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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 the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...ART 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.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ...rine of the second advent. It was this day twelve-months, a day to be remembered in the history of my ministry; for which, not I only, but many soul... ...e former advent of Christ and so avoid the second advent altogether, as an event in the history of the earth’s amelioration. But this is sufficiently... ...of the four horns. It is a thing quite usual in the discursive prophecies to derive the history of the sufferings of the church from so high a source... ...ded with every convenience for writing and for consulting the Holy Scriptures. When the outlines, and divisions, and whole ground-work of the subjec... ...prophecy should have for its object, the circumstantials of an edict, and not the great outline of the persecution? Furthermore, what do the ten hor...

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Excerpt: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...her’s life, her sister’s, her own, that of her two lost brothers—the whole history of their house had the effect of some fine florid voluminous phrase... ... she subsequently remembered that though on this occasion she had left the history of her new alliance as scant as the facts themselves, Mrs. Lowder h... ...one to church, she broke it to me by the school-room fire. I was reading a history-book by the lamp—when we didn’t go to church we had to read his- to... ... then mixed and dim, was to render his history rich, his sources full, his outline anything but common. He had come round, he had come back, he insist... ...aps showing less than she had feared, a certain possibility of Pickwickian outline. She explained how she meant by this that Mrs. Condrip hadn’t altog...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. An excursion beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to conduct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active service, led General Ople across a famous common, with which he fell in love at once, to a lofty highw...

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...rge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper by George Meredith is a publication of the ... ...sity. 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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ere delight- ful. Strange to tell, she knew a great deal of his antecedent history, things he had not supposed were known; ‘little mat- ters,’ he rema... ... the neighbourhood canvassing for exclamations: on the fourth page was the outline of a lovely feminine hand, holding a pen, as in the act of shading,... ...of a furnace; for while he stood there, Lady Camper was rapidly pencilling outlines in a small pocket sketchbook. There are dogs whose shyness is put ... ...th; and General Ople half enjoyed, while shrinking, Lady Camper’s foregone outlines of him. For in the distance, the whip’s-end may look like a clingi... ...he happy re-establishment of our masculine ascendancy at the close of this history . But he forgot it in his bridegroom’s delight, until he was making...

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...rrasine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...I was passing the evening. The trees, being partly covered with snow, were outlined indistinctly against the grayish background formed by a cloudy sky... ...ford to overlook its little mysteries. But, unfortunately, the enigmatical history of the Lanty family offered a perpetual subject of curiosity, not u... ...nd not without a sweet smile of sat- isfaction, the exquisite grace of the outlines, the attitude, the color, the hair, in fact everything. “He is too... ... there in nature, taking from one model, often of humble rank, the rounded outline of a shapely leg, 20 Sarrasine from another the contour of the bre...

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...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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...ics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...cted the light upon the count’s large face, casting shadows among its bony outlines, she fan- cied that her husband was about to fix upon her his two ... ...is great es- tates by marrying seven months before the night on which this history begins, Jeanne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon ... ...nd never was judicial astrology held in greater honor; for at no period in history was there a greater general desire to know the future. This ignoran... ...im by the hand and lead- ing him into the great hall. At this epoch of our history, a duke and peer, with great possessions, holding public offices an... ...nclosed the bust like a guimpe and compressed it, delicately modelling the outline as it seemed to flatten; it moulded the shoulders, the back, the wa... ...ng the window-panes at dusk, ever conveyed the idea of greater elegance of outline. Gabrielle’s face was thin, but not flat; on her neck and forehead ...

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...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...man phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, the history of which it is our purpose to relate. If one of these inlets, mere ... ...ing the terrestrial grandeurs of Norway, and of enshrining the scenes of a history that is indeed celestial. The general outline of the Strom-fiord se... ...f enshrining the scenes of a history that is indeed celestial. The general outline of the Strom-fiord seems at first sight to be that of a funnel wash... ... In fact, a wealthy Swede settled in Jarvis about thirty years before this history begins, and did his best to ameliorate its condition. This little h... ...s she in the mar- vellous view now offered of her native land, whose rocky outlines could here be seen at a glance. She felt, with deep emotion, the s... ...se of a woman, and equally impossible not to note how the forehead and the outlines of the head gave evidence of power brought to its highest pitch. “...

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...Excerpt: ?The Lake Gun? is one of James Fenimore Cooper?s very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called ?The Parthenon? (New...

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... Fenimore Cooper (Intro. and Notes by Hugh C. MacDougall) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of lit... ...ngs are not to cease as long as wood will float. No white man can give the history of this “Jew.” He was found laving his sides in the pure waters of ... ...rested on the singular and strange object. At he drew nearer, however, the outlines became more and more distinct, and he fancied that the form was ac... ...t, on reflection, he changed his purpose, and com- municated to Fuller the outlines of a very simple, and, by no means, unusual history. He was a chie... ...nicated to Fuller the outlines of a very simple, and, by no means, unusual history. He was a chief of the highest race in his tribe, and had been sele... ...Gun “There is a remarkable resemblance between this little incident in the history of the Senecas and events that are passing among our pale-faced rac...

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

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...any reasons, was not quite groundless. Nevertheless friend Teufelsdrockh’s outline, who indeed handled the burin like few in these cases, was probably... ...e original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of this Doctrine. Readers of any intelligence are onc... ... woven and ever a-weaving in the “Loom of Time; “ is not here, indeed, the outline of a whole Clothes-Philosophy; at least the arena it is to work in?...

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...imore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicat... ...he Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a... ...uced from the circumstances, though great uncertainty hangs over the whole history of the Indians. 27 James Fenimore Cooper for war and armed with th... ...ent to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the ... ...the day had now dawned, the opposite shores no longer presented a confused outline, but they were able to look into the woods, and distinguish objects... ... ruins that are intimately associ- ated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy character of ... ...he language of the Delawares, and with the pride of a conqueror, the brief history of the skirmish which had been fought, in his youth, in that seclud...

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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 their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... his achievement has vindicated the purity of his mo- tives. He belongs to history. But there were others— obscure adventurers who had not his advanta... ... a narrow strip of water, Suroeton, to the west, shows a curved and ridged outline resembling the backbone of a stooping giant. And to the eastward a ... .... To the north, as if to prove the impossible, an incredibly blacker patch outlined on the tremendous blackness of the sky the heart of the coming squ... ... from her reached Carter’s ears. She seemed an abandoned craft but for the outline of a man’s head and body still visible in a watchful attitude above... ...ated world could have been more inspiring to the most famous adventurer of history. From time to time he interrupted himself to ask, confidently, as i... ...s of belief in their importance befitting the chronicle of a crisis in the history of an empire. The shade of Jorgenson had, indeed, stepped back into...

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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 presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. 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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...much, to have their tender senti- ments considered, it cannot be said that History requires the 10 Diana of the Crossways flaying of them. A gouty Di... ...t the basis of her woman’s nature was pointed flame: In the fulness of her history we perceive nothing histrionic. Capricious or enthusiastic in her y... ...heaps. Brainstuff is not lean stuff;—the brainstuff of fiction is internal history, and to suppose it dull is the profoundest of errors; how deep, you... ...roical feminine type for the worship of mankind, an image as yet in poetic outline only, on our upper skies. ‘So well do we know ourselves, that we on... ...ame nearer to it. He had the English taste for red and white, and for cold outlines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. ... ...ights to having her beside him.—She wrote of; ‘Thoughts that are bare dark outlines, coloured by some odd passion of the soul, like towers of a distan...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered these theological controver- sies in... ... very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the noble l... ...the beast, these are for creatures that have a settled environment, a life history, that spin in a cage of instincts. But man is a beast of that kind ... ...dian night swallow up the last lingering colours of the world. It left the outlines, it obliterated nothing, but it stripped off the super- ficial rea... ...e tethered beasts, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The clustering village itself slept in darkne... ...l was—attenuated. He could not romance. So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines. She tried to inspire a son who seemed most unaccountably up to no...

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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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