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...which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithfully drawn from the divine testimony, or not....

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...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...nd you, in that High and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from your several avocations, lay aside your several speculat... ...ons were cut. They were never principal but only accessory; never substantial, but only accidental to the question. And, I believe, no Protestant li... ...o all rules and canons of interpretation. This indeed is the point in which our author falls short of himself, viz: in all that respects the chrono... ... it is truth, but that it is truth prophetical. That the prophetical quality is not an accidental but an essential part of it; not a circumstance wh... ...ich mortifieth our members within us: and are enabled in all cases of trial, and in all deaths of dear kindred in Christ Jesus, and in our own death... ...elieve and confess as the indubitable points of divine faith, with those particular and accidental things which upon these same points have been, or... ... this exposition or understanding hath little justice, or be very wide of the truth (as falls out frequently enough), then have we most proper canon...

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...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...e bed rested upon these evidences of his episcopal dignity. Then he turned from them to the watch at the bedside. He groaned helplessly. 8 The Soul o... ... had asked to see her, and it was a foolish thing to let little decorative accidentals put him off his friendly purpose. A woman may have flower- pots... ... for I don’t know the drug. One of his infernal brews, no doubt. Something—accidental. It’s lost— for good—for your good, anyhow….” 2 2 2 2 2 Scrope h... ... from the intuitive certainty of sight and hearing. It is a persuasion, it falls far short of perception…. “We don’t know directly,” Scrope said to hi... ...gly and reassuringly. “With all these mere boys going to the most dreadful deaths in the trenches, with death, hardship and separation running amok in...

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...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ...‘And I’m always late,’ said Birkin. ‘But today I was really punctual, only accidentally not so. I’m sorry.’ The two men were gone, there was nothing m... ...even though one had killed one’s brother in such wise. Gerald as a boy had accidentally killed his brother. What then? Why seek to draw a brand and a ... ...self. And he decided that, according to the vulgar phrase, he had done it ‘accidentally on purpose.’ He looked round at the hired footman. And the hir... ... ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. A thousand lives, a thousand deaths mattered nothing now, only the fulfilment of this perfect ecstasy. ... ...fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath of the material life, as a berry falls from the only world it has ever known, down out of the sheath on to t... ...tense suffering breaks, breaks away from its organic hold like a leaf that falls. We fall from the connection with life and hope, we lapse from pure i...

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... Jim Manis; art work: Henry Fuseli. Hamlet and the Ghost, 1789. Plate XLIV from Volume II of Boydell’s Shakespeare Prints ; the illustration in Boyd... ...s. FRANCISCO: a soldier. REYNALDO: servant to Polonius. 3 Eugène Delacroix from a series of thirteen lithographs based on Hamlet — 1843 (“Alas, poor... ...scene i 5 BERNARDO: Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now... ...o the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay’d he so; ... ...too short at Greeks; his antique sword, Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, Repugnant to command: unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priam drives; i... ...ikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top ... ...ings came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Hamlet, Act V, scene ii 110 Of ... ... Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Hamlet, Act V, scene ii 110 Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes ...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...roken sword flew five or ten feet and buried itself in his neck or his heart, and death ensued instantly. The student duels in Germany occasion two or... ... against one’s will and intent—yet this unconsciousness is not allowed. Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grima... ... to go. I have given Mr. X’s two remarks just as he made them. Four of the five words in the first one were English, and that they were also German wa... ...month after month. The tables might as well have been stereotyped, they varied so little. These tables were based upon weekly reports showing the aver... ...little. These tables were based upon weekly reports showing the average of deaths in each 1,000 population for a year. Munich was always present with ... ...unged lazily across my path, fouling my course exactly at the right moment to receive all my weight. This proved that his previous performances had no...

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...oted, and wore no other garments than a large goatskin, which covered them from the neck to the knees, and trou- sers of white and very coarse linen, ... ...e of “la carmagnole.” Others, well-to-do mechanics, no doubt, were clothed from head to foot in one color. Those who had most pretension to their dres... ...rable, the slowness of their gait alone betraying their inward communings. From time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from t... ...em disappear. The commandant himself feared that he had sent them to their deaths, and an involuntary shudder seized him as he saw the last of them. O... ...y and anxious to discover at once if the speech meant danger or was merely accidental, said to Corentin in a natural tone and manner; “How little secu... ...per who hums a tune when the balls are whistling, and jests when a comrade falls. Gerard was more imposing. Grave and self-possessed, he seemed to hav... ...it, I leave you—yes, that I may not bring upon your head the contempt that falls on mine. Without that fear, perhaps—” “But if I fear nothing?” “Can I... ...fore he could utter the fatal words. “Ah! Francine, to be dying a thousand deaths and not to die!” she cried. This absence might well be supposed to h...

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...nd of uncer- 6 V olume One tain parentage, had the repute of being sprung from the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them... ...Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7 Plutarch’s Lives of the oracle, prevailed upon him, i... ...cy, and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal his journey from every one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually... ...d no man either then or since could give an account how they came by their deaths. And Aristotle, in particular, adds, that the ephori, so soon as the... ...ay to execution, it saves his life, upon oath made that the meeting was an accidental one, and not concerted or of set purpose. Any one who presses up... ...s the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their deaths, and that the envy which evil men conceive against them never outliv... ... and desperate sorrow at the loss of a dog or horse; others have borne the deaths of virtuous chil- dren without any extravagant or unbecoming grief; ... ...himself there, not out of de- sign or any intelligence of the affair, but, accidentally being within, seeing with how much haste and concern they came... ... ac- tion, Aruns, the son of T arquin, and Brutus, the Roman con- sul, not accidentally encountering each other, but out of 166 V olume One hatred an...

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...GS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is on... ...parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage... ...e iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let ... ...o much congratulated himself upon leav ing off at Mr. Brownlow’s; and the accidental display of which, to Fagin, by the Jew who purchased them, had b... ... justice itself to confound the innocent with the guilty when they were in accidental companionship, he knew already; and that deeply laid plans for ... ...e’s a rough man, and thinks nothing of blood when his own is up. W hatever falls out, say nothing; and do what he bids you. Mind!’ Placing a strong em... ... and hint that Providence must sleep. There were twenty score of vio lent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear. 359 OLIVER TWIST There wa...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...s in a slanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and the distresses of bankru... ...ore and more by their intellectual temperaments and less and less by their accidental associations. The past will rule them less; the future more. It ... ...ess of apprehension and breadth of view together in the same critic. So it falls to the wise editor to secure the first and impose the second. Directl... ...ness of secrecy everything is changed. Offspring fall away, the birth rate falls and falls most among just the most effi- cient and active and best ad... ... are nothing, the actual happenings are nothing, except that somehow there falls a light upon them and a wonder. Of how we met, and the thrill of the ...

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...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...ple. At the commencement of the fol- lowing year the settlement began; and from that time to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singu... ...wl- edge of surgery; they were not, like Marmaduke here, puffed up with an accidental thing, such as the time when he drew in the hip-joint of the man... ... was reared without a single accident, if we 88 The Pioneers except a few falls from horses while the laborers were return- ing home in the evening. ... ...sts, Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians, was accidentally in the neighborhood, he was ordinarily invited to officiate, a... ...e background. On the tomb were the names, with the dates of the births and deaths, of several individuals, all of whom bore the name of Grant. An extr... ...orbear,” interrupted Mr. Grant. “These angry passions most be subdued. The accidental in- *The Susquehannah means crooked river; “hannah,” or “hannock... ... body wants the best ammunition to get a livelihood, everything that’s bad falls on him like a judgment. But I’ll change the stone, for Billy Kirby ha...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...jungle. I understand…. If a few men die here, what matter? There are worse deaths than being killed…. “What is this fool’s trap of security? “Every ti... ...rlaid and forgot- ten by a hundred thousand devotions, by countless heroic deaths and sufferings, by a pacification largely conceived and broadly hand... ...came to London he had begun to dream of possibilities that went beyond the accidental states and empires of to-day. Prothero’s mind, replete with hist... ...n- ing that he had to do. When one comes down from Oxford or Cambridge one falls into the mistake of thinking that learning is over and action must be... ...was long and low and equipped with pieces of misfitting good furniture, an accidental-looking gilt tar- nished mirror, and a sprinkling of old and mid...

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...neaded by a hand more daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used thes... ...ment that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it fo... ...was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “ A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present momen... ... exists a point of perfection to which genius alone at- tains; mere talent falls below it. There is so little difference between a work of genius and ... ...sted the poisoned apple of passion, undergoes a solemn shock; she sees two deaths before her: that of the body and that of the heart. Dividing women i... ...an general disrepute; at last, however, he fails decidedly in honor; if he falls into the hands of the correctional police, he is not, as yet, guilty ... ...et, who was born among the people, corrected from one week to another some accidental error, to the benefit of a poor man who had never discovered it.... ... side they will trust and admire! The artist, the man of imagi- nation who falls into the bourgeois atmosphere—shall I tell you to what I compare him?... ...s he stood there, thinking over the sig- nificance which this more or less accidental combination might have, la Peyrade read through a number of scen...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...said Miss T ox, looking round upon the family, ‘is not constitutional, but accidental?’ The apple-faced man was understood to growl, ‘Flat iron. ‘I be... ...pered up in journals, daily and weekly, ob- truded fragmentary accounts of deaths and dreadful murders. Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in holland... ...bad again) remembered, and the beadle gratified, and the sex- ton (who was accidentally on the doorsteps, looking with great interest at the weather) ... ... there, confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond. Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere; thoro... ...turns away, and leads towards the porch. ‘I beg your pardon, Sir;’ a touch falls gently on his mourn- ing cloak; ‘but as you wish it done immediately,... ...e darkness. Let him remember it in that room, years to come. The rain that falls upon the roof: the wind that mourns outside the door: may have forekn...

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...’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask... ...orge had often driven my father out,’ said Aubrey, again looking lazily up from bal- ancing his spoon. Ethel laughed; and even Richard smiled; then re... ... the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bride- groom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen... ...’ he said contemptuously. ‘Scarlet fever in the most aggravated form. T wo deaths in one house, and I am much mistaken if there will not be another be... ...y asleep to be disturbed;’ but on the way up to bed, soft as Harry’s foot- falls always were, a voice came down the stairs, ‘That’s Harry! Oh, come!’ ... ...vere struggle in relinquishing the quest. He threw over all the completest accidental air, and scarcely made it evident that it was he who had recogni...

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...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...r an agreeable reflection than other- wise, for it diminished our dread of accidentally meeting with any of them, and I came to the conclusion that pe... ...not have selected a more secure hiding-place than this very spot we had so accidentally hit upon. Toby agreed with me in this view of the matter, and ... ...eam, which vexed and fretted about them,—forming at intervals small water- falls, pouring over into deep basins, or splashing wildly upon heaps of sto... ...t around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided. Having obtained a quan... ...e with Europeans, the births would appear not very little to outnumber the deaths; the population in such in- stances remaining nearly the same for se... ...Europeans have entailed upon some of the natives of the South Seas, is the accidental introduction among them of that enemy of all repose and ruffler ...

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...nce, Kenyon paid for this lengthy death afterwards with excruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for ... ... her knowledge of the extreme pain that she would experience on awakening from these sleeps was serendipitous in its own way, for it made her relucta... ...y allowed her to grow new legs in a sense, for in these times of waking up from a lesser degree of pain she was able to venture over to a favored win... ...ks on the living room wall smudged and blended into one. He had been the accidental running of colors into each other, this mixing and diluting of b... ...re. She could end it all. It would certainly go on without her: births, deaths, and this flurry of movement in between with each non-scavenging hum... ...’s litter box, and the like. [She relieves herself, removes the pan, and falls asleep. She wakes up an hour later]. Where’s cat? I need cat. I...

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...t meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to ...

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...if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings ... ...among men to fall out when all have enough; inva sions usually travelling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancie... ...d on by some leading dog, who either divides it among the few, and then it falls to an oligarchy, or keeps it to himself, and then it runs up to a tyr... ... An cients made answer, how little they expected such a mes sage as this from a colony whom they had admitted, out of their own free grace, to so ne... ...ds transfixed, till down they fell, joined in their lives, joined in their deaths; so closely joined that Charon would mistake them both for one, and ... ... The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 59 And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa me... ...n of singularity, or the perverseness of human nature, but so it unhappily falls out, that I cannot be entirely of this opinion. Nay, though I were su... ... and not venture in this conjunc ture to disoblige our allies, who, as it falls out, are all Chris tians, and many of them, by the prejudices of the...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...nd a great deal wiser! “Such a craze, however, is too widely diffused, and falls in with too obstinate a preconception 17 in the human race, which ha... ... in royal robes, and hung with theatrical jewels, is but suffering from an accidental fraud, having the same right to them that any similar misery can... ...vide us from the original steps of the case. I may here mention, as a fact accidentally made known to myself, and apparently not known to Southey, tha... ...in the man. Rudiments and tendencies, which might have found, sometimes by accidental, do not find, sometimes under the killing frost of counter force... ...lly baited into the ranks of the rebels. One picturesque difference in the deaths of these two gentlemen was remarkable, as contrasted with their pre-... ...alamities that overwhelmed his family; to the removal from him by tragical deaths, in so rapid a succession, of the Princesse de Lamballe, of his aunt...

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...t know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forge... ...ter of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old no- tions and em... ...voc among the revenues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attrac- tive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as i... ...by the force of art: in Shakspeare it strikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven: but in Homer, and in him only, it burns everyw... ...ncidents, that no one bears a likeness to another; such different kinds of deaths, that no two heroes are wounded in the same manner, and such a profu... ...And high Cerinthus views the neighbouring main. Down their broad shoulders falls a length of hair; Their hands dismiss not the long lance in air; But ... ... Fits the sharp arrow to the well-strung bow. One from a hundred feather’d deaths he chose, Fated to wound, and cause of future woes; Then offers vows... ...d Curetian bands; To guard it those; to conquer, these advance; And mutual deaths were dealt with mutual chance. The silver Cynthia bade contention ri... ...nd Astyochia. Having left his native country, Argos, in consequence of the accidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to...

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...d vulgar minds beyond half the books of contro versy that have been written from the days of Luther to the present hour. This solution of the author’... ...s, necromancy, dreams, and other preternatural events, are exploded now even from romances. That was not the case when our author wrote; much less whe... ...tter maintained. Terror, the author’s princi pal engine, prevents the story from ever languishing; The Castle of Otranto — Walpole 4 and it is so o... ...ginal Italian, though it will tend to depreciate my own labour. Our language falls far short of the charms of the Italian, both for variety and harmon... ...er. Well! he is killed just in a critical minute — I accuse nobody. A helmet falls from the moon — so, my Lord, your father says; but Lopez and all th... ... this dear youth’s safety?” “For me!” cried Theodore. “Let me die a thousand deaths, rather than stain thy conscience. What is it the tyrant would exa... ...ife at the hazard of aught calami tous to thee? Better I endured a thousand deaths.” “I run no risk,” said Matilda, “but by thy delay. De part; it c... ...livered by Theodore in very critical situations, which she could not believe accidental. His eyes, it was true, had been fixed on her in Frederic’s ch... ...et in a transport of pas sion; “trust me, believe me, I will die a thousand deaths sooner than consent to injure you, than yield to so odious — oh! —...