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X The People
The People ( continued ) X The People ( continued )
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

xvi touching passages
p. xvi touching passages; the last love-scene is well, even in parts admirably, written.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

XLII THE PERFECT
[ 210 ] [ Contents ] XLII THE PERFECT PRIEST There was once a priest called Namnu who had perfected his ways in the Buddhistic doctrine.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

XIV THE PIRATE
CHAPTER XIV THE PIRATE SHIP CHAPTER XV 'HOOK OR ME THIS TIME' CHAPTER XVI
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

XVIII The Power
XII—Brief summary 392 XVIII The Power of Words in Magic—Some Linguistic Data I—Study of linguistic data in magic to throw light on native ideas about the power of words.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

XXV THE PITIFUL
XXV. THE PITIFUL. XXVI.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

xxv the possession
Though settled in the city, in some cases for generations, the patrician families were not altogether of it, being distinguished from the other citizens, if not always by [Pg xxv] the possession of ancestral landward estates, at least by their delight in war and contempt for honest industry.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

X The Poet
Socrates to his Friends 398 502 X. The Poet on Believing and not Believing 399 502 XI.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

XVI THE POLITICAL
THE MARBECK INN A Novel By Harold Brighouse Little, Brown, And Company 1920 Original Original CONTENTS THE MARBECK INN CHAPTER I—THE STARTING-POINT CHAPTER II—WHERE THE SHOE PINCHED CHAPTER III—THE HELL-PIKE CLUB CHAPTER IV—THE COMPLEAT ANGLER CHAPTER V—LAST SCHOOL-DAYS CHAPTER VI—THE NEST-EGG CHAPTER VII—THE FLEDGLING CAPITALIST CHAPTER VIII—ADA STRUGGLES CHAPTER IX—ADA AND A MAD TRAM-CAR CHAPTER X—GERALD ADAMS, SOCIOLOGIST CHAPTER XI—UNDER WAY CHAPTER XII—DROPPING THE PILOT CHAPTER XIII—THE INTERMITTENT COURTSHIP CHAPTER XIV—HONEYMOONERS CHAPTER XV—OTHER THINGS BESIDE MARRIAGE CHAPTER XVI—THE POLITICAL ANIMAL CHAPTER XVII—THE VERITY AFFAIR CHAPTER XVIII—WHEN EFFIE CAME CHAPTER XIX—EFFIE IN LOVE CHAPTER XX—THE MARBECK INN CHAPTER XXI—SATAN’S SMILE CHAPTER XXII—THE OLD CAMPAIGNER CHAPTER XXIII—THE KNIGHT’S MOVE CHAPTER XXIV—THE NEW BOOK OF MARTYRS CHAPTER XXV—WHOM GOD HATH JOINED CHAPTER XXVI—SNOW ON THE FELLS THE MARBECK INN CHAPTER I—THE STARTING-POINT I T falls to some to be born, as they say, with a silver spoon in their mouths, and the witty have made play with the thought that the wise child chooses rich parents.
— from The Marbeck Inn: A Novel by Harold Brighouse

XX THE POOL
CHAPTER XX THE POOL The next day being Sunday Miss Lacey vetoed the excursion after berries as a snare to Benny Merritt's feet, which should be turned toward the little island church, whether or not they would be.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

X The Pompeians
V. X. The Pompeians in Spain 23.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

xix The Pattern
[xix] The Pattern in the Mount , xxv.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

XLI The Pride
An Inland Run 384 XXXIX — Needful Returns 394 XL — Home and Foreign 406 XLI — The Pride of Life 416 XLII — His Last Bivouac 426 XLIII — Two Fine Lessons 435 XLIV —
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

X THE PROLOUG
X. THE PROLOUG OF THE FERD BUKE.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

XLIX THE PORT
Gen’l. CHAPTER XLIX THE PORT ROYAL EXPEDITION
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

Xenokrates the philosopher
Xenokrates the philosopher was considered to be rather of a morose temper, and Plato was in the habit of frequently saying to him, "My good Xenokrates, sacrifice to the Graces;" in like manner, if Marius could have been persuaded to sacrifice to the Grecian Muses and Graces, he would never have brought a most illustrious military and civil career to a most unseemly conclusion; through passion and unreasonable love of power and insatiable desire of self-aggrandizement driven to terminate his course in an old age of cruelty and ferocity.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

XIII the principles
By the time of Louis XIII the principles of the Renaissance had become thoroughly assimilated in France, and a native school of architecture had arisen of marked distinction.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn


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