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...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural a...

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...n or lessening of him in the extent of his fame. Very few, if any, of those who believe there is a God, and acknowledge the debt of homage which... ... existence of the Devil, is from the avowed ill-guided consent of some nations, who, knowing no other god, make a god of the Devil for want of a bet... ...his high station in heaven, yet that he did continue his dignity among the rest who are called his servants, in Scripture, his angels; that he had a... ...who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such power belonged eithe... ...ad a friend who had a responsible situation in the country. Being unmarried, he committed his domestic concerns to the care of a housekeeper, who had... ...on a sledge by an ox is most disgraceful, because the bodies of the that commit suicide, and notorious malefactors, are thus drawn on sledges. S... ...hole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on Astrology and Magic give voluminous directions for gatheri... ...her laugh most merrily. She further confessed that she had murdered a child and committed uncleanness with both men and devils;‖ and it was for an i... ...re the prints of the child‘s little teeth on their arms! The salem magistrates committed this mere infant for witchcraft, but as we hear no more of ...

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...d by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions and even discussed the adult... ...on his death, the Prince of Wales became King on January 20, 1936. Ernest Simpson - who was having a long-term affair of his own - moved out of the... ...16). The words "grandmother" and "eternity" only once each. The Bible records seven suicides and seven different Jeremiahs - but not a single "trini... ...leon in 1804) made me think of my unhappy country and the glory which he would win who should liberate it" And, later, after a victory against t... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...as already wealthy and dying. The trip to her service may have done him in. His son committed suicide in 1975 and his wife died in 1981. He left beh... ...wealthy and dying. The trip to her service may have done him in. His son committed suicide in 1975 and his wife died in 1981. He left behind one he... ...fessed Ed sheepishly. No one paid any attention to the shy recluse. When Gus was committed to an old people's home, Ed's supply of corpses dried ... ...ed on November 7, 1968 and the jury found him guilty but criminally insane. He was committed to Central State Hospital (for the Criminally Insane) ...

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...e truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.‖ 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech... ...accuracy of any later transmission rested solely upon the memory of those who heard the original words. Mnemonics’ enormous possibilities Octogen... ... had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnem... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...ills as bank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic ca... ...ank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to retu... ..., and free public library‘s good reading.‖ Carnegie was convinced of—and committed to—the notion that education was life‘s key. Modern public libr...

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...t to the washroom she would have to walk near a group of the popular girls who were skipping near there. In the end, urgency over- came her fear. She ... ...the only source of esteem in her desperate life, but it also gave the kids who picked on her more ammunition; they could add ‘brown-noser’ to their sc... ..., enjoying the fact that he got paid for the work he did, while the losers who couldn’t keep up got much less. He had not seen his parents for three y... ... summer job at The Toronto Star. It is amazing there – I get to see famous writers all the time. When the presses are going it’s like thunder rumbling... ...b, and even her expected book revenue. “We won’t count on that,” he said. “Writers don’t make much, in my experience. We’ll get what we can out of him... ...xperience. We’ll get what we can out of him.” She hoped he was wrong about writers. If she had to work full-time, she would not have time to write any... ...cancer, but soon gave that up; the news was all bad. A search of ‘assisted suicide’ turned up several sources of information, but she got upset when s... ... to help someone to die. I will not listen to any more talk about assisted suicide.” “Oh, come on!” “Never mind ‘come on’. He’s right.” “Yes, yes, I a... ...ntaler was acquitted many times by juries, even though the Crown proved he committed abortion and that it was ille- gal to do so); marijuana; excessiv...

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...SS for the Peerage will continue to pass current the illustrious gentleman who was inflamed by Cupid’ s darts to espouse the milkmaid, or dairymaid, u... ...has rescued one of our princeliest houses from the assaults of the vulgar, who are ever too rejoiced to 4 The Tale of Chloe bespatter and disfigure a... ...period. He has read the ballad, but disre- garded the memoirs of the beau. Writers of pretension would seem to have an animus against individuals of t... ...t from its historical value, the ballad is an example to poets of our day, who fly to mythological Greece, or a fanci- ful and morbid mediaevalism, or... ...oets. In fact, obeying the dictates of a soul steeped in gener- osity, she committed the indiscretion to strip herself, scandal- izing propriety. This... ...e natural empire of beauty. But she will none of them. I call her the Fair Suicide. She has died for love; and she is a ghost, a good ghost, and a ple... ... sleeping on, but I say no; nor shall that iniquity of double treachery be committed because of your desire to be rocked in a cradle. Hear me out. The...

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...are to the feast An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a pu... ...e them. Now the contrary of this happens to the master of an ordinary. Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates, however ... ...o their taste. As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either, we have conde scended to take a hint ... ... for she must be one of the neighbourhood; and I should be glad to see her committed to Bridewell, and whipt at the cart’s tail. Indeed, such wicked s... ...in such instances as this, where nothing but the inspiration with which we writers are gifted, can possibly enable any one to make the discovery. ... ...n one Jenny Jones, who, they both agreed, was the likeliest person to have committed this fact. This Jenny Jones was no very comely girl, either in ... ...ffence must be sufficiently apparent to every Christian, inasmuch as it is committed in defiance of the laws of our religion, and of the express comma... ... more in fashion; yet we intend in it rather to pursue the method of those writers, who profess to disclose the revo lutions of countries, than to im... ...s determination. Mr. Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth cer tainly inhabit som...

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...s glorious among the names of the most powerful chieftains of the Northmen who conquered Gaul and estab- lished the feudal system there. Never had Car... ...aved some portions of the fief, thanks to the young steward of the family, who claimed on her behalf the partage de presuccession, which is to say, th... ...and toward the castle, mounted his horse, and rode back beside his sister, who had driven over in the notary’s shabby basket-chaise. The Hotel d’Esgri... ...roes and to Diderot’s homespun characters (see the first editions of those writers’ works). The Marquis always wore a white, gold-embroidered, high wa... ...’Esgrignon, had even taken out his pistols, had gone so far as to think of suicide. He who would never have brooked the appearance of an insult was ab... ...ier three days since; but while obtaining this informa- tion, he in no way committed himself. Before he went away he inquired whether the draft could ... ...ed by a forgery, for which we are go- ing to the hulks, a forgery which we committed for love of you,” Chesnel said quickly. “How is it that you did n... ... had a gloomy reputation just then, for there had lately been two cases of suicide—one a young man full of promise, and the other a girl, a victim of ... ...f memory on the part of a woman in her ignorance of business, or a forgery committed by a d’Esgrignon.” “ All this is beside the point,” began Camusot...

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...ispered of the warm triumphant mystery of love that comes at last to those who have patience and unblemished hearts…. She was reminding them of their ... ... never effectually overtaken) under the guid- ance of an elderly gentleman who wore a nondescript gown and took snuff, wrote copperplate, explained no... ...g, boldly enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed cle... ...assumed so sinister and porten- tous an appearance as to make him think of suicide. And there were times too when he very distinctly desired to be mar... ...ul and support and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our ... ... nd to Things Things Things Things Things I I I I I MR. POLLY designed his suicide with considerable care, and a quite remarkable altruism. His passio... ... to put it all back, hastily, guiltily, and abandon this desperate plan of suicide for ever. But Miriam would smell the paraffine! “No way out this ti... ... by his conscience dur- ing the busier times, as, for example, that he had committed arson and deserted a wife. For the first time he looked these lon... ...hese long neglected facts in the face. It is disagreeable to think one has committed Arson, be- cause it is an action that leads to jail. Otherwise I ...

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...s utmost; and after all, require allowances. He had been a wise Frenchman, who, looking, close at hand, on this waste aspect of a France all stirring ... ...ry convenient. For the rest, that our busy Brissots, rigorous Rolands, men who once had authority and now have less and less; men who love law, and wi... ...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ...ies hidden in some garret ‘in Aubry-le-boucher Street, with a poor surgeon who had known me;’ Dame de Stael has secreted her Narbonne, not knowing wha... ...! Of the poor Queen’s Friends, who had followed her to the Temple and been committed elsewhither to Prison, some, as Governess de Tourzelle, are to be... ..., p. 61. &c. Felix, with due love of the miraculous, will have it that the Suicide in the inn was not Paris, but some double- ganger of his.)—Robespie... ...nt. Consider it well, there is a shade of the truth in it. For a man, once committed headlong to republican or any other Transcendentalism, and fighti... ...rance accept her New Constitution: the most Demo- cratic Constitution ever committed to paper. How it will To the number of the day in Add day in We h... ... no mercy; he has perished in the Place de la Revolution, after attempting suicide in Prison. And Gener- als Biron, Beauharnais, Brunet, whatsoever Ge...

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...red from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong fro... ...e Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards repu... ...n the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak House – ... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...h her documents; the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it,... ...a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself ... .... If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclu sion. If you think it is a... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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... -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.? -- 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow-?It is a matter of most importance that our government protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowledge wi...

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...e truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.‖ 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech... ...accuracy of any later transmission rested solely upon the memory of those who heard the original words. Mnemonics’ enormous possibilities Octog... ... had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mn... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...ills as bank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic ca... ...ank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to retu... ... and free public library‘s good reading.‖ Carnegie was convinced of—and committed to—the notion that education was life‘s key. Modern public libr...

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...................... 154 A PERIPATETIC PHILOSOPHER............................................................................................. 170 ON SUICIDE................................................................................................................................. 183 SUPERFICIAL KNOWLEDGE .................................................................

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...drawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a ... ...reatment is applied to murders. After the first tribute of sorrow to those who have perished, but, at all events, after the personal interests have be... ...everie upon the tremendous power which is laid open in a moment to any man who can reconcile himself to the abjuration of all conscientious restraints... ...liams watched its course, but said very little. At the close, he was fully committed for trial at the next sessions; and it is needless to say, that, ... ...uth of a science, he is pledged to the second; taking the main step, he is committed to all which follow. He is thrown at once upon the endless contro... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ...on repented.’ The English could not repent of a crime which they had never committed. Cato was not popular for a moment, nor tolerated for a moment, u... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r...

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...hed usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any powe...

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...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, goo... ...; and on the same day which announced the catastrophe of Williams, he also committed suicide in his cell. *Published in the “Note Book.” **Published i... ...he islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the lo... ...n which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle. T o any man who, like myself, admires the high-toned, mar- tial gallantry of the French... ...ed at. But what we could not wink at was the systematic treason which they committed against our comfort, namely, by teaching our horses all imaginabl... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...turn. During that interval of forty-eight hours, an atrocious mur- der was committed in the ancient city of Bristol. By whom? That question is to this...

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...n of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante. It was you who led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the grea... ...ose of Porcia, of San-Severino, of Pareto, of di Negro, and of Belgiojoso, who will represent in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance b... ...enth century—Bandello, the bishop and author of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived ... ...lsehood, madame, will surely be enough to wipe out every sin you have ever committed, and to open to you the gates of Paradise,” replied Crevel, with ... ... have it,” said the Baron, made happy by this demand, by which his Valerie committed herself. Hector had then been compelled to reveal his plans, al- ... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...between them they have found the money, and I went off to pay the Turk who committed treason against genius by putting you in quod. As I had to be at ... ...ects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers? In every household the plague of servants is nowadays the worst of... ...norant poverty and mis- ery driven to bay, flourish the last public letter-writers who are to be found in Paris. Wherever you see the two words “Ecriv...

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...rtunity University. BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this ... ...he same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribblers, who having no talents of a writer but what is taught by the writing master,... .... In the same manner I have now secured myself from the imitation of those who are utterly incapable of any degree of reflection, and whose learning i... ...ays denominates the whole from the major ity, have cast on all historical writers who do not draw their materials from records. And it is the apprehe... ...characters of many good and valuable mem bers of society; for the dullest writers, no more than the dullest companions, are always inoffensive. They ... ... ally understood a creative faculty, which would indeed prove most romance writers to have the highest pretensions to it; whereas by invention is real... ...proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or a house of ill repute, to a... ...running directly up to her, began to ask pardon for the of fences she had committed, begging that all might be im puted to ignorance of her quality:... ...d that this fellow was at that time firmly per suaded that he had already committed a murder, and had forfeited his life to the law. As he concluded ...

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... hearts.” This last remark made the dreamer at the parapet quiver. The man who made it little knew that, to use a proverbial expression, he was killin... ...lity. The words, simple in themselves, became sublime from the tone of him who said them, in a voice that possesses a spell. Are there not, in fact, s... ... the same effect was produced upon the dreamer when he looked upon the man who had, all unknowing, given him comfort; on the threatening horizon of hi... ...ds in time they might have become distin- guished men; but as soon as they committed a murder, it was no longer possible to interfere; they then belon... ...property of citizens, but more especially in an armed at- tack and robbery committed on the mail-coach which trans- ported, May —, 18—, the money in t... ...ion was alarmed by their depredations. There is no doubt that the outrages committed at la Sartiniere, at Vonay, and at the chateau of Saint-Seny, wer... ... They be- trayed their duty. One of them, foreseeing his fate, com- mitted suicide, but not until he had made important rev- elations. The other, Mall... ...ghbor, he thinks, would kill his daughter. On the second floor we have two writers; they don’t come in till midnight, and are off before eight in the ...

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... has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the m... ... and sane! 10 Thomas Carlyle You remember that fancy of Plato’s, of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudde... ...All was Godlike or God:”—Jean Paul still finds it so; the giant Jean Paul, who has power to escape out of hearsays: but there then were no hearsays. C... ...frage, and make his own suffrage serve, he is a poor eye-servant; the work committed to him will be misdone. Every such man is a daily contributor to ... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp... ...might accept it or not; but Puritan England was, in real truth, saved from suicide thereby!—I believe the Puritan People did, in an inarticulate, grum...

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...landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.?Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.? Manfred. ............. 13 CANTO IV. Ante-Purgatory.?Ascent to a shelf of the mountain.?The negligent, who postponed repentance to the last hour.?Belacqua. ..............................

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................................ 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.—Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.— Manfred. ............. 13 CANTO ... ...NTO IV . Ante-Purgatory.—Ascent to a shelf of the mountain.—The negligent, who postponed repentance to the last hour.—Belacqua. ......................... ........................................ 16 CANTO V . Ante-Purgatory.—Spirits who had delayed repentance, and met with death by violence, but died repent... ....” It has been objected to Virgil’s thus putting him in Elysium, that as a suicide his place was in the Mourning Fields. A similar objection may be ma... .... A similar objection may be made to Dante’s separating him from the other suicides in the seventh circle of Hell (Canto XIII.). “But,” says Conington... ... divided from its body by spite and by envy, as it said, and not for fault committed, Pierre do la Brosse, 6 I mean; and here let the Lady of Brabant... ...will yet be taken from me here but a little time, for small is the offence committed through their being turned with envy. Far greater is the fear, wi... ...ling of men. 13 The four humble in appearance are personifications of the writers of the minor Epistles, followed by St. John, as the writer of the R...

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...the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent....

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..., he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can un- derstand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be ... ... Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves. I have no expectation that any man will read... ...ct themselves. I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have reso... ...he ar- rives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imi- tation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; tha... ...s consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the ha- tred of hundreds, whos... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...le-hearted the politic man. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. On the m... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info...

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...I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn ...

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... bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantl... ...y a pay streak.” “Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and ... ...time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert who had been in two years. “No white women in the country then, and Mas... ...the unexpected. The 302 JACK LONDON heavy punishment for a crime they had not committed was no stranger than the countless strange things that white ... ...hree weeks away, and for two days now, carefully con cealed from the sporting writers, Carthey had been lying up, badly injured. There was no one to ... ... dye rooms. He remembered that he had heard his father call the dye rooms the “suicide holes,” where a year was death. He saw the little patio, and hi...