100 Percent: The Story of a Patriot
Also he had a bit of genuine anxiety. He had told the truth when he said to Guffey that he didn't know what a "Red" was; but since then he had been making in quiries, and now he knew. A "Red" was a fellow who sympathized with labor unions and with strikes; who wanted to murder the rich and divide their property, and believed that the quickest way to do the dividing was by means of dynamite. All "Reds" made bombs, and carried concealed weapons, and perhaps secret poisons-who could tell?

1492--Mary Johnston
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
MARROWBONES. The knees. To bring any one down on his marrow bones; to make him beg pardon on his knees: some derive this from Mary's bones, i.e. the bones bent in honour of the Virgin Mary; but this seems rather far- fetched. Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the band of rough music: these are generally performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions.

20000 Lieues sous les mers Part 1--Jules Verne
Le narwal vulgaire ou licorne de mer atteint souvent une longueur de soixante pieds. Quintuplez, décuplez même cette dimension, donnez à ce cétacé une force proportionnelle à sa taille, accroissez ses armes offensives, et vous obtenez l'animal voulu. Il aura les proportions déterminées par les Officiers du Shannon, l'instrument exigé par la perforation du Scotia, et la puissance nécessaire pour entamer la coque d'un steamer.

20000 Lieues sous les mers Part 2
Mais, le lendemain, il était huit heures lorsque je revins au salon. Je regardai le manomètre. Il m'apprit que le Nautilus flottait à la surface de l'Océan. J'entendais, d'ailleurs, un bruit de pas sur la plate-forme. Cependant aucun roulis ne trahissait l'ondulation des lames supérieures.

50 Bab Ballads
List to me, while I tell/ The pleasures of that cell,/ Oh, little maid!/ What though its couch be rude,/ Homely the only food/ Within its shade?/

A Ballad of Religion and Marriage--Amy Levy
Monogamous, still at our post,/ Reluctantly we undergo/ Domestic round of boiled and roast,/ Yet deem the whole proceeding slow./ Daily the secret murmurs grow;/ We are no more content to plod/ Along the beaten paths-and so/ Marriage must go the way of God./

A Ballad of Victory and Other Poems--Dollie Radford
When for her tender healing ways,/ The women begged her help again,/ She answered, " In these bounteous days/ I may not let my love remain."/

A Bit O'Love
GLADYS. 'Tisn't, winter now-Ascension Day. I saw her cumin' out o' Dr. Desert's house. I know 'twas her because she had on a blue dress an' a proud luke. Mother says the doctor come over here tu often before Mrs. Strangway went away, just afore Christmas. They was old sweethearts before she married Mr. Strangway. [To Ivy] 'Twas yure mother told mother that.

A Book of Operas--Henry Edward Krehbiel
The first glimpse of the opera reveals an open space in a forest and in it an inn and a target-shooting range. Max, a young assistant to the Chief Forester of a Bohemian principality, is seated at a table with a mug of beer before him, his face and attitude the picture of despondency. Hard by, huntsmen and others are grouped around Kilian, a young peasant who fires the last shot in a contest of marksmanship as the scene is disclosed.

A Book of Rhyme--Augusta Webster
Maybe in Gisors, round the fortress mead-/ Gisors where now, when fair-time brings its press,/ They seek the prisoner's tower to gaze and guess/ And love the work he made in loneliness-/ One cursed the gloom, and died without a deed,/ The while he carved where his one ray could lead./

A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS.
Full title: A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS. A TRADITION OF THE REVOLUTION

A Bundle of Ballads--Henry Morley
The bowmen mustered on the hills,/ Well able to endure;/ Their backsides all with special care/ That day were guarded sure.

A Bundle of Letters
The fair New Yorker is, sometimes, very amusing; she asks me if every one in Boston talks like me-if every one is as "intellectual" as your poor correspondent. She is for ever throwing Boston up at me; I can't get rid of Boston. The other one rubs it into me too; but in a different way; she seems to feel about it as a good Mahommedan feels toward Mecca, and regards it as a kind of focus of light for the whole human race. Poor little Boston, what nonsense is talked in thy name! But this New England maiden is, in her way, a strange type: she is travelling all over Europe alone-"to see it," she says, "for herself."

A CANTICLE OF MAR JACOB THE TEACHER ON EDESSA
She despatched a messenger to Him, and begged of Him to enter into friendship with her. By the righteous king she made intercession to Him, that He would depart from the Jewish people, and towards the other peoples direct His burden.

A Christmas Carol
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A CHRISTMAS-EVE SUIT
"Yes, I'll do my best," she replied, catching her breath. She grew calm rapidly as he tried to reassure Lottie, telling her that water from the rising of the tide had overflowed the main ice and that thin ice had formed over it, also that the river at the most was only two or three feet deep at that point. But all was of no avail; Lottie stood out upon the ice in a panic, declaring that he never should have brought them into such danger, and that he must turn around at once and go back as they came.

A COLUMBUS OF SPACE--Garrett P. Serviss
God only knows what would have happened next, but at this instant Ala-to my amazement, for I had thought that the bullet had gone through her heart -rose to an upright posture, and made a commanding gesture, which arrested those who were now hurrying to take a part in the scene. All, natives as well as ourselves, stood as motionless as stone. Her face was pale and her eyes were wonderful to look upon. With a gasp of thankfulness, I noticed that the blood on her breast was but a narrow streak Juba, staring at her, slowly withdrew his foot from his prostrate opponent, and Ingra first sat up, and then got upon his feet.

A Damsel in Distress
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A Day Of Fate
"They are in more of a hurry than I am. I don't like to do anything in a hurry, least of all to eat my dinner. Now, why should these chickens, turkeys and ducks gobble everything right down? The corn seems to taste good to them; so, after a handful, I wait till they have had a chance to think how good the last kernel was before they get another. You see I greatly prolong their pleasure."

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays--Percy Bysshe Shelley
But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion.

A DESPERATE CHARACTER
Some dozen or so beggars, with sacks over their shoulders, were walking two by two, singing and leaping about, while in front of them danced Misha, stamping time with his feet, and shouting, "Natchiki-tchikaldy, tchuk, tchuk, tchuk! . . . Natchiki-tchikaldy, tchuk, tchuk, tchuk!" Directly my carriage caught them up, and he saw me, he began at once shouting, "Hurrah! Stand in position! right about face, guard of the roadside!"

A Dissertation on Horses--William Osmer
Full title: A DISSERTATION on HORSES: wherein it is demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as well as from the Principles of Philosophy, that INNATE QUALITIES do not exist, and that the excellence of this Animal is altogether mechanical and not in the Blood.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party--James Otis
Winny looked around him' as the girls walked away. He had but just begun to understand that he was the only boy who had agreed to attend the party, and it was by no means pleasant to be in opposition to Si Kelly, who had a most disagreeable way of making sport of anyone who did not agree with him. Nothing but the thought that he could have a perfect feast of cake would have caused him to forget, even for an instant, that the self-appointed leader of the boys had not approved of the plan.

A Dog's Tale
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A Double Story--George MacDonald
Not that the child was a fool. Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her. She had very fair abilities, and were she once but made humble, would be capable not only of doing a good deal in time, but of beginning at once to grow to no end.

A Duet--A. Conan Doyle
They could never understand why he begged for that extra five minutes. Perhaps it was that he had some mad hope of persuading the bank manager to allow him to overdraw to that amount. If so, the refusal was a curt one, for he reappeared with a ghastly face and walked up to Frank.

A Fair Penitent
Never was woman more amazed or more angry than I, when I first read this letter. "What!" cried I to myself, "does this man seriously recommend me to lash my own shoulders? Just Heaven, what impertinence! And yet, is it not my duty to put up with it? Does not this apparent insolence proceed from the pen of a holy man? If he tells me to flog my wickedness out of me, is it not my bounden duty to lay on the scourge with all my might immediately? Sinner that I am!

A Fascinating Traitor--Col. Richard Henry Savage
The rearrangement of the furniture seemed to be satisfactory, and Madame Berthe Louison composedly busied herself with the arrangement of a writing case, and a few womanly articles upon the table which she had chosen as her own peculiar fortification. A few moments were wasted upon trifling with a well-worn envelope, now carefully hidden in her bosom. This maneuver passed the time needed for a stately carriage to sweep up from the opened grand gate of the bungalow to the raised veranda steps. "There he is!" she grimly said. "Now, for the first blood!"

A Fragment of Life--Arthur Machen
All dingy, old mahogany; big bookcases and bureaus, and claw-legged chairs and tables. As I said to the wife (as she was soon afterwards), "We don't exactly want to set up a chamber of horrors, do we?" So I sold off the lot for what I could get. I must confess I like a cheerful room.'

A Garland for Girls--Louisa May Alcott
"I'll show you the way, my dear. I always get my things settled at once, as one never knows when one may have to turn in. The Professor will go with you, Ethel; it is not proper for you to roam about alone;" and with that hint Mrs. Homer led the way below, privately wondering how these young persons were going to get on together

A Ghost-Child--Bernard Capes
He was so proudly independent, to himself, that he resented the least assumption of proprietorship in him on the part of other people-even of those who had the best claim to his love and submission. This pride was an obsession. It stultified the real good in him, which was considerable. Apart from it, he was a good, warm-tempered fellow, hasty but affectionate. Under its dominion, he would have broken his own heart on an imaginary grievance.

A Girl of the People--L.T. Meade
On this particular night she had seen to the dying Mrs. Granger's comforts, had said a word or two to Bet on her exit from the house, and then walked rapidly down Sparrow Street to the first tramcar which went in the direction of her home. A girl of her acquaintance got in also at the same moment, and the two sat side by side talking on subjects of mutual interest. The car was full; and a rough-looking sailor, of the lowest type of face, was crushed up close to Sister Mary. She sat with her back partly to him, and discoursed with eagerness to her companion.

A GREAT DAY--EDMONDO DE AMICIS
"Over by the church steps I noticed a lot of officers and gentlemen moving about and giving orders, which seemed to be handed on through the crowd. The excitement was increasing. Every head in the square was uncovered; white heads of old men, brown heads of soldiers, fair heads of little children. The sun blazed down on it all.

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales--Jonathan Nield
And boy is it (this reference work will be used for a future historical fiction category).

A HAPPY FAMILY
Hearing a man's voice outside the window he involuntarily turned his head to look. The sun shone through the curtains hanging by the window, dazzling his eyes, while he heard a sound like small bundles of wood being thrown down. "It doesn't matter," he thought, turning back again. "'Twenty-five catties' of what? . . . They are the cultured élite, devoted to the arts.

A HOMILY ON GURIA AND SHAMUNA--COMPOSED BY MAR JACOB
Denying a man dies, confessing he lives, and the mouth hath power over it. Denial is death, and in confession is the soul's life; And power hath the mouth over them both, like a judge. The word of the mouth openeth the door for death to enter in;

A House of Pomegranates--Oscar Wilde
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A House Possessed--Sax Rohmer
'Nosta was a Jewish astrologer and magician,' explained the monk, 'and according to his own account, as you see, a pupil of the notorious Michel de Notredame, or Nostradamus. He lived here under the patronage of the Earl until 1601, when Essex was executed. Legend says that he.was not the pupil of Nostradamus, but his master the devil, and that he brought about the fall of his patron. What became of Nosta of Padua nobody knows.'

A Jug of Sirup--Ambrose Bierce
"What jug, Alvan?" his wife inquired, not very sympathetically. "A jug of maple sirup-I brought it along from the store and set it down here to open the door. What the--"

A Kentucky Cardinal--James Lane Allen
The old doctor, who always fears for my health at this season, stopped by nearly every day to repeat how he had warned me, and always walked back to his gig in a roundabout way, which required him to pass a favorite tree; and once he was so indignant to find several other persons gathered there, and mournfully enjoying the last of the fruit as they predicted I would never get well, that he came back to the house- with two pears in each duster pocket and one in his mouth- and told my man it was an outrage. The preacher, likewise, who appears in the spring-time, one afternoon knocked reproachfully at the front door and inquired whether I was in a condition to be reasoned with. In his hand he carried a nice little work-basket, which may have been brought along to catch his prayers; but he took it home piled with grapes.

A Landscape Painter
June 11th. Another day afoot and also afloat. I resolved this morning to leave this abominable little tavern. I can't stand my feather-bed another night. I determined to find some other prospect than the town-pump and the "drug-store." I questioned my host, after breakfast, as to the possibility of getting lodgings in any of the outlying farms and cottages. But my host either did not or would not know anything about the matter. So I resolved to wander forth and seek my fortune, to roam inquisitive through the neighborhood, and appeal to the indigenous sentiment of hospitality.

A LETTER OF MARA, SON OF SERAPION
Let a man, therefore, rejoice in his empire, like Darius; or in his good fortune, like Polycrates; or in his bravery, like Achilles; or in his wife, like Agamemnon; or in his offspring, like Priam; or in his skill, like Archimedes; or in his wisdom, like Socrates; or in his learning, like Pythagoras; or in his ingenuity, like Palamedes;-the life of men, my son, departs from the world, but their praises and their virtues abide for ever.

A LETTER to Grover Cleveland--LYSANDER SPOONER
Full title: A LETTER to Grover Cleveland on his False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People

A Light Load--Dollie Radford
SHE comes through the meadow yonder,/ Her face is turned to the west,/ And I divine how her clear eyes shine/ With the light of a lasting rest;/ And the rays of the sun-set wander/ To bless her and she is blest-/

A London Life
She was dining out that night with both Selina and Lionel - a conjunction that was rather rare. She was by no means always invited with them, and Selina constantly went without her husband. Appearances, however, sometimes got a sop thrown them; three or four times a month Lionel and she entered the brougham together like people who still had forms, who still said 'my dear'. This was to be one of those occasions, and Mrs Berrington's young unmarried sister was included in the invitation.

A LONDON LIFE--By FRANK J. MORLOCK
Lionel Never heard of him? He's gone to India with a broken heart and many fond memories of Selina. He's my dearest friend. I have so many touching friends. They've all been touching my wife, though. Strange. I don't say this for my pleasure, Laura.

A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse--Amy Levy
HERE, where your garden fenced about and still is,/ Here, where the unmoved summer air is sweet/ With mixed delight of lavender and lilies,/ Dreaming I linger in the noontide heat./

A Lost Wood--H.M. Tomlinson
Perhaps rebellion comes as much as anything from the sense that, as a unit in the paraphernalia of the State, one's identity is lost. A slave may have a soul, and possess it in patience, but not an automaton. Made homogenous by machinery, we are the nation, and anonymous. And when our governing machines, multiplying and expanding, claiming greater space for their wheels, flatten and unify still more the ancient, varied, and familiar things which we did not know were good till they had gone, we learn why the soul is now a myth.

A Lover's Diary--Gilbert Parker
A woman's hand. Lo, I am thankful now/ That with its touch I have walked all my days;/ Rising from fateful and forbidden ways,/ To find a woman's hand upon my brow;/

A Lowden Sabbath Morn--Robert Louis Stevenson
An' noo, to that melodious play,/ A deidly awn the quiet sway-/ A' ken their solemn holiday, Bestial an' human,/ The singin' lintie on the brae,/ The restin' plou'man./

A MADMAN'S DIARY
Don't let your imagination run away with you! Rest quietly for a few days! When I have grown fat, naturally they will have more to eat; but what good will it do me, or how can it be "all right"? All these people wanting to eat human flesh and at the same time stealthily trying to keep up appearances, not daring to act promptly, really made me nearly die of laughter. I could not help roaring with laughter, I was so amused. I knew that in this laughter were courage and integrity. Both the old man and my brother turned pale, awed by my courage and integrity.

A Madman--Maurice Level
The performance certainly thrilled the madman, but as he exited with the crowd, he knew he might experience the same intense sensation once or twice more and then, as always, the novelty would die. Still . . . bicycles break, road surfaces wear out . . . and no man's nerve holds out forever. Sooner or later, there must be an accident.

A Man by the Name of Ziegler--Hermann Hesse
He could think of nothing else to do but go sightseeing. After conscientious inquiry and mature reflection he decided on the historical museum and the zoo. The museum was free of charge on Sunday mornings, and the zoo could be visited in the afternoon for a moderate fee.

A Man of Samples--Wm. H. Maher
"There's no money in business," said he; "times were when you could make a profit, but nowadays it is a struggle to see who can sell the lowest. There's a revolver that I bought of Tryiton for 53 cents, and our men say he has advertised it all over for 55 cents. How the devil am I to pay freight and sell for 2 cents profit? There is no such idiocy in any business to day as in the gun trade. A jobber has to fight against every other jobber and the manufacturers too. The U. M. C. folks are said to back up Reachum, and Simmons is supposed to have Winchester behind him, and away they go, seeing who can cut the most and be the biggest fool."

A METAPHRASE OF THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES.
Moreover, wisdom, when it is found in a man, shows itself also in its possessor's face, and makes his countenance to shine; as, on the other hand, effrontery convicts the man in whom it has taken up its abode, so soon as he is seen, as one worthy of hatred. And it is on every account right to give careful heed to the words of the king, and by all manner of means to avoid an oath, especially one taken in the name of God. It may be fit at the same time to notice an evil word, but then it is necessary to guard against any blasphemy against God.

A Minor Poet and Other Verse--Amy Levy
I MAY not weep, not weep, and he is dead./ A weary, weary weight of tears unshed/ Through the long day in my sad heart I bear ;/ The horrid sun with all unpitying glare/ Shines down into the dreary weaving-room,/ Where clangs the ceaseless clatter of the loom,/ And ceaselessly deft maiden-fingers weave

A Mysterious Portrait--Mark Rutherford
There was no mistaking her. She seemed scarcely a day older. The face was as lovely and as inspired as ever. I was almost beside myself. I leaned against the railing of the shop, and the light from the window shone full on her. She came straight towards me on to the pavement; looked at me, and turned up the street. I followed her till we got to the end, determined not to lose sight of her; and we reached an open, broad thoroughfare. She stopped at a bookseller's, and went in.

A Naughty Boy
Next day Lapkin brought Kolia a box of paints from town and a ball; his sister gave him all her old pillboxes. They next had to present him with a set of studs with little dogs' heads on them. The bad boy obviously relished the game and began spying on them so as to get more presents. Wherever Lapkin and Anna went, there he went too. He never left them to themselves for a moment.

A New Christmas Carol--Arthur Machen
"Poor John!" she was murmuring. "I am sure it was the wearing cark of money troubles that killed him. Still, he is in heaven now. But the clergyman said in his sermon that heaven was only a pretty fairy tale." She wept anew.

A New View of Society--Robert Owen
Full title: New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice

A New Voyage to Carolina--John Lawson
Full title: A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.

A Night in Monk-Hall--George Lippard
With a careless laugh, she wound her night-gown round her, opened the door, and disappeared in the dark. Down, down, down, I could hear her go, her footsteps echoing along the stairway of the old mansion, down, down, down. In a few moments all was still.

A PLEA FOR THE CHRISTIANS BY ATHENAGORAS
Three things are alleged against us: atheism, Thyestean feasts,[3] OEdipodean intercourse. But if these charges are true, spare no class: proceed at once against our crimes; destroy us root and branch, with our wives and children, if any Christian[4] is found to live like the brutes. And yet even the brutes do not touch the flesh of their own kind; and they pair by a law of nature, and only at the regular season, not from simple wantonness; they also recognise those from whom they receive benefits.

A Pleasant Evening--Robert W. Chambers
"In the Morgue-have you read the morning papers? No? Ah,-as you very rightly observe you are too busy to read the morning papers. Young men must learn industry first, of course, of course. What you are to do is this: the San Francisco police have sent out an alarm regarding the disappearance of a Miss Tufft-the millionaire's daughter, you know.

A POEM ON THE PASSION OF THE LORD
I passed my earliest years in the Pharian[7] regions, being an exile in the reign of Herod; and after my return to Judaea I spent the rest of my years, always engaged[8] in fastings, and the extremity of poverty itself, and the lowest circumstances; always by healthful admonitions applying the minds of men to the pursuit of genial uprightness, uniting with wholesome teaching many evident miracles: on which account impious Jerusalem, harassed by the raging cares of envy and cruel hatred, and blinded by madness, dared to seek for me, though innocent, by deadly punishment, a cruel death on the dreadful cross.

A Poetical Olio--Elizabeth Beverley
Or dost thou fear the sea's rough wave,/ May thy dear Henry's life destroy?/ Trust me, Providence can save/ His life, to give his Anna joy.

A Political Romance
Trim was one of those kind of Men who loved a Bit of Finery in his Heart, and would rather have a tatter'd Rag of a Better Body's, than the best plain whole Thing his Wife could spin him.

A Pomander of Verse--E. Nesbit
THE silver birch is a dainty lady,/ She wears a satin gown;/ The elm tree makes the old churchyard shady,/ She will not live in town./

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Updated
This newer version supersedes the older one (missing a chapter...)

A Prayer in Darkness--G.K. Chesterton
This much, O heaven-if I should brood or rave,/ Pity me not; but let the world be fed,/ Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,/ Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave./

A Prisoner in Fairyland--Algernon Blackwood
Note: Basis for the Play, Musical and Ice Capades Extravaganza Starlight Express.

A Professor of Egyptology--Guy Boothby
How long I stood at the window I cannot say; it may have been only five minutes, it might have been an hour. Then, suddenly, an extraordinary thing happened. I knew that it was imprudent, I was aware that it was even wrong, but an overwhelming craving to go out seized me. I felt as if the house were stifling me and that if I did not get out into the cool night air, and within a few minutes, I should die.

A Psychical Prank--John Kendrick Bangs
The stranger did, and while I tried to decline it, I was unable to do so. He was a man of about my own age, and he had a most remarkable pair of eyes. There was no resisting them. His offer was a command; and as I rode along and thought of your sitting motionless at the end of the car, compelling me to stand, and being indirectly responsible for my acceptance of courtesies from a total and disagreeable stranger, I became so very indignant with you that I passed you without recognition as soon as I could summon up courage to leave.

A Question
"To try your luck with Xanthe? I tell you, it's trouble wasted, for she's dressing her hair to receive our guest from Messina; and, if she were standing where those cabbage-leaves be, she wouldn't contradict me if I were to repeat what you heard from my lips this morning at sunrise. Our girl will never become Phaon's wife until I myself offer a sacrifice to Aphrodite, that she may fill Xanthe's heart with love for him."

A RAW YOUTH
Note: A dramatization of the Dostoevski novel by FRANK J. MORLOCK

A Reading of Life and Other Poems
Between the fountain and the rill/ I passed, and saw the mighty will/ To leap at sky; the careless run,/ As earth would lead her little son./

A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story--Paul Rosenfels
As I built a psychotherapeutic practice, I became increasingly aware that my independent insights were worth far more in helping the patient than the psychoanalytic theories dispensed at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. I became an overnight success in that my patients believed in me and referred others to me. My income rose rapidly and I soon cut myself off from the futile efforts of the Institute faculty to educate me.

A Roadside Harp--Louise Imogen Guiney
Intense upon his heedless head/ Frowns Agamenticus,/ Knowing of Heaven's challenger/ The answer: even thus/ The Patience that is hid on high/ Doth stoop to master us.

A ROUGH DIAMOND (LES PAVES DE L'OURS)
Note: A Comedy in One Act By Georges Feydeau, Translated and Adapted by Frank J. Morlock

A Round of Visits
Within the apartment to which he had been admitted, moreover, the fine intelligence we have imputed to him was in the course of three minutes confirmed; since it took him no longer than that to say to himself, facing his old acquaintance, that he had never seen anyone so improved.

A Sectional Confession of Faith
The same position we hold respecting the Spirit, who has that unity with the Son which the Son has with the Father. Wherefore let the hypostasis of the Father be discriminated by the appellation of God; but let not the Son be cut off from this appellation, for He is of God. Again, let the person of the Son also be discriminated by the appellation of Lord; only let not God be dissociated from that, for He is Lord as being the Father of the Lord. And as it is proper to the Son to exercise lordship, for He it is that made (all things) by Himself, and now rules the things that were made, while at the same time the Father has a prior possession of that property

A Sectional Confession of Faith
Subtitled: A FRAGMENT OF THE SAME DECLARATION OF FAITH, ACCOMPANIED BY GLOSSES

A Selection of Shorter Poems
INSTEAD of sitting wrapped up in flannel/ With rheumatism in every joint,/ I wish I was in the English Channel,/ Just going 'round the Lizard Point/ All southward bound, with the seas before me,/ I should not care whether smooth or rough,

A Sentimental Journey--Laurence Sterne
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A Short History of the World--H.G. Wells
Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into civilization out of the north; the Hittites, the precursors of the Armenians, had it first and communicated its use to the Assyrians, and an Assyrian usurper, Sargon II, armed his troops with it.

A Shropshire Lad--A. E. Housman
Then my soul within me/ Took up the blackbird's strain,/ And still beside the horses/ Along the dewy lane/ It Sang the song again:/

A Siren--Thomas Adolphus Trollope
But not even the low iron gateway was closed when Paolina reached the church. It stood partially open. After having stood a minute or two before the building to look round upon the scene, Paolina stepped up to the gate and looked into the church, but could see no human being. Within, as without, all was utter death-like silence. She shivered, and drew her cloak more closely round her, as she stood at the gate; for the healthy blood was running rapidly through her veins after her brisk walk, and the deadly cold damp air from the church struck her with a shudder, which was but the physical complement of the moral impression produced by the aspect of the place.

A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky--Ambrose Bierce
Galloping rapidly along in the edge of the open ground comes a young officer on a snow-white horse. His saddle-blanket is scarlet. What a fool! No one who has ever been in battle but remembers how naturally every rifle turns toward the man on a white horse; no one but has observed how a bit of red enrages the bull of battle.

A SON OF THE SUN
How many millions David Grief was worth no man in the Solomons knew, for his holdings and ventures were everywhere in the great South Pacific. From Samoa to New Guinea and even to the north of the Line his plantations were scattered. He possessed pearling concessions in the Paumotus. Though his name did not appear, he was in truth the German company that traded in the French Marquesas. His trading stations were in strings in all the groups, and his vessels that operated them were many. He owned atolls so remote and tiny that his smallest schooners and ketches visited the solitary agents but once a year.

A Strange Goldfield
Such a pitiful sight I never want to see again. The tents and huts, in numerous cases, were still standing, while the claims gaped at us on every side like new-made graves. A bullock dray, weather-worn but still in excellent condition, stood in the main street outside a grog shanty whose sign-board, strange incongruity, bore the name of 'The Killarney Hotel'. Nothing would suit Spicer but that he must dismount and go in to explore.

A Strange Manuscript Found In a Copper Cylinder--James De Mille
She looked anxious and troubled, and once more that expression of wondering sadness came over her face. She repeated my name over and over in this way with a mournful intonation that thrilled through me, and excited forebodings of evil. "Atamor, Atamor!" And always after that she called me "Atamor."

A STRANGE STORY--
"Those who need to know; but, there, of course-there's danger from the police to be guarded against. Because, say what you will, such doings are forbidden anyway, and for the common people are a temptation; the common people-the mob, we all know, quickly come to blows."

A Tale of Two Cities
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A Test of the Truth--Felicia Skene
It may not be doubted, therefore, that if He, as the Perfect Love, the Source and Centre of life does exist at this very hour, a strong personal appeal, sent forth from the very heart of unbelief, entreating Him to reveal Himself if indeed He has any being, could not fail to reach His omniscience though it rose from a despair which denied His existence altogether.

A Thorny Path
"Follow him! Catch him! Stop him!-living or dead, bring him back! A price is on his head-a splendid price to any one who will take him!" cried the Egyptian, foaming with rage and setting the example. But the youth of the town, many of whom knew the artist, and who were at all times ready to spoil sport for the sycophants and spies, crowded up between the fugitive and his pursuers and barred the way.

A TRAGEDIAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
TOLKACHOV. What sort of a father of a family am I! I am a martyr. I am a beast of burden, a nigger, a slave, a rascal who keeps on waiting here for something to happen instead of starting off for the next world. I am a rag, a fool, an idiot. Why am I alive? What's the use? [Jumps up] Well now, tell me why am I alive?

A Tramp Abroad
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A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v1
"When I first begun to understand jay language correctly, there was a little incident happened here. Seven years ago, the last man in this region but me moved away. There stands his house-been empty ever since; a log house, with a plank roof-just one big room, and no more; no ceiling-nothing between the rafters and the floor.

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v2
The RATHHAUS, or municipal building, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Middle-Age architecture. It has a massive portico and steps, before it, heavily balustraded, and adorned with life-sized rusty iron knights in complete armor. The clock-face on the front of the building is very large and of curious pattern. Ordinarily, a gilded angel strikes the hour on a big bell with a hammer; as the striking ceases, a life-sized figure of Time

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v3
But this tramp only asked-"Were any of these heroes men of science?" This raised a laugh, of course, for science was despised in those days. But the tramp was not in the least ruffled. He said he might be a little in advance of his age, but no matter-science would come to be honored, some time or other. He said he would march against the dragon in the morning. Out of compassion, then, a decent spear was offered him, but he declined, and said, "spears were useless to men of science." They allowed him to sup in the servants' hall, and gave him a bed in the stables.

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v4
The chamois is a black or brown creature no bigger than a mustard seed; you do not have to go after it, it comes after you; it arrives in vast herds and skips and scampers all over your body, inside your clothes; thus it is not shy, but extremely sociable; it is not afraid of man, on the contrary, it will attack him; its bite is not dangerous, but neither is it pleasant; its activity has not been overstated -if you try to put your finger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights.

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v5
We now prepared for a considerable walk-from Lucerne to Interlaken, over the Bruenig Pass. But at the last moment the weather was so good that I changed my mind and hired a four-horse carriage. It was a huge vehicle, roomy, as easy in its motion as a palanquin, and exceedingly comfortable.

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v6
I found my arnica invaluable. My men were suffering excruciatingly, from the friction of sitting down so much. During two or three days, not one of them was able to do more than lie down or walk about; yet so effective was the arnica, that on the fourth all were able to sit up. I consider that, more than to anything else, I owe the success of our great undertaking to arnica and paregoric.

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated, v7
The telescopulist-or the telescopulariat-I do not know which is right-said a party were making a grand ascent, and would come in sight on the remote upper heights, presently; so we waited to observe this performance. Presently I had a superb idea. I wanted to stand with a party on the summit of Mont Blanc, merely to be able to say I had done it, and I believed the telescope could set me within seven feet of the uppermost man.

A Traveller in War-Time
There turned out to be plenty of ideas, after all. An opinion was ventured that Mr. Lloyd George served the nation, not for money but from public spirit; a conservative insisted that ability should be rewarded and rewarded well; whereupon ensued one of the most enlightening discussions, not only as a revelation of intelligence, but of complexes and obsessions pervading many of the minds in whose power lies the ultimate control of democracies.

A TREATISE CONCERNING RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS--JONATHAN EDWARDS
And again, another benefit that such trials are of to true religion, is, that they purify and increase it. They not only manifest it to be true, but also tend to refine it, and deliver it from those mixtures of that which is false, which encumber and impede it; that nothing may be left but that which is true. They tend to cause the amiableness of true religion to appear to the best advantage, as was before observed; and not only so, but they tend to increase its beauty, by establishing and confirming it, and making it more lively and vigorous, and purifying it from those things that obscured its luster and glory.

A TREATISE OF NOVATIAN CONCERNING THE TRINITY
And over all these things He Himself, containing all things, having nothing vacant beyond Himself, has left room for no superior God, such as some people conceive. Since, indeed, He Himself has included all things in the bosom of perfect greatness and power, He is always intent upon His own work, and pervading all things, and moving all things, and quickening all things, and beholding all things, and so linking together discordant materials into the concord of all elements, that out of these unlike principles one world is so established by a conspiring union, that it can by no force be dissolved, save when He alone who made it commands it to be dissolved, for the purpose of bestowing other and greater things upon us.

A TREATISE ON THE ANGER OF GOD
In the next place, if the things which are not seen are formed from invisible seeds, it follows that those which are seen are from visible seeds. Why, then, does no one see them? But whether any one regards the invisible parts which are in man, or the parts which can be touched, and which are visible, who does not see that both parts exist in accordance with design? (8) How, then, can bodies which meet together without design effect anything reasonable? (9) For we see that there is nothing in the whole world which has not in itself very great and wonderful design.

A TREATISE ON THE SOUL
Besides, it would be a harsh and absurd proceeding to exempt anything from the class cf corporeal beings, on the ground that it is not exactly like the other constituents of that class. And where individual creature's possess various properties, does not this variety in works of the same class indicate the greatness of the Creator, in making them at the same time different and yet like, amicable yet rivals?

A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North --Madame Ida Pfeiffer
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A Voice From the Factories--Caroline Sheridan Norton
Have we forgotten our own infancy,/ That joys so simple are to them denied?-/ Our boyhood's hopes-our wanderings far and free,/ Where yellow gorse-bush left the common wide/ And open to the breeze?-The active pride/ Which made each obstacle a pleasure seem;/

A Whisper in the Dark
I yearned to go, and when I willed the way so on appeared; so careless of bonnetless head and cambric gown, I stretched my hands to him, saying boldly, "Play young Lochinvar, Guy; I am little and light; take me up before you and show me the sea.".He liked the daring feat, held out his hand, I stepped on his boot toe, sprang up, and away we went over the wide moor, where the sun shone in a cloudless heaven, the lark soared singing from the green grass at our feet, and the September wind blew freshly from the sea. As we paused on the upland slope, that gave us a free view of the country for miles, Guy dismounted, and standing with his arm about the saddle to steady me in my precarious seat, began to talk.

A Wireless Message--Ambrose Bierce
Everything was suffused with a soft, red glow in which he saw his shadow projected in the road before him. "The moon is rising," he said to himself. Then he remembered that it was about the time of the new moon, and if that tricksy orb was in one of its stages of visibility it had set long before. He stopped and faced about, seeking the source of the rapidly broadening light.

A Woman Sold--Augusta Webster
Sometimes he comes/ To see them: I have met him there. They say/ He's growing famous at the bar, rich too-/ A very rising man. I give you joy./ A husband with both means and merit! Why,/ You must have sold your soul to have such luck,/ Signed a red bond to Satan.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women--Dinah Maria Craik
ONE of the wisest and best among our English ethical writers, the author of Companions of my Solitude, says, àpropos of gossip, that one half of the evil-speaking of the world arises, not from malice prepense, but from mere want of amusement. And I think we may even grant that in the other half, constituted small of mind or selfish in disposition, it is seldom worse than the natural falling back from large abstract interests, which they cannot understand, upon those which they can-alas! only the narrow, commonplace, and personal.

A Word, Only A Word
"A word, only a word!" cried a fresh, boyish voice, then two hands were loudly clapped and a gay laugh echoed through the forest. Hitherto silence had reigned under the boughs of the pines and tops of the beeches, but now a wood-pigeon joined in the lad's laugh, and a jay, startled by the clapping of hands, spread its brown wings, delicately flecked with blue, and soared from one pine to another.

A YIDDISH HAMLET--Israel Zangwill (A Play by F. J. Morlock)
PINCHAS (soothing, wheedling) You will not spoil my play. You will get me a maidenly Ophelia. I and you are the only two men in New York who understand how to cast a play.

Abandonment TO Divine Providence--Father de Caussade
God continues to speak to-day as He spoke in former times to our fathers when there were no directors as at present, nor any regular method of direction. Then all spirituality was comprised in fidelity to the designs of God, for there was no regular system of guidance in the spiritual life to explain it in detail, nor so many instructions, precepts and examples as there are now. Doubtless our present difficulties render this necessary, but it was not so in the first ages when souls were more simple and straightforward.

Accessory Before The Fact
At once and in a heap it happened. It was quite inevitable. Down the white road to meet him a man came swaying from side to side in drunkenness quite obviously feigned-a tramp; and while Martin made room for him to pass, the lurch changed in a second to attack, and the fellow was upon him. The blow was sudden and terrific, yet even while it fell Martin was aware that behind him rushed a second man, who caught his legs from under him and bore him with a thud and crash to the ground.

Accolon of Gaul--MADISON CAWEIN
For her half-brother Morgane had conceived/ Unnatural hatred; so much so, she grieved,/ Envious and jealous, for the high renown/ And might the King had gathered round his crown/ Through truth and honor. And who was it said,

Across the Moors--William Fryer Harvey
"The time of year was late September. I had been over to Westondale to see an old woman who was dying, and then, just as I was about to start on my way home, word came to me of another of my parishioners who had been suddenly taken ill only that morning. It was after seven when at last I started. A farmer saw me on my way, turning back when I reached the moor road.

Across the Plains in 1844--Catherine Sager Pringle
One Sunday morning in the autumn of 1845 two men arrived at the station. One of them, Andrew Rodgers, was a young man of about twenty-five, tall and slender, sandy hair and sallow look that betokened ill-health. He sang hymns and played the violin,so the "Seceders," to which church he belonged, turned him out. His gentlemanly appearance and intelligence won the admiration of Dr. and Mrs. Whitman. He came to procure room and care for a friend who was ill with consumption.

ACTS AND MARTYRDOM OF ST. MATTHEW THE APOSTLE
The king says to him: And who art thou? And he says: I am the demon who dwelt in thy wife, and in thy son, and in thy daughter-in-law; and my name is Asmodaeus; and this Matthew drove me out of them. And now, behold, thy wife, and thy son, and thy daughter-in-law sing along with him in the church. And I know, O king, that thou also after this wilt believe in him. The king says to him: Whoever thou art, spirit of many shapes, I adjure thee by the God whom he whom thou callest Matthew proclaims, depart hence without doing hurt to any one.

ACTS AND MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY APOSTLE ANDREW
The blessed Andrew answered: This it is which I desired time to learn, which also I shall teach and make manifest, that though the souls of men are destroyed, they shall be renewed through the mystery of the cross. For the first man through the tree of transgression brought in death; and it was necessary for the human race, that through the suffering of the tree, death, which had come into the world, should be driven out.

ACTS OF ANDREW AND MATTHIAS IN THE CITY OF THE MAN-EATERS
And the chief priests having come, went with us; and when we had gone into the temple of the Gentiles, Jesus showed us the heaven,(6) that we might know whether the things were true or not. And there went in along with us thirty men of the people, and four chief priests. And Jesus, having looked on the right hand and on the left of the temple, saw two sculptured sphinxes, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus having turned to us, said, Behold the sign of the cross; for these are like the cherubim and the seraphim which are in heaven.

ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA
And Thecla by night having taken off her bracelets, gave them to the gatekeeper; and the door having been opened to her, she went into the prison; and having given the jailor a silver mirror, she went in beside Paul, and, sitting at his feet, she heard the great things of God. And Paul was afraid of nothing, but ordered his life in the confidence of God. And her faith also was increased, and she kissed his bonds.

ACTS OF PETER AND ANDREW
And many of the multitude believed in Christ, because of the saying of the woman;(2) and they fell at the feet of the apostles, and adored them. And they laid their hands upon them. And they healed those in the city that were sick, and gave sight to the blind and, hearing to the deaf, and drove out the demons. All the multitude glorified the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

ACTS OF PILATE--LATIN FORM
Pilate said to Him: Art thou then a king? Jesus said to him: Thou sayest that I am a king. For I for this was born, and for this have I come, that I should bear witness to the truth; and every one who is of the truth hears my voice. Pilate says to him: What is truth? Jesus says: Truth is from heaven. Pilate says: Is not there truth upon earth? Jesus says to Pilate: Notice now the truth-speaking are judged by those who have power upon earth.

ACTS OF SAINT PHILIP THE APOSTLE
Full title: ACTS OF SAINT PHILIP THE APOSTLE WHEN HE WENT TO UPPER HELLAS

ACTS OF SHARBIL
Sharbil said: Why should it be requisite for thee to ask me many questions, after that which I have said to thee: "I will not sacrifice"? Thou hast called me a self-despiser? But would that from my childhood I had had this mind and had thus despised myself,(5) which was perishing!

ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST JOHN
At all this the king, being affected with rage. ordered the senate to publish a decree that they should put to death all who confessed themselves to be Christians. Those, then, who were found in the time of his rage, and who reaped the fruit of patience, and were crowned in the triumphant contest against the works of the devil, received the repose of incorruption.

ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE THADDAEUS
And Thaddaeus along with Abgarus destroyed idol-temples and built churches; ordained as bishop one of his disciples, and presbyters, and deacons, and gave them the rule of the psalmody and the holy liturgy. And having left them, he went to the city of Amis, great metropolis of the Mesechaldeans and Syrians, that is, of Mesopotamia-Syria, beside the river Tigris. And he having gone into the synagogue of the Jews along with his disciples on the Sabbath-day, after the reading of the law the high priest said to Thaddaeus and his disciples: Men, whence are you? and why are you here?

ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE THOMAS
And all seeing were terror-struck, inquiring which of them had been taken off. And when it was clear that it was the hand of the wine-pourer who had struck the apostle, the flute-girl broke her flutes in pieces, and threw them away, and went and sat down at the feet of the apostle, saying: This man is either God or God's apostle; for I heard him saying in Hebrew to the wine-pourer, I shall soon see the hand that struck me dragged about by dogs, which also you have now seen; for as he said, so also it has come to pass.

ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE THOMAS
Full title: ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLE THOMAS, WHEN HE CAME INTO INDIA, AND BUILT THE PALACE IN THE HEAVENS

ACTS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL
And the letter having been read, Nero said: Tell me, Peter, were all these things thus done by him? Peter said: They were, with your permission, O good emperor. For this Simon is full of lies and deceit, even if it should seem that he is what he is not-a god. And in Christ there is all excellent victory through God and through man,(1) which that incomprehensible glory assumed which through man deigned to come to the assistance of men. But in this Simon there are two essences, of man and of devil, who through man endeavours to ensnare men.

AD MARTYRAS
I leave out of account now the motive of glory. All these same cruel and painful conflicts, a mere vanity you find among men-in fact, a sort of mental disease-as trampled under foot. How many ease-lovers does the conceit of arms give to the sword?

AD NATIONES. BOOK I
We are indeed said to be the "third race" of men. What, a dog-faced race?(16) Or broadly shadow-footed?(17) Or some subterranean(18) Antipodes? If you attach any meaning to these names, pray tell us what are the first and the second race, that so we may know something of this "third." Psammetichus thought that he had hit upon the ingenious discovery of the primeval man. He is said to have removed certain new-born infants from all human intercourse, and to have entrusted them to a nurse, whom he had previously deprived of her tongue, in order that, being completely exiled from all sound of the human voice, they might form their speech without hearing it; and thus, deriving it from themselves alone, might indicate what that first nation was whose speech was dictated by nature.

AD NATIONES. BOOK II
If I must touch on their nuptial duties, there is Afterenda whose appointed function is to see to the offering of the dower; but fie on you! you have your Mutunus(2) and Tutunus and Pertunda(3) and Subigus and the goddess Prema and likewise Perfica.(4) O spare yourselves, ye impudent gods! No one is present at the secret struggles of married life. Those very few persons who have a wish that way, go away and blush for very shame in the midst of their joy.

Adaptation and Fun and Pleasure
Without the vividness of inner identity which continuity and integrity bring, the sense of importance which comes from adaptive accomplishments cannot be kept in its place. Mental health requires that the various parts of the psychic life perform their proper function without encroaching on each other. If any human goal develops a pressured or driven quality the harmony of the whole is threatened.

Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America--Cabeza de Vaca
One of the mounted men, Juan Velásquez, a native of Cuéllar, impatiently rode into the river. The violent current swept him from his saddle. He grabbed the reins but drowned with the horse. The subjects of that chief-whose name turned out to be Dulchanchellin-found the body of the beast and told us where in the stream below we likely would find the body of Cuéllar. They went to look for it.

ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S EVE--HEINRICH ZSCHOKKE
"Hush!" whispered the Carmelite, "we are watched here; away from this." She replaced her mask, stood up, and placing her arm within that of the supposed Prince, they crossed the hall and entered a side-room. The Countess uttered many bitter complaints against the Chamberlain, but they were the complaints of jealous love. The Countess was in tears, when the tender Brahmin soon after came timidly into the apartment. There was a deep silence among the three.

AE In The Irish Theosophist
Drawing aside a heavy curtain, Liban entered her sister's room. They saw Fand seated at a little table. A scroll lay on it open before her, but her eyes were not fixed on it. With hands clasped under her chin she gazed into the vacancies with eyes of far-away reflection and longing. There was something pathetic in the intensity and wistfulness of the lonely figures. She turned and rose to meet them, a smile of rare tenderness lighting up her face as she saw Liban. The dim glow of a single lamp but half revealed the youthful figure, the pale, beautiful face, out of which the sun-colours had faded. Her hair of raven hue was gathered in massy coils over her head and fastened there by a spiral torque of gleaming gold.

Afoot in England--W.H. Hudson
Not only the crow was there: a magpie chattered as I came from the brake, but refused to show himself; and a little later a jay screamed at me, as only a jay can. There are times when I am intensely in sympathy with the feeling expressed in this ear-splitting sound, inarticulate but human. It is at the same time warning and execration, the startled solitary's outburst of uncontrolled rage at the abhorred sight of a fellow-being in his woodland haunt.

AGAINST ALL HERESIES
Carpocrates, futhermore, introduced the following sect. He affirms that there is one Virtue, the chief among the upper (regions): that out of this were produced angels and Virtues, which, being far distant from the upper Virtues, created this world[10] in the lower regions: that Christ was not born of the Virgin Mary, but was generated-a mere human being-of the seed of Joseph, superior (they admit) above all others in the practice of righteousness and in integrity of life; that He suffered among the Jews; and that His soul alone was received in heaven as having been more firm and hardy than all others: whence he would infer, retaining only the salvation of souls, that there are no resurrections of the body.

AGAINST HERMOGENES
He cannot say that it was as its Lord that God employed Matter for His creative works, for He could not have been the Lord of a substance which was co-equal with Himself. Well, but perhaps it was a title derived from the will of another,(2) which he enjoyed-a precarious holding, and not a lordship,(3) and that to such a degree, that(4) although Matter was evil, He yet endured to make use of an evil substance, owing, of course, to the restraint of His own limited power,(5) which made Him impotent to create out of nothing, not in consequence of His power; for if, as God,

AGAINST MARCION, v1
The principal, and indeed(3) the whole, contention lies in the point of number: whether two Gods may be admitted, by poetic licence (if they must be),(4) or pictorial fancy, or by the third process, as we must now add,(5) of heretical pravity. But the Christian verity has distinctly declared this principle, "God is not, if He is not one;" because we more properly believe that that has no existence which is not as it ought to be.

AGAINST MARCION, v2
Furthermore, with respect to the repentance which occurs in His conduct?(9) you interpret it with similar perverseness just as if it were with fickleness and improvidence that He repented, or on the recollection of some wrong-doing; because He actually said, "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king,(10) "very much as if He meant that His repentance savoured of an acknowledgment of some evil work or error.

AGAINST MARCION, v3
Our heretic must now cease to borrow poison from the Jew-"the asp," as the adage runs, "from the viper"(15)-and henceforth vomit forth the virulence of his own disposition, as when he alleges Christ to be a phantom. Except, indeed, that this opinion of his will be sure to have others to maintain it in his precocious and somewhat abortive Marcionites, whom the Apostle John designated as antichrists, when they denied that Christ was come in the flesh; not that they did this with the view of establishing the right of the other god

AGAINST MARCION, v4
We must follow, then, the clue(20) of our discussion, meeting every effort of our opponents with reciprocal vigor. I say that my Gospel is the true one; Marcion, that his is. I affirm that Marcion's Gospel is adulterated; Marcion, that mine is. Now what is to settle the point for us, except it be that principle(1) of time, which rules that the authority lies with that which shall be found to be more ancient; and assumes as an elemental truth,(2) that corruption (of doctrine) belongs to the side which shall be convicted of comparative lateness in its origin.(3)

AGAINST MARCION, v5
The very "stumbling-block" which he declares Christ to be "to the Jews,"(16) points unmistakeably(17) to the Creator's prophecy respecting Him, when by Isaiah He says: "Behold I lay in Siona stone of stumbling and a rock of offence."(18) This rock or stone is Christ.(19) This stumbling-stone Marcion retains still.(20) Now, what is that "foolishness of God which is wiser than men," but the cross and death of Christ? What is that "weakness of God which is stronger than men,"(1) but the nativity and incarnation(2) of God?

AGAINST PRAXEAS
He existed before the creation of the world, up to the generation of the Son. For before all things God was alone-being in Himself and for Himself universe, and space, and all things. Moreover, He was alone, because there was nothing external to Him but Himself. Yet even not then was He alone; for He had with Him that which He possessed in Himself, that is to say, His own Reason. For God is rational, and Reason was first in Him; and so all things were from Himself.

Against the Grain--Joris-Karl Huysmans
Des Esseintes proceeded to turn about and warm between his hands a ball of styrax, and a very curious odour filled the room, a smell at once repugnant and exquisite, blending the delicious scent of the jonquil with the filthy stench of guttapercha and coal tar. He disinfected his hands, shut away his resin in a box hermetically sealed, and the stinking factories vanished in their turn. Then, he tossed amid the revivified vapours of lindens and meadow-grass some drops of "new mown hay," and on the magic spot, instantly bared of its lilacs, rose mounds of hay, bringing with them a new season, scattering their delicate odours reminiscent of high summer.

AGAINST THE SABELLIANS--Dionysius
For it is essential that the Divine Word should be united to the God of all, and that the Holy Spirit should abide and dwell in God; and thus that the Divine Trinity should be reduced and gathered into one, as if into a certain head-that is, into the omnipotent God of all. For the doctrine of the foolish Marcion, which Gilts and divides the monarchy into three elements, is assuredly of the devil, and is not of Christ's true disciples, or of those to whom the Saviour's teaching is agreeable. For these indeed rightly know that the Trinity is declared in the divine Scripture, but that the doctrine that there are three gods is, neither taught in the Old nor in the New Testament.

AGAINST THE VALENTINIANS
Now it is held amongst them, that, for the purpose of honouring the celestial marriages,(1) it is necessary to contemplate and celebrate the mystery always by cleaving to a companion, that, is to a woman; otherwise (they account any man) degenerate, and a bastard(2) to the truth, who spends his life in the world without loving a woman or uniting himself to her. Then what is to become of the eunuchs whom we see amongst them?

Agatha Webb
The detective did so. A three-edged dagger, with a curiously wrought handle, met his eye. It had blood dried on its point, and was, as all could see, the weapon with which Agatha Webb had been killed.

Agnes Grey--Anne Bronte
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Aladdin O'Brien--Gouverneur Morris
"Look out for the lantern," she called, and threw the hay down to him. She brought, in all, seven large bundles and was starting for the eighth, when, by a special act of Providence, the flooring gave again, and she made an excellent imitation of Aladdin's shute on the previous evening. By good fortune, however, she landed on the soft hay and was not hurt beyond a few scratches.

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp--John Payne
Alaeddin was astonished at the Maugrabin's behaviour; so he asked him and said to him, "What is the cause of thy weeping, O my lord, and whence knewest thou my father?" The Maugrabin answered him, in a mournful, broken voice, [FN#156] saying, "How, O my son, canst thou ask me this question, after telling me that thy father, my brother, is dead, for thy father was [indeed] my brother [FN#157] and I am newly come from my country and was rejoicing exceedingly, after this my strangerhood

Alcibiades II--Platonic Imitator
SOCRATES: Do you not imagine, then, that a man ought to be very careful, lest perchance without knowing it he implore great evils for himself, deeming that he is asking for good, especially if the Gods are in the mood to grant whatever he may request? There is the story of Oedipus, for instance, who prayed that his children might divide their inheritance between them by the sword: he did not, as he might have done, beg that his present evils might be averted, but called down new ones.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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All in a Night--H.M. Tomlinson
The track continued up. But was it a track, or a natural feature? There was not much light in the forest, and strange motionless shapes were posed about in the quiet. Sometimes, looking back and down, through a break in the trees, the sea was an illusion of sapphire, a lower sky. Yes, it was a track. It enlarged me presently into an area of full day, a cleared space with high foliage about it.

Allan and the Holy Flower
Now I, the listener, thought for a moment or two. The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination. Who was I that I should dare to judge of him and his wild, unknown gifts? Who was I that I should mock at him and by my mockery intimate that I believed him to be a fraud?

AMBROSE
Kronos, again, who is a god, who devoured all those children of his, was not even brought before a court of justice. They further tell us that the sovereign of the gods, his son, was the only one that escaped from him; and that the madness of Kronos his father was cheated of its purpose because Rhea his wife, the mother of the sovereign of the gods, offered him a stone in the place of the said sovereign of the gods, his son, to prevent him from devouring him. Hearken, men of Greece, and reflect upon this madness!

Amelia
From the collections edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

An Adventure With A Genius--Alleyne Ireland
Full title: AN ADVENTURE WITH A GENIUS Recollections of JOSEPH PULITZER.

An Anarchist
The man's head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were scattered various tools of his trade and a few pieces of machinery. He was doing some repairs to the engines. At the sound of our footsteps he raised anxiously a grimy face with a pointed chin and a tiny fair moustache. What could be seen of his delicate features under the black smudges appeared to me wasted and livid in the greenish shade of the enormous tree spreading its foliage over the launch moored close to the bank.

AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS
For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world,(4) the Fashioner of humanity,the Sower(5) of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations? For unless He had given it to all by no means would He have habitually permitted even proselytes out of the nations to have access to it.

An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?"
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!

An Authority on Causation or Causality--CHARLES A. MERCIER
WHILE it is generally understood that a cause and a condition are different things, and stand in different relations to effect, yet even in common speech and in practice they are often confused, and writers on causation admit no distinction whatever between them. Mill was the worst offender in this respect, and his evil example has corrupted all subsequent writers.

An Eddy on the Floor--Bernard Capes
'It is a principle with me to oppose bullying. We are here for a definite purpose-his duty plain to any man who wills to read it. There may be disembodied spirits who seek to distress or annoy where they can no longer control. If there are, mine, which is not yet divorced from its means to material action, declines to be influenced by any irresponsible whimsy, emanating from a place whose denizens appear to be actuated by a mere frivolous antagonism to all human order and progress.'

An Egyptian Princess
As he said these words he looked eagerly into Tachot's beautiful blue eyes; she bent low, pressing her hand upon her heart, and gazed on him long after Amasis had drawn him away to a seat immediately opposite the dancing-girls, who were just about to display their skill for the entertainment of the guests. A thin petticoat was the only clothing of these girls, who threw and wound their flexible limbs to a measure played on harp and tambourine. After the dance appeared Egyptian singers and buffoons for the further amusement of the company.

An Episode Under the Terror
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An Essay on the Principle of Population--Thomas Malthus
The principal objects which human punishments have in view are undoubtedly restraint and example; restraint, or removal, of an individual member whose vicious habits are likely to be prejudicial to the society'; and example, which by expressing the sense of the community with regard to a particular crime, and by associating more nearly and visibly crime and punishment, holds out a moral motive to dissuade others from the commission of it.

An Exotic Flower--Georges Sand
Note: Translated and adapted from a play by GEORGES SAND BY F. J. MORLOCK

AN EXPOSITION OF THE CHAPTERS OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES--PAMPHILUS
Having had ourselves the advantage of the method and model received from our fathers and teachers, we attempt, in a modest way, to give these in this exposition of the chapters, entreating your forgiveness for the rashness of such an endeavour in us who are young in point both of years and of study,(2) and looking to have the indulgences of every one who reads this writing in prayer on our behalf. We make this exposition, therefore, after the history of Luke, the evangelist and historian. And, accordingly, we have indicated whole chapters by the letters of the alphabet,(4) and their subdivisions into parts we have noted by means of the asterisk.(

An Historical Mystery
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An Illusion in Red and White--Stephen Crane
"Now, I'll tell you how it happened-how I imagine it was done. Some time after burying his wife in the woods Jones strolled back into the house. Seeing nobody, he called out in the familiar fashion, 'Mother!' Then the kids came out whimpering. 'Where is your mother?' said Jones. The children looked at him blankly. 'Why, pa;' said Freddy, 'you came in here, and hit ma with the axe; and then you sent us to bed.' 'Me?' cried Jones. 'I haven't been near the house since breakfast-time.'

AN INCIDENT
But the rickshaw man did not hesitate for a minute after the old woman said she was injured. Still holding her arm, he helped her slowly forward. I was surprised. When I looked ahead, I saw a police station. Because of the high wind, there was no one outside, so the rickshaw man helped the old woman towards the gate.

An Inland Voyage
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An Old Man Taught Wisdom
Coup. I tell him! I hate him for his barbarous Usage of you, to lock up a young Lady of Beauty, Wit and Spirit, without ever suffering her to learn to Dance? why Madam, not learning to Dance, is absolute ruin to a young Lady. I suppose he took care enough you shou'd learn to read.

An Original Belle--E. P. Roe
As a rule he was too healthful, too well organized and indolent, to be easily irritated, while in serious matters he had not been crossed. She knew enough of life to be aware that his manhood had never been awakened or even deeply moved, and she was eager indeed to accomplish their mission in the States and return to conditions of life not so electrical.

AN UNEXPECTED RESULT
Even prejudiced Ackland, as he saw her occasionally on the following day, was compelled to admit that she was more than pretty. Her features were neither regular nor faultless. Her mouth was too large to be perfect, and her nose was not Grecian; but her eyes were peculiarly fine and illumined her face, whose chief charm lay in its power of expression. If she chose, almost all her thoughts and feelings could find their reflex there.

Anarchism and American Traditions--Voltairine de Cleyre
This then was the American tradition, that private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or co-operative, is equal to all the undertakings of society. And it quotes the particular two instances, Education and Commerce, which the governments of the States and of the United States have undertaken to manage and regulate, as the very two which in operation have done more to destroy American freedom and equality, to warp and distort American tradition

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England, by Robert Bell
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And Even Now--Max Beerbohm
These foreign fellows always are especially to be commended. By the mere mention of their names you evoke in reader or hearer a vague sense of your superiority and his. Thank heaven, we are no longer insular. I don't say we have no native talent. We have heaps of it, pyramids of it, all around. But where, for the genuine thrill, would England be but for her good fortune in being able to draw on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of anguished souls from the Continent

Anecdotes of Johnson--Hesther Lynch Piozzi
I will relate one thing more that Dr. Johnson said about babyhood before I quit the subject; it was this: "That little people should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking to some brother, sister, or servant immediately, before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences.

Angling Sketches--Andrew Lang
There is something mysterious in loch-fishing, in the tastes and habits of the fish which inhabit the innumerable lakes and tarns of Scotland. It is not always easy to account either for their presence or their absence, for their numbers or scarcity, their eagerness to take or their "dourness." For example, there is Loch Borlan, close to the well-known little inn of Alt-na-geal-gach in Sutherland.

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood----George MacDonald
"Do I now hear any of my friends saying in their hearts: Let the rich take that! It does not apply to us. We are poor enough? Ah, my friends, I have known a light-hearted, liberal rich man lose his riches, and be liberal and light-hearted still. I knew a rich lady once, in giving a large gift of money to a poor man, say apologetically, 'I hope it is no disgrace in me to be rich, as it is none in you to be poor.' It is not the being rich that is wrong, but the serving of riches, instead of making them serve your neighbour and yourself

Aphorisms and Reflections--Henrietta A. Huxley
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

APOLOGY
It bears witness, too, that God is judge, exclaiming, "God sees," and, "I commend myself to God," and, "God will repay me." O noble testimony of the soul by nature(1) Christian! Then, too, in using such words as these, it looks not to the Capitol, but to the heavens. It knows that there is the throne of the living God, as from Him and from thence itself came down.

APPENDIX
1. I OBSERVE that it has been asked among the brethren what course ought specially to be adopted towards the persons of those who, although baptized in heresy, have yet been baptized in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,(1) and subsequently departing from their heresy, and fleeing as supplicants to the Church of God, should repent with their whole hearts, and only now perceiving the condemnation of their error, implore from the Church the help of salvation.

Arabesque: The Mouse--A. F. Coppard
Dark, dark was the lane outside, and the night an obsidian net, into which he walked carrying the girl. But her arms were looped around him, she discovered paths for him, clinging more tightly as he staggered against a wall, stumbled upon a gulley, or when her sweet hair was caught in the boughs of a little lime tree.

Arachne
Perhaps the words might have been warmer, but for his annoyance at the insolent boldness with which she had removed the coverings from his works. He restrained himself from openly blaming her, it is true, but he exclaimed, with a tinge of gay sarcasm: "You seem to feel very much at home here already, fairest of the fair. Or was it the goddess herself who removed the curtain from her image in order to show herself to her successor upon this pedestal?"

Araminta--J. C. Snaith
"My name is Araminta," said she, and her drawl was carried to such a ludicrous length that even Ponto smiled at it, although he had very little sense of humour, "but they call me Goose because I am rather a Sil-lay."

Ardath--Marie Corelli
"O people doomed and made desolate!" he cried.. "O nation once mighty, brought low to the dust of destruction! Hear me, ye strong men and fair women!-and you, ye poor little children who never again shall see the sun rise on the thousand domes of Al-Kyris! Lift up the burden of bitter lamentation!-lift it up to the Heaven of Heavens, the Throne of the All-Seeing Glory, the Giver of Law, the Destroyer of Evil! Weep! ... weep for your sins and the sins of your sons and your daughters-cast off the jewels of pride,-rend the fine raiment, ... let your tears be abundant as the rain and dew!

Aria da Capo--Edna St. Vincent Millay
PIERROT: My only love, you are/ So fundamental! . . . How would you like to be/ An actress, Columbine?-I am become/ Your manager./

ARISTO OF PELLA
And when the man himself(1) who had instigated them(2) to this folly had paid the just penalty (says Eusebius, Hist, iv. 6), "the whole nation from that time was strictly forbidden to set foot on the region about Jerusalem, by the formal decree and enactment of Adrian, who commanded that they should not even from a distance look on their native soil!" So writes Aristo of Pella.

Arizona Sketches--Joseph A. Munk
The agave is capable of being applied to many domestic uses. Under the old dispensation of Indian supremacy it supplied the natives their principal means of support. Its sap was variously prepared and served as milk, honey, vinegar, beer and brandy. From its tough fiber were made thread, rope, cloth, shoes and paper. The strong flower stalk was used in building houses and the broad leaves for covering them.

Arms and the Man
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Army Boys on German Soil--Homer Randall
But this proved more difficult than they expected, and many days were to pass before their discovery could be followed up. There was a sudden tightening of the military regulations, which the boys attributed in part at least to the revelations that had followed the examination of their prisoners. A rigorous system of drill and training was put in force and the Army Boys' hours of liberty were greatly curtailed in consequence. They were kept more closely to their barracks, and their visits to the town except in the line of duty became few and far between.

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V1
17. And yet, O ye great worshippers and priests of the deities, why, as you assert that those most holy gods are enraged at Christian communities, do you not likewise perceive, do you not see what base feelings, what unseemly frenzies, you attribute to your deities? For, to be angry, what else is it than to be insane, to rave, to be urged to the lust of vengeance, and to revel in the troubles of another's grief, through the madness of a savage disposition? Your great gods, then, know, are subject to and feel that which wild beasts, which monstrous brutes experience, which the deadly plant natrix contains in its poisoned roots.

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V2
13. Meantime, however, O you who wonder and are astonished at the doctrines of the learned, and of philosophy, do you not then think it most unjust to scoff, to jeer at us as though we say foolish and senseless things, when you too are found to say either these or just such things which you laugh at when said and uttered by us? Nor do I address those who, scattered through various bypaths of the schools, have formed this and that insignificant party through diversity of opinion. You, you I address, who zealously follow Mercury,(1) Plato, and Pythagoras, and the rest of you who are of one mind, and walk in unity in the same paths of doctrine.

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V3
19. If you are willing to hear our conclusions, then learn that we are so far from attributing bodily shape to the Deity, that we fear to ascribe to so great a being even mental graces, and the very excellences by which a few have been allowed with difficulty to distinguish themselves. For who will say that God is brave, firm, good, wise? who will say that He has integrity, is temperate, even that He has knowledge, understanding, forethought? that He directs towards fixed moral ends the actions on which He determines?

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V4
15. And lest it should seem tedious and prolix to wish to consider each person singly, the same theologians say that there are four Vulcans and three Dianas, as many Aesculapii and five Dionysi, six Hercules and four Venuses, three sets of Castors and the same number of Muses, three winged Cupids, and four named Apollo;(12) whose fathers they mention in like manner, in like manner their mothers, and the places where they were born, and point out the origin and family of each.

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V5
And because these sprang from red blood, is their colour therefore bright purple, with a dash of yellow? Say further that they are juicy also, that they have the taste of wine, because they spring from the blood of one filled with it, and you have finished your story consistently. O Abdera, Abdera, what occasions for mocking you would give(9) to men, if such a tale had been devised by you! All fathers relate it, and haughty states peruse it; and you are considered foolish, and utterly dull and stupid.(

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V6
16. And so unmindful and forgetful of what the substance and origin of the images are, you, men, rational beings(6) and endowed with the gift of wisdom and discretion, sink down before pieces of baked earthenware, adore plates of copper, beg from the teeth of elephants good health, magistracies, sovereignties, power, victories, acquisitions, gains, very good harvests, and very rich vintages; and while it is plain and clear that you are speaking to senseless things, you think that you are heard, and bring yourselves into disgrace of your own accord, by vainly and credulously deceiving yourselves.

ARNOBIUS AGAINST THE HEATHEN, V7
13. We have shown sufficiently, as I suppose, that victims, and the things which go along with them, are offered in vain to the immortal gods, because they are neither nourished by them, nor feel any pleasure, nor lay aside their anger and resentment, so as either to give good fortune, or to drive away anti avert the opposite. We have now to examine that point also which has been usually asserted by some, and applied to forms of ceremony. For they say that these sacred rites were instituted to do honour to the gods of heaven, and that these things which they do, they do to show them honour, and to magnify the powers of the deities by them.

Around the World on a Bicycle V1--Thomas Stevens
The first thing I come across is a tunnel burrowing through a hill. This tunnel was originally built the proper size, but, after being walled up, there were indications of a general cave-in; so the company had to go to work and build another thick rock-wall inside the other, which leaves barely room for the trains to pass through without touching the sides. It is anything but an inviting path around the hill; but it is far the safer of the two.

Art and Socialism--William Morris
The reverse; no less than that. For first, The work must be worth doing: think what a change that would make in the world! I tell you I feel dazed at the thought of the immensity of work which is undergone for the making of useless things.

At Abdul Ali's Grave
The rose flush, rapid as a change of colour in some chemical combination, which shoots across the sky from east to west, followed immediately by the sunlight which catches the peaks of the western hills, and flows down like some luminous liquid.

At Chrighton Abbey--Mary E. Braddon
The footman disappeared into the back regions, and presently eappeared with Mrs Marjorum, a portly dame, who, like Truefold the huller, had been a fixture at the Abbey in the time of the.present Squire's father. From her I received the same cordial greeting, and by her I was led off up staircases and along corridors, till I wondered where I was being taken.

At Last--Marion Harland
The cool contempt of the reply to his imperative dismissal of whatever claims the presumptuous adventurer his aunt had encouraged believed he had upon Mabel's notice or affection, was likely to irk Winston Aylett as more intemperate language could not. It did more. It baffled him, for a time.

At Midnight and Other Stories--Ada Cambridge
His job! Great heavens, what a job! He did not realize the horror of it until it was too late. When the revels of the day were over-when night came, and that voiceless solitude, filled with spirits of the dead-his nerve failed him. Trying to fasten a rope to an iron ring just within the mouth of the well, evidently put there on purpose to fasten ropes to-hurrying to get the thing over and done with as quickly as possible-he fumbled and bungled, and it slipped out of his hands.

At Midnight--Ada Cambridge
Still protesting, she fetched a cloak and hat, and procured a lantern from the kitchen. The maid-of-all-work was out for the evening, like all bush-town maids on this day of the week, when shops closed at ten instead of at six, and a faint flavour of Continental boulevard made the lighted pavements attractive, even in wet weather; so there was no one to spy and make remarks upon the young lady's proceedings.

At the Palace of King Lot--OSCAR FAY ADAMS
Lot, King of Orkney in the Northern seas,/ Long ere the time when, fighting sword in hand/ 'Gainst Arthur in the barons' wars he made/ His name to all true men a byword like/ A thing of scorn, one summer morning sat/ Within the presence chamber all alone,/

AT THE WHITE GATE--Michael Fairless
Then as Brother Ambrose stretched out his arms because of his great longing, a little grey cloud came out of the north and hung between the walls of light, so that he no longer beheld the Vision, but only heard a sound as of a great multitude crying 'Alleluia'; and suddenly the winds came about him again, and lo! he found himself in his bed in the dormitory, and it was midnight, for the bell was ringing to Matins; and he rose and went down with the rest.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I. In the age of Pericles (B. C. 444) there is that which seems to excite, in order to disappoint, curiosity. We are fully impressed with the brilliant variety of his gifts-with the influence he exercised over his times. He stands in the midst of great and immortal names, at the close of a heroic, and yet in the sudden meridian of a civilized age. And scarcely does he recede from our gaze, ere all the evils which only his genius could keep aloof, gather and close around the city which it was the object of his life not less to adorn as for festival than to crown as for command. It is almost as if, with Pericles, her very youth departed from Athens.

August Heat--W. F. Harvey
The final result, for a hurried sketch, was, I felt sure, the best thing I had done. It showed a criminal in the dock immediately after the judge had pronounced sentence. The man was fat- enormously fat. The flesh hung in rolls about his chin; it creased his huge, stumpy neck. He was clean shaven (perhaps I should say a few days before he must have been clean shaven) and almost bald.

Aurora Floyd--M. E. Braddon
Is not life altogether a long comedy, with Fate for the stage-manager, and Passion, Inclination, Love, Hate, Revenge, Ambition, and Avarice, by turns, in the prompter's box? A tiresome comedy sometimes, with dreary, talkee, talkee front scenes which come to nothing, but only serve to make the audience more impatient as they wait while the stage is set and the great people change their dresses; or a "sensation" comedy, with unlooked-for tableaux and unexpected dénoûments; but a comedy to the end of the chapter, for the sorrows which seem tragic to us are very funny when seen from the other side of the foot-lights

AUTHENTICATED VAMPIRE STORY--FRANZ HARTMANN
"One evening myself and my two assistants, Dr. E-, a young lawyer, and Mr. W-, a literary man, went to inspect the premises. First we went to the stables. There were no horses, as they had been sold; but what attracted our special attention was an old queer-fashioned coach with gilded ornaments and bearing the emblems of the family. We then inspected the rooms, passing through some halls and gloomy corridors, such as may be found in any old castle.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
In the preceding pages I have given a short record of the first twenty-six years of my life,-years of suffering, disgrace, and inward remorse. I fear that my mode of telling will have left an idea simply of their absurdities; but, in truth, I was wretched,-sometimes almost unto death, and have often cursed the hour in which I was born. There had clung to me a feeling that I had been looked upon always as an evil, an encumbrance, a useless thing,-as a creature of whom those connected with him had to be ashamed.

Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston
Yet his vigorous intellect and fervid eloquence gave him a high standing. He had much boldness and sincerity in asserting his opinions. This cost him the loss of his party nomination for governor (I believe it was in 1839), when he announced himself in favor of a national bank. Elected by the legislature judge of the northern circuit, he resigned six months before the expiration of his term and removed to the State of Texas.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
No mortal could die in a more Christian disposition, or with more courage than he did, after having received the sacrament in a manner truly edifying. I was not present when he expired, for out of tenderness he made me retire. He was above twenty hours unconscious and in the agonies of his death. It was in the morning of July 21, 1676, that he died. Next day I entered into my closet, in which was the image of my divine spouse, the Lord Jesus Christ. I renewed my marriage-contract, and added thereto a vow of chastity, with a promise to make it perpetual, if M. Bertot my director, would permit me. After that I was filled with great joy, which was new to me, as for a long time past I had been plunged in the deepest bitterness

Autobiography--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Besides these dainties, which we gradually learned to enjoy and to digest with perfect ease, it was very agreeable for us children to be in some measure released from fixed hours of study and strict discipline. My father's ill humor increased: he could not resign himself to the unavoidable. How he tormented himself, my mother, the interpreter, the councillors, and all his friends, only to rid him of the count!

AVILLION; OR, THE HAPPY ISLES.--Dinah Maria Craik
The King, seemed to strive with troubled dreams. His huge limbs tossed restlessly, and his sleeping fingers ever sought blindly the renowned Excalibur, which lay beside him-at once his sceptre and his sword. He called oftentimes upon his good knights of the Round Table-Tristram, and Launcelot; also, Gawaine, his near kinsman, so well beloved, and by Sir Launcelot's fatal hand slain. Then, suddenly awaking, he lifted up his voice and cried-

BABYLONIAN TALMUD: SECTION MOED
GEMARA: Shall we assume, that our Mishna is not according to Hananiah, as we have learned in a Boraitha, viz.: "Boards may be put up at a well and ropes for a fence of a caravan, but Hananiah said, that ropes for a well are permitted but not boards"? Nay; we may say, that our Mishna agrees with Hananiah; but a well containing rain-water is one thing and one containing spring-water is another. Our Mishna treats of spring-water and Hananiah refers to rain-water. To make an enclosure around a well of rain-water is permitted only during the time of the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Balcony Stories--Grace Elizabeth King
"Quick, quick, it was all arranged. All my friends did something for me. One made my peignoirs for me, one this, one that -ma foi! I did not recognize myself. One made all the toilet of the bureau, another of the bed, and we all sewed on the wedding-dress together. And you should have seen Clementine, going out in all her great mourning, looking for a house, looking for a servant! But the wedding was private on account of poor papa.

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with other Poems
Fair flower of fifteen springs, that still/ Art scarcely blossomed from the bud,/ Yet hast such store of evil will,/ A heart so full of hardihood,/ Seeking to hide in friendly wise/ The mischief of your mocking eyes./

Ballads in Blue China--Andrew Lang
Ye giant shades of RA and TUM,/ Ye ghosts of gods Egyptian,/ If murmurs of our planet come/ To exiles in the precincts wan/ Where, fetish or Olympian,/ To help or harm no more ye list,/ Look down, if look ye may, and scan/ This monument in London mist!

Ballads--Robert Louis Stevenson
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Barbara Blomberg
But Emperor Charles was not the man to allow matters which aroused his wrath and strong disapproval to pass unpunished. Wolf suspected that the time was not far distant when yonder monarch at the window, who had won so many victories, would have a reckoning with the Smalcalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, and his vivid imagination surrounded him with an almost mystical power.

Baron d'Holbach--Max Pearson Cushing
Full title: Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

Bars and Shadows--Ralph Chaplin
Full title: BARS AND SHADOWS THE PRISON POEMS OF RALPH CHAPLIN

Beasley's Christmas Party
I never met anybody else who looked so pleasantly communicative and managed to say so little. In fact, he didn't say anything at all; and I guessed that this faculty was not without its value in his political career, disastrous as it had proved to his private happiness. His habit of silence, moreover, was not cultivated: you could see that "the secret of it" was just that he was BORN quiet.

Beautiful Joe--Marshall Saunders
BEAUTIFUL JOE is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him, and is now living in a happy home with pleasant surroundings, and enjoys a wide local celebrity.

Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home--Bayard Taylor
Nevertheless, Prince Alexis was no longer the same man; his giant strength and furious appetite were broken. He was ever ready, as formerly, for the chase and the drinking-bout; but his jovial mood no longer grew into a crisis which only utter physical exhaustion or the stupidity of drunkenness could overcome. Frequently, while astride the cask, his shouts of laughter would suddenly cease, the ladle would drop from his hand, and he would sit motionless, staring into vacancy for five minutes at a time.

Beauty and the Beast--Charles Lamb
Sudden as winds that madd'ning sweep/ The foaming surface of the deep,/ Vast treasures, trusted to the wave,/ Were buried in the billowy grave!/ Our Merchant, late of boundless store,/ Saw Famine hasting to his door.

Beechcroft at Rockstone
Gillian somehow felt a certain amusement and satisfaction in finding that Aunt Jane had one disobedient subject, but they were interrupted by two ladies eagerly asking where to find Miss Mohun, and a few steps farther on a young clergyman accosted them, and begged that Miss Mohun might be told the hour of some meeting. Also that 'the Bellevue Church people would not co-operate in the coal club.'

Beethoven--Richard Wagner
This cry is answered in the most positive manner by Music. Here the world outside us speaks to us in terms intelligible beyond compare, since its sounding message to our ear is of the selfsame nature as the cry sent forth to it from the depths of our own inner heart. The Object of the tone perceived is brought into immediate rapport with the Subject of the tone emitted: without any reasoning go-between we understand the cry for help, the wail, the shout of joy, and straightway answer it in its own tongue.

Belphegor and Other
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind!/ His promises are naught, too oft we find;/ I vowed (I hope in tolerable verse,)/ Again no idle story to rehearse./ And whence this promise?-Not two days ago;/ I'm quite confounded; better I should know:/

Beowulf--Translated by Gummere
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Bergson and His Philosophy--J. Alexander Gunn
"In communicating itself the impetus splits up more and more. Life, in proportion to its progress, is scattered in manifestations which undoubtedly owe to their common origin the fact that they are complementary to each other in certain aspects, but which are none the less mutually incompatible and antagonistic. So that the discord between species will go on increasing."

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
Note: Adapted from a story by Arlo Bates By Frank J. Morlock

Between the Lights--E. F. Benson
"I know, but I don't even mind that. Why, there are seven, eight skeletons in this room now, covered with blood and skin and other horrors. No, the nightmares of one's childhood were the really frightening things, because they were vague. There was the true atmosphere of horror about them because one didn't know what one feared. Now if one could recapture that-"

Beyond
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Beyond the City--A. Conan Doyle
He must have known or noticed something before he would speak upon such a subject. And then again Mrs. Westmacott had herself said that she hoped to change her style of living shortly and take over completely new duties. What could that mean except that she expected to marry? And whom? She seemed to see few friends outside their own little circle. She must have alluded to her father. It was a hateful thought, and yet it must be faced.

Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog--David Cory
"Stop right here," said the red rooster, "and I'll get out and buy you a bag of candy." And when he came back he had four bags of candy. Just think of that! In one bag was sugar-coated carrots for Billy Bunny, and another bag was full of candied carrots for Uncle Lucky, and in the bag he gave to Mrs. Mousie were two little chocolate mice.

Bimbi--Louise de la Ramee
It was very hard. Poor Lampblack felt as if his very heart would break, above all when he thought of pretty little Rose Madder, whom he loved dearly, and who never would even look at him, because she was so very proud, being herself always placed in nothing less than rosy clouds, or the hearts of roses, or something as fair and spiritual.

Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake--Rev. W. Tuckwell
How could one clear harp, men asked themselves as they read, have produced so diverse tones? The riddle is solved when we learn that the first part only was from Kinglake's pen: having vindicated his friend's ability and good faith, her right to speak and to be heard attentively, he left the survey of her views, with which he probably disagreed, to the originally assigned reviewer. The article, Madame Novikoff tells us in the "Nouvelle Revue," was received AVEC UNE STUPEFACTION UNANIME. It formed the general talk for many days, was attributed to Lord Salisbury, was supposed to have been inspired by Prince Gortschakoff.

Birds and Poets--John Burroughs
The cow figures in Grecian mythology, and in the Oriental literature is treated as a sacred animal. "The clouds are cows and the rain milk." I remember what Herodotus says of the Egyptians' worship of heifers and steers; and in the traditions of the Celtic nations the cow is regarded as a divinity. In Norse mythology the milk of the cow Andhumbla afforded nourishment to the Frost giants, and it was she that licked into being and into shape a god, the father of Odin. If anything could lick a god into shape, certainly the cow could do it.

BIRDS OF DEATH
Just inside, he stopped, his eyes on the floor. There was a design in yellow on the floor, a likeness of a bird, a canary. It was nearly a yard in its longest dimension. Doc sank to a knee to look closer. Made of hundreds of yellow pegs, colored yellow and thrust into the hard earth. The heads of the pegs were tapered, sharp as needles, and coated with something sticky and dark. Possibly poisoned.

Birds of Passage--Mathilde Blind
Birds of Passage hear the message and beneath the flying clouds,/ Mid the falling leaves of autumn, congregate in clamorous crowds./ Shall they venture on the voyage? are the nestlings fledged for flight;/ Fit to face the fluctuant storm-winds and the elemental night?/

Blanche Lisle and Other Poems--Augusta Webster
THERE stood a ruined chapel all alone/ In a far corner of the ill-kept park,/ Almost forgotten now, though long agone/ It was a building of some name and mark,/ For here were sculptured warriors grim and stark,/ The buried heroes of the race of Lisle,

Blix
It had been easy to promise Blix that he would no longer gamble at his club with the other men of his acquaintance; but it was "death and the devil," as he told himself, to abide by that promise. More than once in the fortnight following upon his resolution he had come up to the little flat on the Washington Street hill as to a place of refuge; and Blix, always pretending that it was all a huge joke and part of their good times, had brought out the cards and played with him.

Bluebeard--Charles Perrault
"What is the matter," said he, "that the key of the closet is not amongst the rest?" "I must certainly." said she, "have left it above upon the table." "Do not fail," said Blue Beard, "of giving it to me presently." After several goings backwards and forwards she was forced to bring him the key. Blue Beard having very attentively considered it, said to his Wife, "How comes this blood upon the key?" "I don't know," said the poor Woman paler than death.

Bohm-Bawerk's Definition of Capital and the Source of Wages
Now, as to the theory of the source of wages, in the light of Professor Böhm-Bawerk's definition of capital. It is not too much to say that the controversy has owed much of its bitterness and sterility to inadequate definition of the terms employed, especially to a lack of accuracy in the concept of capital. The Positive Theorie des Kapitales has given to the concept of capital, and of its relation to other elements of economic theory, a conciseness and adequacy of which earlier speculators were sorely in need.

BOOK FIRST. VISIONS--Pastor of Hermas
On showing me these visions, she wished to retire. I said to her, "What is the use of my having seen all this, while I do not know what it means?" She said to me, "You are a cunning fellow, wishing to know everything that relates to the tower." "Even so, O Lady," said I, "that I may tell it to my brethren, that, hearing this, they may know the Lord in much glory."(7) And she said, "Many indeed shall hear, and hearing, some shall be glad, and some shall weep. But even these, if they hear and repent, shall also rejoice.

BOOK I. CONCERNING THE LAITY
Let the husband not be insolent nor arrogant towards his wife; but compassionate, bountiful, willing to please his own wife alone,(5) and treat her honourably and obligingly, endeavouring to be agreeable to her; (III.) not adorning thyself in such a manner as may entice another woman to thee. For if thou art overcome by her, and sinnest with her, eternal death will overtake thee from God; and thou wilt be punished with sensible and bitter torments.

BOOK I. OF THE FALSE WORSHIP OF THE GODS.
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those voices are not divine, but human. Forsooth, because they proclaim one God, they were either madmen or deceivers.

BOOK II. OF BISHOPS, PRESBYTERS, AND DEACONS
But be thou, O bishop, holy, unblameable, no striker, not soon angry, not cruel; but a builder up, a converter, apt to teach, forbear-ing of evil, of a gentle mind, meek, long-suffering, ready to exhort, ready to comfort, as a man of God. When thou callest an assembly of the Church as one that is the commander of a great ship, appoint the assemblies to be made with all possible skill, charging the deacons as mariners to prepare places for the brethren as for passengers, with all due care and decency.

BOOK II. OF THE ORIGIN OF ERROR.
Nor are the poets to be listened to, who say that in the beginning was a chaos, that is, a confusion of matter and the elements; but that God afterwards divided all that mass, and having separated each object from the confused heap, and arranged them in order, He constructed and adorned the world. Now it is easy to reply to these persons, who do not understand the power of God: for they believe that He can produce nothing, except out of materials already existing(4) and prepared; in which error philosophers also were involved.

BOOK III. CONCERNING WIDOWS
Thou therefore, O bishop, according to that type, shalt anoint the head of those that are to be baptized, whether they be men or women, with the holy oil, for a type of the spiritual baptism. After that, either thou, O bishop, or a presbyter that is under thee, shall in the solemn form name over them the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, and shall dip them in the water; and let a deacon receive the man, and a deaconess the woman, that so the conferring of this inviolable seal may take place with a becoming decency. And after that, let the bishop anoint those that are baptized with ointment.

BOOK III. OF THE FALSE WISDOM OF PHILOSOPHERS.
Does wisdom therefore nowhere exist? Yes, indeed, it was amongst them, but no one saw it. Some thought that all things could be known: these were manifestly not wise. Others thought that nothing could be known; nor indeed were these wise: the former, because they attributed too much to man; the latter, because they attributed too little. A limit was wanting to each on either side. Where, then, is wisdom? It consists in thinking neither that you know all things, which is the property of God; nor that you are ignorant of all things, which is the part of a beast.

BOOK IV. OF TRUE WISDOM AND RELIGION
But before I begin to speak of God and His works, I must first speak a few things concerning the prophets, whose testimony I must now use, which I have refrained from doing in the former books. Above all things, he who desires to comprehend the truth ought not only to apply his mind to understand the utterances of the prophets, but also most diligently to inquire into the times during which each one of them existed, that he may know what future events they predicted, and after how many years their predictions were fulfilled.

BOOK IV. ON HELPING THE POOR
V. We exhort, therefore, the widows and orphans to partake of those things that are bestowed upon them with all fear, and all pious reverence, and to return thanks to God who gives food to the needy, and to lift up their eyes to Him. For, says He, "Which of you shall eat, or who shall drink without Him? For He openeth His hand, and filleth every living thing with His kindness: giving wheat to the young men, and wine to the maidens, and oil for the joy of the living, grass for the cattle, and green herb for the service of men, flesh for the wild beasts, seeds for the birds, and suitable food for all creatures."(3)

BOOK SECOND. COMMANDMENTS--The Pastor of Hermas
And I said to him, "I should like to continue my questions." "Speak on," said he. And I said, "I heard, sir, some teachers maintain that there is no other repentance than that which takes place, when we descended into the water(5) and received remission of our former sins." He said to me, "That was sound doctrine which you heard; for that is really the case. For he who has received remission of his sins ought not to sin any more, but to live in purity. Since, however, you inquire diligently into all things, I will point this also out to you, not as giving occasion for error to those who are to believe, or have lately believed, in the Lord.

BOOK THIRD. SIMILITUDES--The Pastor of Hermas
While fasting and sitting on a certain mountain, and giving thanks to the Lord for all His dealings with me, I see the Shepherd sitting down beside me, and saying, "Why have you come hither [so] early in the morning?" "Because, sir," I answered, "I have a station."(6) "What is a station?" he asked. "I am fasting, sir," I replied. "What is this fasting," he continued, "which you are observing?" "As I have been accustomed, sir," I reply, "so I fast." "You do not know," he says, "how to fast unto the Lord: this useless fasting which you observe to HIm is of no value."

BOOK V. CONCERNING THE MARTYRS
For the Almighty God Himself will raise us up through our Lord Jesus Christ, according to His infallible promise, and grant us a resurrection with all those that have slept from the beginning of the world; and we shall then be such as we now are in our present form, without any defect or corruption. For we shall rise incorruptible: whether we die at sea, or are scat- tered on the earth, or are torn to pieces by wild beasts and birds, He will raise us by His own power; for the whole world is held together by the hand of God.

BOOK V. OF JUSTICE
He could not therefore after death be believed to be a god, because it was evident that he was both a man and a magician; and for this reason he affected(1) divinity under the title of a name belonging to another, for in his own name he was unable to attain it, nor did he venture to make the attempt. But he of whom we speak(2) could both be believed to be a god, because he was not a magician, and was believed to be such because he was so in truth.

BOOK VI. OF TRUE WORSHIP.
I have said that which was the first thing, that the knowledge of good is not virtue; and secondly, I have shown what virtue is, and in what it consists. It follows that I should show this also, that the philosophers were ignorant of what is good and evil; and this briefly, because it has been almost(1) made plain in the third book, when I was discussing the subject of the chief good. And because they did not know what the chief good was, they necessarily erred in the case of the other goods and evils which are not the chief; for no one can weigh these with a true judgment who does not possess the fountain itself from which they are derived.

BOOK VI. ON HERESIES.
But we do not say so of that mixture that is contrary to nature, or of any unlawful practice; for such are enmity to God. For the sin of Sodom is contrary to nature, as is also that with brute beasts. But adultery and fornication are against the law; the one whereof is impiety, the other injustice, and, in a word, no other than a great sin. But neither sort of them is without its punishment in its own proper nature.

BOOK VII. CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
Full title: CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, AND THE EUCHARIST, AND THE INITIATION INTO CHRIST

BOOK VII. OF A HAPPY LIFE.
But, test any one should think this incredible, I will show how it will come to pass. First, the kingdom will be enlarged, and the chief power, dispersed among many and divided,[8] will be diminished. Then civil discords will perpetually be sown; nor will there be any rest from deadly wars, until ten kings arise at the same time, who will divide the world, not to govern, but to consume it. These, having increased their armies to an immense extent, and having deserted the cultivation of the fields, which is the beginning of overthrow and disaster, will lay waste and break in pieces and consume all things.

BOOK VIII. CONCERNING GIFTS, AND ORDINATIONS, AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL CANONS
Those eulogies which remain at the mysteries, let the deacons distribute them among the clergy, according to the mind of the bishop or the presbyters: to a bishop; four parts; to a presbyter, three(5) parts; to a deacon, two(6) parts; and to the rest of the sub-deacons, or readers, or singers, or deaconesses, one part. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, that every one be honoured according to his dignity; for the Church is the school, not of confusion, but of good order.

BORDER TRAFFIC--Edward Ronns
And Gil felt that the case was growing red-hot. He felt he was close to Joey Lane's killer. To quit now would be idiotic. Allied Auto was losing plenty of dough because of Hoban's hot-car outfit, but Gil wasn't too concerned about that. He wanted a killer. Besides, Gil was a good, conscientious insurance dick. He'd have told you that himself.

Bound to Rise
Harry surmised that it was his instructions. He paid little heed, but fixed his eyes upon the fire, listening to the rain that continued to beat against the window panes, and began to speculate about the future. Was he to be successful or not? He was not without solicitude, but he felt no small measure of hope. At nine o'clock he began to feel drowsy, and intimated as much to his host. The old man conducted him to an upper chamber, where there was a bed upon the floor.

Boy Scouts in a Submarine--G. Harvey Ralphson
"If we lose sight of her now," Ned answered, "we may have hard work picking her up again. If there is anything left in the wreck it will keep. The thing to do now is to catch her and recover what she took away, then have her held to await the action of the Washington authorities."

Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 1
Sexually considered, civilized man is more beastial than the brutes. He does not respect the person of his gestant wife, and this disregard of natural law is the most potent failure in the curtailment of natural increase. Certain physiological facts indicate that woman is destitute of desire. Carpenter, the great English scientist, is quoted in support of this proposition, and a "female lecturer of distinction" (name not given) to establish the theory that the chief cause of marital unhappiness and the ill health of wives is the sexual inhumanity of husbands-such inhumanity being quite as common among the better as among the uncultured.

Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 10
I sometimes rejoice with an exceeding great joy and take something on myself that the ICONOCLAST is read by a million truth-loving Americans, as I am thereby enabled not only to make it uncomfortable for frauds and fakes, but to hold an occasional bypedal puppy up by the subsequent end that Scorn may sight him and stick her cold and clammy finger so far through his miserable carcass that Goliah might hang his helmet on the protruding point.

Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 12
At this writing, 9 o'clock, W. C. Brann, editor of Brann's ICONOCLAST, and Tom E. Davis, a prominent real estate man of this city, lie dangerously wounded with a likelihood of their dying at any moment. William H. Ward, an employee of W. C. Brann, is shot through the right hand. Sigh Kennedy, a motorman on the street car line, is shot in the right knee, and Kepler, a traveling musician, is shot in the right foot. The three men last named are only slightly wounded.

Bread Cast Upon the Waters--Charlotte Eliza Dixon
Although my vesture is unbound,/ Up from my bed I rise delighted;/ My washed feet impress the ground,/ To let Him in to whom I'm plighted!

Breath of Allah
The illusion persisting, I determined that it was due to the unnatural strain imposed upon my vision, and although I recognized that time was precious I found myself compelled temporarily to desist, since nothing was to be gained by watching these letters which danced from side to side of the parchment, sometimes in groups and sometimes singly, so that I found myself pursuing one slim Arab A ('Alif) entirely up the page from the bottom to the top where it finally disappeared under the thumb of the Lady Zuleyka!

Brickett Bottom--Amyas Northcote
What harm could happen to her? she asked. Mrs. Paxton was a charming old lady. She was going early in the afternoon for a short visit. She would be back for tea and croquet with her father and, anyway, now that Maggie was laid up, long solitary walks were unendurable and she was not going to let slip the chance of following up what promised to be a pleasant acquaintance.

Bricks Without Straw--Albion W. Tourgee
"Dar! 'Liab," he said, as he entered and handed the paper which he had been examining to the person addressed, "I reckon I'se free now. I feel ez ef I wuz 'bout half free, ennyhow. I wuz a sojer, an' fought fer freedom. I've got my house an' bit o' lan', wife, chillen, crap, an' stock, an' it's all mine. An' now I'se done been registered, an' when de 'lection comes off, kin vote jes' ez hard an' ez well an' ez often ez ole Marse Desmit. I hain't felt free afore-leastways I hain't felt right certain on't; but now I reckon I'se all right, fact an' truth. What you tinks on't, 'Liab?"

British Airships, Past/Present/Future--George Whale
In the early days of the war an airship was constructed by Mr. Marshall Fox which is worthy of mention, although it never flew. It was claimed that this ship was a rigid airship, although from its construction it could only be looked upon as a non-rigid ship, having a wooden net-work around its envelope. The hull was composed of wooden transverse frames forming a polygon of sixteen sides, with radial wiring fitted to each transverse frame.

British Werewolves
And their hair was perfect.

Broken Wings
It was said with promptness, even precipitation; yet the understanding, shortly after, appeared to have left between them a certain awkwardness, and it was almost as if to change the subject and relieve them equally that she suddenly reminded him of something he had spoken earlier. "You were to tell me why in particular you had to be here."

BROOD OF THE WITCH-QUEEN
There was sincerity in the appeal, spoken in the softest, most silvern tone which he had ever heard. He stood beside the veiled woman, and met the glance of her dark eyes with a consciousness of some magnetic force in the glance which seemed to set his nerves quivering.

Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue--Laura Lee Hope
"Oh, Bunny!" she exclaimed, "if Splash knew the way home he could take us. Maybe he does. Mother read to us about a dog that found his way home from a long way off. Splash, can you take us home?" she asked, patting the big dog on the head.

Bureaucracy
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Buried Alive!--By Percy B. St John
The ceremony proceeded, Sarah's two friends Lydia and Amy covering their faces with their hands, and weeping. Two strong men held Sarah by the wrists, and had the reckless audacity to announce to the assembly that Sarah had said "yes". The villain had money, which, on an occasion like the present, he used freely to lavish on his comrades.

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
By the return of this bill, which seemed to have taken its flight forever, we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American Government as we were on the first day of the session. If, Sir, we incline to the side of conciliation, we are not at all embarrassed (unless we please to make ourselves so) by any incongruous mixture of coercion and restraint.

BUSHES AND BRIARS
EMILY. Suitable? I'll suitable her. When shall my two hands find time to sew me a gown out of it, I'd like to know? And if 'twas sewn, when would my limbs find time to sit down within of it? [ Flinging it down on the table.] Suitable? You can tell your mistress from me as she can keep her gifts to herself if she can't do better nor this.

Business Hints for Men and Women--Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
While business can be conducted over the telephone, as if the speakers stood face to face, yet such transactions not being recorded, will not stand in law, if one of the parties should dispute the other's word.

Buttercup Gold--Ellen Robena Field
Did you ever hear of the pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow? Some people think it is there now, but they are mistaken, for a long time ago somebody found it. How he happened to find it, nobody knows, for a great many people have searched in vain, and have never even been able to discover that the rainbow has any ends at all.

Caesar's Column--Ignatius Donnelly
"The most awful shrieks I ever heard broke from him; and the next moment his limbs seemed to lose their strength, and he fell in a heap on the floor; then he rolled over and over; mighty convulsions swept through him; he groaned, cried, shrieked, foamed at the mouth; there was a sudden snorting sound, and he stiffened out and was dead.

Camlan--ROBERT BUCHANAN
A moment paused Sir Arthur/ To cool his burning brow;/ Three hundred knights had followed him -/ How many follow now?/ But only two! And wounded sore,/

CANONICAL EPISTLE
But others deceive themselves by fancying that they can retain the property of others which they may have found as an equivalent for their own property which they have lost. In this way verily, just as the Boradi and Goths brought the havoc of war on them, they make themselves Boradi and Goths to others. Accordingly we have sent to you our brother and comrade in old age, Euphrosynus, with this view, that he may deal with you in accordance with our model here, and teach you against whom you ought to admit accusations,(4) and whom you ought to exclude from your prayers.

Cape Cod Stories--Joseph Crosby Lincoln
"We cruised round for a spell, sort of prospecting, and then we landed at a little one-horse coral island, where there wa'n't no inhabitants, but where we was pretty dead sartin there was pearl oyster banks in the lagoon. There was five of us on the schooner, a Dutchman named Rhinelander, a Coolie cook and Lazarus and Hammond and me. We put up a slab shanty on shore and went to work pearl fishing, keeping one eye out for Dutch gunboats, and always having a sago palm ready to split open so's, if we got caught, we could say we was after sago.

Cappy Ricks Retires--Peter B. Kyne
Throughout the long, lazy days that the Narcissus rolled into the South, Captain Michael J. Murphy's alert brain was busy every spare moment, striving to discover, in the incomprehensible charter his owners had made for him, what the French call la raison d'etre. Not having any wireless, he was unable to keep in touch with the stirring events being enacted in Europe and on the high seas, as news of the said events filtered by him through space. While on the West Coast, where all the newspapers are printed in Spanish, he had been equally barred from keeping in touch with the war, although en route through the Panama Canal he did his best to buy up all the old newspapers on the Zone.

Cappy Ricks--Peter B. Kyne
"How dare you contradict me?" the Old Man growled. "I tell you, you don't know what you are yet, barring the fact that you're an American, and the only one, with the exception of myself, in the whole damned Scowegian crew. Do you think you could get away with a bosun's job?"

Captain Jinks, Hero--Ernest Crosby
"What inhuman brutes those anarchists are!" cried Sam. "Think of their trying to blow up a whole houseful of people! I wish we could take some one of the smaller islands and put all the anarchists of the world there and let them live out their precious theories. Just think what a hell it would be! What infernal engines of hatred and destruction they would construct, if they were left to themselves-machines charged with dynamite and bristling with all sorts of explosive contrivances!"

Captain Macklin
But what really made Graham, and the rest of the Copan people, and the Isthmian crowd, who now were all working together against us, so anxious to get Fiske out of Honduras, was that part of Laguerre's proclamation in which he said he would force the Isthmian Line to pay its just debts. They were most anxious that Fiske should not learn from us the true version of that claim for back pay. They had told him we were a lot of professional filibusters, that the demand we made for the half-million of dollars was a gigantic attempt at blackmail.

Captain Singleton
Full title: THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND PYRACIES, Of the Famous Captain SINGLETON: Containing an Account of his being set on Shore in the Island of Madagascar, his Settlement there, with a Description of the Place and Inhabitants:

Cashel Byron's Profession--George Bernard Shaw
Alice went home from the castle expecting to find the household divided between joy at her good-fortune and grief at losing her; for her views of human nature and parental feeling were as yet pure superstitions. But Mrs. Goff at once became envious of the luxury her daughter was about to enjoy, and overwhelmed her with accusations of want of feeling, eagerness to desert her mother, and vain love of pleasure.

Castle Craneycrow--George Barr McCutcheon
Blood was streaming down his arm and he was beginning to feel an excruciating pain. Pedestrians were few, and they made no effort to obstruct the flight of the fugitive. Instead, they gave him a wide berth. From far in the rear came hoarse cries, but Quentin was uttering no shout. He was grinding his teeth because the fellow had worsted him in the rather vainglorious encounter on the porch, and was doing all in his power to catch him and make things even.

CASTLE OF CRIME
Moving across the room, The Shadow reached the important corner. It was out of sight from the door; he had ample opportunity to study everything in view. First, he studied the maps. One was small, it showed land only, and it was marked with the letter "W" in five places, each initial followed by a figure.

Castle Richmond
Among the different houses in the country at which he had become intimate was that of the Countess of Desmond. The Countess of Desmond did not receive much company at Desmond Court. She had not the means, nor perhaps the will, to fill the huge old house with parties of her Irish neighbours-for she herself was English to the backbone. Ladies of course made morning calls, and gentlemen too, occasionally; but society at Desmond Court was for some years pretty much confined to this cold formal mode of visiting. Owen Fitzgerald, however, did obtain admittance into the precincts of the Desmond barracks.

Catalonia and Other
PINUCIO and a friend, one stormy night,/ The landlord's reached and would in haste alight;/ They asked for beds, but were too late they found:/ You know, sir, cried the host, we don't abound;/ And now the very garrets we have let:

Caterpillars
It is true, that a doubt, vague as my uneasy premonition, crossed my mind at this. I did not see why Mrs. Stanley should have explained all this, if there had not been more to explain. I allow, therefore, that the thought that there was something to explain about the unoccupied bedroom was momentarily present to my mind.

Catherine Furze--Mark Rutherford
"A canting, hypocritical parson, type not uncommon, described over and over again in novels, and thoroughly familiar to theatre-goers." Such, no doubt, will be the summary verdict passed upon Mr. Cardew. The truth is, however, that he did not cant, and was not a hypocrite. One or two observations here may perhaps be pertinent. The accusation of hypocrisy, if we mean lofty assertion, and occasional and even conspicuous moral failure, may be brought against some of the greatest figures in history.

Catriona
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CAUGHT ON THE EBB-TIDE
Mr. Merriweather and Mr. Hackley stood rather helplessly in the background and were evidently giving more thought to the fair nurse than to the patient. The mother was alternating between lamentations and invocations of good on the "young leddy's" head. Finding that he would come in for a share of the latter, Scofield retreated again.

Celibates
'His death was very mysterious. The doctors could not account for it. There ought to have been a post-mortem examination.' Feeling that this was not sufficient reason, and remembering suddenly that Ralph held socialistic theories and was a member of a sect of socialists, she said: 'Ralph was a member of a secret society.... He was an anarchist-no one suspected it, but he told me everything, and it was I who persuaded him to leave the Brotherhood.'

Celtic Literature
Sentimental, - always ready to react against the despotism of fact; that is the description a great friend {85} of the Celt gives of him; and it is not a bad description of the sentimental temperament; it lets us into the secret of its dangers and of its habitual want of success. Balance, measure, and patience, these are the eternal conditions, even supposing the happiest temperament to start with, of high success; and balance, measure, and patience are just what the Celt has never had.

Censorship and Art
Having observed that there is no reason whatever for the exemption of Literature, let us now turn to the case of Art. Every picture hung in a gallery, every statue placed on a pedestal, is exposed to the public stare of a mixed company. Why, then, have we no Censorship to protect us from the possibility of encountering works that bring blushes to the cheek of the young person?

Chapters of Opera--H.E. Krehbiel
In the sometimes faulty and incomplete records of the American stage to which writers on musical history have hitherto been forced to repair, 1750 is set down as the natal year for English ballad opera in America. It is thought that it was in that year that "The Beggar's Opera" found its way to New York, after having, in all probability, been given by the same company of comedians in Philadelphia in the middle of the year preceding. But it is as little likely that these were the first performances of ballad operas on this side of the Atlantic as that the people of New York were oblivious of the nature of operatic music of the Italian type until Garcia's troupe came with Rossini's "Barber of Seville," in 1825.

Charlemont--W. Gilmore Simms
Full title: CHARLEMONT; OR, THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE A TALE OF KENTUCKY.

Charles Lamb--Barry Cornwall
You could not mistake him. He was somewhat stiff in his manner, and almost clerical in dress; which indicated much wear. He had a long, melancholy face, with keen, penetrating eyes; and he walked, with a short, resolute step, city-wards. He looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything as he went on. No one who ever studied the human features could pass him by without recollecting his countenance: it was full of sensibility, and it came upon you like a new thought, which you could not help dwelling upon afterwards; it gave rise to meditation, and did you good.

Charles the First--
Crom./ Overhot! But that's A fault may pass for virtue./ Overcold's, Your modish sin. Weakness or treachery!/ Peters or Judases! They'll treat. They'll treat./ Where lies thy regiment?

Charles the First--Percy Bysshe Shelley
THE YOUTH:/ How glorious! See those thronging chariots/ Rolling, like painted clouds before the wind,/ Behind their solemn steeds: how some are shaped/ Like curved sea-shells dyed by the azure depths/

Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership--Edward Lasker
Improved text, supersedes earlier version (PDF recommended).

Chess History and Reminiscences--H. E. Bird
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Chess Strategy--Edward Lasker
Looks very good in most formats. Did the best I could (MS-Reader is an issue, Acrobat recommended).

Chiefly a Dialogue--Louisa Bevington
"How shall I fill this church of mine/ "On which my power depends?"-/ "Say what old Mammon wants to hear,/ "And he will help your ends."/

Christmas 200,000 B.C.--Stanley Waterloo
The chase lasted for hours, and Red Lips had gained perhaps a mile upon her pursuer when her strength began to flag. The pace was telling upon her. She had run many miles. She was almost hopeless of escape when she emerged into a little glade, where sat a man gnawing contentedly at a raw rabbit. He leaped to his feet as the girl appeared, but a moment later recognized her and smiled. The man was Yellow Hair. He reached out part of the rabbit he was devouring, and Red Lips, whose breakfast had, as already mentioned, been a light one, tore at it and consumed it in a moment. Then she told of what had happened.

CHRISTMAS AT THOMPSON HALL
Note: Adapted from a story by Anthony Trollope by Frank J. Morlock

CHRISTMAS EVE IN WAR TIMES
But the unrelenting demands of life are made as surely upon the breaking as upon the happy heart. She and her children must have food, clothing, and shelter. Her illness and feebleness at last taught her that she must not yield to her grief, except so far as she was unable to suppress it; that for the sake of those now seemingly dependent upon her, she must rally every shattered nerve and every relaxed muscle.

Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade--Geoffrey de Villehardouin
Full title: Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople

Chronographia--Michael Psellus
2. This gentleman, nurtured on Greek literature, also had some acquaintance with the literary works of the Italians. He had a graceful turn of speech and a majestic utterance. A man of heroic stature, he looked every inch a king. His idea of his own range of knowledge was vastly exaggerated, but wishing to model his reign on those of the great Indianans of the past, the famous philosopher Marcus and Augustus

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare--Walter Savage Landor
About one hour before noontide the youth WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, accused of deer-stealing, and apprehended for that offence, was brought into the great hall at Charlecote, where, having made his obeisance, it was most graciously permitted him to stand.

CITY OF GHOSTS
On the second floor, the four men found Skate's body, along with plenty of gunfire evidence, including Enwald's shattered bottle. They noted that Cranston's room was untouched; but Welf, peering along the hall, saw the dangling rail of the fire escape.

CITY OF SHADOWS
Hurrying back to the hotel room, Monte grabbed the telephone. Though Elk Wenner was the nominal head of the mobbies in Middledale, Monte Flade had been foresighted enough to hold an alternate in reserve. He had purposely kept Elk's substitute out of the picture, to be sure of having him available when needed. But he had kept his emergency lieutenant posted on everything.

Clairvoyance
They moved away, she to her loneliness, he to his unhaunted room. And at his door he turned. At the far end of the passage, silhouetted against the candle-light, he watched them-the fine old man with his silvered hair and heavy shoulders, and the slim young wife with that amazing air as of some great bountiful mother of the world for whom the years yet passed hungry and un-harvested.

Clara Hopgood--Mark Rutherford
Whenever anybody whom we love dies, we discover that although death is commonplace it is terribly original. We may have thought about it all our lives, but if it comes close to us, it is quite a new, strange thing to us, for which we are entirely unprepared. It may, perhaps, not be the bare loss so much as the strength of the bond which is broken that is the surprise, and we are debtors in a way to death for revealing something in us which ordinary life disguises.

Clara Howard: In a Series of Letters
The bloom and glossiness of youth had, indeed, disappeared in the elder, but the ruddy tints and the smoothness of health, joined to the most pathetic and intelligent expression, set the mother on a level, even in personal attractions, with the daughter. No music was ever more thrilling than the tones of Clara. They sunk, deeply, into my heart, while her eyes, casually turned on me, and beaming with complacency, contributed still more to enchant me.

CLARA'S HUSBANDS--Laura M. Williams
Don't look so reproachful, Dicky. It was all your fault. You should have kept away when you saw how pretty I was. I couldn't help letting you see how unhappy I was with Lovey. I was too pretty to be hidden in a flat, but you should not have listened to me. Men are so sentimental. I shall never forget you and Claude. It was so exciting.

CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS, BISHOP OF HIERAPOLIS, AND APOLOGIST
Apollinaris was bishop of Hierapolis on the Maeander, and, Lightfoot thinks, was probably with Melito and Polycrates, known to Polycarp, and influenced by his example and doctrine. [7] He addressed his Apology, which is honourably mentioned by Jerome, to M. Antoninus, the emperor. He also wrote Adversus Gentes and De Veritate; also against the jews. Serapion calls him [8] "most blessed."

Cleopatra
"Cease your flattery," said Cleopatra, smiling mournfully. "They say that the works of the Pharaohs here on the Nile flout Time. The inexorable destroyer is less willing to permit this from the Queen of Egypt. These are grey hairs, and they came from this head, however eagerly you may deny it. Whose save my own are these lines around the corners of the eyes and on the brow? What say you to the tooth which my lips do not hide so kindly as you assert? It was injured the night before the luckless battle.

COLLEGE FRIENDS--EDMONDO DE AMICIS
"It is all a dream!"-I answer, with my eyes still upon that far-off light, and the great cry of a man who sees a ghost in his path, No! Ah, at such moments, what matters it that I must grow old and die? I toil, I wait, I believe!

Comedies--Ludvig Holberg
JEPPE. The best thing about brandy is that it gives you courage. Now I don't think any more about my wife or Master Eric, I've been so changed by that last glass. Do you know this song, Jacob?

COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE OF THE BLESSED JOHN--Victorinus
The seven thunders uttering their voices signify, the Holy Spirit of sevenfold power, who through the prophets announced all things to come, and by His voice John gave his testimony in the world; but because he says that he was about to write the things which the thunders had uttered, that is, whatever things had been obscure in the announcements of the Old Testament; he is forbidden to write them, but he was charged to leave them sealed, because he is an apostle, nor was it fitting that the grace of the subsequent stage should be given in the first.

Common-Sense Country--Louisa Sarah Bevington
You never saw any feet without shoes in cold weather in Common-sense Country. And you never saw any shoes heaped up thousands thick in warehouses with no feet to put into them. Common-sense citizens had grave objections, not only to cold, discomfort, and disease, but also grave objections to the enormous expense of thought, time, material, and goodwill, necessarily involved in any and every measure for keeping empty shoes warm indoors, and human feet cold outside in the street.

CONCERNING ABGAR THE KING AND ADDAEUS
Full title: EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS BOOKS CONCERNING ABGAR THE KING AND ADDAEUS THE APOSTLE

Concerning Letters
"Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!". . . Useless jugglers, frivolous players on the lute! Must we so describe ourselves, we, the producers, season by season, of so many hundreds of "remarkable" works of fiction?-for though, when we take up the remarkable works of our fellows, we "really cannot read them!" the Press and the advertisements of our publishers tell us that they are "remarkable."

CONCERNING MONTANISM--APOLLONIUS
But, not to dwell further on these matters, let the prophetess tell us concerning Alexander, who calls himself a martyr, with whom she joins in banqueting; who himself also is worshipped by many;[4] whose robberies and other deeds of daring, for which he has been punished, it is not necessary for us to speak of, since the treasury[5] has him in keeping. Which of them, then, condones the sins of the other?

CONCERNING THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY POLYCARP
Full title: THE ENCYCLICAL EPISTLE OF THE CHURCH AT SMYRNA CONCERNING THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY POLYCARP

Concerning the Spiritual in Art--Wassily Kandinsky
But despite their patent and well-ordered security, despite their infallible principles, there lurks in these higher segments a hidden fear, a nervous trembling, a sense of insecurity. And this is due to their upbringing. They know that the sages, statesmen and artists whom today they revere, were yesterday spurned as swindlers and charlatans.

CONFESSION OF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH
Note: COMMONLY CALLED THE CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS

Confession--W. Gilmore Simms
Full title: Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story.

Confessions of Harry Lorrequer--Charles James Lever
I rambled through the streets for some hours, revolving such thoughts as pressed upon me involuntarily by all I saw. The same little grey homunculus that filled my "prince's mixture" years before, stood behind the counter at Lundy Foot's, weighing out rappee and high toast, just as I last saw him. The fat college porter, that I used to mistake in my school-boy days for the Provost, God forgive me!

Considerations of a Representative Government
The willingness of the people to accept representative government only becomes a practical question when an enlightened ruler, or a foreign nation or nations who have gained power over the country, are disposed to offer it the boon. To individual reformers the question is almost irrelevant, since, if no other objection can be made to their enterprise than that the opinion of the nation is not yet on their side, they have the ready and proper answer, that to bring it over to their side is the very end they aim at. When opinion is really adverse, its hostility is usually to the fact of change rather than to representative government in itself.

Constance Dunlap
For the first time in several minutes Constance looked at the face of her friend. She was amazed to discover that Adele looked as if she had had a spell of sickness. Her eyes were large and glassy, her skin cold and sweaty, and she looked positively pallid and thin.

CONTAINING EPISTLES, OR FRAGMENTS OF EPISTLES--DIONYSIUS
1. Now I speak also before God, and He knoweth that I lie not: it was not by my own choice? neither was it without divine instruction, that I took to flight. But at an earlier period,(1) indeed, when the edict far the persecution under Decius was determined upon, Sabinus at that very hour sent a certain Frumentarius(2) to make search for me. And I remained in the house for four days, expecting the arrival of this Frumentarius.

CONTAINING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE WORKS--DIONYSIUS
Hence we shall only run over in a summary way, at present, some few of the works of an all-wise Providence; and after a little we shall, if God grant it, go over them more minutely, when we direct our discourse toward one who has the repute of greater learning. So, then, we have the ministry of the hands, by which all kinds of works are wrought, and all skilful professions practised, and which have all their various faculties furnished them, with a view to the discharge of one common function; and we have the shoulders, with their capacity for bearing burdens

Contemporary Danish Prose
"Yes, indeed they can! As long as anyone can remember there have only been ruffians living in that hut-no one else CAN live there!" he declared emphatically. The two lasses might not be more than children yet; but it was all the same. When thistles and stinging-nettles had been sown, you could not expect to find corn and flowers growing. There was no arguing about that, and it could not be altered!

Cornelius Agrippa--Robert Southey
Full title: 'Cornelius Agrippa; A Ballad, of a Young Man that would Read Unlawful Books, and how he was Punished'

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
Set my mind at rest by a few lines telling me that I did not offend you some time ago. I live at such a distance from my friends, that I always have a thousand anxieties, especially when I do not receive news from them for long. Tell me, for heaven's sake, have I written to you anything about Berlioz or Raff which you might have misunderstood in the sense that I had something against them? I have spoken as best I could from a distance; and, especially with regard to Berlioz, my intentions are the best.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
I can never complain to you again. I go on worrying you with my confidences in a sinful manner, while you keep your own grief to yourself. My troublesome candour knows no bounds; every drop of the fount of my sorrow I pour out before you, and-I must hope that that is the very reason why you are so silent as to your own circumstances. But I begin to feel that the best remedy for our sufferings is sympathy with those of others. My only sorrow today is that you hide your grief from my sympathy. Are you really too proud to let me know, or do you refrain from giving me back the painful impression I made on you with my complaints, because you were unable to assist me?

Cote d'Or--H.M. Tomlinson
We passed that evening a hill on which stood one battlemented wall of an old castle; the rest of the castle was rubble and thicket. That was where in 1423 the Duke of Bedford, before Joan of Arc made him feel a bit less ducal, married Anne of Burgundy. Yet I do not mean such monuments as that; not anything of such historical note. But when day had nearly gone our car passed the side of a common village home, a pale wall with an exclamation on it: BYRRH!

Courts and Criminals--Arthur Train
I began to get interested. Supposing I dug out all the homicide cases I had ever tried, what would the result show as to motive for the killing? Would drink and women account for seventy-five per cent? Mentally I ran my eye back over nearly ten years. What OTHER motives had the defendants at the bar had?

Covering End
Ah, the difference it made! This difference, for Mrs Gracedew, suddenly shimmered in all the place, and her companion's fixed eyes caught in her face the reflection of it. "Excuse me - I misunderstood. I somehow took for granted-!" She stopped, a trifle awkwardly - suddenly tender, for Cora, as to the way she had inevitably seen it.

Cowboy Dave--Frank V. Webster
Full title: COWBOY DAVE OR THE ROUND-UP AT ROLLING RIVER

Cowley's Essays
Since we cannot attain to greatness, says the Sieur de Montaigne, let us have our revenge by railing at it; this he spoke but in jest. I believe he desired it no more than I do, and had less reason, for he enjoyed so plentiful and honourable a fortune in a most excellent country, as allowed him all the real conveniences of it, separated and purged from the incommodities. If I were but in his condition, I should think it hard measure, without being convinced of any crime, to be sequestered from it and made one of the principal officers of state

Cranford
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Crapy Cornelia
However that might be, his curiosity was occupied rather with the conceivable hinge of poor Cornelia's: it was perhaps thinkable that even Mrs Worthingham's New York, once it should have become possible again at all, might have put forth to this lone exile a plea that wouldn't be in the chords of Bognor.

Cri du Coeur--M. Kenyon Charboneaux
She knew there was a dark side to The Religion, an irreducible, and perhaps even unescapable, nightside. She heard stories of zombies. Someone always knew someone who was a relative to someone who had known someone whose uncle, brother, sister, wife, cousin, had offended a powerful houngan and been made zombie.

Crime and Punishment--Feodor Doestoevski
Note: Adapted from the novel by Frank J. Morlock C 1966 (a very early multimedia presentation).

Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors--Frances Power Cobbe
Full title: CRIMINALS, IDIOTS, WOMEN, AND MINORS. IS THE CLASSIFICATION SOUND? A DISCUSSION ON THE LAWS CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.

CROOKS GO STRAIGHT
Lucky's gat spoke straight for Luftus. The old man collapsed as the gorillas seized him. His body writhed upon the floor. Then Lucky went jouncing sidewise as a furious form landed on him. Ripping like a demon, Barry was clawing at this killer who had slain his master.

Cross of Gold--William Jennings Bryan
We go forth confident that we shall win. Why? Because upon the paramount issue of this campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle. If they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing, we shall point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of the gold standard and substitute bimetallism. If the gold standard is a good thing, why try to get rid of it?

Cumbrian Legends--Mrs. F. Ryves
Full title: Cumbrian Legends; or, Tales of Other Times

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk, v1
It was at this very point that the danger lay, for the nephew of the Dakoon, Gis-yo-Bahim, was a weak but treacherous man, ill-fitted to rule; a coward, yet ambitious; distrusted by the people, yet the heir to the throne. Cumner and Pango Dooni had placed him at this point for no other reason than to give him his chance for a blow, if he dared to strike it, at the most advantageous place in the city.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk, v2
After a moment of inscrutable deliberation, he answered that he would do as they wished. Dicky hinted that he would require some information about Lord Malice's past career and his family's history, but he assured them that he did not need it; and his eyes idled ironically with Dicky's face.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk, v3
"Do you know, Mostyn, that even to-day, whenever she meets me, I can see one question in her eyes: 'Where is he?' Always, always that. He found life and people so interesting that he couldn't help but be interesting himself. Whatever he was, I never knew a woman speak ill of him. . . . Once a year there comes to me a letter from an artist girl in Paris, written in language that gets into my eyes. There is always the one refrain: 'He will return some day. Say to him that I do not forget.'"

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk, v4
"It is but a question of degree. He was an artist and something of a dramatist; he was not at the Place Vendome at a certain critical moment; he was not at Montmartre at a particular terrible time; he was not a high officer like Mayer; he was young, with the face of a patriot. Well, they sent Mayer to the galleys at Toulon first; then, among the worst of the prisoners here-he was too bold, too full of speech; he had not Laflamme's gift of silence, of pathos.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk, v5
"Last night. But monsieur was unwise. We do not love the English here. They do not find it comfortable on English soil, in Australia-my children! Not so comfortable as Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon. Criminal kings with gold are welcome; criminal subjects without gold- ah, that is another matter, monsieur. It is just the same. They may be gentlemen-many are; if they escape to Australia or go as liberes, they are hunted down. That is English, and they hate the English- my children."

Curly and Floppy Twistytail--Howard R. Garis
"And we'll roast some more chestnuts in place of the burst ones," said the monkey, and he did, and Curly had as many as he wanted, and some to take home. Soon he arrived at the piggie-house, and every one was glad to see him and the chestnuts, and that's all to this story.

CYRANO AND MOLIERE by George Jubin
Note from preface: Just as the English occasionally like to write plays about Shakespeare, the French are fond of writing plays about Moliere. Indeed it's been a cottage industry over the years, especially in the 19th century. Unlike their English counterparts, the French do a better job of it, because they do not allow their admiration for Moliere to degenerate into hagiography. Additional: Translated and adapted by Frank J. Morlock

Dantons Tod--Georg Büchner
Robespierre. Ich sage dir, wer mir in den Arm fällt, wenn ich das Schwert ziehe, ist mein Feind-seine Absicht tut nichts zur Sache; wer mich verhindert, mich zu verteidigen, tötet mich so gut, als wenn er mich angriffe.

Dark Hollow
But her faith had been sorely shaken in the interview just related. He was not the friend she had hoped to find. He had insisted upon her husband's guilt, when she had expected consideration and a thoughtful recapitulation of the evidence; and he had remained unmoved, or but very little moved, by the disappointment of his son-his only remaining link to life.

Darwiniana--Asa Gray
Full title: Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. Electronic formatting dedicated, as always, to the Kansas State Board of Education.

Das Buch Henoch--translated by A. G. Hoffmann
Wiederum bemerken sie in den Tagen des Sommers, dass die Sonne in demselben gerade in ihrem Anfange ist, wenn ihr nach einem bedeckten und schattigen Baume sucht wegen der brennenden Sonne, wenn die Erde von der heftigen Hitze versengt wird und ihr nicht zu wandeln vermogt weder auf dem Erdboden noch auf den Felsen in Folge dieser Hitze.

Das Maerchen von dem Myrtenfraeulein--Clemens Brentano
Alles war ruhig im Schloss, und er entschlummerte in tiefen Gedanken. Da nun die Nacht alles bedeckt hatte, hoerte er ein wunderbares Saeuseln in seinem Baum und erwachte und lauschte; da vernahm er eine leise Bewegung in seiner Stube herum, und ein suesser Duft breitete sich umher. Er war stille, stille und lauschte immerfort; endlich, da es ihm wieder so wunderbar in der Myrte saeuselte, begann er zu singen:

David Elginbrod
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Dawn--Eleanor H. Porter
"Pay! And do you think you'd live long-" Just in time the doctor pulled himself up short. Thrusting his hands into his pockets he took a nervous turn about the kitchen; then sharply he wheeled about. "My dear woman, let us talk no more about the money question. See here, I shall be glad to take that boy into my charge and take care of him for the sheer love of it-indeed, I shall!"

DE FUGA IN PERSECUTIONE
It beseems us better to retain our position in submission to the will of God, than to flee at our own will. Rutilius, a saintly martyr, after having ofttimes fled from persecution from place to place, nay, having bought security from danger, as he thought, by money, was, notwithstanding the complete security he had, as he thought, provided for himself, at last unexpectedly seized, and being brought before the magistrate, was put to the torture and cruelly mangled,-a punishment, I believe, for his fleeing,-and thereafter he was consigned to the flames, and thus paid to the mercy of God the suffering which he had shunned. What else did the Lord mean to show us by this example, but that we ought not to flee from persecution because it avails us nothing if God disapproves?

De Inventione--Cicero
But of the considerations which belong to things, some are connected with the thing itself which is the subject of discussion; some are considered in the performance of the thing; some are united with the thing itself; some follow in the accomplishment of the thing. Those things are connected with the thing itself which appear always to be attached to the thing and which cannot be separated from it.

Dead Man's Holiday--Paul Alverdes
Finally he fell in where there was a gap, and picked up the step. And then he saw that the sergeant, who was the last man in the last year he had helped to bury, marched beside his section.

Declaration of Independence in American--H. L. Mencken
WHEN THINGS get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody.

DECREES OF FABIAN--TAKEN FROM THE DECRETAL OF GRATIAN
Concerning relations who enter affinity by the connection of husband and wife, these, on the decease of wife or husband, may form a union in the fifth generation; and in the fourth, if they are found, they should not be separated. In the third degree of relationship, however, it is not lawful for one to take the wife of another on his death. In an equable manner, a man may be united in marriage after his wife's death with those who are his own kinswomen, and with the kinswomen of his wife.

DEFEAT. A TINY DRAMA
YOUNG OFF. Oh, not a bit; you're quite out! I assure you when we made the attack where I got wounded there wasn't a single man in my regiment who wasn't an absolute hero. The way they went in-never thinking of themselves-it was simply ripping.

Defense of Harriet Shelley--Mark Twain
There is an insistent atmosphere of candor and fairness about this book which is engaging at first, then a little burdensome, then a trifle fatiguing, then progressively suspicious, annoying, irritating, and oppressive. It takes one some little time to find out that phrases which seem intended to guide the reader aright are there to mislead him; that phrases which seem intended to throw light are there to throw darkness; that phrases which seem intended to interpret a fact are there to misinterpret it; that phrases which seem intended to forestall prejudice are there to create it;

Definitions--Henry Seidel Canby
If you ask readers why they like Conrad, two out of three will answer, because he is a great stylist, or because he writes of the sea. I doubt the worth of such answers. Many buy books because they are written by great stylists, but few read for just that reason. They read because there is something in an author's work which attracts them to his style, and that something may be study of character, skill in narrative, or profundity in truth, of which style is the perfect expression, but not the thing itself. Only connoisseurs, and few of them, read for style. And, furthermore, I very much doubt whether readers go to Conrad to learn about the sea.

Descent of Christ into Hell--LATIN. SECOND VERSION
And, behold, suddenly Hades trembled, and the gates of death and the bolts were shattered, and the iron bars were broken and fell to the ground, and everything was laid open. And Satan remained in the midst, and stood confounded and downcast, bound with fetters on his feet. And, behold, the Lord Jesus Christ, coming in the brightness of light from on high, compassionate, great, and lowly, carrying a chain in His hand, bound Satan by the neck; and again tying his hands behind him, dashed him on his back into Tartarus, and placed His holy foot on his throat, saying: Through all ages thou hast done many evils; thou hast not in any wise rested. To-day I deliver thee to everlasting fire.

Deutschland. Ein Wintermaerchen--Heinrich Heine
Und als ich einschlief, da träumte mir,/ Ich schlenderte wieder im hellen/ Mondschein die hallenden Straßen entlang,/ In dem altertümlichen Köllen.

Dialogue of Justin Philosopher and Martyr, with Trypho, a Jew
if you remain in that mode of philosophy, and live blamelessly, a hope of a better destiny were left to you; but when you have forsaken God, and reposed confidence in man, what safety still awaits you? If, then, you are willing to listen to me (for I have already considered you a friend), first be circumcised, then observe what ordinances have been enacted with respect to the Sabbath, and the feasts, and the new moons of God; and, in a word, do all things which have been written in the law: and then perhaps you shall obtain mercy from God.

Diary in America, VI
There is no part of the world, perhaps, where you have more difficulty in obtaining permission to be alone, and indulge in a reverie, than in America. The Americans are as gregarious as school-boys, and think it an incivility to leave you by yourself. Every thing is done in crowds, and among a crowd. They even prefer a double bed to a single one, and I have often had the offer to sleep with me made out of real kindness. You must go "east of sun-rise" (or west of sun-set) if you would have solitude.

Diary in America, Volume II
"We set off and before we reached the mill, we passed a hollow; the dog barked furiously, and I let him go. After a time I heard a noise in a bush. 'Did you not hear?' said I to my neighbour. -'Yes,' replied he; 'but I also heard a rustling on the bank this way. Do you look out sharp in that direction, whilst I look out in this.' He had hardly said so, and I had not turned my head, when out came the old she-bear, in the direction where my neighbour had been watching, and sat upon her hind legs in a clear place. My friend levelled his gun; to my delight he had forgotten to cock it.

Diary of a Soldier of Fortune--Stanley Portal Hyatt
The risk of accident was considerable. A gun might go off by mistake, a wounded buck might charge, the cattle might trample you, or a fall on one of the smooth boulders might result in a fractured thigh, yet we were never less than eighty miles from a doctor, and often over two hundred miles away from one. The fever and the complaints resulting from it were, however, our worst enemies.

Diary of a Superfluous Man
A sleepy, unkempt doctor, smelling strongly of spirits, was brought. My father died under his lancet, and the next day, utterly stupefied by grief, I stood with a candle in my hands before a table, on which lay the dead man, and listened senselessly to the bass sing-song of the deacon, interrupted from time to time by the weak voice of the priest. The tears kept streaming over my cheeks, my lips, my collar, my shirtfront.

Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke

Die Geschwister
MARIANNE. Gewuenscht nie, Fabrice. Und wenn mir auch einmal so ein Gedanke durch den Kopf fuhr, war er gleich wieder weg. Meinen Bruder zu verlassen, waere mir unertraeglich-unmoeglich-, alle uebrige Aussicht moechte auch noch so reizend sein.

Die Versuchung des Pescara--Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Ein mit unsittlichen Mitteln wirkendes Buendnis verklaerte sich in diesen himmlischen Augen zu einer Reinheit, die den Namen einer "heiligen Liga" in einem freien und weltlichen Sinne rechtfertigte. Die Bewunderung des goettlichen Weibes, welches, wie er glaubte, Italien zu retten berufen sei, wurde dem Kanzler zur Anbetung und seligen Inbrunst, denn er war der erhabensten und der gemeinsten Gefuehle in gleicher Weise und Staerke faehig.

Die von denen Faunen gepeitschte Laster
by Sidonia Hedwig Zaeunemann.

Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Den einen, der ueber den Kirchhof ziemlich gerade nach der Felswand hinging, liess er liegen, um den andern einzuschlagen, der sich links etwas weiter durch anmutiges Gebuesch sachte hinaufwand; da, wo beide zusammentrafen, setzte er sich fuer einen Augenblick auf einer wohlangebrachten Bank nieder, betrat sodann den eigentlichen Stieg und sah sich durch allerlei Treppen und Absaetze auf dem schmalen, bald mehr bald weniger steilen Wege endlich zur Mooshuette geleitet.

DIONYSIUS, BISHOP OF CORINTH
For the old man Apelles entered into conversation with us, and was convicted of uttering many false opinions. For example, he asserted that men should on no account examine into their creed,[13] but that every one ought to continue to the last in the belief he has once adopted. For he declared that those who had rested their hope on the Crucified One would be saved, provided only they were found living in the practice, of good works.

DISCOURSE I.-MARCELLA.
What then did the Lord, who is the Truth and the Light, take in hand when He came down from heaven? He preserved the flesh which He had taken upon Him incorrupt in virginity, so that we also, if we world come to the likeness of God and Christ, should endeavour to honour virginity. For the likeness of God is the avoiding of corruption.

DISCOURSE II.-THEOPHILA.
And perhaps there will be room for some to argue plausibly among those who are wanting in discrimination and judgment, that this fleshly garment of the soul, being planted by men, is shaped spontaneously apart from the sentence of God. If, however, he should teach that the immortal being of the soul also is sown along with the mortal body, he will not be believed; for the Almighty alone breathes into man the undying and undecaying part, as also it is He alone who is Creator of the invisible and indestructible.

DISCOURSE III.-THALEIA.
And now we seem to have said almost enough on the fact that man has become the organ and clothing of the Only-begotten, and what He was who came to dwell in him. But the fact that there is no moral inequality or discord(3) may again be considered briefly from the beginning. For he speaks well who says that that is in its own nature good and righteous and holy, by participation of which other things become good, and that wisdom is in connection with(4) God, and that, on the other hand, sin is unholy and unrighteous and evil.

DISCOURSE IV.-THEOPATRA
If, then, the rivers of Babylon are the streams of voluptuousness, as wise men say, which confuse and disturb the soul, then the willows must be chastity, to which we may suspend and draw up the organs of lust which overbalance and weigh down the mind, so that they may not be borne down by the torrents of incontinence, and be drawn like worms to impurity and corruption.

DISCOURSE IX.-TUSIANE.
Such fruit it is necessary that we bring when we come to the judgment-seat of Christ, on the first day of the feast; for if we are without it we shall not be able to feast with God, nor to have part, according to John,(3) in the first resurrection. For the tree of life is wisdom first begotten of all. "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her," says the prophet; (4) "and happy is every one that retaineth her." "A tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season;"(5) that is, learning and charity and discretion are imparted in due time to those who come to the waters of redemption.

DISCOURSE V.-THALLOUSA.
Moreover, it has been handed down that the unbloody altar of God signifies the assembly of the chaste; thus virginity appears to be something great and glorious. Therefore it ought to be preserved undefiled and altogether pure, having no participation in the impurities of the flesh; but it should be set up before the presence of the testimony, gilded with wisdom, for the Holy of holies, sending forth a sweet savour of love to the Lord; for He says,(2)

DISCOURSE VI.-AGATHE.
So long, then, as this people treasured up nourishment for the light, supplying oil by their works, the light of continence was not extinguished among them, but was ever shining and giving light in the "lot of their inheritance." But when the oil failed, by their turning away from the faith to incontinence, the light was entirely extinguished, so that the virgins have again to kindle their lamps by light transmitted from one to another, bringing the light of incorruption to the world from above.

DISCOURSE VII.-PROCILLA.
Now he calls by the name of virgins, who belong to a countless assembly, those who, being inferior to the better ones, have practised righteousness, and have striven against sin with youthful and noble energy. But of these, neither the queens, nor the concubines, nor the virgins, are compared to the Church. For she is reckoned the perfect and chosen one beyond all these, consisting and composed of all the apostles, the Bride who surpasses all in the beauty of youth and virginity.

DISCOURSE VIII.-THEKLA.
Now the statement that she stands upon the moon, as I consider, denotes the faith of those who are cleansed from corruption in the laver of regeneration, because the light of the moon has more resemblance to tepid water, and all moist substance is dependent upon her. The Church, then, stands upon our faith and adoption, under the figure of the moon, until the fulness of the nations come in, labouring and bringing forth natural men as spiritual men; for which reason too she is a mother.

DISCOURSE X.-DOMNINA.
And this is the cause why the fig-tree may be said not to have obtained the kingdom over trees, which, in a spiritual sense, mean men; and the fig-tree the command, because man desired, even after the fall, again to be subject to the dominion of virtue, and not to be deprived of the immortality of the paradise of pleasure. But, having transgressed, he was rejected and cast far away, as one who could no longer be governed by immortality, nor was capable of receiving it.

DISCOURSE XI.-ARETE.
For many who thought that to repress vehement lascivious desires constituted chastity, neglecting other duties connected with it, failed also in this, and have brought blame(2) upon those endeavouring after it by the fight way, as you have proved who are a model in everything, leading a virgin life in deed and word. And now what that is which becomes a virgin state has been described.

Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry--John Dryden
An heroic poem (truly such) is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example; it is conveyed in verse that it may delight while it instructs. The action of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and most trivial episodes or under- actions which are interwoven in it are parts either necessary or convenient to carry on the main design

Discourses Upon Trade--Dudley North
Full title: Discourses Upon Trade; Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest, Coynage, Clipping, Increase of Money

Discoveries and Some Poems
Opinio.-Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason. We labour with it more than truth. There is much more holds us than presseth us. An ill fact is one thing, an ill fortune is another; yet both oftentimes sway us alike, by the error of our thinking.

Do and Dare
Full title: DO AND DARE OR A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

DOCTOR SCRATCH
Note: A Comedy Based on Crispin Medecin of Hautroche--English Version by Frank J. Morlock

Doctor Therne
Sir Thomas Colford and I, with our little knots of agents and sub- agents, placed ourselves one on each side of the table, waiting in respectful silence while the clerk dealt out the papers, as a player deals out cards. It was an anxious moment, as any one who has gone through a closely-contested parliamentary election can testify. For ten days or more the strain had been great, but, curiously enough, now at its climax it seemed to have lost its grip of me. I watched the denoument of the game with keenness and interest indeed, but as though I were not immediately and personally concerned.

Don Juan, ou le Festin de pierre--Moliere
Oui, c'est le maître. Il faut que ce soit queuque gros, gros monsieur, car il a du dor à son habit tout depis le haut jusqu'en bas ; et ceux qui le servont sont des monsieux eux-mêmes ; et stapandant, tout gros monsieu qu'il est, il serait par ma fiqué nayé si je n'aviomme été là.

Don Quijote--Miguel de Cervantes
Decíale, entre otras cosas, don Quijote que se dispusiese a ir con él de buena gana, porque tal vez le podía suceder aventura que ganase, en quítame allá esas pajas, alguna ínsula, y le dejase a él por gobernador della. Con estas promesas y otras tales, Sancho Panza, que así se llamaba el labrador, dejó su mujer y hijos y asentó por escudero de su vecino.

Don Quixote, I-v11, Illustrated
At this moment they heard a shout, and recognised it as coming from Sancho Panza, who, not finding them where he had left them, was calling aloud to them. They went to meet him, and in answer to their inquiries about Don Quixote, be told them how he had found him stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and sighing for his lady Dulcinea; and although he had told him that she commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make him worthy of her favour

Don Quixote, I-v12, Illustrated
The curate had hardly ceased speaking, when Sancho said, "In faith, then, senor licentiate, he who did that deed was my master; and it was not for want of my telling him beforehand and warning him to mind what he was about, and that it was a sin to set them at liberty, as they were all on the march there because they were special scoundrels."

Don Quixote, I-v13, Illustrated
"May I die," said the landlord at this, "if Don Quixote or Don Devil has not been slashing some of the skins of red wine that stand full at his bed's head, and the spilt wine must be what this good fellow takes for blood;" and so saying he went into the room and the rest after him, and there they found Don Quixote in the strangest costume in the world. He was in his shirt, which was not long enough in front to cover his thighs completely and was six fingers shorter behind; his legs were very long and lean, covered with hair, and anything but clean

Don Quixote, I-v14, Illustrated
I answered that I was already ransomed, and that by the price it might be seen what value my master set on me, as I had given one thousand five hundred zoltanis for me; to which she replied, "Hadst thou been my father's, I can tell thee, I would not have let him part with thee for twice as much, for you Christians always tell lies about yourselves and make yourselves out poor to cheat the Moors."

Don Quixote, I-v15, Illustrated
"Very good, so be it," said the squire; but in the meantime a man had got out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the office and post he held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that he wore showed that he was, as his servant said, a Judge of appeal. He led by the hand a young girl in a travelling dress, apparently about sixteen years of age, and of such a high-bred air, so beautiful and so graceful, that all were filled with admiration when she made her appearance, and but for having seen Dorothea, Luscinda, and Zoraida, who were there in the inn, they would have fancied that a beauty like that of this maiden's would have been hard to find

Don Quixote, I-v16, Illustrated
"Marvel not at that, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; "for let me tell thee devils are crafty; and even if they do carry odours about with them, they themselves have no smell, because they are spirits; or, if they have any smell, they cannot smell of anything sweet, but of something foul and fetid; and the reason is that as they carry hell with them wherever they go, and can get no ease whatever from their torments, and as a sweet smell is a thing that gives pleasure and enjoyment, it is impossible that they can smell sweet; if, then, this devil thou speakest of seems to thee to smell of amber, either thou art deceiving thyself, or he wants to deceive thee by making thee fancy he is not a devil."

Don Quixote, I-v17, Illustrated
Suddenly there is presented to his sight a strong castle or gorgeous palace with walls of massy gold, turrets of diamond and gates of jacinth; in short, so marvellous is its structure that though the materials of which it is built are nothing less than diamonds, carbuncles, rubies, pearls, gold, and emeralds, the workmanship is still more rare. And after having seen all this, what can be more charming than to see how a bevy of damsels comes forth from the gate of the castle in gay and gorgeous attire, such that, were I to set myself now to depict it as the histories describe it to us, I should never have done

Don Quixote, I-v18, Illustrated
I ask thee to agree to a truce for but one hour for the solemn note of yonder trumpet that falls on our ears seems to me to summon me to some new adventure." The goatherd, who was by this time tired of pummelling and being pummelled, released him at once, and Don Quixote rising to his feet and turning his eyes to the quarter where the sound had been heard, suddenly saw coming down the slope of a hill several men clad in white like penitents.

Don Quixote, II-v19, Illustrated
To which Sancho replied, "Devil's own housekeeper! it is I who am deluded, and led astray, and taken tramping about the country, and not thy master! He has carried me all over the world, and you are mightily mistaken. He enticed me away from home by a trick, promising me an island, which I am still waiting for."

Don Quixote, II-v20, Illustrated
To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the greatest among the many troubles kings have is being obliged to listen to all and answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him."

Don Quixote, II-v21, Illustrated
"It may be said, too," added Sancho, "that we eat it in the chill of our bodies; for who gets more heat and cold than the miserable squires of knight-errantry? Even so it would not be so bad if we had something to eat, for woes are lighter if there's bread; but sometimes we go a day or two without breaking our fast, except with the wind that blows."

Don Quixote, II-v22, Illustrated
To this the carter replied, "The cart is mine; what is in it is a pair of wild caged lions, which the governor of Oran is sending to court as a present to his Majesty; and the flags are our lord the King's, to show that what is here is his property."

Don Quixote, II-v23, Illustrated
To all this Sancho made no reply because he was asleep, nor would he have wakened up so soon as he did had not Don Quixote brought him to his senses with the butt of his lance. He awoke at last, drowsy and lazy, and casting his eyes about in every direction, observed, "There comes, if I don't mistake, from the quarter of that arcade a steam and a smell a great deal more like fried rashers than galingale or thyme; a wedding that begins with smells like that, by my faith, ought to be plentiful and unstinting."

Don Quixote, II-v24, Illustrated
His friends at once ran to his aid, filled with grief at his misery and sad fate, and Don Quixote, dismounting from Rocinante, hastened to support him, and took him in his arms, and found he had not yet ceased to breathe. They were about to draw out the rapier, but the priest who was standing by objected to its being withdrawn before he had confessed him, as the instant of its withdrawal would be that of this death.

Don Quixote, II-v25, Illustrated
In this and other pleasant conversation the day went by, and that night they put up at a small hamlet whence it was not more than two leagues to the cave of Montesinos, so the cousin told Don Quixote, adding, that if he was bent upon entering it, it would be requisite for him to provide himself with ropes, so that he might be tied and lowered into its depths.

Don Quixote, II-v26, Illustrated
"I cannot convince or persuade myself that everything that is written in the preceding chapter could have precisely happened to the valiant Don Quixote; and for this reason, that all the adventures that have occurred up to the present have been possible and probable; but as for this one of the cave, I see no way of accepting it as true, as it passes all reasonable bounds. For me to believe that Don Quixote could lie, he being the most truthful gentleman and the noblest knight of his time, is impossible; he would not have told a lie though he were shot to death with arrows.

Don Quixote, II-v27, Illustrated
All were silent, Tyrians and Trojans; I mean all who were watching the show were hanging on the lips of the interpreter of its wonders, when drums and trumpets were heard to sound inside it and cannon to go off. The noise was soon over, and then the boy lifted up his voice and said, "This true story which is here represented to your worships is taken word for word from the French chronicles and from the Spanish ballads that are in everybody's mouth, and in the mouth of the boys about the streets.

Don Quixote, II-v28, Illustrated
Sancho returned to his master mightily pleased with this gratifying answer, and told him all the great lady had said to him, lauding to the skies, in his rustic phrase, her rare beauty, her graceful gaiety, and her courtesy. Don Quixote drew himself up briskly in his saddle, fixed himself in his stirrups, settled his visor, gave Rocinante the spur, and with an easy bearing advanced to kiss the hands of the duchess, who, having sent to summon the duke her husband, told him while Don Quixote was approaching all about the message; and as both of them had read the First Part of this history,

Don Quixote, II-v29, Illustrated
The history records that Sancho did not sleep that afternoon, but in order to keep his word came, before he had well done dinner, to visit the duchess, who, finding enjoyment in listening to him, made him sit down beside her on a low seat, though Sancho, out of pure good breeding, wanted not to sit down; the duchess, however, told him he was to sit down as governor and talk as squire, as in both respects he was worthy of even the chair of the Cid Ruy Diaz the Campeador.

Don Quixote, II-v30, Illustrated
The duke and duchess were extremely glad to see how readily Don Quixote fell in with their scheme; but at this moment Sancho observed, "I hope this senora duenna won't be putting any difficulties in the way of the promise of my government; for I have heard a Toledo apothecary, who talked like a goldfinch, say that where duennas were mixed up nothing good could happen. God bless me, how he hated them, that same apothecary!

Don Quixote, II-v31, Illustrated
"Well then, let me tell you, brother," said Sancho, "I haven't got the 'Don,' nor has any one of my family ever had it; my name is plain Sancho Panza, and Sancho was my father's name, and Sancho was my grandfather's and they were all Panzas, without any Dons or Donas tacked on; I suspect that in this island there are more Dons than stones; but never mind; God knows what I mean, and maybe if my government lasts four days I'll weed out these Dons that no doubt are as great a nuisance as the midges, they're so plenty.

Don Quixote, II-v32, Illustrated
"In that case," said Sancho, "let senor doctor see among the dishes that are on the table what will do me most good and least harm, and let me eat it, without tapping it with his stick; for by the life of the governor, and so may God suffer me to enjoy it, but I'm dying of hunger; and in spite of the doctor and all he may say, to deny me food is the way to take my life instead of prolonging it."

Don Quixote, II-v33, Illustrated
Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, and the girl said, "May I die but our master Don Quixote's at the bottom of this; he must have given father the government or county he so often promised him."

Don Quixote, II-v34, Illustrated
God give thee the victory, for thou hast the right on thy side!" But though Tosilos saw Don Quixote coming at him he never stirred a step from the spot where he was posted; and instead of doing so called loudly to the marshal of the field, to whom when he came up to see what he wanted he said, "Senor, is not this battle to decide whether I marry or do not marry that lady?" "Just so," was the answer. "Well then," said the lacquey, "I feel qualms of conscience, and I should lay a-heavy burden upon it if I were to proceed any further with the combat; I therefore declare that I yield myself vanquished, and that I am willing to marry the lady at once."

Don Quixote, II-v35, Illustrated
"So then," said Sancho, munching hard all the time, "your worship does not agree with the proverb that says, 'Let Martha die, but let her die with a full belly.' I, at any rate, have no mind to kill myself; so far from that, I mean to do as the cobbler does, who stretches the leather with his teeth until he makes it reach as far as he wants. I'll stretch out my life by eating until it reaches the end heaven has fixed for it; and let me tell you, senor, there's no greater folly than to think of dying of despair as your worship does; take my advice, and after eating lie down and sleep a bit on this green grass-mattress, and you will see that when you awake you'll feel something better."

Don Quixote, II-v36, Illustrated
"The cause of my dejection," returned Don Quixote, "is not that I have fallen into thy hands, O valiant Roque, whose fame is bounded by no limits on earth, but that my carelessness should have been so great that thy soldiers should have caught me unbridled, when it is my duty, according to the rule of knight-errantry which I profess, to be always on the alert and at all times my own sentinel; for let me tell thee, great Roque, had they found me on my horse, with my lance and shield, it would not have been very easy for them to reduce me to submission, for I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, he who hath filled the whole world with his achievements."

Don Quixote, II-v37, Illustrated
Roque went back, while Don Quixote remained on horseback, just as he was, waiting for day, and it was not long before the countenance of the fair Aurora began to show itself at the balconies of the east, gladdening the grass and flowers, if not the ear, though to gladden that too there came at the same moment a sound of clarions and drums, and a din of bells, and a tramp, tramp, and cries of "Clear the way there!" of some runners, that seemed to issue from the city.

Don Quixote, II-v38, Illustrated
"Indeed," said Don Quixote, "Sancho's moderation and cleanliness in eating might be inscribed and graved on plates of brass, to be kept in eternal remembrance in ages to come. It is true that when he is hungry there is a certain appearance of voracity about him, for he eats at a great pace and chews with both jaws; but cleanliness he is always mindful of; and when he was governor he learned how to eat daintily, so much so that he eats grapes, and even pomegranate pips, with a fork."

Don Quixote, II-v39, Illustrated
"O senor," said Don Antonio, "may God forgive you the wrong you have done the whole world in trying to bring the most amusing madman in it back to his senses. Do you not see, senor, that the gain by Don Quixote's sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give? But my belief is that all the senor bachelor's pains will be of no avail to bring a man so hopelessly cracked to his senses again; and if it were not uncharitable, I would say may Don Quixote never be cured, for by his recovery we lose not only his own drolleries, but his squire Sancho Panza's too, any one of which is enough to turn melancholy itself into merriment. However, I'll hold my peace and say nothing to him, and we'll see whether I am right in my suspicion that Senor Carrasco's efforts will be fruitless."

Don Quixote, II-v40, Illustrated
"Senor," replied Sancho, "if the truth is to be told, I cannot persuade myself that the whipping of my backside has anything to do with the disenchantment of the enchanted; it is like saying, 'If your head aches rub ointment on your knees;' at any rate I'll make bold to swear that in all the histories dealing with knight-errantry that your worship has read you have never come across anybody disenchanted by whipping; but whether or no I'll whip myself when I have a fancy for it, and the opportunity serves for scourging myself comfortably."

Don Quixote, II-v41, Illustrated
"I am the same," replied the gentleman; "and that same Don Quixote, the principal personage in the said history, was a very great friend of mine, and it was I who took him away from home, or at least induced him to come to some jousts that were to be held at Saragossa, whither I was going myself; indeed, I showed him many kindnesses, and saved him from having his shoulders touched up by the executioner because of his extreme rashness."

Don Quixote, II-v42, Illustrated
So at length, with the boys capering round them, and accompanied by the curate and the bachelor, they made their entrance into the town, and proceeded to Don Quixote's house, at the door of which they found his housekeeper and niece, whom the news of his arrival had already reached. It had been brought to Teresa Panza, Sancho's wife, as well, and she with her hair all loose and half naked, dragging Sanchica her daughter by the hand, ran out to meet her husband; but seeing him coming in by no means as good case as she thought a governor ought to be, she said to him, "How is it you come this way, husband? It seems to me you come tramping and footsore, and looking more like a disorderly vagabond than a governor."

Dona Perfecta--B. Perez Galdos
"What! Have you never heard of Caballuco?" said the countryman, amazed at the crass ignorance of Dona Perfecta's nephew. "He is a very brave man, a fine rider, and the best connoisseur of horses in all the surrounding country. We think a great deal of him in Orbajosa; and he is well worthy of it. Just as you see him, he is a power in the place, and the governor of the province takes off his hat to him."

Donovan Pasha--Gilbert Parker
Soada was pretty and upright, with a full round breast and a slim figure. She carried a balass of water on her head as gracefully as a princess a tiara. This was remarked by occasional inspectors making their official rounds, and by more than one khowagah putting in with his dahabeah where the village maidens came to fill their water-jars. Soada's trinkets and bracelets were perhaps no better than those of her companions, but her one garment was of the linen of Beni Mazar, as good as that worn by the Sheikh-Elbeled himself.

DOUBLE Z
His instructions were based upon a very simple formula. Unknown to Clipper Tobin, Cliff was working with The Shadow. It was The Shadow's purpose to frustrate the crime that brewed to-night-not because The Shadow had anything in common with Arnold Bodine, but because the killing foretold by Double Z must be frustrated.

DOUBLED IN DEATH--Jack Storm
Ross nodded, finished his drink and returned to his beat. Once out of sight of the poolroom he stopped under a street lamp, took out the bills Gorbin had given him and examined them intently. The four twenties were new and crisp. Their serial numbers were in rotation, something that rarely happened after currency had been passed around.

Down the Ravine--Charles Egbert Craddock
Birt unharnessed the mule by the sense of touch and the force of habit, for blinding tears intervened between his vision and the rusty old buckles and worn straps of leather. The animal seemed to understand that something was amiss, and now and then turned his head interrogatively. Somehow Birt was glad to feel that he left at least one friend in the tanyard, albeit the humblest, for he had always treated the beast with kindness, and he was sure the mule would miss him.

Dr. Jonathan--Winston Churchill
AUGUSTA (a little baffled by DR. JONATHAN's self-command, sits down and begins to knit). I must get these socks finished for you to take with you, my dear. (To DR. JONATHAN) I can't realize he's going! (To GEORGE) You haven't got all your things in your bag! Where's the life-preserving suit I sent for?

Dramas in Miniature--Mathilde Blind
Ay, break through every wall of sense,/ And pierce my flesh as nails did pierce/ Your bleeding limbs in anguish tense,/ And torture me with bliss so fierce,/ That self dies out, as die it must,/ Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Dramatic Studies--Augusta Webster
MY wedding day! A simple happy wife,/ Stolen from her husband's sight a little while/ To think how much she loved him, might so kneel/ Alone with God and love a little while,/ (For if the Church bless love, is love a sin?)/ And, coming back into the happy stir

Dreams and Dream Stories--Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
"Some one has been murdered in this place!" I cried, and flew towards the door. Then, for the first time, I perceived that the door had neither lock nor handle on the outside, but could be opened only from within. It had, indeed, the form and appearance of a door, but in every other respect it was solid and impassable as the walls themselves. In vain I searched for bell or knocker, or for some means of making entry into the house.

Driven Back to Eden--E. P. Roe
But my words were scarcely heard, so violent was the gust that burst upon us. For a few moments it seemed as if everything would go down before it, but the old house only shook and rocked a little.

DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES
"You can be sure he's down," Gus spoke up at last. "It's mighty warm on that naked rock with the sun beating down on it at this time of year. That was our plan, you know, to go up early and come down early. And any man, sensible enough to get to the top, is bound to have sense enough to do it before the rock gets hot and his hands sweaty."

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective--Frank Pinkerton
Full title: DYKE DARREL THE RAILROAD DETECTIVE Or THE CRIME OF THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

EARLIEST ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY IN EDESSA
Full title: RELATING TO THE EARLIEST ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY IN EDESSA AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

Eben Holden: a Tale of the North Country--Irving Bacheller
There was a little clearing around that big pine tree when David Brower settled in the valley. Its shadows shifting in the light of sun and moon, like the arm of a compass, swept the spreading acres of his farm, and he built his house some forty rods from the foot of it on higher ground. David was the oldest of thirteen children. His father had died the year before he came to St Lawrence county, leaving him nothing but heavy responsibilities. Fortunately, his great strength and his kindly nature were equal to the burden.

Eeldrop and Appleplex--T.S. Eliot
The suburban evening was grey and yellow on Sunday; the gardens of the small houses to left and right were rank with ivy and tall grass and lilac bushes; the tropical South London verdure was dusty above and mouldy below; the tepid air swarmed with flies. Eeldrop, at the window, welcomed the smoky smell of lilac, the gramaphones, the choir of the Baptist chapel, and the sight of three small girls playing cards on the steps of the police station.

Effi Briest--Theodor Fontane
Effi sagte kein Wort, und nur ihre Augen wurden immer größer; um ihre Mundwinkel war ein nervöses Zucken, und ihr ganzer zarter Körper zitterte. Mit einem Male aber glitt sie von ihrem Sitz vor Innstetten nieder, umklammerte seine Knie und sagte in einem Ton, wie wenn sie betete: »Gott sei Dank!«

EGYPTIAN IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE--Sir Wallis Budge
The gods of Egypt whose names are known to us do not represent all those that have been conceived by the Egyptian imagination, for with them as with much else, the law of the survival of the fittest holds good. Of the gods of the prehistoric man we know nothing but it is more than probable that some of the gods who were worshipped in dynastic times represent, in a modified form, the deities of the savage, or semi-savage, Egyptian that held their influence on his mind the longest.

EGYPTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND--Donald Mackenzie
The Egyptian ghosts, the enemies of the living, like the archaic deities, were of repulsive aspect. They came from tombs in mummy bandages with cheeks of decaying flesh, flat noses, and eyes of horror, and entered a room with averted faces, which were suddenly turned on children, who at once died of fright. They killed sleeping babies by sucking their breath when they kissed, or rather smelled, them, and if children were found crying they rocked them to sleep-the sleep of death.

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven--Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld
Bounteous in vain, with frantic man at strife,/ Glad Nature pours the means-the joys of life;/ In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale,/ The hills with olives clothes, with corn the vale;/ Man calls to Famine, nor invokes in vain,/

Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen:--Anne Grant
Then Russian bards the Wolga's banks along,/ Shall pour the tide of emulative song;/ Smolensko's bloody field shall rise to view,/ And Borodino's laurels bloom anew;/ Then shall the Russian muse assert her claim/ To twine the wreath of never-fading fame:/

Elaine and Elaine--ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
Dead, she drifted to his feet./ Tell us, Love, is Death so sweet?

Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems--Charlotte Turner Smith
OH, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes./ How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn?/ For me wilt thou renew the wither'd rose,/ And clear my painful path of pointed thorn?/ Ah, come sweet nymph! in smiles and softness drest,/ Like the young hours that lead the tender year,/

Elegies and Other Small Poems--Mary Matilda Betham
AH me! the yellow western sky turns pale,/ And leaves the cheerless sons of earth to mourn;/ And yet I hear not in the silent vale,/ A sound to tell me Arthur does return./

Elegy on the Death of His Late Majesty George the Third--Mary Cockle
It was a holy spell, around us cast/ In tempests and in darkness! 'twas a beam,/ That in the wildness of each wintry blast,/ Still broke around us with a cheering gleam./

Embers--Gilbert Parker
Give, me the light heart, Heaven above!/ Give me the hand of a friend,/ Give me one high fine spirit to love,/ I'll abide my fate to the end:/ I will help where I can, I will cherish my own,/ Nor walk the steep way of the world alone./

Emigrant Life in Kansas--Percy G. Ebbutt
We had lightning almost every night during the summer, but usually so far away as not to deter us from making our beds out of doors. One fearfully hot, sultry night, when we had thought it too stormy-looking to try it, we had a fine treat.

Emile--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our inner conflicts are caused by these contradictions. Drawn this way by nature and that way by man, compelled to yield to both forces, we make a compromise and reach neither goal. We go through life, struggling and hesitating, and die before we have found peace, useless alike to ourselves and to others.

Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children--Maud Keary
BUILD me a house of fairy ginger-bread,/ Covered with candied fruits and sugarplums-/ Fruits that decay not when November comes-/ Sparkling and juicy, purple and gold and red./

Endimion and Phoebe--Michael Drayton
IN I-onia whence sprang old Poets fame,/ From whom that Sea did first deriue her name,/ The blessed bed whereon the Muses lay,/ Beauty of Greece, the pride of Asia,/ Whence Archelaus whom times historifie

England and Spain--Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
Full title: England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism

English Literature For Boys And Girls--H.E. Marshall
When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a wonderland,

EPISTLE ON THE TRANSLATION OF BISHOPS AND OF EPISCOPAL SEATS--POPE ANTERUS
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever is made manifest (manifestatur) is light. Wherefore He saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, brethren, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

EPISTLES ON THE ARIAN HERESY--Alexander
Full title: EPISTLES ON THE ARIAN HERESY AND THE DEPOSITION OF ARIUS--by Alexander of Constantinople.

Epistles on Women--Lucy Aikin
Come then, my friend; my devious way pursue;/ Pierce every clime, and search all ages through;/ Stretch wide and wider yet thy liberal mind,/ And grasp the sisterhood of womankind:/ With mingling anger mark, and conscious pride,/ The sex by whom exalted or decried;/ Crusht by the savage, fettered by the slave,/ But served, but honoured, by the good and brave./

Epistles--ALEXANDER OF CAPPADOCIA
that the friendship subsisting between us from our forefathers should be maintained unbroken, yea rather, that it should increase in fervency and strength. For we are well acquainted with those blessed fathers who have trodden the course before us, and to whom we too shall soon go: Pantaenus, namely, that man verily blessed, my master; and also the holy Clement, who was once my, master and my benefactor; and all the rest who may be like them,

Epistles--MALCHION
4. And on account of these things all are groaning and lamenting with themselves; yet they have such a dread of his tyranny and power that they cannot venture on accusing him. And of these things, as we have said already, one might take account in the case of a man who held Catholic sentiments and belonged to our own number; but as to one who has betrayed(6) the mystery (of the faith), and who swaggers(7) with the abominable heresy of Artemas

Epistles--PHILEAS
And there were also some who, after the tortures, were placed upon the stocks and had both their feet stretched through all the four holes, so that they were compelled to lie on their back on the stocks, as they were unable (to stand) in, consequence of the fresh wounds they had over the whole body from the scourging. And others being thrown upon the ground lay prostrated there by the excessively frequent application of the tortures

ERASMUS MONTANUS OR RASMUS BERG--Ludvig Holberg
PEER. If he wants to dispute with me, he will find that I can hold my own; and if he wants to have a singing match with me, he will get the worst of it. I once had a singing contest with ten deacons and beat every one of them, for I outsang them in the Credo, all ten of them.

Eryxias--Platonic Imitator
SOCRATES: Suppose that some one came to us at this moment and were to ask, Well, Socrates and Eryxias and Erasistratus, can you tell me what is of the greatest value to men? Is it not that of which the possession will best enable a man to advise how his own and his friend's affairs should be administered?-What will be our reply?

Essays and Lectures--Oscar Wilde
Now, while undoubtedly in these passages we may recognise the first anticipation of many of the most modern principles of research, we must remember how essentially limited is the range of the ARCHAEOLOGIA, and how no theory at all is offered on the wider questions of the general conditions of the rise and progress of humanity, a problem which is first scientifically discussed in the REPUBLIC of Plato.

Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners--Jane Taylor
At last the tea came up, and so,/ With that, our tongues began to go./ Now, in that house, you're sure of knowing/ The smallest scrap of news that's going;/ We find it there the wisest way/ To take some care of what we say./

Essays of Travel--Robert Louis Stevenson
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Essays on Life, Art and Science--Samuel Butler
The first chapel to the left on entering the church is that of the Birth of the Virgin. St. Anne is sitting up in bed. She is not at all ill-in fact, considering that the Virgin has only been born about five minutes, she is wonderful; still the doctors think it may be perhaps better that she should keep her room for half an hour longer, so the bed has been festooned with red and white paper roses, and the counterpane is covered with bouquets in baskets and in vases of glass and china.

Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic--Sir William Petty
(b.) That at London the hospitals are better and more desirable than those of Paris, for that in the best at Paris there die two out of fifteen, whereas at London there die out of the worst scarce 2 out of 16, and yet but a fiftieth part of the whole die out of the hospitals at London, and two-fifths, or twenty times that proportion die out of the Paris hospitals which are of the same kind; that is to say, the number of those at London, who choose to lie sick in hospitals rather than in their own houses, are to the like people of Paris as one to twenty; which shows the greater poverty or want of means in the people of Paris than those of London.

Essays On Russian Novelists--William Lyon Phelps
Dostoevski had a tremendous capacity for enthusiasm. As a boy, he was terribly shaken by the death of Pushkin, and he never lost his admiration for the founder of Russian literature. He read the great classics of antiquity and of modern Europe with wild excitement, and wrote burning eulogies in letters to his friends. The flame of his literary ambition was not quenched by the most abject poverty, nor by the death of those whom he loved most intensely. After his first wife died, he suffered agonies of grief, accentuated by wretched health, public neglect, and total lack of financial resources. But chill penury could not repress his noble rage. He was always planning and writing new novels, even when he had no place to lay his head.

Essays On Work And Culture--Hamilton Wright Mabie
In the days when Wilhelm Meister was written, the Wanderjahr or year of travel was a recognised part of student life, and was held in high regard as contributing a valuable element to a complete education. "The Europe of the Renaissance," writes M. Wagner, "was fairly furrowed in every direction by students, who often travelled afoot and barefoot to save their shoes." These wayfarers were light-hearted and often empty-handed; they were in quest of knowledge, but the intensity of the search was tempered by gaiety and ease of mood. Under a mask of frivolity, however, youth often wears a serious face, and behind apparent aimlessness there is often a steady and final turning of the whole nature towards its goal.

Etheric Vision and What It Reveals
Many persons who have developed a small degree of etheric sight have expressed astonishment when first beholding showers of stars, pyramids, double pyramids, cubes and other geometrical forms issuing from the body. Such figures are the cast-off molecules of which his body is composed and which are being excreted through the action of the radiating vital forces of the etheric body.

Eugenie Grandet
You will excuse me if my occupations do not permit me to accompany you. You may perhaps hear people say that I am rich,--Monsieur Grandet this, Monsieur Grandet that. I let them talk; their gossip does not hurt my credit. But I have not a penny; I work in my old age like an apprentice whose worldly goods are a bad plane and two good arms.

Europe
"To budge from Florence? Simply. She had it out there with the poor Hathaways, who felt responsible for her safety, pledged to restore her to her mother's, to her sisters' hands, and showed herself in a light, they mention under their breath, that made their dear old hair stand on end. Do you know what, when they first got back, they said of her-at least it was HIS phrase-to two or three people?"

Eveline's Visitant--Mary E. Braddon
I had grown hateful to myself, and had well-nigh begun to hate my fellow-creatures, when a feverish desire seized upon me, and I pined to be back in the press and throng of the busy world once again. I went back to Paris, where I kept myself aloof from the court, and where an angel took compassion upon me.

Everyman
Eueryman./ Gramercy, my frendes and kynnesmen kynde./ Now shall I shewe you the grefe of my mynde:/ I was commaunded by a messenger,/ That is a hye kynges chefe offycer./ He bad me go a pylgrymage, to my payne,/ And I knowe well I shall neuer come agayne.

Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays--Thomas H. Huxley
And if natural selection, with artificial to help it, will produce better animals and better men than the present, and fit them better to the conditions of existence, why, let it work, say we, to the top of its bent There is still room enough for improvement. Only let us hope that it always works for good: if not, the divergent lines on Darwin's lithographic diagram of "Transmutation made Easy," ominously show what small deviations from the straight path may come to in the end.

EXCALIBUR: AN ARTHURIAN DRAMA--RALPH ADAMS CRAM
Archbishop./ Now speak, magician, if thou hast a tongue,/ For in thy words is somewhat ominous/ Of welfare to Pendragon's kingdom. Speak!/ Where is the sign of God?

EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN--CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
But though you perceive and understand demons to be deadly and wicked, plotters, haters of the human race, and destroyers, why do you not turn out of their way, or turn them out of yours? What truth can the wicked tell, or what good can they do any one?

Exploration--H.M. Tomlinson
There must be categories for books, yet I do not think Books of Travel is precisely the place in the index for the Arabia Deserta , or Thoreau's Week on the Concord, or even for Bates's Naturalist on the River Amazons. The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey. It does not matter whether the point of view is got from Egdon Heath, Capri, or Kanchenjunga. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom was to me less Arabia in wartime than Lawrence; the war and its intrigues, the Arabs

Extracts from Gosschen's Diary--Anonymous
"I looked up to the sky. There shone the moon and all her stars. Tranquillity, order, harmony, and peace, glittered throughout the whole universe of God. 'Look up, Maria, your favourite star has risen.' I gazed upon her, and death had begun to change her into something that was most terrible. Her features were hardened and sharp,-her body stiff as a lump of frozen clay,-her fingers rigid and clenched

Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Volume Three
For more than a thousand years the art of alchymy captivated many noble spirits, and was believed in by millions. Its origin is involved in obscurity. Some of its devotees have claimed for it an antiquity coeval with the creation of man himself; others, again, would trace it no further back than the time of Noah. Vincent de Beauvais argues, indeed, that all the antediluvians must have possessed a knowledge of alchymy; and particularly cites Noah as having been acquainted with the elixir vitae, or he could not have lived to so prodigious an age, and have begotten children when upwards of five hundred.

Failure--H.M. Tomlinson
The elderly and donnish figure near me remained still, and bent closely, as if short-sighted, over the cabinet. He did not look the kind of man who in loneliness would venture an affable approach. He would not so much as notice you were there. His fixed intent was not that of a visitor's idle curiosity; therefore, when ignorance casually intruded, as mine did, among the cryptic exhibits of antiquity, it would be of less importance, compared to a precious lump of baked clay, than the chance of wet weather.

Fair Em
TROTTER./ Yfaith, I aim at the fairest./ Ah, Em, sweet Em!/ Fresh as the flower,/ That hath pour/ To wound my heart,/ And ease my smart,/ Of me, poor thief,/ In prison bound-/

Falkner; A Novel--Mary Shelley
She did not only recall his conversation, but conjectured the causes of his sorrow, and felt deeply interested by the mystery that hung about him. So young and so unhappy! And he had been long so-he was more miserable when they saw him roving wildly among the Alsatian hills. What could it mean?-She strove to recollect what Miss Jervis mentioned at that time; she remembered only that he had no mother, and that his father was severe and unkind.

Fanny's First Play--George Bernard Shaw
MARGARET. No. I wish I had. I could have had the same experience in better company. Please sit down, Monsieur Duvallet. [She sits between the table and the sofa. Mrs Knox, overwhelmed, sits at the other side of the table. Knox remains standing in the middle of the room].

Far Away And Long Ago--W. H. Hudson
Here, then, I begin, aged five, at an early hour on a bright, cold morning in June - midwinter in that southern country of great plains or pampas; impatiently waiting for the loading and harnessing to be finished; then the being lifted to the top with the other little ones - at that time we were five; finally, the grand moment when the start was actually made with cries and much noise of stamping and snorting of horses and rattling of chains. I remember a good deal of that long journey, which began at sunrise and ended between the lights some time after sunset; for it was my very first, and I was going out into the unknown.

Farewell--Honore de Balzac
"Eh! how should I know?" answered M. d'Albon. "A strange-looking woman sprang up there under my very eyes just now," he added, in a low voice; "she looked to me more like a ghost than a living being. She was so slender, light and shadowy that she might be transparent. Her face was as white as milk, her hair, her eyes, and her dress were black. She gave me a glance as she flitted by. I am not easily frightened, but that cold stony stare of hers froze the blood in my veins."

Farmers of Forty Centuries--F. H. King
Full title: FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES OR PERMANENT AGRICULTURE IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN

Father Meuron's Tale--Robert Hugh Benson
Their affairs of devils were nothing but an affection of the brain-dreams and fancies! And if the exorcisms had appeared to be of direct service, it was from the effect of the solemnity upon the mind. It was no more."

Faust: Der Tragoedie erster Teil
MEPHISTOPHELES:/ So gefaellst du mir. Wir werden, hoff ich, uns vertragen;/ Denn dir die Grillen zu verjagen,/ Bin ich als edler Junker hier,/ In rotem, goldverbraemtem Kleide,/ Das Maentelchen von starrer Seide,/ Die Hahnenfeder auf dem Hut,

Faust: Der Tragoedie zweiter Teil
MEPHISTOPHELES:/ Ist mein Kumpan doch deshalb weggegangen;/ Er weiss schon, wie es anzufangen,/ Und laboriert verschlossen still,/ Muss ganz besonders sich befleissen;/ Denn wer den Schatz, das Schoene, heben will,/ Bedarf der hoechsten Kunst, Magie der Weisen./

Felix O'Day--F. Hopkinson Smith
Who Felix was, or what he had done, or what he was about to do, were questions never considered, either by Kelsey or by his friends. That he was part of the driftwood left stranded and unrecognized on the intellectual shore was enough. All that any of them asked for was brains, and Felix, even before the first evening had ended, had uncovered a stock so varied, and of such unusual proportions, and of so brilliant a character that he was always accorded the right of way whenever he took charge of the talk.

Female Poems On Several Occasions--Ephelia
Those that can tell Heaven's Joy, when News is brought/ That some Poor Sinner's dear Conversion's wrought,/ Might tell our Raptured Ecstasies, when we/ Received the News, that you were come from Sea:/ Each wore such Looks, as visibly expressed/ Some more than common Joy, sat smiling in his Breast/

Feronde and Other
THE time arrived again to house the store;/ The labourer collected as before;/ Leaves solely to his lordship were assigned,/ Who sought for those a ready sale to find,/ But through the market ridicule was heard,/ And ev'ry one around his jest preferred:-/ Pray, Mister Devil, where d'ye grow these greens?/ How treasure up returns from your demesnes?

Ferragus
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

FEYDEAU'S I NEVER CHEAT ON MY HUSBAND
Note: Translated and adapted by Frank J. Morlock

Fires and Firemen--Anon.
The candle was one of the kind which he used for his gig-lamp, for he kept a gig, and was calculated to last a stated time before it reached the naphtha. He furtively deposited the whole machine in the cellar, within eight inches of the wooden floor, in a place constructed to conceal it. The attorney went out, and on coming back again found, as he expected, that his house was on fire. Unfortunately, however, for him--if it is ever a misfortune to a scoundrel to be detected--it was put out at a very ear]y stage; and the firemen, whilst in the act of extinguishing it discovered this infernal machine.

First Hate
Loathing! No. I'll give it the right word--hatred. I simply couldn't help myself; I hated the man from the very first go off. A wave of repulsion swept over me as I followed him down the room a moment with my eyes, till he took his seat at a distant table and was out of sight. Ugh! He was a big, fat-faced man, with an eyeglass glued into one of his pale-blue cod-like eyes-out of condition, ugly as a toad, with a smug expression of intense self-satisfaction on his jowl that made me long to

Fisher's Capital and Income--Thorstein B. Veblen
The concept has sufficient stability and precision to serve their needs; and, if the economist is to deal with the phenomena of modern life in which this concept serves a use of first-rate importance, he must take the term and the concept as he finds them. It is idle fatigue to endeavor to normalise them into a formula which may suit his prepossessions but which is not true to life. The mountain will not come to Mahomet.

FIVE IVORY BOXES
Such murder, in Joe's opinion, would depend upon the planting of a death device, most logically one that was fitted with a time mechanism. Such an infernal machine would have to be large enough to contain about a cubic foot of poison gas, and the time device would probably resemble the works of an alarm clock.

Five Little Peppers Midway--Margaret Sidney
"No, no," tossed back Polly, rushing on, "I am quite determined to stay at home." Then she went into Mrs. Chatterton's room, and closed the door. But she couldn't so easily shut out the longings that would rise in her heart for the Saturday outing that the other girls were to have. How lovely it would be! the run out to Silvia Horne's charming house some ten miles distant; the elegant luncheon they would have, followed by games, and a dance in the ball-room upstairs, that Silvia's older sisters used for their beautiful parties.

Flappers and Philosophers
No matter how beautiful or brilliant a girl may be, the reputation of not being frequently cut in on makes her position at a dance unfortunate. Perhaps boys prefer her company to that of the butterflies with whom they dance a dozen times an but, youth in this jazz-nourished generation is temperamentally restless, and the idea of fox-trotting more than one full fox trot with the same girl is distasteful, not to say odious. When it comes to several dances and the intermissions between she can be quite sure that a young man, once relieved, will never tread on her wayward toes again.

Fleetwood: Or, The New Man Of Feeling--William Godwin
Fleetwood, I also am your father. And I will not be less indulgent, scarcely less anxious, than your natural parent. You know in gross, though you do not know in detail, the peculiar attachment I feel for every thing that bears the name of Fleetwood. Am I not your father?

Flower of the Mind
Colonel Richard Lovelace, an enchanting poet, is hardly read, except for two poems which are as famous as any in our language. Perhaps the rumour of his conceits has frightened his reader. It must be granted they are now and then daunting; there is a poem on "Princess Louisa Drawing" which is a very maze; the little paths of verse and fancy turn in upon one another, and the turns are pointed with artificial shouts of joy and surprise. But, again, what a reader unused to a certain living symbolism will be apt to take for a careful and cold conceit is, in truth, a rapture-none graver, none more fiery or more luminous.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v1
Interesting, and easy to understand-except in one detail, which I will mention presently. It is easy to understand why the Queensland sugar planter should want the Kanaka recruit: he is cheap. Very cheap, in fact. These are the figures paid by the planter: L20 to the recruiter for getting the Kanaka or "catching" him, as the missionary phrase goes; L3 to the Queensland government for "superintending" the importation;

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v2
There are four specialties attainable in the way of social pleasure. If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. And it will be very pleasant; for you will see everybody except the Governor, and add a number of acquaintances and several friends to your list. The Governor will be in England. He always is.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v3
Forty-five years ago the site now occupied by the City of Ballarat was a sylvan solitude as quiet as Eden and as lovely. Nobody had ever heard of it. On the 25th of August, 1851, the first great gold-strike made in Australia was made here. The wandering prospectors who made it scraped up two pounds and a half of gold the first day-worth $600. A few days later the place was a hive-a town. The news of the strike spread everywhere in a sort of instantaneous way-spread like a flash to the very ends of the earth.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v4
That dark episode is the one large event in the history of Nelson. The fame of it traveled far. Burgess made a confession. It is a remarkable paper. For brevity, succinctness, and concentration, it is perhaps without its peer in the literature of murder. There are no waste words in it; there is no obtrusion of matter not pertinent to the occasion, nor any departure from the dispassionate tone proper to a formal business statement-for that is what it is: a business statement of a murder, by the chief engineer of it, or superintendent, or foreman, or whatever one may prefer to call him.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v5
Inside the great station, tides upon tides of rainbow-costumed natives swept along, this way and that, in massed and bewildering confusion, eager, anxious, belated, distressed; and washed up to the long trains and flowed into them with their packs and bundles, and disappeared, followed at once by the next wash, the next wave. And here and there, in the midst of this hurly-burly, and seemingly undisturbed by it, sat great groups of natives on the bare stone floor,-young, slender brown women, old, gray wrinkled women, little soft brown babies, old men, young men, boys; all poor people, but all the females among them, both big and little, bejeweled with cheap and showy nose-rings, toe-rings, leglets, and armlets, these things constituting all their wealth, no doubt.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v6
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his round. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing over looked. Always, when you think you have come to the end of her tremendous specialties and have finished banging tags upon her as the Land of the Thug, the Land of the Plague, the Land of Famine, the Land of Giant Illusions, the Land of Stupendous Mountains, and so forth, another specialty crops up and another tag is required.

Following the Equator, Illustrated, v7
In the opinion of many people Mr. Rhodes is South Africa; others think he is only a large part of it. These latter consider that South Africa consists of Table Mountain, the diamond mines, the Johannesburg gold fields, and Cecil Rhodes. The gold fields are wonderful in every way. In seven or eight years they built up, in a desert, a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants, counting white and black together; and not the ordinary mining city of wooden shanties, but a city made out of lasting material.

Foma Gordeev/Gordyeeff--Maxim Gorky
Note: Title in English=The Man Who Was Afraid

For All Ladies of Shalott--ALINE KILMER
The mirror cracked from side to side;/ I saw its silver shadows go./ "The curse has come on me!" she cried./ Poor lady! I had told her so./

FOR BRAVERY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE--Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The lists of dead, wounded, and missing were always read with interest or anxiety, as might happen, for one had friends and country acquaintances, if not fellow-townsmen, with the army on the Rio Grande. Meanwhile nobody took the trouble to bestow a thought on James Dutton.

For the Creche--GK Chesterton
They have brightened our room, that is spacious and cool,/ With diagrams used in the Idiot School,/ And Books for the Blind that will teach us to see;/ But mother is happy, for mother is free./ For mother is dancing up forty-eight floors,/ For love of the Leeds International Stores,/

For The Salt He Had Eaten
"This--she was to give a sign. She was not to slay. She had leave only to take the jewels. Her orders were either to wait until she knew by questioning that the section would not return or else, when it had returned, to wait until the memsahib and Bellairs sahib slept, and then to make a sign. They grow tired of waiting now, for there is news! At Jundhra the rebels are defeated, and at Doonha likewise."

FORGING THE SWORDS
The huge wolf at the head of the pack hurled itself at the dark man. But with one sweep of the blue sword, its head fell on the green moss at his feet. With one bite the other wolves tore its skin to shreds, then next disposed of its whole body, while the blood was instantaneously licked clean. The only sound was the soft crunching of bones.

FORGIVE AND FORGET--BY EDWIN F. ROBERTS
" You refuse to hear me?" said Philip, his countenance darkening in wrath. "It is well, sir, and you too, Ellen,-you also abet this-what shall I call it-an unwarrantable attack upon my freedom of will,-upon my independence, to act and to do as I think proper. Who is to restrain me?" he added, with flashing eyes: "who is to dictate to me what to do, if I will to the contrary?"

Forty-Two Poems--James Elroy Flecker
In those good days when we were young and wise,/ You spake to music, you with the thoughtful eyes,/ And God looked down from heaven, pleased to hear/ A young man's song arise so firm and clear./ Has Fancy died? The Morning Star gone cold?/ Why are you silent? Have we grown so old?/

FOUND YET LOST
"A far worse one than you can even imagine. Captain Nichol wouldn't know you. His memory was destroyed at the time of the injury. All before that is gone utterly;" and Martine rapidly narrated what is already known to the reader, concluding, "I'm sorry Helen came with you, and I think you had better get her home as soon as possible. I could not take him to my home for several reasons, or at least I thought it best not to.

Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island--Mabel C. Hawley
Meg and Bobby had invented this game. They pretended that hundreds of years ago fierce pirates had buried chests of gold and jewels on this end of the island and that the Harley shack had been the castle home of these wicked sea rovers. The pirates had died without leaving directions to tell where they had buried the treasure, and gradually the castle had crumbled away.

Four Meetings
My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named to me by my friends. I must confess that I had spent much of the interval in wondering what the disagreeable thing was that the less attractive of these had been telling the other.

Four Months in a Sneak-Box--Nathaniel H. Bishop
In a few minutes my boat had passed nearly the whole length of the Pittsburgh shore, when suddenly, upon looking over my shoulder, I beheld the river covered with an ice-raft, which was passing out of the Alleghany, and which completely blocked the Ohio from shore to shore. French Creek, Oil Creek, and all the other tributaries of the Alleghany, had burst from their icy barriers, thrown off the wintry coat of mail, and were pouring their combined wrath into the Ohio.

FOUR WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES--FRITZ KREISLER
Full title: FOUR WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES: THE WAR STORY OF A VIOLINIST

FOUR WOODEN STAKES--VICTOR ROMAN
Peal after peal reverberated through the house, echoing and reechoing from room to room, till the whole structure rang. Then all was still once more, save for the sighing of the wind and the creaking of the shutters.

FOURTEEN--Alice Gerstenberg
MRS. PRINGLE: What a mess! I spent hours over that diagram! So much depends upon having guests seated harmoniously! There's the front door-bell, Dunham - I told Annie to answer it for you - but go, peek into the drawing-room and tell me who it is- [As DUNHAM goes out, the telephone rings. MRS. PRINGLE eyes it suspiciously.] You murderous instrument! What have you to say? Now what? Hello! Who! Mr. Farnsworth!

FRAGMENTS FROM THE LOST WRITINGS OF IRENAEUS
The(7) will and the energy of God is the effective and foreseeing cause of every time and place and age, and of every nature. The will is the reason ( logos ) of the intellectual soul, which [reason] is within us, inasmuch as it is the faculty belonging to it which is endowed with freedom of action. The will is the mind desiring [some object], and an appetite possessed of intelligence, yearning after that thing which is desired.

FRAGMENTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF PETER--Peter, Bishop of Alexandria
Since the mercy of God is everywhere great, let us bless Him, and also because He has sent unto us the Spirit of truth to guide us into all truth. For for this cause the month Abib was appointed by the law to be the beginning of months, and was made known unto us as the first among the months of the year; both by the ancient writers who lived before, and by the later who lived after the destruction of Jerusalem, it was shown to possess a most clear and evidently definite period,

FRAGMENTS OF CAIUS
For they say that all those of the first age, and the apostles themselves, both received and taught those things which these men now maintain; and that the truth of Gospel preaching was preserved until the times of Victor, who was the thirteenth bishop in Rome from Peter, and that from his successor Zephyrinus the truth was falsified. And perhaps what they allege might be credible, did not the Holy Scriptures, in the first place, contradict them.

FRAGMENTS OF CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS
Flattery is the bane of friendship. Most men are accustomed to pay court to the good fortune of princes, rather than to the princes themselves.

FRAGMENTS OF THE BOOKS ON ARITHMETIC--Anatolius of Alexandria
Of the more notable and the earliest mathematics there are two principal divisions, viz., arithmetic and geometry. And of the mathematics which deals with things sensible there are six divisions, viz,, computation (practical arithmetic), geodesy, optics, theoretical music, mechanics, and astronomy.

FRAGMENTS OF THE LOST WORK OF JUSTIN ON THE RESURRECTION
I mean, of course, from physical reasons. For if by such arguments we prove to them that the resurrection of the flesh is possible, they are certainly worthy of great contempt if they can be persuaded neither by the deliverances of faith nor by the arguments of the world.

Fragments--PIERIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Origen, Dionysius, Pierius, Eusebius of Caesareia, Didymus, and Apollinaris, have interpreted this epistle most copiously;[2] of whom Pierius, when he was expounding and unfolding the meaning of the apostle, and purposed to explain the words.

Fragments--THEOGNOSTUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Theognostus, moreover, himself adds words to this effect: He who has offended against the first term[18] and the second, may be judged to deserve smaller punishment; but he who has also despised the third, can no longer find pardon. For by the first term and the second, he says, is meant the teaching concerning the Father and the Son

Framley Parsonage
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Fran--John Breckenridge Ellis
Bob tugged at his straw-colored mustache; he would not swear, for whatever happened, he was resolved to lead the spiritual life. "See here, Sapphira, I'm going to tell you something. I had quite a talk with Abbott about that bridge-business-after you'd spread it all over town, sis-and if you'll believe me, she waylaid him on those school- steps. He didn't want to talk with her. Why, he left her standing there. She made him mad, finding fault with the very folks that have taken her up. He's disgusted. That night at the camp-meeting, he had to take her out of the tent-he was asked to do it-"

Frank Mildmay
I can remember that I was both a coward and a boaster; but I have frequently remarked that the quality which we call cowardice, in a child, implies no more than a greater sense of danger, and consequently a superior intellect. We are all naturally cowards: education and observation teach us to discriminate between real and apparent danger; pride teaches the concealment of fear; and habit render us indifferent to that from which we have often escaped with impunity.

Frank's Campaign; or the Farm and the Camp
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Freud and the Scientific Method
The psychic content arising from the psychoanalytic transference is dream-like in atmosphere. The patient's personality is detached from any disciplined need to understand or to accept responsibility for the self. The control of the situation is given over to the rules of procedure of the analyst. The patient floats in a world of disembodied words and images, guided only by the expectation that understanding will emerge from the interpretations of the analyst. This abandonment of self-knowledge and self-control leaves the personality without any self-generated goals.

Friar Philip's Geese and Minutolo
HAD Fate decreed our YOUTH, at early morn,/ To view the angel features you adorn,/ The captivating pow'rs AURORA bless,/ Or airy SPRING bedecked in beauteous dress,/ And all the azure canopy on high

Friends and Helpers--Sarah J. Eddy
From Preface: The object of this book is to teach children to treat all living creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of man's helpers in the animal world. In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for the school-teacher to arouse interest in the animals dependent upon us, and to encourage pity and compassion for their suffering.

From Beyond--H. P. Lovecraft
Here Trninghast seated himself directly opposite me, blowing out his candle and staring hideously into my eyes. "Your existing sense-organs-ears first, I think-will pick up many of the impressions, for they are closely connected with the dormant organs. Then there will be others. You have heard of the pineal gland? I laugh at the shallow endocrinologist, fellow-dupe and fellow-parvenu of the Freudian. That gland is the great sense organ of organs-I have found out.

From Jest to Earnest
"Very dimly indeed," laughed Harcourt. "Still,-now that our necks are safe, thanks to Mr. Hemstead, I'm glad I went. Human nature lies on the surface out at Scrub Oaks, and one can learn much about it in a little while. Come, little coz, cheer up," he said to Addie, drawing her closer to him. "See, we are down the hill and across the bridge. No danger of the horses running up the long hill before us, and by the time they reach the top they will be glad to go the rest of the way quietly."

FROM THE DISCOURSE ON THE RESURRECTION
VII. He says, as was said also by Athenagoras,(1) that the devil is a spirit, made by God, in the neighbourhood of matter, as of course the rest of the angels are, and that he was entrusted with the oversight of matter, and the forms of matter. For, according to the original constitution of angels, they were made by God, in His providence, for the care of the universe; in order that, while God exercises a perfect and general supervision over the whole, and keeps the supreme authority and power over all-for upon

From the Polar Lands--HP Blavatsky
At times, the "blues" we got into, were fearful! We had contemplated sending two of our three steamers home, in September, but the premature and unforeseen formation of ice walls round them had thwarted our plans; and now, with the entire crews on our hands, we had to economize still more with our meagre provisions, fuel and light. Lamps were used only for scientific purposes: the rest of the time we had to content ourselves with God's light-the moon and the Aurora Borealis. . . . But how describe these glorious, incomparable northern lights!

From: A TREATISE ON TOLERANCE
It is true that these absurd horrors do not daily stain the face of the earth; but they have been frequent, and one might easily collect instances enough to make a volume much larger than that of the Holy Gospels, which condemn such practices. It is not only very cruel to persecute in this short life those who do not think in the same way as we do, but I very much doubt if there is not an impious boldness in pronouncing them eternally damned. In my opinion, it little befits such insects of a summer's day as we are thus to anticipate the decrees of the Creator. I am very far from opposing the maxim, "outside the church there is no salvation;"

Fruit-Gathering--Rabindranath Tagore
Now when the sun has set and the darkened sky draws upon the sea like drooping lashes upon a weary eye it is time to take away his pen, and let his thoughts sink into the bottom of the deep amid the eternal secret of that silence.

Fugitive Verses--Joanna Baillie
The birds now quit their holes and lurking sheds,/ Most mute and melancholy, where through night,/ All nestling close to keep each other warm,/ In downy sleep they had forgot their hardships;/ But not to chant and carol in the air,/ Or lightly swing upon some waving bough,/

Funeral Blues--W. H. Auden
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead/ Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,/ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,/ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves./

Further Chronicles of Avonlea
It was a beautiful night; the full moon was just rising over the wooded hills, and her light fell through the poplars into the garden before me. Through an open corner on the western side I saw the sky all silvery blue in the afterlight. The garden was very beautiful just then, for it was the time of the roses, and ours were all out-so many of them-great pink, and red, and white, and yellow roses.