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... “Well now, there’s a specimen,” he said to her as they walked up from the riverside and he recognised Lord Warburton. “A specimen of what?” asked the... ...u’ll never be serious. I like the great country stretching away beyond the rivers and across the prairies, blooming and smiling and spreading till it ... ...y opposite of the Countess, a woman to whom the truth should be habitually sacred. Isabel was unable to estimate the number of times her visitor had, ... ... ex- tended. They had descended from the modern street to the level of the Sacred Way, along which they wandered with a reverence of step which was no... ...f Roman cockneys and inquisitive strangers, and while they stood there the sacred concert went forward. Ralph, with Henrietta and Mr. Bantling, was ap... ... the Cascine while her father and Miss Archer talked together of mat- ters sacred to elder people. But after a moment we shall perceive that if at nin... ... was now in imminent danger of asking himself if hospitality were the most sacred thing in the world. Was not the sentiment that he entertained for Mi...

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...e was his favourite once. You may well ask what Spottletoes.’ ‘Now upon my sacred word!’ cried Mr Pecksniff, looking up- wards. ‘This is dreadful. The... ...nce in the same, by smiles. That he might the better feed and cherish that sacred flame of gratitude in his breast, Mr Pecksniff remarked that he woul... ...at all had happened. Mr Pecksniff’s horse being regarded in the light of a sacred ani- mal, only to be driven by him, the chief priest of that temple,... ...ved at all, nor had a chance of life! Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and ha... ...lways turned on, and no water-rate. Independent of three or four slimy old rivers close by, it varied on the farm from four to six foot deep in the dr... ...tin Chuzzlewit renders unto Ceasar nothing that is his; again inhales that sacred atmosphere which was the life of him—oh noble patriot, with many fol... ...nderly, ‘and now I’m sure of it. A touch of fever and ague caught on these rivers, I dare say; but bless you, THAT’S nothing. It’s only a seasoning, a... ... than he? The fishes slumbered in the cold, bright, glistening streams and rivers, perhaps; and the birds roosted on the branches of the trees; and in...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs...

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... AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upo... ... and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire heath-countr... ...im your son—your son, Harry Richmond, shall inherit from me; he shall have Riversley and the best part of my property, if not every bit of it. Is it a... ...tool beside a tea-tray near the fire, and there I saw the old red house of Riversley, and my mother dressed in white, and my aunt Dorothy; and they al... ...t the old gentleman had sent one of his clerks down to my grandfa- ther at Riversley, and communicated with the constables in London; and, by-and-by, ... ...o see? I have to assure you respectfully, sir, that fam- ily portraits are sacred things with the sons of gentlemen. Here, Richie, off!’ I found the p... ...e was an outcast.’ The words revived my affection for Julia. Strong in the sacred sense of gratitude, I turned on Temple, reproaching him with selfish... ... youngster.’ ‘Then be wiser now, Harry.’ ‘Y ou have brilliant ideas of the sacredness of engagements.’ 207 George Meredith ‘I think I have common sen... ...r lady’s char- ity; to her I say no more. To you, sir, by all that is most sacred to a man-by the ashes of my mother! by the prospects of my boy! I sw...

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...ey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promis... ...s. Be this as it may, Staggs’s Gardens was regarded by its population as a sacred grove not to be withered by Railroads; and so confi- dent were they ... ...roduced so powerful an ef- fect, that, in their rapturous performance of a sacred jig, which closed the service, the whole flock broke through into a ... ...hey could have read its story in the darkening face. But Florence held her sacred purpose, unsuspected and unaided: and studied only how to bring her ... ...od, the modest little queen of those small revels, imagined what a load of sacred care lay heavy in her breast! How few of those who stiffened in her ... ... one of the most—if not positively the most—touching, and thrill- ing, and sacred emotions of which our sadly-fallen nature is susceptible, I conceive...

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...an, ‘we will travel afoot through the fields and woods, and by the side of rivers, and trust ourselves to God in the places where He dwells. It is far... ...emember that we said we would walk in woods and fields, and by the side of rivers, and how happy we would be—you remember that? But here, while the su... ...e been chronicled on tombs? And thus they separated; the child to lead her sacred charge farther from guilt and shame; the labourer to attach a fresh ... ...rrounded by perpetual youth—it seemed to her, when she heard these things, sacred to all goodness and virtue. It was an other world, where sin and so... ... Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place— when the bright moon poured in her light on ...

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...horne while ago, and saw that your countrymen have no adequate idea of the sacredness of pedigrees, and heraldic distinctions, and would change their ... ...my American friend here a lecture on gargoyles, and other peculiarities of sacred Gothic architecture; and if you will honor me with your attention, I... ...rd ship has good English blood in his veins, and it would take oceans and rivers of Italian treachery to wash out the sterling quality of it. And, my...

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...other’s houses for meals and family celebrations which had acquired a semi-sacred character, and were as regularly observed as days of feast- ing and ... ...r bank and left its lights suspended upon a blank surface, upon one of the riverside seats, and let the tide of disillusionment sweep through him. For... ...whitened, but for her there would be no memories of Indian suns and Indian rivers, and clamor of children in a nursery; she would have very little of ... ...ied love,” she said slowly and with emphasis upon every word, “is the most sacred of all loves. The love of husband and wife is the most holy we know.... ...ts, and with a passion that would not have been unseemly in a pilgrim to a sacred shrine. The only strange thing was that she wished to go by herself.... ...ing to the bookcase, took out her father’s Greek dictionary and spread the sacred pages of symbols and figures before her. She smoothed the sheets wit...

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...rry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Vol. One Mr... ...d violet tinted cloud of smoke. From the boy’s face one might suppose that sacred emblem to be, in his eyes, the crowning confusion of the great, conf...

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...f Token Icons of Decapitation Pg 1290 Dynamics of Whitewashing Pg 1300 The Sacredness of the Immaculate Consumer Pg 1323 The Immaculate Caste Sy... ...nted the constant of the speed of light as a holy Tabernacle, as some kind of sacred religious icon. The only reason that the speed of light is ‘co... ...and grants and positions of power, and preserving untouched and unchanged its sacred obsolete texts. Hiding the fact that the basic principles it p... ...‘toons’… not 10, and because they regarded the number 13 and the number 20 as sacred numbers. So… 13 x 20 = 360. Since harmonically, the number 13... ...‘toons’… not 10, and because they regarded the number 13 and the number 20 as sacred numbers. So… 13 x 20 = 360. Since harmonically, the number 13... ...on’t like you anymore, you burn and kill us. The Namib Desert is between two rivers called: Kuiseb and Usiab reverse their letters and you get: Be... ...rth American Aborigines have lived for thousands of years by the same spawning rivers; catching salmon without driving them to extinction because the... ...e world; you cannot own the oceans of the world. Life energy flows. Damming rivers and lakes: stopping the flow of Life of an entire huge eco-syst... ... Water in the forms of clouds, rain, groundwater, humidity, moisture, lakes, rivers, oceans, glaciers, snow, ice; cannot be easily sectioned off an...

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... Mars. Hephaestus. Vulcan. 5 The Iliad of Homer The sacred soil of Ilios is rent With shaft and pit; foiled waters wander... ...’s bright grove; and that possessed Arne rich in vineyards, and Mideia and sacred Nisa and Anthedon on the furthest borders. Of these there came fifty... ...of Naubolos; these were they that possessed Kyparissos and rocky Pytho and sacred Krisa and Daulis and Panopeus, and they that dwelt about Anemoreia a... ...t great, and thou Sun that seest all things and hearest all things, and ye Rivers and thou Earth, and ye that in the underworld pun ish men outworn, ... ...m in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred threshing floors when men are winnowing, and the chaff heaps grow w... ...eighing horses of the gods. Now when they came to Troy and the two flowing rivers, even to where Simoeis and Skamandros join their streams, there the ... ...noble Nestor, and bid him arise, if perchance he will be fain to go to the sacred company of the sentinels and lay on them his 122 The Iliad of Homer... ...nd Apollo take counsel to wash away the wall, bringing in the might of the rivers, of all that flow from the hills of Ida to the sea. Rhesos there was... ...the great beach with sand, when he had swept away the wall, and turned the rivers back to flow in their channel, where of old they poured down their f...

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...on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side o... ...eep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests. But I am not in heart t... ...wkins, that I shall, of course send on, since it is yours. Your letters are sacred to me. Your pardon, my friend, that unknow ingly I did break the ... ...in’ down with the weight o’ the lies wrote on them, ‘Here lies the body’ or ‘Sacred to the memory’ wrote on all of them, an’ yet in nigh half of them ... ...all, an’ the memories of them bean’t cared a pinch of snuff about, much less sacred. Lies all of them, nothin’ but lies of one kind or another! My gog... ...here I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read, “Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious... ...loathe talking about myself.’ I reminded her that a doctor’s confidence was sacred, but that you were griev ously anxious about her. She caught on t...

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...ulfil his friend’s behest, but also to look upon the fulfilling of it as a sacred duty. In the same way Sobakevitch said to him laconically: “And do y... ...which that rule has wrought me in my career. In my eyes an obligation is a sacred thing. In the presence of the law I am dumb.” These last words reass... ... make-shift affair consisting of an ace of diamonds or a two of clubs—as a sacred thing; so sacred that on one occasion two closely related ladies who... ... liable to swift and sudden change; and, one day in early spring, when the rivers had melted, the father set forth with his little son in a teliezshka... ...s born to better things, and lead him both to forget his greatest and most sacred obligations, and to see only in the veriest trifles the Great and th... ...s of the headmaster’s rooms, nor yet towards their mockery of all that was sacred, simply because fate had cast in their way an injudicious priest. No... ... at the very start. And as soon as ever the ice shall have melted, and the rivers be flowing, and the land have dried sufficiently to be work- able, t... ...ed Kostanzhoglo, without heeding his wife. “For towards you there will run rivers and rivers of gold, until you will not know what to do with all your... ...while ever in his ears were ringing the words, “towards you there will run rivers and rivers of gold.” “Really, Constantine, do allow Paul Ivanovitch ...

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...nd to hold it long at a time. Well, you know, when you perspire that way, in rivers, there comes a time when you — when you — well, when you itch. Yo... ...over, had opposed violence to vio lence and spilt half a gill of his almost sacred blood. The young husband had interfered at that point. believing t... ...e but that. The servants said they would follow the fashion, a fashion grown sacred through immemorial observance; they would scatter fresh rushes in ... ...no mortal can break it. If it break, all will know it, for you will see the sacred water gush from the chapel door!” I stood a few moments, to let th... ...he Throne and State did the founder of your great line lift him self to the sacred dignity of the British nobility?” “He built a brewery.” A Connecti... ...a religious passion for royal grant; he seemed to look upon it as a sort of sacred swag, and one could not irritate him in any way so quickly and so ...

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... pokey.’ Ceremony performed, register signed, Lady Tippins escorted out of sacred edifice by Veneering, carriages rolling back to Stucconia, servants ... ...ugh Mr Podsnap would in a general way have highly disapproved of Bodies in rivers as ineligible topics with refer- ence to the cheek of the young pers... ...er boy first be- held such system in operation, and became inflamed with a sacred zeal to administer it, matters not. It was the function of the chief... ... into her little official residence, and took a refresher of the principal rivers and mountains of the world, their breadths, depths, and heights, bef... ... will tell you the truth. But (your pardon for the stipu- lation) it is in sacred confidence; it is strictly upon honour.’ ‘Honour too!’ cried Fledgeb... ... my lambs? Wot sorts of water is there on the land?’ Shrill chorus: ‘Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds.’ ‘Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds,’ said Riderhood... ...left out lakes, never having clapped eyes upon one, to my knowledge. Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers... ...aid Riderhood. ‘But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers?’ Chorus at a loss. One shrill voice: ‘Weed!’ ‘Good agin!’ cried Rid...

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... he had Chang-hi’s pigtail in his hand. The life of a Chinaman is scarcely sacred like a European’s. The cunning little face of Chang-hi, first keen a... ... note of the coming demonstration. For demonstrations and lectures are the sacred text of the Col- lege students. Books, saving only the Professor’s o... ...ntains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all the rivers coming out of high country flowed thick and turbid, and soon—in thei... ...gs; they turn ‘em out as beavers build dams, and with no more sense of the rivers they’re going to divert and the lands they’re going to flood! “As we... ...was a really painful undertow of shame at telling what I felt was indeed a sacred secret. That beast Fawcett made a joke about the girl in green—” Wal... ...llamas they had lugged and thrust and followed up the beds of the shrunken rivers in the gorges up which they had come. The seeing had become purblind...

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...s and Ganyetor, sons of a cer- tain Phegeus. This place, however, was also sacred to Nemean Zeus, and the poet, suspected by his hosts of having seduc... ...y heaven upon the fields of blessed men: it is drawn from the ever flowing rivers and is raised high above the earth by windstorm, and sometimes it tu... ...e gods. (ll. 737-741) Never cross the sweet-flowing water of ever- rolling rivers afoot until you have prayed, gazing into the soft flood, and washed ... ...eries, for Heaven is angry at this also. Never make water in the mouths of rivers which flow to the sea, nor yet in springs; but be careful to avoid t... ...t briny Sea did rear. Tell how at the first gods and earth came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with its raging swell, and the gleaming stars... ...eceitful dealing in the sons of Tyndareus. (ll. 21-27) And from Ithaca the sacred might of Odysseus, Laertes son, who knew many-fashioned wiles, sough... ... on Pindar, Pyth. iii. 48: ‘T o him, then, there came a messenger from the sacred feast to goodly Pytho, a crow (57), and he told unshorn Phoebus of s... ... the next two fragment segments are meant to be read together. — DBK. (26) Sacred to Poseidon. For the custom observed there, cp. “Homeric Hymns” iii.... ...heart. The trampling of swift horses and the sound of mules watering at my sacred springs will always irk you, and men will like better to gaze at the...

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... right which Heaven itself has or dained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of gov er... ...te in com mon efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to... ...se, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of ag riculture, ... ...r equality with other powers on the element common to all and to violate the sacred title which every member of the society has to its protection. I n... ...NTS OF THE UNITED STATES 37 Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior, no country was ever ... ...ature has done so much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each ... ...g States a free passage to the ocean, through the Province ceded, by several rivers, having their sources high up within their limits. It secures us a... ...the whole action of the Government instituted by it should be invariably and sacredly de voted—to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insur... ...d in establishing the blessings of self government in val leys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific. The world beholds the peaceful triumphs of th...

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...ght. That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, a... ... had with drawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were co... ... Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us,... ...ense of the sa Walden 151 credness of his calling, or is reminded of its sacred origin. It is the premium and the feast which tempt him. He sacrific... ...e of them plainly too fresh for that. They are simi lar to those found in rivers; but as there are no suckers nor lampreys here, I know not by what f... ...d to bathe or drink, are think ing to bring its water, which should be as sacred as the Ganges at least, to the village in a pipe, to wash their dish... ..., a consecrated grove (lucum conlucare), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god. The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, What ... ...s not sensibly worn away by the water, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, though it was completely melted for half a rod in width about ... ...t the 7th of April. Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers Walden 272 and ponds and the settling of the weather is particu la...

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...de in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the great centra... ...narrative. It stands at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles Rivers; the best part of the town is built high upon the rock—the rock whic... ...bt become a large town. It is very prettily situated on the meeting of two rivers; it has three or four churches, and intends to thrive. It possesses ... ... in hewing or sawing them into shape for market, and getting them down the rivers to Quebec, from whence they are exported to Europe, and chiefly to E... ...treams, and I would come down upon one of them, shooting the rapids of the rivers as soon as the first freshets had left the way open. A freshet in th... ...r the service of man has always been stigmatized as the ravisher of things sacred. The world is agreed about that, and therefore the New Yorker is in ... ...the other. When he spoke as he did of Virginia, ridiculing the idea of her sacred soil, even I, Englishman as I am, could not but think of Washington,...

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... wise man will make better use of an idle pam phlet, than a fool will do of sacred Scripture. ’Tis next alleged we must not expose ourselves to temp ... ...g clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees,... ...umber lulled the sense, And in sweet madness robbed it of itself; But such a sacred and home felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I nev... ...rboured heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will ... ...worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits 79 To such a flame of sacred vehemence That dumb things would be moved to sympathise, And the b... ...g wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring; Begin, and so...

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...r writing for it, even about art or books; nor did his old bones enjoy the rivers at Vale Leston. Now you will see a rebound.” “Or will she be too ten... ...appy, hardly well, and I don’t think she will ever leave him again.” “Mrs. Rivers is working still in London?” “Oh yes; I don’t know what the charitie... ...as such good judgment.” “It has been her whole life ever since poor George Rivers’ fatal accident,” said Gertrude. “I hardly remember her be- fore she... ...oy! You don’t mean to say—” Neither could bring himself to say the word so sacred to Lancelot, and which might have been so sacred to his nephew. “How... ... she got ten pounds a year for the school-mistress; and now it is all Mrs. Rivers can do to keep out the School-board, be- cause they had not a separa... ...ptism, and the receiving him from the dying father—amounted to an adoption sacred in his eyes. Then, seeing how worn-out Clement looked, he abetted Si... ...e Anna, to withdraw herself and her eyes, but be- held, what had ever been sacred to both those young things, the first kiss. Poor Maura, she had none... ...es called “ethics” with warm interest, the elder lady bringing the old and sacred lights to bear on the newer theories. Clement was the undoubted owne...

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...e), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the pro ductions, manners, and customs of al... ... dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen. A town so sacred to fact, and so triumphant in its asser tion, of course got on well... ...is mind about what the people read in this library: a point whereon little rivers of tabular statements periodically flowed into the howling ocean of ... ...lying children on the points of their enemies’ swords? Then was it not the sacred duty of the men of Coketown, with forefathers before them, an admiri... ...come after them, to hurl out traitors from the tents they had pitched in a sacred and a God like cause? The winds of heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes... .... Good bye!’ It was but a hurried parting in a common street, yet it was a sacred remembrance to these two common people. Utili 141 CHARLES D ICKENS... ...e character of the Coketown operative! Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children’s children yet un bo...

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...uch of which I have been per mitted to read), pages containing matter too sacred and intimate to use. The diaries shed a flood of light on Tolstoy’s ... ...ter Nikolaevich Sventizky, murdered by the peasants, throws herself at the sacred feet (this sentence, when he wrote it down, pleased the constable hi... ... are the worst villain in the world. You have offended against all that is sacred …” A month after Missael sent a report, asking that Isidor should be... ...and owner. The refreshments were magnificent, and the champagne flowed in rivers. Though I was fond of cham pagne I did not drink that night, becaus...

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...f others, not little by little but wholesale; comprehending in one, things sacred as well as profane, private and public; for which acts of wrong, if ... ...ey imitate the neighing of horses, the bellow ing of bulls, the murmur of rivers and roll of the ocean, thunder, and all that sort of thing? Nay, he ... ...not to be permitted. Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony sacred in the highest degree, and what is most beneficial will be deemed sa... ...numerous and various and ever changing army of his. If, he said, there are sacred treasures in the city, he will confiscate and spend them; and in so ...

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...tes with their azure borders in her book, and she loved the sick lamb, the sacred heart pierced with sharp arrows, or the poor Jesus sinking beneath t... ...her had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, af- ter twelve ye... ..., who launched out on the exi- gencies of his art. He looked upon, it as a sacred office, al- though the ordinary practitioners dishonoured it. At las... ...gan to cry . Then he comforted her; went to fetch water in her can to make rivers on the sand path, or broke off branches from the privet hedges to pl...

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...all improper. Yet I own there is danger, that applying the language of our sacred book to or- dinary subjects may tend to lessen our rever- ence for i... ...ion while I trod its pavements, in the solemn darkness of the night, to be sacred to wisdom and piety.’ Being informed that he was at Mr. Thrale’s, in... ... him deeply, he resolved that the grief, which he cherished with a kind of sacred fondness, should be lasting; but that he found he could not keep it ... ...e his Old Bachelor. We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediate springs, ... ...entioned Lord Hailes’s censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of Sacred Poems, by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many ... ...d fresh air; and he attended also upon him in town in the discharge of the sacred offices of his profession. Mr. Strahan has given me the agreeable as...

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...it any semblance of prob- ability to me. For Heaven’s sake, let us examine sacredly whether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right. No one ca... ...hing he knew), he had kept the old fancy of the Past unchanged, in its old sacred place. And now, after all, the last of the Patriarchs coolly walked ... ... seeing those tears glistening in her anxious eyes—that her wish should be sacred with him. ‘You don’t know what he is,’ she said; ‘you don’t know wha... ... the opening of early shops; in the traffic at markets; in the stir of the riverside. There was coming day in the flaring lights, with a feebler colou... ...on wall, bearing the follow- 211 Little Dorrit ing touching inscription: ‘Sacred to the Memory of John Chivery, Sixty years Turnkey, and fifty years ... ... pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that sacred gentleman would be an unhallowed act. He was sorry that his noble mi... ...ison space so gloomy and contracted. She thought of the sunrise on rolling rivers, of the sunrise on wide seas, of the sunrise on rich landscapes, of ...

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...era they are present, but in a rudimentary condi- tion. In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyp- tians, they are totally deficient. There is not ... ...eserts, lofty mountains, grassy plains, forests, marshes, lakes, and great rivers, under al- most every temperature. There is hardly a climate or cond... ...changes within the recent period in the level of the land, hav- ing caused rivers to flow into each other. Instances, also, could be given of this hav...

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...mprehensible antiphonies, about the drift that comes down to them by their rivers from the strange lands higher up the Gasse. Above all, there is here... ...- pect of invitation on such faces. It is so terrible, that it is in a way sacred; it means the outside of degradation and (what is worst of all in li... ...ld bear. Dickens killed them. The only really well executed scenes are the riverside ones; the escape in particular is excellent; and I may add, the c... ... my work or pretend to. But I trust the lines will not go unattended. Some riverside will haunt you; and 260 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 ...

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...as arranged in chronological order), 1861, 2nd ed., 1876; by E. H. Palmer (Sacred Books of the East, vols. vi., ix.). SELECTIONS: Chiefly from Sale’s ... ...uction and explanatory notes (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Religion of the Koran, select... ...ves his scrupulous honesty as a compiler, as well as his reverence for the sacred text, and to a certain extent guar- antees the genuineness and authe... ...pose which forbade him, as it certainly did, in any way to tamper with the sacred text, to suppress contra- dictory, and exclude or soften down inaccu... ...ate friend, are said to have been well acquainted with the doc- trines and sacred books both of Jews and Christians. And not only were several Arab tr... ...ings that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose shades the 62 The Koran rivers flow. This the immense bliss! Verily, right terrible will be thy Lor... ...h the masses of fresh and salt water which are in contact at the mouths of rivers, etc. See Sura [lxviii.] xxvii. 62; [lxxxvi.] xxxv. 13. 4 Lit. O ye... ...action, both small and great, is written down. Verily, amid gardens 3 and rivers shall the pious dwell. In the seat of truth, in the presence of the ... ...e Gardens–for the later Jews believed in more than one Paradise–and of the rivers and trees therein, will be found in Schr der Talm. Rabb. Judenthum, ...

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...iews At Ev’ning from the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the ta... ...e tale Infected SIONS daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, when by the Vision led His eye survay’d the dar... ...bitation, bend Four ways thir flying March, along the Banks Of four infernal Rivers that disgorge Into the burning Lake thir baleful streams; Abhorred... ... except whom God and good Angels guard by special grace. But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and from the walls of Heav’n Shoots fa... ...s haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee SION and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash... ...Earth shall high extoll Thy praises, with th’ innumerable sound Of Hymns and sacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne Encompass’d shall resound thee ever bl... ... so loosing all, To expiate his Treason hath naught left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He with his whole posteritie must die, Die hee or Just... ... What wonder then if fields and regions here Breathe forth ELIXIR pure, and Rivers run Potable Gold, when with one vertuous touch Th’ Arch chimic Sun... ...taint Th’ animal Spirits that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from Rivers pure, thence raise At least distemperd, discontented thoughts, Vai...

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...s, Piercing the twilight with their murmuring barbs. Anashuya. See how the sacred old flamingoes come. Painting with shadow all the marble steps: Aged ... ..., ay. Anashuya. Swear by the parents of the gods, Dread oath, who dwell on sacred Himalay, On the far Golden peak; enormous shapes, Who still were old... ...e flies below the leaves, and the young mice In the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks Of red flamingoes; and my love, Vijaya; And may no restless fay... ...en by ladies in their hair, The dew cold lilies ladies bore Through many a sacred corridor Where such grey clouds of incense rose That only God’s eyes... ...e riding to; Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. An old man plays the ... ...hen frenzy stirred his thews, Had hammered out on mountain top To hold the sacred stuff he brews That only gods may buy of him. Now from that juice th... ...Under the golden evening light, The Immortals moved among thc fountains By rivers and the woods’ old night; Some danced like shadows on the mountains ... ...il nor rain Nor the cold North has troubled?’ He replied, ‘I am from those rivers and I bid you call The children of the Maines out of sleep, And set ...

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...a new election, exactly as if his place had been vacated by death. By this sacred anchor of the Ecclesiasti- cal Reservation, (‘Reservatum Ecclesiasti... ... of all honest men, had lost its honour. No en- gagement, no oath, however sacred, from a Ro- man Catholic, could satisfy a Protestant. What security ... ...ch the establishment of so arbitrary a tri- bunal had outraged in its most sacred point, the administration of justice. In fact, Germany would have ha... ...ly ought to be trusted with the viola- tion of order by whom order is held sacred. Both the past conduct of the Union, which was condemned even by sev... ...he throne of his descendant. Thy vengeance and that of Germany whetted the sacred sword, and one heroic hand after the other wielded the irresistible ... ...nden, at the foot of the Hessian Mountains, and at the confluence of these rivers with the Weser. He soon made himself master of Goettingen, the key o... ...ration of its states, the number of its strong castles, its many and broad rivers, had long restrained the ambition of its neighbours; and frequently ... ...st, “have we crossed 241 Friedrich Schiller the Baltic, and so many great rivers of Germany, and shall we now be checked by a brook like the Lech?” G... ...s to any one, in the depth of the winter of 1641, as soon as the roads and rivers were frozen, he broke up from his quarters in Lunenburg. Accompanied...

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...sly] Besides, she’s a wonderfully dutiful girl. Her father’s wish would be sacred to her. Do you know that since she grew up to years of discretion, I... ...he say to that? what does she say to it? Just that her father’s wishes are sacred to her, and that she shall always look up to me as her guardian whet... ...e, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysterie... ...hat I am too young, too inexperienced, to de- cide. My father’s wishes are sacred to me. MRS WHITEFIELD. If you two men won’t carry them out I must sa... ...on’t be so headstrong, Jack. She’s upstairs. TANNER. What! Under Ramsden’s sacred roof! Go and do your miserable duty, Ramsden. Hunt her out into the ... ... ou shouldn’t repeat what a woman says, Juan. ANA. [severely] It should be sacred to you. THE STATUE. Still, they certainly do always say it. I never ...

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...or so presumptuous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the... ...uch by the earlier church. Under just what biographic con- ditions did the sacred writers bring forth their vari- ous contributions to the holy volume... ...ever go behind this sentiment. All the ex- pressions of this sentiment are sacred and perma- nent in proportion to their purity. [They] affect us more... ...th them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong—parents, ... ...broad daylight of my consciousness; too many scruples, too many guides and sacred affections had made it dreadful to me, so that I was far from avowin... ...can never forget.”[157] [155] Above, pp. 243 ff. [156] H. Thoreau: Walden, Riverside edition, p. 206, abridged. [157] C. H. Hilty: Gluck, vol. i. p. 8... ...ter. “Lastly, it is to the hills that the fountains owe their rise and the rivers their conveyance, and conse- quently those vast masses and lofty pil... ...nd high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the wa- ters; but, instead of gliding along those...

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...ailors especially, many of whom have been brought up with a regard for the sacredness of the day, this strong temptation to break it, is exceeding... ...but those of San Jose, Santa Clara, and others, situated on large creeks or rivers which run into the bay, and distant between fifteen and forty mile... ...rancisco Bay. While not off, on these wood and water parties, or up the rivers to the missions, we had very easy times on board the ship. We were... ...side; large and beautifully wooded islands; and the mouths of several small rivers. If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will ... ...thy or attention, forward or aft. A man, too, can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship; for all the nicer feel- ings they take pride in d... ...e heart of the roughest and most aban- doned. The Bible is to the sailor a sacred book. It may lie in the bottom of his chest, voyage after voyage; ... ...nd northeastward, where we under- stood smaller bays spread out, and large rivers poured in their tributes of waters. There were no settlements on... ...ed in their tributes of waters. There were no settlements on these bays or rivers, and the few ranchos and Missions were remote and widely sepa- ra...

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...UZOV FELL BACK TOW ARD V IENNA, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian tr... ...he usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I con- sider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. Do you wish to enter the Broth... ...ng, afraid of ex- posing to possible ridicule what to him was precious and sacred. “No, but why do you think so?” Pierre suddenly be- gan, lowering hi... ...ng to do. If once we begin judging and arguing about every- thing, nothing sacred will be left! That way we shall be saying there is no God—nothing!” ... ...ace. The distinction between the poor teachings of mundane science and our sacred all- embracing teaching is clear to me. Human sciences dis- sect eve... ...amused expression. *”Moscow, the Asiatic capital of this great empire, the sacred city of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches s... ... fore, was a movement among the peasants to emigrate to some unknown “warm rivers.” Hundreds of peas- ants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly ... ...their freedom one by one or ran away, and drove or walked toward the “warm rivers.” Many of them were punished, some sent to Siberia, many died of col... ...ht and strong at sixty as at thirty. Soon after the migration to the “warm rivers,” in which he had taken part like the rest, Dron was made village El...

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... with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circ... ...hing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever mo... ...all kinds, which would be a bad augury for him in any profession, civil or sacred, even were he so far submissive to ordinary rule as to choose one.” ... ...r. Lydgate, is of a broader kind. With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to sa... ...nd, having to his father’s disappoint- ment taken to books instead of that sacred calling “business.” The letters had come—nine costly letters, for wh... ...before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!— devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hymns—all alike were as flat as tunes beaten on wo... ...r lemons, and don’t look dull any more, Lucy. I’ll drive you and Louisa to Riverston to-morrow.” CHAPTER LVII They numbered scarce eight summers when ... ...s in the carrying business, which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an illustrious Spa physician—f... ...ing more intention in this interjectural naming than if they had said “the Riverston coach” when that vehicle appeared in the distance. Mr. Hawley gav...

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...dgerows, stiles, and privy path-ways in the fields; the sluggish, brimming rivers; chalk and smock- frocks; chimes of bells and the rapid, pertly-soun... ...venanters, of whom he was the worthy representative, his mouth was full of sacred quotations; it was the book that he had studied most and thought upo... ...ow, or started in the ranks at the remembered aroma of peat-smoke. And the rivers of home are dear in particular to all men. This is as old as Naaman,... ... 48 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER VII THE MANSE I HAVE NAMED, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and o... ... songs of birds; – and the year of grace, so that when I turn to leave the riverside I may find the old manse and its inhabit- ants unchanged. It was ... ...my puppets lay there a summer’s day, hearkening to the shearers at work in riverside fields and to the drums of the gray old garrison upon the neighbo...

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..., in his ploughman’s shoes, coasting around the carpet as though that were sacred ground. But he soon grew used to carpets and their owners; and he wa... ...elf by the thought that he has acted kindly to her; that she “has the most sacred enthusi- asm of attachment to him;” that she has a good figure; that... .... If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him? and how should we have de... ...urport. Walden, or Life in the Woods, A W eek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, – such are the titles he affects. He was probably ... ...e was well acquainted; indeed, as the neighbourhood ap- pears to have been sacred to junketing and nocturnal picnics of wild young men and women, he h... ...r for nineteen months on the benches of the galley Nostre Dame; now up the rivers, holding stealthy intercourse with other Scottish prisoners in the c...