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... places?” “It’s this accursed science,” I cried. “It’s the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. ... ... them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons— now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now ... ...hey were perhaps six feet long, with shaped handles, very tempting-looking weapons. The whole place was lit by three transverse streams of the blue fl... ...ern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs. And that way lay escape. The... ...own there far more than he can do. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out... ...rsons, and act with them, or else to keep my secret, sell my gold,, obtain weapons, provisions, and an assistant, and return with these advantages to ...

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...d and flashed; every few moments the Mark Twain 22 quick-eyed seconds would notice that a sword was bent— then they called “Halt!” struck up the cont... ...a “satisfaction” affair. These two students had quarreled, and were here to settle it. They did not belong to any of the corps, but they were furnishe... ...to lack relevancy; but he said relevancy was a matter of no consequence in last words, what you wanted was thrill. The next thing in order was the cho... ...s M. Fourtou’s challenge, and au- thorizes me to propose Plessis-Piquet as the place of meet- ing; tomorrow morning at daybreak as the time; and axes ... ...e hastened to explain it away. He said he had spoken jest- ingly. Then he added that he and his principal would enjoy axes, and indeed prefer them, bu... ..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou...

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...that stood by the side of the cabin companion. A rattle and clink of steel weapons turned out on the 27 Joseph Conrad deck was heard, but the men did... ... brought for the purpose of clearing the bush, if necessary, being all the weapons the party from the brig possessed. A deadly tumult ensued with such... ...burn our powder amongst ourselves,” went on Hassim, gently, “and blunt our weapons upon one another.” He sighed, paused, and then changing to an easy ... ...tly there was some- thing up. He began by asking me for the ammunition and weapons they are to get from you, saying he was anxious to sail at once tow... ...ing out for the coming of the white man who had much wealth and a store of weapons and who was his servant. Daman, who alone understood the exact rela... ...er face, her head incredibly changed in character and suggesting something medieval, as- cetic, drooped dreamily on her breast. D’Alcacer waited, hold...

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...sembled court, and requires as its background all the pomp and splendor of medieval chivalry. With a master hand and a wonderful knowledge of female c... ...h unhesitating consistency to the bitter end. This is not the gallantry of medieval chivalry, which colors so largely the opening scenes of the poem, ... ...e might he win both folk and land. Now he was of the strength that he bare weapons well. Whatever he needed thereto, of this he had enow. With pur- po... ...hey never should come home again. The heroes bade lade their sumpters with weapons and with harness. Their steeds were fair and 40 The Nibelungenlied... ...d bathed him in the blood, so that his skin became like horn. Therefore no weapons will cut him, as hath full oft been seen. All the better must we gr... ...y fought for honors, these knights both bold and good. Loud rang the sharp weapons in the heroes’ hands, as those of Netherland followed their lording... ...The fallen, too, were greatly mourned by friends. Then they bade place the weapons on sumpters for the Rhine. Siegfried, the warrior, and his heroes h...

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...lack and abandoned. Some strange will holds the women taut. They seem like weapons, danger- ous. There is nothing charming nor winning about them; at ... ... under the big feather bed, listening to the running and whispering of the medieval Rhine. And when I waked up again it was sunny, it was morning on t...

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...hapter-houses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets an... ...derstand, laid out his razors. ‘Hey, Rowley?’ I asked, not quite resigned to go under fire with such an inexperienced commander. ‘It’s all right, is i...

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...e replied, “I do it advis edly; for it would never do to have to sharpen my weapons just at the time I ought to be using them.” The Lion in a Farmyar... ...ceive a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he would contrive effective weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented and allowed the man to moun... ...f subjects. It has no correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable. 12 Post medieval Preachers, by S. Baring Gould. Rivingtons, 1865. 13 For an acco...

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...ng-point. Each power sought to keep its preparations se- cret, to hold new weapons in reserve, to anticipate and learn the preparations of its rivals.... ...iated her international outlook pro- foundly. With the coming of these new weapons her collec- tive intelligence thrilled with the sense that now her ... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near... ...em was defence against Asiatic raiders swooping for petrol or to de- stroy weapons or communications. Everywhere levies were being formed at that time...

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...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...y equipped for the social battle. She carried her flag discreetly, but her weapons were polished steel, and she used them with 416 The Portrait of a ...

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...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are... ...ve it known that he had a mistress of that kind.” “Enough.—Must I have any weapons?” “Never!” exclaimed Carlos vehemently. “A weapon? Of what use woul... ...” The reader must already have observed the extreme dis- proportion of the weapons in this conflict between the pris- oner under suspicion and the exa... ...ing his booty, this movement, as of a man in danger saying to himself, ‘My weapons are safe,’ betrayed a world of things. “Only you women, besides us ... ...I am worth, and of the impor- tance you attach to seeing me deprived of my weapons—I will never forget it. “At all times and for ever I shall be at yo...

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...al features have become faint, and the general air of the whole is that of medieval romance. The swoard Gram is replaced by Balmung, and the Helm of A... ...t with slow, sure steps that no power of god or man can turn aside, in the medieval poem is but a mere scenic effect, a strain of mystery and magic, t... ...e compelled so to become, wer- wolves or “loupsgarou”, find large place in medieval story, but were equally well-known in classic times. Belief in the... ...nd who is thy father? And what thy kin, that thou wert so hardy as to bear weapons against me?” Sigurd answered, “Unknown to men is my kin. I am calle... ... saddle, and coat-armour; and he was clad in the golden byrny, and all his weapons were gold wrought. Now for this cause was the drake drawn on all hi... ...apons were gold wrought. Now for this cause was the drake drawn on all his weapons, that when he was seen of men, all folk might know who went there; ... ...t great dragon, that the V oerings call Fafnir, and for that cause are his weapons gold-wrought, and brown of hue, and that he was by far above other ... ..., and mighty rings, and wondrous great golden stoups, and all kinds of war weapons. So there dwelt Sigurd long in great honour holden; and tidings of ...

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...l highly aristocratic young Egyp- tian guardsmen, handsomely equipped with weapons and armor, very unEnglish in point of not being ashamed of and unco... ... When a man is close to you with such a sword, you can do nothing with our weapons: they are all too long. THE PERSIAN. What did you do? BEL AFFRIS. D... ...ilver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of p... ...command over Nature” which makes many of our English methods appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an a...

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...is church of Santa Croce; how it was built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism, before any taint of the Renaissance had appeared. Observe how ... ...writ- ten to illustrate this point. There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still sh... ... Woman, and go there as her tran- sitory self. Lucy does not stand for the medieval lady, who was rather an ideal to which she was bidden to lift 40 ... ...” In the morning they left for Rome. 79 EM Forster Part Two Chapter VIII: Medieval THE DRAWING-ROOM CURTAINS at Windy Corner had been pulled to meet,... ... Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue. Tall and refined, with shoulders that seeme... ...say that romance is dead, while the Miss Alans are struggling with all the weapons of propriety against the terrible thing. ‘A really comfortable pen-...

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...him lying on the hearth. He explains that he has been in a fight; that his weapons not being as strong as his arms, were broken; and that he had to fl... ...ers and is bound to avenge them. He tells the Volsung that in the morning, weapons or no weap- ons, he must fight for his life. Then he orders the wom... ...t Fafnir. Mimmy can make mischievous swords; but it is not with dwarf made weapons that heroic man will hew the way of his own will through religions ... ...xactly what they advised you to do. When your Siegfrieds melt down the old weapons into new ones, and with disrespectful words chop in twain the antiq... ...olute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch in ...

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... incommoded by the ringing of bells from a city church. I would talk about medieval survivals, about the taxes being surely high enough. The point, by... ...time of her existence. It seemed like a long, silent duel with invis- ible weapons, so she said. And it was rendered all the more diffi- cult by the g... ...o his. She did not. But she had been handed over to him, like some patient medieval virgin; she had been taught all her life that the first duty of a ... ...x Ford handmaiden—sweeping, tending, embroidering, like some Deborah, some medieval saint—I am not, unfortunately, up in the Catholic hagiology. But I...

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...y two of them, And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points, And behind the weapons countless dissatisfi... ...oor men forcing the planks close to be nail’d, Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers, The echoes resounding through the vacant... ...O P IONEERS! Come my tan faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes? ... ...e sow, and the rains and the snows nourish. Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose, But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whi... ...in top, Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year, Heard your determin’d voice launch’d forth again an... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...ools. A predatory culture is similarly impracticable in early times, until weapons have been developed to such a point as to make man a formidable ani... ...s to make man a formidable animal. The early devel- opment of tools and of weapons is of course the same fact seen from two different points of view. ... ...he best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities. In... ... in manly bev- erages and trinkets, in seemly apparel and architecture, in weapons, games, dancers, and the narcotics. This cultivation of aesthetic f... ...ons to this rule as are afforded, 207 Veblen for instance, by some of the medieval orders of monks (the members of which actually labored to some use...

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...and strength, by force of will and by imagination, for these are the great weapons of the magician, they may achieve at last a power with which they c... ...d with all manner of armour, ancient swords of Eastern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an ... ...tern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an idea came to him. He took down a huge battle axe a...

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...getting that an equable temper in such matters is the most powerful of all weapons, will not rec- ognize the strength of its own position. It allows i... ...ly torn themselves off from her; and if so, she could only do so with such weapons as were at her hand. The United States army had never been numerous... ...there is, of course, none of that old- fashioned, time-honored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There a...

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...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ... ...nly or over-covetous. She was content to fight her own battle with her own weapons, feeling secure in her own strength of purpose and strength of wit.... ... his own; and in order to do that work, and serve that cause, he uses such weapons as God has placed in his hands. ’ ‘That’s what the wild beasts do. ... ...ntly, in a whisper of meekness of which would have disarmed an enemy whose weapons were less firmly clutched than those of Mrs Proudie; ‘but, inde- pe...

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...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...nglish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu... ...stors share the knowledge needed to control fire and master the tools and weapons that let our species dominate this planet. Then:  Writing s...

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...d violence sure sells in films, on TV and in computer games. Have we always been so violent or are the media pushing us that way? Or is it the weapon... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ...ith our family and neighbors. But that is not enough today. The Internet, cell phones, television, CNN, a globalized economy, the existence of weapon... ...nald Reagan lied about trading arms for hostages, Lyndon Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin and George W. Bush lied about Saddam Hussein‘s weapon... ...threat, built it out of proportion to increase the phobia, then used that to develop the obsession about Iraq‘s links with al Queda and their weapon...

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...t asunder. . . . A similar movement is going on before our own eyes.” “The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feu- dalism to the ground are now... ...against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the m... ...o itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.” The cause of the destit... ...o be feared that science would soon cease to be progressive and acquired a medieval respect for authority. But under a freer system, which would enabl...

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...earts and strike fire from the hard kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to... ...d kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to him as umbrellas and kodaks are t...

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...is taken captive by the spoils of its prior victories; the spoils, not the weapons and the acts of waging the battle against the unknown, are used to ... ...thing, of the practi- 274 Democracy & Education cal and the intellectual. Medieval philosophy continued and reinforced the tradition. To know reality... ... occasion for treating it as an enemy to man’s higher interests. Greek and medieval knowledge accepted the world in its qualitative variety, and regar... ...ivate psychic consciousness is comparatively modern. In both the Greek and medieval periods, the rule was to regard the individual as a chan- nel thro... ...d and the personal self wherever beliefs are transmitted by custom. In the medieval period there was a religious individual- ism. The deepest concern ... ...wild animals or their enemies by shrieks, beating of gongs, brandishing of weapons, etc., they use the same methods to scare away the comet. To us, th...

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...to sing “Protegga il giusto cielo”: they grasp formidable legal and social weapons, and retaliate. Political parties are wrecked and public careers un... ...ec- ognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bear- able after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the C... ...in Man’s industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. This marvellous force of Life of which you boast is a force of Dea...

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... carry-on belongings.The screening was in place to identify and confiscate weapons and other items prohibited from being carried onto a commercial fli... ...o American 11 in hijacker seating and in eyewitness reports of tactics and weapons, as well as the contact between the presumed team leaders,Atta and ... ...ling, “non-state and state-sponsored terrorists,” and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology. 97 NORAD perc... ...identified during the late 1990s, including terrorists’ use of aircraft as weapons. Exercises were conducted to counter this threat, but they were not... ...n most instances, the main concern was the use of such aircraft to deliver weapons of mass destruction. Prior to 9/11, it was understood that an order... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...