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...by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the ea... ... veyance in the line, instead of waiting till the cold-and-gin con- 4 The Age of Innocence gested nose of one’s own coachman gleamed under the por- t... ...tened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul’s impassioned wooing, and af- 6 The Age of Innocence fected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever... ...law, Mrs. Lovell Mingott, who was installed in the opposite corner. 8 The Age of Innocence Mr. Sillerton Jackson had returned the opera-glass to Lawr... ...dited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head of the wealthy Mingot... ...nirs of the Tuileries of Louis Napoleon (where she had shone in her middle age), as placidly as if there were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-... ...rts with authority. “A half-paralysed white sneering fellow—rather 12 The Age of Innocence handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes. Well, I’ll t...

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...The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era, comes from the title of t...

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...his society, being things is better than doing things and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencie...

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... end followed by a swift judgment with no excuses whatsoever. Do you know your final destination? When the disciples asked Jesus about the End of the Age, he said to them, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Matthew 24:36. But in this book and for the first time in human history, Jesus discloses a unique b...

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... Personalize the Lord’s Prayer 177 The Call of Moses, Aaron, and Joshua 177 God’s Equations of the Law and the Prophets 181 The Tearful End of the Age 185 Congratulations! 190 My Dream 190 About the Author 190 Other Books by Felix Wantang 192 Value Index 193 ...

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...l is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of...

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...heirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty- two and twenty-eight,... ..., is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that ... ...he sea bend or destroy everything. There are no trees. Fragments of wreck- age or old vessels that are broken up are sold to those who can afford to b... ...e was a ruined Herculean frame, the face of an Olympian Jove, destroyed by age, by hard sea toil, by grief, by common food, and black- ened as it were... ...er a pause. “By the time Jacques Cambremer was fifteen or sixteen years of age he had come to be—what shall I say?—a shark. He amused himself at Guera...

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...ings that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of the broken assumptions and dogmatic notions of secular humanism and other trends of his age and of ours. (Summary by Ray Clare)...

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...n and endowed men, who holding the truth and maintaining the righteousness, should from age to age be God’s mouths unto men, and his faithful witnes... ...an abstract above; and it began to be noised abroad, as every thing is in this city and age of news-mongers, and was brought to the ears of a dear b... ...elf, I durst not open my mouth upon the subject of the sacraments, or the church, in an age when baptism and the Lord’s supper are regarded as mere ... ... earth: and I am sure, for as often as I have heard the judgment discoursed of, in this age of moth-eaten and undervalued creeds; and for as often as... ...mon interests of the body of Christ. There is a universal belief in the church, that an age, a very long age of blessedness, of at least a thousand ... ... our intellectual land, and in homage to the intellect who ruleth the ascendant of this age. Oh how Satan hath enthralled us, and how resolved he is... ...h not a sweet accommodation and a strong arguement to the intellect, which none in this age better understandeth or more ably wieldeth, than the mini... ...ing, this is the prophesying which the Holy Ghost will bless. Take up any writer of the age of the reformation, take up any writer of the puritan age... ...mation, take up any writer of the puritan age, take up any writer of the non-conformist age, take up our properest models, the discourses of our Lord...

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...r of sudden spiritual heat. “Of the deplorably superficial morality of the age. The family sentiment, in our vulgarised brutalised life, has gone utte... ...the face of a striking and distinguished stranger. She had reached a great age— for it quite seemed to her that at twenty-five it was late to reconsid... ...with deplorable ease; since there had been nothing to stop him even at the age of ten, so there was as little at twenty; it was part of his fate in th... ...ors that could still flourish, that lifted their undiminished heads, in an age so proud of its short way with false gods; and it would be funny if wha... ...le link with the re- markable young thing from New York—had mustered cour- age: had perched, on the instant, at the clearest lookout it could find, an... ...uring the actual phase of her associated, if slightly undirected, pilgrim- age; and the consciousness gave perhaps to her plea for a pause more intens... ...ly, by princesses who had public considerations to observe and who came of age very early. If it was thus distinct to Mrs. Stringham then that Mr. Den... ...or vividness off his hands; that was enough. It was difficult to guess his age—whether he were a young man who looked old or an old man who looked you... ...Wings of the Dove for which Mrs. Stringham presently found the perfect im- age. She had lost none of her grasp, but quite the con- trary, of that othe...

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...ent from that of Gorgias? ?O yes--nothing easier: there is the virtue of a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.?...

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...a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.’ Socrates re... ... ould you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues, such as cour age, temperance, and the like; just as round is a figure, and black and w... ...o one would either ask or answer such a question in modern times. But in the age of Socrates it was only by an ef fort that the mind could rise to a ... ...re seen, but at a distance. All the greatest minds, except when living in an age of reaction against them, have unconsciously fallen under their power... ...how quickly the bloom of a philosophy passes away; or how hard it is for one age to understand the writings of another; or how nice a judgment is requ... ...dgment is required of those who are seeking to express the philosophy of one age in the terms of an other. The ‘eternal truths’ of which metaphysi ... ...en famous have died before the founders of them. We are still, as in Plato’s age, groping about for a new method more comprehensive than any of those ... ...s reflect on the want of method which prevails in our own day . In an other age, all the branches of knowledge, whether relating to God or man or nat... ...is to order her house, and keep what is indoors, and obey her husband. Every age, every condition of life, young or old, male or female, bond or free,...

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...In this dystopian fantasy, certain people are stuck at binary ages (8, 16, 32 ...) due to an unknown cause. They cannot age, or change, or become sick or even injured. By turns experimented on, abused, tortured and scorned, they are eventually exiled into a strange prison, an infinite forest world from which there is no escape. There they seek...

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... which you bear this calamity. Soc. Why, Crito, when a man has reached my age he ought not to be repining at the prospect of death. Cr. And yet... .... Cr. And yet other old men find themselves in similar mis fortunes, and age does not prevent them from repining. Crito 6 Soc. That may be. Bu... ...ons which were made within a few days to be thrown away? And have we, at our age, been earnestly discoursing with one another all our life long only t... ...the right to every Athenian, that if he does not like us when he has come of age and has seen the ways of the city, and made our acquaintance, he may... ...that is very likely; but will there be no one to remind you that in your old age you violated the most sacred laws from a miserable desire of a littl...

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...me of Old Blood and Thunder. This war worn veteran, being now infirm with age and wounds, and weary of the turmoil of a military life, and of the rol... ...llection, the aforesaid general had been exceedingly like the majestic im age, even when a boy, only that the idea had never occurred to them at that... ...!’ cried a third. ‘And why not? He’s the greatest man of this or any other age, beyond a doubt.’ And then all three of the speakers gave a great shout... ...away. Ernest still dwelt in his native valley, and was now a man of middle age. By imperceptible degrees, he had become known among the people. Now, a... ...te gravestone would suit me as well as a marble one —with just my name and age, and a verse of a hymn, and something to let people know that I lived a... ...eldest of the group, a tall, lean, weather beaten man, some sixty years of age, was clad in the skins of wild animals, whose fashion of dress he did w... ...one because the vain ambition of my youth has become a fate upon me in old age. The pursuit alone is my strength the energy of my soul the warmth of... ...ch, by the growth of cen 40 TheGreatStone Face turies, though mossy with age, had barely reached three feet in altitude. Next, they came to masses a... ...ndures, and never should be consecrated to the mere great men of their own age and country, but to the mighty ones alone, whose glory is universal, an...

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...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ..., the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the man a little more... ...inheritance. The ape in us still resents association. From the dawn of the age of polished stone to the achieve- ment of the Peace of the World, man’s... ...test of his instincts. Already before the last polished phase of the stone age was over he had become a political animal. He made astonishingly far-re... ...nal Power was slow— rapid in comparison with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in ... ...e ages. He no longer speculated with the untrammelled freedom of the stone-age savage; authorita- tive explanations of everything barred his path; but... .... Steam was the first-comer in the new powers, it was the beginning of the Age of Energy that was to close the long history of the Warring States. But... ...is mind came a strange echo of that ancestral fancy, that fancy of a Stone Age savage, dead and scattered bones 23 H G Wells among the drift two hund...

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...lds of small extent, but bounded and divided with hedgerow timber of great age and size. There were few marks of modern improvement. The environs of t... ...ster, but which seemed to have received important al- terations during the age of Elizabeth and her successor, It had not been a place of great size; ... ...ugging and tearing—under which term the disorderly do- ings of the warlike age are affectionately remembered, this valley was principally cultivated b... ...t would 21 Sir Walter Scott seem, that his son was scarce yet entitled by age and experi- ence to be entrusted with the two-handed sword, by the use ...

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...Professorship: how an enlightened Government had seen into the Want of the Age (Zeitbedurfniss); how at length, instead of Denial and Destruction, we ... ...the part of a Minister, whom domestic embarrassments, court intrigues, old age, and dropsy soon afterwards fi- nally drove from the helm. As for Teufe... ... wrote this surprising Vol- ume on Clothes. Additional particulars: of his age, which was of that standing middle sort you could only guess at; of his... ...ertheless, has not a deeper meditation taught certain of every climate and age, that the WHERE and WHEN, so mysteriously inseparable from all our thou... ...mite; and much perhaps as he might wish to go forth before this degenerate age “as a Sign,” would nowise wish to do it, as those old Adamites did, in ... ... till they become transparent. ‘The Philosopher, ’ says the wisest of this age, ‘must station himself in the middle:’ how true! The Philosopher is he ... ... the speculative scientific Truth even known, you still, in this inquiring age, ask yourself, Whence came it, and Why, and How?—and rest not, till, if... ...childless, in still seclusion, and cheerful though now verging towards old age. Andreas had been grenadier Sergeant, and even regi- mental Schoolmaste... ...st art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.” In which little thought, as in a little fountain, may there not lie t...

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... being Monday. This rat is already an old rat for she is thirteen years of age. Two years from now that creature may be worth sixty thousand francs; s... ... herself virtu- ous out of mere speculation until she is eighteen years of age, and to live with some horrible old crone like a beautiful plant in a d... ...eon pointed to one of those handsome creatures who at twenty-five years of age have lived sixty, and whose beauty is so real and so sure of being cult... ...rking at some embroidery. Vital is a man between thirty and forty years of age, with a natural joviality now repressed by ambitious ideas. He is bless... ... by the elegances then in fashion. A young man about twenty-eight years of age advanced to meet them with a smiling face, for he saw Leon de Lora firs... ...s there’s no such being to be found; the matter-of-factness of the present age is mak- ing awful progress.” “I have a friend,” said Bixiou, motioning ... ...ed the Place de la Bourse in a way to intercept a man about forty years of age, wearing the Legion of honor, who was coming from the boulevard by way ... ...monsieur” was announced, and Publicola Masson, a little man fifty years of age, made his appearance, laid a small box of instruments on the floor, and...

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...s from time to time were collected by the State. In these papers the name, age, color, height, and form of the freeman were described, together with a... ...unts with the stage-driver. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Johnson reached a good old age, and now rest from their labors. I am under many grateful obligations t...

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... was intended to make a great splash in the world, his Psychology of a New Age. He had his metaphors ready. “We said: ‘This system will always go on. ... ...he former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychology of the New Age has still to develop.” S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ect... ...t humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual endearments ... ...ndous handicap to any real friendliness with a man. Un- til she gets to an age when virtue and fidelity are no longer urgent practical concerns, a goo... ...s, writing it very deliberately and labori- ously, The Psychology of a New Age, but much more was he dreaming and thinking about this book. Its public... ...ncouraging confirmation of the fundamental idea of The Psychology of a New Age, the immediate need of new criteria of conduct altogether. Here was a m... ...I admit it. I make few decisions. “The chapters of The Psychology of a New Age dealing with women were still undrafted, but they had already greatly e... ...of the most important and interesting aspects of the psychology of the new age that is now dawning. As compared with any previous age. Unconsciously, ... ...it were. “An increasing force in modern life. In the psy- chology of a new age strengthened by education—it may play a directive part.” “They fight ev...

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...ir, Coal-black, and grizzled here and there, But more through toil than age; His square-turned joints, and strength of limb, Showed him no carpet k... ...en form and face, And want can quench the eye’s bright grace, Nor does old age a wrinkle trace More deeply than despair. Happy whom none of these b... ...ch I miss those sportive boys, Companions of my mountain joys, Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Clos... ...dying, bids his bones be laid, Where erst his simple fathers prayed. If age had tamed the passion’s strife, And fate had cut my ties to life, Here,... ...s cell, Like that same peaceful hermitage Where Milton longed to spend his age. ‘T were sweet to mark the setting day On Bourhope’s lonely top decay; ... ...ooks pale: And he, that ancient man, whose sight Has long been quenched by age’s night, Upon whose wrinkled brow alone Nor ruth nor mercy’s trace is s... ...many a stifled groan: With speed their upward way they take, Such speed as age and fear can make, And crossed themselves for terror’s sake, As hurr... ...ing, plain and good, And sprung of Scotland’s gentler blood; Whose eye, in age, quick, clear, and keen, Showed what in youth its glance had been; Whos... ...rey. His train but deemed the favourite page Was left behind, to spare his age Or other if they deemed, none dared To mutter what he thought and heard...

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...r their observations and predictions, they are such as will equally suit any age or country in the world. This month a certain great person will be t... ...n old famous senator will happen on the 15th at his country-house, worn with age and diseases. But that which will make this month memorable to all po... ...only answered coldly, that the event would shew. But it is the talent of our age and na- tion, to turn things of the greatest importance into ridicule... ...either the military temper nor discipline can taint the soft sex for a whole age to come: Bellaque matribus invisa, W ar odious to mothers, will not g...