הוצאת Kessinger Publishing
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If I had served myself, with half the zeal that I have served the world, I should not now be thus forsaken!--I have sacrificed reputation, happiness--every thing, to the love of frolic--All frolic will soon be at an end with me--I am dying--and I shall die unlamented by any human being. --If I were ...
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Indeed, what is the Dionysian? This book offers an answer to that question: a "knowledgeable person" speaks there, the initiate and disciple of his own god. Perhaps I would now speak with more care and less eloquently about such a difficult psychological question as the origin of tragedy among the G...
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The next morning passed in restless debate with himself. He did not cross the way to call upon Eve: the thought of speaking with her on the doorstep of a lodging-house proved intolerable. All day long he kept his post of observation. Other persons he saw leave and enter the house, but Miss Madeley d...
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When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, do...
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JULIA. I couldn't bear it any longer. Oh, to see them sitting there at lunch together, laughing, chatting, making game of me! I should have screamed out in another moment--I should have taken a knife and killed her--I should have--(Cuthbertson appears with the luncheon bill in his hand. He stuffs it...
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1902. This essay is about Plutarch a Greek philosopher who was influenced by Platonic dualism. Using Plato's philosophy on dualism he tried to bring together Greek religion and Greek philosophy. Partial Contents: Roman Religion; Ethics; Socratic Philosophy; Pagan beliefs; Atheism; Superstition; Mono...
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It seems a great pity that houses should be standing empty like that. Are they quite uninhabitable? Couldn't one camp here during this fine summer weather? To tell you the truth, I'm looking for a room -- as cheap a room as I can get. Could you let me one for the next three months?'...
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Lady Lansdowne's reception of us was most cordial. She had been out walking, and came to us only half dressed, with a shawl thrown over her. Lord Lansdowne is at Bath, at an agricultural meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Ord and their son, an Eton youth, are here; Lady Elizabeth and Captain Fielding--he is very...
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., Westminster....
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Your tastes, you say, are fixed; if they are so, you must be doubly careful to ensure their gratification. If you cannot make them subservient to external circumstances, you should certainly, if it be in your power, choose a situation in which circumstances will be subservient to them. If you are co...
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"My dear little girl!" she said for the second time; and then they walked on, and still Betty could not say anything for sheer joy. "Now I'm going to tell you something quite in confidence," said the hostess of the great house, which showed its dim towers and scattered lights beyond the leafless tre...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ni THE GERMANIC PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY The unity of the German people longed for and dreamed of after 1807 b...
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As A Man Thinketh; All These Things Added; Eight Pillars of Prosperity; Entering the Kingdom; and The Path of Prosperity....
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Only nineteen and a poor orphan, the fame of the prospective bridegroom, as a marvel of acumen and memory, reached far and wide. Few of the subtlest rabbinical minds in the district were accounted his match in debate, and he was said to have some two thousand Talmudical folios literally at his finge...
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Yet there was a sentence in the letter, that, worse than all the tenderness left out, wounded her sensibility; and she could not read the line, GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE FAVOURS CONFERRED ON ME, without turning pale with horror, then kindling with indignation at the commonplace thanks, which insultingly...
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"Krishna said,--'some time after this, the great ascetic, the exalted Chandakausika, again came into the country of the Magadhas. Filled with joy at the advent of the Rishi, king Vrihadratha, accompanied by his ministers and priest and wives and son, went out to receive him. And, O Bharata, worshipp...
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1890. All will agree that the manner of presenting old truths is of the first importance. As one gets on in life and realizes more and more fully the lost opportunities of the irreparable past, and scans the horizon, he longs to reach out a hand, to send out a voice that possibly will be heard. Cont...
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Or if this (All) which round about we see (As idle Morpheus some sicke braines hath taught) Of vndeuided motes compacted bee, How was this goodly Architecture wrought? Or by what meanes were they together brought?...
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1909. One purpose of this book is to set forth the scriptural conception of the Cross of Christ as being, not an atonement to God or expiation of man's sin, but the mean whereby God was effecting the atonement, or reconciliation, of the world with himself. It is not written to support a one sided mo...
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I'll tell mamma, and she shall scold you both with a vengeance; and then how will you look, eh! Miss Crop, the conjuror! How came you to cut your hair all off your ugly forehead? tell me that! And you, Mrs. Decorum, when did you swallow the poker? tell me that. Aye, aye, you find I have a tongue as ...
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The Young Turks were not Nationalists from the beginning; the "Committee of Union and Progress" was founded in good faith to liberate and reconcile all the inhabitants of the Empire on the principles of the French Revolution. At the Committee's congress in 1909 the Nationalists were shouted down wit...
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1911. Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; ...
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While Don Luys Dasmarinas was governing, the suspicions and fear of Xapon continued, which, together with the Chinese trouble, kept the people in continual anxiety. The governor sent his cousin, Don Fernando de Castro, with letters and despatches to the viceroy of Canton and to that of Chincheo, whe...
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"Ah, Mademoiselle," I cried, "or rather Madame, for I regard you as my lawful wife from this very moment, is it possible that so charming a creature should have existed in the world, without her fame having reached me? I am grateful for my past misfortunes and for the sharp pecks that my father gave...
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Although Mrs. Haywood was evidently not responsible for the inclusion of her tale in "The Female Dunciad," and although the piece itself was entirely innocuous, her daring to raise her head even by accident brought down upon her another scurrilous rebuke, not this time from the poet himself, but fro...
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Aphra Behn, née Johnston (1640-1689) was a Restoration poet, novelist, playwright, feminist and spy, considered by many to be the first English professional female writer. Unappreciated for years, she is now rightly regarded as a highly talented, innovative and prolific author. Her most famous work...
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1905. This book is intended to supplement the Short History of the Hebrews in which the author dealt with the development of religion in Israel. No attempt is made herein to exhaustively deal with the theology of the Old Testament, but to set forth a general outline of the course of Israel's spiritu...
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1896. Partial Contents: How we came to London; New King at St. Paul's; The Round Table; Not Galahad but Lancelot; On the wrong side of the severn; Paths that Enid rode; Who the king really was; Little adventures of Lancelot; crime of the sea; How the scabbard was lost; King Arthur's gravestone....
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1898. These lectures, though based on the literature of the Egyptians, cover some general considerations which are equally applicable to the religion and conscience of other nations. They are intended as an attempt to indicate lines of study, and to observe what actually is the construction of human...
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Sir Pat. How! her whole Family! I am come to keep open House; very fine, her whole Family! she's Plague enough to mortify any good Christian,--tell her, my Lady and I am gon forth; tell her any thing to keep her away....
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1899. From the introduction: When I first met Marshall P. Wilder, I was drawn toward him because of his magnetic smile and because of a sympathy for a merry lad who bore his little cross so patiently...He has written here a little book which is a reflex of his own happy, buoyant nature. It contains ...
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Ouing In Trueth, And Fayne In Verse My Loue To Show, That She, Deare Shee, Might Take Som Pleasure Of My Paine, Pleasure Might Cause Her Reade, Reading Might Make Her Know....
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Intellectual Germany had to take refuge in the literature of other countries, in the works of Ibsen, Zola, Dalldet, Maupassant, and especially in the great works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgeniev. But as no country can long maintain a standard of culture without a literature and drama related t...
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1920. From the author's notes: This Parable, with its notations and evocations of naked nerves and soul-states, is inscribed in all gratitude to the charming morganatic ladies, les belles impures, who make pleasanter this vale of tears for virile men. What shall it profit a woman if she saves her so...
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"Oh! accidentally--he knew him by sight, went to the same cafe, that's all, and they had played at pool together, Joseph and the murderer--a man named Nicot. Joseph told this to the crowd, and you may well imagine how important that made him, when suddenly a little blond man seized him. 'You know th...
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1906. This is a dissertation on practical psychometry, its value and how it is mastered. The psychometrist can use his gift anywhere; any object can be made to give up its history, to reveal its past, present and future surroundings. This is a book of the world, of nature, and of other worlds, becau...
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1899. One of 145 books written for children by Otis, this story deals with General Francis Marion's heroic struggle in the Carolinas. General Marion's arrival to take command of these brave men and rough riders is pictured as a boy might have seen it, and although the story is devoted to what the la...
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Let me tell you that a phenomenon which the incredulous have classed without a moment's hesitation as fabulous, has just been verified by this company. We wished to see whether the pendulum swings of a suspended ring can be controlled by the concentrated human will. I undertook to fix my will upon i...
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SLOW in the Wintry Morn, the struggling light Throws a faint gleam upon the troubled waves; Their foaming tops, as they approach the shore And the broad surf that never ceasing breaks On the innumerous pebbles, catch the beams....
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild-oats, drifte...
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Originally published in 1901. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the orig...
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