Morley Ernstein; Or, The Tenants of the Heart PDF Download

Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Pages : 464

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Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Pages : 474

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Author: James
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Pages : 534

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Author: G. P. R. James
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Morley Ernstein' was inspired by G. P. R. James's travels to France and Spain soon after the abdication of Napoleon. James filled this narrative with thrilling adventures and amusing characters that hold the reader's attention till the end.

Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465607196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631

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"Pouvons-nous pas dire, qu'il n'y a rien en nous, pendant cette prison terrestre, purement, ni corporel ni spirituel?" asks good old Montaigne, and certain it is that in many an act where we imagine the body alone takes part, the spirit has as great a share; and in many a thought where the mind seems to divest herself of clay, the impulse was given by the body, not the soul. But besides the contention between the corporeal and spiritual part of our nature, and the sort of swindling that goes on on both sides, he that looks into his own heart must acknowledge with him of old, that there seem to be two spirits within us. I do not only mean two spirits distinguished by their promptings to good and evil, but two principles separate in their nature, in their objects, and in their ultimate dwelling-place, the one tending to the earth, the other aspiring to the heavens; the one the principle of animal existence, the other the principle of immortal life; the one shared with the brutes that perish, the other that essence which raises us above them here and hereafter. What shall we call these two spirits? How shall we distinguish them, the one from the other, in speaking of them hereafter? Let us name the higher and the purer one, the spirit of the soul; and call the other, the spirit of the flesh; for both are distinct from mere intellect, which each uses as an agent, as each gains the ascendancy, or appeals to as a judge when the struggle is nearly equal. It is upon this struggle between these two principles that turns the greater part of each man's moral history. One of the strangest points in that contest is, that _the spirit of the soul_, as we have called the one, appeals less frequently to the intellect than her earthly sister, leaving it, in general, to the latter, as if for her uses in this earth the powers of intellect were given, while the soul obtains its impulses from other sources, and, marked out for a higher destiny, receives winged inspirations from the world to which it tends--faith, conviction, sentiment, feeling, conscience;--and oh, how often does that better spirit seize the happy moment to open the eyes which all our powers of mind could not unclose, and strip the world and all its pleasures of the delusions which no force of intellect has been equal to dispel! At the age of one-and-twenty years--It is a beautiful age, full of the spring, with all the vigour of manhood, without one touch of its decay; with all the fire of youth, without one touch of its feebleness! Oh, one-and-twenty! bright one-and-twenty!--wilt thou never come back to me again? No, never! The cord of the bow has been so often drawn that it has lost its elasticity; there have been a thousand flowers cast away that have withered in the dust of Time's sandy path; there have been a thousand fruits tasted that have left but the rind in my hand; there have been a thousand travel stains acquired that never can be washed off till the journey is done. That which has been lost, and that which has been gained, have both been gathered into the two baskets of the past; and whatever the future may have in store, one-and-twenty, with its many hopes, its few fears, its buoyancy of spirit, its elasticity of limb, its eagerness of expectation, its activity of pursuit, its aspirations, its desires, its faith, its confidence, its frankness, its garden of visionary flowers, and its atmosphere of misty light, can never, never come back to us, were we to whistle till we broke our hearts. No, no; in the sad arithmetic of years, multiply by what numbers you will, you can never get at one-and-twenty more than once.

Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734012171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Reproduction of the original: Morley Ernstein by George Payne Rainsford James

Author: G. P. R. James
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1801701741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15405

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A disciple of Sir Walter Scott, George Payne Rainsford James was a bestselling historical novelist of the early Victorian period. Masterpieces such as ‘Richelieu’, ‘Agincourt’ and ‘The Smuggler’ are noted for their polished prose, spice of adventure and scholarly attention to historical detail. This eBook presents James’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to James’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 41 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare poetry available in no other collection * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Includes James’ non-fiction study of ‘The History of Chivalry’ * Includes a brief biography * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels Richelieu (1829) Darnley (1830) De l’Orme (1830) Philip Augustus (1831) Bertrand de la Croix (1831) Delaware (1833) Mary of Burgundy (1833) The Life and Adventures of John Marston Hall (1834) The Gypsy (1835) One in a Thousand (1835) Attila (1837) The Robber (1838) Henry of Guise (1839) The Huguenot (1839) Charles Tyrrell (1839) The King’s Highway (1840) The Man at Arms (1840) Corse de Leon (1841) Morley Ernstein (1842) Forest Days (1843) Agincourt (1844) Arabella Stuart (1844) Rose d’Albret (1844) Arrah Neil (1845) The Smuggler (1845) Beauchamp (1846) Heidelberg (1846) The Castle of Ehrenstein (1847) A Whim and Its Consequences (1847) The Convict (1847) Gowrie (1848) The Forgery (1849) The Woodman (1849) Henry Smeaton (1851) The Fate (1851) Revenge (1852) Agnes Sorel (1853) Ticonderoga (1854) The Old Dominion (1856) Leonora d’Orco (1857) Lord Montagu’s Page (1858) The Shorter Fiction The Desultory Man (1836) The Poetry Adra, or The Peruvians and Other Poems (1829) The Non-Fiction The History of Chivalry (1830) The Biography George Payne Rainsford James (1900) by John Andrew Hamilton

Author: Charles Mackay
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Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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