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...ersity. 3 Bleak House – Vol. One Bleak House by Charles Dickens PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of s... ... and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which ... ... bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be lieve by Richard the Second, but any other ... ...tion here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley i... ...ermination now than when it was begun. There is another well known suit in Chancery, not yet decided, which was commenced before the close of the last... ...He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards. It is of no use...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popula...

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...versity. 3 Bleak House – Dickens Bleak House by Charles Dickens PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of s... ... and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which ... ... bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be lieve by Richard the Second, but any other ... ...tion here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley i... ...ermination now than when it was begun. There is another well known suit in Chancery, not yet decided, which was commenced before the close of the last... ...He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards. It is of no use...

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...him, when he walked abroad, for the purposes of a staff or of a weapon, as chance might require. Several domestics, whose dress held various proportio... ...tend an evening mass at a distant church, had but just re- turned, and was changing her garments, which had been wet- ted by the storm. There were as ... ... silver goblet filled with wine—“Why tarries the Lady Rowena?” “She is but changing her head-gear,” replied a female atten- dant, with as much confide... ...urning to the cupbearer, and raising his voice as if happy to have found a channel into which he might divert his 27 Sir Walter Scott indignation wit... ...er their horses and mules, and see their train lack nothing. Let them have change of vest- ments if they require it, and fire, and water to wash, and ... ... Jew could for some time only answer by invoking the protection of all the patriarchs of the Old T estament successively against the sons of Ishmael, ... ...her to be a handmaiden to Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, after the fashion of patriarchs and heroes of the days of old, who set us in these matters a who...

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...ors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is no chance of a change at present.’ ‘Perhaps I can get a guide among your lads,... ...l soon be competent to make a clear house of it. The red cow didn’t die by chance; and your rheumatism can hardly be reck- oned among providential vis... ...herine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called—she must have been a change- ling—wicked little soul! She told me she had been walking the earth... ...ng by an inarticulate sound that there was the place where I must go, if I changed my locality. It opened into the house, where the females were alrea... ...itation over her ruddy countenance, she ejaculated -’Ah, times are greatly changed since then!’ ‘Yes,’ I remarked, ‘you’ve seen a good many alteration... ... us; and Joseph swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous, thou...

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...ted comment, and Philip had heard much gossip at home when his godmother’s changed colour. She lived with an elder sister, who had resigned herself co... ...ip saw a boy running past and tried to catch him, but his limp gave him no chance; and the runners, taking their opportu- nity , made straight for the... ...ys went in charge of Mr. Rice, who glanced at Philip and seeing he had not changed, asked why he was not going to play . “Mr. Watson said I needn’t, s... ...s small nibs quickly , and Singer was jubilant, but the third time by some chance the Jumbo slipped round and Philip was able to push his J across it.... ...lf as the bee in a hive, who are the lucky in life, for they have the best chance of happiness: their activities are shared by all, and their plea- su... ...hold. He stretched out now his shaking hand and took his Bible. “Those old patriarchs lived to a jolly good old age, didn’t they?” he said, with a que...

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...ress his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With thi... ...eers. The siege of the castle next commenced. The position of the camp was changed. The King’s tents and those of all the Court were pitched in a beau... ...out five hun- dred paces from the monastery of Marlaigne. The fine weather changed to rain, which fell with an abundance and persever- ance never befo... ...said that when such is the case it will rain for forty days afterwards. By chance it happened so this year. The sol- diers in despair at this deluge u... ...gest places in the Low Countries, and had hitherto boasted of having never changed masters. The inhabitants could not restrain their tears of sorrow. ... ...zar all the more, because it was by the wealth and by the authority of the patriarchs of Moscow, his grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, that his fa... ...he crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek rite of Constantinople bu...

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...ame out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. 19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind... ...ade drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. 22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he tol... ...he had learned what his younger son had done to him, 25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he sai... ...e be unto his brethren. 26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the te... ...ant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. 28 And Noe lived after the ood three hun- dred and... ...But the second night thou shalt be admit- ted into the society of the holy Patriarchs. 21 And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound ... ...ircumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and...

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...nks the rep- resentative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such isolated spirit is no longer pos- sible. T raf... ...nent among the causes, or, at the very least, among the signals of a great change in modern literature. The former directed men’s at- tention with a n... ...ose are no longer at variance; for the poet’s eyes are opened; he sees the changes of many-colored existence, and sees the loveliness and deep purport... ...rance of Schlegel’s Character, no word, that we have seen, of the smallest chance to be decisive, or indeed to last beyond the day, had been uttered r... ... tions, so diverse in their tone, we meant to make it visible that a great change had taken place in the moral disposition of the man; a change from i... ...ire to be traced to the secrets of families, and thus the marriages of the patriarchs give occasion for peculiar con- siderations. It is as if the Div... ...anish from our sight among the hills, and reappear only as conquerors. The patriarchs belonged to the shepherd class. Their man- ner of life upon the ... ...est of the history. Humane, beautiful, and cheering as the religion of the patriarchs appears, yet traits of savageness and cruelty run through it, ou... ...ressed, that the Sacred Scriptures by no means intend to set up any of the patriarchs and other divinely favored men as models of vir- tue. They, too,...

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...ssed expectations, travelling like yourselves through a heavenly zodiac of changes, till at once and for ever they sank into the grave! Often do I thi... ...or some quiet cell either in the Tropics or in Arctic latitudes, where the changes of the year, and the external signs corre- sponding to them, expres... ... causes it were that kept me apprehensive, and on the watch for disastrous change, I will not here undertake to determine. T oo certain it is that I w... ...ncy it must have been, and yet still I felt it to be real—that under every change she looked best; if she put on a shawl, then a shawl became the most... ...ally replace it by the graces of the matronly character. But in Agnes this change had not yet been effected, partly from nature, and partly from the e... ...were lowered into the academic vault, where he now rests among the ancient patriarchs of the University. PEACE BE TO HIS DUST, AND EVERLASTING HONOR! ...

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...cise form be- fore it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again. Nothing is so fleeting as form; yet never does it quite deny... ...s Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with... ...but an endless flight of winged facts or events? In splendid variety these changes come, all putting ques- tions to the human spirit. Those men who ca... ...n will see it after me, and in course of time all mankind,—although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as muc... ... tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,—painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke; afterward... ...sand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice; fo... ...ily we read in old books, when men were few, of the smallest action of the patriarchs. We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the la...

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...t—pointed weapons with little surface to betray them. They had no depth or change; they glittered, and they opened and shut. So far, and waiving their... ... he rested, began to eat with an appetite. When Monsieur Rigaud laughed, a change took place in his face, that was more remarkable than prepossessing.... ...tle- man. It’s my game. Death of my soul, I play it out wherever I go!’ He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a trium- phant air: ‘Here... ... Institution, Harriet Beadle—an arbitrary name, of course. Now, Harriet we changed into Hattey, and then into Tatty, because, as practical people, we ... ...ld be of no use to tell us that our dead child was a mere infant. W e have changed that child according to the changes in the child spared to us and a... .... V arious old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in t... ..., and a bottle-green pair of trousers, and a bottle-green waist- coat. The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broad- cloth, and yet his cloth... ...he old days at home, certain audacious doubts re- specting the last of the Patriarchs, which were afloat in the air, had, by some forgotten means, com... ...his day to the opinion, without quite deciding on it, that the last of the Patriarchs was the drifting Booby aforesaid, with the one idea of keeping t...

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...ew delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable. He could now change his meal-times, go in or out without explanation, and when he was ve... ... he joined four or five other guests in a corner, who having, through mere chance, been several times running served with the worst helps of meat, als... ... were to die. During the first days she occupied herself in thinking about changes in the house. She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wal... ... leaves that cut you. She began by looking round her to see if nothing had changed since last she had been there. She found again in the same places t... ...rself, “Good heavens! Why did I marry?” She asked herself if by some other chance combination it would have not been possible to meet another man; and... ...;” nor “our most merry village maidens;” nor the “bald-headed old men like patriarchs who were there, and of whom some, the remnants of our phalanxes,...

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...ere is only one portrait of him that counts, that has more than the merest chance of being au- thentic, the one in the Chronologie collee or coupee. U... ...Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. He is not aware of all the changes and novelties of the passing fashion. The Pleiad School he evidentl... ... attaches to them their author’s name. So Rabelais had already crossed the Channel, and was read in his own tongue. Somewhat later, during the full sw... ...er days. Rabelais, more than any other writer, took advantage of the happy chances and the richness of the popular speech, but he wrote in French, and... ...is only a literary artist when he wishes to be such; and in his romance he changes the style completely every other moment: it has no constant char- a... ...o drink so after sleeping. It is, answered Gargantua, the very life of the patriarchs and holy fathers; for naturally I sleep salt, and my sleep hath ...