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...and offer my thanksgivings unto the Lord in the presence of his church, for whom I have undertaken this labour. I desire to thank and praise my God... ... right. And perceiving upon the grounds laid down in a discourse which I have published under the title of “Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed,” that... ... multitude who are baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek... ... resting church. There shall be to the whole earth such a glory beyond the light of the sun, as there was in the Holy of Holies, in the temple of Jer... ...nd his school, (dilettante preachers and amateur divines, fair sportive creatures of the sun- beam, the genus of being farthest removed from that wher... ...e worthy petitions the Lord sendeth rain, or withholdeth it, dispenseth the heat of the sun in genial supplies, or now with scorching heat, and now w... ...y perceive, how many will be stirred up with rage against me” (ut presaga mente cernam, quantorum in me rabies concitanda sit). Whereby it is clearly... ...ictum est, vel me minime intellexisse, non ambiguam. Alios autem (auctores) ita lego ut quan talibet sanctitate, doctrinaquæ perpolleant, non ideo ve... ...pter; to wit, that in the time of Jehoshaphat, that king had, under one hundred captain generals, one million one hundred and seventy thousand soldi...

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...cially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them? Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very... ...turn to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new. And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out ... ...cross my body, from my arm pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused... ...them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable. But I should have mentioned, that before the... ...e most sub missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger,... ...made another sign, that I wanted drink. They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they sl... ...heep, and other victuals for my sustenance; to gether with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of wh... ...immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the sc... ...ust be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbours, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings.” He asked, what business we...

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...o impossible to conceive of a man of more sane and healthy mind—a man less under the influence of that fantastic and diseased morality (so fantastic a... ...oy, after his daily work, crouched in a corner of the log cabin or outside under a tree, absorbed in a book while munching his supper of corn bread. I... ... girls with such startling remarks as that the earth was moving around the sun, and not the sun around the earth, and they marvelled where “Abe” could... ...raving and that zealous tenacity characteristic of superior minds learning under difficulties. But his narrow opportunities and the unsteady life he h... ...olition war.” But when he went so far as to counter- mand the acts of some generals in the field, looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the dis... ... the slaves free as they went on; he dealt too leniently with unsuccessful generals; he should have put down all factious opposition with a strong han... ...ture of Atlanta gave a new aspect to the military situation. It was like a sun-ray bursting through a dark cloud. The rank and file of the Union party... ...s astonishingly acute, and that the advice and instructions he gave to the generals commanding in the field would not seldom have done honor to the ab... ...titutions “is selected. In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under date of the ni...

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...ce they are liable to the common objection of con- demning what they did not understand. Nor am I at all offended, or think it an injury to the art, w... ...their almanacks, to convince any reasonable man, that they do not so much as understand common grammar and syntax; that they are not able to spell any... ...is pa- per, will look upon me to be at least a person of as much honesty and understanding, as a common maker of almanacks. I do not lurk in the dark;... ...ed to my predictions, which I have begun to calculate from the time that the Sun enters into Aries. And this I take to be properly the beginning of th... ...point less prudent than common almanack-makers, who are so wise to wonder in generals, and talk dubiously, and leave to the reader the business of int... ...is Herse? No Meteor, no Eclipse appear d? No Comet with a flaming Beard? The Sun has rose, and gone to Bed, Just as if partridge were not dead: Nor hi... ...is metamorphosis in mathematical terms: Then, says he, shall the negative quan- tity of the women be turn d into positive, their - into +; (i.e.) ... ...hips, and contriv d with fe- male softness, that they want only the negative quantity to make them buxom wenches; and there are women who are, as it w... ...ntary laughter. Then (to use the modest terms of Anaximander) shall negative quantity be turn d into positive, etc. Time never beheld, nor will it eve...

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...her to be with child by him, left a sword and a pair of shoes, hiding them under a great stone that had a hollow in it exactly fitting them; and went ... ...as immediately named Theseus, from the tokens which his fa- ther had put @ under the stone; others that he received his name afterwards at Athens, whe... ...rds at Athens, when Aegeus acknowledged him for his son. He was brought up under his grandfather Pittheus, and had a tutor and attendant set over him ... ... and having, by frequent baths, and avoiding the heat and scorching of the sun, with 21 Plutarch’s Lives a constant use of all the ointments and wash... ...inly the thirtieth of the month, at which time there was an eclipse of the sun which they conceive to be that seen by Antimachus, the Teian poet, in t... ...he third hour after sunset, at which time there was a total eclipse of the sun; that he was born the twenty-first day of the month Thoth, about sun-ri... ... been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens.” When an- other of the generals, who thought he had performed con- siderable service for the Athen... ...r- tunate month to the barbarians, for in it Alexander over- came Darius’s generals on the Granicus; and the Carthaginians, on the twenty-fourth, were... ...d mother’s side. Xanthippus, his father, who defeated the king of Persia’s generals in the battle at Mycale, took to wife Agariste, the grandchild of ...

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... with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent....

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...I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they... ...le stock with husbandry; but, of all things, let him beware of bringing it under the lash of his betters, because that will make it all bubble up into... ...l hand may be soon whipped into froth; but once scummed away, what appears underneath will be fit for nothing but to be thrown to the hogs. CHAPTER I ... ...their present vigour and opportunity of the day? away, let us haste to the generals, and advise to give the onset immediately.” Having spoke thus, she... ... vainly endeavouring to hide, were forced to com ply with and expose. The generals made use of him for his talent of railing, which, kept within gove... ...d Other Short Pieces – Swift 23 they passed on the side of the declining sun. And now they arrived, with fear, toward the enemy’s out guards, lookin... ... to my predictions, which I have begun to calculate from the time that the sun enters into Aries. And this I take to be properly the beginning of the ... ...int less prudent than common almanack makers, who are so wise to wonder in generals, and talk dubiously, and leave to the reader the business of inter... ...its her brows, And fired with indignation, vows To morrow, ere the setting sun, She’d all undo that she had done. But in the poets we may find A whole...

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...reatise that might have proved worthy his perusal, which, though some have undertaken, I could never yet see in English. But mine may be thought as we... ...Angler I think fit to tell thee these following truths; that I did neither undertake, nor write, nor publish, and much less own, this Discourse to ple... ...to do all to please others, as I propose not the gaining of credit by this undertaking, so I would not willingly lose any part of that to which I had ... ...ngers herself, like the son of Daedalus, to have her wings scorched by the sun’s heat, she flies so near it, but her mettle makes her careless of dang... ...s if the world were in deep waters drown’d. For seas—as well as skies—have Sun, Moon, Stars As well as air—Swallows, Rooks, and Stares; As well as ear... ...not fail you, God will ing, to be at Amwell Hill to morrow morning before sun rising. The Compleat Angler — Walton 37 T T T T THE HE HE HE HE ... ...ake four or five or six split sticks, or very thin laths, and a convenient quantity of tape or filleting; these laths are to be tied round about the P... ...uce which was within, and also that sauce in the pan, you are to add a fit quantity of the best butter, and to squeeze the juice of three or four oran... ... fish too early or too late for a Barbel. And the Barbel will bite also at generals, which, not being too much scoured, but green, are a choice bait f...

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... and other devices, which the children had often gazed at, but could never understand what they meant. On the very tip top of the chair, over the head... ...Scollay Square in Boston. He holds the charter in his hand, and a Bible is under his arm. 11 Hawthorne pany came Sir Richard Saltonstall, who had bee... ....” But Endicott’s heart was as bold and resolute as iron, and he could not understand why a woman’s heart should not be of iron too. Still, however, h... ...soner, and now stood with sullen aspect at a window, wondering whether the sun itself were not extinguished by so much moisture in the sky. Charley ha... ...ace has been roughened by northern tempests and black ened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his ... ... merry shouts and laughter of the children,—as their figures, dancing like sun shine before his eyes. He felt that the past was not taken from him. T... ...d a suspicion that she betrayed the mili tary plans of the English to the generals of the French armies.” “And was it true?” inquired Clara. “Probabl... ...p here and there a mouldering bone. Up to this period, none of the English generals had shown any military talent. Shirley, the Earl of Loudon, and Ge... ...there were very famous men among them, who afterwards became governors and generals. Whether this be true I cannot tell.” When tidings of this bold de...

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...drew off his ambition in that direction. At his first beginning, he served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans ... ...ce for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procurin... ...age in all the following war, he was advanced to places of honor and trust under his general. After the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, he was sent... ...undred horse of the Lusitanians themselves, he made war against four Roman generals, who commanded a hundred and twenty thousand foot, six thou- sand ... ...orce, was slain, and Metellus, one of the greatest and most approved Roman generals then living, by a series of defeats, was reduced to such extremiti... ...e earth, and dispersed it about as the chaff before the wind; but when the sun coming to be higher, the strong northerly wind had cov- ered the hills ... ... able to repair his losses, and for recovering the victory, than the Roman generals against him for gaining these advantages; as at the battle of the ... ...ng down into the plain. At the sight of the golden armor glittering in the sun as they marched down in their order, the elephants with their castles o... ...a, and pitched his camp near Chaeronea, at once met with an eclipse of the sun, and with ill news from the navy, Pisander, the Spartan admiral, being ...

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...CES TICES MANY OF THE PAPERS in my collected works were originally written under one set of disadvantages, and are now revised under another. They wer... ...advantages, and are now revised under another. They were written generally under great pres- sure as to time, in order to catch the critical periods o... ...nces, and citations, were made on the au- thority of my unassisted memory. Under such circumstances were most of the papers composed; and they are now... ...he first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity of plate. How he came by it, or whither he was going, he steadfast... ...sepul- chral shadow rolled away from the face of Christendom as that day’s sun went down to his rest; for, had the success been less absolute, an oppo... ...r its starting-point; henceforward make it heliocentric (that is, with the sun, or the heavenly for its prin- ciple of motion). 2. A second remark of ... ...namely, that knave of a builder, whose knaveries (gilded by that morn- ing sun of June) were controlled by nobody; that sycophantish parson; that youn... ... assume as the total charge on account of Oxford? Candles, considering the quantity of long days amongst the thirty weeks, may be had for one shilling... ...nner which now floated in Europe. Beyond him ran the long line of imperial generals,—from 272 Memorials, and Other Papers Wallenstein, the magnificen...

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... the dignity of publication all by itself in a small illus- trated volume, under the title, “The Point of Honour.” That was many years ago. It has bee... ...ith circum- stances of peculiar atrocity for refusing to march. He did not understand heroism but it was his intention to throw his musket away at the... ...eprived the old people of all their worldly possessions, left them sitting under a bush in the 11 Joseph Conrad enjoyment of the inestimable boon of ... ...ar of forged iron was being bent slowly by the mightiness of his pull. The sun was beating full upon his cramped, unquivering figure. A shower of swea... ...ar, and another a fragment of flesh from his shoulder. A red and unclouded sun setting into a purple ocean looked with a fiery stare upon the enormous... ... Ruiz, upright, the burliest of them all, hung his big shock head. The low sun dazzled him a little, and he counted himself a dead man already. He fel... ...ing to do. This D’Hubert is a decent fellow.” “I know the decency of these generals’ pets,” mut- tered Lieut. Feraud through his teeth, and the som- b... ... Set of Six In that battalion promoted colonels did duty as sergeants; the generals captained the companies; a marshal of France, Prince of the Empire... ...l antagonist pronounced in a loud voice to call the youngest of Napoleon’s generals away from the mental contemplation of his betrothed. He looked rou...

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...y delayed, by one misfor tune after another, but at last got his expedition under way at the end of the year 1681. In the dead of winter he and Henri... ...an monarch in the Teche country, whose capital city was a substantial one of sun baked bricks mixed with straw—better houses than many that exist ther... ...with a mud wall about it ornamented with skulls of enemies sacrificed to the sun. The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the prese... ... a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire.’ It must have been like getting home aga... ... stoicism; heavy drinkers, coarse frolickers in moral sties like the Natchez under the hill of that day, heavy fighters, reckless fellows, every one, ... ...uge raft which they have seen in the distance ahead of them, creeping aboard under cover of the darkness, and gath ering the needed information by ea... ...th a pocket knife, soon forced us to feel that we were not surrounded by the generals, colo nels, and majors of the old world; and that the dinner ho... ...h ensilage or cotton seed meal (which is too rich for use as fodder in large quantities), the stem mixture makes a superior food, rich in all the elem... ...il its ice, by wagon, throughout New Orleans, in the humblest dwelling house quantities, at six or seven dollars a ton, and make a sufficient profit. ...

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...th exceed ing smoothness down hill, making paper money and spend ing it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she en tertained herself, bes... ...sengers did; not because they had the least relish for walk ing exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud... ...nything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes o... ...f the night were gone. He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had... ...old and wet, the sky was A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 14 clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful. “Eighteen years!” said the passenge... ...lacid, and beautiful. “Eighteen years!” said the passenger, looking at the sun. “Gracious Creator of day! To be buried alive for eighteen years!” IV T... ...down to be dipped in the sea. A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at ... ...bon in her hand. As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his own with an inqui... ...let them out to somebody who could; as to finances private, because Farmer Generals were rich, and Monseigneur, after generations of great luxury and ...

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...ucien’s life in Paris. In many references parts one and three are combined under the title Lost Illusions. EVE AND DAVID Lucien had gone to Paris; and... ...mental and physical perturba- tions into a girl’s life; and if she marries under the ordinary conditions of lower middle-class life, she must moreover... ...in. Most foremen have some one favorite among the great numbers of workers under them, and David had brought Cerizet to Angouleme, where he had 7 Bal... ... for Angouleme, being set upon a hill, is exposed to the full glare of the sun. T all Cointet was really scarcely above middle height; he looked much ... ...out fellow, with a face from a Flemish inte- rior, colored by the southern sun of Angouleme, thick-set, 17 Balzac short and paunchy as Sancho Panza; ... ... Liberal in politics; he belonged to the Left Centre, only went to mass on Sun- days, and lived on a remarkably good understanding with the Liberal me... ...hief spare their troops as much as possible, let them imitate the Austrian generals who give the men time to eat their soup though they fail to effect... ...r. Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the Aus- trian generals; they took for their example Quintus Fabius Cunctator—the Austrian... ...an, do you believe in the last demi-god of France, in Napoleon? One of his generals was in disgrace all through his career; Napoleon made him a marsha...

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...uch-ss of Orl-ns (who, though she does not speak 4 Major Gahagan English, understands it as well as I do), said to me in the soft- est Teutonic, “Lie... ...s n’aurez jamais votre brevet de Colonel.” Her M-y’s joke will be bet- ter understood when I state that his Grace is the brother of a Minister. I am n... ...of the parties concerned in this little an- ecdote. I only wish to have it understood that I am a gentle- man, and live at least in decent society. V ... ...ers and Miners. Hicks received a ball in his jaw, and was half choked by a quantity of carroty whisker forced down his throat with the ball. 2. Captai... ... her hands, flip the rice into her mouth with her fingers, and stow away a quantity of eatables sufficient for a sepoy com- pany. But why do I diverge... ...cloths, which we had formed to shelter us from the intolerable heat of the sun, and were discussing with great de- light a few Manilla cheroots, and a... ...room where he sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the c... ...d to the prince that Bobbachy 43 Thackeray Bahawder, the right eye of the Sun of the Universe (as the ignorant heathens called me), had arrived from ... ...collect my ad- vice, and have them well wadded. Well, the right eye of the Sun of the Universe scrambled as well as he could up the steps of the maida...

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...em and placed them among the state archives. For sixty years they remained under lock and key, being seen by only a few privileged per- sons, among th... ... King); M. le Prince (de Conde) and Marechal d’Humieres; all four, the one under the other, commanded in the King’s army under the King himself. The D... ...st after the taking of Namur, which might have led to the saddest results, under any other prince than the King. Before he entered the town, a strict ... ...h prodigious astonishment. That day the immense dowry was declared; and on Sun- day there was a grand ball, that is, a ball opened by a ‘branle’ which... ...ge at Neerwinden, and after twelve hours of hard fighting, under a blazing sun, entirely routed him. I was of the third squadron of the Royal Roussill... ...t Monseigneur was opposed to it; and, to the great regret of the principal generals and of the troops, the attack was not made. Monseigneur returned e... ...Madame de Maintenon. Another event excited less surprise than interest. On Sun- day, the 29th of November, the King learned that La Vauguyon had kille... ... one. The army retired into winter-quarters at the end of October, and the Generals went to Paris. As for me, I remained six weeks at Landau with M. a... ...ry eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the Murg, to...

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...e province of the extravagant. In such a case, not to sympathize is not to understand; and the play- fulness, which is not relished, becomes flat and ... ... this lecture on the aesthetics of murder, I shelter myself for the moment under the Telamonian shield of the Dean. But, in reality, my own little pap... ...y in human thoughts, which could ever turn to infants as articles of diet; under any con- ceivable circumstances, this would be felt as the most aggra... ...not occurring, or not transpiring until fifteen minutes after 1 A. M. on a Sun- day morning, would first reach the public ear through the Monday editi... ...and everywhere burn- ing for ampler information. On the Sunday se’ennight (Sun- day the octave from the event), took place the funeral of the Marrs; i... ...icularly this, that Mrs. Williamson was reported to possess a considerable quantity of plate), the journeyman was musing painfully, and the time might... ... daily motion of the earth on its own axis, or its annual motion round the sun, would have found himself entangled at once and irretrievably in the fo... ...ould have reached by poetic power alone. Not only all his rubbish—which in quantity is great—passed for jewels, but also what are incontestably jewels... ... them to private interpretations—or to dispense with them. As to his major-generals of counties, who figure in most histories of England as so many Al...

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...seemed ready 5 Balzac to gush at the least exertion. His skin was crimson under an outside layer of brown, due to the habit of standing in the sun. T... ...imson under an outside layer of brown, due to the habit of standing in the sun. The roving gray eyes, deep-sunken, and hidden by bushy black brows, we... ...the Kalmucks who entered France in 1815; if they ever sparkled it was only under the influence of a covetous thought. His broad pug nose was flattened... ...he is capable of anything for the sake of his poor. He must have mined and under- mined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did not... ...an” to the mow- ing, and the postilions to tie the bales, telling them the quan- 38 Ursula tity , within a hundred pounds, each field should bear. Th... ...pecial soil; it breathed the elements of its true life and assimilated the sun rays that belonged to it. 48 Ursula “In what faith do you intend to br... ...ey found in a small room, which the captain had allowed no one to enter, a quantity of toys, many of them broken, while all had been used,—toys of a p... ...ourishing that spirit (until then within the confines of childhood) as the sun gives life to the earth with- out knowing why, he felt sorry that he re... ...t was remarkable for the loss of a great number of officers. Two brigadier-generals died there—namely, the Marquis d’Uxelles, of a wound received at t...

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...ected hollow beneath one’s feet, a felt ingratitude in the scheme adopted, under which confidence fails and opportunity seems but to mock. If the moti... ...; the earlier written of the two books having appeared as the later.) Even under 6 The Ambassadors the weight of my hero’s years I could feel my post... ...ssadors the weight of my hero’s years I could feel my postulate firm; even under the strain of the difference between those of Madame de Vionnet and t... ...ell- ing of one’s story. It depends so on what one means by that equivocal quantity. There is the story of one’s hero, and then, thanks to the intimat... ...ing for it in the windows of shops; he came down the Rue de la Paix in the sun and, passing across the Tuileries and the river, indulged more than onc... ...y a happy accident, from the third-story windows, which took all the March sun, but of what service was it to find himself making out after a moment t... ...this last queer quantity could once more feel itself. “What game under the sun is he playing?” He signified the next moment that his allusion was not ... ...en gros bon- nets of many kinds—ambassadors, cabinet ministers, bank- ers, generals, what do I know? even Jews. Above all always some awfully nice wom... ...of the glass cases contained swords and epaulettes of ancient colonels and generals; medals and orders once pinned over hearts that had long since cea...

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...ivine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it--dark without the daybeams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost ...

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...’s stead- fast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had... ...n the flowers, ere they have been scorched and withered by Passion’s fiery Sun! Im- mersed in thought or study, and indifferent to the din around him,... ...asures confided to him. The crowd passed in Chepe; he never marked it. The sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illu- mine the page he rea... ...il for your ‘air.” The Prisoned One laughed loud and merrily. “My guardian understands me not, pretty one—and thou? what sayest thou? From those dear ... ...ering in the lucid waters of the Golden Horn; where the yellow Tiber flows under broken bridges and over imperial glories; where the huts are squatted... ...idges and over imperial glories; where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, a... ...room where he sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the c... ...ost intrepid and powerful soldiers in all Germany,—one of the most skilful generals. Generous to extravagance to his own followers, he was ruthless to... ...stitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French Republic, to our marshals, generals, officers, and soldiers, greeting: “‘Soldiers! “‘From the summit o...

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... by John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (First ... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (First ... ...iversity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ................. ...f him, yet that would not prove them to be natural impressions on the mind; no more than the names of fire, or the sun, heat, or num- ber, do prove th... ...ate, than it does that one born blind (with cataracts which will be couched to-morrow) had the innate ideas of the sun, or light, or saffron, or yel- ... ... saffron, or yel- low; because, when his sight is cleared, he will certainly assent to this proposition, “That the sun is lucid, or that saffron is ye... ...a place in the most capacious understanding. If it be looked on as an in- stance of a prodigious memory, that some generals have been able to call eve... ...ence, even those words and ideas which in their signification are general. When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatur... ... John Locke ticular by the general. For in particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself, by degrees, to generals. Though afterwards the min...

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... amid the very raptures of enjoyment to every eye which looks for a moment underneath the draperies of the shadowy present, the hollowness, the blank ... ...’ are words of the self-same tongue, in the self-same minute; in which the sun that at noon beheld all sound and prosperous, long before its setting h... ...property are much developed, constitute the vast majority of all that come under the review of public justice. Any of these is sufficient to make ship... ...s that the deso- lation is accomplished within the course of one revolving sun; often the whole dire catastrophe, together with its total consequences... ...general outline are known, the separate details have necessarily been lost under the agitating circumstances which produced them. It has been judged r... ...hness of morning spirits rested upon us; the golden light of the morn- ing sun illuminated the room; incense was floating through the air from the gor... ... kept down to a moderate amount, yet it was highly probable that a certain quantity of contagion, much beyond the proportion of other popular assembla... ...d sup- port Agnes on each side. I previously persuaded her to take a small quantity of brandy, which we rejoiced to see had given her, at this moment ... ...mbled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past, awake no mor...

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... freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent....

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...l movement has meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, ‘Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.’ This remedies the defec... ... even early Rome are passing already into fiction. The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thence- forward to all nations. Who... ...l and the Animal Magne- tism in Paris, or in Providence. We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;... ...is nowise obvious to the senses, but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very fe... ...undless liberty of speech. They quarrel for plunder, they wrangle with the generals on each new order, and Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and sha... ...y of his thought. The Greek had it seems the same fellow- beings as I. The sun and moon, water and fire, met his heart precisely as they meet mine. Th... ...ne has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is ... ...e inspi- ration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equa- tion of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and d... ... intellect. To it, the world is a problem in mathematics or the science of quan- tity, and it leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions. All s...

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...ch he lived. He only followed the universal custom of the period, and that under which he had received his own education. 13 U. S. Grant CHAPTER II W... ... any time to come to a reconciliation; but neither would make the advance. Under these circumstances my father would not write to Hamer for the appoin... ...army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of Vol- unteers, that I can think of. Of the gr... ...ad bought a young horse that had never been in harness, for my special use under the saddle during my furlough. Most of my time was spent among my old... ...summer heat increased these were covered by sheds to break the rays of the sun. The summer was whiled away in social enjoyments among the officers, in... ...ce was about six thousand five hun- dred strong, in three divisions, under Generals Butler, T wiggs and Worth. The troops went into camp at Walnut Spr... ...han ten thousand strong. This force was composed of three divisions, under Generals Twiggs, Patterson, and Worth. The importance of escaping the vomit... ...ecaution my regi- ment and others were in camp on the sand beach in a July sun, for about a week before embarking, while the fever raged with great vi... ...in streams, followed in not many min- utes by a blazing, tropical summer’s sun. These alternate changes, from rain to sunshine, were continuous in the...

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...istory of the Age of Louis XIV .,” who died on the 1st of September, 1715. Under the regency that followed, Voltaire got into trouble again and again ... ...he imagined, from the Gospel) which neither himself nor any of his hearers understood. When this distorter had ended his 11 V oltaire beautiful solil... ...had resisted the charms of gold. The Quakers were several times persecuted under Charles II.; not upon a religious account, but for refusing to pay th... ...d waste France, Italy, Spain, and England, made themselves monarchs. Their generals divided among themselves the sev- eral countries they had conquere... ...n whose honour an altar was erected for his having taught mankind that the sun was greater than 44 Letters on England Peloponnesus, that snow was bla... ...to at the very instant of the creation. You will observe farther, that the sun, which in France is said to have nothing to do in the affair, comes in ... ... light exists in the air; but a Newtonian as- serts that it comes from the sun in six minutes and a half. The several operations of your chemistry are... ...ly attracted by them. This power of gravitation acts proportionably to the quan- tity of matter in bodies, a truth which Sir Isaac has demon- strated ... ...ntre of the planetary system) attracts them all in a direct ratio of their quantity of matter com- bined with their nearness. From hence Sir Isaac, ri...

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...nna Pavlovna burst out: “Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war... ... can we rely on?... England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to ev... ...n our actions. What answer did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnega- tion of our Emperor who w... ...itect. And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not only... ... chance has Michael Kutuzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, “you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll have to call in the French... ...f up obsequiously, and from the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, ... ...awn- out soldiers’ song, commencing with the words: “Morn- ing dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On then, brothers, on to glory, led by Fa... ... movements of the approach- ing enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solit... ...to be the enemy’s troops. The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. I...

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...ivision of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood, by considering in what manner it operates in some particular ma... ... work can often be col- lected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contra... ... and cheaper than those of England, because the silk manufacture, at least under the present high duties upon the importation of raw silk, does not so... ...ense of a stone-wall: and bricks (he meant, I suppose, bricks baked in the sun) mouldered with the rain and the winter-storm, and required continual r... ...ordinary culture and the expense of watering; for in countries so near the sun, it was thought proper, in those times as in the present, to have the c... ... is supposed, sup- port the labour of digging the ground under the burning sun of the West Indies; and the culture of the sugar-cane, as it is man- ag... ... of Carthage were continually in the field, and employed under three great generals, who succeeded one another in the command; Amilcar, his son-in-law... ...us to their masters, against whom they used frequently to set up their own generals. In order to render them less formidable, according to some author... ...he first unfortunate exploit of that unfortunate war. In a long peace, the generals, perhaps, may sometimes forget their skill; but where a well regul...

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...walked boldly into the saloon, where the rattle of coin brought his senses under the dazzling spell of an agony of greed. Most likely he had been draw... ...arret where they cheapen poignant regrets for three months to come. Do you understand all the force and frenzy in a soul which impatiently waits for t... ...ame difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window. Only with morn- ing comes the real throb of the pa... ...wrapped in a golden cloud among the angels, shining more brightly than the sun, receiving the prayers of sufferers, on whom this second Eve Regenerate... ... as if by magic, as the light slowly faded. A last struggling ray from the sun lit up rosy answering lights. He raised his head and saw a skeleton dim... ...ery one ate as he spoke, spoke while he ate, and drank without heeding the quantity of the liquor, the wine was so biting, the bouquet so fragrant, th... ... sit enthroned in a room, at a distance of thirty million leagues from the sun?” “Let us once more take a broad view of civilization,” said the man of... ...formerly purchased several estates abroad, conferred by the Emperor on his generals; and now for ten years he struggled with liq- uidators, diplomatis... ...hts of these grand mysteries, does he not walk in an- other world? Are not generals, ministers, and artists carried, more or less, towards destruction...

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...sinter- ested zeal of the above distinguished authors, could not have been undertaken, had it not been for the liberality of the Lords Commissioners o... ... most sincere thanks to the Reverend Professor Henslow, who, when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, was one chief means of giving me a taste for Na... ...k by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten- gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, 6 The V oyage of the Beagle R. N., ... ...nding, by fears of our bringing the chol- era: the next morning we saw the sun rise behind the rugged outline of the Grand Canary island, and sud- den... ...ct. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, have in most places rendered the soil unfit for vegetation. The countr... ...ent church formed the principal part. It is here the governors and captain-generals of the islands have been bur- ied. Some of the tombstones recorded... ...l to give a just idea of these brown burnished stones which glitter in the sun’s rays. They occur only within the limits of the tidal waves; and as th... ... much in its im- mediate effects, as in being the origin of a multitude of generals and all other grades of officers. More gen- erals are numbered (bu... ...amily of O’Higgins, who, under the Spanish government, were presidents and generals in Chile. As the rocky mountains on each hand were concealed by cl...

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...which have led to it, and of its probable termination. But I wish it to be understood that it was not my selected task to do so, and is not now my pri... ... tells against those of our country. From which remarks I would wish to be understood as deprecating offense from my American friends, if in the cours... ...ecide upon the political aspirations and doings of that other without such understanding. Constantly as the name of France is in our mouths, comparati... ... walk from the hotels. When that has been seen by the light of the setting sun, and seen again, if possible, by moonlight, the most con- siderable lio... ...horoughly enjoyed our victory. It was then half-past five o’clock, and the sun was not yet absolutely sinking. It did not seem to give us any warning ... ...e robbed of the sickly shelter by which they have been surrounded; the hot sun strikes the uncovered fibers of the roots, and the poor, solitary inval... ...rns are to choose the field officers; and the field officers the brigadier-generals and inspectors of brigade. The Governor, however, with the consent... ...overnor, however, with the consent of the Senate, shall nominate all major-generals. Now that real soldiers have unfortunately become necessary, the a... ... made for the very purpose,” said General Dix; and no doubt he thought so. Generals, when they have fine positions and big guns and prostrate people l...

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...ed as an essay in presentation. It is a work that the writer admits he has undertaken primarily for his own mental comfort. He is remarkably not quali... ...han ham- mer and anvil in the accomplishment of a design larger than I can understand. So that these papers are not written pri- marily for all, nor w... ... they will exchange a vague disorderly objection for a clearly defined and understood difference. T o arrive at such an understanding is often for pra... ...less to wholesome and hopeful births, and according to the qualitative and quantitative advance due to its influence made by each generation of citize... ...verage and r s t u v falling below, and he saturates the whole business in quantitative colour. Indeed, Mr. Galton has drawn up certain definite propo... ...e range of difference that may be arranged in a direct and simple scale in quantitative relation to the gross output of action of different human bein... ...erillas, clamorous authors, yacht-racing grocers, and hopelessly incapable generals, and where suspicion and ridicule are the lot of every man work- i... ...y of the common American, which glows beside the English equivalent as the sun beside the moon, glows even oppressively. But apart from these inestima... ...l its glories will pass, like smoke before the wind, like mist beneath the sun; it will become at last only one more vague and fading dream upon the s...

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...he momentous battle which followed, Pierre was struck by the steadfastness under fire which has always distinguished the Russian soldier. The fall of ... ...deas, they awoke to the painful consciousness that the last link of mutual understanding had snapped and that their friendship was at an end. But the ... ...al philosophy was yet in embryo. They are now about to appear in book form under the auspices of M. Stakhovich, to whose kindness in giving me free ac... ...ade; the right side, lightly stirred by the wind, glittered all wet in the sun; every thing was in flower, and from near and far the nightingales pou... ...looming verdure, which swayed in a light breeze in the rays of the setting sun. There were no longer cloven branches nor rents to be seen; its former ... ...t in the poultry yard, and the hens were of a special kind, laying a great quantity of eggs. In the 51 The Forged Coupon and other stories orchard th... ...e he ordered a drink, and repeated his demands over and over again, but no quan tity of liquor could make him intoxicated. He was sit ting at a tabl... ...” said the Emperor, and ordered the hermit Isidor to be in vited. All the generals, and other high officials, assembled in the church of the imperial... ...nd then asked what the weather was like (the blinds were drawn so that the sun should not prevent any one from sleeping till eleven o’clock if he were...

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...ctual pedigree, for Mr. Washington him- self, perhaps, does not as clearly understand it as another man might. The truth is he had a training during t... ...merican college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the under- taking implied, he came to Williams College when Dr. Mark Hopkins wa... ...ent does not profit by a great teacher; but perhaps no young man ever came under the influence of Dr. Hopkins, whose whole nature was so ripe for prof... ... skies, said: “O Lawd, de cottom am so grassy, de work am so hard, and the sun am so hot dat I b’lieve dis darky am called to preach!” About three mon... ... sometimes twenty-five cents. Sometimes the contribution was a quilt, or a quan- tity of sugarcane. I recall one old coloured women who was about seve... ... or the students is not neglected. Our preaching service, prayer-meetings, Sun- day-school, Christian Endeavour Society, Young Men’s Chris- tian Assoc... ... hours in reaching the Exposition grounds, and during all of this time the sun was shining down upon us disagreeably hot. When we reached the grounds,... ...brought their wives or some members of their families. Several promi- nent generals came, including General Shafter and General Joseph Wheeler, who we...

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...st ; Of Twofold Righteousness ; Of the Matrimonial Estate; Brief Form to understand and to pray the Lord’s Prayer ; Explanation of the Lord’s Praye... ...who reminded Luther of a promise he had given, still Luther was willing to undertake it only when he recalled that in a previous sermon to his congreg... ... of justification by faith alone might have upon the morals of the masses. Under these cir cumstances it would not have been surprising if a mem ber... ... lay no way; but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it, and the sun of Martin Luther s Treatise on Good Works 21 righteousness rose not ... ...nks of fighting, nay, pope, bish ops, priests and clergy, who ought to be generals, cap Martin Luther s Treatise on Good Works 63 tains and stand... ...erit. Far blinder still are they who measure their fasting not only by the quan tity or duration, as these do, but also by the nature of the food, th... ...fasting and of God. Therefore I allow everyone to choose his day, food and quantity for fasting, as he will, on condition that he do not stop with tha... ...ut into the works and through the works comes to itself again; just as the sun goes forth unto its setting and comes again unto its rising. For this r... ... doers, enemies, and the ungrateful, even as his heavenly Father makes His sun to rise on good and evil, and the rain to fall on the grateful and ungr...

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...to account is more than compen- sated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word “control” in this sense, it may be said that a livin... ...hat even the powers needed for physi- cal sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all th... ...om- munity or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowl- edge—a common understanding—like-mindedness as the sociologists say. Such things cannot b... ...ation in- dependently of any purpose of his. Seeds sprout, rain falls, the sun shines, insects devour, blight comes, the seasons change. His aim is si... ...th it greater promise for a social service which goes beyond the supply in quantity of material commodi- ties. For how can there be a society really w... ...nce, the thought im- plied in cut and try experience is made explicit. Its quan- tity increases so that its proportionate value is very dif- ferent. H... ...not found in its materials. They were familiar; many of them commonplaces —sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. These were n... ...d that is the same for all. Then we regard individuals as differing in the quantity of mind with which they are charged. Ordinary persons are then exp... ...he great heroes who have ad- vanced human destiny are not its politicians, generals, and diplomatists, but the scientific discoverers and in- ventors ...

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...us, the Author can only beg their pardon for any tedium that they may have undergone before giving it up. Feb. 22nd, 1856. 4 The Daisy Chain PART ONE... ...e says he is quite up to the walk, and will like it very much, and he will undertake to defend you from the quarrymen.” “Is Miss Winter afraid of the ... ..., seating herself on the corner of the win- dow-seat, with one leg doubled under her, took up a Shakespeare, holding it close to her eyes, and her bro... ... be guarded from himself. The Catechism was repeated, and a comment on the Sun- day Services read aloud. The Gospel was that on the taking the lowest ... ...ou won’t break down somewhere, as you always do, with some frightful false quantity, that you would get an imposition for, if you were a boy. I wish y... ...ous mourning for her. The calm still day seemed to tell them the same, the sun beaming softly on the gray arches and fresh grass, the sky clear and bl... ...besides the charge of Margaret, while Dr. May went to the hospital, and to sun- dry patients, and they thought he seemed the better for the occupation... ...le their doctrine varied with that of the visitor for the week. If the ten generals could only have given up to Miltiades, but, alas! there was no Mil... ...e Blanche bought a sixpenny gift for every one, with more attention to the quantity than the quality. Then came a revival of her anxieties for the gua...