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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ..., though not attaining to what was expected from his capabilities; but the development of his nature was slow, and therefore perhaps ultimately the mo... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...l long after, when the wish had become purpose. Meantime the boy’s natural development put these visions into the background. He was going on with ord... ...eaving En- gland he was constantly using Olshausen’s Commentary on the New Testament, a book he was as thoroughly versed in as Archbishop T rench hims...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statemen...

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ...t does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loomings... ...you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad. Final... ...ip and Dough Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar color, driven in one eccentric span. But...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...eedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; and thus any new-sprung hope of liberty inspired a joy and an exultation more intense an... ...rt the operation of his arduous struggles. His spirit gathers peace in its new state from the sense that, though late, his exer- tions were not made i... ...n- gland. T o these may be added a constant perusal of portions of the old Testament—the Psalms, the Book of Job, the Prophet Isaiah, and others, the ... ...op of following page] 182 V olume One 1 The Author was pursuing a fuller development of the ideal character of Athanase, when it struck him that in ... ...pressive form of the Christian religion. We owe Milton to the progress and development of the same spirit: the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remem...

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...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mountains ...............................................................................................

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