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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the ... ...an Arab’s tent on the security of his bare word, signed contracts in every capital of Europe, and left my gold with- out hesitation in savage wigwams.... ... incredulity quite impar- tially. And since, for us, ‘our country’ means a capital where ideas circulate and are sold at so much a line, a succulent d... ... pitching of a brig. “Now, did you murder them?” Emile asked him. “Capital punishment is going to be abolished, they say, in favor of the Revolution o... ...le; 175 Balzac so their bliss did not draw down upon them any very severe punishment. One morning towards the end of February, at the time when the b... ... the hand of a pretty woman in his, went on board the Ville d’Angers. Thus united they both looked and wondered long at a white form that rose elusive...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck,...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes....

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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...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ... Brooke much. He doesn’t care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. He only cares about Church questions. ... ... a few grains of common sense in an ounce of miserliness. Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it’s the safe side for madness to dip o... ... do, believes in his religion whatever it may be: you could turn over your capital just as fast with cursing and swearing:— plenty of fellows do. You ... ...alike, you know: he likes to go into everything. We are working at capital punishment. We shall do a great deal together, Ladislaw and I.” “Yes,” said...

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...By virtue of the principle of the full liberty to set forth any philosophical thesis, no justification would probably be necessary, yet it should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the th...

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...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3... .... C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ... Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ... ISBN: 1-931233-48-9 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Dedication to a nation with... ... ISBN: 1-931233-48-9 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Dedication to a nation with so muc... ...pports the assertion on the immorality of the death penalty, since such a punishment can give rise to a malefic ghost or to a satanic reincarnation ... ...ic but governed by reason. Critical notes of the reader: 77 2. Capital sins The MESER concept proclaims among capital sins, both athe... ... image is correct; yet when “Law” includes some restrictive elements, for punishment within the material world, then this does no longer agree with ... ...d in men conscious by an aggressive religiosity of fear. If Heaven (with capital letters) and Purgatory are constructions – the first one, logical- ...