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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...e been, in his own fashion, as out spoken as Tiraqueau. If such freedom of language could be permitted in a grave treatise of law, similar liberties w... ...reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to ... ...Dutch scholar could identify the translator, and state the value to be as- signed to his work. Rabelais’ style has many different sources. Besides its... ...matter, are as dull, bare, flat, and dry in style as possible. Without his signature no one would possibly have thought 18 Gargantua & Pantagruel of ... ...s distressed household? Truly I remember that the Cabalists and Massorets, interpreters of the sacred Scriptures, in treating how with verity one migh... ...ts, he was always necessitated to make use of divers sorts of truchman and interpreters. Now with this man alone, sufficient for supplying all their p... ...s the rapt of their sister Dinah, having found the rascally ruffian in the association of his mystical mole-catcher closely and in hugger-mugger confe...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...

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...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

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.... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth 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... ...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ...ras are very few; whilst on the other hand, they are mainly couched in the language of self-communion, of aspirations after truth, and of mental strug... ...ed in the Koran, and allowed oaths (by certain natural objects, as clouds, signs of the Zodiac, oil, the winds, etc.), which we find adopted in the Ko... ...ed with a certain deficiency of imaginative power, which proves the ayats (signs or verses) of the Koran at least to be the product of a single pen. T... ...of Muhammad, the less reason do we find to justify the strong vituperative language poured out upon his head by Maracci, Prideaux, and others, in rece... ...ture by listening behind the veil (pargôd). 8 Compare precisely a similar association of subjects, the Rain, Food, God, as Lord of life and death in ... ...ticipate not, take not the lead of God and His Apostle. 2 All the ancient Interpreters (as His. 933 ff., Ibn Sa’d. 320, T ab. Agâní. 116 f.–comp. als...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...ted people—a people descended from the same ances- tors, speaking the same language, professing the same reli- gion, attached to the same principles o... ...ct to liberty and economy, have, not- withstanding, been productive of the signal advantage of ren- 33 The Federalist Papers dering sudden conquests ... ...ocieties that constitute a new one, capable of increasing, by means of new associations, till they arrive to such a degree of power as to be able to p... ...d with respect to its external situation, it is possessed, by means of the association, of all the advantages of large monarchies.’’ I have thought it... ...ch our enemies and p rsecutors. That unequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which... ... shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of language and manners; the familiar habits of inter- course; —all these are ... ... consonant to truth and propri- ety, for the direction of their conduct as interpreters of the law. They thought it reasonable, that between the inter...