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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little gir...

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... Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ...e beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last... ...derstood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and ha... ... in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, now. But some say, history moves in circles; and that may be very well argued; I have argued i... ...best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too muc... ...dremos.” “Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.” —Spanish Proverb. W hile Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under... ...of them. Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus— Jewish antiquities—oh dear!—devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hy...

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...et of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. But in what sense you understood these, or ... ...y that a genus comprehends the subordinate species. He has even a personal history: he has passed through cer- tain adventures, faced certain dangers,... ... deadly enmity, to be explained only by one who should know the mysterious history of both parties from the eldest times. It is extraordinary, however... ...r doctrinal religions. The Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of mor... ...he same line of argument applies to all the compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , w... ...ge- ment of a learned prince, Ptolemy Philadelphus, by an asso- ciation of Jewish emigrants in Alexandria. It was, as the event has shown in very many... ...ge that we remember can do justice to the first of these acts, except that Spanish legend of the Cid, which assures us that, long after the death of t...

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...the newly invented Yankee word of ‘‘loafer’’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. These men stood about doing nothing, with their cloak... ...ich colors, thrown over their shoulders with an air which it is said that a Spanish beggar can always give to his rags; and with great politeness an... ...might stand too, while those who saw theirs blown off, after uttering a few Spanish oaths, gathered their cloaks over their shoulders, and started ... ...the boats, eat our supper, changed our clothes, gave (as is usual) the whole history of our day’s adventures to those who had staid on board, and hav... ...n their own country within the recollection of many of them. Certainly, the history of no people on the globe can show anything like so rapid an adva... ...ring. In order to understand these, it will be necessary to give the whole history of a hide, from the time it is taken from a bullock until it - 77... ... Congregational, a Chinese Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogue. The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The C...

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...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...thousands of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and s... ...2001, he sent Britani to the United States to case potential economic and “Jewish” targets in New Y ork City. Furthermore, dur- ing the summer of 2001... ...ican opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he described as a global Jewish movement centered in New Y ork City that sup- posedly controlled the... ...Atta, by the late 1990s Binalshibh was decrying what he perceived to be a “Jewish world conspiracy.” He proclaimed that the highest duty of every Musl... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer...

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...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ...egree— Third degree— Automatisms, their frequency among religious leaders— Jewish cases— Mohammed— Joseph Smith— Religion and the subconscious region ... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now ... ...things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing. The universe i... ...autobiographies, or other individual documents. Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic who flour- ished—or rather who existed, for there was little... ...vely strong minds and characters we find quite opposite results. The great Spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ec- stasy as far as it has often ... ...d monistic in Vedanta philosophy. I called it pan- theistic; but the great Spanish mystics are anything but pantheists. They are with few exceptions n... ... was altogether conscious of what he was doing.[323] Here, to take another Jewish case, is the way in which Philo of Alexandria describes his inspirat...

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... such woe, T rembled with ire—I did not fear to show. And now, the envious Jewish priests have brought Jesus—whom they in mock’ry call their king— T o... ...ntly trace A stalwart form, a massive head, A firm, determined face. Black Spanish locks, a sunburnt cheek A brow high, broad, and white, Where every ... ...ne my thoughts can see, Comes back a word, a passing tone From thy strange history. Sometimes I seem to see thee rise, A glorious child again; All vir... ...And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to cho...

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...hings of the pen. Yet not altogether worthless, perhaps, as materials of local history. Here, no doubt, statistics of the former commerce of Salem mig... ...reafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me... ... when the antiquary of days to come, among the sites memo rable in the town’s history, shall point out the locality of THE TOWN PUMP. THE SCARLET LE... ...kable irresponsibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Heste... ...nworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wi... ...justly be claimed by some mariners — a part of the crew of the vessel from the Spanish Main — who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. ... ...phets of Israel were constrained, only with this difference, that, whereas the Jewish seers had denounced judgments and ruin on their country, it was ...

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... profound, sense- less, and dead a degree of drunkenness had I not read in history that Attalus having, to put a notable affront upon him, invited to ... ... language with some illustration out of authors most in use, especially in Spanish, and among the Spanish he whom they called Marcus Aurelius—[ Guevar... ... means deliver- ing his family and himself from slavery and dishonour. The Jewish women, after having circumcised their children, threw them and thems... ... to be mixed with a little consent of the forced party. The ecclesiastical history has several examples of devout persons who have embraced death to s... ... “Un doulx nenny, avec un doulx sourire Est tant honneste.”—Marot. History is everywhere full of those who by a thousand ways have exchanged a... ... ing that preparation all commerce with Venus. In a certain country of the Spanish Indies men were not permitted to marry till after forty age, and ye... ...poets have avoided affec- tation and the hunting after, not only fantastic Spanish and Petrarchic elevations, but even the softer and more gentle touc...

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...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...chin of this fantastical appearance, and gave him the look of one of those Jewish types which serve artists as models for Moses. His lips were so thin... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...ocked down. “What is all this about?” “Come along, and I will tell you the history of it as we go.” By fair means or foul, Raphael must go along with ... ...the world as stronger spirits refuse. Then there is poverty in splendor, a Spanish pauper, concealing the life of a beggar by his title, his bravery, ...

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...O GICO PR PR PR PR PRODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO From the Spanish of Calderon. Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824; d... ... Spirit that pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman; or is angered at the consequences of that necessity, which is... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...s put into our hands when children, called the Bible, the purport of whose history is briefly this: That God made the earth in six days, and there pla...

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...tand god- mother. The Quartier de l’Europe was a revival of the same idea; history repeats itself everywhere in the world, and even in the world of sp... ...is wizened youth was the work of a stepmother. Herewith begins the curious history of a prodigal son of Frankfort-on-the-Main—the most extraordinary a... ...self when fashionable Paris filled the house,—if these could have seen the history played out upon the stage before the prompter’s box, they would hav... ...tinguishable among the others for a certain dash that artists call flafla; Spanish wreaths in bold relief; Flemings and Germans with quaint figures, t... ... life abounds; in the filthy Roman Ghetto, for instance, with its swarming Jewish population, where ma- laria is unknown. Perhaps, too, the sight of t...

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...es dying in bed, making exemplary ends and sound- ing speeches; and polite history, more servile than their instru- ments, embalming them! At last, Jo... ...sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters. Ther... ... to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow... ...like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of V esuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slip- pers, Tuscan hairpins, Car... ...g back and resting her elbow on it negligently, fanned herself with a rich Spanish fan of black and gold. The attendant gondola, having skimmed forwar... ...my love, she may find people who can match her.’ A significant turn of the Spanish fan towards Fanny’s bo- som, indicated with great expression where ... ...ur and Mr Rugg arrived at the Counting-house. But an elderly member of the Jewish persuasion, preserved in rum, followed them close, and looked in at ...

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...nto a glass bottle I had secretly used for making that intoxicating fluid, Spanish-liquorice-water, up in my room: diluting the stone bottle from a ju... ...stick the point into me. I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. It bega... ...e detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. I won- dered what was the history of all the odd litter about the room, and how it came there. I wond... ...wn-stairs, but we were not quick enough either. Standing at the door was a Jewish man with an unnatural heavy smear of eyebrow, who caught my eyes as ... .... “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of his history. There is but one way that I know of. I must ask him point-blank.” ... ...tions?” “I did. Why, they would have it so! So would you. What has been my history, that I should be at the pains of entreat- ing either them, or you,...