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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...s have come true, at last, and your handsome Prince will wed my Sleeping Beauty.’ She opened her arms as Helen rushed to her and knelt down in front... ...which she immediately regretted because as she began to draw back, the giant caught her up in his arms and bending her head backwards, kissed her pa... ...ace of time, Helen realised that India was a country whose people were as diverse as those in the countries of Europe, but with even greater variati... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ...an evade their khama by human sacrifice. It is not unlike the cult of devil worship in Christian countries.’ Helen was tempted to tell the Sunyassi... ...ill of the Himalayan nights heralded the approach of winter, mothers started to cut up their fur coats to make garments and warm moccasins for their...

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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...ford, Connecticut, had its fair share of street violence in its past. The former home of the state capital was any- thing but paradise. Then the Flas... ...inst Zodiac’s forces and a group of them set up shop in the ruins of the former capital. Somehow, some way, the Seekers discovered where they were,... ... 28 th Amendment was passed repealing the 2 nd Amendment right to bear arms. Alexis, who went by the nickname Lexi, sat on the roof of the countr... ...re huh?” asked Talbot. The group had stopped for a moment. John threw his arms in the air, “Yeah, that’s it. We’re screwed.” Vincent walked over to ... ...had burst into shards. Vincent looked over and saw two individuals in lab coats lying on the foor with the shards of crystal protruding from their c... ...o. When they fnally got to their destination, there were two men in white coats standing outside. “Thank you, we’ll take him from here,” one of them... ...ed them- selves through war with each other. China and the southern Asian countries are in complete anarchy,” Callous continued. “Send the Seeker inv...

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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ...word or not: t his they had in the temple and sacrifice and levitical priesthood of the former dispensation, and this we have now in the two sacrame... ... him speak much during a visit in his neighbourhood, of the Spanish work, and having in former days become acquainted with the Spanish language, thou... ... in this very way of shaking their unrooted disciples; and forcing them to take regular arms against an opinion which will be strong and struggling ... ...orks still greater and more terrible. Now this is exactly the spirit that ruleth in all countries of Europe, that rageth most of all in Britain, bec... ... yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;... ...tion upon Genesis, commenting on these words,—“The Lord God made for Adam and his wife, coats of skin, and clothed them;” and purposing to deny, as h... ...y one whatever to a disputation, upon condition that they should bring and use no other arms than scripture itself, for which they professed a high ...

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...Perhaps the title of this Book – The Devil‘s Legacy to Earth Mortals may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witches Prayer, and wonder whether they had best look into it or no, lest they should really raise the Dev...

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...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in thes...

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...TIONS, VISIONS, AND Compacts with the Devil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YO... ... double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt and to... ...or frozen, and independently of the discordant manners and customs of different countries, so have they been very slow and recent in their disappear... ...uttered a kind of howl, placed herself at the door, blocked up the way with her arms, struck her arms together, and gave by signs to understand that... ...e insufficient to convince them, but they were powerful enough to stagger their former faith. Though now separated from each other, their friendship ... ...on. They parted for sometime, when so great was the sorrow he expressed for his former ill conduct, that, won over by his supplication and promises, ... ...ing, and in little more than four years after your birth your father died in my arms. After the melancholy event, I determined, as the, only probab... ...t to any old dog or cat, and in less than a fortnight, by the changing of their coats and other incontestable changes, the virtue of this preparatio...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ng on, eyes burning with love and pride, easing the precious burden into his arms... What of the future for this baby so small? A fusion of two cultu... ...truck, no longer stuffed with bullets and shells but with Russian prisoners' coats, destined for German soldiers at the front, then by train to Prague... ...he new Head seems, a welcome change, many say, to the cool aloofness of the former. Center stage she likes to be, public relations her strength, long... ...scles, gradually kneading them into submission, no work for slight hands and arms, and an hour of this toil drains the body of stamina and strength. H... ...ears of experience honing his craft at home and abroad in countless foreign countries, a teacher par excellence, able to explain in few words and wis...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He punishes his former compatriots with merciless severity -- How he rebuked his partne... ...inventions, ambitions, occupations, disappeared with scarcely a relic of their former existence. Not only are changes, violent, destructive, epochal, ... ...ot tell us how they were destroyed, we will now undertake to show that the new countries discovered by navigators in the past five centuries were form... ...hey had seen on shore. But towards evening the German returned, bearing in his arms a great quantity of grapes, a fruit which was quite familiar to hi... ...al forms; it is not wonderful that in the circling clouds he should behold the arms of demons stretched out to seize his vessel; that in the moaning o... ...nidad, Cortez collected a large quantity of military supplies, provided padded coats for some and armor for others of his soldiers, and set them throu... ...herein the ends of logs painted black to represent guns, put a large number of coats and hats: on sticks just inside the bulwarks to convey the impres...

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... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...

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...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ... and headed across the driveway. LACEY PULLED him inside and fell into his arms as soon as she opened the door. She sobbed and clung to him. Roger awk... ...the children, again. Her shoulders shaking, Lacey put her head down on her arms and sobbed. I am such a fool. Why do I put up with it? I wish he would... ...h canopies of brilliant red, yel- low and gold trees, ablaze in their fall coats. “This is so amazing!” Lacey blurted out. Jake was pleased with her r... ... house at ten, relieved to have survived another forced encounter with his former wife. He drove to Lacey’s house right away and took note of the ligh... ...n-killers took hold and Jake slept better, he regained some vestige of his former self. They turned off their cell phones and didn’t listen to the rad... ...She followed Scott on shaky legs to the front door where a maid took their coats and welcomed Scott with a fond smile. They entered a marble foyer dom... ...of polls showing that from sixty to ninety per cent of people in developed countries approve of doctor aid-in-dying, and yet governments resist. There...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...uility of that sleepy town in one of its most tranquil hours. Nothing of the former ever happened and he would always come from the impulse to a feeli... ... paid the bill, and then he was gone. Sang Huin's instinct was to follow his former friend to the ends of the earth on the public bus system and to ha... ...moment. How good it was to stretch out into motion; to feel the power of his arms; and the embrace of water. He thought about how on his walk here an ... ..."Grandma" Vera with her black dress rustling in the wind carrying him in her arms. Would they think upon theirs-something similar to Vera frying hambu... ..., it was being equated with dirt the way Americans envisioned most all other countries including those in Western Europe. "Everyone wants to talk to y... ...ften forced him to stand under a coat rack with his nose against the wall as coats and the shortage of breathable air encased him. These episodes ha... ...looking stupid, he knew, would be his inevitable smothering within the heavy coats of the clothes rack for not being able to give an answer. He would ...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... .... At every split, every new Condition of Splitness retains within it all the former Conditions which it split out of. No Conditions are lost. Lit... ...e call Time, Space and Energy are merely Trialistic fractions of the previous former basic Conditions of Totality and The Path of Splitness Chapte... ...wing the Path of Splitness. Take an apple and call it Actual Infinity. Your arms represent the Conditions of Actual Causality. While holding the ... ...tter. It represents the openness and honesty of a new kind of human with his arms stretched out; waiting to hug everything it can, opening its arms ... ...living inside Nature… comfortably warm, and perfectly at home in our own furry coats that kept us warm all the time. Instead of using each other for... ...d themselves in public, cringed, acted the coward, acted the fool; their host countries tolerated them enough to let them live inside their culture… ... ...llion years ago. That six million-year-old legacy of us losing our warm fur coats forced us to define love by closeness to each other. Other anim...

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...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...epe; and will the well- drawne water be so sower and smell? And were their Countries so ennobled, advantaged, and embellished by such deriving; and d... ... great pleasure at it, that hee wept for joy, and forthwith converted that former inexorable rage, and mortall hatred he bare the Duke, into so milde... ...ffered himselfe to be so far transported, that quitting and forgetting his former resolution, he so abandoned himselfe to all manner of sorrow and gr... ...andum est. --Id. ib. 34. Feavers no sooner from thy body flie If thou on arms or red scarlet lie Tossing, than if thou rest On coverlets home-dres... ...soever he be, that is so imprudent as to alleage them. Crests, Armes, and Coats have no more certaintie than surnames. I beare Azure seme of trefoil... ...e flattering broken speech their lullaby need sing. Nor seeke they divers coats, as divers seasons bind. Lastly no armour need they, nor high-reared... ...g. Æn. viii. 387. So said the Goddesse, and with soft embrace Snow-white arms, the grim-fire doth enchase, He straight tooke wonted fire, knowne he...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ns of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, wer... ...uietly. “Not an instant to lose; lock in my trunk all travelling utensils, coats, shirts, and stockings—without counting, as many as you can, and make... ...this is how we managed: while one of us lay on our back, quite still, with arms crossed, and legs stretched out, the other would swim and push the oth... ...id these words, the door opened. A steward entered. He brought us clothes, coats and trousers, made of a stuff I did not know. I hastened to dress mys... ... this scene. The commander, leaning against the corner of a table with his arms folded, scanned us with profound atten- tion. Did he hesitate to speak... ...ho you are, I recognise in you an artist.” “An amateur, nothing more, sir. Formerly I loved to col- lect these beautiful works created by the hand of ... ...onless yet, when bent to one side by the hand, they directly resumed their former position. Truly it was the region of perpendicularity! I soon accust...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among ...

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...s Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...here are, however, fragments of the same story in the popular tales of all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early... ...s; even when she would have drowned herself, the river god took her in his arms, and laid her on the bank. 5 Yo n g e Only Pan had pity on her, and c... ...cup times of hood and hoop, And when the patch was worn; And legs and arms with love-knots gay. About me leaped and laughed The modish Cupid... ...ature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is curiously like, and curio... ...gnificent of Titania’s pensioners tall, wearing splen- did rubies in their coats; and in due time the trio presented themselves at home, weary, but gl... ... truth, Aurelia was in the eyes of the T reforth sisters, descendants of a former Sir Jovian, only my Lady’s poor kinswoman sent down to act gouvernan...

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... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t there: and wife and hus- band had nothing to do but to link each other’s arms together, and wander gently downwards towards old age in happy and per... ...y chair in which she had passed so many bitter hours. She sank back in its arms as if it were an old friend; and fell to thinking over the past week, ... ...before, and thought she would like to sleep in it that night, and wake, as formerly, with her mother smiling over her in the morning: Then she thought... ...to dropping down the Thames. CHAPTER XVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships pro... ... when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees swarmed with bril- liant English equipages: ... ...uaintances that he and William Dobbin were by no means so much together as formerly. George avoided him in public and in the regiment, and, as we see,... ...the cliff in a tax-cart, drawn by a bang-up pony, dressed in white flannel coats, with mother-of-pearl buttons, his friends the Tutbury Pet and the Ro...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence...

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...Excerpt: We sailed from Peru, where we had continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came about, and s...

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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