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...ite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of t... ... I E V E M E N T S O F C I V I L I Z AT I O N Q: I understand that my question may sound stupid, but I wish to know: if we imagine that the world sta... ...is correct, thus allowing us to exist in it. We can’t even imagine that there may be a different and better way of receiving the abundance of nature... ...s and gives each part a unique name relating to its traits and describing its operations. Al- though it is the language of emotions, it is an accurat... ...to fight the craving to know the purpose of my life, and I couldn’t picture a day when I could get up in the morning without asking the T H E K A B... ...ing question over and over again. I couldn’t imagine a peace- ful, thoughtless day, where I could sit down quietly and enjoy my life… If there’s no cu... ...as he who draws water from the well in a punctured bucket. He draws water all day long and still has not a drop of water with which to soothe his th... ...enote a spiritual nature, laws of the Upper World, by which the souls and the operations of the Creator live. Just as there are natural laws in our ... ...t. Does it also hold back my progress? A: For Kabbalists, attack is an ongoing operation. The fear is not the fear itself, but a fear that results fr...

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...rpt: 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 things have sufficiently accomplished their purpose when t...

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...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 con... ... of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very ... ...re levities, simply as such, and without liability to any worse objection, may happen to have no justifying principle of life within them; and if, any... ... in my life, which left stings in my memory so as to be remembered at this day, were two, and both before I could have completed my second year; namel... ...cident was drawn off from her proper duties to attend my sister Jane for a day or two, had on one occasion treated her harshly, if not brutally; and a... ...red upon that event, ran after my steps far into life; and perhaps at this day I resemble little for good or for ill that which else I should have bee... ...on would be made an argument for selling them. And such, when we trace the operation of this law to its final stage, is the ultimate result of an infr... ...s means for evading British acts, even within their own separate sphere of operation. On these considerations, even an Irishman must grant that public... ... and a neighborhood which had become the very centre of the final military operations, those which succeeded to the main rebellion; and which, to the ...

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...tituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true....

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...reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Pen... ... of Rossini, the musician who brings most human passion into his art. Some day his works, by their number and extent, will re- ceive the reverence due... ...e awe and fear in those who come in contact with him—realise this, and you may, perhaps, un- derstand why the General walked abruptly out of the churc... ...s reli- gious duties, piety which caused no remark in Spain. The very next day, while the division was marching out of the town, the General went to t... ...en to trouble her even beyond the grave in which the nun is laid, that she may rise again as the bride of Christ. The organ is in truth the grandest, ... ... of long melancholy broodings, of the slow course of her moral malady. How day by day she deadened the senses, how every night cut off one more though... ...ty of the Faubourg Saint-Germain was rather like an army without a base of operation. It had ut- terly failed to take advantage of the peace to plant ...

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...urers and ply- ing the cutlass or the spade, idiot conscience applauds me; if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds, idiot con- science wails over... ...ar whoop fetches my wife and Henry (or Simele), our Samoan boy, on the front balcony; and I am home again, and only sorry that I shall have to go down... ...been hard at work since I came; three chapters of The Wrecker, and since that, eight of the South Sea book, and, along and about and in between, a hat... ... others joined; whereupon we formed a cordon, closed, captured the deserters, and dropped them, squeaking amain, into their strengthened barracks wher... ...single- handed, and I want it to burst on the public complete. Hence, with devilish ingenuity, I begin it at different places; so that if you stumble ... ...erto unknown in Samoa. I had to go to Folau, the chief judge here, in the matter. Folau had never heard of the offence, and begged to know what was th... ...ous. By the time the expedi- tion reached the fork, it was felt exceedingly questionable whether the moral of the force were sufficiently good to unde... ...an M. P. But Sedan was really great, and I will pick no holes. The batteries under fire, the red-cross folk, the county charge—perhaps, above all, Maj... ... things that used to murder me. I was far more struck with the excellent way in which things were managed; as if it had been a peep-show; I held some ...

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...ves, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson St Ives—Robert Louis Stevenson—1898 Edition. CHAPTER I—A TALE OF A LION ... ...in between me and all my dearest wishes; that upon this precise, regular, icy soldier-man my fortunes should so nearly shipwreck! I never liked, but y... ...d commanding extraordinary prospects, not only over sea, mountain, and champaign but actually over the thorough- 6 St. Ives fares of a capital city, ... ...ity be devised? Monday and Thursday were the days. Take the Thursday, and conceive the picture I must present by Sunday evening! And Saturday, which w... ...s a rather frequent visitor) it seemed I was aware of it. She had an air of an- gelic candour, yet of a high spirit; she stepped like a Diana, every m... ...red her the slip of cambric. ‘Madam,’ said I, ‘your handkerchief. The wind brought it me.’ I met her eyes fully. ‘I thank you, sir,’ said she. ‘The wi... ...hearthrug, and for some time there was no sound but the creasing of bills and the jingling of guineas, broken occasionally by the ex- ulting exclamati... ...ng it for discipline, because the General had said so at first, and had not yet found any way out of his own words; and I highly admired his force of ... ...everal tiers of green tin cases. He greeted me like an old friend. ‘Come away, sir, come away!’ said he. ‘Here is the den- tist ready for you, and I t...

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...ointment in the Admiralty Office, which employed him for many hours of the day at Somerset House. My mother, whose maiden name was Mary Griffith, belo... ... in her bedroom. I made one of my nieces hunt up the book for me the other day, and the story brought back at once the little crib, or the watered blu... ...r, will not do them justice in the eyes of the young people of the present day, who are accustomed to a far more indulgent government, and yet seem to... ...d deal of frightful illustra- tion, beguiled many of my weary moments. You may see my special favourites, bound up, on the shelf in my bedroom. Crabbe... ...d oh, ye boys! who murmur at the Waverley Novels as a dry holiday task, ye may envy us the zest and enthusiasm with which we devoured them in their fr... ...ho has promised me to do his utmost to retrieve his char- acter, as far as may be possible, and happily he is still young.’ My mother’s embrace was in... ...his wife’s carelessness, the injury had de- veloped into fatal disease. An operation might yet save him, if he could rally enough for it, but the feve... ...ing fast to the theory of the periodical autumnal fever, and then that the operation would restore him to health; and as her pres- ence fretted him, a...

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...set- ting her first to sort a huge heap of every kind of grain in a single day. The ants, secretly commanded by Cupid, did this for her. Next, she was... ...h love-knots gay. About me leaped and laughed The modish Cupid of the day, And shrilled his tinselled shaft. —Tennyson. IF TIMES DIFFER, human... ... dinner would be on my father’s table-cloth if I were to sit under one all day?” said she in answer to Harriet’s represen- tation of the fitness of th... ...milk-maid.” “You were welcome to reply, in her own yard,” said Betty. “You may thank me for your syllabub.” “Which, after all, you forbade poor Aura t... ...taste!” “Assuredly. I was not going to have her turn sick on my hands. She may think herself beholden to me for her dance with that fine young beau. W... ... Aurelia, with the insecurity pro- duced by such cross-questioning; “but I may have been mis- taken, since, of course, the true Sir Amyas Belamour wou... ...ted themselves of their finery before Betty came in, and they assisted her operations, Harriet preferring a complaint that she never would tell them a... ...supper, and don’t stand gaping there.” Mrs. Aylward hurried away to hasten operations, and Aurelia began somewhat to recover her senses, though she wa...

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...is hut by night, and who used to let me go about with him and his sheep by day when I could get nothing else to do, and who used to give me so little ... ...g those bright blue South American Wa- ters. Looking after the shepherd, I may say. W atching him in a half-waking dream, with my eyes half-shut, as h... ...ands than anybody else was. Now, I confess, for myself, that on that first day, if I had been captain of the Christopher Columbus, instead of private ... ...f all of us had our deserts, I should be both of them rolled into one. (It may be imagined what sort of an officer of marines I should have made, with... ... be a man of no learning, and, if I entertain prejudices, I hope allowance may be made. I will now confess to one. It may be a right one or it may be ... ...angrily: “Gill Davis, I hope I may not be the death of Sergeant Drooce one day!” Now, I knew Drooce had always borne particularly hard on this man, an... ... they summoned us out to come into the trap. But my intention as to future operations— ” In a flash the Spanish gun was at his bright eye, and he fire...

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...born, as he informs us him- self, between eleven and twelve o’clock in the day, the last of February 1533, at the chateau of St. Michel de Montaigne. ... ...arted has been engaged in some important military transactions. However it may be as to these conjectures, our author, hav- ing arrived at his thirty-... ...te motives overruled with him mere personal ambition as a literary man. We may suppose that he began to compose the Essays at the very outset of his r... ...country, which had no fascination for him, and arrived at Rome on the last day of November, entering by the Porta del Popolo, and putting up at Bear. ... ... a Jewish child cir- cumcised, and wrote down a most minute account of the operation. He met at San Sisto a Muscovite ambassador, the second who had c... ...etto, stopping at Ancona, Fano, and Urbino. He arrived at the beginning of May 1581, at Bagno della Villa, where he established himself, order to try ... ...th which degenerates into cowardice. But was it not rather the fear of the operation for the stone, at that time really formidable? Or perhaps he was ... ...de Montaigne, to have you in his holy keeping. “Written at Paris, the 25th day of November 1581. “Henri. “A Monsieur de Montaigne, Knight of my Order,... ...t to the distribution of praise, has formerly been confined in its area of operations; and it may be the reason why poetry once lost favour with the m...

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...ass which “proposes primarily to amuse the reader, but which, in doing so, may or may not happen occasionally to reach a higher station, at which the ... ...n a hostile or a friendly character.” Of De Quincey’s essays in general it may be said that they bear witness alike to the diversity of his knowledge ... ...evidently De Quincey has a distinct quality of his own. Ruskin, in our own day, is like him, but never the same. Yet De Quincey’s prose poetry is a ve... ...hings, very hard to do on our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, an... ...torms, of darkness, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office servic... ...ified object to an impassioned heart; and naturally, in the Oxford of that day, all hearts were im- passioned, as being all (or nearly all) in early m... ...lishment as Oxford. Three mails, at the least, I remember as passing every day through Oxford, and benefiting by my personal patronage—viz., the Worce...

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...sh governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked of the day before just at dinner-time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world--woke up at his usual h...

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... her to look out for a new situation for her; the man cook had walked of the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen maid, and the coachman had gi... ...orked for him by his wife on gold colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting u... ...ost complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossi ble ... ...g her. “If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children! They may all know you are a scoundrel! I am going away at once, and you may li... ... love with the Shtcherbatsky household. Part I — Chapter 6 21 Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin ... ...r; his face was pale. “But I would advise you to settle the thing as soon as may be,” pursued Oblon sky, filling up his glass. “No, thanks, I can’t dr... ... in sight, to make it up with him, and began talking to him about the spring operations before them, and his plans for the farm. The wagons were to be... ...nds, Vronsky was hard as a rock, and knew well how to keep up prices. In all operations on a large scale on this and his other estates, he kept to the...

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...ide no lasting sense of satisfaction with the achievement. Because to this day, no answers have been provided to these questions, people continue to ... ...ve under the influence of the light within man. Man is impressed with the operations of the Creator and receives the combination of the attributes of... ...ve and would remain at the level of no more than a primitive clan to this day. Man must attain such a state where he is master of his own fate, and ... ...nce and fatigue, the mood when you feel hungry, the power of fears in the day time. We cannot accurately measure emotions in our world. For example,... ...inced that any decision that comes to him from above, however difficult it may be, ultimately brings only good and is preferred over all his searches... ... evolution will continue, it is inevitable. But the manner of development may vary significantly because of the influence of external conditions. Le... ..., meaning utilize his first and second elements to the maximum. A person may be born with attributes that are very ‘harmful’ for positive spiritual ...

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...Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacram... ...’s Correspondence (Philadelphia, 1913), Vol. I, No. 199. These two writings may be regarded as the immediate occasion for the writing of The Babylon... ...nhäuser text has been revised in order to bring it into accord with present-day usage. Effort has been made also to conform a bit more closely to Lu... ...ting. Whether I wish it or not, I am compelled to become more learned every day, with so many and such able masters eagerly driving me on and making... ...r of Nimrod, the mighty hunter [Gen. 10:8–9]. Once more, therefore, that all may turn out to my friends’ advantage, I beg both the booksellers and my... ...-six lines. Luther’s Calopodia (perhaps originally intended as calcipodium) may have been a reference to the wooden-soled sandals worn by Alveld s or... ...those men also in their perilous mode of living or guide them by the special operation of his Spirit, yet without desiring it to be an example to oth...

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...tanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun failed him, in 1812, his luck ceased!...

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...belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun failed him, in 1812, his luck ceased! About four in the afterno... ...med to be a prey to some dark and bitter grief. The husband’s appear- ance may explain to a certain extent the evident fear of the two women. The laws... ...brated and opulent as the elder. The marquis, among the richest men of his day, instead of wasting his substance at court, built the chateau of Gondre... ...as shared throughout a neigh- borhood of twenty miles in circumference. It may be well to give, without further delay, the reasons for this fear,—all ... ...remarked Michu. “This is the third time that old fellow has passed here to-day. What’s in the wind? Hush, Couraut!” A few moments later the trot of a ... ... into my game. That’s why I left those fellows dining at the chateau; they may look into everything for all I care; they won’t find Louis XVIII. nor a... ... En- gland to take part in this deadly enterprise. Fouche relied on the co-operation of the emigres every- where beyond the Rhine to lure the Duc d’En... ...from obtaining the treasure, and it now gave him pleasure to undertake the operation with his masters. He was determined to leave the neighbor- hood a... ...er those people would play us some dangerous trick.” Sure of the active co-operation of the prefect of the Aube, who sent messengers to all the surrou...

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................................................................................................................................. 94 ODE ON ST CECILIA?S DAY ............................................................................................................................... 106 TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS ......................................................

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...................................................... 94 ODE ON ST CECILIA’S DAY .......................................................................... ... E E E E Alexander Pope was born in Lombard Street, London, on the 21st of May 1688—the year of the Revolution. His fa- ther was a linen-merchant, in ... ...e difficulties connected with tinkering such an exquis- ite production. We may allude here to the circumstances 11 The Poetical Works of Alexander Po... ...ch poisoned missiles and every variety of false- hood are still common. We may also here mention, that while the friendship of Pope and Addison lasted... ...een noble. In 1713, he published “Windsor Forest,” an “Ode on St Cecilia’s Day,” and several papers in the Guardian—one of them be- ing an exquisitely... ... and their power gone. This at least is our opinion; although many to this day continue to admire these translations, and have even said that if they ... ...ad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the s...

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...................................... 175 BOOK 3.V . TERROR THE ORDER OF THE DAY .......................................................................... ... for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present circumstances, be adapted for us. It is unfortunate, though... ...letter; and so they continue Ta-r- tars, of fell Tartarean nature, to this day. Here, in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerabl... ...ork,—nay, as to that, very bad weather for harvest work! An unlucky Editor may do his utmost; and after all, require allowances. He had been a wise Fr... ...e!— 9 Thomas Carlyle Nevertheless in all human movements, were they but a day old, there is order, or the beginning of order. Consider two things in ... ...st needs rule over it,— till the Convention meet. This Commune, which they may well call a spontaneous or ‘improvised’ Commune, is, for the present, s... ... National Convention gives of itself; by this scientific program shall its operations and events go on. But from the best scien- tific program, in suc...

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...re to redeem his diminished fortune. While the building scheme was in full operation, this circumstance was often pointed out to me by the class of fr... ...threatened devastation will not be con- 7 Sir Walter Scott summated in my day. Although the adventurous spirit of times short while since passed gave... ...hom time seems to have made little impression; for the Aunt Margaret of to-day bears the same proportional age to the Aunt Margaret of my early youth ... ...frame, like some well-constructed piece of me- chanics, still performs the operations for which it had seemed destined—going its round with an activit... ...lly relates little either to the present or to the future. For the passing day we possess as much as we require, and we neither of us wish for more; a... ...t of reason.” “Where there is no task,” she rejoined, “to be performed, we may sit in the dark if we like it; if we go to work, we must ring for candl... ... of inky darkness seems to be a field for Fancy to play her revels in. She may call up other features to meet us, instead of the reflection of our own... ...the spells of Hallowe’en, which we learned in childhood, some unknown form may be seen peeping over our shoulder. In short, when I am in a ghost-seein...

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..................................................... 107 Chapter 2.3.V . The Day of Poniards. ............................................................. ... moans: notable only are his sharper agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last depart... ...Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No; nevertheless one may fear the worst. Royalty was beforehand so decrepit, moribund, there is ... ...tutional scare- crow, but in what still unmeasured, infinite-seeming force may rally round it, is there thenceforth any hope. For it is most true that... ...ncy the Royal Family risen from its truckle-beds on the morrow of that mad day: fancy the Municipal inquiry, “How would your Majesty please to lodge?”... ... and never more. He sends for his smith-tools; gives, in the course of the day, official or ceremonial busi- ness being ended, ‘a few strokes of the f... ... before there could be any swearing, were to be all blessed. A most proper operation; since surely without Heaven’s blessing bestowed, say even, audib...

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...atever to tell the reader about them. Mr. Bensington won his spurs (if one may use such an expression of a gentleman in boots of slashed cloth) by his... ...e such inspira- tion, for such glories and positions only as a “scientist” may expect, what young man would have given his life to such work, as young... ... of their lives they can hold the lights of knowl- edge in comfort—that we may see! And perhaps it accounts for Redwood’s touch of preoccu- pation, th... ...village, and one was bright and wicked. “Got to be meathured every blethed day—every blethed ‘en, ‘e thays. Tho as to thee they grow properly. What oh... ... to thee they grow properly. What oh … eh? Every blethed ‘en—every blethed day.” And Mr. Skinner put up his hand to laugh behind it in a refined and c... ...yful, and it seemed to him that indeed he must have come upon the happiest day in his life. And when in the sunlit run by the sandy bank under the sha... ...sult—a purely theoretical result. But, inci- dentally, we do set forces in operation—new forces. We mustn’t control them—and nobody else can. Practica... ...n that the Food was loose again. In another week Keston Common was in full operation as what naturalists call a centre of distribution. This time ther... ... shed door that served him as a spade, and, no one chancing to observe his operations just then, he devised an ingenious canal that incidentally flood...

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...tories into one, as is clearly demonstrated by several in this volume. You may rely on it, that he has chosen for the finish, the best and most ribald... ...osen for the finish, the best and most ribald of the lot, in order that he may not be accused of a senile dis- course. Put then more likes with your d... ...” The following, however, must be added, for the benefit of all of whom it may concern:—The good man to whom we owe fables and stories of sempiternal ... ...arefully elaborated by one of the most celebrated au- thors of the present day, everything is studied from the eter- nal model of human imitations whi... ... said man, an old fox, perfect in his business, never lighted lamps in the day time, knew how to skin a flint, charged for wool, leather, and feathers... ...commenced their pranks by torch- light. After the peddlers, they commenced operations on the ladies of the town, to whom, by a thousand dodges, they g... ...leman of position might not be annoyed by them. However, towards the fifth day, which is the critical day of fevers, the host not having seen, althoug... ...ake sheep’s eyes, and anything that may come into his head to put off this operation. But be not astonished; pluck up your courage when thinking that ... ...a “braguette” nourished with beer, could have been equal to the alchemical operations of the Chinonian “braguettes,” so much esteemed by Rabelais. And...