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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN... ...coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, which draweth nigh, and which, as I believe, is, close at hand: and having, by God’s especial providence, been broug... ...t God our Saviour, whose servants you are, I do command you, in that High and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from yo... ...e earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of refreshin... ...and real character upon the other; both centering in and radiating out from the Jewish people.’ And this appeared to me to be written in these the ... ...ts, who, however, did all they could to give him a good education: they sent him to the college of the Jesuits, of which society he became a member ... ...hall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: t hey shall bow down to thee wit... ...ns, from whence have they come? from whence are they? and who has nursed, supported and educated them? And thou shalt say in thy heart, who hath beg... ...wo spouses, or two different churches; —but because these two sisters, both independent queens, so far as pertaineth to earthly government, must comp...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...oil lights in tiny clay bowls surrounding the base of the idol. The figure of a man lay prostrate at the foot of the Goddess, his fingers clutching ... ...t his concern, only the stealthy shadows of vengeance which he knew must come. His eyes looked up at the Goddess, her blackness towered above him, h... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...t him once more, when she was fifteen years old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addiscombe College near Croydon, the prestigious military aca... ...ny is determined to prevent at all costs. ‘On the advice of the previous Resident, Prince Ali was educated in England and, according to the irascibl... ... gown of heavy oyster satin with its long train was cut skilfully by one of the top couturiers of London to emphasise her superb figure and lovely c... ... more conservative Indian rulers, that the British sent their young Indian princes overseas to be educated in our schools and universities and they ...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...-- Perhaps the title of this Book – ―The Devil‘s Legacy to Earth Mortals‖ may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witc... ... or plural, the Devil signifies Satan by himself, or Satan with all his legions at his heels, as you please, more or less. It is thus expressed in S... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ... went back to her place. At length he came and told her that her husband was in London, in a coffee-house which he named, and that he would return v... ...ay (it was the very day that the woman had been with him), in a coffee- house in London; and that he had told him that his wife was much distressed ab... ...rphans in their infancy, to the care of the same person, by whom they were both educated in the principals of Deism. When they were each of them abou... ...r to the friendship that always existed between Lord Tyrone and myself; we were educated under the same roof, in the same principals, those of Deism.... ...out five and twenty, the son of Mr. Increase Mather then president of Cambridge college, – a position then of greater civil and church power than an...

...Perhaps the title of this Book – The Devil‘s Legacy to Earth Mortals may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witches Prayer, and wonder whether they had best look into it or no, lest they should really raise the Devil by reading what he has bequeathed to mankind. It is...

...ct was drawn out in authentic form, signed by the sorcerer, and attested with his blood, and was then carried away by the demon, to be produced again at the appointed time....

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ..., I wrote a book of the same title ( ), published in Finnish (1979; 1985). At the time, I was interested in the way the structures that had maintained... ...ist of traditions maintained by societies, but of human activity, directed at creation and maintenance of a secure future in a constantly changing env... ... people who are studying in the technical schools and the teacher training college have come and rented properties in this village to live in. The dor... ...e university in Bangkok. Now I am studying at the Lampang teacher training college. No. I used to be a car trader. I sold cars in a marquee in Lampang... ...ll wedding souvenir gift. I think it's important that my future husband is educated at least to the same degree as myself. But if he has studied a lot... ...ws so much more than I do. Neither would it be right if he was not as well educated as I, because then we wouldn't understand each other. We should ha... ...ther processions: golden palaces, lotus and dragon thrones, upon which sit queens surrounded by a guard of warriors. They are decorated by mythical cr...

...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ied with iioinan candles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the ... ...the lire, and the undorclassuien circled around it, the freshmen in- side. At o signal the classes rushed together, and stayed to- gether with the tim... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...s. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909... ...hief. GhkaM) Mygatt iqoS, News Editor E. H. Wood icja^ At. I.. Eknst 1909, College N'oles. Alumni News. G ENOELiiAKn 3909, A. 1. Santky igtx), M.W.Mac... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...is ignorance he cannot see beyond the present, but as soon as he be- comes educated, the peasant will cause the ultimate destruction of the present go... ... it . arose as a form of parasitism, which probably origin- ated among the queens. COLLEGE NOTES The junior class picture was tak- en on Saturday afte... ...esting, especially from a technical point of view, although it requires an educated musical mind to appre- ciate the almost perfect rendition of music...

...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Sea... ... ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art ... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...don't lie. These made good sense. As I progressed through high school and college I came to understand the Constitution and many of the laws of our s... ...35% ten years earlier. Even among those with graduate degrees from 28 college, only 41% were deemed to be proficient in comprehending abstract re... ...e now, work to support myself through college and hopefully become better educated in learning how to be a more complete human being while also lear... ... the people said they were atheists. ―It was noted that college educated people or people earning over $100,000 a year were more likely to... ...se of bloodlines? It seems that this is archaic in today‘s world. Look at queens Elizabeth and Victoria. They ruled as well or better than most male...

... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...uan Chang “Tao and the Sympathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1... ...inceton, 1977. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 19591973. Baba Kubi of Shiraz, “The Sufi Path of Love,” tr. R.A. Ni... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ...had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or we absorb... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...uced to white culture at age fifteen and he later graduated from Dartmouth College and got his MD from Boston University. Dr Eastman was the physician... ...e or unjust or ruinous taxation by a tyrannical monarch. This was for many educated colonial and early American white men the most progressive and exc... ...re about seven hundred people overall in several camps which include white-educated part-Aborigines from surrounding pastoral stations (ranches) and f... ...ve powers” in Religion in Aboriginal Australia an Anthology, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia (Queensland), 1984. McGuire William and R.F.C. H...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appe...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

..................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS ............................................................ ... found suitable potential homes for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable f... ...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...nd subject to their husbands has given way to having more women than men in college and the right for women to succeed in business and politics. The... ...ories! He had lived there often during the summers while in high school and college, as well as during his early bachelor years. What a great retreat... ...the ability and desire to raise physically and mentally healthy, happy, and educated children. We have to give all the children a chance at a real l... ...rth was flat and that the sun went around the earth. Now the popes, and all educated people, believe just the opposite. “While Copernicus was ... ...thogens in the air, use nuclear weapons against major cities like New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing or Paris. “Or maybe we’ll follow the pattern...

... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...t such permission). The full legal statement of this license may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode I ... ...e novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at work adding the finishing touches to the manuscripts. Now, more than a ... ... 1615 On Christmas last I sang carols with Ellen and her friends, in her London apartment, candlelight on her frosted windows where trees, like men... ...o recall. I prefer the normal and kindly, an intimate Scot voice, a man’s educated speech, someone mouthing thoughtfully, an older person whose word... ...ggregate of all my schooling did not amount to one year. I was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy ... ...l. Ann was to enroll at Jacksonville Academy. I was to enroll at Illinois College. That year I called on her at the Rutledge farm, several times. We... ...tlett (1909-1990) was a writer and artist, born in Moberly, Missouri, and educated at Oberlin College, the University of Arizona, the Academia de Sa...

...ett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by t...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...nclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newsp... ...metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact momen... ...rience. In addition, I find that reading books backward, even difficult college textbooks, organizes material in a way which most college students... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping histories, such as ... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...t. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one century only.... ...ibes were forbidden to make any corrections. This applied to even the best-educated or experienced scribes. Such a culture not only preserved err... ...ed. Besides the profit motive, printing offered the chance to become self-educated.‖ Operation of a Gutenberg press, moreover, involved team effor...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...nclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newsp... ...metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact momen... ...perience. In addition, I find that reading books backward, even difficult college textbooks, organizes material in a way which most college students... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping histories, such as Th... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...t. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one century only. ... ...ibes were forbidden to make any corrections. This applied to even the best-educated or experienced scribes. Such a culture not only preserved error... ...ed. Besides the profit motive, printing offered the chance to become self-educated.‖ Operation of a Gutenberg press, moreover, involved team effort,...

...readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 l...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...tanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you p... ... figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continuall... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...its suicidal slide into the destruction of the planet it lives on, it must be educated and enlightened as to the actual truth about the true nature ... ...h a symbol denoting nothing instead of the symbol of birth, is one reason why educated people have an unconscious mental block when it comes to expl... ...r culture. Unless you buy a book, pay money for a seminar, or spend years in college learning isolated, uncollated, unchallenged, and uncompared pi... ...rs, murderers, outlaws, robbers, and thieves. The biggest chieftains, kings, queens, and emperors; with the biggest armies, the greatest navies; wh... ...ears. So apparently, 11,500 years of historians, and senators, and kings and queens, and priests, and leaders, and all the moral tales and stories a...

...of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World ... ...ity. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-840O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m 02 m 08 APR 15 APR 1 8 CPASWF 87-001 (Supersedes CR... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...ory over age 18 Elections: Tancredo Neves indirectly elected by an electoral college composed of members of congress and delegates from the state legi... ...d other Language: Arabic (official); English and French widely understood by educated classes Infant mortality rate: 94/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy: ... ..., 2 representatives of the States of Alderney; States of Election (electoral college) elects Jurats and Conseillers it is composed of the Bailiff, 12 ... ...a Nieue (Niuean Church) a Christian Protestant church closely related to the London Missionary Society, 10% Morman, 5% Roman Catho- lic, Jehovah's Wit... ...Communist Party illegal since 1950; party in exile maintains headquarters in London, Daniel Tloome, (Chairman) and Joe Slovo, (General Secre- tary) Ot...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... MANUAL OF STYLE BEING A COMPILATION OF THE TYPOGRAPHICAL RULES IN FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS TO WHICH ARE APPENDED SPECIMENS OF T... ...nt work is a codification of the typographical rules and practices in force at the University of Chicago Press. Having its genesis, more than a deca... ...ganiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- so... ...n if applied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local typographical union... ...ustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of Nine; "In... ...enate, the Council, 18 The U~iversity of Chicago Press the Faculty of the College of Commerce and Administration (but: the faculty); the President... ...on and the publisher's name in literary references: Clement of Alexandria (London: Macmillan), 11, 97. 123. The colon should be placed outside the ... ...ed or epigrammatic turn of sentiment" (John Wilson) : "Do we--can wend out educated boys and girls from the high school at eighteen ?" "The Platoni... ...hitely." John Ruskin. By Henry Carpenter. ["English Men of Letters," 111.1 London: Black, 1900. "As the Italian [Englishman] Dante Gabriel Rodslett...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of...

...tory of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its own composing room with experienced typesetters who were required to set complex scientific material as well as work in such then-exotic fonts as Hebrew and Ethiopic. Professors brought their h...

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...l Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton. Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1s... ...years of Elizabeth’s reign, having entered as Fellow Com- moner at Trinity College, and obtained a Fellowship at Trinity Hall. Naunton went to Scotlan... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ... In this city he brought about, by his own industry, the establishing of a College of Physicians, of which he was elected the first president. He was ... ...nn. In these colleges numbers of young nobility, gentry, and oth- ers, are educated, and chiefly in the study of physic, for very few apply themselves... ...vy Counsellor to Henry VIII., Ed- ward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, Kings and Queens of England. Of Prince Edward, Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall, and Ea...

...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...K I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE......................................................... ........................................ 118 CHAPTER XIV WE RIDE AFTER HIM TO LONDON. ...................................................................... ...lessing of fatherly love and protection as can never be thought of, by us, at least, without veneration and thankfulness; and my sons’ children, wheth... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped ... ...- lected him for a bridegroom. Duke Hamilton, then Earl of Arran, had been educated at the famous Scottish university of Glasgow, and, coming to Londo... ...ssed it, and called him her preserver and her dear. She wasn’t thinking of Queens and crowns. The Bishop’s news was reassuring: at least all was not l...

........................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II ...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...s after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, how- ever, a true impe... ...L BECOME OF ME? WILL BECOME OF ME? WILL BECOME OF ME? WILL BECOME OF ME? A LONDON DINING-ROOM was lighted with gas, which showed a table of small dime... ...d the plates, really came as near to feeding the pair as was possible with people above three years old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good dea... ...thing,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if they don’t! And you know those aunts... ...ather’s sisters, but I know she couldn’t bear them. If any of them came to London, there was a calling, but all very stu- pid, and a dining at Lord Ro... ... I ever heard of her, I should think she was, and cleverer and more highly educated than any of us.’ ‘Yes,’ said Hal, ‘that was the kind of pretension... ...e had been his correspondent in school 96 The Two Sides of the Shield and college days, and being a person never easily rebuffed, she had kept up mor... ...ill make much difference to you.’ ‘Oh, but I do want to be thoroughly well educated. I meant to go through them all, like Gillian and Mysie, and I am ...

...rtinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify the very small!...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...ent and practi- cal genius of the great English-speaking nation across the At- lantic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...n the necessary sacrifices of preconceptions that the idea involves in the London press. He has also been trying to clear his own mind upon the real m... ...he people nor appointed by any legislative body. He is chosen by a special college elected by the people. This col- lege exists to elect him; it meets... ...t advocacy of meth- ods of election or the like. In the United States this college which elects the President is elected on the same register of voter... ...the paths of war is not going to alter this essential fact, that the great educated world communities, with a social and industrial organization on a ... ...., etc.; (2) persons of a special class, as, for example, persons born and educated to rule (e.g. Aristocracy), or rich busi- ness adventurers (Plutoc...

...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...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 University nor Jim... ...bout three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of la... ... Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient... ...r, you were pleased to an swer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to in... ...I could hardly understand the new. And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are abl... ...tate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, ... ... labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared and educated, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they a... ...he last three years. In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants o... ...l parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the f ourth for myself. Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 94...

...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes

By: Honoré de Balzac

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e encoun- tered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace— a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field i... ...again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and con- torted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains... ... and colorless; decay, painted to seem young. In looking at this excavated people, foreigners, who are not prone to reflection, experience at first a ... ...bove, to which he brings his ducats and his daughter or his son, reared at college, who, with more education than his father, raises higher his ambiti... ... the whip of interests, beneath the scourge of ambitions which torture the educated portion of this monstrous city, just as in the case of the proleta... ...you like. The children are put out to nurse, and only return to be sent to college or to boarding-school. Monsieur and Ma- dame live on the third floo... ...uise.” “She is away,” replied the postman. “Her letters are for- warded to London.” “Then the marquise is not a young girl who … ?” “Ah!” said the pos... ...f your quarry,” he said, taking from his leather wallet a letter bearing a London stamp, upon which the address, “To Mademoiselle Paquita Valdes, Rue ...

...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, o...

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