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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of...

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...OMENON IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

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...A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN... ...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ...f the Spirit, is known in scripture by “the latter rain,” of which I deem the religious revivals of the last thirty years to be as the first droppin... ...quest the loan of Ben-Ezra to peruse during this visit, and subsequently to bring it to London. Deeply impressed with the truth and the importance of... ...ian and Persian do together compose but one of the kingdoms, and that the fourth is the Gothic kingdom, or system of power which hath obtained in Eu... ... character of the fourth kingdom, as being so appropriate to the spirit and acts of the Gothic kingdoms, I heartily concur; observing merely, that wh... ...ols have cut a brick out of the wall, and said, Look at this, and believe in the divine architecture of the palace from which it came: they have tak... ...o upbraid her for her ancient idolatry, and announce to her, against a future time, the revival of it, with the same punishment upon both. But is it...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ultimately decided by consumer preferences. Mult... ...ncluded in its CD-ROM and DVD editions. This is the tip of an iceberg of revival of old reference works. The full text of the venerable 1911 editi... ...e. This will be facilitated by the opening up of the TCP/IP communication architecture and its availability to PCs. A billion USD will go just to fi... ... to roam this worldwide labyrinth. But the path from one neighbourhood of London to another may traverse Japan. The really ingenious thing about th... ...ou to read "Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind" by Sayre published in London in 1976). They all contain information stored, a set of rules to r... ...ly to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of veneration) ove...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...yet poisoned by an overpopulated civilization, sent there by investors of the London company of Virginia to get rich quick. . After dying in dr... ...: it was a hasty, ill-planned get-rich-quick scheme by the shareholders of the London Company. They had not even planned on feeding themselves or gr... ...Movement? The women’s movement, the hippy love-drug generation, new music, a revival of folk music, the labor movement, gay rights, environmental ri... ...lternative The Evil of the Undead Bram Stoker… who stoked the fires of gothic horror… cramming it into English literature… as a new elite cra... ...them. You have no idea of what these undead scum are capable of. All the gothic horror stories seen in movies, all gothic romances and ghost st...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...d by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government of Leon... ...rs. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone.” A batt... ...s of Tours; for the town contains several goodly specimens of the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon wil... ... terminating, a little beyond it, in the walk beside the river. An elegant Gothic doorway is let into the rusty- red brick-work, and strange little be... ...enry III., of memories, of ghosts, of echoes, of pos- sible evocations and revivals. It is covered with crimson and gold. The fireplaces and the ceili... ...Protestant painter; no one can forget that, who in the National Gallery in London has looked at the picture in which he represents several young ladie... ...ad met in the afternoon at Tarascon, and more remotely, in other years, in London; the other was that there sat enthroned behind the counter a splendi...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on his expected patrimony, he for some... ...de the acquaintance of Coleridge and Wordsworth; Lamb he had sought out in London several years before. His acquaintance with Wordsworth led to his se... ...homas Browne. He took part with Coleridge, Lamb, and others in the general revival of interest in earlier modern English prose, which is a feature of ... ...; but there was still light enough to perceive, at the further end of this Gothic 51 Thomas De Quincey aisle, a frail reedy gig, in which were seated... ...ng the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind the character of Ionic architecture, with its tall and graceful column, differ- ing from the sever... ...he following version of the old story of the origin of the styles of Greek architecture in Vitruvius, IV , Chap. I (Gwilt’s translation), quoted by H...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” Cowper, on the Queen’s Visit to London. “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a st... ... of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is in... ...I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale’s jawbones.” Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tale... ...f javelins. And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat steerer or harpoone... ...d by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively la... ... like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (aside.) 3 ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in...

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...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ... by tourist or landscape painter, though within a four hours’ journey from London. It is a vale whose acquaintance is best made by viewing it from the... ...daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London trained mistress, spoke two languages; the dialect at home, more or ... ...one on his way with his friends. The flood of memories brought back by this revival of an incident anterior to her troubles produced a momentary dismay... ...ent that it might not echo their footsteps. The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now. ... ...contrasting greatly by its formalism with the quaint irregularities of the Gothic erections. It was somewhat disguised from the road in passing it by ...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... of necromancers there was also one *On the Great Western Railway, between London and Exeter, a speed of 71 miles per hour has been attained. A train ... ...mary passes. These, for a time, were unsuccessful. The first indication of revival was afforded by a partial descent of the iris. It was observed, as ... ...useway to the house. A servant in waiting took my horse, and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall. A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me... ...was found in the perusal of an exceedingly rare and curious book in quarto Gothic—the manual of a forgotten church—the Vigiliae Mortuorum secundum Cho... ...site her cham- ber window—what, then, could there be in its shadows—in its architecture—in its ivy-wreathed and solemn cornices— that the Marchesa di ... ... he had not retired to bed during the whole of the preceding night. In the architecture and embellishments of the chamber, the evident design had been... ...ue state. Then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. Then a rushing revival of soul and a success- ful effort to move. And now a full memory of...

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...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Ge... ...ll, here is my book for you; and—in all sincerity—much good may it do you! London, 23rd. October 1907. Preface to the Second Edition THE PREPARATION o... ...siasms to survive can believe that such an attempt could succeed. G. B. S. London, 1901 11 Shaw Preface to the First Edition THIS BOOK IS A COMMENTAR... ...ttain- able: his compositions were wonderful webs of exquisitely beautiful Gothic traceries in sound, quite beyond all ordi- nary human talent. Beetho... ...popular and practicable: not to save his soul could he have drawn one long Gothic line in sound as Bach could, much less have woven several of them to... ...orative side, it was the same phenomenon in music as the Baroque school in architecture: an energetic struggle to enliven organic decay by mechanical ... ...ction to absolute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold D...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate? Whether Miss Havisham, pr... ...Drummle and Startop. Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling. Startop, younger in years and appearance, was ... ...mended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door, a... ...cleaning my boots. After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to em- ploy the Aged, and nodding at him in a most... ...Joe would have prolonged this word (mightily expressive to my mind of some architecture that I know) into a perfect Chorus, but for his attention bein... ... I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood. The coffee-room at th... ...e, and heard her ceaseless low cry . Before we left next day, there was no revival of the differ- ence between her and Estella, nor was it ever revive...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace...

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