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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...ations were largely socially inspired. How could a merciful God allow the deaths of so many innocent people in New York in September of 2001. How co... ...eming lack of mercy by the Judeo-Christian-Muslim God in allowing so many deaths to innocent people in wars and natural disasters. They often also m... ...2 million from his own armies. Was that bad because of the total number of deaths or was it good for population control? His structure of laws was ce... ...elling. They bring diseases such as drug resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue fever and AIDS which they pass on and which ...

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... the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from the pangs of outcaste-ness and untouchability, which is based on birth. Thus, if the erstwhile first citizen of India faces such humiliation, what will be the plight of the last man who is a Dalit? As one of the world’s ...

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...amy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2... ... Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ... ...K. Kandasamy Cover Design and Layout by Kama Kandasamy Translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy Many books can be downloaded from t... ...if we ask them to leave our land, it is just like drinking poison for our own deaths because 999 out of 1000 Indians are not interested in abolishin... ...med if he is not educated. In Madras city, only the British run hospitals for leprosy patients, orphanages, hospitals, and colleges and take care ... ...a high caste that can directly send telegrams to god. A very dirty Brahmin, a leprosy-infected Brahmin or a dishonest Brahmin is deemed high-caste. ... ...ases. These diseases are preying on the human body like the diseases Cancer, Leprosy, and Malaria. If the society is to progress these things shoul...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...sle of Lepers, from observing that many of the inhabitants were afflicted with leprosy. He found the people of a mulatto color, although among the sev...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...he animals might be sacri- ficed, but man could never infect them with the leprosy of flattery. A courtier remarked at Versailles on this mute resis- ... ... and religion! Madame du Chatelet had said that Lucien deserved a thousand deaths for having half killed his mother and his sister “Then she spoke of ... ...ave been still more dead, so to speak—for there are more and less bit- ter deaths. The world would never have recognized us. “For two months past I ha... ...ctor” is the medical officer whose duty it is in each district to register deaths and certify to their causes. With the rapid insight for which he was...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ... know, may, in that vast kingdom, enjoy a natural precedency; scrofula and leprosy may have some mystic privilege in a coffin; and the pariahs of the ... ...lly baited into the ranks of the rebels. One picturesque difference in the deaths of these two gentlemen was remarkable, as contrasted with their pre-... ...alamities that overwhelmed his family; to the removal from him by tragical deaths, in so rapid a succession, of the Princesse de Lamballe, of his aunt...

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...pirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: Be light made. And light was made. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day....

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...THE HOLY BIBLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHE... ...s made. 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. 5 And he called the light Day, and the dark- ness Night;... ...t there be a rmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And god made a rmament, and divided the waters that wer... ...or a blister, or as it were some- thing shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or of his sons. 3 And... ...be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or of his sons. 3 And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white and the place where the lepr... ...ears lower than the skin and the rest of the esh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his judgment he shall be separated. 4 But if there be a s... ...er the re of one side and the other: because they are sancti ed 38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them t... ...e blood that cried to him: 4 That he would remember also the most un- just deaths of innocent children, and the blas- phemies o ered to his name, and ... ...y more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above mea- sure, in deaths often. 24 Of the Jews ve times did I receive forty stripes, save on...

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...pon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day....

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...ight. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the dark- ness he ca... ...ere be a rmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the rmament, and divided the waters which ... ...od made the rmament, and divided the waters which were under the rmament from the waters which were above the rmament: and it was so. 8 And God cal... ...scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his esh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his... ...the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his esh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4 If ... ...eadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pro- nounce him unclean: it is a leprosy. 9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought... ...their fathers that be- gat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they ... ...rightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say... ...n, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircum- cised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken i...

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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ... the present reign,” replied Ursula, raising her head, “love has inherited leprosy, St Anthony’s fire, the Ardennes’ sickness, and the red rash, and h... ... ravages in the camp. During the voy- age this wench was the cause of many deaths, seeing that Roche-Pozay had already discomfited certain Crusaders, ... ...at all had died by her acts. By her who speaks has it been said that their deaths could not be the result of her acts, because she had always refused ... ... lead the life of a loose woman, to give pleasure to all, to cause so many deaths, and to ac- complish sorceries so perfect, without the assistance of... ...g upon the grand penitentiary Jehan de la Haye, who died eaten up by lice. Leprosy was his punish- ment. Fire burned his house and his wife; and all t...

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...ntony. SILIUS: an officer in Ventidius s army. EUPHRONIUS: an ambassador from Antony to Caesar. ALEXAS MARDIAN: a Eunuch, SELEUCUS: attendants on ... ... [Enter an Attendant.] Attendant: News, my good lord, from Rome. MARK ANTONY: Grates me: the sum. CLEOPATRA: ... ...nay, and most like: You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where s Fulvia s process? Caesar s... ...oken d pestilence, Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt, Whom leprosy o ertake! i the midst o the fight, When vantage like a pair of tw... ...at our purposes, and, being royal, T ook her own way. The manner of their deaths? I do not see them bleed. DOLABELLA: Who was last ...

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...ried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four... ... found life most pleasant and man most interesting; the axes of my black boys are already clearing the foundations of my fu- ture house; and I must le... ...ne case exactly noted. Although the dawn was thus preparing by four, the sun was not up till six; and it was half-past five before we could distinguis... .... And depopu- lation works both ways, the doors of death being set wide open, and the door of birth almost closed. Thus, in the half-year ending July ... ... and the door of birth almost closed. Thus, in the half-year ending July 1888 there were twelve deaths and but one birth in the district of the Hatihe... ...ble there was a tiny skeleton. The race seems in a fair way to survive. From fifteen islands, whose rolls I had occasion to consult, I found a proport... ...l; and syphilis, when contracted, is successfully treated with indigenous herbs. Like their neighbours of Tahiti, from whom they have perhaps imbibed ...

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...olume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... 4 Balzac Droll Stories Vol. 1 by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume I: The First T en T ales Translators Pre... ...ouraine, unas- sisted by map or guide. Not only is this book a work of art from its historical information and topographical accuracy; its claims to t... ...er differently from some who, rich when they set out, came back heavy with leprosy, but light with gold. On his return from T unis, our Lord, King Phi... ...sword of a husband is a pleasant death for a gallant, if there be pleasant deaths. So may be will finish the merry amours of the constable’s wife. One... ...o play thought- lessly with knives, his good wife utilised so well the two deaths he had caused and threw them so often in his face, that she made him...

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...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ... horrid crimes as upon men who reproach them with them, and think by their deaths to erase the memory and testimony of such proceedings. Or if, perhap... ...sal commotions; so that I often find him sterile, running over those brave deaths as if he feared to trouble us with their multitude and length. This ... ... profound sleep, without any sense of pain. And in these short and violent deaths, the consequence that I foresee administers more consolation to me t... ...is happiness, that they smart less with hurt- ful things: ’tis a spiritual leprosy that has some show of health, and such a health as philosophy does ...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ..., who now recognised his friend of the forest; “I will assure you from all deaths but a violent one, if you give such directions to wayfarers, as you ... ...re sound of my brother’s name, men should fall off from me as if I had the leprosy?” “Have patience, sir,” replied his counsellor; “I might retort you... ...power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul.” “Yet, turn not from me, stern prophet of wrath,” she ... ...in the fabric of the T emple, deep and foul as that left by the streaks of leprosy on the walls of the infected houses of old.* The soldiers of the Cr... ...im.—God be judge between him and me! but rather would I submit to ten such deaths as your pleasure may denounce against me, than listen to the suit wh...

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... distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane... ...s- lator hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for a... ...ould be arrived at. Yet the translator hopes that what trifling deviations from the text or corrections in foot notes he is responsible for, will have... ...repeated. This word produced a repulsive effect. The horrible dis- ease of leprosy is too common in Iceland; it is not conta- gious, but hereditary, a... ...no use to think of flight any longer. Here I must die the most dreadful of deaths. And, strange to say, the thought came across me that when some day ...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...it was the greatest injury the peerage could have received, and became its leprosy and sore. All the peers who could, kept themselves aloof from the p... ...ever read anything except the article in the “Gazette de France,” in which deaths and mar- riages are recorded. His timidity, especially before the Ki...

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... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...cured his own safety by the success of his arms. As to the manner of their deaths, it happened to one with- out the least thought or surmise of it; bu... ...lves only as a colony of slaves and exiles. And when to this was added the deaths of Demosthenes at Calauria, and of Hyperides at Cleonae, as we have ... ... the orderly rule of the sons of Hercules. From the circumstances of their deaths, also, we may infer some difference in the quality of their courage.... ...k by and by. But he so loved Atossa when she became his consort, that when leprosy had run through her whole body, he was not in the least offended at...

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...dy on the Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius, 23 -- Monody on a Tea-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s Death was Inevitable, 27 -- On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Pain . . . . . . 23 On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Mo... ...tten After a Walk Before Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Imitated from Ossian . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Complaint of Ninathóma: From th... ...he House of the ‘‘Man of Ross’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Imitated from the Welsh . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Lines: To a Beautiful Spring i... ... of a Naval Fight, When thundering Cannons spread a sea of Gore And varied deaths now fire and now affright: The impatient shout, that longs for cl... ...r looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man’s blood ...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...udgment was made more notorious and eminent by an unusual accident at such deaths; for he so swelled, that he burst, and his bowels gushed out. But th... ...retation for one grossly physical. All contradiction disappears; not three deaths assault him, viz., suicide, and also a rupture of the intestines, an... ...d eaten as a guest. There is a cleaving pollution, like that of the Syrian leprosy, in the act of abusing your privileges as a guest, or in any way pr...

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... more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dea...

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...art only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two ex... ... process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying from hour to hour in its dictates with the varia- tion of events and circum... ...e-eyed brat three bad things: the terror of public opinion, and, flow- ing from that as a fountain, the desire of wealth and ap- plause. Besides these... ... were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of 45 Lay Morals which he died should be attributed to his vices a... ...e Hawaiian Kingdom. When calamity befell their innocent parishioners, when leprosy descended and took root in the Eight Islands, a quid pro quo was to... ...ned winding-sheet.* Many thought that this apparition was a portent of the deaths connected with the Pentland Rising. On the morning of Wednesday, the...

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...neral theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...e in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very conside... ..., lies not in selective breed- ing, but in the disproportionately numerous deaths of the individuals below the average. And even the methods of the br... ...tch and English, these same men allow thousands and thousands of avoidable deaths of English children close at hand to pass absolutely unno- ticed. Th... ...in these same towns. Unclassified “violence” also accounts for more infant deaths in the country than in towns. This 56 Mankind in the Making suggest... ...e heroic key, and hem and control mere lasciviousness as it were a sort of leprosy of the soul, seems fairly certain. And all that love-making which i...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...h a pair of enormous ears had left their marks which no brush could efface from the underside of the brim; the silk tissue (as usual) fitted badly ove... ...-student; he was a prudent practitioner, and not with- out experience. His deaths caused no scandal; he had plenty of opportunities of studying all ki... ... with saltpetre to such a degree that the house seemed to be stricken with leprosy. Mme. Cibot went straight to the porter’s lodge, and there encounte... ...ttle- field—all these may possess this supreme lucidity to the full; their deaths fill us with surprise and wonder. But many, on the other hand, die o...

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...s house stable. But we do make the doctor the judge, and fine him anything from sixpence to several hundred guineas if he de- cides in our favor. I ca... ...le of strong medicine. In this predicament most people, to save themselves from unbearable mistrust and misery, or from being driven by their conscien... ...e necessarily malicious or corrupt malprac- tices (an inevitable deduction from the postulate that the doctor, being omniscient, cannot make mistakes)... ... mad dog means certain hydrophobia. It seemed to me that the proportion of deaths among the cases treated at the Institute was rather higher, if anyth... ...sk. That has always been the case. We now know that the medieval horror of leprosy was out of all pro- portion to the danger of infection, and was acc... ...een worked up by our disease terrorists into the position formerly held by leprosy. But the scare of infection, though it sets even doctors talking as... ...ressing effects on the vital statistics of his district of the illness and deaths it causes, whilst it would take from him all the credit of that free... ...nd his equally eminent colleague who warns us that a fish diet must end in leprosy, and you have all 78 The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors that...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...dred thousand spectators, in many a fifth part of that amount,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare... ...east to their persons which never otherwise could have illus- trated their deaths? I remembered, indeed, the words of a sea-captain who had taken such... ...epest. And men hated the Jewish taint, as once in Jerusalem they hated the leprosy, because even whilst they raved against it, the secret proofs of it... ...rose in mutiny against the priesthood, (2 Chron. xxvi 16-20,) suddenly the leprosy that dethroned him, blazed out upon his forehead. 120 Narrative an... ...irty-five. If, by dipping seven times in Jordan, he had cleansed his whole leprosy of intemper- ance; if, by going down into Bethesda, he were able to... ...w his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved. And this leads me to mention a ...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ...any-coloured growth of rottenness, And lichen veiled the Image of Taman In leprosy. The Basin of the Blood Above the altar held the morning sun: A wi... ... Sergeants — eight file to obey — For we’ve lots o’ quick promotion on ten deaths a day! Our Colonel’s white an’ twitterly — ‘e gets no sleep nor food... ...orts, all bought from ‘is pay — But there aren’t much comfort ‘andy on ten deaths a day. Our Chaplain’s got a banjo, an’ a skinny mule ‘e rides, An’ t... ...s a-bobbin’ to Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-ay! ‘E’s the proper kind o’ padre for ten deaths a day. An’ Father Victor ‘elps ‘im with our Roman Catholicks — He kn...

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...in the central path, beneath a gold-fringed purple aw- ning, which reached from the wall of the stables to the first terrace of the palace; the common... ...enue of cypress formed, as it were, a double colonnade of green obe- lisks from one extremity to the other. Far in the background stood the palace, bu... ...s red doors quartered with black crosses, its brass gratings protecting it from scorpions below, and its trellises of gilded rods closing the aper- tu... ...d sold all the captives on his own account, although he had reported their deaths to the Republic. After seeking for some time a convenient place from... ...ve been taken for some big idol rough-hewn in a block of stone; for a pale leprosy, which was spread over his whole body, gave him the appear- ance of... ...ched only at night, hiding in the olive woods dur- ing the day. There were deaths at every halting-place; several times they believed themselves lost.... ...fourteenth day upon the army . This change of temperature brought numerous deaths with it, and corruption was developed with frightful rapidity in the...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... ...nt to die — quick, ah, quick. You are lucky to die that way. You might get the leprosy and fall to pieces slowly, a finger at a time, and now and again... ...s. There is no way. Those men are not wiser than goats. They may fall to their deaths. Let us watch.” “They are brave men,” said Koolau. “Let us watch... ...n discovered that it was his own hands. The heat of the rifle was doing it. The leprosy had destroyed most of the nerves in his hands. Though his flesh ...

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...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Koran The Koran Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the ... ...y claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard to the first-named criterion, there is a gr... ... the moral teach- ing contained in the Koran are striking enough if judged from the highest ethical standpoint with which we are ac- quainted; but a m... ...8. “He placed his hand in his bosom, and drew it forth, white as snow with leprosy.” 8 “The Pharaoh who lived in the days of Moses was a great magici... ...s with those who believe and work righteous- ness, so that their lives and deaths shall be alike? Ill do they judge. In all truth hath God created the...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...light, as in the passage to sleep and best. These are studied and digested deaths. But to the end that Cato only may furnish out the whole example of ... ...heir anger felt, have employed their capacity to invent the most lingering deaths. They will have their enemies despatched, but not so fast that they ... ...h one blow of a scimitar, whence it followed that they died as it were two deaths at once; and both the one part, says he, and the other, were seen to... ...aperitive operation. Galen reports, that a man hap- pened to be cured of a leprosy by drinking wine out of a vessel into which a viper had crept by ch...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ... and when there is an epidemic, he does not know whether to rejoice at the deaths or regret the burials. “You live on the dead, Lestiboudois!” the cur... ...Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display in our public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from the Cru- sades?” Or— “In s...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...ng this he would have concluded some kind of mortal felicity to consist in leprosy, as the Lord maintained heretofore. The Englishman for all this was... ...all use of reason and common language, what I had rather suffer a thousand deaths, if it were pos- sible, than have thought; as who should make bread ...

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...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...e mourners entered the publican’s house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the impor- tant question, what it should be? and re... ...h, that’s quite impossible!’ said Evan. And visions of 68 Evan Harrington leprosy, and Rose shrinking her skirts from contact with him, shadowed out ... ... hand, as he held it up at the breakfasttable, reading it, I saw among the deaths, Sir Abraham Harrington, of Torquay, Baronet, of quinsy! Twice that ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ... be put to the edge of the sword, consumed by fire, smitten by plagues and leprosy, that their bones might be ground to dust, and that they might be u... ... life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths. ‘A very nice little girl indeed,’ said the doctor; ‘little, but wel...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ... be put to the edge of the sword, consumed by fire, smitten by plagues and leprosy, that their bones might be ground to dust, and that they might be u... ... life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths. ‘A very nice little girl indeed,’ said the doctor; ‘little, but wel...