Excerpt: Saunderson was one of those men who firmly believed that he knew everything, and exasperated people by telling them how to do things; and Denison, the super?cargo of the Palestine, hated him most fervently for the continual trouble he was giving to everyone, and also because he had brought a harmonium on board, and played dismal tunes on it every night and all day on Sundays. But, as Saunderson was one of the partners in the firm who owned the Palestine, Denison...
As the all-holy glorious mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, as was her wont, was going to the holy tomb of our Lord to burn incense, and bending her holy knees, she was importunate that Christ our God who had been born of her should return to her. And the Jews, seeing her lingering by the divine sepulchre, came to the chief priests, saying: Mary goes every day to the tomb. And the chief priests, having summoned the guards set by them not to allow any one to pray at the ...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. GOING. ?IN.? THE MIDNIGHT SUN had set, but in a crotch between two snow?peaks it had kindled a vast caldron from which rose a mist of jewels, garnet and turquoise, topaz and amethyst and opal, all swimming in a sea of molten gold. The glow of it still clung to the face of the broad Yukon, as a flush does to the soft, wrinkled cheek of a girl just roused from deep sleep. Except for a faint murkiness in the air it was still day. There was light enough f...
You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous old woman who lived in the shoe, has so many children that she doesn't know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how strong she is, and how active; how she can really be in fifty places at once, taking care of a sick tree, or a baby flower just born; and, at the same time, building underground palaces, guiding the steps of little travellers setting out on long journeys, and s...
Excerpt: GENERAL Introduction 1905 BY ROBERT ARNOT The editor?in?chief of the Maison Mazarin a man of letters who cherishes an enthusiastic yet discriminating love for the literary and artistic glories of France formed within the last two years the great project of collecting and presenting to the vast numbers of intelligent readers of whom New World boasts a series of those great and undying romances which, since 1784, have received the crown of merit awarded by the Fre...
Excerpt: I. BITTER?SWEET. Much of the tragical lore of the infant mortality, the malnutrition, and the five?in?a?room morality of the city?s poor is written in statistics, and the statistical path to the heart is more figurative than literal. It is difficult to write stylistically a per?annum report of 1,327 curvatures of the spine, whereas the poor specific little vertebra of Mamie O?Grady, daughter to Lou, your laundress, whose alcoholic husband once invaded your very ...
Excerpt: 1. MISS BLAKE?FROM MEMORY If ever a residence, ?suitable in every respect for a family of position,? haunted a lawyer?s offices, the ?Uninhabited House,? about which I have a story to tell, haunted those of Messrs. Craven and Son, No. 200, Buckingham Street, Strand.
Excerpt: Vol I. Chapter 1. SHOWS HOW FIRST LOVE MAY INTERRUPT BREAKFAST. ONE fine morning in the full London season, Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings, according to his custom, to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall, of which he was a chief ornament. As he was one of the finest judges of wine in England, and a man of active, dominating, and inquiring spirit, he had been very properly chosen to be a member of the Committee of this Club, and indeed wa...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. ANDREW HOWLAND belonged to that class of rigid moralists who can tolerate in others no wanderings from the right way. His children were forced into the straight jacket of external consistency from their earliest infancy; and if they deviated from the right line in which they were required to walk, punishment was sure to follow. A child loves his parent naturally. The latter may be harsh, and unreasonable; still the child will look up to him in weak de...
Excerpt: ACTE I. SCENE PREMIERE Madame Pernelle et Flipote sa servante, Elmire,Mariane, Dorine, Damis, Cleante. MADAME PERNELLE . Allons, Flipote, allons, que d'eux je me delivre. ELMIRE. Vous marchez d'un tel pas qu'on a peine a vous suivre. MADAME PERNELLE . Laissez, ma bru, laissez, ne venez pas plus loin : Ce sont toutes facons dont je n'ai pas besoin.
Excerpt: 075.001 Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection; 075.002 Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true). 075.003 Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones ? 075.004 Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers! 075.005 But man would fain deny what is before him. 075.006 He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection ? 075.007 But when sight is confounded 075.008 And the moon is eclipsed 075.009 And sun and moon are united, 075....
This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man And this...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. JUDAS. THE autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life, a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange ...
Excerpt: GHOST of Don Andrea REVENGE KING of Spain CYPRIAN, Duke of Castile, his brother LORENZO, son to Castile BEL?IMPERIA, sister to Lorenzo GENERAL of the Spanish Army VICEROY of Portingale PEDRO, Brother to the Viceroy PRINCE BALTHAZAR, son to the VICEROY ALEXANDRO, a nobleman of Portingale VILLUPPO, a nobleman of Portingale AMBASSADOR from Portingale to Spain.
THE DISCIPLE SPEAKS. REJOICE: REJOICE at the glad tidings! The Buddha our Lord has found the root of all evil; he has shown us the way of salvation. The Buddha dispels the illusions of our mind and redeems us from the terror of death. The Buddha, our Lord, brings comfort to the weary and sorrow-laden; he restores peace to those who are broken down under the burden of life. He gives courage to the weak when they would fain give up self-reliance and hope. You who suffer fr...
PART I. Scene I. —A Forest. Enter Arnold and his mother Bertha. Bert. Out, Hunchback! Arn. I was born so, Mother! Bert. Out, Thou incubus! Thou nightmare! Of seven sons, The sole abortion! Arn. Would that I had been so, And never seen the light! Bert. I would so, too! But as thou hast—hence, hence—and do thy best! That back of thine may bear its burthen; 'tis More high, if not so broad as that of others.
IT was the last of autumn and first day of winter coming together. All day long the ploughmen on their prairie farms had moved to and fro in their wide level fields through the falling snow, which melted as it fell, wetting them to the skin—all day, notwithstanding the frequent squalls of snow, the dripping, desolate clouds, and the muck of the furrows, black and tenacious as tar.
The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. It has never been attempted on a fully scientific basis, with due regard to the protection of society and to the interests of the criminal. It is purely an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the same principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education, and that we recognize in the conduct of life. That little progress has been made...
Excerpt: THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS THUS has it been said by the Buddha, the Enlightened One: It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Extinction of Suffering. As ...