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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...tent on creating, individually and together, not like in the times of the Egyptian pyramids or the Gothic cathedrals, because now, if everyone is ... ... come and follow me”. Where? “My kingdom is not of this world”. Martyrs, hermits, ascetics and monks have all professed to abandon this world and ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis... ...nd mindless submission to all and any authority figures in their culture. The Egyptians kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtere... ...for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of killing weak, screaming cowards; ... ...rupt everything they touch. They become angry, lonely, frustrated loners and hermits. But no longer. This book has not been corrupted by them....

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...it as a biological right for people to have children. Our citizens are not hermits, we live together. We value both individual children and our soc... ...ave. We have one who is fascinated with ancient Egypt. She is now with the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. I am fascinated with the times of the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...n stuck at the physiological level, as is the sexaholic. Some become so stuck at the safety level that they withdraw into the woods living as hermit... ...uities ―Then there was Aida again in the Coliseum in Verona. With the world‘s largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egypti...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...egative. That the gods are inside of us is something that sacred Hindu and Egyptian texts state explicitly. Homer tells us that primary beauty bri... ...f the myth of Ulysses, which has still much to be discovered. Ascetics, hermits and monks dedicated most of their lives to the search for a mysti...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummi... ... and malicious assaults! And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the ... ...tous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb. It w... ...ed up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, an... ...ate here. I take it, that the earliest standers of mast heads were the old Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them. For tho... ...’s wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast head standers, is a... ... same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries and hermits among the ma tured, aged sperm whales. So that though Moby Dick ha...

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Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1

By: William Wordsworth

...rough field or town, Such Figure had I never seen: Her face was of Egyptian brown: Fit person was she for a Queen, ... ...ETS PREFATORY SONNET Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room; And Hermits are contented with their Cells; And Students with their pensive C...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummi... ...tous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb. It w... ...d up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck 117 Herman Melville seemed prepared to endure for ... ...ate here. I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old Egyptians; because, in all my re- 154 Moby Dick searches, I find none prio... ...’s wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyp- tians were a nation of mast-head standers, is... ...ame remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the soli- taries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales. So that though Moby Dick had ...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... which is all but boiling. This has its charms; but I could not relish the Egyptian shampooing. A hideous old blind man (but very dexterous in his art... ...stones, were round about:they are bur- rowed with holes in which Christian hermits lived and died. Y ou see one green place far down in the valley: it... ...ys. You might be as well impressed with Wapping as with your first step on Egyptian soil. 125 Thackeray The riding of a donkey is, after all, not a d... ...quiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian gamin, who ran along by asinus’s side. The character of the houses... ...at officer of the Pasha’s Court, or of one of the numerous children of the Egyptian Solomon. His Highness was in his own palace, and was consequently ... ...several of our party were pre- sented to him at Cairo, and found the great Egyptian ruler perfectly convalescent. This, and the Opera, and the quarrel...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...ng beds or straw to lie on, and provisions to eat, and so lived in them as hermits in a cell, for nobody would venture to come near them; and several ... ...hemselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and lived like hermits in holes and caves, or any place they could find, and where, we may... ...hen they passed the Red Sea, and looked back and saw the 219 Daniel Defoe Egyptians overwhelmed in the water: viz., that they sang His praise, but th...

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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

...e great lawgiver and chief philosopher, skilled in all the learning of the Egyptians, who was called the friend of God, and knew the mind of the Almig... ... wild pigeons; and of the The Compleat Angler — Walton 54 tame, there be hermits and runts, and carriers and cropers, and indeed too many to name. N...

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Merry Men

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...oyed in the English wars, the same that lev- elled Gretz. But – here is the point – the hermits (for there were already more than one) had foreseen th... ...n as sentry with positive gusto. As for me, you behold me. I have made friends with the Egyptians; and my Pharaoh is, I swear it, a most agreeable com...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

... phantoms rising as the mists arise; 40 Dreadful, as hermits’ dreams in haunted shades, Or bright, as visions of expiring maids.... ...IS RIGHT . VARIATIONS. In former editions, VER 64— Now wears a garland, an Egyptian god. Altered as above for the reason given in the note. After VER.... ...ed the amusing theme, Till fancy colour’d it, and form’d a dream. A vision hermits can to Hell transport, 190 And forced ev’n...

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...e who sincerely endeavor to perform the Law, inclu- sive of monks, friars, hermits, etc. The conclusion is inevitable: Faith alone justified without w... ... away to die in the wilderness? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Ex. 14:11, 12.) But...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learned Egyptian, the wild, free- 30 A Book of Golden Deeds booting Arab of the de... ...e feel- ing of what had been done. His dress showed that he was one of the hermits who vowed themselves to a holy life of prayer and self-denial, and ...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...he face, more long than oval, resembles that of some beautiful Isis in the Egyptian bas-reliefs; it has the purity of the heads of sphinxes, polished ... ...lemish nor the small- est wrinkle. There, again, we find the granite of an Egyptian statue softened by the ages. But the line of the cheek-bones, thou... ...es, had that singular bril- liancy which a fixed idea gives to the eyes of hermits and solitary souls, or the ardor of contest to those of the strong ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...n of guests.” “Has this hermit any hens, do you think?” asked Sancho. “Few hermits are without them,” said Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days a... ...out them,” said Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad in palm-leaves, and lived on ... ... Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad in palm-leaves, and lived on the roots of th...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...assur- ance of lodging for the night; since it was a special duty of those hermits who dwelt in the woods, to exercise hospitality towards benighted o... ...he dress and turban of Rebecca—“What country art thou of?—a Saracen? or an Egyptian?—Why dost not answer?— thou canst weep, canst thou not speak?” “Be... ...f he had day- light to befriend him, he declares, that with or without the Hermits consent, he is determined to be his guest that night. He is admitte...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...g dis- turbed by the joyous and other noises from the nursery, doubt- less. Judging by Pilate and St. Nicholas, there exists no rule for the construct... ..., in place of the criticism, the first-class daily gives you what it thinks is a gay and chipper essay—about ancient Grecian funeral customs, or the a...

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Sandra Belloni Originally Emilia in England

By: George Meredith

...the neighbourhood. The house will have to be locked up. We shall live like hermits worried by a demon. Her brogue! Do you remember it? It is not simpl... ... her foot. Her eyes look steadily, like green jewels before the veil of an Egyptian temple. Positively, her eyes have grown green—or greenish! They we...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...n of guests.” “Has this hermit any hens, do you think?” asked Sancho. “Few hermits are without them,” said Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days a... ...out them,” said Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad in palm-leaves, and lived on ... ... Don Quixote; “for those we see now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad in palm-leaves, and lived on the roots of th...

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... THAN MEN ....152 ILYÁS....154 PART V ....159 FOLK TALES ....159 THE THREE HERMITS ....159 Contents THE IMP AND THE CRUST ....166 HOW MUCH LAND DOES A... ...hree Tales by Tolstoy : “Ilyás” 158 PART V FOLK TALES RETOLD 12 THE THREE HERMITS AN OLD LEGEND CURRENT IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT ‘And in praying use not... ...ar what this good man was saying.’ ‘The fisherman was telling us about the hermits,’ re plied one, a tradesman, rather bolder than the rest. ‘What he... ...g to a spot ahead and a little to the right. ‘That is the island where the hermits live for the salvation of their souls.’ Twenty three Tales by Tolst... ... the salvation of their souls.’ Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Three Hermits” 159 ‘Where is the island?’ asked the Bishop. ‘I see noth ing.’ ‘... ...magine that the sun shines for their country alone.’ Then the master of an Egyptian vessel, who was present, spoke in his turn. ‘No,’ said he, ‘you al...

...HE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN ....152 ILY?S....154 PART V ....159 FOLK-TALES ....159 THE THREE HERMITS ....159 THE IMP AND THE CRUST ....166 HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? ....169 A GRAIN AS BIG AS A HEN?S EGG ....185 THE GODSON ....188 THE REPENTANT SINNER ....206 THE EMPTY DRUM ....209 THE COFFEE-HOUSE OF SURAT ......

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...III “In this estate, if thou esteemest light The proffered kindness of the Egyptian king, Then give me leave to say, this oversight Beseems thee not, ... ...iron goes, To view what countenance every warrior bears, And lastly on the Egyptian baron stayed, To whom the duke thus for his answer said: 47 Torqu... ...by Heaven’s eternal doom: He thinks no force withstand or vanquish can The Egyptian strength, and therefore would that some Both of the prey and glory... ...to his might: There might he raise munition, arms and treasure To work the Egyptian king and his displeasure. 88 Jerusalem Delivered LXVII Thus was h... ...host, In so great scarceness, and what force provide He should against the Egyptian warriors sly, And how subdue those thieves of Araby. 119 Torquato... ...r us naught, Who to avoid the world’s allurements vain, In wilful penance, hermits poor remain. XXX “‘Us messengers to comfort thee elect That Lord ha... ... books and writings tell What certain path to heavenly bliss us leads; And hermits good, and ancresses that dwell Mewed up in walls, and mumble on the...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...III “In this estate, if thou esteemest light The proffered kindness of the Egyptian king, Then give me leave to say, this oversight Beseems thee not, ... ...iron goes, To view what countenance every warrior bears, And lastly on the Egyptian baron stayed, To whom the duke thus for his answer said: 47 Torqu... ...by Heaven’s eternal doom: He thinks no force withstand or vanquish can The Egyptian strength, and therefore would that some Both of the prey and glory... ...to his might: There might he raise munition, arms and treasure To work the Egyptian king and his displeasure. 88 Jerusalem Delivered LXVII Thus was h... ...host, In so great scarceness, and what force provide He should against the Egyptian warriors sly, And how subdue those thieves of Araby. 119 Torquato... ...r us naught, Who to avoid the world’s allurements vain, In wilful penance, hermits poor remain. XXX “‘Us messengers to comfort thee elect That Lord ha... ... books and writings tell What certain path to heavenly bliss us leads; And hermits good, and ancresses that dwell Mewed up in walls, and mumble on the...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... of language or of sense), He will appear some noble table writ In the old Egyptian hieroglyphic wit; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, Y... ...ters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done. Then did he study some paltry half-hour with his e... ...he Pot of the Ember-weeks. The Mortar of the Politic Life. The Flap of the Hermits. The Riding-hood or Monterg of the Penitentiaries. The T rictrac of... ...oils and booties which by his victories he had acquired, presenting to the Egyptians, in the open view of the people, a Bactrian camel all black, and ... ...y the error of nature; in a word, of the hope which he had to please these Egyptians, and by such means to increase the affection which they naturally... ... desire fewer enemies and more friends. Thus Osiris, the great king of the Egyptians, conquered almost the whole earth, not so much by force of arms a... ...d in the conjugal yoke, that those very basest of dev- ils which tempt the hermits that inhabit the deserts of Thebais and Montserrat are not more mis... ...ften told us that the writings of abstinent, abstemious, and long- fasting hermits were every whit as saltless, dry, jejune, and insipid as were their... ...his body. Possibly doth he suffer, as it is frequent and usual amongst the Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... Megatheria of history. The sails of their rare ships might be seen in the Egyptian waters; the camels of their caravans might thread the sands of Baa... ..., the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans... ...ir Wilfrid utter a deep groan. But though the fool heard him not, the holy hermits did; and to recognize the gallant Wilfrid, to withdraw the enormous... ...elixir, and to pour a little of it down his throat, was with the excellent hermits the work of an instant: which remedies being applied, one of the go... ...ring rock. As for the Count of Chalus, and the remainder of the slain, the hermits were too much occupied with Ivanhoe’s case to mind them, and did no... ...f truth in this whole story. 286 Thackeray Well, Ivanhoe was taken to the hermits’ cell, and there doc- tored by the holy fathers for his hurts; whic... ...Wilfrid of 291 Burlesques Ivanhoe was somewhat sick of the life which the hermits of Chalus had restored to him, and felt himself so friendless and s...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...EE BEGGARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 THE THREE HERMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 BEGGAR TO BEG... ... take a trout But I do not seem to care. ’ RESPONSIBILITIES 109 THE THREE HERMITS THREE old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First wa... ...the desolation of reality: Egypt and Greece, good bye, and good bye, Rome! Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest, Caverned in night under the drifted sno... ...Make him fill the cradles right. Measurement began our might: Forms a stark Egyptian thought, Forms that gentler Phidias wrought. Michael Angelo left a...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...y narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, Dorothea ... ...rgon, a small monograph on some lately traced indica- tions concerning the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain as- sertions of Warburton’s could be cor... ...recipient of praise. He spoke very hand- somely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,—using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to r... ...that I have ever tried to hinder you from working. But we cannot live like hermits. Y ou are not discontented with me, Tertius?” “No, dear, no. I am t...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...y narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, Dorothea ... ...rgon, a small monograph on some lately traced indications concern ing the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain assertions of Warburton’s could be corre... ...y recipient of praise. He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,— using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to ... ...that I have ever tried to hinder you from working. But we cannot live like hermits. You are not discontented with me, Tertius?” “No, dear, no. I am to...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...ian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what s... ... destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by earthquakes (as the Egyptian priest told Solon con cerning the island of Atlantis, that it w...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...wo, and they most likely are saving their souls in secret somewhere in the Egyptian desert, so you wouldn’t find them—if so it be, if all the rest hav... ...all the rest? that is, the population of the whole earth, except about two hermits in the desert, and in His well- known mercy will He not forgive one...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ese were ecclesiastical foundations, and in their time had sheltered pious hermits. I found a den, or small hollow, where there was a spring of pure w... ...e like a queen. I was barefoot, and clad like a common sailor, save for an Egyptian scarf round my waist; and she probably took me at first for some o...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...wo, and they most likely are saving their souls in secret somewhere in the Egyptian desert, so you wouldn’t find them—if so it be, if all the rest hav... ...all the rest? that is, the population of the whole earth, except about two hermits in the desert, and in His well- known mercy will He not forgive one... ...fore that day He had come down, He had visited some holy men, martyrs, and hermits, as is written in their lives. Among us, T yutchev, with absolute f... ... to the established Ritual. As is well known, the bodies of dead monks and hermits are not washed. In the words of the Church Ritual: “If any one of t... ... an oak-tree that, sitting on it, you will long to enter the ranks of ‘the hermits in the wilderness and the saintly women,’ for that is what you are ...

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