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... borne upstairs. 11 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER II I RESISTED ALL THE WAY: a new thing for me, and a circum- stance which greatly strengthened the bad o... ...o go to the poorhouse.” I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the s... ...ttle drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana’s doll. Meantime she sang: her song was— “In the d... ...or vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” “What then?” “Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word you... ...us in old story and in modern record: she shall taste, too, of the life of cities; and she shall learn to value herself by just comparison with others...

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...proved. In or about 1735, when Fielding was twenty-eight, we find him in a new, a more brilliant and agreeable, but even a more transient phase. He ha... ...l Register—were popular enough, but offended the Government; and in 1737 a new bill regulating theatrical performances, and instituting the Lord Chamb... ..., appeared towards the close of 1751; and next year saw the beginning of a new paper, the Covent Garden Journal, which appeared twice a week, ran for ... ...m concerning several particulars; as, how many books there were in the New Testament? which were they? how many chapters they contained? and such like... ... you without the assistance of a ship. Do you imagine sailing by different cities or countries is travelling? No. “Caelum non animum mutant qui tr... ...m; it being the business of the latter chiefly to describe coun- tries and cities, which, with the assistance of maps, they do pretty justly, and may ...

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... heart now is, to get this system well in action without delay, so that my new partner may find it founded when he enters on his partner- ship.” “All ... ... own room, with- out troubling the servants, and without wasting time, the new housekeeper announced herself as waiting to be favoured with any instru... ...embers of my family. Until that time comes, you will only have me, and the new partner whom I expect immediately, to provide for. What my partner’s ha... ...eadily. “Thank you both. Mr. Bintrey, my instructions for my last will and testament are short and plain. Perhaps you will now have the goodness to ta... ...h nation, and behold a tall, clean, plump, and solid people! Look at their cities! What magnificence in their public buildings! What admirable order a...

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...hout any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, ...

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...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...es of “Autobiographic Sketches.” 20 Memorials, and Other Papers created a new principle of life within him, and evoked some nature hitherto slumberin... ...in the Low Countries of the fif- teenth century, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ ... ...eproach applying to our mighty English capital. On the contrary, all great cities that ever were founded have sought out, as their first and elementar... ... great cleansing river. In the long process of develop- ment through which cities pass, commerce and other func- tions of civilization come to usurp u... ...e Prophets; secondly, the Christian system, rest- ing upon the Old and New Testaments; thirdly, the Mahometan system, resting confessedly upon the Kor... ...k; or, at least, that limited form of Greek which was required for the New Testament. In the language of Terence, dictum factum—no sooner said than do... ...s of the many difficulties beset- ting the study of divinity and the Greek Testament, or for such approximations to solutions as my resources would fu...

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...usehold laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmos... ...ring it indirectly through a new atmosphere surround- ing all objects with new attributes. But there is also in Chris- tianity, 4thly. A doctrinal par... ...this divides into two great sections, α, A system of ethics so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and,... ...ible disturbance offered to the Christian by vari- ous readings in the New Testament. You thought that the carelessness, or, at times, even the treach... ..., yet carrying one’s eye from this Epistle to the whole domains of the New Testament— yet, looking away from that defrauded village to universal Chris... ...ew or Greek, but has ranged for ever through courts and camps, deserts and cities, the original lesson of justice to man and piety to God— has that be... ...lation to ‘all prisoners and captives;’ and in relation to slaves! The New Testament had said nothing directly upon the question of slavery; nay, by t... ...- self. But then, says an objector, the final ruins of great em- pires and cities may be safely assumed on general grounds of observation. Hardly, how... ...found of Nineveh, or on the other side of that region: none of other great cities—Roman, Parthian, Persian, Median, in that same region or adjacent re...

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...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...ift the back- ground, the interlocutors, the light and shade, in search of new revelations and effects. He pre- sents a succession of many scenes, exq... ...them. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.’ And again: ‘Why, Sir, I am a man of the world. I live in... ...d applied it to London; all which performances concur to prove, that great cities, in every age, and in every country, will furnish similar topicks of... ... ages are made the same way.’—BOSWELL. 148 Boswell’s Life of Johnson upon cities, and palaces, and pictures, and shows, and Arcadian scenes. He was o... ...to a clergyman in the bishoprick of Durham, that he had never read the New Testament with attention.’ I mentioned Hume’s notion, that all who are happ... ... the dial-plate of his watch a short Greek inscription, taken from the New Testament, [Greek text omitted], be- ing the first words of our saviour’s s... ...l between the two ser- vices we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned over several of his books. I told him that Goldsmit...

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... only one in which the word is popularly known, and the one from which the new generation are acquiring their sole notion of its mean ing. Those who ... ...ery occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments. The answer to the objection is, that there has been ample t... ...occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments. The answer to the objection is, that there has been ample time,... ...eason the less natural. It is natural to man to speak, to reason, to build cities, to cultivate the ground, though these are ac quired faculties. The...

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...onsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuin... ... peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury. ‘Over! and why should I say no more about it because it’s over?... ...y, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effec... ...his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters. There was a legion of S... ...ined glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways. From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through sq... ...ll not be a coward now. One of my frequent thoughts is this:— Old as these cities are, their age itself is hardly so curious, to my 543 Little Dorrit... ...nd stars, the great man! The rich man, who had in a manner revised the New Testament, and already entered into the kingdom of Heaven. The man who coul...

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... have obtained in the world. And yet possibly it may not be amiss to offer new ones when the old are apt to lead men into mistakes, as this of paterna... ...ldren, obey your par ents” (Eph. 6. 1), etc., is the style of the Old and New Testament. 53. Had but this one thing been well considered with out ... ...n, obey your par ents” (Eph. 6. 1), etc., is the style of the Old and New Testament. 53. Had but this one thing been well considered with out look... ...iving, and, de facto, is commonly with child again, and brings forth too a new birth, long before the former is out of a dependency for support on his... ... people, riches, trade, power, change their stations; flour ishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in time neglected desolate corners, whilst o... ...lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny—must they see their cities pillaged and laid in ashes, their wives and children exposed to the ...

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...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...e cotemporary subjects of monarchical or oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns... ...and kick,” agreeably to the maxim of Cardinal Richelieu in his celebrated “Testament Politique.” All these things are for the interest of a king or ar...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors...

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...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...arliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Walden episode. Second, it appears, and the point is ... ...llections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. According to Whitman, on the other hand, “the time has arrived t... ...a- ment, and perpetuate his name in a sort of glorious ignominy. THE LARGE TESTAMENT. Of this capital achievement and, with it, of Villon’s style in g... ...ore welcome and more presents, and be convoyed by torchlight into faithful cities. And so you see, here was King Arthur home again, and matters nowise... ...instead of simply transferring them, like so many sheep, by a marriage, or testament, or private treaty, is thoroughly characteristic of what is best ...