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Robert Barr
The Sword Maker Vol 1 Of 1
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 82266 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Considering The State Of The Imperial City Of Frankfort, One Would Not
Expect To Find Such A Gathering As Was Assembled In The Kaiser Cellar Of
The Rheingold Drinking Tavern. Outside In The Streets All Was Turbulence
And Disorder; A Frenzy On The Part Of The Populace Taxing To The Utmost
The Efforts Of The City Authorities To Keep It Within Bounds, And
Prevent The Development Of A Riot That Might Result In The Partial
Destruction At Least Of This Once Prosperous City. And Indeed, The
Inhabitants Of Frankfort Could Plead Some Excuse For Their
Boisterousness. Temporarily, At Any Rate, All Business Was At A
Standstill. The Skillful Mechanics Of The Town Had Long Been Out Of
Work, And Now To The Ranks Of The Unemployed Were Added, From Time To
Time, Clerks And Such-Like Clerical People, Expert Accountants,
Persuasive Salesmen, And Small Shopkeepers, For No One Now Possessed The
Money To Buy More Than The Bare Necessities Of Life. Yet The Warehouses
Of Frankfort Were Full To Overflowing, With Every Kind Of Store That
Might Have Supplied The Needs Of The People, And To The Unlearned Man It
Seemed Unjust That He And His Family Should Starve While Granaries Were
Packed With The Agricultural Produce Of The South, And Huge Warehouses
Were Glutted With Enough Cloth From Frankfort And The Surrounding
Districts To Clothe Ten Times The Number Of Tatterdemalions Who Clamored
Through The Streets. [mehr]
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Crater
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 184646 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
There Is Nothing In Which American Liberty, Not Always As Much
Restrained As It Might Be, Has Manifested A More Decided Tendency To Run
Riot, Than In The Use Of Names. As For Christian Names, The Heathen
Mythology, The Bible, Ancient History, And All The Classics, Have Long
Since Been Exhausted, And The Organ Of Invention Has Been At Work With
An Exuberance Of Imagination That Is Really Wonderful For Such A
Matter-Of-Fact People. Whence All The Strange Sounds Have Been Derived
Which Have Thus Been Pressed Into The Service Of This Human
Nomenclature, It Would Puzzle The Most Ingenious Philologist To Say. The
Days Of The Kates, And Dollys, And Pattys, And Bettys, Have Passed Away,
And In Their Stead We Hear Of Lowinys, And Orchistrys, Philenys,
Alminys, Cytherys, Sarahlettys, Amindys, Marindys, &C. &C. &C. All These
Last Appellations Terminate Properly With An A, But This Unfortunate
Vowel, When A Final Letter, Being Popularly Pronounced Like Y, We Have
Adapted Our Spelling To The Sound, Which Produces A Complete Bathos To
All These Flights In Taste. [mehr]
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G. T. STOKES
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE, VOLUME II
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
- Fantasy
- Englisch
- 160161 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
The following volume terminates my survey and exposition of the Acts
of the Holy Apostles. I have fully explained in the body of this work
the reasons which led me to discuss the latter portion of that book
more briefly than its earlier chapters. I did this of set purpose. The
latter chapters of Acts are occupied to a great extent with the work
of St. Paul during a comparatively brief period, while the first
twenty chapters cover a space of well-nigh thirty years. The riot in
Jerusalem and a few speeches at Cæsarea occupy the larger portion of
the later narrative, and deal very largely with circumstances in St.
Paul's life, his conversion and mission to the Gentiles, of which the
earlier portion of this volume treats at large. Upon these topics I
had nothing fresh to say, and was therefore necessarily obliged to
refer my readers to pages previously written. I do not think, however,
that I have omitted any topic or passage suitable to the purposes of
the _Expositor's Bible_. Some may desiderate longer notices of German
theories concerning the origin and character of the Acts. But, then,
an expositor's Bible is not intended to deal at length with critical
theories. Critical commentaries and works like Dr. Salmon's
_Introduction to the New Testament_ take such subjects into
consideration and discuss them fully, omitting all mere exposition. My
duty is exposition, and the supply or indication of material suitable
for expository purposes. If I had gone into the endless theories
supplied by German ingenuity to explain what seems to us the simplest
and plainest matters of fact demanding no explanation whatsoever, I am
afraid there would have been little space left for exposition, and my
readers would have been excessively few. [mehr]
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