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...nor shall we need With dangerous expedition to invade Heav’n, whose high walls fear no assault or Siege, Or ambush from the Deep. What if we fin... ...ace. But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and from the walls of Heav’n 1035 Shoots farr into the bosom of dim Night A glimmer... ... then survey’d Hell and the Gulf between, and SATAN there 70 Coasting the wall of Heav’n on this side Night In the dun Air sublime, and ready now... ...Of CHAOS blustring round, inclement skie; Save on that side which from the wall of Heav’n Though distant farr som small reflection gaines Of gli... ... there 595 Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Eevning on, and Twilight gray H... ...above had quelld 860 His heart, not else dismai’d. Now drew they nigh The western point, where those half-rounding guards Just met, & closing sto... ...0 Time counts not, though with swiftest minutes wing’d. Now was the Sun in Western cadence low From Noon, and gentle Aires due at thir hour To f... ...East Darkness ere Dayes mid-course, and Morning light More orient in yon Western Cloud that draws 205 O’re the blew Firmament a radiant white, ... ...gs by thir names I call, though yet unnam’d) From HERMON East to the great Western Sea, Mount HERMON, yonder Sea, each place behold In prospect,...

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...The famous poets sung and gone, The famous men of war have fought, The famous speculators thought, The famous players, sculptors, wrought, The famous ... ..., Invite to rest the traveller there Before he climb the pass— The gentian-flower’d pass, its crown With yellow spires aflame; Whence drops the path... ...g new, Regard his death-place dumb, And say the stone is not yet to, And wait for words to come. “Ah, o’er that silent sacred land, Of sun, and arid... ...t by moments, ah, too rare! We shall renew the battle in the plain To-morrow;—red with blood will Xanthus be; Hector and Ajax will be there again, Hel... ...s late at their play! The lights come out in the street, In the school-room windows;—but cold, Solemn, unlighted, austere, Through the gathering darkn... ...d night held on indignantly O’er the blue Midland waters with the gale, Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily, To where the Atlantic... ...hese fields! yet will I not despair. Despair I will not, while I yet descry ‘Neath the mild canopy of English air That lo...

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... A warm, sultry smell was diffused throughout the room. A thermometer on the wall farthest from the stove stood at eighty degrees. The parlor was hung... ...ning, although without motion of the lips. It was probably the effect of the western sunshine, melt ing through the thinly diffused vapors that had s... ...hopelessly, or blundered on with cold and miserable toil, as if there were a wall of ice between me and my subject.” “Do you now perceive a correspond... ... retaining a part of the hardened root; and his equipment was completed by a wallet, not so abundantly stocked as to incommode the vigorous shoulders ... ...s of tobacco to the public room. It was a long and low apartment, with oaken walls, grown dark in the continual smoke, and a floor which was thickly s... ...eeches, and blue yarn stockings, leaning on an oaken cud gel, and bearing a wallet on his back. Robin replied to the courteous innkeeper, with such a... ... in the midst, holding the Scriptures in the golden light that fell from the western clouds; he beheld him close the book and all rise up to pray. He ...

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...king: the Workers, protected, en- couraged by Majesty, have ages ago built walled towns, and there ply their crafts; will permit no Robber Baron to ‘l... ...unlooked for, inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest cerem... ...queror of Minorca, companion of Flying-Table orgies, perforator of bedroom walls, (Besenval, i. 159-172. Genlis; Duc de Levis, &c.) is thy day also do... ...g of his Majesty’s faithful Burghers of Pau, and do now lie pointed on the walls there; ready for action! (Besenval, iii. 348.) At this rate, your Gra... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...a National Representative be- come? And now the sunlight falls yellower on western win- dows, and the chimney-tops are flinging longer shadows; the re... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed itself; spreads, rustling with Bourbon ... ...nty days. (Deux Amis, xi. 80-143.) Or see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little ... ...been; and may again be. Charles Second sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hu...

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...uld not stand in quiet; I threw the book from me with violence against the wall; I began to hurry backwards and forwards in a short uneasy walk, when ... ...Agnes should, in her desolation and solitary confinement to these wretched walls, find her frail strength give way—should the moral horrors of her sit... ...opened she was dis- covered sitting at a table placed against the opposite wall, her head pillowed upon her arms, and these resting upon the table. He... ...a little, and then told us that he could himself put us outside the prison walls, and would do it with- out fee or reward. ‘But we must be quiet, or t... ... on the 3d and 4th of January of Russian troops in the neighborhood of the Western Kalmucks, though really having no reference to them or their plans,... ...d into certain signs that all was discovered; and that the prudence of the Western chief- tains, who, from situation, had never been exposed to those ... ...their people from ruin. Be the cause what it might, it is certain that the Western Kalmucks were in some way prevented from form- ing the intended jun... ... too many circumstances by which she might discover the concurrence of the Western people in the gen- eral scheme of revolt, they justly feared that s... ...currence also in the bloody events which marked its outset. Little did the Western Kalmucks guess what reasons they also had for gratitude on account ...

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...king: the Work- ers, protected, encouraged by Majesty, have ages ago built walled towns, and there ply their crafts; will permit no Robber Baron to ‘l... ...unlooked for, inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest cerem... ...queror of Minorca, companion of Flying-Table orgies, perforator of bedroom walls, (Besenval, i. 159-172. Genlis; Duc de Levis, &c.) is thy day also do... ...he dumb lowest rank, who with spade and mattock, with sore heart and empty wallet, daily come in contact with reality, and can pass the cheat no furth... ...g of his Majesty’s faithful Burghers of Pau, and do now lie pointed on the walls there; ready for action! (Besenval, iii. 348.) At this rate, your Gra... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin...

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...ong the shady trees, and raged and rent themselves. The mimic roses on the walls and floors were set round with sharp thorns, that tore her breast; in... ...m, in colour a dark brown, with black hatchments of pictures blotching the walls, and twenty-four black chairs, with almost as many nails in them as s... ...nd its tears trickle on the window-glass, and the trees against the church-wall bow their heads, and wring their many hands in sympathy . Night, growi... ...e owes her mother; -which is it that appears to leave the 38 Dombey & Son wall, and printing itself in glowing letters, on her book! “Who giveth this... ...eets; never going forth at all on Sundays; and both within and without the walls of his retreat, avoiding bonnets, as if they were worn by raging lion... ... her dearest child, who was haughtily careless on the subject, subjoined a western list, com- prising Cousin Feenix, not yet returned to Baden-Baden, ...

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...ache’s preparations for Hector’s return, even as he was falling before the walls of T roy; but in matters that come within the range or ordinary exper... ... another time, the son of Cronos either destroys their wide army, or their walls, or else makes an end of their ships on the sea. 45 Hesiod, The Home... ...essed gods. A scrupulous man who has a wise heart sits down or goes to the wall of an enclosed court. (ll. 733-736) Do not expose yourself befouled by... ...And they may not go out; for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall runs all round it on every side. There Gyes and Cottus and great-soule... ...ly did he excel in war together with man-slaying Hector and brake down the wall, bringing woes upon the Danaans. But so soon as Patroclus had inspired... ... is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam...

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...f enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-western England put much to his credit the declaration of his wife’s pronou... ...ve stored a little, and Paris is to me as pure a place as four whitewashed walls:’ Patrick added: ‘with- out a shadow of a monk on them.’ Perhaps it w... ...curious rough heirlooms to be seen about the house, shields on the armoury walls and hunting-horns, and drinking-horns, and spears, and chain-belts be... ...m, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me.’ ‘The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his,’ Mr. Adister replied. ‘I dare say w... ...ared with the portrait of Jane Mattock in her fiery aureole of hair on the walls of the breakfast-room, it marks that fatal period of de- generacy for... ...e, defying mankind to suspect that he cherishes a grain of romance. On the wall, just above his shoulder, is a sketch of a Viking putting the lighted ... ...eady for the responsibilities of the title. Sketches of our ancient wooden walls and our iron and plated defences line the panellings. These degenerat... ... blue, the rosy red of her lips, her eyes, her hair, was just such a south-western sky as April drove above her, the same in colour and quickness; and... ...ng through the garden-gate of Lappett’s farm she made her way to the south-western face of the house to beg a bowl of water of the farmer’s wife, and ...

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... between Fifth and Broad- 10 The Good Soldier way—Beaucaire with the grey walls on the top of the pinnacle surrounding an acre and a half of blue iri... ...ped gables with the little saint at the top; and grey and pink palazzi and walled towns a mile or so back from the sea, on the Mediterra- nean, betwee... ...g that those two blue discs were immense, were overwhelm- ing, were like a wall of blue that shut me off from the rest of the world. I know it sounds ... ...poor Maisie. She picked a little piece of pellitory out of the breast-high wall in front of us. She chafed it for a long minute between her finger and... ...as I, and those that were were not the type to give up the fascinations of Wall Street even for the protracted com- panionship of Florence. But nothin... ...d it was just as good for him to be sniped at up in the hills of the North Western frontier, as to be shot at by an old gentleman in a tophat at the b...

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... mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When I retu... ...een in London, my mother asked me, whether I was one of those who gave the wall, or those who took it. now it is fixed that every man keeps to the rig... ... it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is tak- ing the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.’ He now removed to Lond... ...d disused for many years. I have proposed to Vansittart, climbing over the wall, but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till they are sore... ...celebrated by a description, as it afterwards was, in his Jour- ney to the Western Islands. After we had again talked of my setting out for Holland, h... ...threescore. I hope yet to see Beattie’s College: and have not given up the western voyage. But however all this may be or not, let us try to make each... ...s corporal prowess be felt as much as his intellectual. His Journey to the Western Islands of Scot- land is a most valuable performance. Johnson’s gra... ...s, and Mr. Charles Fox. Before he came in, we talked of his Journey to the Western Is- lands, and of his coming away ‘willing to be- lieve the second ... ... bundle of Scotch magazines and news-papers, in which his Jour- ney to the Western Islands was attacked in ev- ery mode; and I read a great part of th...

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...share of his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble fo... ...... That peasant with the long waist seemed to be gnawing something on the wall, the old lady be- 121 Tolstoy gan stretching her legs the whole lengt... ...pieces; then there was a blinding dazzle of red fire before her eyes and a wall seemed to rise up and hide everything. Anna felt as though she were si...

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...ks and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink...

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... millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding ac... ...lism.‖  Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries bef... ...ongs. The honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where it‘s been. O... ...ynx is the anatomical term for that lump of cartilage that forms the front wall of the human voice box. Two vocal cords attached to it run along the ... ...reserve the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To per... ...sages rested solely upon the listener‘s memory. CHAPTER 3 Did a wall of seawater first seep and then surge from the Mediterranean into the... ...d been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years. A wall of seawater first seeped and then surged from the Mediterranean into t... ...vin Menzies (1937–) China‘s InfoTech Siblings After Christ‘s ministry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some call the Dark Ages... ... was print. Historian Jared Diamond decries the popular belief in the Western world that printing began with Johann Gutenberg in 1454. By then, ...

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...THE 1920s. MID-WESTERN COMMONWEALTH, CHICAGO. “Well if it ain’t that then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happened. A huge ...

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...that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Wester... ...ies would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Wester... ...eincarnation, but there are probably a billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Wester... ...ives, but striving for perfection is merely a goal, and absolute perfection is never an accomplishment. It is the striving that is essential. Wallow... ...y. He may never have even seen the cartoons. No matter! Mad senseless power must have its victims. ―In the case of the cartoons, the Wester... ...e Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerrilla Family and many others who fight for their illegal and anti-social agendas inside and outside the prison walls.... ...education might well be a requirement for those who are said to be loved. Possibly the exposure to a home life that is within the norm of the Wester... ..., 2:24-29) 22. Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, The Viking Press, N. Y., 1971, pp. 299-300.) 23. Holder MD, Coleman B, & Wallac...

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...le Foundation Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation General Atomics Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel Grace... ...in 2008 at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Laboratory at Keāhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture... ...tracts to fnance construction of a $700-million polysilicon plant in the western U.S. state of Idaho. Export of polysilicon from Idaho to Asia is ... ...care, medicines and procedures. If you want to fnd out how changing to a Western diet and lifestyle will afect the people of Asia in the future, yo... ...ched from the mountain to the sea, delineated by mountain ridges, valley walls and streams. Each ahupua‘a was managed as a single unit. According...

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... he bought a whole night’s sleep—all for twenty five cents! It should make Wall Street ashamed of itself. On his way home his heart was joyful, and it... ...acle of a yellow cat picking its way carefully along the top of the garden wall. The color of this cat brought the bygone cat before me, and I saw her... ...great philosopher. They formed in procession, cross the floor, climbed the wall, marched across the ceiling to a point just over the cup, then one by ... ...Very well, let them have what they’ve got, and wel come; there is still a wall, and a lofty one. They haven’t got the Moral Sense; we have it, and it... ... Y ou will have plenty of space, for by my project you will use the parlor wall. You do not mark on the wall; that would cause trouble. You only attac... ...gainst the sky. But by mid afternoon some elevations which rise out of the western border of the desert, whose presence you perhaps had not detected o... ...e Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelphia. The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia. Cape Hateras is a vast body of water surround...

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...d Sea, they passed into Ireland, and the district of Dalrieta.* At * North-western part of Antrim in Ulster. 11 History of the Britons that period, B... ... to protect the provinces recovered from barbaric incursions, he ordered a wall and a rampart to be made be- tween the Britons, the Scots, and the Pic... ...t peace among themselves. Not long after Severus dies in Britain. *Or, the Wall. One MS. here adds, “The above-mentioned Severus constructed it of rud... ...sh Peneltun, to the mouth of the river Cluth and Cairpentaloch, where this wall terminates; but it was of no avail. The emperor Carausius afterwards r... ...lake on the summit of Mons Jovis, to the city called Cant Guic, and to the western T umulus, that is, to Cruc Occident.* These are the Armoric Britons... ...at St. Bernard in Piedmont to Cantavic in Picardy, and from Picardy to the western coast of France. 16 History of the Britons exercised supreme domin... ...Germanus to him, “that none of your friends remain this night within these walls. Upon this 19 History of the Britons he hastily entered the city, br... ...consul was my father.” Then the king assigned him that city , with all the western Prov- inces of Britain; and departing with his wise men to the sini... ... isle of Thanet, and thrice enclosed them within it, and beset them on the Western side. The Saxons now despatched deputies to Germany to so- licit la...

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...slanting rain, which was as thick as a curtain, and which formed a kind of wall with oblique stripes, and which deluged everything, a regular rain, su... ...pation was during his spare time. There were three family portraits on the walls; a steel-clad knight, a cardinal, and a judge, who were all smoking l... ... except the plate, which had been stowed away in a hole made in one of the walls, so that, as he was very rich and had good taste, the large drawing-r... ...light. Expensive oil-paintings, water-colors, and draw- ings hung upon the walls, while on the tables, on the hanging shelves, and in elegant glass cu... ...ul china and glass, and the plate, which had been found in the hole in the wall where its owner had hidden it, gave to the place the look of a bandits... ...ced to him at his house, and they dis- cussed me there. I became a sort of Western prophet, a mystic charmer who was ready to nihilize the Latin races... ...f which is true Nihilism, whose object is nothing less than to destroy the Western world, to see it blossom from under the ruins of a general dispersi...

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...wn to the broad and shining waters 18 Thackeray of the Cam, and under the walls of Balliol and Sidney Sussex. The Duke of Bellamont (then a dashing y... ...ght with seed-pearls, and fringed with V alenciennes lace and bullion. The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over w... ...f the patron of Julius and Leo, the Imperial genius of Urbino, covered the walls of the little chamber. Divans of carved amber covered with ermine wen... ...for the final spring upon the citadel. Soult I could see quite pale on the wall; and the scoundrel Cambaceres, who had been so nearly my prisoner that... ...gh your stupiddaty, you brute, you!’ “‘Bring your haction aginst the Great Western, Maam,’ says I, quite riled by this crewel and unfealing hold wixen... ... do justice to the terrific theme. Y ou have seen two engines on the Great Western line rush past each other with a pealing scream? So rapidly did the... ...horse Bavieca madly up the chestnut avenue. The castle was before him; the western tower was in flames; the besiegers were pressing at the southern ga... ...A minute or two after his horse was stabbed, and Ivanhoe knocked down, the western bartizan was taken by the storming-party which invested it, and eve... ... very same day when the armies of Henri V . appeared before Paris from the Western Road, those of the Emperor John Thomas Napoleon arrived from the No...

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...nd on the brow say of Belshazzar when the apparition of the writing on the wall disturbed his impious feast, that it would seem more ideal and more ma... ...whom want of grace Has made the father of a nameless race, Shoved from the wall perhaps, or rudely press’d By his own son, that passes by unbless’d: S... ... Chartreux stands the good old Hall, Silence without, and fasts within the wall; No rafter’d roofs with dance and tabor sound, No noontide-bell invite... ...worst inn’s worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with... ...name? Ere I recount the sins of these profane, The sun would sink into the western main, And, rising, gild the radiant east again. Have we not seen (t... ...ing Libyan lands, The faithless Syrtes, and the moving sands; Who view the western sea’s extremest bounds, Or drink of Ganges in their eastern grounds... ... 59 59 59 59 59 When Learning, after the long Gothic night, Fair, o’er the western world, renew’d its light, With arts arising, Sophonisba rose; The t... ...r, And hears the various vows of fond mankind; Some beg an eastern, some a western wind: All vain petitions, mounting to the sky, With reams abundant ... ...thrones by laws. See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. 100 ‘Lo! Rome herself, pr...

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...rich giltwork, which encircles the room at the junction of the ceiling and walls. The drapery is thrown open also, or closed, by means of a thick rope... ...ssion of short irregular curves—one occasionally overlaying the other. The walls are prepared with 11 V olume Five a glossy paper of a silver gray ti... ...agreed. They have the whole lustre of burnished gold. They lie flat on the walls, and do not hang off with cords. The de- signs themselves are often s... ...us erat— —Lucan—De Catone —a bristly bore. Translation LET US HURRY to the walls,” said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben- Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the... ... deep, circumvallatory trench, hewn from the solid rock, was defended by a wall of great strength erected upon its in- ner edge. This wall was adorned... ...a capacity for love! But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into a western couch of thunder-cloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees... ...wer—” But Ocean ever to refresh mankind “Breathes the shrill spirit of the western wind.” O, beautiful!—most beautiful—how like To what my fevered sou...

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...erently share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher... ...o the cliff that overhangs it somewhat the same relation as a bracket to a wall. With this hint you will now be able to pick out the leper station on ... ...t near some roadside ale- house, or in some convenient park, where Colonel Wallace, who had now taken the command, would review the horse and foot, du... ... the other Barscob and the Galloway gentle- men; and in the centre Colonel Wallace and the weak, half- armed infantry. Their position was further stre... ... too blacke ‘ (I.E. numerous), ‘fie! fie! for ground to draw up on,’ cried Wallace, fully realising the want of space for his men, and proving that it... ...Kirkton. 68 Robert Louis Stevenson Burn prevented almost all pursuit, and Wallace, on perceiv- ing it, dispatched a body of foot to occupy both the b...

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... by the novelty of his position, he does not reflect that the Cross on the wall perpetuates the memory of a sen- tence which for nineteen hundred year... ...ime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian and provided by the State with the immortal Mr. Stiggins’... ...might, overshadow- ing with its fantastic bulk the councils of Central and Western Europe, sat upon the gravestone of autoc- racy, cutting off from ai... ...ed ground with the first stirrings of a resurrection. Never before had the Western world the opportu- nity to look so deep into the black abyss which ... ... her organisation. Hence arises her impenetrability to whatever is true in Western thought. Western thought, when it crosses her fron- tier, falls und... ...anslavism, of uni- versal conquest, mingled with the hate and contempt for Western ideas, drift impotently like shapes of mist, know well that it is b... ...houghts and the indig- nations of that age. It was within those historical walls that I began to understand things, form affections, lay up a store of... ...es or two, with a short stretch of road, and here and there a gleam of red wall and 127 Joseph Conrad tiled roof above the darkening hedges wrapped u... ...on normally with its fascinating air of a dead commercial city of som- bre walls through which the inextinguishable activ- ity of its millions streame...

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... A roam in a Moorish castle. A divan seat runs round the dilapidated adobe walls, which are partly painted, partly faced with white tiles patterned in... ...o draughts, he would probably catch cold from a little Moorish door in the wall behind him to his right. T wo or three of Brassbound’s men, overcome b... ...ide Marzo. Redbrook, a little shamefaced, crosses the room to the opposite wall as far away as possible from the visitors. Drinkwater turns and re- ce... ... Weoll: e ynt petickler, lidy. E ez is chawce of henny flegstown agin thet wall. They deposit Marzo on the flags against the wall close to the little ... ...orrid forenoon filtered through small Moorish windows high up in the adobe walls of the largest room in Leslie Rankin’s house. A clean cool room, with... ...mit his captain, and goes out.) Captain Hamlin Kearney is a robustly built western American, with the keen, squeezed, wind beaten eyes and obstinately...

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...t came at the examination of the leader’s watch and Ordnance map under the western sun, and void was given for the strike across country to catch the ... ...plest style. But the ornamental part of the interior is most peculiar. The walls of the building are covered with a double row of wax statues, of life... ...ful piece of art—for so it was—a Venetian mirror of Murano. It hung on the wall inside the village draper’s shop, and was readily 43 George Meredith ... ...nc- ing in the Italian Tyrol, while the Austrians wait for them behind the walls of Landaro and Ampola. The Garibaldians’ advanced posts were, by the ...

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...crumb boiled in milk), and eat it out of doors. On the coping of the Orchard wall, which I could reach by climbing, or still more eas ily if Father A... ...y porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. Those h... ...ughtful, almost poetical. Thus, to say nothing of his Suppers on the Orchard wall, and other phenomena of that earlier period, have many readers of th... ... if both leader and led simply—sit still? Had you, anywhere in Crim Tartary, walled in a square enclosure; furnished it with a small, ill chosen Libra... ...; or, in mad exasperation, must rush to and fro, leaping against sheer stone walls, which he cannot leap over, which only lacerate and lame him; till ... ...rsting the heart in pieces (which were Death); or at best, bursting the thin walls of your “reverberating furnace,” so that it rage thenceforth all un...

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...ence that at one time they were spread over large portions of Eu rope and western Asia. Perhaps it should be stated here that the copper, so often me... ...uild the doors and windows, Fashion thou the ceilings higher, Decorate the walls in beauty, Now that thou a bride hast taken From a tribe of higher st... ...t still in his decision, Quickly hurls his brush in anger, Hurls it to the wall opposing, Gives his mother final answer, These the words that Ahti use... ...in the dwelling, Through the moss stuffed chinks heard voices. Through the walls he beard them singing, Through the doors the peals of laughter. Then ... ... slyly in the hall ways, Found the court rooms filled with singers, By the walls were players seated, Near the doors the wise men hovered, Skilful one... ... One of horn and one of ivory, And the third of wood constructed; In their walls were golden windows, Six the windows in each castle, Through these wi...

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...mney or threatening explosion. The lamps were fixed at intervals against the wall, encircling the whole room. Some one had gathered orange and lemon b... ...e looked at herself closely in the little distorted mirror which hung on the wall above the basin. Her eyes were bright and wide awake and her face gl... ...as there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle... ...re under the orange trees, while the sun dipped lower and lower, turning the western sky to flaming copper and gold. The shadows lengthened and crept ... .... She gazed around the room at the pictures and photographs hanging upon the wall, and discov ered in some corner an old family album, which she exam... ...s. There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls. The cut glass, the silver, the heavy damask which daily appeared u...

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