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...es are mentioned in the entire volume, and that Muhammad’s name occurs but five times, although he is all the way through addressed by the Angel Gabri... ...rcy, the Merciful, would more fully express the original Arabic. The first five verses of this Sura are, in the opinion of nearly all commentators, an... ...s Sura as in the Lord’s Prayer. It is recited several times in each of the five daily prayers, and on many other occassions, as in concluding a bargai... ...e change in the rhyme, and from the more po- lemical tone of the following five verses, it may be inferred that they were added at a somewhat later pe... ...term is also applied to Pharaoh, Sura lxxxix. 9, p. 54. He is said to have fastened the Israelites to stakes, and then subjected them to various torme... ...ing of the God of Mercy, we will chain a Satan to him, and he shall be his fast companion: For the Satans will turn men aside from the Way, who yet sh... ... we threatened them, we will surely gain the mastery over them.9 Hold thou fast therefore what hath been revealed to thee, for thou art on a right pat... ...de everything distinct by distinctiveness. And every man’s fate 9 have we fastened about his neck: and on the day of resurrection will we bring forth... ...ur, yet shall they not be of favoured. And we will appoint Satans as their fast companions; for it was they who made their present and future state se...

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... to the olden religion, the Roman Catholic Church in Germany is still held fast; and pre- carious, indeed, would be its situation were this anchor to ... ... Prot- estants? — if, in the midst of this clashing of opinions, they held fast to the authority of their own church, for which, in part, there spoke ... ...d a prompt instrument of the church, he left Bavaria, after a residence of five years, to assume the government of his heredi- tary dominions. The Est... ...sessions in the East and West Indies, was under Philip III. and Philip IV. fast verging to decay. Swollen to a sudden great- ness by unfruitful gold, ... ...s want of real strength. “I will take this town,” said he, “though it were fastened by a chain to the heavens.” The Emperor himself, who might have ca... ...y the Duke of Savelli, had surren- dered to the king, and Colberg, after a five months’ siege, was starved into a capitulation. As the passes in Upper... ...consent of the other; and the treaty itself was to con- tinue in force for five years. 176 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War Great as was the str... ...hing was ready and awaiting the signal, which was to be given by cannon at five o’clock in the morning. The signal, however, was not given for two hou... ... pute with him the passage over that river. On his rear was Tilly, who was fast recruiting his force, and would soon be joined by the auxilia- ries fr...

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...e Aeneid; all Horace, except the Epodes; the Fables of Phaedrus; the first five books of Livy (to which from my love of the subject I voluntarily adde... ...uced to my father by Mr. Ricardo, I think in 1819 (being then about twenty five years old), and sought assiduously his society and conversation. Alrea... ...d writings have since manifested to the world. Mr. Austin, who was four or five years older than Mr. Grote, was the eldest son of a retired miller in ... ...k. In May, 1823, my professional occupation and status for the next thirty five years of my life, were decided by my father’s obtaining for me an appo... ...rgue and re argue for the liberty of expressing them. I wrote a series of five letters, under the signature of Wickliffe, going over the whole length... ... most essential of “securities for good government.” In this, too, he held fast only to what he deemed essentials; he was com paratively indifferent ...

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... you must not expect me to adopt your inexplicable, fantas- tic, petulant, fastidious ways: you must take me as I am, a reasonable, patient, consisten... ...ge, who knows whether we might not have done as he did, unless indeed your fastidiousness had saved you from the empress Catherine. Byron was as littl... ...hes of inspiration, from the performer who has to talk at any cost through five acts; and if you also do what you must always do in Shakespear’s trage... ...“un- scrupulousness,” meaning the total disregard of masculine 14 GB Shaw fastidiousness, with which the woman pursues her purpose. It does not occur... ...woman pursues her purpose. It does not occur to them that if women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race... ... and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. Men, on the other han... ... marriages. The commer- cial class had not then completed the first twenty-five years of its new share of political power; and it was itself selected ... ... be pretty well obliged to me for my influence. He leaves you two thousand five hundred for your trouble. He leaves Tavy a dowry for his sister and fi... ... a sort of mud that sticks to the judge’s ermine or the cardinal’s robe as fast as to the rags of the tramp. Come, Tavy: don’t look so bewildered: it ...

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...eams, I bring you my passionate rhyme. HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES FASTEN your hair with a golden pin, And bind up every wandering tress; I ba... ... youth, Or an old man upon a winter’s night. IN MEMORY OF ALFRED POLLEXFEN FIVE AND TWENTY years have gone Since old William Pollexfen Laid his stro... ...w that I had seen, had seen at last That girl my unremembering nights hold fast Or else my dreams that fly If I should rub an eye, And yet in flying flin... ... COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the ... ... the moon can reach, Until it plunge into the sun; And there, free and yet fast, Being both Chance and Choice, Forget its broken toys And sink into it... ...of death and birth. My self. Montashigi, third of his family, fashioned it Five hundred years ago, about it lie Flowers from I know not what embroider... ...l dead men are drunk. 328 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE PILGRIM I FASTED for some forty days on bread and buttermilk, For passing round the b...

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...wish my companions to see me. The state of ecstasy may have lasted four or five minutes, al- though it seemed at the time to last much longer. My comr... ... waited for me ten minutes at the cross of Barine, but I took about twenty-five or thirty min- utes to join them, for as well as I can remember, they ... ...more have we to say now than God said from the whirlwind over two thousand five hundred years ago?”[29] If we turn to the sanguine onlooker, on the ot... ...urious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the ... ...on” which, gathering mo- mentum for a century, has within the past twenty- five years swept so rapidly over Europe and America, we see the ground laid... ...able, would come in a half- hallucinatory form as if they were voices, and fasten on his mind and buffet it be- tween them like a shuttlecock. Added t... ...e museum-skulls that did not daily through long years of the foretime hold fast to the body struggling in despair of some fated living victim. Forms o... ...nd in the water. I saw that I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, etc., pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes th... ...als, whether in pub- 267 William James lic or in private life; on luxury, fastidiousness, and over-refinement, on all that tends to increase the pain...

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...tinued high. From the beginning of April espe- cially they stood at twenty-five each week, till the week from the 18th to the 25th, when there was bur... ...rnment encouraged their devotion, and appointed public prayers and days of fasting and humiliation, to make public confession of sin and implore the m... ...l private families also, as well of one opinion as of another, kept family fasts, to which they admitted their near relations only. So that, in a word... ...gh the most famous men of the time. I And I was told that some of them got five pounds a day by their physic. But there was still another madness beyo... ...ill their coaches be well aired, and have stood unemployed by the space of five or six days after such service.’ ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF T... ... at the good people who, notwithstanding the contagion, met at the church, fasted, and prayed to God to remove His hand from them. I say , they contin... ... God every day, and ap- 70 Journal of the Plague Y ear plying to Him with fasting, humiliation, and meditation. Such intervals as I had I employed in... ... , and not to suffer any of us to go out of doors; to keep all our windows fast, shutters and curtains close, and never to open them; but first, to ma... ... the casks I had would hold, and which seemed enough to serve my house for five or six weeks; also I laid in a quantity of salt butter and Cheshire ch...

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...and more dismal daily. . . . About the year One thousand seven hundred and five, that is, in the glorious reign of Queen Anne, there existed certain c... ... fifty-seven (even that point has never been ascertained); in height about five feet six inches; in weight, nearly thirteen stone; with a chest that t... ... SHE’S of three years old play little airs and graces upon small heroes of five; simpering misses of nine make attacks upon young gentlemen of twelve;... ...conducting his operations with perfect success. Three of the detachment of five attacked by the Corporal sur- rendered to him: Mr. Bullock, namely, wh... ...?” delicately suggested Mr. Brock. “Kick her! why, the wench would hold so fast by the banis- ters that I could not kick her down, Mr. Brock. To tell ... ...e, set the beaks upon me; and a pretty sweep they made of it. Ah, my dear! five hundred pounds in 69 Thackeray money, five suits of laced clothes, th... ... out powers of gratifying them. He had grown to be exquisitely curious and fastidious about meat and drink, for instance, and all that he wanted was a...

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...ngress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nati... ...handling of their checked bags, not their screening at the checkpoint. All five men cleared the checkpoint and made their way to the gate for American... ... Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take their early morning flight.At 7:15, a ... ...he plane until it was confirmed that they had boarded the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- in... ...ll communications and flight profile data were normal.About this time the “Fasten Seatbelt” sign would usually have been turned off and the flight att... ...ace and fly into a building—Don’t worry, Dad— If it happens, it’ll be very fast—My God, my God. 49 The call ended abruptly . Lee Hanson had heard a wo... ...d Center orders nationwide ground stop 9:32 Dulles tower observes radar of fast-moving aircraft (later identified as AA 77) 9:34 FAA advises NEADS th... .... 192 On the morning of September 11, Secretary Rumsfeld was having break- fast at the Pentagon with a group of members of Congress. He then returned ... ...54 without any fixed destination.The objective was to get up in the air—as fast and as high as possible—and then decide where to go. 207 At 9:33, the ...

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...o find this out as soon as possible. What’s New When we began Best of Four five years ago, it was the intention of the English faculty on the Hazleton... ... advice and ended up hitting the ball right to the third baseman. I ran as fast as I could to get to first base, but for some reason, it seemed farthe... ...block access to a steep cliff near the edge of he creek. He was running so fast that he could not stop himself, and he fell down the side of the cliff... ...ut behind the wheel and his foot become heavy on the pedal. His car became faster as it swerved into the lane heading right for the oncoming car. This... ...ed into the lane heading right for the oncoming car. This was happening so fast I could do nothing but watch. He hit the car head on, and all I heard ... ... of beer in about two hours, and I felt very drunk. About twenty or twenty-five people were drinking, and we finished the keg in about two and a half ... ...and I was freezing without my hat and mittens to keep me warm. I walked so fast up the mountain that I couldn’ t feel my toes, fingers or face. I fina... ...terrible effects of pollution through first-hand experience. Over the past five years, my great-uncle and I have made our annual treks to his swamp du... ...hundred and twenty feet in diameter. After visiting this area for the past five years, we have noticed changes taking place. The major change is the d...

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...gainst the influence of the Penns in the govern ment of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the mi... ...iography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He died on April 17, 1790. The first five chapters of the Autobiography were com posed in England in 1771, co... ...hat register I perceived that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived... ... popery. They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool. Whe... ...e interred. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years. Without an estate, or any gainful employment, B... ...obiography of Benjamin Franklin 25 want of rest the preceding night, I fell fast asleep, and con tinued so till the meeting broke up, when one was k... ... the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before break fast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between break... ... were forgotten, and our meeting was very cordial and affection ate. He was fast declining in his health, and requested of me that, in case of his de... ...iation. Calling in the aid of religion, I propos’d to them the proclaiming a fast, to promote reformation, and implore the blessing of Heaven on our u...

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...ritics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances studied with a different purpose might have given different r... ... to praise or blame unduly. In the last case, they helped to blindfold our fastidious public to an inspiring writer; in the other, by an excess of una... ...t, it is curious enough to think that T om Jones is laid in the year forty-five, and that the only use he makes of the rebellion is to throw a troop o... ...d understood the nature of his own changes. He has, underlying each of the five great romances (which alone I purpose here to examine), two deliberate... ... essay is to recall to the reader the more general features of each of the five great romances, hurriedly and imperfectly, as space will permit, and r... ...e silhouette in Mr. Scott Douglas’s invaluable edition, the reader will be fastidious if he does not approve. Take her for all in all, I believe she w... ...posed of a sheet or two of paper, folded small to carry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of ... ...ree. Inside was a small coffer, of walnut wood, also barred with iron, but fastened with only three locks, which were all comfortably picked by way of... ...n- scriber of improper romances from one thing to another, until they were fast friends. For picklocks the Prior of Paray professed a keen curiosity; ...

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...ed, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock you may see the last of us hiving from the college gates, in t... ...st mark- ing incidents in Scottish history – Flodden, Darien, or the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fall of Wallace and the... ...uppose it rendered reckless; for he took flight to London, and there, in a fast club, disposed of the bulk of his considerable patri- mony in the spac... ...e same church, and the same theatre, chosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out. He had a circle of his own, in- deed, at home;... ...s last named erected no fewer than twenty-seven; of beacons,* about twenty-five. Many harbours were successfully carried out: one, the harbour of Wick... ...ge, flying from Shakespeare to Kant, and from Kant to Major Dyngwell – “As fast as a musician scatters sounds Out of an instrument” the sudden, sweepi... ... I have no means of guessing, having begun young. But it is either four or five times that I have read The Egoist, and either five or six that I have ... ...ho have approached the Vicomte, not across country, but by the legitimate, five-volumed avenue of the Mousquetaires and Vingt Ans Apres, will not have...