Autobiography of a Disembodied SoulVreeland Publishing Company, 1907 - 293 стор. |
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... door , to which supplies for the chamber's occupant were raised from the floor be- low by means of cord and pulley . Ultimately need for this opening ceased also , whereupon it was closed in turn and so carefully as to leave no trace ...
... door , to which supplies for the chamber's occupant were raised from the floor be- low by means of cord and pulley . Ultimately need for this opening ceased also , whereupon it was closed in turn and so carefully as to leave no trace ...
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... doors indifferently as suited my mood . Cells I found wherein chains were held to wall by strong staples of iron , and manacles lay on the damp ground coated with rust . Other cells were bare , howbeit their doors bore fastenings of ...
... doors indifferently as suited my mood . Cells I found wherein chains were held to wall by strong staples of iron , and manacles lay on the damp ground coated with rust . Other cells were bare , howbeit their doors bore fastenings of ...
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... to the third level and passed down a long , low way , on either side of which extended a row of vaults whose outer doors were inner sheeted with iron . Midway on the dexter side appeared a blank wall , 44 TWAIN TRAGEDIES .
... to the third level and passed down a long , low way , on either side of which extended a row of vaults whose outer doors were inner sheeted with iron . Midway on the dexter side appeared a blank wall , 44 TWAIN TRAGEDIES .
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... door . No response . They were repeated . All was silent . Raps more emphatic followed and the anxious Duke gave call : " Ho ! rouse thee , my sleepy Enchantress ! Prithee knowest not thy lover's voice ? Hail and good mor- row to thee ...
... door . No response . They were repeated . All was silent . Raps more emphatic followed and the anxious Duke gave call : " Ho ! rouse thee , my sleepy Enchantress ! Prithee knowest not thy lover's voice ? Hail and good mor- row to thee ...
Сторінка 53
... door swung wide with a loving wife's wel- come of lip and sincere embrace ? Do that unearthly paleness and unnatural dumbness of tongue bespeak a brain disordered , or do they signify some horrible nightmare that affrights my heart's ...
... door swung wide with a loving wife's wel- come of lip and sincere embrace ? Do that unearthly paleness and unnatural dumbness of tongue bespeak a brain disordered , or do they signify some horrible nightmare that affrights my heart's ...
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abode Albeit Alpha Centauri Amalfi appeared arms awful bearing beautiful Betimes Beulah Land body ceilings celestial chamber CHAPTER Chrysalid creature dark dead planet death Demiurge discarnate Disembodied Souls Divine Divine Empire door dreams Duke earth Eternity existence face Faff Ammaar fate Father favor fire flashed flesh floor God's gold Gypsy hair Hall hand heart Heaven held Henry Rollings Herr Albaird hold holy hosts hour human husband Idolicum Immortal incarnate intelligence John Quincy Adams lady lifted light living Ludington lying manifest ment mighty miles millions mind mortal moved mystery nature never night NOTE octillions passed possess present reached remote robbed Second Estate SHEKINAH side soever space spectacle sphere spinet Spirit stars stood Swedenborg thee thereof Third Estate thou thought tion touch unfrequently vision walls wife withal woman wonder worship wretched young
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Сторінка 190 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Сторінка 237 - O Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not; Faith ' knows not ; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from ' God and to God. " We are such stuff ' As Dreams are made of, and our little life ' Is rounded with a sleep !"
Сторінка 14 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, — but uses these as hands and feet ; is not a faculty, but a...
Сторінка 236 - I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest which has been more than once cut down. The new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds.
Сторінка 237 - Thus, like some wild-flaming, wildthundering train of Heaven's Artillery, does this mysterious MANKIND thunder and flame, in long-drawn, quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage...
Сторінка 236 - The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. It is a fairy tale, and it is history.
Сторінка 214 - Sir Charles Lee, by his first lady, had only one daughter, of which she died in childbirth ; and when she was dead, her sister, the Lady Everard, desired to have the education of the child ; and she was by her very well educated, till she was marriageable, and a match was concluded for her with Sir William Perkins, but was then prevented in an extraordinary manner. Upon a Thursday night...
Сторінка 215 - ... body, notwithstanding the lady would needs have her let blood, which was done accordingly ; and when the young woman had patiently let them do what they would with her, she desired that the chaplain might be called to read prayers, and when prayers were ended she took her guitar and...
Сторінка 14 - Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person, who in his integrity worships God, becomes God; yet forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
Сторінка 236 - I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse: history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song, — I have tried all. But I feel I have not said the thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I can say, like so many others, " I have finished my day's work;" but I cannot say, "I have finished my life.