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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...abroad of that real question which lies below. Essenism means simply this— Christianity before Christ, and consequently without Christ. If, therefore,... ...nism could make good its pretensions, there at one blow would be an end of Christianity, which in that case is not only superseded as an idle repetiti... ... a sect elder than Christ) with the originality and heavenly revelation of Christianity. Here is my first point of difference from the Romish objector... ...cause they are not filled, the whole nation is running helter skelter into heresy—and all in consequence of your majesty’s sacred laziness.” Our gover...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... most read- ers will see little more than the essential difference between Christianity and Paganism. But this, on consideration, I doubt. The Christi... ...k. iii. It is a double impossibility: 1st, because a piracy from Tindal’s “Christianity as old as the Creation”—a piracy a parte ante, and by three ce... ...emselves could have answered, without, on the one side, landing himself in heresy (as then interpreted), or, on the other, in some presumptuous expres... ...re crowned, was fa- mous for its biscuits and gingerbread. 82 26 TINDAL’S “CHRISTIANITY AS OLD AS THE CREATION”: Matthew Tindal (1657-1732) published ...

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...eaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of t...

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...gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge the mere dreams of your brains! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heret...

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...rimary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important ... ...us interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. I... ...bility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her spiritual- temporal power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the ... ...ristendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in the year 1054. Its theologies and liturgies are written m... ...o change these things by as much as one hair, much less to accuse others of heresy because they disregard your arrogance. It is rather you who deserv... ...n this sacrament. Indeed, with the wickedness of Antichrist it brands it as heresy for anyone to assert that faith is necessary. What more could this...

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... at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times....

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...radise for lack of doing pen- ance or killing a heretic. If a professor of heresy passed that way, he quickly found himself under the grass, without k... ...em indicated by her manners, from a bewitchment of Satan, who often visits Christianity under the form of a female, as appears in the holy books, in w... ...she avowed her permission, as this practice had already been fol- lowed in Christianity. Now when this demon showed her- self stripped to me, to be pu...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on... ...afe and in Christian keeping!” “Safe thou art,” replied De Bracy; “and for Christianity, here is the stout Baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, whose utter ... ...s-Guilbert, whose trade is to slay Saracens—If these are not good marks of Christianity, I know no other which they bear about them.” “Ye are friends ... ...heir eyes study empty romaunts. They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy. Lo! they are charged with studying the ac- cursed cabalistical secr... ...enjoyed, and the supposed necessity of subduing infidelity and eradicating heresy, which he con- ceived peculiarly incumbent on him. His features rela...

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life:...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... B. III. It is a double impossibility; 1st, because a piracy from Tindal’s Christianity as Old as the Creation: now a piracy à parte post is common en... ...he Church, Dr. by sundry diabolic miracles, she having pub- licly preached heresy, shown herself a witch, and even tried hard to corrupt the principle... ...hemselves could have answered without, on the one side, landing himself in heresy (as then interpreted), or, on the other, in some presumptuous expres... ...ifference, most readers will see little more than the dif- ference between Christianity and Paganism. But there I hesi- tate. The Christian church may...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...circumstances without precedent, and (wherever human nature is ennobled by Christianity) it may be confidently hoped—never to be repeated. The first p... ...e lost or were removed to an incalculable distance for their conversion to Christianity, without which in these times there is no abso- lute advance p... ...er, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Thoughts on Some... ...llman. S. T. Coleridge visited Highgate by way of being converted from the heresy of opium; and the issue is—that, in two months’ time, various grave ...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s... ...rding rather than on expanding accumulated knowledge. It was more or less heresy to suggest that changing the wording could make it better. That ...

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...n 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 dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...s engraved upon his mind must follow after profit with some conscience and Christianity of method. A man cannot go very far astray who neither dishono... ...ethod), finding German grammar a somewhat dry morsel, run their own little heresy as a proof of independence; and deny one of the cardinal doctrines t... ...auged the vanity of philosophy or learned to shun it as the middle- man of heresy– a company of determined, deliberate opinionists, not to be moved by...