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...ont of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new....

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...s. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with hims... ...onourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new part- ner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stir... ...il, and an almanack, and some desks and stools, and an inkbottle, and some books, and some boxes, and a lot of cobwebs, and in one of ‘em, just over m... ...age (I wonder how that ever came there!) and a coal-scuttle.’ ‘No bankers’ books, or cheque books, or bills, or such to- kens of wealth rolling in fro... ...nclosed is my will!’ The Captain turned it over, with a doubtful look—‘and Testament— Where’s the T estament?’ said the Captain, instantly impeach- in...

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...;’ and had grown choice in the adorning of his room and the binding of his books, though he never let these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagan... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ..., but still I shall find great interest in my work as I go on, and reading books for the second or third time is light work compared to the first stod... ...th the aid of Hurwitz’s Grammar and Bernhard’s Guide to Hebrew Stu- dents, books familiar to Cambridge men, he was soon able to read the Psalms in the... ...eaving En- gland he was constantly using Olshausen’s Commentary on the New Testament, a book he was as thoroughly versed in as Archbishop T rench hims... ...not at the end of the first, and thus is the very best exponent of the New Testament where the Greek is doubtful; and the additional fact, that though... ...German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testament, and I think it was a help to the younger man to be able to discu...

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...ity university. 3 Frank Norris The Pit A Story of Chicago By FRANK NORRIS NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YORK RK RK RK RK 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 D... ... in the preparation of the following novel are due to Mr. G. D. Moulson of New York, Whose unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the ... ...measured obligation and gratitude to Her Who Helped the Most of All. F. N. NEW YORK June 4, 1901. 5 Frank Norris I I I I I AT EIGHT O’CLOCK in the in... ...score of young men, their arms encumbered with pamphlets, shouting: “Score books, score books and librettos; score books with photographs of all the a... ...every quarter of the house came the cries of the programme sellers: “Opera books. Books of the opera. Words and music of the opera.” During this, the ... ...o sides of which were occupied with book-cases. They were busy putting the books in place. Laura stood half-way up the step-ladder taking vol- ume aft... ...- cent. You don’t believe it. Listen. This is Athalia—the queen in the Old Testament, you remember.” “Hold on,” he protested. “I thought you were this...

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...is time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my good ness, he never plays them alik... ...oked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration: “Tom, you didn’t have to undo your shirt collar where I ... ...e whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man’s are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind f... ...ng hither The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24 and thither with his arms full of books and making a deal of the splutter and fuss that insect authority de... ...e, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spec tacle. He sou... ...no time to weigh it, so at a venture he uttered it — feebly: “Sunday school books, maybe.” Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man lau... ...ou drove them out they’d turn right around and come back. It’s so in all the books.” “Why, it’s real bully, Tom. I believe it’s better’n to be a pirat...

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...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ...st spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes clumped toward the immensity of new factories, sheets of glass and hollow tile, glittering shops where five... ... what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night reading a lot of greasy books and he’s always spieling about the ‘value of languages, ’ and the poo... ... some of our leading universities, lecturer, extensive traveler, author of books, poetry, etc., a man with the unique personality of the master minds,... ...ol.” Ted had collected fifty or sixty announcements, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of d... ...izes were a lot of folderols and doodads like poetry books and illustrated Testaments, instead of something a real live kid would want to work for, li...

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...is more, the beautiful creature can talk.’ He wondered, for she was young, new to society. Subsequently he is rather ashamed of his wonderment, and ac... ...rbally malicious. He gets wind of the terms of Lord Dannisburgh’s will and testament, not- ing them without comment. The oddness of the instrument in ... ...its first slough. Idea is there. The funny part of it is our finding it in books of fiction composed for payment. Manifestly this lady did not ‘chamel... ... on the spin when he said, ‘Who is she?’ Sir Lukin did not know. ‘She ‘s a new bird; she nodded to my wife; I’ll ask.’ He manoeuvred a few steps cleve... ...to live to her end. It seemed remote, where an invigorating upper air gave new bloom to her cheeks; but she kept one secret from her friend. 38 Diana... ...ed Lon- don. Her friend bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and the... ...ubt of his having kept his pledge, although his wife occupied herself with books and notions and subjects foreign to his taste—his understanding, too,...

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...nd weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind w... .... The fine old abbey church of Princhester, which was the cathedral of the new diocese, looked when first he saw it like a lady Abbess who had taken t... ...were resolved to pin his suc- cessor to an immediate decision. Of this the new bishop was unaware. Mindful of a bishop’s constant need to travel, he w... ...ngs. Things I didn’t imagine she had heard of. I knew she had been reading books. But I never imagined that she could have understood….” The bishop la... ...ve understood….” The bishop laid down his knife and fork. “One may read in books, one may even talk of things, without fully understanding,” he said. ... ..., Norah, when we are less tired and have more time…. You have been reading books…. When Caxton set up his printing-press he thrust a new power between... ...im old Likeman breakfasted in bed on Benger’s food, and searched his Greek Testament for tags to put to his letters. And here was the familiar palace ... ...asion. He repeated the words: “Epitelesei. Epiphausei.” He took his little Testament to verify them. After some slight trouble he located the two text...

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...n settled the reins in the child’s hand, and walked beside him to meet the new-comers. They were about twenty in number, armed alike with corselets ma... ...r, Eustace took Leonard into the court to visit the horses and inspect the new armour. They were joined by Gaston, who took upon himself to reply to t... ...ur in- heritance?” demanded the one-eyed Squire, “for your coat of arms is new in the camp.” “My name is Leonard Ashton; my father—” but Leonard’s spe... ... of Eustace’s cour- age and manhood when he found he had “gone back to his books,” and manifested, if not so much serious displeasure, yet even more a... ...pread a thick roll, with heavy seals, purport- ing to be the last will and testament of Dame Eleanor Lynwood, bequeathing the wardship and marriage of... ...l a letter! Sir Eustace, of your favour let me burn every one of your vile books.” “My innocent friends! Nay, nay, Gaston—they are too knightly to mer... ..., having given due weight to Sir Reginald’s dying words and Lady Lynwood’s testament, had pronounced Sir Eustace Lynwood the sole guardian of the pers... ..., if we can but circumvent a wizard such as this!” “But he has brought his books! I saw that broad-faced En- glishman carry up a whole pile of them,” ...

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...ussia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to m... ...up the insular confines in which they had been reared and to enlarge their new hori- zon. Afterwards they went on to read T olstoi, and T urgenev’s po... ... Virgin Soil, is the prophetic intention he had of the woman’s part in the new order. For the real hero of the tale, as Mr. Edward Garnett has pointed... ...orner, a table in the middle, several chairs, and a bookcase piled up with books. At the table sat a woman of about thirty. She was bareheaded, clad i... ...sked. “Yes. He will be back directly. He has gone to the library with some books.” Ostrodumov spat to one side. “Why is he always rushing about nowada... ...t he should be in love! Mashurina scowled. “He has gone to the library for books. As for falling in love, he has neither the time nor the opportunity.... ...sion, lies, betrayals, deceit! And it is not enough for him! He wants some new unpleasantness! He thinks that I am joking… . Basanov has been arrested...

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...s Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship be- came a ... ... having sent to consult the oracle of Delphi concerning the fortune of his new government and city, he received this answer: Son of the Pitthean maid,... ...us kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be lorded over by a new-comer and a stranger. Whilst he was thus busied in infecting the minds ... ...ll his large and fair possessions, most of which she, in her last will and testament, bequeathed to the people. It was reported of her, being now cele... ... Janiculum, in one of which his body was laid, and in the other his sacred books, which, as the Greek legislators their tables, he had written out for... ... fact of a real acquaintance between them. Valerius Antias writes that the books which were buried in the aforesaid chest or coffin of stone were twel... ...ly empty, without the least relic of any human body; in the other were the books before mentioned, which the pra- etor Petilius having read and peruse... ...ir coats about them, to make at the same time an unwritten will, or verbal testament, and to 363 Plutarch’s Lives name who should be their heirs, in ...

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...long curled waves; her eyes, deep soft grey, and though downcast under the new sympathies, new feelings, and responsibilities that crowded on her, the... ...u- riosity she drew up her blind in the morning, for the first view of her new home. But there was a veil—moisture made the panes resemble ground glas... ....’ As he spoke, the sisters appeared in the full and conscious rustling of new lilac silk dresses, which seemed to have hap- pily carried off all Soph... ... setting things to rights, but Albinia was in difficulty how to bestow her books. There was an unaccountable scarcity both of books and book- cases; n... ...ned, and Albinia let it close itself as Lucy said, ‘Those are poor mamma’s books, all the others are in the study. Come in, and I’ll show you.’ She th... ...air in it was close. The round library-table was loaded with desks, pocket-books, and papers, the mantelpiece was covered with letters, and book- shel... ...Y ou see it is a piece of a Psalm, a quotation rather different in the New Testament. I wrote it down to ask papa what it is in Hebrew.’ ‘By-the-bye, ...

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........................................................................ 86 A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. ......................................................... ...lley In the scanty journals kept during those years I find a record of the books that Shelley read during several years. During the years of 1814 and ... ...everies d’un Solitaire” of Rousseau. T o these may be added several modern books of travel. He read few novels. POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS WRIT WRI... ...and regarded them ever after as one of the most delightful and instructive books in the world. The list is scanty in English works: Locke’s Essay, Pol... ...it to read aloud to me in the evening; in this way we read, this year, the New Testament, Paradise Lost, Spenser’s Faery Queen, and Don Quixote. 33 S... ...o read aloud to me in the evening; in this way we read, this year, the New Testament, Paradise Lost, Spenser’s Faery Queen, and Don Quixote. 33 Shell... ...ister band Might adorn this sunny land, T wining memories of old time With new virtues more sublime; If not, perish thou and they!— ...

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...c- ture, or the chief city of their own province, these towns re- gard the new civilization as a spectacle to be gazed at; it amazes them, but they ne... ...The alterations of that beauty Plato would have glorified as the coming of new graces. Her skin, so milk-white once, had taken the warm and pearly ton... ..., as blind persons, on whose soul sound lingers like a divining echo, read books in which the pages are black and the letters white. Mademoiselle Zeph... ...faubourg Saint- Germain of the old Breton province, where no member of the new administration sent down by the government was ever allowed to penetrat... ...phle- teers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has taken a false name by which she is better known, the... ... dear Calyste adores! If that creature wanted to-night one of the infamous books in which the atheists of the present day scoff at holy things, Calyst... ...at men can never appreciate. Well, as I seem to be making my last will and testament like a woman on the verge of old age, I shall tell you that I was...

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...e Comtesse de Bourke and her daughter was published in the Catholic World, New York, July 1881. It exactly agrees with 6 A Modern Telemachus the narr... ...r. They call mamma Madame l’Ambassadrice; and she is having three complete new dresses made. See, there are la bonne and Laurent talking. It is En- gl... ... him La Juenesse now he is made mamma’s lackey. Is he not beautiful in his new livery?’ ‘Be still now, brother; I want to hear what they are saying.’ ... ... since Master Phelim went to the good fathers’ school with me to carry his books and insinse him with the larning. ’Tis all one, as his own body-serva... ...he conversation should be tedious. Children who have hun- dreds of picture-books to rustle through can little guess how their predecessors could once ... ...as finally cleared, and among the fragments were found several portions of books. These the Arabs disre- garded, being too ignorant even to read their... ...Ulysse, it was strangely like seeing the life of the Israelites in the Old Testament when they dwelt under their own vines and fig-trees—like reading ...

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...ore Cooper whites. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribe... ...-civilized be- ings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New Y ork. The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which thei... ...n- tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New Y ork, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the Fren... ...nd is entitled, ‘The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edificat... ... as an honest man, I can’t approve. It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of telling them in their villag... ...to swim 91 James Fenimore Cooper without air! The white chief read in his books, and he believes the Hurons are fools!” “Though no fish, ‘The Long Ri... ...ccurate in his use of terms). Name chapter and verse; in which of the holy books do you find language to support you?” “Book!” repeated Hawkeye, with ...

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...tands of dark, polished wood, the couple of flimsy chairs, and the case of books in the recess—all seemed uneasy, as if they might be tossed out to le... ... integrity, meant a breaking of bonds, a severing of blood-ties, a sort of new birth. In the excitement of this last night his life passed out of his ... ... was burning, volcanic, as if he would destroy her. She had given him this new soft beauty. She was the earth in which his strange flowers grew. But s... ...nge to her, so different from herself. What next would he ask of her, what new blossom would she rear in him then. He seemed to grow and flower involu... ...lmly, ‘for I can only half translate. I have thrown overboard all my scrap-books of such stuff.’ ‘Why,’ said Siegmund, rather abashed, ‘only “the row ... ...id I would not take my talent out of the napkin. He would quote me the New Testament. I always think Scrip- 186 The Trespasser ture false in French, ...

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..., that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond p... ...lse do I remember? Let me see. THERE COMES OUT of the cloud, our house not new to me, but quite familiar, in its earliest re- membrance. On the ground... ...ell as I do, that on his account only last quarter I wouldn t buy myself a new parasol, though that old green one is frayed the whole way up, and the ... ... the raising of the dead, seemed to strike me like an unwholesome wind. A new one, said Peggotty. A new one? I repeated. Peggotty gave a gasp, as ... ...g back again. I come into the second-best parlour after breakfast, with my books, and an exercise-book, and a slate. My mother is ready for me at her ... ... one circumstance. It was this. My father had left a small collec- tion of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my ... ...mine a horse s constitu- tion, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess. The rest of the half-year is a jumble in...

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... to swell, need lessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston. On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen... ...arisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill and New Guinea at one end, and a view of the alms house at the other—such being... ...murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other. “A writer of story books! What kind of business in life—what mode of glorifying God, or being ... ...bout the streets, get covered half way to the eaves by the accumulation of new soil. From father to son, for above a hundred years, they followed the ... ..., were now of little mo ment in my regard. I cared not at this period for books; they were apart from me. Nature—except it were human nature— the nat... ...ew yards) looked very much like poetry—used now and then to speak to me of books, as matters with which I might possibly be conversant. This was my al... ...th’s decease, (which took place within the year), and by his last will and testament, of which Governor Bellingham and the Reverend Mr. Wilson were ex...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudal...

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...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...rs of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out exaggeration, of all time—must b... ...lied the wits with opportunities for satire; for example, Canning, in his ‘New Morality’: “Sweet Sensibility, who dwells enshrined In t... ...any one that you did so. If you are bent on tormenting your spirit to find new misfortunes, choose whatever you like best. I am a king, and can procur... ...similar to those of his native country, he was at first delighted with his new abode, where he lived with Therese, and devoted his time to herborising... ...ey were directed. The reading of the Bible, and especially that of the New Testament, to which I had for several years past applied myself, had given ... ...charge towards our dying friend. I hope my name will never be found in the testament of any person, at least not in that of a friend.” It was about th...

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...ight rolled off up Vaea mountain-side; back with Clarke to the Mis- sion; had a bit of lunch and consulted over a queer point of missionary policy jus... ... ingenuity, I begin it at different places; so that if you stumble on one section, you may not even then sus- pect the fulness of my labours. Accordin... ...was ready, and to finish it afterwards, before Henry has yet put in an appearance for his lesson in ‘long explessions. ’ Dinner: stewed beef and potat... ...tem is strong. 15 V ailima Letters SUPPLEMENTARY PAGE. Here beginneth the third lesson, which is not from the planter but from a less estimable chara... ... set myself to the task with a tape-line; it seemed a dreary business; then I bor- rowed a prismatic compass, and tackled the task afresh. I 17 V ail... ...nd the most literary version of the fables known to me. I suppose I should except La Fontaine, but L. F. takes a 33 V ailima Letters long time; the... ...ake it for all in all, L’Antechrist is worth reading. The Histoire D’Israel did not surprise me much; I had read those Hebrew sources with more intell...