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...se for Theological Immortal Romance Theological Immortal Romance is the type of book you can’t put down. I was drawn to the spectacular way Kevin expr... ... his thoughts on love. Each chapter gets better and better. This book is one of its kind and will definitely be a winner in the hearts of all. JT Tale... ... let me just say this book is absolutely breathtaking. I have been a big fan of Kevin for many years and this time he has done it. I simply fell in lo... ... heaven’s kingdom. Because she is heir to his throne. Her radiance is of all languages, all speech and all religions. She changes the winds of time an... ...of her melody, I entreat her heart with my love song. Princes came as far as France and kneeled in praise before her feet. Her beauty has taken me bef... ...ty is born a perfect day within the glory of God.” R “Her radiance is of all languages, all tongues, all speech and all religions.” R “Her sweetness i...

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

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...to his dark Brazilian skin. She spoke to all of his Morris codes and secret languages that she understood all and had contempt for everything that he... .... My assistant -- a lovely person in her own way. She's illiterate in both languages but again in her own unique way a lovely enough character. I g... ...concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish. In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept that wasn't necessari... ... signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele didn't think that there was much of a similarity betwee...

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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 di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... à Kempis as the author; but his claim was disputed. Gerson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the sa... ...were not, as regarded any sympathy with the Jacobinism that then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answere... ... generally called until lately;) but the Bourbon houses, on the thrones of France, Spain, and Naples, as well as the house of Savoy, claimed and exerc... ...es of time—past, present, future—are used (though not equally used) in all languages for this purpose of generaliza- tion. Thus,— 1. The future; as,... ...s. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their cor- responding keys—have t... ...ct word; nor is there any word in any language (because none in the finest languages) which exactly expresses the state; since it is not a depressing,...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...s, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all these he was informed to considerable minuteness. The s... ...general prostration, were not more beneficial to ourselves than finally to France, our enemy, and to the nations of all western or central Eu- rope, t... ...n- ger the safety of tidings running day and night between all nations and languages? Or can it be fancied, amongst the weakest of men, that the bodie... ... alive through central Europe the sense of a deep- seated vulnerability in France. Even to tease the coasts of our enemy, to mortify them by continual... ...Siberian glorifying his coun- try in these terms:—“These wretches, sir, in France and En- gland, cannot march half a mile in any direction without fin...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...brought this warmth into a graceful tribute paid to the victorious arms of France. The musician’s nationality was revealed. “We find France everywhere... ...lways a little bit inquisitive.” “But Sister Theresa may have interests in France. Perhaps she would like to send some message or to hear news.” “I do... ...u to pardon him if he cannot pay them himself, but he knows neither of the languages which you speak—” The aged nun bent her head slowly, with an expr... ..., as you know, have helped with all their might to search every convent in France, Italy, Spain, Sicily, and America. Love burned more brightly for ev...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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