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...hich was so unintelli- gible to others, she answered by throwing her whole soul into the expression of her countenance, and in this manner were the co... ...natural feeling of relationship was added the con- sciousness of his moral superiority. The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be rever... ...ng?” asked Monte Cristo. “The study does not take long; it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious.” “And what is the pay?” “A thousand fran... ...ts all day long.” “How long have you been here?” “Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen.” “You are — “ “Fifty-five years old.” “How long... ...ed, and in which, when we are forced to leave them, we leave a part of our souls. The servants passed gayly along the fine court-yard; some, belonging... ...hateau-Renaud, “I was not wrong just now then, when I said that houses had souls and faces like men, and that their exteriors carried the impress of t... ...lly do after you have had the dose which I am accustomed to give you every Sunday?” “Yes.” “Did Barrois make your lemonade?” “Yes.” “Was it you who as... ...heard the noisy play of his son, who had returned from school to spend the Sunday and Monday with his mother. While doing so, he observed M. Noirtier ...

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... seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of which ... ...haps after all it was not simply indigestion that troubled him. Behind the superficialities of Mr. Polly’s being, moved a larger and vaguer distress. ... ...y enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of hi... ...gi- nation kept up a fight against the things that threatened to overwhelm soul and body together. Outside the regions dev- astated by the school curr... ... we beg to inform you,” and so on. The compression of Mr. Polly’s mind and soul in the edu- cational institutions of his time, was terminated abruptly... ...hours of the afternoon to gossip in the packing- room of the warehouse; on Sundays and Bank holidays they went for long walks together, talking. Platt... ... of writing in the world, and I am not certain they were wrong, and on wet Sunday evenings where there was danger of hymn singing they would get Parso... ... other men to get through with their work when he might have gone early, a superhu- man thing to do. Polly was secretly a little afraid to be left alo... ...ut pleasant Sunday af- ternoon in a back seat, inventing such phrases as: “Soulful Owner of the Exorbiant Largenial Develop- ment.”—An Adam’s Apple be...

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...ot used to make 55 A present joy the matter of my song, Pour out that day my soul in measured strains, Even in the very words which I have here Record... ...d towards the vale which I had chosen. 100 It was a splendid evening, and my soul Did once again make trial of the strength Restored to her afresh; no... ...s often chearing; for I neither seem To lack that first great gift, the vital soul, Nor general truths which are themselves a sort Of elements and agen... ...onquer’d and Conqueror. Thus the pride of strength, 70 And the vain glory of superior skill Were interfus’d with objects which subdu’d And temper’d th... ...the mind Is mov’d by feelings of delight, to me 350 Came strengthen’d with a superadded soul, A virtue not its own. My morning walks Were early; oft, ... ...deep quiet and majestic thoughts 210 Of loneliness succeeded empty noise And superficial pastimes, now and then Forced labour, and more frequently forc... ...resher course. With thoughts unfelt till now I saw her read Her bible on the Sunday afternoons, And loved the book when she had dropped asleep 220 And... ... by Arthur’s Seat, 235 To Fairfield’s highest summit. On the right Leaving St Sunday’s Pike, to Grisedale Tarn They shot, and over that cloud loving hi...

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... it is! It has the implements, and has the hands: the time is not long. On Sunday the twenty-sixth of August, our Primary Assemblies shall meet, begin... ...ugust, our Primary Assemblies shall meet, begin electing of Elec- tors; on Sunday the second of September (may the day prove lucky!) the Electors shal... ...ng, scheming, stitching, founding, with all their heart and with all their soul. Two bells only are to remain in each Parish,—for tocsin and other pur... ... trousers;’ breathing death and the gallows. And lo, finally! at Verdun on Sunday the 2d of Septem- ber 1792, Brunswick is here. With his King and six... ...her the Flag of Country in Danger flapped soothing or distractively on the souls of men, that day. But the Improvised Commune, but strong Danton is no... ...-miserere, its mothers’ tears, and soldiers’ farewell shoutings,—the pious soul might have prayed, that day, that God’s grace would restrain, and grea... ...rt of desperation, and hydrophobia from excess of water, is threatening to super- vene. Young Prince de Ligne, son of that brave literary De Ligne the... ...otable phases and oc- currences it will successively throw up. One general superficial circumstance we remark with praise: the force of Politeness. To... ...Earth can prevent me from seeing into traitors, and unmasking them,”—by my superior originality of mind? (Moniteur Newspaper, Nos. 271, 280, 294, Anne...

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...e struggle to mount on board became desperate and savage, but stimulating. Souls surcharged with hostility found now some outlet for their feelings. ... ...y. There were several colliers in the room, talking quietly. They were the superior type all, favoured by the landlady, who loved intellectual discuss... ...pokesman on the pit bank: or when he read the all-righteous newspaper; his soul curdled with re- vulsion as from something foul. Even the infernal lov... ...of fact, the doctor was weep- ing too, for he was an emotional sympathetic soul, over forty. “Never mind—never mind—you aren’t alone,” came the doctor... ... JOSEPHINE had invited Aaron Sisson to dinner at a restaurant in Soho, one Sunday evening. They had a corner to them- selves, and with a bottle of Bur... ...of the world-friend—well, let it be quits. He was not sure whether he felt superior to his unworldly enemy or not. He rather thought he did. 121 D. H... ...n the blue silk bedroom with the Greuze picture, and felt a little dim and superficial surprise. He had fallen into country house parties before, but ... ... houses. Then a sort of boulevard where bourgeois families were taking the Sunday afternoon walk: stout papas, stout, pallid mamas in rather cheap bla... ...lien, alien, as a bourgeois crowd always does, but particularly a foreign, Sunday-best bourgeois crowd. Aaron wandered and wandered, finding the tram ...

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...the Deficit we venture on a hazardous step, sale of the Clergy’s Lands and superfluous Edifices; most hazardous. Nay, given the sale, who is to buy th... ...a-Marat:’ but were it not singular if this dirk-and-muff plan of his (with superficial modifica- tions) proved to be precisely the plan adopted? After... ...ee next, and long- 25 Thomas Carlyle skirted Turks, O Paul; and thy fiery soul has wasted itself in thousand contradictions;—to no purpose. For, in f... ...r, he finds himself in the Paris Athens; surely, at last, the haven of his soul. A dashing man, beloved at Patriotic dinner-tables; with gaiety, nay w... ...part, trains up a 27 Thomas Carlyle youthful d’Orleans generation in what superfinest morality one can; gives meanwhile rather enigmatic account of f... ...truly, my Patriot Friends, if Liberty, the passion and prayer of all men’s souls, means Liberty to send your fifty-thousandth part of a new Tongue-fen... ...rs, he is even got under way; the Lunevillers all turning out, in the idle Sunday, to see such departure: home-going of mutinous Mestre-de-Camp with i... ...is an escape to no purpose. For the Carabineers, to whom after the hardest Sunday’s ride on record, he has come circling back, ‘stand deliberating by ... ...hed by sound of trumpet, ‘invite to repose;’ with small effect. And so, on Sunday the 17th, there shall be a thing seen, worthy of remembering. Scroll...

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... about it. “What want you, little one?” said the lady to him. “To yield my soul to you,” said he, flashing his eyes upon her. “You can come again to-m... ...o was a cunning Ital- ian, long bearded, a great sophist, and the life and soul of the Council, guessed, by the feeblest exercise of the faculties of ... ...d be a thing most profitable and pleasant to God to gain over this African soul to the true religion, and if the devil were lodged in this feminine bo... ...nds and covered them with kisses, whispering to her little endearments and super- ficial words of affection which made her quite pleased and contented... ...overed a mys- tery of natural alchemy, while colouring her complexion, and superagitating her feeble imagination, which did little to pacify her warli... ...struggled like a mule held by a rope. THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN. THE SUNDAY FOLLOWING the arrival of Rene at the manor of Roche-Corbon, Blanche ... ...e saw in the court- yard of her castle the little Jallanges, who under the superin- tendence of an old groom was turning and wheeling about on a fine ... ... on, for the lover journeyed the night before after night fall, and on the Sunday in the early morning. As soon as Carandas had verified the arrangeme...

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... as such. She was a good, good woman! She went to church three times every Sunday , and to morning prayers on Wednes days and Fridays, and to lecture... ...rely through his solicitors, Messrs. Kenge and Carboy, of Lon don. A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. T ruly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods ... ..., sir,” said I. He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there was a gre... ...– Dickens “Quite well, quite well! Now don’t be troublesome, that’s a good soul!” said Mr. Kenge, leading the way back. “By no means,” said the poor o... ...tives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dickens Mr. Jarndyce, who ... ...lt to keep her from the door.” Some neighbouring bells, reminding the poor soul that it was half past nine, did more for us in the way of bringing our... ...et him live and admire the human family, do it somehow or other, like good souls, and suffer him to ride his rocking horse!” 74 Bleak House – Dickens... ...reproaches the tax gatherers, appoints the times and places of devotion on Sundays, licenses Mr. Snagsby’s entertain ments, and acknowledges no respo... ...he spar rows and the leaves are, also to lounge about the Rolls Yard of a Sunday afternoon and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old tim...

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...ecompense to themselves their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatter... ...uch her in feriors; so it is matter of no greater astonishment, that this superiority in Jenny, together with that behaviour which is its certain con... ...tion of all the young women in these parts, had publickly shone forth on a Sunday in a new silk gown, with a laced cap, and other proper appendages to... ...e and misery, which unavoidably ends in the destruc tion of both body and soul. “Can any pleasure compensate these evils? Can any temp tation have... ...ven a sollicitation to the contrary: for, indeed, such sollicitations from superiors always savour very strongly of commands. But all here were free f... ... the occa sion of all their sufferings. I could not bear it, sir; upon my soul, I could not.” [Here the tears ran down his cheeks, and he thus procee... ...untry. Congreve well says there is in true beauty something which vulgar souls cannot admire; so can no dirt or rags hide this something from those ... ...om had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday. The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambit... ... what doth your la’ship think? the girl that your la’ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her...

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... may stumble on a mill-house, tolling and trembling there, fathoms deep in superincumbent forest. On the carpet of clean sward, troops of horses and h... ...quite a fleet of ships must be remembered, and a strong staff of captains, supercar- goes, overseers, and clerks. These last mess together at a libera... ...nia, and Hawaii it has been either suppressed or placed under close public supervision. In Samoa, where it still flourishes, there is no regulation of... ...LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887 Y OU RIDE IN A GERMAN plantation and see no bush, no soul stirring; only acres of empty sward, miles of cocoa-nut alley: a deser... ...rd the Nurnberg (as they un- derstood) for Samoa, anchored in England on a Sunday, were joined en route by the famous Dr. Knappe, passed through “a na... ...cuous; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured; and the one note- worthy event was the mutilation of Capt... ... gaping hollow of the reef. Of her whole complement of nearly eighty, four souls were cast alive on the beach; and the bodies of the remain- der were,...

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... impression he had made upon me. And from that I went on to talk about the Super Man, for this encounter had suddenly crystallised out a set of realis... ...I do not clearly remember, but this is what I had in mind. The idea of the superman is an idea that has been devel- oped by various people ignorant of... ...Helped by a streak of antic egotism in themselves, they con- ceived of the superman as a posturing personage, misunder- stood by the vulgar, fantastic... ...e world below…. Pheeee—woooo—Bang! One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning ... ...is feelings, our chauffeur abandoned the horn altogether and put his whole soul into the accelera- tor…. 3 3 3 3 3 Soissons was in very much the same ... ...as then asking questions about their practicability; he filled many simple souls with terror; they thought him a most dan- gerous lunatic. The actual ... ...he forgotten and neglected king- ship of God. The sin that is stirring the souls of men is the sin of this war. It is the sin of national egotism and ...

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... at my age a woman’s follies ought to be justified by beauty, youth, fame, superior merit— some one of the splendid qualities which can dazzle us to t... ... to Crevel’s great amazement. Such mean seducers cannot understand a great soul. “I, a widower five years since,” Crevel began, in the tone of a man w... ...ho sees herself respected and loved by her fam- ily; and I will give up my soul to God unspotted—” “Amen!” exclaimed Crevel, with the diabolical rage ... ...s the door.—”For a libertine!” said he, with a lofty grimace of virtue and superior wealth. “If you are right, my constancy has some merit, monsieur. ... ...cest gifts—distinction, dig- nity, grace, refinement, elegance, flesh of a superior texture, and a complexion mingled in the unknown laboratory where ... ...tuition to discern what were the motives in a simple, guileless, and noble soul for the fanati- cism of Madame Hulot’s love. Having fully persuaded he... ...you to give up working,” said the Baroness. “If you earn forty sous a day, Sundays excepted, that makes six hundred francs a year. Well, then, how muc... ...o conclude the bargain, “you have my consent. We will sign the contract on Sunday next, and the wedding shall be on the following Saturday, my wife’s ... ...will probably smile as he calls up the images of all that company in their Sunday-best faces as well as their finest frippery. If any social event can...

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...he texts. The writer of St. John’s gospel was a free man, but Origen was a superstitious man. He was emasculated mentally as well as bodily through hi... ...g, inspiring, and lov- able, who exists or strives to exist in every human soul. He will be much less certain in his denials that his God has a close ... ...cal fantasy must have been the work of a sincerely religious man, the cold superb humour of that burlesque creed, ascribed, at first no doubt facetiou... ...ce and time. It sees only a featureless presump- tion in that playing with superlatives which has entertained so many minds from Plotinus to the Hegel... ...men come to God. It would not matter very much if it were not that simpler souls are caught in these webs. Every great religious system in the world i... ...en. It is not easy for us to grasp at first the full meaning of giving our souls to God. The missionary and teacher of any creed is all too apt to haw... ...schemes of the un- godly. He is represented as going Sabbath-breakering on Sunday morning as a Staffordshire worker goes ratting. Or- dinary everyday ... ...r example by special days of national prayer or an increased observance of Sunday—or made ma- lignant by neglect or levity. It is almost fundamental i...

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... the weather, or any other common matter — “You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs — and bodies?” I said I... ..., I could invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like ... ...a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of inse... ...eem to me that of all the childish, idiotic, chuckle headed, chicken livered super stitions that ev — oh, damn Merlin!” But Clarence had slumped to h... ...nd sincerely afraid of Merlin’s pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to ta... ...You will not need to do the sun a real hurt — ah, forget not that, on your soul forget it not! Only make a little darkness — only the littlest littl... ...for I was afraid of the Church. I had started a teacher factory and a lot of Sunday schools the first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable syst... ...hat matter. But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildin... ...amsel was but fifteen year of age —” Billows of thought came rolling over my soul, and the voice faded out of my hearing! Fifteen! Break — my heart! o...

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...an myself, and needed a protector, I found one in 5 Thackeray yonder kind soul, who has gone to his account repenting of the innocent wrong he has do... ...between them; and, though Lord Castlewood was the kindest and most pliable soul alive, his spirit was very high; and hence that meeting which has brou... ...read in the young gentleman’s eyes, which had now no fear of hers or their superannuated authority, that he knew or suspected the truth about his birt... ... years, and which left him after he said mass for the repose of the king’s soul. There was M. Marais, a surgeon in Auvergne, who had a palsy in both h... ...ere the banns about to be published, as no doubt they were, that very next Sunday at Walcote Church, Esmond swore that he would be present to shout No... ...uke was so yet; Mr. Webb had said a thousand things against him, which his superior had pardoned; and his Grace, whose spies were everywhere, had hear... ... with him: and Henry Esmond, on his return to Chelsey, found himself quite super- seded in her favor by her younger kinsman. The feat of drink- ing th... ... courted and married and buried the last one. Quitting the Guard-table one Sunday afternoon, when by chance Dick had a sober fit upon him, be and his ... ...d – Book Two CHAPTER XII I GET A COMPANY IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1706. ON W HIT-SUNDAY, the famous 23rd of May, 1706, my young lord first came under the fi...

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...gets glimpses of their furniture, revelations of their habits, and whiffs of their cooking, that a life-time of ordinary intercourse would not offer. Superficial differences vanish, and so (how much oftener) do superficial resemblances; while deep unsuspected similarities and disagreements, deep common attractions and repulsions, declare themselves. It is one of these fund...

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... of their cooking, that a life time of ordinary intercourse would not offer. Superficial differences vanish, and so (how much oftener) do superficial re... ... The observer, if he has eyes and an imagination, will be struck first by the super ficial dissemblances, and they will give his picture the sharp sugg... ...big ones)—it is unfortunate that at this moment France should be, in so many superficial ways, unlike the normal peace time France and that those who a... ...aks down as soon as a moral issue is involved. They say corporations have no souls; neither have governments that are not answerable to a free people ... ... quietly with his family, and to read his paper afterward; time to go off on Sundays and holidays on long pleasant country rambles; time, almost any d...

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...iforms, seedy out-at-elbowed coats, and the like—or the contrary say, when souls come to be stripped of their wicked deceiving bodies, and turned out ... ...sion were ready to follow it to James Town, where the Prince de Joinville, superior commandant of the expedition, would be ready to receive it and con... ...er flag at the stern and the royal standard at the maintopgallant-mast. On Sunday, the 18th, at eight in the morning, the ‘Belle Poule’ quitted St. He... ...Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek super- stition, and adored for his mildness and benevolence of disposition)... ...ith violet velvet crape, and the whole vast machine was drawn by horses in superb housings, led by valets in the imperial livery. Fancy at the head of...

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...red itself for such a labor, I shrank from it as too fatiguing—and also as super- fluous; since, if the proofs had satisfied the compatriots of Catali... ...d wheel- ers into the right direction, and forced them, by pure physi- cal superiority, into working. We furnished a joyous and comic spectacle to eve... ...osed so severely by Spittler, the German, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of English history. Hence the feeble credulity ... ...ffirmative doctrines, interest- ing to man, such as the immortality of the soul, a futurity of retribution, &c., might be here commemorated. And now, ... ... " ...................................................... 141 9. All Souls’ " ...................................................... 98 1... ...and compelled a Pacha to lay down his arms on the road between Yannina and Souli. It was even proposed by the gallant partisan, Mark Bozzaris, that al... ...sailed to Patrass, and reached it on the fifteenth of April. This was Palm Sunday, and it dawned upon the Greeks with evil omens. First came a smart s...

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...ed up of Darkness) it spoke to thee—things unspeakable, that went into thy soul’s soul. Strong was he that had a Church, what we can call a Church: he... ...hilosophism knows only this: her other belief is mainly that, in spiritual supersensual matters no Belief is possible. Unhappy! Nay, as yet the Contra... ...ce of the Basest,—must read the narrative of those things by Besenval, and Soulavie, and the other Court Newsmen of the time. He will see the Versaill... ... Foreignness, uncondi- tioned Possibility. The Heathen Emperor asks of his soul: Into what places art thou now departing? The Catholic King must answe... ... Society, with the Nation of men! Of such it may be affirmed even that the superficial aspect, that the inward feeling of full health, is generally om... ...d problem of Government, and all other points mere acci- dental crotchets, superficialities, and beatings of the wind! For let Charter-Chests, Use and... ...atables is levied; getting clamorous for food. The twelfth July morning is Sunday; the streets are all placarded with an enormous-sized De par le Roi,... ...t Tuileries Garden itself, where the fugitives are vanishing? Not show the Sunday promenaders too, how steel glitters, besprent with blood; that it be... ... Launay, as we hinted, withdrew ‘into his interior’ soon after midnight of Sunday. He remains there ever since, ham- pered, as all military gentlemen ...

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...rtask even the energy of America to send out an emigration of four million souls, to provide for their wants in a new and uncultivated country, and to... ... heart and spirit for long, long years. But your trade has eaten into your souls, and you love American cotton better than American loyalty and Americ... ...nd the second is that the republican nature of the people will not brook a superior or aristo- cratic classification of traveling. As regards the firs... ...y called upon to record that number, so that it may now be considered as a superlative in local phraseology, signifying a very great many indeed. The ... ... islands is, I may not say unequaled, or I shall be guilty of running into super- latives myself, but it is in its way equal to anything I have seen. ... ...ing, and were forced by the circumstances of the line to pass a melancholy Sunday at the place. The cars do not run on Sundays, and run but once a day... ...t, and we understand it also. We know where your hearts are—nay, your very souls. They are among the slave-begotten cotton bales of the rebel South.” ... ...d with greater rapidity. I ascertained that the work went on, week day and Sunday, day and night, incessantly—rivers of wheat and rivers of maize ever... ...ortable under the new dispen- sation—and the elderly men also, as I fancy. Sunday, as regards the outer streets, is sabbatical. But Sunday eve- nings ...

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...e, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in... ... pictures pasted on door and cupboard. But there was no rest for the alien soul till he had made sure of the telegraph office. He asked the Clokes’ da... ... as never till then had they found time to talk—these things contented her soul, and her body throve. “Have you realized,” she asked one morning, “tha... ...ou lunch with us? The vicar usually comes too. I don’t use the horses on a Sunday”—she glanced at the Brazilian’s silver-plated chariot. “It’s only a ... ...e of the hanger over a cup-like hollow. People by twos and threes in their Sunday best filed slowly along the paths that connected farm to farm. 24 A... ... the outer works, consulting engineer, head of the immigration bureau, and superintendent of woods and forests; “but your own people won’t go about to... ...is surroundings. He had gone for an unauthorised walk with Vixen early one Sunday morning, and a very young and foolish artilleryman (his battery had ... ... hundred now. Get your papers.” A Planet liner, east bound, heaves up in a superb spiral and takes the air of us humming. Her underbody colloid is ope... ... finding no improvement, had dropped a couple of thousand. There she met a superb wulli-wa, and was blown up spinning like a dead leaf. In- stead of s...

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... told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon Adventures, to rise by... ...ry for daily Bread, or harrast with perplex’d Circumstances, which rob the Soul of Peace, and the Body of Rest; not enrag’d with the Passion of Envy, ... ...n Plantations; and in a Word, the Ques tion was, whether I would go their Super Cargo in the Ship to manage the Trading Part upon the Coast of Guinea... ...d in a Thousand Pieces by the Breach of the Sea. However, we committed our Souls to God in the most earnest Manner, and the Wind driving us towards th... ... impossible to express to the Life what the Extasies and Transports of the Soul are, when it is so sav’d, as I may say, out of the very Grave; and I d... ... Weather. The 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and Part of the 12th. (for the 11th was Sunday) I took wholly up to make me a Chair, and with much ado brought it t... ...ing I pull’d it in Pieces several times. Note, I soon neglected my keeping Sundays, for omitting my Mark for them on my Post, I forgot which was which... ... Days, in the various Providences which befel me; and which, if I had been superstitiously inclin’d to observe Days as Fatal or Fortunate, I might hav...

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...ry, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man?s whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fibre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, desiccated, and scientifically decomposed: our spiritual Faculties, of which it appears there are not a few, have their Stewarts, Cousins, Royer Collards...

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...I — ORGANIC FILAMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 CHAPTER VIII — NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM . . . . . . . . . 163 CHAPTER IX — CIRCUMSPECTIVE . . . .... ...nment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fibre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dis sected, distilled,... ...cience,— the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man’s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other T... ...ll the Intellect of the place assembled of an evening); and there, with low, soul stirring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a w... ...d prescribed by ever active Influences, which doubtless to Intelligences of a superior order are neither invisible nor illegible. “For such superior In... ...tate of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject. 34 SARTOR RESARTUS C... ...ore than Cassocks and Surplices; and do not at all mean the mere haberdasher Sunday Clothes that men go to Church in. Far from it! Church Clothes are,...

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...S, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASS...

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...HAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFI... ...NG UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 COAST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH... .... . . . . . . 117 CHAPTER XXVI — SAN FRANCISCO—MONTEREY CHAPTER XXVII — THE SUNDAY WASH UP—ON SHORE—A SET TO—A . . . . . . . . . . . 122 GRANDEE—’’SA... ...II — CRACKING ON—PROGRESS HOMEWARD—A PLEASANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 SUNDAY—A FINE SIGHT—BY PLAY CHAPTER XXXIV — NARROW ESCAPES—THE EQUATOR—... ..., tight round the hips, and thence hanging long and loose round the feet, a superabundance of checked shirt, a low crowned, well varnished black hat,... ...o duty as sailors in the forecastle. Where there are no passengers and no supercargo, as in our vessel, he has no companion but his own dignity, a... ...ow what I was! Now you know what I am!’’—‘‘I’ll make you toe the mark, every soul of you, or I’ll flog you all, fore and aft, from the boy, up!’’—‘‘Yo... ...en from sight, and except the three men in the house, there was not a living soul within a league. The coati (a wild animal of a nature and appearanc... ... turn was made fast, and the crew dismissed; and in five minutes more, not a soul was left on board the good ship Alert, but the old ship keeper, who ...

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...imes a book fair to see may—to use a lofty expres- sion—have no individual soul. Obviously a book of that sort cannot die. It can only crumble into du... ...ho often, especially in his youth, is inclined to lay a claim of exclusive superiority for his own amongst all the other tasks of the human mind. The ... ...ion. It gives an author—goodness only knows why—an elated sense of his own superior- ity. And there is nothing more dangerous than such an elation to ... ...being made so. If the flight of imaginative thought may be allowed to rise superior to many moralities current amongst mankind, a novelist who would t... ...of arms and sound of trumpets. Those are ad- ventures in which only choice souls are ever involved. And Mr. Henry James records them with a fearless a... ...gifted with tenderness and intelligence. Their more delicate and audacious souls are good judges of courage. Their finer penetration has discovered hi... ..., and sudden death on the other. For all the space we steamed through that Sunday evening must now be one great minefield, sown thickly with the seeds...

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...an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture and architecture and saturate his soul with the beauty he makes possible? The new Automobile Club, for exampl... ...rves of an elderly orthodoxy and the last repository of a decaying gift of superseded tongues. They are needed too urgently to make our leaders leader... ...begin- ning it is bound to be thin, ragged, forced, crammy, text- bookish, superficial, and all the rest of it. As reasonable to complain that the chi... ...to find an archangel who will better it dictatorially. For the good of our souls there are no such be- ings to relieve us of our collective responsibi... ...n to our present economic system, which has counted our workers neither as souls nor as heads, but as hands. They are beginning to accept the suggesti... ...a- sion of medical research by the chemist; our naval develop- ment to the supersession of the sailor by the engineer; we sweep away the coachman with... ...of a centre-piece; a truth that the myriad little structures ‘attended’ on Sundays and on the ‘off’ evenings of their ‘sociables’ proclaim as with the... ...aps, to be judged best by an observant stroller, surveying the crowds of a Sunday evening in New York, or read in the sheets of such a mirror of popul... ...n New York, or read in the sheets of such a mirror of popular taste as the Sunday edition of the New York American or the New York Herald. In the form...

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...ages and slaughtered young and old, with pious fierceness, while the godly souls throughout the land were helping them with prayer. Several ministers ... ...verse, except with the dead of many years ago. But his voice stirred their souls. They confronted the soldiers, not wholly without arms, and ready to ... ...llenwood was announced soon after Mrs. Dabney’s return to her native city. Superfi- cial observers, and deeper ones, seemed to concur in suppos- ing t... ...timent, in those who felt aright, was solemnized the union of two immortal souls. The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, ... ...heir parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes. Spruce bachelors looked sidelong at the pretty maidens, and... ...a careful wife had starched his band, and brushed the weekly dust from his Sunday’s garb. There was but one thing remarkable in his appearance. Swathe... ...le, where the good clergyman had been wont to bless the food, almost every Sunday since his settlement. He returned, therefore, to the parsonage, and,... ... and muslin cap, though the countenance retained the composure of death. A superstitious old woman was the only witness of this prodigy. From the coff... ...iscover the secret which it was supposed to hide. By persons who claimed a superiority to popular prejudice, it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim,...

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...der which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning ... ...e how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange fr... ...de and companion to his nieces. But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed ... ...ia, uneasily. “No, dear, no,” said Dorothea, stroking her sister’s cheek. “Souls have com plexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.” 8... ...your property.” Celia felt a little hurt. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond fl... ...ings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.” 14 Book I — Miss Brooke “Has Mr. Casaubon a great s... ...9 “Half a crown, these times! Come now—for the Rector’s chicken broth on a Sunday. He has consumed all ours that I can spare. You are half paid with t... ...e same pew for generations, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter’s death, everybody was to know that the prop... ...onsciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he sho...

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...der which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning ... ...e how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange fr... ...ia, uneasily. “No, dear, no,” said Dorothea, stroking her sister’s cheek. “Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.” “But... ...ings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.” “Has Mr. Casaubon a great soul?” Celia was not witho... ...der sister. He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best. He ... ...vent of my introduction to you (which, let me again say, I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs, but providentially relat... ...” “Half-a-crown, these times! Come now—for the Rector’s chicken-broth on a Sunday. He has consumed all ours that I can spare. Y ou are half paid with ... ...same pew for genera- tions, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter’s death, everybody was to know that the prop... ...nsciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he sho...

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........................................................................................................................................ 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORATION OF KING JAMES II. ...... 42 CHAPTER VI THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS.?THE DEATH OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT OF CASTLEWOOD; AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF HIS VISCOUNTESS........................

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............................................................. 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORA TION OF KING JAMES II. ........ ...came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his officers was superior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my poor George, who had t... ...made persons exceedingly afraid of him. His courtesy was not put on like a Sunday suit, and laid by when the company went away; it was always the same... ...who had never looked upon so much beauty before, felt as if the touch of a superior being or angel smote him down to the ground, and kissed the fair p... ...een waiting-woman to her ladyship in the late lord’s time, and, having her soul in that business, took naturally to it when the Viscountess of Castlew... ...said, “Y es, he was.” “But Saint Peter was married, for we heard only last Sunday that his wife’s mother lay sick of a fever.” On which the Father aga... ...his childhood very unhappy. She was but unhappy herself at this time, poor soul! and I suppose made her dependants lead her own sad life. I think my l... ... friends he had in the great wide world, where he was now quite alone. The soul of the boy was full of love, and he longed as he lay in the darkness t... ... 1700, they set forwards towards London on horseback. The day before being Sunday, and the rain pour- ing down, the family did not visit church; and a...

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... given good advice, and faithfully carried out our guidance.They have been superb. We thank the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies ... ...ited from being carried onto a commercial flight. 7 None of the checkpoint supervisors recalled the hijackers or reported anything suspi- cious regard... ...he universal code for a hijack in progress. Controllers would notify their supervisors, who in turn would inform management all the way up to FAA head... ...croaching foreign powers eager to steal their land, wealth, and even their souls. Bin Ladin’s Worldview Despite his claims to universal leadership, Bi... ...lely with Afghanistan. 69 Rice said that when President Bush called her on Sunday, Sep- tember 16, he said the focus would be on Afghanistan, although... ...pecific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades.These examples typify t... ...nt the CIA had ever faced. 56. NSC memo, Clarke to Berger,“Post-Millennium Soul Searching,” Jan. 11, 2000. 57. NSC memo,“Review of T errorism Alert an...

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...lowed into the song writing process, they fail to offer anything more than superficial ear candy .” The band does not write their own material, Max Ma... ...ped rock’n’roll. David Binning remarks on the band’s sixth release, Rubber Soul, “The song writing is solid all the way through and the lyrics are get... ... step forward, and one of their best albums- just half a year after Rubber Soul their lyrics had suddenly gotten about as good as they would ever be, ... ...dstown Wild Things. We practiced three times a week, and the games were on Sundays. At practice, playing soccer was the only thing I wanted to do. My ... ... the ball and score. The day of the last game of the season was on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We had to win the game in order to go to the playoffs. Th... ...hool everyday since my mom works until seven? How would I get to church on Sundays without my dad driving? At age eight, one thing came clear to me—th... ...ore. At Burger King, fries can be “Big Size” for $.39. McDonald’s offer a “Super Size” order of fries for $1.79. Again, these prices come from Hazleto... ...ice cream bar is where individuals can sit and enjoy ice cream sundaes and super thick malts while talking about the latest football game. Baby’s atmo...