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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...pped in excrement, no air, just the pervasive stench of aging urine. A river of human flotsam, its moldy delta the elongated metal sinks. We pus... ...adgets, I was into morbidity in its myriad manifestations. He was technology, I was humanities. But somehow these disparities brought us closer and ... ...‘gutter anti-Semitism, crude violence, injudicious propaganda’. He emphasized the ‘humanity of his restraint’. His private and public personas were ... ...e hour. The lady in the deli told me where to find you. I got your address from the Human Resources department at the GMG. Hope you don’t mind.” ... ...t they had witnessed inside the labyrinth of badly-lit, blood-stained interrogation cells. In Berlin, party officials and civil servants complained ... ...paneled throughout with white slabs. It looks monolithic, as though uninhabited by humans. “Delivering a prisoner.” – Eichmann intones – “Please...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...ldings to G barn and paused outside the door. It was library quiet, devoid of humans, so he walked down the aisle to Cisco’s stall. The horse blinke... ...touch. At this rate it would take some time to check her cervix. Her trust in humans had clearly been shattered. He touched her left leg, noting ho... ...ved her hands, eyes eager, “you already know magnets speed healing by helping cells. So if we help the cells in Lazer's brain, it might help him focu...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...m will it be to watch the growth and gambollings of Sansculottism; for, in human things, especially in human society, all death is but a death-birth: ... ... he received the Queen; sometimes in pa- thetic friendliness; sometimes in human sulkiness, for flesh is weak; and, when questioned about business wou... ... vessel was not also the stronger; pity-struck for the porce- lain-clay of humanity rather than for the tile-clay,—though indeed both were broken! So,... ...—V olume Two Frederick Baron Trenck too is here; mazed, purblind, from the cells of Magdeburg; Minotauric cells, and his Ariadne lost! Singular to say... ...f his, if he were not doomed to it? Chapter 2.1.X. Mankind. Pardonable are human theatricalities; nay perhaps touch- ing, like the passionate utteranc... ...f which, if it also took body and perorated, what might not the effect be: Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment the ...

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The Collection of Antiquities

By: Honoré de Balzac

...onths to every year—the poor old Marquis saw the death of the loveliest of human creatures, a noble woman in whom the charm of the feminine figures of... ...ams. Later yet, when I came to think seriously over certain myster- ies of human thought, it seemed to me that the feeling of reverence was first insp... ...ience, stood above a row of cellars with grated air-holes, once the prison cells of the old court-house, now converted into a kitchen. I do not know t... ...elming disaster; whether that I have come to understand the whole range of human feelings, and, best of all, the thoughts of Old Age and Regret; whate... ... a young man’s follies, and now he was beyond their reach. The tendency in human nature, which often gives a bigot a rake for a daughter, and makes a ... ...to look forward for all sorts of contingen- cies in the wider interests of human affairs. Had de Croisier sounded poor Victurnien’s nature so well, th...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...red on Henry’s first return to England, after the battle of Agincourt; but human—or at least story-telling—nature could not resist an anachronism of a... ... grotesque mouldings, zigzag and cable, dog-tooth and parrot-beak, visages human and diabolic, wherewith the Norman builders loved to surround their d... ...mmon apartment, with a fire, and a dining-table in the midst, and sleeping cells screened off round it, and with a paved terrace walk overhanging the ... ...ent deeds that would be not merely a blot on his scutcheon, but a shame to human nature; looking back to the exultation with which he had entered Harf... ... How can you talk so lightly of abandoning it?’ ‘I only would know what is human pride, and what God’s will,’ sighed Esclairmonde. The Duke arrived wi... ...her, presented a gloomy, cheerless life of aus- terity, in comparison with human affection and matronly duty. And most vivid of all at the moment was ...

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Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...l that she wished, and to believe her the ablest and most clear-sighted of human beings; but whenever Mary was not actually talking to her, there was ... ...ly kine of Ashton’s that I see grazing in the park have fewer sorrows than human creatures. But what know they of our joys, or what know the commonalt... ...nd the little ones. Curates were not sumptuously lodged in those days. The cells which had been sufficient for monks commissioned by monasteries were ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...e are all serious. You give media attention to animal rights, civil rights, and human rights ... But what of the earth? .. What of the rights of the... ...rming number of pa­ tients were dying from various forms of rapid growth cancer cells. The mystery was that most of these people had been given The... ... "What's that?" "They all died from abnormal rapid tumor growth. These can­ cer cells are spreading in a matter of weeks, instead of months or, even... ...ssible." Aaron's teeth gritted as his powerful arms rammed the pipe, with super human strength, into the black pit. The pipe inched downward, slowly... ...ergy. Even with his mind energized with the adrenaline of fear, and his su­ per human strength pumped to the maximum, Aaron's body was depleted, exh... ...ng. " "Don't take him lightly. He's a powerful Shaman. He has knowledge beyond human understanding and experience." "Was he asked by Seattle to pro... ... the law, but that he makes the law. Pierce corrupts people by working on their human weaknesses, and then blackmailing them into submission. It's a...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

... by John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...erial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (... ...ate University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ........... .................................................................................... 520 Chapter III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge ...................... .............................................................................................................. 717 6 Human Understanding AN ESSAY CONCER... ...eir own accord, and offer themselves to the understanding; and very often are roused and tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight, by 136 H...

...Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER .......................................................................................................

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The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

By: E. C. Thomas

...d further the liberties of the Church! Accordingly, having taken a survey of human necessities in every direction, with a view to bestow our charity u... ...ere is in books, how easy, how secret! How safely we lay bare the poverty of human ignorance to books without feel ing any shame! They are masters wh... ...l; ye are the tree of life and the fourfold river of Paradise, by which the human mind is nourished, and the thirsty intellect is watered and refresh... ...by this bold deed, except that the vessels of wisdom, holy books, exceed all human estimation; and, as Gregory says of the kingdom of Heaven: They are... ...mes of the clergy, which are ours by hereditary right, who were used to have cells of quietness in the inner chamber, but, alas! in these unhappy time... ... tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted by the whole human race. We will add the last clause of our long lament, though far to... ...paring their meat in the summer, and ingenious bees continually fabricating cells of honey. They are successors of Bezaleel in devising all man ner ...

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Citadel of Machaerus

By: Gustave Flaubert

... to the road; others rushed in to take their place, so that two streams of human beings flowed in and out, com- pressed within the limits of the gatew... ...tion, it became evident that the whole mass was a veri- table honeycomb of cells, and that below those already seen were many others. Vitellius, Phine... ...nterpreter, and Sisenna, chief of the publicans, walked among these gloomy cells, attended by three eunuchs bearing torches. In the deep shadows hideo... ...threshold of a kind of grotto, somewhat larger than the other subterranean cells. An arched window at the back of this chamber gave di- rectly upon a ... ...ern beheld a vague and terrifying shape in its depths. This proved to be a human being, lying on the ground. His long locks hung over a camel’ s-hair ... ...-like laugh. Noth- ing could be more absurd, said he, than the idea that a human body could have eternal life; and he declaimed, for the ben- efit of ...

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Matthew Arnold Selected Poems

By: Atthew Arnold

...n, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought Into his mind the t... ... fear’st Fail to make blest thy state, T remblest, and wilt not dare to trust the joys there are. I say, Fear not! life s... ...ht and day; Lorn autumns and triumphant springs; And life, and others’ joy and pain, And love, if love, of happier men. Of happier men—for they, at le... ...ic strife. When Goethe’s death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe’s sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. ... ...live— But, ah! its heart, its heart was stone, And so it could not thrive! “On that hard Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep wearines... ... with bare And white uplifted faces stand, Passing the Host from hand to hand; Each takes, and then his visage wan Is buried in his co...

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The Georgics

By: Virgil

...self No easy road to husbandry assigned, THE GEORGICS 6 And first was he by human skill to rouse The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men With... ... the mud and chant their dirge of old. Oft, too, the ant from out her inmost cells, Fretting the narrow path, her eggs conveys; Or the huge bow sucks ... ...he swarms fly aimlessly abroad, Disport themselves in heaven and spurn their cells, Leaving the hive unwarmed, from such vain play Must you refrain th... ... hope, and others press and pack The thrice repured honey, and stretch their cells T o bursting with the clear strained nectar sweet. Some, too, the w... ...ier all T o mend the fallen fortunes of their race Will nerve them, fill the cells up, tier on tier, And weave their granaries from the rifled flowers... ...rs. Now, seeing that life doth even to bee folk bring THE GEORGICS 58 Our human chances, if in dire disease Their bodies’ strength should languish ... ...with the sick change hue; grim leanness mars Their visage; then from out the cells they bear Forms reft of light, and lead the mournful pomp; Or foot ... ... found a path for flight, Baffled at length, to his own shape returned, With human lips he spake, “Who bade thee, then, So reckless in youth’s hardiho... ...ongs can the very moon draw down from heaven Circe with singing changed from human form The comrades of Ulysses, and by song THE ECLOGUES 97 Is the c...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...er in front, they descended the stone stairs, past the still fouler, noisy cells of the men’s ward, where they were followed by eyes looking out of ev... ...y Carolina Albertovna Kitaeva. From that day a life of chronic sin against human and divine laws commenced for Katusha Maslova, a life which is led by... ...ho, according to his ideas he could not marry, were not women for him, but human beings. But on Ascension Day that summer, a neighbour of his aunts’, ... ...losophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important were human institutions and inter- course with his comrades. Then women seemed m... ...ete idleness, i.e., absence of all useful work; frees them of their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional ones to the honour o... ...out for inspection,” cried a jailer. Some more prisoners came out of other cells and stood in two rows along the corridor; each woman had to place her... ... middle of a column of over a hundred women, who had come out of different cells. All were dressed in white skirts, white jackets, and wore white kerc... ...’s whistle sounded in the corri- dors of the prison, the iron doors of the cells rattled, bare feet pattered, heels clattered, and the prisoners who a... ...rd, so she asked me; and though it is against the rules, still feelings of humanity—” The jailer spoke in an unnatural manner. Nekhludoff was surprise...

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The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories and Dramas

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...re; a man of ardent temperament and robust physique, keenly susceptible to human passions and desires, who battled with himself from early man 5 The... ...inherently ethical, and reveals strong sympathy with sinning and suffering humanity, but it is masked by a manner that is sometimes uncouth and freque... ... toyed with by philosophers, which must remain a closed book to struggling humanity. Yet Tolstoy found true idealism in the toiling peas ant who beli... ... lies in the above mentioned “What then must we do?” Certain it is that no human document ever revealed the soul of its author with greater sincerity.... ...ater sincerity. Not for its practical suggestions, but for its impassioned humanity, its infectious altruism, “What then must we do?” takes its rank a... ...ent to his wife, …” And so on. One day the magistrate, visiting the prison cells, asked Stepan whether there was anything he had to complain of, or wh...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...rinciples of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity, to which the Prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has... ... the king. *The bees — ever since bees were — have been constructing their cells with just such sides, in just such number, and at just such inclinati... ...t had knocked off the roof, and in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings, who, be- yond doubt, were in a state of frightful despair at ... ...s account of the _Mare Tenebrarum_. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye co... ...hat men call mind. And the power of self-movement (equivalent in effect to human volition) is, in the unparticled matter, the result of its unity and ... ... the simple reason that no similar sounds have ever jarred upon the ear of humanity. There were two particu- lars, nevertheless, which I thought then,... ...en in immediate demand. Moreover, my dungeon, as well as all the condemned cells at Toledo, had stone floors, and light was not altogether excluded. A...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...ent direction through the camp. But the purple curtains were raised, and a human head, im- passible and bloated, was seen resting on a large pillow; t... ...ared in the midst of them, and advancing with the slowness of a phantom, a human being, bent, lean, entirely naked, and covered down to his flanks wit... ... the torches which crackled in the dark- ness, were pawing the ground; the human spectre struggled and howled: “They have killed them!” At these words... ...two long galleries which ran parallel to each other. There were small open cells along their sides, and tabourines and cymbals hung against their ceda... ...ns from top to bottom. Women were sleep- ing stretched on mats outside the cells. Their bodies were greasy with unguents, and exhaled an odour of spic... ...onfusion. There were serpents with feet, and bulls with wings, fishes with human heads were devouring fruit, flowers were blooming in the jaws of croc... ...at- eral porticoes, in which were the dwellings of the priests. Behind the cells there must be a shorter way out. They has- tened along. Spendius squa... ...e Negroes had planted tall sticks here and there bearing frightful faces,— human masks made with birds’ feathers, and jackals’ or ser- pents’ heads,—w... ...ng coals, pouring oil into jars, and opening and shutting the little ovoid cells which were hollowed out all round in the wall, and were so numerous t...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...es merely, and in others still are entirely unknown. The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both... ...the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what ... ...s, has been from the first, or from long use has become, so impor tant to human life that few, if any, whether from sav ageness, or poverty, or phil... ...nd benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call vol untary p... ...mth of the affections. We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hol low in a rock for sh... ... assume the appearance of honeycomb, whatever may be its position, the air cells are at right angles with what was the water surface. Where there is a...

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Narrative Tive of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

By: Frederick Douglass

...ld be found who would befriend him at all hazards, for the love of God and humanity! Capable of high attainments as an intellectual and moral being—ne... ...norance, and reminding the audience that slavery was a poor school for the human intellect and heart, he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his... ... of God,” that he may be increasingly serviceable in the cause of bleeding humanity, whether at home or abroad! It is certainly a very remarkable fact... ...require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence. It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other ... ... horrors of slavery, without hav- ing become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent. Nothing has been left undone t... ...s very much better than though we had been placed in one of the dark, damp cells. Upon the whole, we got along very well, so far as the jail and its k...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...s said that the doctors have ordered a Great Person to take baths of young human blood for the restoration of his own, all spoiled by debaucheries. So... ...arc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passively, as on some boundle... ... be uncared for. Nay, who knows but, by sufficiently victorious Analysis, ‘human life may be indefinitely lengthened, ’ and men get rid of Death, as t... ...m compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille; or, more humanely, as ‘the masses.’ Masses, indeed: and yet, singular to say, if, wi... ...one of the sorriest spectacles. You might ask, What bonds that ever held a human society happily together, or held it together at all, are in force he... ... light. Thus Frederick Baron Trenck too is here; mazed, purblind, from the cells of Magdeburg; Minotauric cells, and his Ariadne lost! Singular to say...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

..., of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personal... ... mass of laborious trifling and cold-blooded exaggerations but a satire on human life of the highest genius? Still there are points common to the two.... ...ou would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more than human understanding, an admirable virtue, matchless learning, invincible co... ...ason then should white import joy. Nor is this signification instituted by human imposition, but by the universal consent of the world received, which... ...is behaviour, that he had the resemblance of a little angel more than of a human creature. Then he said to Grangousier, Do you see this young boy? He ... ...s carried the standards, banners, ensigns, guidons, and colours into their cells and chambers to make garters of them. But when those that had been sh... ... and tortures as are due to and inflicted on those that inhabit the horrid cells of the infernal regions; and withal incline, instigate, and persuade ...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...o do that, Chris, an’ not wake up till the war was over and you could be a human being again.” Andrews bit into the green seed capsule he held in his ... ...ews. “Chris, come away from those stinking uniforms and you’ll feel like a human being with the sun on your flesh instead of like a lousy sol- dier.” ... ... any right to say that, young feller,” said the undertaker angrily. “I’m a humane man. I won’t never be at home in this dirty butchery.” The nurse was... ...joyed hating! At that rate it was better to be at the front. Men were more humane when they were killing each other than when they were talking about ... ...nd fear filled with more and yet more pain the already unbearable agony of human life. As soon as he got out of the hospital he would desert; the dete... ...ter years in dungeons, not being able to stand it, and going back to their cells?” “D’you like sole meuniere?” “Anything, or rather everything! But ta...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ‘Old... ...were next conveyed from lip to lip, and, as it were in a moment, the dense human mass had broken up and vanished, stealing through the numerous paths ... ...rd outside the door at the other end. Half-a-dozen heads came out of their cells; half-a-dozen voices asked and answered the question, ‘What is it?’ ‘... ...OF CE OF CE OF SL SL SL SL SLA A A A AUGHTER UGHTER UGHTER UGHTER UGHTER A human shambles with blood-reeking floor. —Miss Swanwick, Esch. Agamem... ...a very length one; then a long heavy breath, with something so essentially human in its sound that the fluttering heart beat more steadily. If reason ... ...n in another quarter of the city. The Catholic friends of the invalid were humane, and when the horrors began, not only concealed their kinsman, but a...

...that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

... al- ways held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity... ...e latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an origi- nal investigator, nor an au... ...o light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are many references to the human mind and its activities. In most books, whether scientific or not, th... ... in this discussion. Whatever mind may be, or through whatever part of the human system it may function, can make no difference in the conclusions I h... ...moral defect. It is now universally accepted as a functional defect of the human structure in its relation to environment. My main effort is to show t... ...y produce the oak tree and it will grow true to its pattern. All seeds and cells will do likewise. Still if the acorn is planted in good soil, where i...

...rom the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an o...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

......... 270 Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism .................... 285 Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and th... ...newal applies. With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ide- als, hopes, happiness, misery... ...zed group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to them- selves without ... ...e the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence. The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of man... ... to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity! 2. Education and Communication. So obvious, indeed, is the necess... ...s of what has preceded. When the bees gather pollen and make wax and build cells, each step prepares the way for the next. When cells are built, the q...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...s, Plotinus, Proclus, Hierocles, Maximus Tyrius, and Syrianus. There was a human-perfectibility man. He quoted Turgot, Price, Priestly, Condorcet, De ... ...ection of the Baron. The eyes, before invisible, now wore an energetic and human expres- sion, while they gleamed with a fiery and unusual red; and th... ...and shrunk away from the rapid and searching expression of his earnest and human-looking eye. Among all the retinue of the Baron, however, none were f... ...he excitement wrought in the feel- ings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of in... ...been given a fair trial, if ever in any. W e did every thing that rational human- ity could suggest. I am sorry that you could not have paid us a visi... ...the keepers found them- selves pinioned hand and foot, and thrown into the cells, where they were attended, as if they were the lunatics, by the lunat... ...actly either—for the madmen had been free, but the keepers were shut up in cells forthwith, and treated, I am sorry to say, in a very cavalier manner.... ...st well tarred, then —carefully feathered, and then shut up in underground cells. They had been so imprisoned for more than a month, during which peri...

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Best of Four

By: David Retz

...plain, looking across it towards the Brooks Mountain Range. “There isn’t a human within fifty miles around, and the landscape is just so big and amazi... ...women and men were separated, so the women in our group went to the female cells and the males went to the male cells. When we got to the cell, there ... ...icult for me to accept how much love a child yearns for because of lack of human contact. The last day of my trip, I believe, was the hard- est. We vi...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... 1812 CHAPTER I ABSOLUTE CONTINUITY of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind. Laws of motion of any kind become compre- hensible to man only ... ...ted elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large propor- tion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of con- tinuous motion into d... ... (absolute continuity) and thereby corrects the inevitable error which the human mind cannot avoid when it deals with separate elements of motion inst... ...e laws of historical movement just the same thing happens. The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is con... ... history. But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man’s mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units. The fi... ...ly against the walls of the hive in their flight. Here and there among the cells con- taining dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can some- times be... ...here a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts be- yond their strength laboriously drag away a dead be... ...f corpses. The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bee...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...r hast where stood Their great Commander; Godlike shapes and forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones... ...s durst affront his light. First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Tim... ...r Priests, to seek Thir wandring Gods disguis’d in brutish forms Rather then human. Nor did ISRAEL scape Th’ infection when their borrow’d Gold compo... ... Milton 17 And hands innumerable scarce perform Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepar’d, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the ... ...d as soon had form’d within the ground A various mould, and from the boyling cells By strange conveyance fill’d each hollow nook, As in an Organ from ... ... less then Gods. On th’ other side up rose BELIAL, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heav’n; he seemd For dignity compos’d an... ... or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever during dark Surrounds me,... ...The Femal Bee that feeds her Husband Drone Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells With Honey stor’d: the rest are numberless, And thou thir Natures k...

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Misalliance

By: George Bernard Shaw

... first as last. You neednt be afraid of the aristocracy, dear: theyre only human creatures like ourselves after all; and youll hold your own with them... ...d swimming about there as fresh as paint some of the identical little live cells that Adam christened in the Garden of Eden. But if big things like us... ...d trousers: a man like any other man. And beneath that coat and trousers a human soul. Tarleton’s Underwear! [He goes out gravely into the vestibule].... ...to his family. Read any man’s letters to his children. Theyre not 35 Shaw human. Theyre not about himself or themselves. Theyre about hotels, scenery... ... Tarleton, believe me, our loss. TARLETON. Well, why not? Averages out the human race. Makes the nigger half an Englishman. Makes the English- man hal... ...ilities appropriate to the opposite sex. And yet, why opposite? We are all human: males and females of the same species. When the dress is the same th...

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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...! Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe? Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was sea... ... realms he fix’d his eyes The Aeneid Virgil 10 Whom, pond’ring thus on human miseries, When V enus saw, she with a lowly look, Not free from tears... ...l bound; whom, fraught with eastern spoils, Our heav’n, the just reward of human toils, Securely shall repay with rites divine; And incense shall asce... ... eager to discover more. It look’d a wild uncultivated shore; But, whether humankind, or beasts alone Possess’d the new found region, was unknown. Ben... ...d; Pygmalion then the T yrian scepter sway’d: One who condemn’d divine and human laws. Then strife ensued, and cursed gold the cause. The monarch, bli... ...ad their youth abroad, while some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burthen,... ..., Fearful of winter, and of future wants, T’ invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plunder’d forage of their yellow prey. The sable troops, a...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...mong other things) upon the idea that the principle source of error in all human investigations lay in the liability of the under- standing to under-r... ... I had never before been in a similar situation, and the tumultuous sea of human heads filled me, therefore, with a delicious novelty of emotion. I ga... ...le atmosphere teemed with desolation. Y et, as we proceeded, the sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands of the most a... ... populous town, the street of the D—— Hotel, it presented an appearance of human bustle and activity scarcely inferior to what I had seen on the eveni... ...aining a place in his contemplated publica- 74 EA Poe tion, enlighten the human race, and at the same time immortal- ize himself—ideas which, I shoul... ... while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells!...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...etersburg doctor, Lorrain. “Then it is certain?” said the prince. “Prince, humanum est errare,* but...” replied the doc- tor, swallowing his r’s, and ... ...gave him a searching glance. “Are you living with your mother?” *To err is human. 29 Tolstoy “I am living at Countess Rostova’s,” replied Boris, agai... ...expectancy at his door, which creaked slightly when opened. “The limits of human life... are fixed and may not be o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a... ... the hand. She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. She gave her companion an angry glance. “There is still time, m... ...eded no one and nothing. He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and int... ...ly against the walls of the hive in their flight. Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be hea... ...here a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee ... ...f corpses. The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bee...

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...lstoy himself in 1858. More than twenty years later he gave up hunting, on humanitarian grounds .] WE WERE OUT on a bear hunting expedition. My comr... ...y. And the angel said: ‘I was alone in the field, naked. I had never known human needs, cold and hunger, till I became a man. I was famished, frozen, ... ... time search ing for Elisha both outside and in the Church itself. In the cells of the Church he saw many people of all kinds, eating, and drinking w... ...good in man. May the Lord bless him! We used to live like animals; he made human beings of us. After giving Efím food and drink, they showed him where... ...d Him self has built to unite all men in one faith and one religion? ‘All human temples are built on the model of this temple, which is God’s own wor...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...round his brawny neck and arms hung innumerable bracelets and necklaces of human teeth, extracted (one only from each skull) from the jaws of those wh... ...told him that the purshuit of hagriculture wos the noblist hockupations of humannaty: I spoke of the 103 Burlesques yoming of Hengland, who (under th... ...n the theme of general remark. Y esterday’s paper, it was supposed, in all human probability 114 Thackeray would have contained an account of the mar... ...hese proceedings, which before had always justly exasperated him (he was a humane and kind little man), used now to smile fiercely and say, “D— the bl... ... King and courtiers bore. “And he sternly bade them never more to kneel to human clay, But alone to praise and worship That which earth and seas obey:... ...ed that on the capture of the pretenders, they shall be lodged in separate cells in the prison of the Luxembourg: the apartments are al- ready prepare...

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