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... dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miria... ...an of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in these dismal places. Y ou have hea... ...marvels of this kind. “These eyes of mine never beheld him, signorina; the saints forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches n... ...ranches upon a slender length of stem, so high that they looked like green islands in the air, flinging down a shadow upon the turf so far off that yo... ...he discontented nymph was compelled to see the basin fill itself through a channel which she could not control, although with water long ago consecrat... ...ow!—you have heard! But what can you possibly have heard, and through what channel?” “Nothing!” replied Hilda faintly. “Not one word has reached my ea... ...rance, which took place the day before, was known to them through a secret channel, and had brought them into the city, where Miriam, as I surmise, be...

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...hich was shapely enough. Her face was exactly like those of Albert Durer’s saints, or those of the painters before Perugino; the same plump, though sl... ...r dressing himself carefully to gratify the old gardeners of the Borromean Islands, whom he regarded as the warders of his treasure, he went all over ... ... by accumu- lating above it all the soil which had to be removed to make a channel for the river and the irrigation canals. When the Baron de Wattevil...

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... and now the inspiration, if he might call it so, seemed just to flow in that channel. The voice that spoke from her lips seemed to want to take that f... ...he looked at the moment as if, like Joan, she might have had visits from the saints. Olive, of course, remembered afterwards that it had not literally... ...ort of priestess of maternity. She endeavoured to keep the conversation in a channel which would enable her to ask sudden incoherent questions of Oliv... ...hite and muffled and the door bell foredoomed to silence, which seemed little islands of lamplight, of enlarged and intensified vision. They read a grea...

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...ledge and transformation of the spirit. At one time martyrs, ascetics and saints were inconceivable, and then along came the religions, which produ... ...es to become an artist? In the West, immortality has been promised to the saints for the last two thousand years. Before that, in Egypt, it was pro... ...nthesis. We must note that the spiritual growth of the ascetics and the saints is rigidly linear and not dialectical. We can also note the normal... ...racticed by monastic orders. The Benedictines in their Abbeys created true islands of culture, of work and prayer while being in contact with the wor... ...that pull in the same direction, and what happens is like when a ship in a channel is pulled by two different ropes, one to the right and one to the... ...a brake on his rage and anger that are blind and destructive, and thus can channel them in a direction that is both destructive and constructive. -... ...hose who face death can create beauty that never dies. - There are many islands in Ulysses’ journey: the island of the Laestrygonians, the island...

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...n many captains who, directly their ship had left the narrow waters of the Channel, would disappear from the sight of their ship’s company altogether ... ... we passed St. Helena; was laid up for a time when we were off the Western Islands, but got out of bed to make his Land- fall. He managed to keep up o... ...he not “served his time” in the famous copper-ore trade out of the Bristol Channel, the work of the staunchest ships afloat, and the school of staunch... ... are marked distinctly by work about the ship’s anchors. A ves- sel in the Channel has her anchors always ready, her cables shackled on, and the land ... ...of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare. Ever sinc... ...ree days’ run got out of a little barque of 400 tons somewhere between the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam and Cape Otway on the Australian coast. I... ...trange women; the highway of he- roes and sages, of warriors, pirates, and saints; the 131 Joseph Conrad workaday sea of Carthaginian merchants and t...

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...e whole season through. Whether talking together about the shipping in the Channel, or gruffly unbending over mugs of beer at the public house, you wo... ...nd our French watering place are wholly changed since those days; but, the Channel remains unbridged as yet, and the old floundering and knocking abou... ...ollection of boots and shoes; goes brawling down the hill in a diversified channel of old cord age, old iron, old crockery, old clothes, civil and mi... ...clothes, civil and military, old rags, new cotton goods, flaming prints of saints, little looking glasses, and incalculable lengths of tape; dives int... ... of the deep mines of the earth, and from the Parrot Gods of the South Sea Islands, and from the birds and beetles of the trop ics, and from the Arts...

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..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...dant hardware -different centers to perform similar tasks. Redundant communications channels with the same information simultaneously transferred a... ...ople of Yucatan, the Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergip... ...d to be a common exercise among island tribes (e.g., in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and is still the case in godforsaken battle zones such ... ...sm is the punitive ritual of being eaten alive. The kings of the tribes of the Cook Islands were thought to embody the gods. They punished dissent b... ...have attained. Strategies for Monopolization Exclude competitors from distribution channels. - This is common practice in many countries. Open thre... ...g scale economies to force conditions upon the competition or upon the distribution channels. In many countries Big Industry lobbies for a legislati...

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... not going to do it: I won’t stand it. My father wants to make St George’s Channel a frontier and hoist a green flag on College Green; and I want to b... ...epeatedly]. Oh glory be to God! glory be to God! Oh Holy Mother an all the saints! Oh murdher! murdher! [Beside himself, calling Fadher Keegan! Fadher... ...l. [To M a t] If you’ d think a little more o the sufferins of the blessed saints, Mat, an a little less o your own, you’d find the way shorter from y... ...rtained gloaming over the dead heart and blinded soul of the island of the saints, you will comfort me with the bustle of a great hotel, and the sight... ...fine flower of the world’s crop of infamy. But the day may come when these islands shall live by the quality of their men rather than by the abundance...

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...owledged it for years. You and I and the Wilcoxes stand upon money as upon islands. It is so firm beneath our feet that we forget its very existence. ... ...er, when we are tempted to criticise others, that we are standing on these islands, and that most of the oth- ers are down below the surface of the se... ...St. Francis into a white- hot hatred of the carnal. He could not be as the saints and love the Infinite with a seraphic ardour, but he could be a litt... ...fore Mr. Wilcox and Charles. The sight of Margaret turned remorse into new channels. He desired to confess, and though the de- sire is proof of a weak...

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...ad been shattered at St. Quentin, and an in- clement night of crossing the Channel had brought on an attack on the lungs, from which he only rallied e... ...th Mr. Adderley and four or five servants, he had 28 Yo n g e crossed the Channel, and had gone first to Chateau Leurre, where he was rapturously wel... ...ake it as well to know nothing. Farewell, Madame, I commend you to all the saints till I come for you on Monday morning.’ Eustacie gave him her hand t... ...evenants can do nothing worse than scare one; they can- not touch one; the saints and angels will not let them—and my uncle would do much worse.’ But ... ...ome aware that there was a low sound, a tramp, tramp, below her. ‘Gracious saints! The Templar! Have mercy on me! Oh! I was too sleepy to pray! Guard ... ...nked at the Queen Elizabeth that it had its head-quarters in the Chan- nel Islands, and thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the ... ... river that they would have to cross, which divided further out into small channels, more easily forded. They thus went along the chord of the arc for...

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...tory by millennia—a large freshwater lake lay halfway between the English Channel and today‘s boundary between Pakistan and India. A thriving ag... ... Linked to China, India, Persia, and Mediterranean nations, its twisting channels of commerce had lain so far south that little of the wealth they ... ...tholic Church‘s internationally renowned monastery schools on the British islands. Two-pronged invasion from the North From the eighth through th... ...d and France down along two corridors from the north—one down the English Channel and the other via land along the Europe‘s west coast. These inv... ...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. As pioneer printers spread out across Euro...

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... on the wandering foam: I and you! THE ROSE 37 I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and So... ...d him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A w... ...IVING BEAUTY I BADE, because the wick and oil are spent And frozen are the channels of the blood, My discontented heart to draw content From beauty th... ...vie with her, Matching our broken hearted wit against her wit, Thinking of saints and of Petronius Arbiter. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 155 II Certain Ar... ...e part, V on H¨ ugel, though much alike, for we Accept the miracles of the saints and honour sanctity? The body of Saint Teresa lies undecayed in tomb... ...; My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: ‘This Land of Saints,’ and then as the applause died out, ‘Of plaster Saints’; his beauti... ...themes? First that sea rider Oisin led by the nose Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams, Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose, Themes ...

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...actual horizon there is not a looming as of Land; a promise of new Fortunate Islands, perhaps whole undiscovered Americas, for such as have canvas to ... ...ourse of their own; that in so multiplex, intricate a nature, there might be channels, both for admitting and emitting, such as the Psy chologist had... ...must be somewhere a healing Fountain. To many fondly imagined Fountains, the Saints’ Wells of these days, did I pilgrim; to great Men, to great Cities... ... who will one day be a Spectre queller. If pilgriming restlessly to so many “Saints’ Wells,” and ever without quenching of his thirst, he never thele... ...cloud of witnesses and brothers; and there is a living, literal Communion of Saints, wide as the World itself, and as the History of the World. “Notew...

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...ari- see, who belonged to the sect called The Dashers (that little knot of saints whose manner of dashing and lacerating the feet against the pavement... ...ggestive odour that comes to him at eventide from far distant undiscovered islands, over dim oceans, illimitable and unexplored. He owns it in all nob... ...the poet of the “Ancient Mari- ner” to infuse the Poetic Sentiment through channels suggested by analysis. The one finished by complete failure what h... ...is childhood. §And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the saints.—Rev. St. John. *The Humanitarians held that God was to be understoo...

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...Truth, but Waits” 8 a little money, with which he bought The Lives of the Saints. He read this book when there was light enough in the prison; and on... ...per some prayer to himself or go over in his mind such of the lives of the saints as he was able to remember. When he came across any one on the road,... ...a stone and began scraping away the earth in front of the puddle to make a channel through which the water could run out into the street. Presently Ma... .... Presently Malásha joined her, and with a chip of wood helped her dig the channel. Just as the men were beginning to fight, the water from the little... ... Just as the men were beginning to fight, the water from the little girls’ channel ran streaming into the street towards the very place where the old ... ...House of Surat” 222 Japan, and sets far, far away in the west, beyond the islands of England. That is why the Japanese call their country “Nippon,” t...

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... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito Ca... ... the bank into the river. It’s deep there close to. The 147 Joseph Conrad channel runs that way, you know. About five, Willems went back on board, an... ... sudden exal- tation, “You are noble … I shall pray every day … to all the saints … I shall …” “Never mind … never mind!” stammered out Almayer, confu...

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...hem; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thou- sands of saints: from his right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the p... ...s right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall rece... ...ORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall n... ...out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discom ted them. 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered,... ...tered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discom- ted them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discove... ... the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he ... ...d from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the na- tions, and... ...l dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant p... ...; and they shall walk, and not faint. Chapter 41 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then ...

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...ose, That when this chosen temple of the Lord, Her holy doors shall to his saints unclose In rest and peace; then this victorious sword Shall execute ... ...in noble store, Whose conduit pipes, united all in one, Throughout a rocky channel ghastly roar; Here Tancred stayed, and called, yet answered none, S... ..., Ravished with zeal his soul approached near The seat of angels pure, and saints divine, And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give for... ...eads: On these they called, and on all the rout Of angels, martyrs, and of saints devout. X Singing and saying thus, the camp devout Spread forth her ... ...bestows Of purest crystal on the Christian bands, The pebbles naked in his channel shows And scantly glides above the scorched sands, Nor Po in May wh... ...ent think. LX He that the gliding rivers erst had seen Adown their verdant channels gently rolled, Or falling streams which to the valleys green Disti... ...ire breaks out by night, black smoke by day. XXXV About the hill lay other islands small, Where other rocks, crags, cliffs, and mountains stood, The I... ...orquato Tasso XLI They saw how eastward stretched in order long, The happy islands sweetly flowering lay; And how the seas betwixt those isles enthron...

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... and the first was this, viz. Our Ship making her Course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those Islands and the African Shore, was surpris... ... As I had been one V oyage to this Coast before, I knew very well that the Islands of the Canaries, and the Cape deVerd Islands also, lay not far off ... ... to Sea towards them otherwise I might now easily have found some of these Islands. But my hope was, that if I stood along this Coast till I came to t... ...V oyage to the Brasils, and arriv’d in the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints Bay, in about Twenty two Days after. And now I was once more deliver... ...g, my Raft floated again, and I thrust her off with the Car I had, into the Channel, and then driving up higher, I at length found my self in the Mouth... ... at all: Accordingly I let my self down into the Water, and swam cross the Channel, which lay between the Ship and the Sands, and even that with Diffic...

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...a pleasant one, as we had a great deal of bad weather. When we came into the Channel, the captain kept his word with me, and gave me an opportunity of... ...mon acquaintance jocosely remark’d, that, knowing it to be the custom of the saints, when they received any favour, The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran... ...ong enough to wash away all the mud it meets with; but when divided into two channels, it is often too weak to cleanse either, and only makes the mud ... ...ting them in every capital town, and pick’d up some money. In the West India islands, indeed, it was with difficulty the experiments could be made, fr... ... notice of the enemy’s privateers, who often crus’d near the entrance of the channel. Accordingly, all the sail was set that we could possibly make, a...