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The coming of the Messiah.

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

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

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ... it seemed to me like taking an advantage of the honest, well-meaning man, to enter the lists against him, unaccoutred as he was. Besides, I was so ... ...that it is but labour in vain to study it otherwise, and that it is time wasted even to listen to the wild and visionary hypothesis which every one w... ...in which this weightiest dispute may be brought to issue. To this end I lay off, as the lists within which I purpose to keep myself, and with which a... ... lineaments of the perfect man or woman, shall ever train her children to become men or women: just as no artist, who doth not present before his yo... ..., to come to particulars, I believe that all the individuals of the human race, men and women, who have ever lived, who do now live, and who shall l... ... are of opinion that he shall have no father, but a mother only, the most wicked of all women; even as Christ, in as far as he was a man, had only a...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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...by Apollonius Rhodius, translation by R. C. Seaton, 1912 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...l. 247 250) Thus they spake here and there through out the city; but the women often raised their hands to the sky in prayer to the immortals to gra... ...o Alcimede sorrows and countless pains hereafter.” (ll. 261 277) Thus the women spake at the departure of the heroes. And now many thralls, men and w... ... for thy nurture have I long enjoyed. Now I, once so admired among Achaean women, shall be left behind like a bondwoman in my empty halls, pin ing aw... ... 763 767) And in it was Phrixus the Minyan as though he were in very deed listening to the ram, while it was like one speaking. Beholding them thou w... ...e, but at once spake out among them all: The Argonautica 45 (ll. 11 18) “Listen, ye wanderers by sea, to what it be fits you to know. It is the rul... ...f his chest and spoke among them with prophetic utterance: (ll. 209 239) “Listen, bravest of all the Hellenes, if it be truly ye, whom by a king’s ru...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...ty in England, where (in company) the men are the pointed talkers, and the women conversationally fair Circassians. They are, or they know that they s... ...ion, unbuttoned, and a laugher. We know that he could be chivalrous toward women, notwithstanding the per- plexities he brought on them, and this the ... ...e case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and pictures the trial, tells the list of witnesses, records the verdict: so the case went, and some thought ... ... is faced, and that is all. The position is one of the battles incident to women, their hardest. It asks for more than justice from men, for generosit... ...or chatter was disregarded. It was visible that the hero of the night hung listening and in expectation. He and the Beauty were named to one another, ... ...t by bit, to my fishing.’ ‘Put off this person for a square dance down the list, and take out Mr. Redworth—Miss Diana Merlon, Mr. Redworth: he will br...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... you up.” She had seen me as I left the copse. With what perfection do all women, even the most guileless, understand the arrangement of a scenic effe... ...e shell-fish, and all edible things,—which fantas- tically suggest men and women and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the... ...and all but reaching the scaffold; forgotten, like so many fascinating old women who expiate their golden youth in country solitudes, and replace thei... ...her-in-law. “If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the mu- sic stand at Tivoli... ...ges of France cannot be reached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of Ameri... ...le-aux-Fayes. Thunder! what a no- bly governed town!—” “Do me the honor to listen, Monsieur le comte, and to believe that I am talking of serious matt...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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...enry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Author of Beltraffio by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Author of Beltraffio by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...t she was “connected with the aristoc- racy.” I have seen poets married to women of whom it was difficult to conceive that they should gratify the po-... ...m it was difficult to conceive that they should gratify the po- etic fancy—women with dull faces and glutinous minds, who were none the less, however,... ...h was not affected by the fact that, as a wife, she appeared peculiar. She listened to me with her face grave again and her lips a little compressed, ... ..., to some disclosure of fond ideals. I was bent on proving I was worthy to listen to him, on repaying him for what he had said to me before dinner, by... ...nged itself in serpen- tine folds at her feet; her hands locked themselves list- lessly together in front; her chin rested on a cinque-cento ruff. The... ...o me to have done some of the things I have! The reconciliation of the two women in ‘Natalina, ’ for instance, which could never really have taken pla...