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| the portion of the new testament recounting christ's sermon on the mount |
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| allusion to Acts 20: 9-12; Eutychus fell asleep while St. Paul was preaching, fell from the loft where he was seated, and was presumed dead |
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| a kind of long, close-fitting overcoat |
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| characterized by a deliberate betrayal of trust; treacherous |
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| If ye suffer... happy are ye: |
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| Brocklehurst is paraphrasing part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:6) but is perverting its meaning |
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| any point at which turning back becomes impossible; the allusion is to the river (the Rubicon) that formed the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and the Roman Republic which Caesar's army crossed in 49 B.C., commencing a civil war: once Ceasar had crossed the Rubicon, and entered the Roman Republic, the war was begun |
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| a pool in Jerusalem believed to have healing properties; it is ironic that Brocklehrust compares Lowood to Bethesda, since his school offers none of the hope of physical well-being that Bethesda did |
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| a small leather case containing slips inscribed with passages from the Scriptures |
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| a pretended meal, named after a prince in The Arabian Nights who served such a meal to a beggar |
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| as in the landscapes of the Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp |
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| low, flat land along a river or stream |
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| a small lump of aromatic paste, burned to disinfect or deodorize a room |
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| Latin for "I shall rise again" |
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| The British pound was worth about 5 U.S. dollars at the time of the novel |
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| Millcote..on the banks of the A__ |
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| Millcote is a fictional name, Bronte probably has Leeds in mind (a city in northern England) on the banks of a River Aire |
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| rejected after having failed an examination |
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| showing the harmful effects of a self-indulgent way of life |
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| Portuguese island in the Atlantic off the coast of Northern Africa |
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