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Amelia

By: Henry Fielding

... complaining, almost without a tear, undergo the most painful and dreadful operations of surgery in such a situation!” Here he stopt, and a torrent of... ...n perfect health. A superstitious heathen would have dreaded the malice of Nemesis in your situation; but as I am a Christian, I shall venture to add ...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

... un- soundness and general ignorance which was palpable in all his farming operations. He hated to see the fellow lift the pewter pint to his mouth in... ...ggles, for they foreshadow the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis. Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequ... ...had told him the contrary, he could have persuaded himself so much better. Nemesis can seldom forge a sword for herself out of our con- sciences—out o... ...th some contempt at these informal greetings which required no official co-operation from the clerk, began to hum in his musical bass, “Oh what a joyf...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...that he could not himself intone the service, but he could pressure the co-operation of any number of gentlemanlike curates well trained in the myster... ...m of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of a life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that ... ... place. ’ ‘It will be everything to your lordship to get a man on whose co-operation you can reckon. Only think what trouble we might have if Dr Grant...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...rdship as a lone leopard does? No. But leopards were and still are the nemesis of all apes that live in trees. Before we stopped living in t... ...eed has become so impersonal, so mechanized, so computerized… that the entire operation has no human meaning to it. Machines talking to machines. ... ...they get. The safer they get; the stupider they get. The more complex their operations become; the more inefficient they become. The evolution o... ... was one of the ultra rich who knew about it and profited from the false flag operation. The point is: nothing is as it seems when it comes to the m... ... ‘Oh, you have a---? Then take this pill for--- or this treatment, or this operation. Don’t bother me with the details of how and why you got si...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

... the month which are favourable or unfavourable for agricultural and other operations. 14 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica It is from the seco... ...ts cata- logue of wrongdoings and violence ever increasing until Aidos and Nemesis are forced to leave mankind who thencefor- ward shall have ‘no reme... ...ling face, will go along with wretched men one and all. And then Aidos and Nemesis (7), with their sweet forms wrapped in white robes, will go from th... ...ity, is that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men from wrong: Nemesis is the feeling of righteous indignation aroused especially by the s... ...nd after them she bare a third child, Helen, a marvel to men. Rich-tressed Nemesis once gave her birth when she had been joined in love with Zeus the ... ... been joined in love with Zeus the king of the gods by harsh violence. For Nemesis tried to escape him and liked not to lie in love with her father Ze...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible Nemesis of indulgence in alcohol. Sir Adrian had quarrelled with all the fa... ...jolly little kid,” pronounced Fergus, lingering before performing the same operation, “but he has not got his mind opened to stratification, and only ... ... till he and I were devoured by the Indians. If they had com- pleted their operations on my scalp, it would have been all the better for me. Instead o... ...ly expressing that there was no saying what Rockquay owed to the hearty co-operation of such birds of passage as herself and her brothers, she trav- e...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...its of life, had a definite ailment; such as these he cured by purges and operations, and bade them live as usual, herein consult ing the interests ... ...e sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall. And I pray Nemesis not to visit upon me the words which I am going to utter. For I do... ...s; do they give perfect intimations of such matters? Is not their mode of operation on this wise—the sense which is concerned with the quality of har...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

... perhaps, to have been left hanging a trifle too long before that friendly operation of cut- ting down, he outwardly maintained an equable composure. ... ... She was making the tea when Arthur came in, and now hastily finished that operation. ‘Papa,’ she said, all mystery and whisper, as she shut down the ... ...berly worked on for the work’s sake. Clennam cheering him with a hearty co-operation, was a moral support to him, besides doing good service in his bu... ... he kept about mid-way between it and the two, as if some sort of surgical operation were being performed by Lord Decimus on Mr Merdle, or by Mr Merdl... ...d a large estate of water on the chest from his grandfather, he had had an operation performed upon him every morning of his life for eighteen years, ... ...change their nature. Y et, gone those more than forty years, and come this Nemesis now looking her in the face, she still abided by her old impiety—st...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...etter of the clause reserving the ecclesias- tical states from the general operation of the religious peace, the elector had, by his apostacy, forfeit... ...s as animated himself and Sully to the enterprise. All the states whose co-operation was neces- sary, were to be persuaded to the work by the stronges... ... Henry IV. and the German princes under- stood each other in their plan of operations, so much had the excellent king been mistaken in his instruments... ... their danger- ous example. In order therefore to facilitate the Emperor’s operations against the Bohemians, she offered her mediation to the Union an... ...formi- dable an army, seemed to have something more in view than defensive operations, and to con- 127 Friedrich Schiller template nothing less than ... ...eave us for ever! Even in the plenitude of success, he honours an avenging Nemesis, declines that homage which is due only to the Immortal, and streng... ...ro- claimed him an outlaw, had not failed of its ef- fect; and an avenging Nemesis ordained that the ungrateful should fall beneath the blow of ingrat...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...th to the head, doth but leave it the more ex- hausted, the result of mere operations of the imagi- nation is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nouri... ...ience, his tri-unity, the various mysteries of the redemptive process, the operation of the sacraments, etc., have proved fertile wells of inspiring m... ...ing of reality may be something more like a sensation than an intellectual operation properly so-called. “Between twenty and thirty I gradually became... ...lic will tell us how clean and fresh and free he feels after the purg- ing operation. Martin Luther by no means belonged to the healthy-minded type in... ...natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.[70] These comparisons of races are always open to ex- [70] Cf. ... ...s, they became unmitigated pes- simists.[74] The jealousy of the gods, the nemesis that [73] E.g., Iliad XVII. 446: “Nothing then is more wretched any...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... as any of them, to come over twice a-week, and in case of any exceptional operation, Protheroe will come from Brassing. I must work the harder, that’... ...thing worse of him except under stringent proof. But there is the terrible Nemesis follow- ing on some errors, that it is always possible for those wh...

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