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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovs... ...gelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tr... ...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod... ...brew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Anato... ...f Being Kafka Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. (In Hebrew, the word "Agala" means ... ...st the inexorably rising day. Return On the Bus to Town by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. I must catch the city-bound bus. I ... ...d panic. The disembodied speech of spluttering witnesses. On site reporters at a loss for words record mere moans and keens. An orgy of smoking fl... ...ner. To garner his further admiration, she plunges into the dispute, a brimstone diva with words of fire. Some passengers begin to push the Arab an... ...ated, you come devalued. You cost me merely a whiskey tumbler and a compendium of ordinary words. One tear enough to alter your allegiances. You are...

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... combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editions, we hope to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written....

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... automatically converted by our Literary Machine Translation System (LMTS), and produces a translated edition. This edition will have the original ... ...ne Translation Editions, we hope to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written. How do... ...s with the Candide project at IBM. IBM's original approach maps individual words to words and allows for deletion and insertion of words. Lately, ... ...ide project at IBM. IBM's original approach maps individual words to words and allows for deletion and insertion of words. Lately, various research... ...hrase alignment model, which is a computes statistical translation of whole phrases rather than by words alone. World Public Library’s LMTS uses a... ...which is a computes statistical translation of whole phrases rather than by words alone. World Public Library’s LMTS uses a combination of syntax-... ... reordering patterns. Although the outcome is not always as elegant as the words written by an author the base meaning is clear enough for a basic u... ...an  Filipino  Finnish  French  Galician  German  Greek  Hebrew  Hindi  Hungarian  Icelandic  Indonesian  Irish ...

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... Kabbalah as a science that deals with drawing near to the Creator. It studies the system of creation, examines how the Creator conducts this system, and how creation can rise to the level of the Creator. It is a method of reaching spiritual fulfillment. Through the study of Kabbalah, you too can learn to direct your heart--and consequently your life--toward success, tranq...

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...anical, includ- ing photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For... ...sts have been trying to find the reason for our exis- tence for centuries, and yet they have failed to find the answer. The question grows more and mo... ... passing generation, because the pains of the world only increase in time, and the struggle for survival continues. Hence, it is quite possi- ble that... ...thank Benzion Giertz for the original com- pilation and supervision of the Hebrew version. I would also like to thank Chaim Ratz for his sensitive and... ...n’s counsel and a lie today. Even when not understanding every- thing, the words of the Holy Zohar are still able for the soul and good for every soul... ...t the whole world asks, namely, “What is the meaning of my life?” In other words, these numbered years of our life that cost us so heavily and the num... ...udy of the Ten Sefirot, item 155 (1884–1954) When one as much as reads the words … what is it like? It is like a sick person who drinks a therapeutic ... ...at is what he tells us in The Angel Raziel. The word raziel comes from the Hebrew word raz—the angel of secrets who reveals the secrets of creation. A... ...th his or her feelings and enter the upper world, the entire creation. The Hebrew root of the name Moses is the word moshe, which means pulling out of...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one...

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... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................

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...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...een re- ally published. Where is the printed book of which, in Coleridge’s words, it may not be said that, after all efforts to publish itself, still ... ... remind him of the perilous difficulty besieging all attempts to clothe in words the visionary scenes derived from the world of dreams, where a single... ...tance on a summer evening seem charged at times with an articulate form of words, some monitory message, that rolls round unceasingly, even so for me ... ...xcept through sharp discharges of stones, that being a language older than Hebrew or Sanscrit, and universally intelligible. But, excepting these high... ...bbery. Purely through their own jewelly splendor have many hundreds of his phrases forced themselves into usage so general, under the vulgar infirmity... ... that at length the majority of careless read- ers come to look upon these phrases as belonging to the lan- guage, and traceable to no distinct propri...

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... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document fil... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...leton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in... ...ied another in her flight. Moors and I and Fanny were strolling up to the garden, and there by the waterside we saw the black sow, looking guilty. It ... ...se!), and we are within some 360 miles of Sydney. Probably there has never been a more gallant success; and I can say honestly it was well worked for.... ... out in the breeze. A few torn clouds—not white, the sun has tinged them a warm pink—swim in heaven. In which blessed and fair day, I have to make fac... ...ill, than making this some thousandth fraction better?Y es, I thought; and tried the new one, and behold, I could do nothing: my head swims, words do ... ...ones and the aboriginal night-mare, could Hell be?Take it for all in all, L’Antechrist is worth reading. The Histoire D’Israel did not surprise me muc... ... to insult. This may amuse you. But either there is a change in journalism, too gradual for you to remark it on the spot, or there is a change in me. ...

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...ieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franci...

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...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such pla...

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...ABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE CHURCH 1520 Translated by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and revised by Frederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION Th... ...ual- temporal power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the Church he enters and takes her central stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by... ...al stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could... ... usage. Effort has been made also to conform a bit more closely to Luther’s words. Some changes have been made in the interest of greater readability... ...Luther before the Holy See,” 9 which is not that I revoke anything, as the words declare, but that he revokes me. This is the kind of Latin the Ita... ...me, the first in good Latin, the second in better Greek, the third in purest Hebrew. 4 J... ...o or not to do in this matter, and the church must be obeyed. These are his words. You will perhaps ask, what madness has entered into the man, or a... ...ct that in both of these languages the two words are of the same gender. In Hebrew, however, which has no neuter gender, “this” is referred to “brea... ... language Jesus spoke on that occasion was certainly not Greek, but probably Hebrew. opinion, which is laid down in the decree, Firmiter, 77 only ...

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... of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yo...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ..., as if struggling with the nightmare; and besides several ejaculations in Hebrew, the following were distinctly heard in the Norman- English, or mixe... ... tian beggar, were he rating it at a single penny.” As he spoke these last words, he raised himself, and grasped the Palmer’s mantle with a look of th... ...m, pointing to the town of Sheffield, which lay beneath them, repeated the words, “Here, then, we part.” “Not till you have had the poor Jew’s thanks,... ...rim, sternly. “Forgive me,” said the Jew; “I spoke rashly. But there dropt words from you last night and this morning, that, like sparks from flint, s... ... his mule. When he had finished, he delivered the scroll, which was in the Hebrew character, to the Pilgrim, saying, “In the town of Leicester all men... ...des!” he then said, addressing his gang, “this purse is em- broidered with Hebrew characters, and I well believe the yeoman’s tale is true. The errant...

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...ore about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he wo...

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........ 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED SOUT...

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...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...6 Robert Louis Stevenson by a stroke or two of fate – a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman’s bright eyes – he may be left, in... ...so charmingly comical, and so pat to the occasion, that I must quote a few phrases. “The young lady is in every sense formed to make one of your dispo... ...an is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch- words; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by si... ... this world who cares to set about explaining his own character to others. Words and acts are easily wrenched from their true significance; and they a... ...nd skimmed it over to excellent purpose. Might not the student afford some Hebrew roots, and the business man some of his half- crowns, for a share of... ...evouring earthquake? The love of Life and the fear of Death are two famous phrases that grow harder to understand the more we think about them. It is ...

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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on th...

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... text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...N S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...Thomas Carlyle professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in many cases not this at all.... ...g wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud “electric- ity,” and le... ...ence, is awe, devout prostration and humil- ity of soul; worship if not in words, then in silence. But now I remark farther: What in such a time as ou... ...to the Shekinah, or Ark of Testimony, visible Revelation of God, among the Hebrews: “The true Shekinah is Man!” Yes, it is even so: this is no vain ph... ...er. Who is called there “the man according to God’s own heart”? David, the Hebrew King, had fallen into sins enough; blackest crimes; there was no wan... ...randest things ever written with pen. One feels, indeed, as if it were not Hebrew; such a noble universality, different from noble pa- triotism or sec...

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...NS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................... 84 JUNIUS............................................................

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...e future. ‘The earthquake,’ to quote a fragment from a striking passage in Wordsworth— ‘The earthquake is not satisfied at once.’ All perils, speciall... ...us boys. But, howsoever explained, the fact was evi- dent, that, until the words of appeal to Christ, the servant had noticed nothing suspicious, noth... ... each other distantly and shyly; and, though occasionally exchanging a few words in the character of strangers, did not seem disposed to any fa- milia... ...nguage, as that of the prophets. The sum of this matter is this:—God, by a Hebrew prophet, is sublimely described as the Revealer; and, in variation o... ... horse-leech says, ‘Give, give,’ is as much without meaning as most of the Hebrew chanting that I heard at the Liverpool synagogue. I advise Mr. Murra... ...haracter as something correspond- ing to the prophet’s mission amongst the Hebrews. It is no longer the facit indignatio versum. Pope’s satire, where ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...Tolstoi, need hardly be told what this implies; it might be defined in the words of the French critic just named as “a tendency to pity.” One might in... ... His death, which came 9 Gogol in 1852, was extremely fantastic. His last words, uttered in a loud frenzy, were: “A ladder! Quick, a ladder!” This ca... ...der! Quick, a ladder!” This call for a ladder—”a spiritual ladder,” in the words of Merejkovsky—had been made on an earlier occasion by a certain Russ... ...on from the Greek, and not in the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. 10 Dead Souls don, A. R. Mowbray and Co., 1913. LIVES, etc.: (Russ... ...er he had to say—a feat which he performed with the aid of such by-the-way phrases as “my dear sir,” “my good So-and-So,” “you know,” “you understand,... ...imagine,” “relatively speaking,” “for instance,” and “et cetera”; of which phrases he would add sackfuls to his speech. He could also “embellish” his ...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...well quitted the room on his last visit. “Tierce to a king,” were the last words he ever heard her say: the game of life was pretty nearly over for th... ... Book Three “‘We were discoursing,’ says she, ‘about spelling of names and words when you came. Why should we say goold and write gold, and call china... ...e turned the conversation most ridiculously upon the spelling of names and words; and I replied with as ridiculous fulsome compliments as I could pay ... ...quainted with the great world of England and Europe; my years are past the Hebrew poet’s limit, and I say unto thee, all my troubles and joys too, for... ... seizing the information given him, and ingenuity and skill in turning the phrases which were to go out signed by his name, here exhibited a good-humo... ...ray God, it is not too late.” The Bishop was breaking out with some banale phrases about loyalty, and the sacredness of the Sovereign’s person; but Es...

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Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

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......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ........................................................................................ 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ..................................................................................................

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... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...r ‘than a musician scatters sounds;’ in which ‘it was’ and ‘it is not’ are words of the self-same tongue, in the self-same minute; in which the sun th... ...the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert called by divine com- mand, w... ...rawn forth by my very sense that my felicity was too exquisite; or, in the words of the great master ‘I wept to have’ [absolutely, by anticipation, ... ...g the house—we conversed for five minutes—we parted— she went out—her last words being that she would return at half-past one o’clock; and not long af... ...he entered beneath the canopy of umbrageous trees. But, as oftentimes, the Hebrew fugitive to a city of refuge, flying for his life before the avenger... ...m, from Dr. Nichol’s work, is, or at least would be, (when translated into Hebrew grandeur by the mighty telescope,) a step above even that object whi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant ...

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...NIC CONVERSATION.................................................................................................................... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE .........................................................................................

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...n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of ... ... sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...ing. “Thir ty thousand dollars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck... ...nt policy, petrified custom, loyalty to—to—hang it, I can’t find the right words, but you know what I mean, Aleck, and that there isn’t any harm in i... ... wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking the thankfulness he had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself. “I cer tainly held th... ...son and their faces transfigured with a holy joy. And it was the same with phrases. She would drag home a whole phrase, if it had a grand sound, and p... ... in her memory more carefully than she had done with those other words and phrases; and she had studied them deeply, for her good and ours. One may se... ...ug yesterday.” In the Holy Land he gags desperately at the hard Arabic and Hebrew Biblical names, and finally concludes to call them Baldwinsville, Wi...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus c...

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...Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica .................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE...........................................................................................

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...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod. NOTE: Greek words at times appear in ALL CAPS. In text notations are in red and surroun... ...on and in tracing the genealogies of men. Its attitude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the Theogony: `We can tell many a feign... ...s in the main Homeric, but one of his charms is the use of quaint allusive phrases derived, per- haps, from a pre-Hesiodic peasant poetry: thus the se... ... Also the Guide, the Slayer of Argus, contrived within her lies and crafty words and a deceitful nature at the will of loud thundering Zeus, and the H... ...h appears to be the waste of waters on which, according to early Greek and Hebrew cosmology, the disk- like earth floated. (25) i.e. the threshold is ...

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...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire ...

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... George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ts are a religious order exercising worldly weapons. The lack of pre- cise words admonished him of the virtue of silence, and he retreated—with a quie... ... frenetic zealot roar out: Be off! He was not immediately reassured by the words ‘Dead or alive, then, you have a father!’ The spectacle of a state of... ...d!’ he said, springing back to the saddle. Caroline murmured some soothing words. They had a per- verse effect. ‘His partner! yes, his partner is at h... ...f the polite world, relieved him of the extreme ridicule at- tached to his phrases and images. She replied: ‘We have no portrait.’ ‘May I beg to know,... ... done her uncle great good by his visit, the blank of the usual ceremonial phrases would have caused him to fancy 51 George Meredith himself an intru... ...he would not have gone far. The Lord, to whom an old man of a mind totally Hebrew ascribed the plenitude of material success, the Lord and he would ha...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State E... ...ic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publicatio... ...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...harply the traits of the participants, keeping the style, idiom, and exact words of each. Let him reject all parts of it, however diverting, of which ... ...good tavern.’ ‘A tav- ern chair is the throne of human felicity.’ Personal words are often upon his lips, such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the n... ...g ‘that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, “Vi- tam continet una dies” (one day contains the whole of my life);... ...k. Had he gone on to imitate another satire, it would have been as hard as Hebrew.’ Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of... ...n when that subject was mentioned. He disapproved of introducing scripture phrases into secular discourse. This seemed to me a question of some diffic... ... trouble to give us so many fine allusions, and bright images, and elegant phrases? You might convey all your instruction without these ornaments.’ Jo...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up...

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...esses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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...h. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic...

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... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...elf to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many de... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ... powerfully to the history of eBooks—the most recent method of publishing words—and I would work back from there, because I like to start with a fou... ...tion of data.‖ According to M-W, the first known coupling of those two words was in 1978, the same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer th... ...me or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four... ...neage prevail to this day. Phoenicians were much more powerful than the Hebrews during the reign of King Hiram (1000–947 BC), the monarch who sold... ...igns caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek ...

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Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... pro ceed from that one source? O.M. Yes. Y.M. Will you put that law into words? O.M. Yes. This is the law, keep it in your mind. From his cradle to... ...e the subject with satisfaction. It will take full charge, and furnish the words itself. Y.M. But don’t I tell it what to say? O.M. There are certainl... ...what to say? O.M. There are certainly occasions when you haven’t time. The words leap out before you know what is com ing. Y.M. For instance? O.M. We... ...ot understand everything she says, but we easily learn two or three of her phrases. We know when she is saying, “I have laid an egg”; we know when she... ...l com merce, and I’ll make your fur fly!” We understand a few of a dog’s phrases and we learn to understand a few of the re marks and gestures of a... ...tten character with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine 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...

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...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...he first addressed Lord Codlingsby had vanished: it was disguise; half the Hebrew’s life is a disguise. He shields himself 17 Burlesques in craft, si... ...had bumped the Brazenose light oar, usually at the head of the river. High words arose regarding the dispute. After returning from Granchester, when t... ... cedar, and, in fact, piled up with bales of those pencils which the young Hebrews are in the habit of vending through the streets. “I have sold bundl... ...y called him Miss Codlingsby at school; but how much fairer was Miriam the Hebrew! Her hair had that deep glowing tinge in it which has been the delig... ...oke; the sweet kind voice restored him to consciousness. Mutter- ing a few words of incoherent recognition, he sank upon a 24 Thackeray sandalwood se... ...aised, reason has re- turned to you. For six weeks those are the only sane words I have heard from you.” “Faix, and ’tis thrue for you, Colonel dear,”...

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...re, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief...

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............................................................................................................................ 43 LETTER XIV.?ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON........................................................................... 49 LETTER XV.?ON ATTRACTION.........................................................................................................

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ind that John only revived this practice; and that it had been used by the Hebrews, long before his time, in like man- ner as the Mahometans imitated ... ... had already made a convert of me. He afterwards gave me an account in few words of some singularities which make this sect the contempt of others. “C... ...ral number for the singular. Augustus Caesar himself was spoken to in such phrases as these: ‘I love thee,’ ‘I beseech thee,’ ‘I thank thee;’ but he d... ...is nose and partly from his mouth, threw out a strange, confused jumble of words (borrowed, as he imagined, from the Gospel) which neither himself nor... ... opening one of the Friends’ books, as he called it, he read the following words in an em- phatic tone:- “‘God forbid we should presume to ordain any-... ...The style is too much inflated, too unnatural, too closely copied from the Hebrew writers, who abound so much with the Asiatic fustian. But then it mu...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

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........................................................................................................ 26 CHAPTER IV I AM PLACED UNDER A POPISH PRIEST AND BRED TO THAT RELIGION.?VISCOUNTESS CASTLEWOOD .................................................................................................................................................... 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ...

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...e by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such si...

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.............................. 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS ..........................................................................................

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...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e educated and intelligent, who hold our own opinions and speak in our own words, yet seem to hold them with a difference or, from another reason, and... ...beautiful in person, most serene and genial by dispo- sition; full of racy words and quaint thoughts. Laughter attended on his coming. He had the air ... ...with angels here; have found pearls here; and have in this place found the words of life.” 28 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER IV A COLLEGE MAGAZINE I ... ...nal series. This was Robert’s position. All day long he had dreamed of the Hebrew stories, and his head had been full of Hebrew poetry and Gospel ethi... ...that the heroine cannot open her mouth but what, all in a moment, the fine phrases of preparation fall from round her like the robes from Cinderella, ...