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...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...trough and a fence. Time had also swept away the star and the Magi. Men, women and children pressed around me, talking, praising, asking ques- tions... ... help men see...” Last week I cured lepers on the Jericho road, men and women, all in rags. All were afraid of me, afraid of themselves. I thought... ...The sun sent sweat down the boy’s face. Tired, they sat by a spring where women and girls were filling jars. People recognized me and soon a crowd f... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. 67 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume.... ...e first official copies of the Declaration of Independence. In the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the ...

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.../www.drba.org/index.htm, the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas [CTTB, USA] for English, and another site see http://www.larong.com/ [mirror: http://www.p... ...essons, http://www.amtb.org.tw/e- bud/liaofan.HTM, http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/Text/ChangingDestiny/index.html, http://www.amtb- dba.org/English/T... ...1.htm, a link in the Dallas Buddhist Association (http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/index.html), to find an explanation, but unfortunately in Chinese..... ...ed to answer his inquiry as best I could. As far as the equity of men and women, Westerners deflect the subject to the sexual life in a matriarchate,... ... only): …… Sexuality plays an immense role in the manipulation of men by women, because the women "have monopoly of sex," as an American friend exp... ...the lower class to the leading spheres. Freud was 32 right. One uses women in espionage, in influencing politicians' decisions, in attracting bu... ...tors for more and better creation or work. (This applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, and spiritualists.) (What we yearn for is real...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...ed with one accord in prayer and sup Acts 1:1 1:14 3 plication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. 15 And in th... ... And believers were the more added to the Lord, multi tudes both of men and women.) 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, an... ... he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. 4 Therefore they that were scattered abro... ...or in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29 Forasmuch then as we ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rlooked misprint for ‘uprist’—not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regu- lar formation, familiar to many from it... ... become generally available. If Shelley is less fortunate than most modern poets in the purity of his text, he is more fortunate than many in the pres... ...hat pass away. For thou hast earned a mighty boon, The truths which wisest poets see _85 Dimly, thy mind may make i... ... do not presume to enter into competition with our great- est contemporary Poets. Yet I am unwilling to tread in the footsteps of any who have precede... .... O 2. O 2. 1 1 1 1 1. The starlight smile of children, the sweet looks Of women, the fair breast from which I fed, The murmur of the unreposing brook... ...Serpent and the Dove, Wisdom and Innocence. 20 20 20 20 20. ‘The wild-eyed women throng around her path: _1585 From their luxurious dung... ... by, And stared and spoke not;—then with piercing cry A troop of wild-eyed women, by the shrieks Of their own terror driven,—tumultuously ... ...ll-health increased this restlessness. The sufferings occasioned by a cold English winter made him pine, especially when our colder spring arrived, fo...

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...y broadcasted live and lectures everywhere. Question: Is the study for women the same as it is for men? Answer: The Ari had stated that from h... ...that from his time (the 16 th century) onward the study is permitted for women, children and servants, meaning for the entire population and all t... ...vants, meaning for the entire population and all the parts of the desire. Women, children, gentiles, the whole of mankind must know the upper force.... ... during a person's lifetime in our world and not after his departure, as poets often describe it. The lowest stage of this ladder is absolute evil,... ...We know these explanations as Mitzvot (commandments, precepts), of Do (in English they’re called Positive Precepts) or Mitzvot of Do Not Do (Negati...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s stopped by a sort of portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died 8 The Note Book of an Engl... ...rants, meditating probably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful Lond... ...opo- lis there are many thousands of households, composed ex- clusively of women and children; many other thousands there are who necessarily confide ... ...teenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they were not... ...eally exist in the Grecian drama? Even Sophocles, who, of the three tragic poets surviving from the wrecks of the Athenian stage, is reputed the supre... ...h broods over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied t...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ... staues, the Cypresse funerall. The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage, the Firre that weepeth still, The Willow worne of forlorne Pa... ...ngs. Thus long the dore with rage and threats he bet, Yet of those fearefull women none durst rize, The Lyon frayed them, him in to let: He would no l... ...ed deare, When fairer faces were bid standen by: O who does know the bent of womens fantasy? In a greene gowne he clothed was full faire, Which vndern... ...doth accuse; So euery good to bad he doth abuse: And eke the verse of famous Poets witt He does backebite, and spightfull poison spues From leprous mo... ...oes throw out thrilling shriekes, & shrieking cryes, The last vaine helpe of womens great distresse, And with loud plaints importuneth the skyes, That... ... girlond crownd: Or like that pleasaunt Mount, that is for ay Through famous Poets verse each where renownd, On which the thrise three learned Ladies ... ...HE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE 135 And thou faire ymp, sprong out from English race, How euer now accompted Elfins sonne, Well worthy doest thy ... ...state. But now aread, old father, why of late Didst thou behight me borne of English blood, Whom all a Faeries sonne doen nominate? That word shall I ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t feel this man to be higher, beautifuler, nobler. Yes, from Norse Odin to English Samuel Johnson, from the divine Founder of Christianity to the with... ... burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the early Chris... ...The oldest Nottingham bargemen had believed in the God Aegir. In- deed our English blood too in good part is Danish, Norse; or rather, at bottom, Dani... ...abia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that. One Jewish qu... ... of Poet and Prophet.— In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect; whom it were a kind of treason to find fau... ...wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, En- glish men and women are, they will say to one another: “Yes, this Shakspeare is ours; we ... ...the Devil’s Cause, had no method of making himself agreeable! “Better that women weep,” said Morton, “than that bearded men be forced to weep.” Knox w...

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...raged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earthquake.?Dante swoons. .........................

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rane of some huge lobster, invisibly manipulated by thirty thousand men or women, of whom each individual occupies a space of six square feet, but has... ...fectioner, where there’s a pretty girl.” Rambling about Paris is, to these poets, a costly luxury. How can they help spending precious minutes be- for... ...less fingers, ah, then! and we say it in the interests of young and pretty women, that woman is lost. She is at the mercy of the first man of her acqu... ...elf that he will ever be understood? We all die unknown—’tis the saying of women and of authors. At half-past eight o’clock one evening, in the rue Pa... ...e the glance avows it. Auguste, poet after the manner of lovers (there are poets who feel, and poets who express; the first are the happiest), Auguste... ...e by society, which makes no inquiry as to what there may be of great men, poets, intrepid 31 Balzac souls, and splendid organizations among these va... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...................................................................... 35 THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION ............................................ ...esus polite and gracious, does not make him meek. The picture of him as an English curate of the farcical comedy type, too meek to fight a policeman, ... ...entre of the world’s attention is too absurd for discussion; grown men and women may speak kindly of a harmless crea- ture who utters amiable sentimen... ... heard the gospel stories read in church, or learnt them from painters and poets, you came 13 Preface to Androcles and the Lion out with an impressio... ...han any- where else except perhaps in Ulster, retranslations into mod- ern English have been introduced perforce to save its bare intelligibility. It ... ...s expectation and crying aloud with prophecy of the Redeemer through their poets. To feel that atmosphere we have only to take up the Bible and read I... ...philosophers and moralists. 35 Preface to Androcles and the Lion MARK THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION LET US SEE whether we can get anything mo...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...by tortures, but from grief Felt by those multitudes, many and vast, Of men, women, and infants. Then to me The gentle guide: “Inquir’st thou not what... .... As the rill, that runs From Bulicame, to be portion’d out Among the sinful women; so ran this Down through the sand, its bottom and each bank Stone ... ...g thus, a demon with his thong Struck, and exclaim’d, “Away! corrupter! here Women are none for sale.” Forthwith I join’d My escort, and few paces the... ... Che non sia al fin sempre amato chi ama. Indeed many of the Italian poets have repeated this verse. v. 105. Caina.] The place to which murde... ...her it has been remarked, that the crime of usury is branded by both these poets as offensive to God and Nature: or that the sin for which Brunetto... ...r further particulars relating to this singular man, see Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. diss. ii. and sect. ix. p 292, and the Notes to ... ...nte is himself enumerated, by the historian of Italian literature, among the poets of his time. Tiraboschi, Storia della Lett. Ital. t. v. 1. iii. c.... ...he Jew’s) who did not profess Christianity.” Mr. Ellis’s specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, vol. i. page 196, a note. Lond. 8vo. 1805. C...

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...m the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in b...

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...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ... Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived ... ...The Mongols hunted small animals and—given the chance—stole livestock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was ... ...rial goods. The attackers rarely pursued. The raiders would take young women as wives and young boys as slaves. Older women and the youngest chil... ... tribe‘s aristocratic lineage by killing off their men and marrying their women to his sons and other followers. Taking the name Genghis Khan, h... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... spoke, a dark procession paced into the church. First came an old man and women, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired from head to foot in the d... ...rrible racket. There was a general 21 Hawthorne bustle, a rustling of the women’s gowns and shuffling of the men’s feet, greatly at variance with tha... ...ussion between 25 Hawthorne acquaintances meeting in the street, and good women gos- siping at their open windows. It was the first item of news that... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...s been told far and wide, and will forever be a legend of these mountains. Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances which led some to supp...