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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean 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 N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...t dressed. She turned on the television but realizing it was Sunday and that church programming had usurped her exorcise regimen she felt disappointed... ... fenced in nice. You know that. You will be happy there. The house is near a Catholic school. You will go there each day with those monkeys of hers. M... ...to not go that far. She drove on and on and soon she could see the roof of a church. In an hour, she thought, there would be the culmination of activi... ...hurch?" Gabriele thought of the Wicca services. They always reminded her of Catholic masses but without the Eucharist. However, they tapped into a m... ... 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 disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ...intly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspe... ... this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches. I do not mean that such a fact would have absolutely deafened Pro... ...em towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic demurs, the difference between them and my own is broad. They, wit... ... 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... ...fect. One part of the effect from the symbolic is dependent upon the great catholic principle of the Idem in alio. The symbol restores the theme, but ...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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... ! "# ! St. Ives, The ... ...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ... as if we had been baboons, sought to evangelise us to their rus- tic, northern religion, as though we had been savages, or tortured us with intellige... ...uses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets and gargoyl... ... al- ready on the door to go. Perhaps this attitude emboldened me to profit by the last seconds of our interview; and it certainly rendered her escape... ... at last upon the point of dis- covery fell of his own hand. And the nightmare at the cross- roads was the regular punishment, according to the laws o... ...ed to be astonished, or so susceptible of rendering the emotion of surprise; and it tempted me as an open piano tempts the musician. ‘Nothing of the s... ..., a little manner I had of shrugging the shoulders; and I may say it was by observing it in him that I first discovered it in myself. One day it came ... ...red it in myself. One day it came out by chance that I was of the Catholic religion. He became plunged in thought, at which I was gently glad. Then su...

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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...

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...ennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ssociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elect... ...ork run out, and went down for the night to Apia; put in Sunday afternoon with our consul, ‘a nice young man,’ dined with my friend H. J. Moors in t... ...he form of a fictitious narrative of the voyage of one Mr. Pye, an English traveller, and his conversation with a chief; there are touches of satire ... ...rein; two of my old stories, ‘Delafield’ and ‘Shovel,’ are incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with some of the brevity of history, so... ...y more ahead before this cup is drained; sweat and hyssop are the ingredients. We are clearing from Carruthers’ Road to the pig fence, twenty-eight po... ...n’t be. Did not go down last night. It showered all afternoon, and poured heavy and loud all night. You should have seen our twenty-five popes (the Sa... ...ein Are Set Forth the Misfortunes in Which He Was Involved upon the Appin Murder; His Troubles with Lord Advocate Prestongrange; Captivity on the Bass... ...nces, and we got to Apia a be- draggled enough pair. All the way along the coast, the pate (small wooden drum) was beating in the villages and the peo...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

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...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...lished in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...when Nikolay had been in the devout stage, the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for... ...f more disagreements and intrigues against the work of the unification of the churches, and departed in haste, as she had that day to be at the meeting... ...setting, but one can’t tear oneself away,” said another lady. “If I’d been a Roman woman I should never have missed a single circus.” Anna said nothin... ...eatures, which she represented herself to be. No one knew what her faith was—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. But one fact was indubitable—she was i... ... accord with Christian meekness. She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, Madame Stahl had studiously kept her face in th... ...easant had gone. 358 Anna Karenina “Oh, I stayed in Germany, in Prussia, in France, and in England—not in the capitals, but in the manufacturing town...

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... 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 would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times....

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... THE SUCCUBUS ............................................................................................................................ 91 DESPAIR IN LOVE ...................................................................................................................... 137 EPILOGUE ........................................................................................

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...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania... ...is period of insurrection, pacifications and disturbances, the language of France was a little disturbed also, on account of the inventions of the poe... ...y of Anjou, the country people are very faith- ful servants to our Holy of Catholic religion, and none of them will lose his portion of paradise for l... ...ression. “‘Ah! said he; ‘God has punished me for not going to ves- pers at Church.’ “And he began to excuse himself as best he could, saying, that the... ...cholastic ties which united him to the emperor, that the eldest son of the Catholic Church was concerned in the af- fair, and was good enough to send ... ... ties which united him to the emperor, that the eldest son of the Catholic Church was concerned in the af- fair, and was good enough to send to Spain ... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... .................................... 154 I. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. ............................. 154 II. ON SIR ... ... THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT, ONLY SON OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, AT THE CHURCH OF STANTON HARCOURT, IN OXFORDSHIRE, 1720. ............................ ...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...cendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly af... ...taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Twyford, near Winchester; and while there, read Ogil... ...ree,—some say to the Duke of Berry, whom she had met in her early youth in France. In despair of obtaining her desire, she hanged her- self. It is cur... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a...

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life:...

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........................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3.1.IV. September in Paris. ............................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. .............................................................

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by W... ...d to boast, as I have heard, that she not only brought back my Lord to the Church of England, but procured the English peerage for him, which the juni... ...ll off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides V ersailles and Windsor? I saw Queen Anne at the... ... alone in the world: when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing that morning to welcome the arrival of the new lord and lady... .... She was maid of honor to the Queen Henrietta Maria; she early joined the Roman Church; her father, a weak man, following her not long after at Breda... ...rwards, his cousin whom he had refused. By places, pensions, bounties from France, and gifts from the King, whilst his daughter was in favor, Lord Cas... ...r on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighb... ... was far from him to say that his Majesty’s Church was not a branch of the Catholic Church; upon which Father Holt used, 45 Thackeray according to hi...

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ... as to hope Miss Archer might know them well. One of the brothers was in the Church, settled in the family living, that of Lockleigh, which was a heav... ...onservative, and gave no countenance to the government lately established in France. He had no faith in its duration and would assure you from year to... ...bre Florentine streets, resting a while in the thicker dusk of some historic church or the vaulted chambers of some dispeopled convent. She went to th... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we...

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