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The coming of the Messiah.

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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 t...

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...CONTENTS DEDICATION...1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....1...

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...LORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWAR... ...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ... greatly afflicted because of the present unawakened and even dead condition of all the churches, with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ... ...y worldly principles and confederacies, and hasten the ruin and downfall of the present churches. And now, forasmuch as it is to those who look for h... ...e Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of... ...verthrown us: and now our churches, which in their standards abhor all communion of the old man with the new man, all league of the world with the c... ...rounding the substance of it all upon the very words of our Lord himself, and using the Old Testament only when the language manifestly carried me t... ... galleon which was ever carried into a British port; this parish priest received from a Catholic friend on the continent, whose name I may not mentio...

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...opeans by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Europeans by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University... ...uld happen to indicate that the blessed vernal season is already six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the sc... ...t this moment for his strongly-lighted face. He was eight and twenty years old; he had a short, slight, well-made figure. Though he bore a noticeable ... ...lf sister, and older than he.” “Yes,” said Gertrude, “and she turned Roman Catholic and married in Europe.” “I see you know,” said the young man. “She... ...A prelate, a cardinal?” murmured Mr. Wentworth. “Do you refer to the Roman Catholic priesthood?” “I mean an old ecclesiastic who should have led a ver... ...f the town, of course,” she said, “of the sculptured gables and the Gothic churches, of the wonderful Schloss, with its moat and its clustering towers...

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...rnhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Make... ...ere grey and solemn. Farms and gardens, convent towers, white villages and churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp ... ... farthing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening afterwards:“they respect it, sir. ”... ... penny!” in all voices, from extreme youth to the most lousy and venerable old age. When it is said that these beggars were as ragged as those of Ire... ...he lions in one capital roar very much like the lions in another; that the churches are more or less large and splen- did, the palaces pretty spacious... ...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca...

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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...enty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...omised to instruct him when they got further on. Dobbin walked home to his old quarters and the Slaugh- ters’, thinking very likely that it would be d... ...re the little garden-gate, to welcome the weeping, trembling, young bride. Old Mr. Clapp, who was in his shirt-sleeves, trimming the garden-plot, shra... ... out to swell the general chorus of alarm and clamour. Women rushed to the churches, and crowded the chapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and st... ...r a congregation. The same service was read on that day in twenty thousand churches at the same hour; and mil- lions of British men and women, on thei... ...es and towers and plantations of flowers and shrubs, under which the Roman Catholic dead repose. It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that ...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...cott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...with its red bark and its majestic parasol; here a cedar two hundred years old, weeping willows, a Norway spruce, and a beech which overtops them all;... ...ar shrubs,—a yew trimmed in a way that recalls some long-decayed garden of old France, 9 Balzac and magnolias with hortensias at their feet. In short... ...uch better that I should have it, and so enable her to live in peace.” The Catholic religion, and it alone, is able to prevent these capitulations of ... ...es before the Revolution, was again a priest after the re-establishment of Catholic worship, and again the curate of the same little town. He was not ... ...columns with niches, which terminate in spires. This portal, often seen in churches of the same period when chance has saved them from the ravages of ...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...T BY H. G. WELLS 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania... ...tleman, and then yielding it reluc- tantly with its distasteful three-year-old honour, “Sir Rich- mond Hardy.” The door closed softly behind him and h... ...are canvassed and schemed about, long before a single member is appointed. Old Cassidy worked the whole thing with the prime minister. I can see that ... ...trait of the Artist as a Young Man.” “I’ve not read it.” “A picture of the Catholic atmosphere; a young soul shut up in darkness and ignorance to accu... ...yflower that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers w... ... you find you are?” 85 H G Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals.” “You feel all this country belongs to...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on...

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ... Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e caught the ear of Night, and sang confident of her charm. It was a grand old Italian air, requiring severity of tone and power. Now into great mourn... ...height of the lesser firs, bounded by a green- grown vallum, where once an old woman, hopelessly a witch, had squatted, and defied the authorities to ... ...now, my feeling is, and I cannot at all account for it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion... ...ister. She said pointedly once: “Really, if we are to be miserable, I turn Catholic and go into a convent.” The strange thing was that Arabella imagin... ...ades, little copses, farms, and meadows rounding away to spires of village churches under blue hills, would not let her sink, heavy as was the spirit ...