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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tal... ...n account of Spanish outrages at sea, or mayhap the story of a marvel- ous beast, half-tiger, half-wolf, reported to be running wild in France. The ot... ... Colonel Mar, carelessly; “he may term himself a very Orpheus charming the beasts, so that they snatch his poems from him!” Then, as Sir Amyas returne... ...dering apologies about its being against orders to admit gentle or simple, beast or body into the court, and that a poor woman could not lose her plac... ...t madam says that it’s her ladyship’s pleasure you should have that little beast to keep down the rats. As if my cats was not enough! But mind you, Ma...

...early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th century English costume....

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Airpower and Maneuver Warfare

By: Martin van Creveld; Kenneth S. Brower, Steven L. Canby

...1 THE NATURE OF THE BEAST . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 MANEUVER WARFARE IN ACTION-EARLY GERMAN CAMPAIGNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Manuscripts from Hamilton Palace

By: William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton Duke of Hamilton, Compiler

...awings, finely executed in vivid colours, heightened with gold and silver, representing portraits of shahs, horses, elephants (including white), wild beasts, ceremonies, processions, sporting scenes, lady swinging, all mounted on cardboard, within exquisitely designed borders of wild beasts, birds, flowers, c. executed in gold, silver and colours, bound in Oriental red mor...

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In the Eye of the Beholder

By: By Sharon E. Cathcart

...own; I was supposed to be some sort of a sylph with magical powers over the beasts. I finished my toilette by making up my face for the stage. The ... ...re’ll be in no hurry to ride again when we’re done with her.” 27 “Leave the beast for the knacker. It’ll be another good lesson for my loving cousin... ... were scabbed and obviously pained her. “You’re for dog meat, you miserable beast,” Giraud laughed mirthlessly as he reached for her head collar. At... ... silenced him with a motion of my hand. “Show us your wedding ring, you foul beast,” Francois continued. “You were quite proud of it earlier when yo... ...ed. “Why, Claire, how lovely of you to join us,” he slurred. “So, what this beast told us is true, eh? You have actually wed this malformed creatur...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...t such infringement if not mere ripening concluding in decay. What sets us, Man, apart from beast is our ability to self- deceive and swindle others.... ..., conceiving sorrow. Our trees are pleasant to the sight of gold and onyxstone and every beast and fowl has its name except for our nakedness. I...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...is written: “And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth” (Beresheet, 9:2), all fear that image, existing in him... ... is written (Beresheet, 2:19): “Out of the ground the Creator formed every beast of the field,” and also, “whatsoever the man would call every living... ...al), for the Gematria of HaVaYaH of Malchut is fifty-two = BON = BeHeMaH (beast) = Bet- Hey-Mem-Hey = 2 + 5 + 40 + 5 = 52. Malchut constitutes the le...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e off from the rest. They were marred too but by the fangs of dogs or other beasts dragging them around before dumping them away from the rest of the... ...her saliva. Still she smiled although a supercilious undertone tried to gain beastly dominion. "The sport of seduction was all I had in mind, Mr., an... ...e cracker carcasses only after he matched the animal cracker replicas to the beasts they were approaching and could say the names of the zoo animals i... ... like Moses holding back the waters of drool that came from her affectionate beasts, she felt the beginning of what she could tell would be an intense... ...iprocal thingチNgoes both ways. I donチOt care what these self-centered little beasts like or donチOt like. Three cheers for men not liking me and going ... ..., and ultimately the planets composing the cellular outline of a long fanged beast that was the lonely universe) when the man with the unmemorable nam... ...curing the contentment or felicity of so many temporary generations of dying beasts, had been a constructive use of their masters' precious moments of... ...erby) surely this realm of the divine that separated gods from self-centered beasts could not be willfully disregarded. Still, even she was a social c...

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

By: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

...ories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works. These tales were later heavily revised and sanitised, but here are presented closer to their grim and beloved originals. (Summary by Marlo Dianne)...

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Introduction to the Book of Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...oughts and ideas. For instance, those whose will to receive is limited to beastly desires, their needs, thoughts and ideas all aim to satisfy that d... ...es, their needs, thoughts and ideas all aim to satisfy that desire in its beastliness. And although they use the mind and reason as humans do, it is,... ... it is, however, enough for the slave to be as his master. And it is as a beastly mind, since the mind is enslaved and serves the beastly desire. An... ...s, such as domination, over others and respect, which are absent from the beast, the majority of their needs, thoughts and ideas revolve solely aroun... ... from the dust, for all the flesh is but hay. They are all like hay eating beasts. Meaning that they perform the precepts mindlessly, just like beast...

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Awakening to Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...e have acquired this additional sense, we differentiate ourselves from the beast once and for all. Out of all living creatures, we humans are the only... ... of the internality of the Torah, for without it man is like a hay- eating beast, as it is written in the Tikkunim of the verse “All flesh is grass.” ... ...hemselves. Before the Ari, two types of souls came to this world: one, the beastly kind, was concerned only with procreation and preservation of the s... ... the Ari, the souls that descend to our world can no longer settle for the beastly sustenance of this world. They have evolved to such a degree that a...

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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... will feel the most wondrous sensations. The whole difference between man and beast is that man has the freedom of choice. In the directive, “Theref... ... the highest degree possible, rather than in the lowest (our world), which is beastliness alone. By discovering our souls, we attain contact with th... ...tive of the truth. Before one attains this ability, a person is like any other beast, be- cause there’s nothing within but one’s animate nature. Only ... ...ears can a person appreciate self cor- rectly. Only then does one stop being a beast and become a man, for “man” is that part of God within us. A N E... ...nothing is lower or more distanced from the Creator than one’s existence as a beast. In this state, we lack the ability to evalu- ate our situation u... ...O N 249 these qualities form a being in our world that is no different from a beast. Animals live amongst themselves, separated from one another, bu... ... E 362 Otherwise it is as it says: “…so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast” (Ecclesiastes 3, 19). Q: What does man ultimately risk? A: A per... ...case of intoxication, a person descends from the level of “man” to that of a “beast,” where one is not considered a sinner, but simply detaches from... ...that spiritual soul and become eternal. Otherwise, they remain like any other beast. The number 600,000 is the number of sparks of the collective sou...

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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...asure, have that power. But so, too, have the burning sun and the howling beast and the chief whose glance constrains him and the sorcerer whose si...

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Canterbury Tales, The

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

...es of the tales vary, and include topics such as courtly love, treachery, and avarice. The genres also vary, and include romance, Breton lai, sermon, beast fable, and fabliau. The characters, introduced in the General Prologue of the book, tell tales of great cultural relevance. The version read here was edited by D. Laing Purves “for popular perusal” and the language is m...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... now passed over it; I was round in that very place to see the weeding was done thoroughly, and already the reptile springs be- hind our heels. Tuitui... ... heels. Tuitui is a truly strange beast, and gives food for thought. I am nearly sure—I cannot yet be quite, I mean to experiment, when I am less on t... ...say the gabies; but so is man’s im- pulse to strike out. One thing that takes and holds me is to see the strange variation in the propagation of alarm... ...Tifaga Jack, Donald and Edinburgh—seven horses—O, and the stallion—eight horses; five cattle; total, if my arithmetic be correct, thir- 73 V ailima L... ...Robert Louis Stevenson in a little fountain. It was in a very dreary, marshy part among dilapidated trees that you see through holes in the trunks of;... ...nday, I went down in the rain with a colic to take the chair at a public meeting; dined with Haggard; sailed off to 89 V ailima Letters my meeting, a... ...es; the road, which begins in triumph, dwindles down to a nasty, boggy, rocky footpath with weeds up to a horseman’s knees; and there are eight pig fe... ...l give them ten days, but the real document, from which I have scarcely varied, ran for one night. I think you seem scarcely fair to Wiltshire, who ha... ..., a parcel in my hands, and as Jack had a girth sore and I rode without a girth, I might be said to occupy a very unstrategic position. On the way dow...

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St. Ives : Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...the key of the fields, comrade,’ said he. ‘Sans Rancune!’ At this my horror redoubled. Here had we two expatri- ated Frenchmen engaged in an ill-regul... ... naked body, soiled with blood. Some one had covered him with his blanket; but as he lay there in agony, he had partly thrown it off. ‘This is murder!... ...ight, he wants to kiss or embrace you, or some sickening stuff. Got that? Then here’s a list he’s had written, and you’d better read it out to them—I ... ...- ing off one shoe, for I had no stockings; ‘I was no more than a child, and see how they had begun to treat myself.’ He looked at the mark of my old ... ...ilar monster. I plucked myself from his horrid contact, I snatched the pis- tol—even discharged, it was a formidable weapon—and menaced him with the b... ...p, ruefully enough, the probable results of what had passed. Here were a number of pots broken, and it looked to me as if I should have to pay for all... ...ton. They showed me the ‘andcuffs, too—the other one did—and he clicked the dratted things on my wrist; and I tell you, I believe I nearly went off in... ...d yet I cannot find it in my heart to tell you. O, be persuaded, and go!’ ‘I believe I know the worst. But I was never one to set an undue value on li... ...Chevenix slipped the chain, and the dog sprang, straight as an arrow, up the bank. I stepped back, picked up a stone of about twelve pounds weight, an...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...belief, than not to have some- thing to work upon. After this manner brute beasts direct their fury to fall upon the stone or weapon that has hurt the... ..., ii. 57.] But as to the other prognostics, calculated from the anatomy of beasts at sacrifices (to which purpose Plato does, in part, attribute the n... ...does, in part, attribute the natural constitution of the intestines of the beasts themselves), the scraping of poultry, the flight of birds— “Ave... ... things that are no more. Aristotle tells us that there are certain little beasts upon the banks of the river Hypanis, that never live above a day: th... ...nt vomiting and fever, there was no possible means to save her. Even brute beasts are subject to the force of imagination as well as we; witness dogs,... ...the Baptist, that hung within the curtains of her bed. It is the same with beasts; witness Jacob’s sheep, and the hares and partridges that the snow t... ...The whole day is spent in dancing. Their young men go a-hunting after wild beasts with bows and arrows; one part of their women are employed in pre- p... ...ink to derive glory from a man’s sloth and privacy: you are to do like the beasts of chase, who efface the track at the entrance into their den. You a... ...nful than death itself.”— Ovid, Ep. Ariadne to Theseus, v. 42.] a thousand beasts, a thousand men, are sooner dead than threatened. That also which we...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast. T hen after the departing of King Ban and of King Bors, King Arthur ... ... sum of thirty. And with that the king saw coming toward him the strangest beast that ever he saw or heard of; so the beast went to the well and drank... ...eard of; so the beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast’s belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds; but all the w... ...elly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds; but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast’s belly: and there.with the bea... ... said, Knight full of thought and sleepy, tell me if thou sawest a strange beast pass this way. Such one saw I, said King Arthur, that is past two mil... ...one saw I, said King Arthur, that is past two mile; what would ye with the beast? said Arthur. Sir, I have followed that beast long time, and killed m... ...he best blood of my body. Pellinore, that time king, followed the Questing Beast, and after his death Sir Palamides followed it. CHAPTER XX How King P... ...HAPTER XX How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur . S ir knight, said the king, leave t...

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The First Part of Henry the Fourth. Edited by Frederic W. Moorman

By: William Shakespeare

...ered: 47 Vpon whose dead corpes there was such misuse, 48 Such beastly, shamelesse transformation, 49 By those Welshwomen done, as m... ...thou conuerse with that Trunke of Humors, that 1408 Boulting- Hutch of Beastlinesse, that swolne Parcell of 1409 Dropsies, that huge Bombard o... ... call me so. 2129 Falst. Setting thy woman- hood aside, thou art a beast 2130 to say otherwise. 2131 Host. Say, what beast, thou k... ...2131 Host. Say, what beast, thou knaue thou? 2132 Fal. What beast? Why an Otter. 2133 Prin. An Otter, sir Iohn? Why an Otter? ...

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The Winters Tale

By: William Shakespeare

...1827 (Humbling their Deities to loue) haue taken 1828 The shapes of Beasts vpon them. Iupiter, 1829 Became a Bull, and bellow’d: the greene...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...mas de Quincey vertical sunlights I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are fo...

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