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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...g about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national or local that I could lay my hands upon. Now that I have got my Ge... ... to every yawning audience that I can gather. I am grown most insufferably national, you see. I fancy it is a punishment for my want of it at ordinary... ...my scalp was sore. With this high wintry wind, and the grey sky, and faint northern daylight, it was quite wonderful to hear such a clamour of blackbi... ...R. L. S. 187 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO ALEXANDER IRELAND [CHALET AM STEIN, DAVOS, MARCH 1882] MY DEAR SIR, – This formidable... ...y and blackhearted and fundamentally at enmity with joy. I trust that Mrs. Ireland does not object to smoking; and if you are a teetotaller, I beg you... ...ce and charm, like a moon rising, are born above the barren juggle of mere symbols. The painter must study more from nature than the man of words. But...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... certainly signify heaven and heavenly things, by the same very tokens and symbols that white signifieth joy and pleasure. Chapter 1.XI. Of the youthf... ...one, they conquered the Isles of Orkney and subdued Scotland, England, and Ireland. From thence sailing through the sandy sea and by the Sarmates, the... ...outh point of Africa, beyond the equinoctial line, and losing sight of the northern pole, their guide, they make a prodigious long voyage; but rather ... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant... ...al-men, and boiling cooks having been sadly mauled and peppered off in the northern countries. His high devilship sups very well on tradesmen, usurers... ... radiant lantern gave us just so much light as is in St. Patrick’s hole in Ireland, or T rophonius’s pit in Boeotia; which caused Panurge to say to he...