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...he is a rights-holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But what about the unborn fetus? One approach is that the ... ...versible effects. Consider Sisyphus: forever changing his environment (rolling that stone up the mountain slope). He is conscious, is possessed of ... ...ass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged culpability. But the phenomenon of excl... ... some sinister conspiracy but because they merit it (meritocracy is the foundation stone of capitalism), or because they can force themselves, thei... ...on and regulation. This would be the reversal of a trend dating back to Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundament... ..., failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the... ...... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way ... ...e most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and lang... ...ch- debated indications exist that our Neanderthal, Proto- Neolithic, and Neolithic (Stone Age) predecessors were cannibals. Similarly contested clai...

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...when, returned After long absence, thither I repaired, Gone was the old grey stone, and in its place A smart Assembly room usurped the ground That had... ...l think with me Of those soft starry nights, and that old Dame From whom the stone was named, who there had sate, And watched her table with its hucks... ...es, that sufficed To furnish treats more costly than the Dame Of the old grey stone, from her scant board, supplied. Hence rustic dinners on the cool g... ...s. 400 If these thoughts Are a gratuitous emblazonry That mocks the recreant age ‘we’ live in, then Be Folly and False seeming free to affect Whatever... ...se shepherd swains whom I had lately left Appeared a different aspect of old age; How different! yet both distinctly marked, 555 Objects embossed to c... ... Of trivial pleasures was a poor exchange For books and nature at that early age. 300 ’Tis true, some casual knowledge might be gained Of character or... ...ogether with its parent tree. 265 What, then, were my emotions, when in arms Britain put forth her free born strength in league, Oh, pity and shame! w... ...And tell, since juvenile errors are my theme, 55 What in those days, through Britain, was performed To turn ‘all’ judgments out of their right course;... ...ght be said FRANCE (concluded) 183 Was my condition, till with open war 175 Britain opposed the liberties of France. This threw me first out of the pa...

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...the bowels; and while this was done He stretched their hides over a craggy stone. 21. 21. 21. 21. 21. We mortals let an ox grow old, and then Cut it u... ...hus, what a world of toil, both now And ere these limbs were overworn with age, Have I endured for thee! First, when thou fled’st The mountain-nymphs ... ...Neither here, nor on the dew Of the lawny uplands feeding? Oh, you come!—a stone at you _55 Will I throw to men... ... _290 And ancient women and gray fathers wail Their childless age;—if you should roast the rest— And ’tis a bitter feast that you prepare... ...oot’s tendon, and knocked out his brains Upon the sharp edge of the craggy stone: Then peeled his flesh with a great cooking-knife _395 And pu... ...— With women and the people ’tis the same, Youth will stand foremost ever,—age may go T o the dark grave unhonoured. MINISTER: MINISTER: MINISTER: MIN... ...iences, a Voltaire”.) We find, from the testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and France were much colder than at present, and that the...

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...Have you ever wondered what civilisation brought the Bluestones 200 miles from Wales to Stonehenge? Or the reason why they undertook this monumental task? Then this book is a must for you. Robert John Langdon takes you back 10,000 years to a time when the last Ice Age melted leaving a series of smaller islands a...

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...29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596, when his age was thirty-eight, he became tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, with wh... ...rom Greece into Italy, thence into Africa, next into France, and last into Britain, chose this situation for the convenience of the river, calling it ... ...re are above one hundred and twenty parochial. On the south is a bridge of stone eight hundred feet in length, of wonderful work; it is supported upon... ... in length, of wonderful work; it is supported upon twenty piers of square stone, sixty feet high and thirty broad, joined by arches of about twenty f... ...opinion of many, is Caesar’s city of the Trinobantes, the capi- tal of all Britain, famous for the commerce of many nations; its houses are elegantly ... ...ts that meet them in their course. It is joined to the city by a bridge of stone, wonderfully built; is never increased by any rains, rising only with... ...ld. The government of the city is lodged, by ancient grant of the Kings of Britain, in twenty-four aldermen—that is, seniors: these annually elect out... ...good men, ended this life religiously, after having lived unmarried to the age of fifty-one, at his house in Holborn, on the 20th of November, A.D. 15... ...1485. He died on the twenty-first of April, in the fifty-third year of his age, after a reign of twenty-two years and eight months wanting a day. This...

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...he town and church of Christ at Sudbury began to have the first foundation stones laid, taking up her station in the inland country, as her elder sist... ...he first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord po... ... Some heart beat high that day, Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, Some arm of knightly... ...e long since gone; Not the same hand directs the fight And monumental stone. Ye were the Grecian cities then, The Romes of modern birth, W... ...’s of Concord voyageurs, not to say any prayer for the success of our voy age, but to gather the few berries which were still left on the hills, hang... ...y willows when he moved, fishing in some old country method,—for youth and age then went a fishing together,—full of incommunicable thoughts, perchanc... ...roism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age. “I would rather be a dog, and bay the moon,” than many a Roman that I ...

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...e, e’er since the primal dawn When old Deucalion on the unpeopled earth Cast stones, whence men, a flinty race, were reared. Up then! if fat the soil,... ... he lures the runnel; down it falls, Waking hoarse murmurs o’er the polished stones, And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? Or why of him, ... ...res; or a huge Corn heap the weevil plunders, and the ant, Fearful of coming age and penury. THE GEORGICS 8 Mark too, what time the walnut in the w... ...le twigs; now set your corn to parch Before the fire; now bruise it with the stone. Nay even on holy days some tasks to ply Is right and lawful: this ... ...d pity, when his bright head he veiled In iron hued darkness, till a godless age Trembled for night eternal; at that time Howbeit earth also, and the ... ...he Medes for sweetness lave the lips, And ease the panting breathlessness of age. But no, not Mede land with its wealth of woods, Nor Ganges fair, a... ...And view the victims felled; or how the scene Sunders with shifted face, and Britain’s sons Inwoven thereon with those proud curtains rise. Of gold an... ...cythian steppes, or thy swift flood, Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way, Or Britain, from the whole world sundered far. Ah! shall I ever in aftertime...

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...mblers, on the gateway side. Close to the gateway , against the wall, is a stone block high enough to enable a Nubian sentinel, standing on it, to loo... ...gainst man: he throws a legion at you where you are weakest as he throws a stone from a catapult; and that legion is as a man with one head, a thousan... ... my Reality. These starry lamps of yours I have seen from afar in Gaul, in Britain, in Spain, in Thessaly, sig- nalling great secrets to some eternal ... ...ficer, appears in the log- gia. He is a burly, black-bearded man of middle age, very blunt, prompt and rough, with small clear eyes, and plump nose an... ...ng Ptolemy kindly on the shoulder). So you are the King. Dull work at your age, eh? (T o Pothinus) your servant, Pothinus. (He turns away unconcernedl... ...er years it would have meant, quite seriously and officially, Conqueror of Britain.) RUFIO (calling down). Push off, all except the longboat. Stand by... ...ate purples and dove greys, with ornaments of bronze, oxydized silver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cr... ...RUFIO. To eat. That’s what’s the matter with you. When a man comes to your age, he runs down before his midday meal. Eat and drink; and then have anot... ...slave at each order; and the slave goes out to execute it.) I have been in Britain—that western land of romance—the last piece of earth on the edge of...

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...f not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them: Inde genus durum sumus, exper... ...e are.” So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. Most... ...be with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no bet ter, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, f... ...there is none of it in our own lives? The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the out ward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, cloth... ... linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles. At last, we know not what it is to live in the open air, ... ... poor civilized man, while the savage, who has them not, is rich as a sav age? If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition... ...ound? The govern ment of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after dinner conversations over the wine. The life in us is l...

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...finitely surpasses all the riches of the world; in respect of which precious stones are worthless; in comparison with which silver is as clay and pure... ...oughs by which the young of those who look therein are coloured; ye are the stones of testimony and the pitchers holding the lamps of Gideon, the sc... ...s holding the lamps of Gideon, the scrip of David, from which the smoothest stones are taken for the slaying of Goliath. Ye are the golden vessels o... ...finite host of books lie at Paris or Athens, and at the same time resound in Britain and in Rome! In truth, while resting they yet move, and while ret... ...when they have taken the vows ye do not instruct by fear and force, as their age requires, but allow them to devote themselves to begging expeditions,... ...stored, which when skilfully cleansed and freed from the disfiguring rust of age, deserved to be renovated into comeliness of aspect. And applying in ... ...hick clouds of the skies, they offer their heads, unhonoured by the snows of age, for the mitre of the pontificate. This pest is greatly en couraged,... ...abs and the Romans. Now she has passed by Paris, and now has happily come to Britain, the most noble of islands, nay, rather a microcosm in itself, th...

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...a thousand nails in a day. I have seen several boys, under twenty years of age, who had never exercised any other trade but that of making nails, and ... ...nts nor play- fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupa- tion... ... till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I. of Great Britain. In England, therefore, and for the same reason, I believe, in all ... ...e had for them. Even before the late reformation of the gold coin of Great Britain, the gold, that part of it at least which circu- lated in London an... ...le make a trade of gathering, along the sea-shore, those little variegated stones com- monly known by the name of Scotch pebbles. The price which is p... ...nown by the name of Scotch pebbles. The price which is paid to them by the stone-cutter, is altogether the wages of their labour; neither rent nor pro... ...OMMODITIES THERE IS IN EVERY SOCIETY or neighbourhood an ordinary or aver- age rate, both of wages and profit, in every different employment of labour... ...f any country is the increase of the number of its in- habitants. In Great Britain, and most other European countries, they are not supposed to double... ...kitchen garden. The profit, he said, would not compensate the expense of a stone-wall: and bricks (he meant, I suppose, bricks baked in the sun) mould...

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...tion of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch,... ... when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must corre- spond to something in me to be credible ... ...any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what ... ...o- ing to-day. The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not ... ...to antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away thi... ... is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral. When we have gone through this process, and added the... ...rbolt in the hand of Jove. I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architec- tural scro... ...every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital: so out of the hu- man hear...

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...is troubles. In spite of the wide-spread ignorance among the monks of that age, the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the l... ...he great century, gives us on this subject his own opinion and that of his age: ‘Marot and Rabelais are inexcusable in their habit of scat- tering fil... ...ce, warms herself in a fashion which it is not advisable that dames of our age should imitate. The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Franc... ...ch as balm, ambergris, amomon, musk, civet, with several kinds of precious stones, and other things of great price. Just such another thing was Socrat... ...e the platters neat. I have the word of the gospel in my mouth, Sitio. The stone called asbestos is not more unquenchable than the thirst of my patern... ...and Cretans did mark their good, propitious, and fortunate days with white stones, and their sad, dismal, and unfortunate ones with black. Is not the ... ... threescore pipes, I mean of the good Breton wine, not that which grows in Britain, but in the good country of Verron. Afterwards I wiped my bum, said... ...f these two already published, very speedily to offer up unto this Isle of Britain the virginity of the translation of the other three most admirable ... ... his great buggerly beard. John of Paris was a greaser of boots. Arthur of Britain, an ungreaser of caps. Perce-Forest, a carrier of faggots. Pope Bon...

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...dda,* “Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again. It is in this... ... some of the varieties which are now cultivated were first introduced into Britain by the Romans. Pliny, adopting the distinction of Theophrastus, say... ...riter Palladius said: “If apples are inclined to fall before their time, a stone placed in a split root will retain them.” Some such notion, still sur... ...tain them.” Some such notion, still surviving, may account for some of the stones which we see placed to be overgrown in the forks of trees. They have... ...ortance. Thus it was a half-fabulous tree to me. I contemplated a pilgrim- age to the “Glades,” a portion of Pennsylvania, where it was said to grow t... ...tching world, Nor feared the wandering flocks. But at this tender age Its sufferings began: There came a browsing ox And cut it... ..., and some, especially in damp days, a shelless snail. The very sticks and stones lodged in the tree-top might have convinced you of the savoriness of...

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...heme, this impas- sioned common-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist,... ...s, had it otherwise been possible with my particular mind, and at my early age, was utterly precluded by one remarkable peculiarity in my temper. Whet... ...able expectation and excitement, since our little Francis had become of an age to join our party, which made some aspects of her character trebly inte... ... crow-bar amongst us, but beyond that had no better weapons than the loose stones found about some new- made graves in the chapel. Ratcliffe and Pierp... ...t yield, being of enormous strength; but the wall did, and a large mass of stone-work fell outwards, twisting the door aside; so that, by afterwards w... ... the door aside; so that, by afterwards working with our hands, we removed stones many enough to admit of our egress. Unfortunately this aperture was ... ... as anything beyond a great idea, unless he can prove a residence in Great Britain. One sole case he cites of a din- ner on the Elbe, when a particula... ...f action, i.e., a good ground of war, against Jersey, on the part of Great Britain, since, besides the atrocious injury inflicted, this unprincipled l...

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... a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. I knew one about eight years of age, whose success at guessing in the game of ‘even and odd’ attracted univ... ...us, at once, into the history of Sinbad the sailor: “‘At length, in my old age, [these are the words of Sinbad himself, as retailed by Scheherazade] —... ...ds of Sinbad himself, as retailed by Scheherazade] — ‘at length, in my old age, and after enjoying many years of tranquillity at home, I became once m... ...) ‘leaving this island, we came to another where the forests were of solid stone, and so hard that they shivered to pieces the finest-tempered axes wi... ... It consists of several hundred trees, in an erect position, all turned to stone. Some trees, now growing, are partly petrified. This is a star- tling... ... singular and deso- late. A mass of fragments of trees, all converted into stone, and when struck by his horse’s hoof ringing like cast iron, is seen ... ...t, gave me to understand that he had never visited the metropolis of Great Britain. I might as well here mention, that I have more than once heard, (w... ...xpen- diture with the haughtiest heirs of the wealthiest earldoms in Great Britain. Excited by such appliances to vice, my constitutional tem- peramen...

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...t, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ’Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revol... ...; honoured and admired the men; and the cen sor himself at last, in his old age, fell to the study of that whereof before he was so scrupulous. And y... ...us Caesar of the other faction. But that Naso was by him banished in his old age, for the wanton poems of his youth, was but a mere covert of state ov... ...s Agricola, who governed once here for Caesar, preferred the natural wits of Britain before the laboured studies of the French. Nor is it for nothing ... ... quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, i... ...ion, or that all in a Church is to be expected gold and silver and precious stones: it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the... ...inerva wore, unconquered virgin, Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, And noble grace that dashed b...

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................................................................. 24 THE SA V AGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS ............................................. ... what he was doing: he had alienated numbers of his own disciples and been stoned in the streets for doing it before. He was not lying: he believed li... ...y; and he was older than cre- ation. He was a man who could be persecuted, stoned, scourged, and killed; and he was a god, immortal and all- powerful,... ...heists. It consists of a huge mass of worldly people, and a small percent- age of persons deeply interested in religion and concerned about their own ... ...ties and wonders of the temple building on the ground that presently not a stone of it shall be left on another; reviles the high priests and elders i... ...ies, where even the most eccentric demands for manufactured articles aver- age themselves out until they can be foreseen within a negli- gible margin ... ...ably the old self-contained French Republic and the tight little Island of Britain, into empires which over- flow the frontiers of all the Churches. I...

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...he sinful women; so ran this Down through the sand, its bottom and each bank Stone built, and either margin at its side, Whereon I straight perceiv’d ... ...,” I answer’d, “in the life Serene, I wander’d in a valley lost, Before mine age had to its fullness reach’d. But yester morn I left it: then once mo... ...orld, how just a meed Allotting by thy virtue unto all! I saw the livid stone, throughout the sides And in its bottom full of apertures, All equa... ...the Sardinian and each isle beside Which round that ocean bathes. Tardy with age Were I and my companions, when we came To the strait pass, where Herc... ...uttering not a word I look’d upon the visage of my sons. I wept not: so all stone I felt within. They wept: and one, my little Anslem, cried: “Thou ... ...s intended by these words to be fixed to the thirty fifth year of the poet’s age, A.D. 1300, will appear more plainly in Canto XXI. where that date is... ... which a happy use is made of the traditions that are still current in North Britain concerning him. He is mentioned by G. Villani. Hist. l. x. c. cv....

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...nt the young couple had a sorry struggle for existence. When Edgar, at the age of two years, was orphaned, the family was in the utmost destitution. A... ...stow. Mr. Allan took much pride in the captivating, precocious lad. At the age of five the boy recited, with fine ef- fect, passages of English poetry... ...thing for a friend. His nature was entirely free from selfishness.” At the age of seventeen Poe entered the University of Vir- ginia at Charlottesvill... ...rtist in words, as a knowledge of anatomy is to the artist in colors or in stone. This enables him to conceive truly, to maintain a proper relation of... ... east- ward, although perfectly discernible, extended the islands of Great Britain, the entire Atlantic coasts of France and Spain, with a small porti... ...of sub- stances occasionally picked up on the earth, and termed me- teoric stones for want of a better appellation. “April 16th. To-day, looking upwar... ...uffering much longer. During the now brief interval of darkness a meteoric stone again passed in my vicin- ity, and the frequency of these phenomena b...