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...with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft....

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...theo cratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo t... ...The Forged Coupon and other stories “Anna Karenina” and in the “Landlord’s Morning” – ended in failure, owing to the ignorance and obstinacy of the pe... ...inflections of his voice gave it a penetrating per suasiveness. Night and morning, when going to rest or getting up, he said, ‘O God, let me sleep li... ..., he had no sooner lain down than he slept like a lump of lead, and in the morning on waking he was bright and lively, and ready for any work. He coul... ...se, shield ing him from the storm with his own coat, or saving him from starvation with his own meagre ration; and mindful of him even in his praye... ...o ecstasy,” he looks up from his smooth running sledge at “the enchanting, starry winter sky overhead,” or in early spring feels on a ramble “intoxica... ...her children to self sacrifice. “Such women rule men and are their guiding stars. O women – mothers! The salvation of the world lies in your hands!” ... ...“Anna Karenina,” his descriptions of female charms resembled catalogues of weapons against which a man must arm himself or perish. The beautiful Prin ... ...ess A. A. Tolstoy this slighting tone prevails. “A woman has but one moral weapon instead of the whole male arsenal. That is love, and only with this ...

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...revented some mis takes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and differen... ...story, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be. The greater part of what my nei... ...he sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stir ring about h... ...t, many of my townsmen have met me returning from this enterprise, farmers starting for Boston in the twilight, or woodchoppers going to their work. I... ...ife would sweep out the greater part into the dust hole, and not leave her morning’s work undone. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music... ...rk! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but... ...tor, that towered a whole foot above his crowding comrades, fell before my weapon and rolled in the dust. Those summer days which some of my contemp...

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...ians the study of heathen learning: for, said he, they wound us with our own weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed ... ...an other; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance. To startle thus betimes at a mere unli censed pamphlet will after a while b... ... malmsey, or some well spiced brewage, and better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and ... ...hed were such an obedient unanimity as this, what a fine conformity would it starch us all into! Doubt Areopagitica Milton 34 less a staunch and ... ...into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the op... ...ing them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evening or morning? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever star... ...prise; But here thy sword can do thee little stead. Far other arms and other weapons must Be those that quell the might of hellish charms. He with his... ...n every virtuous plant and healing herb That spreads her verdant leaf to the morning ray. He loved me well, and oft would beg me sing; Which when I di...

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...d, recited and parodied wherever the English language was spoken, the half-starved poet received $10! Less than a year later his brother poet, N. P . ... ... dead. He died in Baltimore on Sunday, October 7th. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was known, personally... ...on that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. “His conversation was at times almost supramortal in its elo- quence... ...few miles out of town, but was at his desk in the office, from nine in the morning till the evening paper went to press. With the highest admiration f... ...d it? We have a letter before us, written by this lady, Mrs. Clemm, on the morning in which she heard of the death of this object of her untiring care... ...n above, and add force to the appeal we wish to make for her: “I have this morning heard of the death of my darling Eddie…. 26 Poe in Five V olumes C... ... club of wood, or a broad bar of iron—a chair—any large, heavy, and obtuse weapon would have pro- duced such results, if wielded by the hands of a ver... ...s of a very powerful man. No woman could have inflicted the blows with any weapon. The head of the deceased, when seen by witness, was entirely separa... ...rough the key-hole of the closet. Terrified at the sight of so dangerous a weapon in the posses- sion of an animal so ferocious, and so well able to u...

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...accumulated wealth, and augmented population has proved to be unfounded. The stars upon INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 125... ...ome and abroad, must be sacredly maintained. So long as he can discern every star in its place upon that ensign, without wealth to purchase for him pr... ...INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 130 but a single star be lost, and, if these be not utter dark ness, the luster of the wh... ... to secure agreement on effective international control of our most powerful weapon, and we have worked steadily for the limitation and control of all... ... other age, we seek it be cause we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itsel... ... for his agenda. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown that morning before joining President Eisenhower to travel to the Capitol. The... ...omfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, ye...

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...e son of Cephalus chanced to catch sight of us from a distance as we were starting on our way home, and told his servant to run and bid us wait for h... ... the sum of his transgres sions is great he will many a time like a child start up in his sleep for fear, and he is filled with dark forebodings. Bu... ...public 73 lying on his side, then on his back, and then on his face; then starting up and sailing in a frenzy along the shores of the barren sea; now... ... he ends by becoming a hater of philosophy, uncivi lized, never using the weapon of persuasion,—he is like a wild beast, all violence and fierceness,... ...o, in a fig ure pulling off their coats all in a moment, and seizing any weapon that comes to hand, will run at you might and main, before you know ... ...er or by what means he returned to the body he could not say; only, in the morning, awaking suddenly, he found himself lying on the pyre. And thus, Gl...

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...unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the p... ...there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearanc... ... they journeyed. 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the Numbers 9:10 – 9:21 mornin... ...see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite ... ...ur derer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the mur...

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...ed from far was freighted with him. No ship have I known so nobly dight with weapons of war and weeds of battle, with breastplate and blade: on his bo... ...he sailors bore on the breast of the bark their bright array, their mail and weapons: the men pushed off, on its willing way, the well braced craft. T... ... world than is one of you, — yon hero in harness! No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence! I pray you, thou... ...ll here, Grendel’s attack with terror of blades. Then was this mead house at morning tide dyed with gore, when the daylight broke, all the boards of t... ...a a sennight strove ye. In swimming he topped thee, had more of main! Him at morning tide billows bore to the Battling Reamas, Beowulf 16 whence he h... ...im battle. Blithe to mead go he that listeth, when light of dawn this morrow morning o’er men of earth, ether robed sun from the south shall beam!” Jo... ...it. Relations between the two peoples have been strained before. Some thing starts the old feud anew; and the visitors are attacked in their quarters... ...the road of sails their ruthless quest, — and sea snakes and monsters. These started away, swollen and savage that song to hear, that war horn’s blast... ...ygelac send! Geatland’s king may ken by the gold, Hrethel’s son see, when he stares at the treasure, that I got me a friend for goodness famed, and jo...

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... can be seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and beautiful in the starlit snow. The interior of the room is not like anything to be seen in t... ...eep. 9 Shaw RAINA (coming in). I sent her away. I wanted to be alone. The stars are so beautiful! What is the mat- ter? CATHERINE. Such news. There h... ...y hero! (A distant shot breaks the quiet of the night outside. She starts, listening; and two more shots, much nearer, follow, startling h... ...l take care that nobody comes in and sees you without it. This is a better weapon than the pistol. (He throws the pistol down on the ottoman.) RAINA (... ...He throws the pistol down on the ottoman.) RAINA (revolted). It is not the weapon of a gentle- man! MAN. It’s good enough for a man with only you to s... ...f March, 1886. In the garden of major Petkoff’s house. It is a fine spring morning; and the garden looks fresh and pretty. Beyond the paling the tops ... ...an at Phillipopolis who used to wet himself all over with cold water every morning when he got up. Disgust- ing! It all comes from the English: their ... ...d lady was equally fascinated; and the fugitive was sent on his way in the morning, disguised in an old coat belonging to the master of the house, who... ...s a cavalry man’s proposal. I’m in the artillery; and I have the choice of weapons. If I go, I shall take a machine gun. And there shall be no mistake...

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...d, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in t... ...s the thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll start my apprenticeship as old maid.” CHAPTER II ANNA P A VLOVNA’S drawing ... ...o saw her; and the vicomte lifted his shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary when she took her seat opposite and bea... ...ht enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole Ku... ...vs—the mother and the youngest daughter— both named Nataly. Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going continually, b... ...ions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. “Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the Ger- man, addressing Lorrain in French which he pronoun... ...e to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men wit... ...fficers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its ... ... gal- loping. Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and even their faces, more and...

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...d, and before the men had had food and sleep. And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russi... ... and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions dis- playing the icons, ... ...mid general silence, said in her gruff voice: “So wives of living men have started marrying again! Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty? Y ou... ...hich appeared to her unan- swerable, she drove to her daughter’s early one morning so as to find her alone. Having listened to her mother’s objections... ... stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. He could see the clear starry sky be- tween the dark roofs of two penthouses. “Thank God, there is... ...drove to see the Moscow commander in chief. Count Rostopchin had only that morning returned to town from his summer villa at Sokolniki. The anteroom a... ... prison and I expect it will go hard with him.” An old gentleman wearing a star and another official, a Ger- man wearing a cross round his neck, appro... ...ookshops. Prices too that day indicated the state of affairs. The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept ris- ing, but the value of pape... ...him and then ran downstairs. Petya was in the porch, engaged in giving out weapons to the servants who were to leave Moscow. The loaded carts were sti...

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...ough the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from ... ...smoke counterpane!—But I,mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars.” We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such ex... ...able; but nowise for her pearl bracelets and Malines laces: in his eyes, the star of a Lord is little less and little more than the broad button of Bi... ...ks too, if it be true, as Teufelsdr¨ ockh main tains, that “within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickl... ...cret! Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning News paper without a shudder? Hypochondriac men, and all men are... ...te but a Whole:— “Well sang the Hebrew Psalmist: ‘If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the Universe, God is there.’ ... ...ed from birth to that warfare, and now stood minded to wage the same, by all weapons, in all places, at all times. In such a cause, any soldier, were ...

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...d level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and ASPHALTUS yeilded ... ...A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On LEMNOS th’ AEGAEAN Ile: thus they relate, Erring; for he with th... ...fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, inf... ...after by his furious gestures in the mount. Gabriel promises to find him ere morning. Night coming on, Adam and Eve discourse of going to their rest: ... ... Nature boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc’t sh... ... unactive range, And of thir doings God takes no account. Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, A... ... Of evil then so small as easie think The remedie; perhaps more valid Armes, Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us, and wors... ... can do, And to disorder’d rage let loose the reines, With Mountains as with Weapons arm’d, which makes Wild work in Heav’n, and dangerous to the main... ...x’d Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode Of Thro...

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... as your chaperone; and even the Times must sometimes 4 GB Shaw thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such even... ...e our- selves we must just look at her. We do so; and her beauty feeds our starving emotions. Sometimes we grumble ungallantly at the lady because she... ...to sing “Protegga il giusto cielo”: they grasp formidable legal and social weapons, and retaliate. Political parties are wrecked and public careers un... ...e two things are the same) of Woman. He will risk the stake and the cross; starve, when necessary, in a garret all his life; study women and live on t... ...RNARD SHAW WOKING, 1903 ACT I Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning let- ters. The study, handsomely and solidly furnished, proclaims t... ...oftily] No, Sir. TANNER. It’s a copy of Whitefield’s will. Ann got it this morning. RAMSDEN. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield. T... ... expected to find you still here, Mr Tanner. TANNER. Am I in the way? Good morning, fellow guard- ian [he goes towards the door]. ANN. Stop, Jack. Gra... ...in Man’s industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. This marvellous force of Life of which you boast is a force of Dea...

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...make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starbuck likens conversion to normal moral ripen- ing— Leuba’s ideas— Seemi... ... he will. My thanks for help in writing these lectures are due to Edwin D. Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection ... ...orking use of the dis- tinction, and who may therefore feel first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the followin... ...th-sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really me... ...lindness and insensibility to oppos- ing facts given it as its instinctive weapon for self- protection against disturbance. When happiness is actually... ...raid of me!” remarked such a titanic- optimistic friend in my presence one morning when he was feeling particularly hearty and cannibalistic. The defi... ...ple who repeat to themselves, “Youth, health, vigor!” when dressing in the morning, as their motto for the day. Complaints of the weather are getting ... ...tific philosophy, and succeeds by using science’s own peculiar methods and weapons. Believing that a higher power will take care of us in certain ways... ...iven thee, that is, a loving confidence in the divine mercy. These are the weapons with which thou must fight and conquer cowardice and vain thoughts....

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...e belief? — if from Protes- 25 Friedrich Schiller tants they borrowed the weapons against Prot- estants? — if, in the midst of this clashing of opini... ...ure. The Union was thus verging to its fall, at the moment when the League started to oppose it in the vigour of its strength. Want of supplies disabl... ...any longer keep- ing the field. And yet it was dangerous to lay down their weapons in the sight of an armed enemy. To secure themselves at least on on... ... who might easily have been tempted to employ against his brother the same weapons which the latter had successfully directed against him—namely, an u... ...he event of a defeat, he could always secure a re- treat. Eager to get the start of his competitor, the King of Denmark hastened to take the field. Ap... ...his imperious spirit like a child in leading strings. Seni had read in the stars, that his master’s brilliant career was not 152 The History of the T... ... his sol- diers; every regiment was ordered to form round its chaplain for morning and evening prayers. 159 Friedrich Schiller In all these points th... ...Both citizens and soldiers left their posts upon the ramparts early in the morning, to indulge themselves, after their long toils, with the refreshmen... ...sault, citing the example of Maestricht, which had been taken early in the morning, while the citizens and soldiers were reposing themselves. The atta...

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... The Afternoon 28 85 The Starry 29 101 The Blow 30 ... ... The Inevitable 46 53 The Star 47 70 The Steps or Ascents 48 ... ... should be considered. The Koran enjoys the distinction of having been the starting- point of a new literary and philosophical movement which has powe... ... is the legislator and the warrior, who dictates obedience, and uses other weapons than the pen of the Poet and the Scribe. When business pressed, as ... ...ation, and that they accused him of writing from the dictation of teachers morning and evening. 10 And it is equally certain, that all the informatio... ...g desolation from thy Lord swept round it while they slumbered, And in the morning it was like a garden whose fruits had all been cut. Then at dawn th... ...them of sight, And said, “Taste ye my vengeance and my menace;” And in the morning a relentless punishment overtook them. Easy have we made the Koran ...

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...iving ten dollars difference. The next day Mr. Payne, of Georgetown, and I started on our return. We got along very well for a few miles, when we enco... ...g into anything. After giving them a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once m... ...d took passage on a freight wagon for Maysville. Every time I attempted to start, 11 U. S. Grant my new horse would commence to kick. I was in quite ... ... occasion when this observance seemed to be broken by the inhabitants. One morning about daylight I happened to be awake, and, hear- ing the discharge... ...eing willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance s... ...to transport in that way. It took several hours to get ready to start each morning, and by the time we were ready some of the mules first loaded would... ...Springs. It was supposed that the regiment would return to its camp in the morning. The point for establishing the siege battery was reached and the w...

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...t asunder. . . . A similar movement is going on before our own eyes.” “The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feu- dalism to the ground are now... ...against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the m... ...o itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.” The cause of the destit... ... are dragged from their squalid beds at two, three, or four o clock in the morning and compelled to work for a bare subsistence until ten, eleven, or ... ...ver- work in an over-crowded workroom, &c.” “Our white slaves,” cried the “Morning Star,” the organ of the free-traders, Cobden and Bright, “our white... ...k in an over-crowded workroom, &c.” “Our white slaves,” cried the “Morning Star,” the organ of the free-traders, Cobden and Bright, “our white slaves,... ...e circumstances: for example, the men who threw the bomb at Sarajevo which started the present war were not Anarchists, but Nationalists. And those An... ...k could be got out of them except under threat of dismissal and consequent starvation. But is this as certain as people are inclined to sup-pose at fi... ...will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, with the light of morning in its eyes. To return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go t...

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...left an elegy, in which he darkly hints at and bemoans the fate of the ill-starred young person, whose very uncommon calamity Whitelaw, Dunlop, and Mi... ...x- claimed, and furiously cry’d out Against the fates, the desti- nies and starrs, What! this the effect of planetarie warrs! We might have seen him r... ...ng, and sign-painters, if they seldom feasted, did not at least absolutely starve. To a worthy of this decayed profession, as we have already intimate... ...t here struck me. I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets. “W... ...tched by bailiffs without, until death came to his relief. A corner of the Morning Post no- ticed his death, generously adding, that his manner displa... ...long been, a prevalent vice in the Scottish disposition. It was a November morning, and the cliffs which overlooked the ocean were hung with thick and... ... the pur- suit, was now within a few yards of them. The Lord Keeper had no weapons; his age and gravity dispensed even with the usual appendage of a w... ...o affairs of the kind, and distinguished by address and dexter- ity at his weapon. In the present case, however, he did not use his skill to advantage... ...she had just been “flambing” (Anglice, bast- ing) the roast of mutton. Her weapon was certainly the bet- ter, and her arm not the weakest of the two; ...

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...e with much benevolent satisfaction the assemblage of vil- lagers who were staring at him and the quadrupeds. Mr. Brock, when he saw the parson’s band... ...ming, your honour; I think your honour called”—Gustavus Adolphus whistled, stared at her very hard, and seeming quite dumb-stricken by her ap- pearanc... ..., and in the country of Prester John! Y ou shiver out of bed on icy winter mornings, to break the ice for Ball and Dapple to drink.” “Y es, indeed,” s... ...e he is, to all appearances quite calm: before the same round of beef—from morning till sundown—for hundreds of years very likely. Perhaps when the sh... ...any.” And with this Mrs. Score curtseyed and retired. V ery early the next morning the active landlady and her bus- tling attendant had prepared the a... ... horses round to the door. The Cor- poral had been, and they were about to start on the instant for Stratford. The fact was that Count Gustavus Adolph... ...life.” And here he gave a swinging cut at Mr. Trippet’s sword: it sent the weapon whirling clean out of his hand, and through a window into the street...

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...l, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible... ...le bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a scale startlingly diminished, the flight of time and the succession of men. I loo... ...es of good, flinching accep- tance of evil, shiverings on wet, east-windy, morning jour- neys up to class, infinite yawnings during lecture and un- qu... ...funditur, Lapsis fides revertitur,” as they sang of old in Portugal in the Morning Office. But to him that good hour of cockcrow, and the changes of t... ...d as fell on this young man, and made him cover his eyes from the innocent morning. We all have by our bedsides the box of the Merchant Abudah, thank ... ...in, nor to learn charity and modesty and justice from the sight; but still stared at them externally from the prison windows of my affectation. Once I... ...nding, should hear these young fellows talking of his own subject, his own weapons that he had fought the battle of life with, – “and – h’m – not unde...

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... a verse of an old students’ song, worth laying side by side with Villon’s star- tling ballade. This singer, also, had an unworthy mistress, but he di... ... a tangent of female dignity and reserve, like a mounting lark in an April morning; and wrote me an answer which measured out very completely what an ... ...And then he took advantage of the situation. To Clarinda he wrote: “I this morning called for a certain woman. I am disgusted with her; I cannot endur... ...e gait and cogitations of a drunken man, or only a village cockcrow in the morning, he could find language to give it freshness, body, and relief. He ... ...of our thinking. It is not, therefore, by flashing before a man’s eyes the weapons of dialectic; it is not by induction, deduction, or construction; i... ...fa- miliarity. He considers it just as wonderful that there are myriads of stars, as that one man should rise from the dead. He declares “a hair on th... ...by the ironical flash of these eight words: The desire of the moth for the star. The same truth, but to what a different purpose! Whitman’s moth is mi... ...o carry throughout all his wanderings, and to bring back – a far-travelled weapon – to Japan. A long letter was prepared in Chinese for the American o... ...e scapegrace who has wit enough to recognise in his own shame the readiest weapon of offence against a prosy benefactor’s feelings. The gratitude of M...