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An Introduction to Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Time : Historical research into the mythological and astronomical conceptions that preceded Aristotle’s philosophy

By: Mrs. Régis Laurent; Trista Selous

...Régis Laurent is a philosopher and member of the association Kairos Kai logos (Centre for the study of ancient philosophy). This book is the first part of his doctoral thesis in philosophy, undertaken under the aegis of three French universities (Grenoble, Clermont-F...

... to eternity: wisdom over the long term...........................................42 II. TIME IN GREEK TRAGIC POETRY AND IN THE EPIC POETRY OF HOMER. UNFINDABLE CIRCULAR TIME..........51 a. On fate, or tragic poetry as a technique for veiling time.............................................55 b. On the hero, or epic poetry as a technique for unvei...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ...g system, it will be necessary to line off a certain portion of the principal ground of theology, within which this weightiest dispute may be brought... ...is is the first defect which I have observed both in the circulating and in the written theology of our churches, the omission, I mean, of Christ’s o... ...ngle eye, and a delicate hand, requiring me to make a continual estimate of the current theology, and bringing me into the midst of the prejudices of... ...ded with every convenience for writing and for consulting the Holy Scriptures. When the outlines, and divisions, and whole ground-work of the subjec... ...prophecy should have for its object, the circumstantials of an edict, and not the great outline of the persecution? Furthermore, what do the ten hor...

The coming of the Messiah.

...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 essentia...

...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... 2009 85th street, #51, Brooklyn, NY 11214, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permi... ...s book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in criti... ...ase of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kabbalah for the student. — — 1s... ... him until he arrived in Jerusalem, sages of Kabbalah observe philosophic theology and complain that they have stolen the upper shell of their wisdo... ...f Israel and wore a cloak that is not their own. To this day, philosophic theology sits on the throne of Kabbalah, being hair under her mistress. An... ... into delicacies to strengthen their faith, meaning their wisdom, called “theology.” TWo hArmS from rEvEAling iSrAEl’S WiSdom T o ThE nATionS of ThE... ...ivable for Moses to restrain himself and refrain from disclosing the full outline of the work all at once, lest Israel would not want to detach them...

...av Yehuda Ashlag, and his son and successor, Rav Baruch Ashlag, offer modern readers valid answers to life's most vital question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on a day-to-day basis. Additionally, clear illustrations accurately depict the evo...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...philosophy seemed to me an obvious alternative to the churches. After all, theology had started as part of philosophy and the separation between the t... ...in what I would be expected to preach. The required courses in traditional theology brought home to me the problem of linking church doctrines with pe... ...wenty- four hundred years ago, and is still continuing, Even to attempt to outline the course of such philosophical studies systematically would be an... ...se the whole of life is, so to THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 4 speak, religion. Theology and beliefs in general play little role in this aspect of religion... ...stulate a separate supernatural realm. A different point of view from that outlined above is found among religious traditions which make a sharp disti... ...n thought and karma involve the belief that at the time of birth the broad outline of the life that is to be lived already exists, just as a musical s...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Theory of the Person

By: Antonio Mercurio

...NTHROPOLOGY By Antonio Mercurio Editions Solaris Institute of SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-... ...censor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial pur... ...ian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig, authorized by the author. 2 Table of Contents CHAPTER I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PERSON ...... ... each one of these stages. In our next lesson, we will begin to trace the outline of our metapsychology and we will then be able to better identify... ... I think that at this point you can better understand what I am saying if I outline my metapsychological topical model. Metapsychological Model ... ...c SELF and not to God, to that God that has been created by philosophy and theology, in other words by other men like you and me. 48 SYN... ... not yet ready for this message, so it distorted it, to accommodate Hebrew theology and Plato’s and Aristotle’s metaphysics. These are the cultural ... ...f the Person. This is a very complex process, and for now, I would like to outline three fundamental steps: 1) under the influence of the Psychologi...

...Do we really know what meaning to give to the term PERSON? In this book, the author proposes, through an in depth dialog with the students of the S.U.R. (Sophia University of Rome), the following answer: a PERSON is a spiritual, unifying principle that is endowed with its own freedom and its own identity, it is an end unto itself and unto no other, and its const...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ...ollaga at Uborml Aptm AJJress De.in W. M. W.irren. wlSomersetSt. Sohool of Theology AJJressAsst. DeanC.W. RischeM. 72 Ml Ver- non St. School of Lmvf A... ...f Ubei-al Arim A.klrtiss De.iil W. A\. W.irren. 12'Sinnerset St, School of Theology AJari'ss Asm. Dean C. W. Rischell. 72 At Ver- non Si. School of La... ...effo of Libera/AHm Aajress De^in \V. M. W.inen. iilSoinersel St. School of Theology AJJr.'.sAsM. rK'.uiC. W. RiiJiell. 73 .Ml Ver- non St School of La... ...imarily, the purpose of this se- ries of games between four col- leges, as outlined by the delegates when the league was formed last Septeraber, was t... ...rom the scherao will outweigh the absence of a moiieyinaking fea- ture. As outlined at present the new dormitory, "exclusively for men of liigh standi... ...the only voluntary college religion is the Y. M. C. A. After Mr. Sayre had outlined the Bible study work for the year, as planned by the Association, ...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ... Plight of the Kosovar"). The article was written in April 1998 - by which time the outline of things to come was plain. All along, the KLA prepar... ...their narcissistic "infrastructure" (their False Self) – they decompensate. I have outlined the possible psychodynamic reactions here: http://w... ...ical encroachment in religious guise. The southern Slav churches rejected both the theology and the secular teachings of the "Hellenics" and the "R... ...ase in the Balkan. What started as a debate - however fervent - about abstract theology became an all out argument about derided customs and ce...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup... ... Press Rehoboth 2002 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... obviously represents the material past of the entity, while the triangle outlined by the ascending code branches and by the secondary limit represen... ...characteristics. The ″specialization″ would become so high and so strictly outlined, that communication between the rational entities would become vi... ...he view according to which philosophy is not a science. This evolution is outlined explicitly in the lecture ″Phenomenology and Theology″ where Heid... .... This evolution is outlined explicitly in the lecture ″Phenomenology and Theology″ where Heidegger make the distinction (dissemination) between ″ont...

...By virtue of the principle of the full liberty to set forth any philosophical thesis, no justification would probably be necessary, yet it should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?t...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. ... ...y Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any elec... ...rding or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this ... ...if you’re headed for hell anyway, you might as well enjoy the ride.” “Your theology is as warped as your morals, Camilla.” Camilla laughed. “I’ll... ...gers danced along his neck, swirling his hair in little circles, tracing the outline of his ear, dipping beneath his collar. The softness of her che... ...wanted to hide them away again, but she would not allow it. She traced the outline of each burned patch, dipping up and down the valleys between hi... ...ork plackets in a violet motif. Fine embroidery in rich purples and greens outlined the plackets and cuffs. Louise disappeared for some moments an...

...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...ooks.net Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...m, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product... ...f fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance ... ...tongue to in order to back up her judgment. Snakelex worked on Karen’s own theology that God was not mysterious or unpredictable. There were no grey ... ...nt it off to head office in the city. She was pleased with herself, as it outlined all their hopes and the direction in which the deacons wished to ... ...n as the entire area lit up with the lightning and the supposedly ghastly outline of the beast towering the stone and wood building. Imashiharta rai...

...e take an interest in Snakelex and aid him to learn the truth about their enemy and Hell's best kept secrets that mislead and control the lower ranks of Satan's establishment....

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...nt). In his patient, almost ecclesi- astical voice, Francesco repeated the outline we have prepared; here are items we have sorted out for further ev... ...mane as Caterina whis- pered to both of us. It was almost dark but I could outline the oval of her face— her mouth and eyes smiling. Around us, in the... ...slave. Mammon is after him, ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the theology of the day is joining the cry. They have him in his prison house;...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...od, is the God of the human heart. The writer would suggest that the great outline of the theological struggles of that phase of civilisation and worl... ...the present writer believes that the discussions that shaped the Christian theology we know were dominated by such natural and fundamental thoughts. T... ...onist. This was the idea of the poet Shelley. And passing beyond Christian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparati... ...ology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. Kant’s “starr... ...prehend more fully as time goes on. But it is possible to define the broad outlines of the attainment he seeks. It is the conquest of death. It is the... ... of the world-wide sanities of this new order being drawn over the warring outlines of the present, and of men falling out of rela- tionship with the ...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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The Exiles

By: Honoré de Balzac

...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ...oman’s face causes men such indescribable delight, the exquisite purity of outline, the halo of light that bathes the features we love, were here comb... ...s Quatre Nations, the celebrated Sigier, the most noted Doctor of Mystical Theology of the University of Paris, was mounting his pul- pit in a spaciou... ...of Paris and the extraor- dinary scheme of instruction that then obtained. Theology was taught under two faculties—that of Theology properly so called... ...that of Theology properly so called, and that of Canon Law. The faculty of Theology, again, had three sections—Scholastic, Canonical, and Mys- tic. It...

... In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent floods, was a constable of the watch of the City of Paris, who had been able to do some service to their Reverences the Chapter ...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ... ought to be especially sacred to me, I decide to fling down on paper some outline of what my recollec- tions and reflections contain in reference to ... ...ong which I began to breathe, I retain no recollection more clear than the outlines of a cloud in a moonless sky. But of L——, the village where I afte... ...initely of Sterling as a contemporary existence; and laid up some note and outline of him in my memory, as of one whom I might yet hope to know. John ... ...ling already intimated his intention to become a clergyman: He would study theology, biblicalities, perfect himself in the knowledge seemly or essenti... ...ation, cheerfully interesting to himself and others; though, the wrecks of theology so encumbering him, little fruit on the positive side could come o... ...tial “Mr. D.,” has given us:* “Mr. Dunn, for instance; the defect of whose Theology, compounded as it is of the doctrine of the Greek Fathers, of the ...

...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dian night swallow up the last lingering colours of the world. It left the outlines, it obliterated nothing, but it stripped off the super- ficial rea... ...e tethered beasts, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The clustering village itself slept in darkne... ...l was—attenuated. He could not romance. So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines. She tried to inspire a son who seemed most unaccountably up to no... ...s wicked pictures that made him see the shrivelled absurdity of the vulgar theology. But it was Benham who stood between Prothero and that rather coar... ..., at least of the European mind— for I have some doubts about the Chinese. Theology drives obstinately towards an ultimate unity in God, science to- w... ...y neglecting factors. William James has suggested that on account of this, theology may be obstinately working away from the truth, that the truth may...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...attained, or made for ever impossible. But these things form only the main outline of a story with a vast amount of collateral interest. It is to thes... ...e corners for Greek, He- brew, Sanscrit, philology, archaeology, Christian theology, and so on, and so on; nevertheless, for that great mass of sound ... ...be interesting to try over. Law is a thin wash that we paint over the firm outlines of reality, and the treaties and agreements of emperors and kings ... ...k arranging the compensation of Bel- gium and Serbia, and tracing over the outlines of the natural map of mankind the new political map of Europe. Sti...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ERMS Classes in logic are not only represented by circles with a hard firm outline, whereas in fact they have no such definite limits, but also there ... ...quence of my metaphysical prelimi- naries that I should find the Christian theology Aristotelian, over defined and excessively personified. The painte... ...annot bring myself back to them … But the psychological experience and the theology of Chris- tianity are only a ground-work for its essential feature... ...te effect of personality. After we have cleared off all the definitions of theology, He re- mains, mystically suffering for humanity, mystically asser... ...- sions. These are difficult matters to explain because they have no clear outlines; one lets in a hard light suddenly upon things that have lurked in...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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The Early Short Fiction

By: Edith Wharton

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic... ...at blurred by the shadow of a projecting hat-brim. Where had she seen that outline before? She stared at it confusedly, her heart hammering in her thr... ...familiar with the melting depths of light about her, she distinguished the outlines of a landscape, at first swimming in the opaline uncertainty of Sh... ...portant fact of Mr. Mounce’s summing up his conclusions before the Muse of Theology took flight? He should be happy, he said, if the tide served, to v... ...of the familiar oval canvases, in the inevitable garlanded frame. The mere outline of the frame called up all Gisburn’s past! Mrs. Gisburn drew back t...

Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

...Contents AFTERWAR .....................................................................................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT.......................

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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...ctronic Classics Series Publication Blix by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nded him of it—and ex- pressed himself as to the sermon and the minister’s theology: sometimes to his daughter and sometimes to himself. After dinner ... ... last even Tamalpais, resolved themselves in the vel- vet gray of the sky. Outlines were lost. Only the masses remained, and these soon began to blend... ...eech. Her hair was nothing more than a warm col- ored mist without form or outline. The sloe-brown of her little eyes and the flush of her cheek were ... ...iraculous, he must slowly build up, brick by brick, the plan his brain had outlined in a single instant. It was all work—hard, disagreeable, laborious...

...uck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction

By: Frederick Douglas

...cape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...etween the clear con- sciousness of right and the plausible make-shifts of theology and superstition. The one held me an abject slave—a pris- oner for... ... can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disas- ters, even though they may have come up to o...

...Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were...

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