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pg2680 | INTRODUCTION | MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M.Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent fromNuma, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of theblood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held highoffice in Rom... |
pg2680 | HIS FIRST BOOK | Wherein Antoninus recordeth, What and of whom, whether Parents, Friends, or Masters; by their good examples, or good advice and counsel, he had learned:
Divided into Numbers or Sections.
ANTONINUS Book vi. Num. xlviii. Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those ... |
pg2680 | THE SECOND BOOK | I. Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it. It is high time for thee to understand the true nature both of the world, whereof thou art a part; and of that Lord and G... |
pg2680 | THE THIRD BOOK |
I. A man must not only consider how daily his life wasteth and decreaseth, but this also, that if he live long, he cannot be certain, whether his understanding shall continue so able and sufficient, for either discreet consideration, in matter of businesses; or for contemplation: it being the... |
pg2680 | THE FOURTH BOOK |
I. That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is towards all worldly chances and events ever so disposed and affected, that it will easily turn and apply itself to that which may be, and is within its own power to compass, when that cannot be which at first it i... |
pg2680 | THE FIFTH BOOK |
I. In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up. Am I then yet unwilling to go about that, for which I myself was born and brought forth into this world? Or was I made for this, to lay me down, ... |
pg2680 | THE SIXTH BOOK |
I. The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very tractable and pliable. That rational essence that doth govern it, hath in itself no cause to do evil. It hath no evil in itself; neither can it do anything that is evil: neither can anything be hurt by it. And all thi... |
pg2680 | THE SEVENTH BOOK |
I. What is wickedness? It is that which many time and often thou hast already seen and known in the world. And so oft as anything doth happen that might otherwise trouble thee, let this memento presently come to thy mind, that it is that which thou hast already often Seen and known. Generally... |
pg2680 | THE EIGHTH BOOK |
I. This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou shalt consider, that thou art now altogether incapable of the commendation of one, who all his life long, or from his youth at least, hath lived a philosopher's life. For both unto others, and to thyself especial... |
pg2680 | THE NINTH BOOK |
I. He that is unjust, is also impious. For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less according to the several persons and occasions but in nowise hurt one another: it is manifest that he that ... |
pg2680 | THE TENTH BOOK |
I. O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single, more open and visible, than that body by which it is enclosed. Thou wilt one day be sensible of their happiness, whose end is love, and their affections dead to all worldly things. Thou shalt one day be full, and... |
pg2680 | THE ELEVENTH BOOK |
I. The natural properties, and privileges of a reasonable soul are: That she seeth herself; that she can order, and compose herself: that she makes herself as she will herself: that she reaps her own fruits whatsoever, whereas plants, trees, unreasonable creatures, what fruit soever (be it ei... |
pg2680 | THE TWELFTH BOOK |
I. Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. And that will be, if thou shalt forget all that is past, and for the future, refer thyself wholly to the Divine Providence, and shalt bend and apply all ... |
pg2680 | APPENDIX | CORRESPONDENCE OF M. AURELIUS ANTONINUS AND M. CORNELIUS FRONTO[1]
M. CORNELIUS FRONTO was a Roman by descent, but of provincial birth, being native to Cirta, in Numidia. Thence he migrated to Rome in the reign of Hadrian, and became the most famous rhetorician of his day. As a pleader and or... |
pg2680 | NOTES | This being neither a critical edition of the text nor an emended edition of Casaubon's translation, it has not been thought necessary to add full notes. Casaubon's own notes have been omitted, because for the most part they are discursive, and not necessary to an understanding of what is writt... |
pg2680 | GLOSSARY | This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words. ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), 14th Roman Emperor.
Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under Augustus.
Alexander the Great, King ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER I. TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH | Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it willbe prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitiousname, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, aworkhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need nottrouble my... |
pg730 | CHAPTER II. TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARD | For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic courseof treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitutesituation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authoritiesto the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of theworkhous... |
pg730 | CHAPTER III. RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE | For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of askingfor more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room towhich he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board. It appears,at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained abecoming feeling of... |
pg730 | CHAPTER IV. OLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE | In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either inpossession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who isgrowing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea. The board, inimitation of so wise and salutary an example, took counsel together on theexpediency of shipping of... |
pg730 | CHAPTER V. OLIVER MINGLES WITH NEW ASSOCIATES. GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTER’S BUSINESS | Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker’s shop, set the lamp down on aworkman’s bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread,which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop,looked so ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER VI. OLIVER, BEING GOADED BY THE TAUNTS OF NOAH, ROUSES INTO ACTION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM | The month’s trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sicklyseason just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up; and,in the course of a few weeks, Oliver acquired a great deal of experience. Thesuccess of Mr. Sowerberry’s ingenious speculation, exceeded even his mostsanguine hopes. ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER VII. OLIVER CONTINUES REFRACTORY | Noah Claypole ran along the streets at his swiftest pace, and paused not oncefor breath, until he reached the workhouse-gate. Having rested here, for aminute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an imposing show of tears andterror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and presented such a rueful face tothe aged paupe... |
pg730 | CHAPTER VIII. OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN | Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more gainedthe high-road. It was eight o’clock now. Though he was nearly five miles awayfrom the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by turns, till noon, fearingthat he might be pursued and overtaken. Then he sat down to rest by the side ofthe mile... |
pg730 | CHAPTER IX. CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS | It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep. There wasno other person in the room but the old Jew, who was boiling some coffee in asaucepan for breakfast, and whistling softly to himself as he stirred it roundand round, with an iron spoon. He would stop every now and then to listen whenthere wa... |
pg730 | CHAPTER X. OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES; AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH PRICE. BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY | For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew’s room, picking the marks out of thepocket-handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought home,) and sometimestaking part in the game already described: which the two boys and the Jewplayed, regularly, every morning. At length, he began to languish for freshair, and took m... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XI. TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE | The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediateneighbourhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office. The crowd hadonly the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, anddown a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and upa dirty c... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH OLIVER IS TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS. | The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver hadtraversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turninga different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at lengthbefore a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville. Here, a bed wasprepared, with... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XIII. SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY | “Where’s Oliver?” said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. “Where’s the boy?”
The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his violence;and looked uneasily at each other. But they made no reply.
“What’s become of the boy?” said the Jew, seizing the Dodger tightly by thecollar, and threatening him... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XIV. COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER’S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW’S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND | Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow’s abruptexclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided,both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued:which indeed bore no reference to Oliver’s history or prospects, but wasconfined to such to... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XV. SHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE | In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of LittleSaffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light burnt all day inthe winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in the summer: there sat,brooding over a little pewter measure and a small glass, strongly impregnatedwith the s... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XVI. RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY | The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open space;scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other indications of acattle-market. Sikes slackened his pace when they reached this spot: the girlbeing quite unable to support any longer, the rapid rate at which they hadhitherto walked. Turnin... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XVII. OLIVER’S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION | It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present thetragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of redand white in a side of streaky bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed,weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the next scene, his faithful butunconscious squir... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XVIII. HOW OLIVER PASSED HIS TIME IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS | About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursuetheir customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver along lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of which he clearly demonstratedhe had been guilty, to no ordinary extent, in wilfully absenting himself fromthe societ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON | It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tightround his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so ascompletely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den. Hepaused on the step as the door was locked and chained behind him; and havinglistened while the ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XX. WHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES | When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find that anew pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at his bedside; andthat his old shoes had been removed. At first, he was pleased with thediscovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of his release; but suchthoughts were quickl... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXI. THE EXPEDITION | It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raininghard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had been very wet:large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels wereoverflowing. There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but itrather aggravated than ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXII. THE BURGLARY | “Hallo!” cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the passage.
“Don’t make such a row,” said Sikes, bolting the door. “Show a glim, Toby.”
“Aha! my pal!” cried the same voice. “A glim, Barney, a glim! Show thegentleman in, Barney; wake up first, if convenient.”
The speaker appeared to throw a boot-jack, ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXIII. WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHOWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS | The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thickcrust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners wereaffected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increasedfury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirlingit into a ... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXIV. TREATS ON A VERY POOR SUBJECT, BUT IS A SHORT ONE, AND MAY BE FOUND OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS HISTORY | It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron’sroom. Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face,distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of somewild pencil, than the work of Nature’s hand.
Alas! How few of Nature’s faces are left alone t... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXV. WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY | While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in theold den—the same from which Oliver had been removed by the girl—brooding over adull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon his knee, with which he hadapparently been endeavouring to rouse it into more cheerful action; but he hadfallen in... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE; AND MANY THINGS, INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY, ARE DONE AND PERFORMED | The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effectof Toby Crackit’s intelligence. He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed;but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner, when thesudden dashing past of a carriage: and a boisterous cry from the footpassengers, who s... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXVII. ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY | As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty apersonage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of hiscoat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasureto relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantryto involve... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXVIII. LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS ADVENTURES | “Wolves tear your throats!” muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. “I wish I wasamong some of you; you’d howl the hoarser for it.”
As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate ferocity thathis desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body of the wounded boyacross his bended knee; and turned his h... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXIX. HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED | In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashionedcomfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies at a well-spreadbreakfast-table. Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit ofblack, was in attendance upon them. He had taken his station some half-waybetween the side-board an... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXX. RELATES WHAT OLIVER’S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM | With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in theaspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady’s arm through one ofhis; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie, led them, with muchceremony and stateliness, upstairs.
“Now,” said the doctor, in a whisper, as he softly turned t... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXI. INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION | “Who’s that?” inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chainup, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand.
“Open the door,” replied a man outside; “it’s the officers from Bow Street, aswas sent to today.”
Much comforted by this assurance, Brittles opened the door to its full width,and confront... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS | Oliver’s ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain and delayattendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold had brought onfever and ague: which hung about him for many weeks, and reduced him sadly.But, at length, he began, by slow degrees, to get better, and to be able to saysometimes, i... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXIII. WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN CHECK | Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. If the village had been beautiful atfirst it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The greattrees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burstinto strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over thethirsty ground,... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXIV. CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE; AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER | It was almost too much happiness to bear. Oliver felt stunned and stupefied bythe unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest. He hadscarcely the power of understanding anything that had passed, until, after along ramble in the quiet evening air, a burst of tears came to his relief, andhe seemed to aw... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXV. CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE | When the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver’s cries, hurried to the spotfrom which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated, pointing in thedirection of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely able to articulate thewords, “The Jew! the Jew!”
Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry mean... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXVI. IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE, BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES | “And so you are resolved to be my travelling companion this morning; eh?” saidthe doctor, as Harry Maylie joined him and Oliver at the breakfast-table. “Why,you are not in the same mind or intention two half-hours together!”
“You will tell me a different tale one of these days,” said Harry, colouringwithout any percept... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXVII. IN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST, NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES | Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on thecheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded,than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent backfrom its cold and shining surface. A paper fly-cage dangled from the ceiling,to which he occas... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MR. MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW | It was a dull, close, overcast summer evening. The clouds, which had beenthreatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of vapour, alreadyyielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage a violent thunder-storm,when Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, turning out of the main street of the town, directedtheir course to... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XXXIX. INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER | On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned in thelast chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as therein narrated,Mr. William Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily growled forth an inquiry whattime of night it was.
The room in which Mr. Sikes propounded this question, was not one... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XL. A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAMBER | The girl’s life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisomeof the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman’soriginal nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approachingthe door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the widecontrast which the... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLI. CONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SUPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE | Her situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and difficulty. While shefelt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in whichOliver’s history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidencewhich the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her,as a young and gui... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER’S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS | Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep, hurried on herself-imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London, by theGreat North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this historyshould bestow some attention.
They were a man and woman; or perhaps they would be better describe... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLIII. WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE | “And so it was you that was your own friend, was it?” asked Mr. Claypole,otherwise Bolter, when, by virtue of the compact entered into between them, hehad removed next day to Fagin’s house. “Cod, I thought as much last night!”
“Every man’s his own friend, my dear,” replied Fagin, with his most insinuatinggrin. “He hasn... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLIV. THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS. | Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancycould not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she hadtaken, wrought upon her mind. She remembered that both the crafty Jew and thebrutal Sikes had confided to her schemes, which had been hidden from allothers: in the ful... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLV. NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION | The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for theappearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, atlength presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
“Bolter,” said Fagin, drawing up a chair and seating himself opposite MorrisBolter.
“Well,... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLVI. THE APPOINTMENT KEPT | The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged onLondon Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid step, was that of awoman who looked eagerly about her as though in quest of some expected object;the other figure was that of a man, who slunk along in the deepest shadow hecould find,... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLVII. FATAL CONSEQUENCES | It was nearly two hours before day-break; that time which in the autumn of theyear, may be truly called the dead of night; when the streets are silent anddeserted; when even sounds appear to slumber, and profligacy and riot havestaggered home to dream; it was at this still and silent hour, that Fagin satwatching in his... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLVIII. THE FLIGHT OF SIKES | Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed withinwide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of all thehorrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulestand most cruel.
The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life,... |
pg730 | CHAPTER XLIX. MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT | The twilight was beginning to close in, when Mr. Brownlow alighted from ahackney-coach at his own door, and knocked softly. The door being opened, asturdy man got out of the coach and stationed himself on one side of the steps,while another man, who had been seated on the box, dismounted too, and stoodupon the other si... |
pg730 | CHAPTER L. THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE | Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe abuts, wherethe buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackestwith the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built low-roofed houses, thereexists the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the manylocalities tha... |
pg730 | CHAPTER LI. AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY | The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when Oliverfound himself, at three o’clock in the afternoon, in a travelling-carriagerolling fast towards his native town. Mrs. Maylie, and Rose, and Mrs. Bedwin,and the good doctor were with him: and Mr. Brownlow followed in a post-chaise,accompanied b... |
pg730 | CHAPTER LII. FAGIN’S LAST NIGHT ALIVE | The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces. Inquisitive andeager eyes peered from every inch of space. From the rail before the dock, awayinto the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks werefixed upon one man—Fagin. Before him and behind: above, below, on the right andon the le... |
pg730 | CHAPTER LIII. AND LAST | The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale are nearly closed. Thelittle that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simplewords.
Before three months had passed, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were married inthe village church which was henceforth to be the scene of the youngclergyman’s labours... |
pg5200 | I | One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himselftransformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back,and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domedand divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to coverit and see... |
pg5200 | II | It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke from hisdeep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon afterwards anyway even if hehadn’t been disturbed, as he had had enough sleep and felt fully rested.But he had the impression that some hurried steps and the sound of the doorleading into the f... |
pg5200 | III | No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor’s flesh, so it remainedthere as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for morethan a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his fatherthat Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family memberwho could not be... |
pg8438 | INTRODUCTION | The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which hisPolitics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject.This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the “philosophy ofhuman affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science. In thetwo works taken together we have their autho... |
pg8438 | BOOK I | Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like mannerevery action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for whichreason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is,“that which all things aim at.”
Now there plainly is a difference in the Ends proposed: for in som... |
pg8438 | BOOK II | Well: human Excellence is of two kinds, Intellectual and Moral:[1]now the Intellectual springs originally, and is increased subsequently, fromteaching (for the most part that is[2]),and needs therefore experience and time; whereas the Moral comes from custom,and so the Greek term denoting it is but a slight deflection ... |
pg8438 | BOOK III | Now since Virtue is concerned with the regulation of feelings and actions, andpraise and blame arise upon such as are voluntary, while for the involuntaryallowance is made, and sometimes compassion is excited, it is perhaps anecessary task for those who are investigating the nature of Virtue to draw outthe distinction ... |
pg8438 | BOOK IV | We will next speak of Liberality. Now this is thought to be the mean state,having for its object-matter Wealth: I mean, the Liberal man is praised not inthe circumstances of war, nor in those which constitute the character ofperfected self-mastery, nor again in judicial decisions, but in respect ofgiving and receiving ... |
pg8438 | BOOK V | Now the points for our enquiry in respect of Justice and Injustice are, whatkind of actions are their object-matter, and what kind of a mean state Justiceis, and between what points the abstract principle of it, i.e. the Just, is amean. And our enquiry shall be, if you please, conducted in the same method aswe have obs... |
pg8438 | BOOK VI | Having stated in a former part of this treatise that men should choose the meaninstead of either the excess or defect, and that the mean is according to thedictates of Right Reason; we will now proceed to explain this term.
For in all the habits which we have expressly mentioned, as likewise in all theothers, there is,... |
pg8438 | BOOK VII | Next we must take a different point to start from,[1]and observe that of what is to be avoided in respect of moral character thereare three forms; Vice, Imperfect Self-Control, and Brutishness. Of the twoformer it is plain what the contraries are, for we call the one Virtue, theother Self-Control; and as answering to B... |
pg8438 | BOOK VIII | Next would seem properly to follow a dissertation on Friendship: because, inthe first place, it is either itself a virtue or connected with virtue; andnext it is a thing most necessary for life, since no one would choose to livewithout friends though he should have all the other good things in the world:and, in fact, m... |
pg8438 | BOOK IX | Well, in all the Friendships the parties to which are dissimilar it is theproportionate which equalises and preserves the Friendship, as has been alreadystated: I mean, in the Social Friendship the cobbler, for instance, gets anequivalent for his shoes after a certain rate; and the weaver, and all othersin like manner.... |
pg8438 | BOOK X | Next, it would seem, follows a discussion respecting Pleasure, for it isthought to be most closely bound up with our kind: and so men train the young,guiding them on their course by the rudders of Pleasure and Pain. And to likeand dislike what one ought is judged to be most important for the formation ofgood moral char... |
pg8438 | NOTES | [1]For this term, as here employed, our language contains no equivalent expressionexcept an inconvenient paraphrase. There are three senses which it bears in this treatise: the first (in whichit is here employed) is its strict etymological signfication “The scienceof Society,” and this includes everything which can... |
pg219 | I | The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of thesails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and beingbound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for theturn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of anint... |
pg219 | II | “One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heardvoices approaching—and there were the nephew and the uncle strollingalong the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in adoze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: ‘I am as harmless as alittle child, but I don’t like to ... |
pg219 | III | “I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, inmotley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic,fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogetherbewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he hadexisted, how he had succeeded in get... |
pg844 | FIRST ACT | Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room isluxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in theadjoining room.[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the musichas ceased, Algernon enters.]ALGERNON.Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?LANE.I didn’t think it ... |
pg844 | SECOND ACT | Garden at the Manor House. A flight of grey stone steps leads up to thehouse. The garden, an old-fashioned one, full of roses. Time of year, July.Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yew-tree.[Miss Prism discovered seated at the table. Cecily is at theback watering flowers.]MISS PRISM.[C... |
pg844 | THIRD ACT | Morning-room at the Manor House.[Gwendolen and Cecily are at the window, looking out into thegarden.]GWENDOLEN.The fact that they did not follow us at once into the house, as any one elsewould have done, seems to me to show that they have some sense of shame left.CECILY.They have been eating muffins. That looks like re... |
pg2542 | ACT I | [SCENE.—A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but notextravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall,another to the left leads to Helmer’s study. Between the doors stands apiano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window.Near the window are a round table, ar... |
pg2542 | ACT II | [THE SAME SCENE.—THE Christmas Tree is in the corner by the piano,stripped of its ornaments and with burnt-down candle-ends on its dishevelledbranches. NORA’S cloak and hat are lying on the sofa. She is alone in theroom, walking about uneasily. She stops by the sofa and takes up hercloak.]NORA.[drops her cloak]. Someon... |
pg2542 | ACT III | [THE SAME SCENE.—The table has been placed in the middle of the stage,with chairs around it. A lamp is burning on the table. The door into the hallstands open. Dance music is heard in the room above. Mrs Linde is sitting atthe table idly turning over the leaves of a book; she tries to read, but doesnot seem able to col... |
pg5197 | PREFACE | The contents of these volumes have been written down directly from mydictation, over a period of several years, by my friend and wife, who wished meto tell her the story of my life. It was the desire of both of us that thesedetails of my life should be accessible to our family and to our sincere andtrusted friends; and... |
pg5197 | CONTENTS | Richard Wagner in 1842,from the Portrait by E. Kietz.Richard Wagner about 1872 by Lenbach.
Original in the possession of Frau Cosima Wagner These frontispieces are usedby the courtesy of Mr. F. Bruckmann. |
pg5197 | PART I 1813-1842 | I was born at Leipzig on the 22nd of May 1813, in a room on the second floor ofthe ‘Red and White Lion,’ and two days later was baptized at St. Thomas’sChurch, and christened Wilhelm Richard.
My father, Friedrich Wagner, was at the time of my birth a clerk in the policeservice at Leipzig, and hoped to get the post of C... |
pg5197 | PART II 1842-1850 | The journey from Paris to Dresden at that time took five days and nights. Onthe German frontier, near Forbach, we met with stormy weather and snow, agreeting which seemed inhospitable after the spring we had already enjoyed inParis. And, indeed, as we continued our journey through our native land oncemore, we found muc... |
pg205 | Economy | When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, inthe woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, onthe shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living bythe labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At presentI am a sojo... |
pg205 | Where I Lived, and What I Lived For | At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as thepossible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side withina dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms insuccession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I walked overeach farme... |
pg205 | Reading | With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men wouldperhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their natureand destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property forourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fameeven, we are mort... |
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