole exertions. He had be... ...a tell That here, obeying her, we fell’. On the little hillock of the last resistance was placed the figure of a stone lion, in memory of Leonidas, so... ...or- saken the Jewish superstition, that the T emple was in ruins, and that resistance was in vain; and exhorted him to obtain gratitude and honor for ... ... citizens of Calais guarded their walls. England was invaded by King David II. of Scotland, with a great army, and the good Queen Philippa, who was le...

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...rance of the fiendish heart was to be expressed and made sensible. Another world has stepped in; and the murderers are taken out of the region of huma... ...t he was born of woman; both are conformed to the image of devils; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and ma... ...ire a thief per se, and, as to Mr. Howship, it is well known that he makes war upon all ulcers; and, without suffering himself to be se- duced by thei... ... he had money, and (what is very funny,) he had no right to make the least resistance; for, according to himself, irresistible power creates the very ... ...th edition, Oxford, 1665,) I find, that out of 229,250, who died in London during one period of twenty years in the seventeenth century, not more than... ...him with the nature of my errand; at the same time advising him to make no resistance, which would be mutually unpleasant. So saying, I drew out my to... ...t, as this would have interfered with the requisite gravity of the company during the earlier toasts, I overruled the call. After the national toasts ... ... other’s toes. The philosopher, therefore, sees clearly the necessity of a war, and regrets that sometimes nations do not wait for grounds of war so s... ..., (as an old tradition of all public car- riages from the reign of Charles II.,) that they, the illustrious quaternion, constituted a porcelain variet...

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... and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Si... ...a torch in the bark of some fisherman,’ which is the shining star of a new world. Bruce is caged in Abyssinia, surrounded by the gory horrors which sh... ...f the seamen, who had been remarkably inattentive and remiss in their duty during great part of the storm, now poured upon deck, where no exertions of... ... content with chalking ‘No Gas!’ and ‘Down with Gas!’ and other such angry war whoops, on the few back gates and scraps of wall which the limits of ou... ...ing a bar of his arm. T wo ideas are generally present to the British mind during these cer emonies; first, that it is necessary to make for the cell... ... gallop into the Swartz Kop location and exterminate the whole kraal. When war is afoot among the noble savages—which is always—the chief holds a coun... ...up and put ‘em under the pillow where I found ‘em. That’s the story, sir.’ II.—THE ARTFUL TOUCH ‘ONE OF THE MOST beautiful things that ever was don... ...ately adjoining the beadle’s box; Mr. Tiddypot made a desperate attempt at resistance, but was overpowered by Mr. Chib (a remarkably hale old gentle ...

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...t-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office into perspective: the business of running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This wa...

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...efore bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office into pe... ...eemed only fitting for Francis, the First, to do it. But Alfredo was puzzled. During the last eight years the Pope had never broken with any Vatican... ... newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to every... ...hairman of the Armed Services Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation;... ... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...arried me,” Alex said and grabbed her trying to kiss her neck. Marian feigned resistance, and soon they were playfully wrestling on the sofa, when..... ...which he did, but more that he felt she fit into his celebrity image. Michael II was born eighteen months later. Brand’s reputation as one of the... ...d on an immediate Council of the Families by order of the Oyabun, Oshiro. The resistance was intense, but Kyogi had used Gallucci's words, 'This is a...

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...................................................................... 292 ON WAR .......................................................................... ... the young and the gay; I was healthy; I was strong; I was prosperous in a worldly sense! I owed no man a shilling; feared no man’s face; shunned no m... ...e youthful loveliness of my angelic wife. After sitting for above an hour, during which time she talked with a simplicity and good feeling that struck... ...and Miscellaneous Papers superior in understanding and in knowledge of the world, whom, therefore, she leaned to for protection. On the other hand, sh... ...could by their rank venture upon such an irregularity, absented themselves during the critical period from the office which corresponded with the gove... ...d not to suffer a recapture, now that we were free of the crowds that made resistance hopeless. This Agnes easily per- ceived; and that, by suggesting... ... in that; and Kate, though un- fortunately without arms, was now fixed for resistance. Mr. Urquiza entered first—‘Sound the trumpets! Beat the drums!’... ...ity. But the person, after all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always... ...visited Athens in the Peloponnesian war, or London in the reign of Charles II. There also the martyrs were counted by myriads, and the period of the d...

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.............................................................. 12 Chapter 1.1.II.Realised Ideals. .......................................................... ............................................ 104 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ................................................ 455 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War . ........................................................................ ...is grand-nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world; resolute Choiseul, the abrupt proud man, disdaining him, or even for... ...t to glide into Gascony, to rebuild Chateaus there, (Arthur Young, Travels during the years 1787-88-89 (Bury St. Edmunds, 1792), i. 44.) and die inglo... ...ves; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should th... ...nger-stricken vagabonds to be sent wandering again over space—for a time. ‘During one such periodical clearance,’ says Lacretelle, ‘in May, 1750, the ... ... It must be resisted; wise was that maxim, Resist the beginnings! Nay were resistance unadvisable, even dan- gerous, yet surely pause is very natural:... ... is very natural: pause, with Twenty- five Millions behind you, may become resistance enough.— The inorganic mass of Commons Deputies will restrict it...

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............................................................... 6 Chapter 1.1.II. Realised Ideals. ......................................................... ............................................ 142 Chapter 1.5.III. Broglie the War-God. ..................................................................... ...s grand- nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world; resolute Choiseul, the abrupt proud man, disdaining him, or even for... ...t to glide into Gascony, to rebuild Chateaus there, (Arthur Young, Travels during the years 1787-88-89 (Bury St. Edmunds, 1792), i. 44.) and die inglo... ...ves; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should th... ...er-stricken vaga- bonds to be sent wandering again over space—for a time. ‘During one such periodical clearance,’ says Lacretelle, ‘in May, 1750, the ... ...ious shadow of him hovers long in all heads and hearts. Neither, while the War yet lasts, will Gibraltar surrender. Not though Crillon, Nassau-Siegen,... ... It must be resisted; wise was that maxim, Resist the beginnings! Nay were resistance unadvisable, even dangerous, yet surely pause is very natural: p... ...is very natural: pause, with Twenty-five Millions be- hind you, may become resistance enough.—The inorganic mass of Commons Deputies will restrict its...

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.... She was not pretty enough—she had a bad profile. 13 Henry James CHAPTER II T wo months later Bernard Longueville was at Venice, still under the imp... ...t have the honor of whatever brilliancy attaches, in the estimation of the world, to such pursuits. It was not, indeed, a brilliancy that dazzled Bern... ...ed superficially, as well as fundamen- tally. Nature had sent him into the world with an armful of good gifts. He was very good-looking—tall, dark, ag... ... however, he was far from being a fool. He had a number of talents, which, during three or four years that followed his leaving college, had received ... ...ss stood with Miss Vivian and what he had reason to expect and hope—a week during which their relations had been of the happiest and most comfortable ... ...nt presented itself at first to Bernard’s mind as a sort of declaration of war. The girl had guessed that she was to be made a subject of speculative ... ...is and New York, of Baden and Rome. Imagine the situation! I shall make no resistance whatever to it; I shall simply let him perceive that conversing ... ... hardly knew whether to regard these few words as a further declaration of war, or as an overture to peace; but he lost no time in complying with the ...

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...of existence which he believes to be the only happy one attainable in this world. On reading this little story one is surprised that the Russian censo... ... has presented many traits which are common to human nature throughout the world, and this gives an added interest to the book. The language is simple... ...eyes that darted with rapidity from one object to another. This gentleman, during almost all the journey thus far, had entered into conversation with ... ...and avoided conversation with me as much as with the others. At nightfall, during a stop at a large station, the gentleman with the fine baggage—a law... ...f in his cloak, lifted his cap, and, taking his bag, left the car. CHAPTER II S CARCELY HAD THE old man gone when a general conver sation began. “Ther... ...es “Women, like queens, keep nine-tenths of the human race as prisoners of war, or as prisoners at hard labor. And all this because they have been hum... ...he act, to my inner sense, had an extraordinary clearness. I perceived the resistance of the corset and then something else, and then the sinking of t... ...estion: ‘Has it happened or not? Yes, it has happened. ’ “I remembered the resistance of the corset, and then…. ‘Yes, it has happened. Yes, it has hap... ...n), and Ivan (a fool)—and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went to war, to serve the Czar; Tarras went to a city and became a merchant; and Iv...

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...abandon it. An emeute of disappointed fishers was feared, and two ships of war are in the bay to render assistance to the mu- nicipal authorities. Thi... ...0. TUESDAY. – The riots were a hum. No more has been heard; and one of the war-steamers has deserted in dis- gust. The Moonstone is frightfully intere... ...eard he was extravagant. It is quite possible to be too good for this evil world; and unquestionably, Mrs. Hutchinson was. The way in which she talks ... ...Dieu! a good stretch for me), and passed one of my favourite places in the world, and one that I very much affect in spirit when the body is tied down... ...he rest, it was quite a good German lesson. There was only one contretemps during the whole interview – the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (... ... me, and returned with the news that it was Cobie (Scobie, I suspect); and during his absence the rest were pouring into my ears the fame and acquirem... ...olo, with his white hat, red guide-books, and bad German, was the piece-de-resistance from a humorous point of view; and I had the satisfaction of kno... ...e. – Ever your affectionate and horrible atheist, R. L. STEVENSON. CHAPTER II STUDENT DAYS – ORDERED SOUTH, SEPTEMBER 1873-JULY 1875 Letter: TO MRS. T... ...ory is somewhat scandalous, containing an illegitimate father for piece of resistance… . Ever yours, R. L. S. 113 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V o...

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...st love: here she had been to Philip flame along the hill-ridges, his rose-world in the dust-world, the saintly in his earthly. And how had she reward... ...a of the woman, and there is little of a portrait in that; but he was of a world where the elemental is more individual than the concrete, and unconce... ...g be simpler? He had familiarised himself with the thought of his advocacy during those four years. His reluctance to come would have been accountable... ... of the word shook up all the chap- ters to pour out their poison. CHAPTER II MR. ADISTER MR. PATRICK O’DONNELL drove up to the gates of Earlsfont not... ...e same time have struck their imaginations. Offend them, however, and it’s war, de- clared or covert. And I must admit that their best friend can too ... ...and left. ‘Never mind the boots, my boy. Your legs will be under the table during dinner, and we’ll institute a rummage up here between that and the p... ...thout showing excite- ment. ‘Didn’t I say so? Patrick’s a hero for love or war, my dear. He stood neat and trim from the silk socks to the sprig of ne... ...heir personal attractions: they can credit individual women with powers of resistance. He was not vain to the degree which stupefies the sense of ther...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...n drawn plainly with the ap- proval of the mass of mankind. 15 H.G. Wells II II II II II THE LEA THE LEA THE LEA THE LEA THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENT... ...e Central Powers may open a cleft among the Allies that has never appeared during the actual war. Have the British 16 In the Fourth Year settled, for... ... of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as Sir Harry Johnston a... ...her it will resist openly, become the centre and sym- bol of a reactionary resistance, and have to be abolished and swept away altogether everywhere, ... ...er organization (Anarchy); (2) through a majority vote by delegates. CLASS II. It is supposed that the common man cannot gov- ern, and that government...

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...r and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk...

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...Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor i... ...‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves... ... then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking di... ...ty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phot... ...coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer that introduced me to modern Information Technology. ... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unl... ...ssor Hart asserts that his studies of copyright tell him that the world‘s resistance to mass publication of information has been extremely powerful ... ...red presses, to Xerox copier and the Internet, I have studied the world‘s resistance to mass publication of information, and a powerful resistance i...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is... ...or Frederick. — The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brun... ... Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All th... ...d; and if it were otherwise in Upper Germany, it was owing to the vehement resistance of the Catho- lics, who had there the preponderance. Each party,... ...e credit. Far more honourable was his second appear- ance in the political world. Perceiving that his repeated remonstrances with the Emperor were una... ...him King of Bohemia. So hard a fate befell this Emperor; he was compelled, during his life, to abdicate in favour of his enemy that very throne, of wh... ...ch at length converted the anxiety of the Protestants into utter distrust. During the Spanish perse- cutions in the Netherlands, several Protestant fa... ...very position that was the least tenable, must be opened by the sword, and resistance increased at each fresh step they took, for the outrages of thei...

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...N?1907....................................................................................................................................... 67 PART II?LIFE............................................................................................................................................................. 71 AUTOCRACY AND WAR?1905 .....................................

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.................................................................... 67 P ART II—LIFE ...................................................................... ...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...of grass have died upon a dying earth, man, indomitable by his training in resistance to misery and pain, shall set this undiminished light of his eye... ...ken of with tenderness and regret, for he is not immortal—he is only dead. During his life the simple man whose business it ought to have been to clim... ... the peace of his conscience—no man, I say, likes to be beaten with sticks during the greater part of his existence. From what one knows of his histor... ... the conduct of the menaced Governments carried with it no sug- gestion of resistance. It was no doubt, the effect of neither courage nor fear, but of...

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.....................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES AT CASTLEWOOD........................... 19 CHAPTER III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS PAGE TO ISABELLA .....................................

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...ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELA TES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES A T CASTLEWOOD ............. ...TER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORA TION OF KING JAMES II. ...... 42 CHAPTER VI THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS.—THE DEA TH OF THOMAS, THIR... ... poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of independence. Neither my father nor my mother ever wore powder in th... ...er’s love and fidelity failed him. And it is since I knew him entirely—for during my mother’s life he never quite opened himself to me—since I knew th... ...hing to put an end to this prosing. I don’t say No. I can’t but accept the world as I find it, including a rope’s end, as long as it is in fashion. CH... ...nd on his sword, and his order on his cloak, which he had from the Emperor during the war on the Danube against the Turk. Seeing the great and undenia... ...word, and his order on his cloak, which he had from the Emperor during the war on the Danube against the Turk. Seeing the great and undeniable likenes... ...ndliness and kind- ness. But an hour since, he had felt quite alone in the world: when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing... ..., or cry, “Fie, my lord, remember my cloth!” but with such a faint show of resistance, that it only provoked my lord further. Lord Castlewood’s sto- r...

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.............................................. 25 EPISTLE I.?TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*............................................ 26 EPISTLE II.?TO A LADY. ........................................................................................................... 33 EPISTLE III.20........................................................................................

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...MPLE, LORD COBHAM.*............................................ 26 EPISTLE II.—TO A LADY. ............................................................... ...RGE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN VOL. II. M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. THE GEN... ...S AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused ... ...mpression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what has he done, f... ...he judged of beauty by fashion; he sought for truth in the opinions of the world; he judged the feelings of others by his own. The capacious soul of S... ..., the breaking of a flower-pot or the fall of a China jar; for the tug and war of the elements, or the deadly strife of the passions, “‘Calm contempla... ...ampered refinement of senti- ment!” A great deal of discussion took place, during the famous controversy about Pope between Bowles and Byron, on the q... ... charity should own, Must act on motives powerful, though unknown. P. Some war, some plague, or famine, they foresee, Some revelation hid from you and... ... along with them divers others, who promote her empire by connivance, weak resistance, or discouragement of Arts; such as half-wits, taste- less admir...

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...N THE QUAKERS .............................................................................................................................. 6 LETTER II.?ON THE QUAKERS .......................................................................................................................... 10 LETTER III.?ON THE QUAKERS ........................................................

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.................................................................... 6 LETTER II.—ON THE QUAKERS ........................................................... ...placed with the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. There he was taught during seven years, and his genius was encour- aged in its bent for literat... ...ty-five. He was here when George I. 6 Letters on England died, and George II. became king. He published here his Henriade. He wrote here his “History... ... many other Christians for- swear themselves on the holy Gospels. We never war or fight in any case; but it is not that we are afraid, for so far from... ...teen hundred years. But there were always a few Quakers con- cealed in the world, who carefully preserved the sacred fire, which was extinguished in a... ...d to foot, and travelled from one village to another, ex- claiming against war and the clergy. Had his invectives been levelled against the soldiery o... ...ubject to revolutions as well as empires. Arianism, after having triumphed during three cen- turies, and been forgot twelve, rises at last out of its ... ... a proper period of time. Were Car- dinal de Retz to return again into the world, neither his elo- quence nor his intrigues would draw together ten wo... ...he same, all the bodies we endeavour to move must meet with an insuperable resistance. With regard to the great vortices, they are still more chi- mer...

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...lay which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the profes... ... futilization in that overheated drawingroom atmosphere was delivering the world over to the control of ignorant and soulless cunning and energy, with... ... came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds. As a rule, however, the two were apart and knew little of one anoth... ... science has been as recklessly neglected by Govern- ments and electorates during my lifetime as sanitary science was in the days of Charles the Secon... ...y because they had not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The W... ... 10 Heartbreak House peutic specialists of all sorts flourish as they did during this half century of the drift to the abyss. The registered doctors ... ...have been resisted far more fiercely than the Kaiser’s. Successful as that resistance has been, it has piled up a sort of National Debt that is not th... .... Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. 75 GB Shaw ACT II The same room, with the lights turned up and the curtains drawn. Ellie c...

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...1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ... common against all satirists, Thackeray had to bear with them. The social world he looked at did not show him heroes, only here and there a plain goo... ...rical way of an English father patting a son on the head. He described his world as an accurate observer saw it, he could not be dishonest. Not a page... ...ge the issue. For the sole alternative is distinct antago- nism, a form of war. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill has brought us to that definite line. Ireland hav... ...ake in order to check the advance of the Italian fourth corps d’armee. The resistance to the undertaking of Cialdini may be, on the part of the Austri... ...Pisicelli, whose family had left Naples in 1860 out of devotion to Francis II.; two Carraciolos, of the historical family from which sprung the unfort... ...alt-in short, people afflicted with all sorts of infirmities—flock thither during the fair, and are not wanting even on the other days of the year. Th... ...pes, who—as the story runs—pretended to have received some wonderful grace during their earthly existence. Amongst the grand array of illustrious pers...

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...g smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it--dark without the daybeams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader?...

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...s as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day- beams of th... ...n the crowd. It was noon in Chepe. And George de Barnwell was alone. V ol. II. WE HA VE SELECTED the following episodical chapter in prefer- ence to a... ...rs are familiar. Up to this passage (extracted from the beginning of V ol. II.) the tale is briefly thus: The rogue of a Millwood has come back every ... ...s. Inspired by Millwood and love, George robs the till, and mingles in the world which he is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the... ...gayly to the health of the company assembled. ’Twas the third he had taken during the sitting. Presently, and with a graceful salute to the Society, h... ...he combatants, and they retired to their several col- leges for refection. During the boat-race, a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghil... ...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...w, and none more so than Philip Fogarty, the humble writer of this tale of war. Our embrasure was luckily bomb-proof, and the detach- ment of the Onet... ...and the whole of his face in a beautiful foam of lather. Mr. Bar made some resistance.— ”Don’t think of it, Mr. Cox,” says he; “don’t trouble yourself...

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...the siege of T arragona it lost its celebrated hero, Bianchi, the man who, during the campaign, had wagered that he would eat the heart of a Spanish s... ...uke of Alba encourage him in thinking 6 Juana that the worst trade in the world was the involuntary exchange of a crown for a bullet? Hence, Montefio... ... never be of any consequence to him if by chance they survived the present war, which seemed to be one of extermination. He relied on his face to win ... ...ntment of their hopes by the expectation of future fame. Both regarded the war in its re- sults, not its action; they simply considered those who died... ...they had decorated her face, he bought the picture. Montefiore, left alone during this episode, no- ticed, nearly opposite the convent, the house and ... ...riages, pages, maids, palaces, pictures, journeys (like those of Catherine II.); in short, the life of a queen, despotic in her caprices and obeyed, o... ..., a prostitute. In those days women of that sort had a certain rank in the world of which nothing in our day can give an idea. Ninon de l’Enclos and M... ...at once to come here and see to her daughter’s safety.” 17 Balzac CHAPTER II AUCTION THE FOREGOING NARRATIVE changed the intentions of the Ital- ian ... ...ul to narrators to explain the sudden denouements, the imprudences, or the resistances of love. Montefiore kept his eyes fixed on the exquisite black ...

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...ing out. He kissed them and promised to bring them back bonbons and peanuts. II II II II II MRS. P ONTELLIER’S EYES were quick and bright; they were ... ...man descended the steps and strolled over toward the croquet players, where, during the half hour before dinner, he amused himself with the little Pon... ...ssed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled b... ...ittle greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world. Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better. ... ...e as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an indi vidual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponder ous weight of wi... ...ng, uneventful existence; and then a great crash. That meant the nearness of war; the revolt of slaves; confusion ending in fire and flame through whi... ... in the living present. And they made room between them for this young life. II II II II II LA P ETITE HAD DETERMINED upon trying to fit herself to ... ...in 107 it from the dead soldier’s neck. He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, al ways ... ...with visage uplifted to the gray sky in an agony of supplication. A spasm of resistance and rebellion seized and swept over her. Why was the spring he...

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...Maupassant. Not one has preserved that reputation with more ease, not only during life, but in death. None so completely hides his personality in his ... ...at gossip, for example, which avers that Maupassant was a high liver and a worldling. The very number of his volumes is a protest to the contrary. One... ...er of these great romances had no love for pleasure and had not tasted the world, but that for him these were secondary things. The psychology of his ... ...d their impulses: Stendhal, so alert, so mo- bile, after a youth passed in war and a ripe age spent in vagabond journeys, rich in experiences, immedia... ...the same minuteness of detail and brilliancy of style, flowed from his pen during the twelve years of his literary life. Although his genius asserted ... ...le, blue eyes, and the scar from a sword-cut, which he had received in the war with Austria; he was said to be an honorable man, as well as a brave of... ...eating rain. The bells had not rung since their arrival. That was the only resistance which the invaders had met with in the neighborhood. The parish ... ...n what passes in the solitary souls of those wandering old, English dames. II. “We became acquainted in a rather singular man- ner. I had just finishe... ...once!’ and a cork flew out with the noise of a pistol, and in spite of the resistance of the priest and the kind Sister, the three hussars sitting by ...

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...n they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not in... ...no small thing, had he done no more than to support himself and his family during so many years by writing, without ever being in debt, or in any pecu... ... the same amount of reading and research. And to this is to be added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employ... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...sons, and a collection (Hawkesworth’s, I be lieve) of V oyages round the World , in four volumes, beginning with Drake and ending with Cook and Boug... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...y opinion and feeling from that time forward. 23 John Stuart Mill CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II MORAL INFL MORAL INFL MORAL ... ... a belief keeps the ideal wretch edly low; and opposes the most obstinate resistance to all thought which has a tendency to raise it higher. Believer... ...on in elections from the House of Commons to the Judges, made a determined resistance to all other improvements; and after one of our most important p...

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...y accomplish the rest to the utmost of my power. 5 History of the Britons II. The Apology of Nennius Here begins the apology of Nennius, the historio... ...ther on account of frequent deaths, or the often re- curring calamities of war. I pray that every reader who shall read this book, may pardon me, for ... ...ain it exactly the same. 6 History of the Britons 6. The first age of the world is from Adam to Noah; the second from Noah to Abraham; the third from... ... our Lord Jesus Christ will come to judge the living and the dead, and the world by fire. The first Julius. The second Claudius. The third Severus. Th... ...r the death of Aeneas his father; and his mother Lavinia concealed herself during her pregnancy; he was called Silvius, because he was born in a wood.... ...from Brutus, and rose from the family of Brutus. Aeneas, after the T rojan war, arrived with his son in Italy; and Having vanquished T urnus, married ... ...rty ships, each of which contained thirty wives; and having remained there during the space of a year, there appeared to them, in the middle of the se... ...ith an ignorant king, and a fluctuating people, incapable of opposing much resistance, replied to Vortigern, “We are, indeed, few in number; but, if y... ...m of the Romans, and the present Caermarthen. (Hist. Of Manches- ter, book ii. c. 1.) See also Nennius, sec.47. 43. At length V ortimer, the son of V ...

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...ontent. But the lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. What at- tracts and impresses us in E... ...such enemies have always been popular. Don Juan became such a pet that the world could not bear his damna- tion. It reconciled him sentimentally to Go... ...carry on Nature’s most urgent work, does not prevail against him until his resistance gathers her energy to a climax at which she dares to throw away ... ...elf in- stead of blindly stumbling hither and thither in the line of least resistance. Hence there is a driving towards truth in all books on matters ... ...sonates him, to sing “Dalla sua pace” (if he can) at any convenient moment during the representation. Ann was sug- gested to me by the fifteenth centu... ...st of us, Ramsden. The cup of our ignominy is full. 69 Man & Superman Act II On the carriage drive in the park of a country house near Richmond a mot... ...nite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyous- ness. T o his sculptor he ow...

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...ss to pass as a possible fish porter of bad character in casual employment during busy times at Billingsgate. His manner shows an ear- nest dispositio... ... captains, but of thr Maaker. And there are gentlemen and gentlemen in the world, espaecially in these latitudes. Which sort of gentleman is he? DRINK... ...ve matters as they were for many years; for I had my own posi- tion in the world to make. But at last I made it. In the course of a holiday trip to th... .... It is by this time starry night. 25 Captain Brassbound’s Conversion ACT II Midday. A roam in a Moorish castle. A divan seat runs round the dilapida... ...he railway from the Cape to Cairo. Who are you, that a nation should go to war for you? If you are missing, what will your newspapers say? A foolhardy... ...op down. Does it catch you at all under the arm? BRASSBOUND (miserably—all resistance beaten out of him). No. LADY CICELY. That’s right. Now before I ... ...Ci- cely puts on her hat and pins it to her hair, the Sheikh gazing at her during the process with timid admiration. DRINKWATER (chuckling). She’ll ma... ...e hands of them that set the sea on fire but yesterday with their ships of war? Where are the Franguestani cap- tives? LADY CICELY. Here we are, Cadi.... ...ght. (Brassbound, seeing that his men are hopelessly outnumbered, makes no resistance. They are made prisoners by the Cadi’s followers.) SIDI (attempt...