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...8 125 Articles 125 Section 8 126 Chapter 1: 126 Part 1: 126 America’s New Cold War: China 126 Section 8 133 Chapter 2: 133 Freedom: America’s Religion 133 Section 8 135 Chapter 3: 135 T 135 ‘Abortion has become the default option to all the cultural dysfunction of American family policies and conveniently leaves it to be paid by ‘a women’s choice’ at the junctu...

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... enjoyment of its material prosperity in an orderly manner, but has also kept itself almost pinned down to them since ages. No doubt, these concepts, religion and politics, have played a great role in the satiation of one of the most prominent instincts, called gregariousness, essentially available in its members. In fact, both these concepts have helped the human society ...

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... enjoyment of its material prosperity in an orderly manner, but has also kept itself almost pinned down to them since ages. No doubt, these concepts, religion and politics, have played a great role in the satiation of one of the most prominent instincts, called gregariousness, essentially available in its members. In fact, both these concepts have helped the human society ...

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...m a society based point of view. 217 5 Immoral from a society based point of view. 218 LEGAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS 218 SOCIAL QUESTIONS 220 OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION 220 CHEATING OR LYING 221 Moral from a Self-centered point of view. 221 Immoral from a self-centered point of view 221 Moral from a God perspective 222 Immoral from a God perspective 222 Moral from a societal point o...

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.... 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ............................................................................... 53 POWER AND RELIGI... ................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGI... ... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS................................................................... 56 GAINING POWER THRU RELIGI... ...n with Freud. His classic theory was that our natural impulses often lead us to behave in ways that society doesn‘t approve of. So society and religi... ...se their thinking has taken them away from the belief system in which they were raised. By the same token, have people who were raised without religi... ...eist, I would like to think that we have all followed the lane of logic to arrive at our new beliefs. But I have seen people who have rejected religi... ...more saintly than others. In another society it might be to make you the most violent warrior. We need only look at the various sects of every religi... ...very religion to see how the spectrum of holiness varies from an individual union with the Almighty through a mystical experience, through the religi... ...humanity, and to the religious militarism that seeks to annihilate all who do not have the true faith—even those who are members of their same religi...

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...Excerpts: “It appears to me that almost every religion tends to circumscribe the reasoning potentials of its followers. The self-styled custodian of the religious beliefs would not take it upon himself as a duty to seek the explanations of the `deviating folk`, unless an...

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... the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied wit...

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...rsh and unprin- cipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single ... ...eaving it, and find their earthly affection changed into something holy as religion. And what is Time, to the married of Eternity?” Amid the tears of ... ...d round it, once, at least, in every month; sometimes they called it their religion, or their altar; but always, it was the banner staff of Merry Moun... ...ay be permitted us to show mercy. But woe to the wretch that troubleth our religion.” “And this dancing bear,” resumed the officer. “Must he share the... ...ho had shunned the cross, by providing for the peaceable exercise of their religion in a distant wilderness. Though it was the singular fact, that eve... ...roduced actions con- trary to the rules of decency, as well as of rational religion, and presented a singular contrast to the calm and staid de- portm... ...red advantages to men of unprosperous fortunes, as well as to dissatisfied religionists, and Pearson had hitherto found it difficult to provide for a ... ...im, it is true, was not a skilful controversialist; but the feeling of his religion was strong as instinct in him, and he could neither be enticed nor... ...ived the courtesy and kindness which all the contending sects of our purer religion united to deny her. Her husband and herself had resided many month...

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...ealth Management 114 Chapter 9 - Response to the cyclone – Society 117 Language, Ethnicity and Religion 118 Vulnerable Groups 119 Community Support and Welfare 122 Legal Issues ...

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...CANDIDA. Oh, I know. You silly boy: you think it’s your Socialism and your religion; but if it was that, they’ d do what you tell them instead of only...

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... it was a punishable offence to expose a Bible for sale. The empire has no religion. Lina comes in. She has left her cap in Hypatia’s room. She stops ...

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...m; these things yield in fact some of its most exquisite mate rial to the religion of doing. More than that, our literary deeds enjoy this marked adv... ... manner, “is decent enough, good enough, to stand it—not without help from religion or something of that kind. Not without prayer and fasting—that is ... ...pleting without a touch at least of the majesty of delay a monument to the religion he wished to propagate, the ex emplary passion, the passion for p...

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... mean that some Muslims tend to be uncomfortable with distinctions between religion and state, though Muslim rulers throughout history have readily se... ...n age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their religion, thereby leaving Islam vulnerable to encroaching foreign powers ea... ...xtreme,fundamentalist traditions as his match.All these elements—including religion—combined in an explosive compound. Other extremists had, and have,... ... especially over the disputed territory of Kashmir. From the 1970s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.Af... ...n dental school.Around the same time, he began speaking increasingly about religion, and his visits to Senguen became less and less fre- quent. He beg... ...osque in Saudi Arabia, Suqami and Salem al Hazmi appeared unconcerned with religion and, contrary to Islamic law, were known to drink alcohol. 92 Like... ...inate terrorist groups and networks, and avoid malice toward any peo- ple, religion, or culture. 41 President Bush recalled that he quickly realized t... ...hrough the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from reli- gion, thus distorting... ...s faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us. Other religions have experienced v...

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...l frequentation of religious festivals, the Oriental and Egyptian veins of religion, &c., familiar to the latter epoch. These alterations Onomakritus,... ... not the first who introduced the deities (as Herodotus imagines) into the religion of Greece, he seems the first who brought them into a system of ma... ...re has proved unsuccessful; and after all the various changes of times and religions, his gods continue to this day the gods of poetry. We come now to... ...ey were used: they were a sort of attributes with which it was a matter of religion to salute them on all occasions, and which it was an irreverence t... ...een appropriated to the Divinity, and in a manner consigned to mystery and religion. For a further preservation of this air of simplicity, a par- ticu... ...igher powers to inferiors in concerns of state, or where the ceremonial of religion seems to require 51 Pope it, in the solemn forms of prayers, oath... ...vengeance on the dead, as well as the living, was a duty inculcated by the religion of those barbarous times which not only taught that evil inflicted...

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...ese things, had I improved them as I ought to have done, and as reason and religion had dictated to me, would have taught me to search farther than hu... ...e ra- tional principles of life; much less did they think of teaching them religion, or attempt civilising and reducing them by kind usage and affecti... ...observed already . One thing, however, cannot be omitted, viz. that as for religion, I do not know that there was anything of that kind among them; th... ...ourse with their wives about a God, or to talk anything to them concerning religion. The utmost of all the improvement which I can say the wives had m... ...m husbands), and lacked nothing but to be well instructed in the Christian religion, and to be legally married; both of which were happily brought abo... ... delight exceedingly in his conversation; and he first began with me about religion in the most obliging manner imaginable. “Sir,” says he, “you have ... ...re I shall not, without your leave, enter into any debate on the points of religion in which we may not agree, further than you shall give me leave.” ... ...nd that he rather desired me to converse with him as a gentleman than as a religionist; and that, if I would give him leave at any time to discourse u... ...iculars. First, sir, though we differ in some of the doctrinal articles of religion (and it is very unhappy it is so, especially in the case before us...

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... innovation which had shown itself timidly in the case of Hob by the admission of new manures, and which had run to waste with Gilbert in subversive p... ...ty and little culture. Even the ex- tremes admired each other. Hob, who had as much poetry as the tongs, professed to find pleasure in Dand’s verses; ...

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...matrons, and equally eager in reprobating the stiff conventionalities of a religion in which she said that none of its votaries had faith, though they... ...f us quite understood what were her exact ideas on the subject of revealed religion. Somebody, I think, had told her that there were among us one or t... ...r the sentiments of a pure Christianity.” “Thrown down all the barriers of religion!” said Mrs. Mackinnon, in a tone of horror which was not appreci- ... ...aughter. Now, it may be observed, that many who throw down the barriers of religion, so far as those barriers may affect themselves, still maintain th...

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...r father’s pardon. Notwithstanding the consolations which the ministers of religion, touched by her repentance, freely gave her, she cried in heartren... ...you, prompted by that social sentiment which has in all ages made wealth a religion. At least, I think I should. It is not to be expected of a man sti... ...does not wish me to go. I will be the divin- ity of his hearth. That is my religion of humanity. But why should I not test and choose the man to whom ... ...ered with a troubled voice; “and your compassion is so much a part of your religion that I can never lose it—and I will never de- serve to lose it.” T... ...s she loves. I know all about her character, her tastes, her toilette, her religion, and her man- ners; for Philoxene stripped her for me, soul and co... ... what devotion, what mysterious grace, what unwearying kindness, what true religion, gaiety, wit, delicacy, knowledge, and courtesy there are in the s... ... to Latournelle, af- ter listening to a magnificent tirade on the Catholic religion and the happiness of having a pious wife,—served up in re- 176 Mo...

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...d Dr. May, on the great principles and issues of Church and State matters, religion, and morals, together with mat- ters of art, music, and literature... ...ht injustice in thinking that in the aes- thetic and the emotional side of religion he somewhat lost sight of the daily drudgery that works on charact...

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... Sticklestead. The language and history of Greece and Rome, their laws and religions, have been always held part of the learning needful to an educate... ... the polar circle, the mean temperature at Reykjavik being 39 degrees. The religion which the settlers took with them into Iceland —the ethnic religio... ...here Olaf Haraldsson lost his life and won the name of Saint—was, like all religions, a com- pound of myths, those which had survived from savage days... ...d commentators are still fond of the unscientific method of taking a later religion, in this case christianity, and writing down all apparently coinci... ...e confusion of different stages of myth-making is to be found in the Greek religion, and indeed in those of all peoples; similar conditions of mind pr... ... two admirable books, “Custom and Myth” (1884, 8vo) and “Myth, Ritual, and Religion” (2 vols., crown 8vo, 1887), both published by Longmans, London, m... ...ides; to this day its killing is held a great crime by the Parsees (Haug. “Religion of the Parsees”, page 212). Compare penalty above with that for ki...

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...is the spirit that gives itself for others—the temper that for the sake of religion, of country, of duty, of kindred, nay, of pity even to a stranger,... ...ollected from the country round. There was much earnest faith in their own religion among the Romans: they took all this ruin as the just reward of th... ...e. This, though lamentably deficient, and false in some points, was a real religion, inasmuch as it gave a rule of life, with a motive for striving fo... ...hat even when the act is performed in obedience to the dictates of a false religion, it is impossible not to be struck with ad- miration and almost re... .... Sad to say, a great many of the Jews had grown ashamed of their own true religion and the strict ways of their law, and thought them old-fashioned. ... ...t are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments; yet will I... ...nd the ordinances! We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand or the left!’ As he spoke, up came an ap... ...f the same tribe. These Tchetchenges professed to be Mahometans, but their religion sat very loose upon them, and they were utter bar- barians. One pi... ...sade, consecrated in the minds of the Spaniards as be- ing in the cause of religion, and yet in some degree freed from savagery and cruelty by the res...

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...asped the past as it does the present of this city of Paris, then in- deed Religion seems to have alighted there as if to spread her hands above the s... ...school for the education of their sons in preference to the lyceums, where religion was too much overlooked. Social inequalities were not noticeable a... ...m to be past sixty, and his face betrayed some violent grief controlled by religion. The second unnamed person, who seemed to be some- thing between a... ...erests, or our fortunes, by that whirlwind of forty years, which overthrew religion and royalty, and dispersed the ele- ments of all that made old Fra... ...s woman from common sentiments. He saw her inaccessible on a peak to which religion had led her; and he was still too worldly not to be keenly piqued,... ...tholics. In that small company of faithful souls, the majesty of practical religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a Fr... ...onsolation heart; he had glimpses of the joys of a sacred friendship which religion permits, on which the angels smile; a friendship which here united... ...n you. Several times during the past week I have wished to speak to you of religion, but it did not seem to me that the time had come. You would find ... ...hich had hitherto escaped him. “After all,” he said to himself, “it is the religion of Bossuet, Pascal, Racine, Saint-Louis, Louis XIV., Raffaelle, Mi...

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...ir magnitude and magnificence. The policy of the country , which separates religion from the state, precludes this, by confining all the expenditures ... ...arties, and who make a stalking-horse of phi- lanthropy , as they would of religion or patriotism, or any other extended feeling that happened to come...

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...owever as expressly forbidden as murder, or any other horrid vice, by that religion which is universally believed in those countries. The landlady, th... ...hich, how ever, the philosophy which he had acquired from Square, and the religion infused into him by Thwackum, together with somewhat else, taught ... ..., with so much charity in his mouth, to have no charity in his heart. Your religion,” says he, “serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is ... ...entleman there hath proved it as clear as the sun; and as to the matter of religion, it is quite out of the case. The papists themselves don’t expect ... ...’s.” “Very true, mistress,” said the puppet show man, “I don’t care what religion comes; provided the Presbyterians are not uppermost; for they are ... ... for they are enemies to puppet shows.” “And so you would sacrifice your religion to your interest,” cries the exciseman; “and are desirous to see p... ...er than to follow them? No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government; for I ... ...s likely to be attended with no less a degree of evil. In short, our own religion furnishes us with adequate ideas of the blessing, as well as curse... ...emely fond. Very good health, a very warm constitution, and a good deal of religion, made it ab solutely necessary for her to marry again; and she re...

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...! DOLABELLA: Madam, as thereto sworn by your command, Which my love makes religion to obey, I tell you this: Caesar through Syria Intends his journe...

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... As Fish are in a Pond. But now the Bishop 260 Turnes Insurrection to Religion, 261 Suppos’d sincere, and holy in his Thoughts: - 6 - The S...

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...of character and adventure, and for disapproving of the strange mixture of religion and romance.’ ‘You’ve never read it,’ said Guy, striving to speak ... ... writings,’ said Guy. ‘So again with Spenser; and as to Milton, though his religion was not quite the right sort, no one can pretend to say he had it ...

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...later you run across persons who believe in everything. There’s no form of religion, there’s no eccentric ity or enormity, that hasn’t its votaries. ... ...s ten times stronger than any upon which men believe the articles of their religion. If it related to less wonderful sub jects, you would not hesitat... ...lous stories were told. He sought to revive the mystical ceremonies of old religions, and it was reported that horrible rites had been performed in th...

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... to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion. I rank it as holy as marriage; nay, to me it is holier; I really ... ...ndly challenge her to speak out, whether the romance might be his piece of religion. He propitiated the more unwarlike sentiments in her by ejaculatin... ...ouple of Powers to account for discomfort when Egoism is the kernel of our religion. Benevolence had singled him for uncommon ben- efits: malignancy w... ...she feared he might be speaking unchristianly. “You will find it so in all religions, my dear Laetitia: the Hindoo, the Persian, ours. It is universal... ...up every rooted prin- ciple: they sneer at our worship: they rob us of our religion. This bitter experience of the world drives us back to the an- tid... ... up a volume and re- lated the tale of the house. “Has this man a spice of religion in him?” the Rev. Doctor asked midway. V ernon made out a fair gen...

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...cted upon no religious Foundation at all, indeed I had very few Notions of Religion in my Head, or had entertain’d any Sense of any Thing that had bef... ...ad all this Time observ’d no Sabbath Day; for as at first I had no Sense of Religion upon my Mind, I had after some Time omitted to distinguish the Wee... ...o the Seafaring Life, and into Seafaring Company, all that little Sense of Religion which I had entertain’d, was laugh’d out of me by my Mess Mates, b... ...t there were any living Creatures upon the Island; I mean of humane Shape. Religion joyn’d in with this Prudential, and I was convinc’d now many Ways,... ...st blinded ignorant Pagans in the World; and the Policy of making a secret Religion, in order to preserve the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, ... ...to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most brutish and barbarous Savages. ... ... I knew, the Soul of a poor Savage, and bring him to the true Knowledge of Religion, and of the Christian Doctrine, that he might know Christ Jesus, t... ..., Wranglings, Strife and Contention, which has happen’d in the World about Religion, whether Niceties in Doctrines or Schemes of Church Government, th... ...ot see the least Use that the greatest Knowledge of the disputed Points in Religion which have made such Confusions in the World would have been to us...

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...cy. It was, indeed, a time of very unhappy breaches among us in matters of religion. Innumerable sects and divisions and separate opinions prevailed a... ...stice I know not. I am very well satisfied that it cannot be reconciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity and Human- ity... ...of the visitation. It seems they had been checked for their open insulting religion in this manner by several good people of every per- suasion, and t... ...a sort of brutal courage; I must call it so, for it was founded neither on religion nor prudence; scarce did they use any caution, but ran into any bu... ... debt they owe to their Maker, those physicians who had the least share of religion in them were obliged to acknowledge that it was all supernatural, ...

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...rmed by people of the strictest virtue on both sides: and there is so much religion and philoso- phy in the heart of the seducer, so much tender innoc... ...fact is, was a Catholic, but did not care to own it: for in those days his religion was not popular. “Baids? Holy Mother of saints! give me back them ... ...ground in a fine white lawn shirt and nightcap; and, being a Papist in his religion, was attended by Father O’Flaherty, Popish priest, and chaplain to...

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...ort of a Papist or an Unitarian; another, every one who believes in revealed religion; a few extend their charity a little further, but stop at the be... ...ce from the reigning opinion in self regarding, than even in social matters; religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the f... ...d ern reformers who have placed themselves in stron gest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects in... ...be formed which could again knit it together. The new On Liberty — Mill 30 religion openly aimed at dissolving these ties: un less, therefore, it w... ...of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of t... ...oduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much t... ...nts hold, at least in theory , that the respon sibility for the choice of a religion must be borne by each for himself, and cannot be thrown off upon... ... would have expanded from an obscure sect of the despised He brews into the religion of the Roman empire. When their enemies said, “See how these Chr... ...l doctrines—those of prudence and knowledge of life, as well as of morals or religion. All languages and literatures are full of general ob servation...

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... The Backbiter 14 107 Religion 15 102 Desire 16 ... ...her writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Religion of the Koran, selections with an introduction by A. N. Wollaston (... ...ons to contemporary minor events, and to the local efforts made by the new religion to gain the ascendant are very few, and often couched in terms so ... ... Zaid, Omayah of T aief, W araka, etc., were dissatisfied equally with the religion of their fa- thers, the Judaism and the Christianity which they sa... ...nd were believers in one God, and regarded Abraham as the founder of their religion. Muhammad pub- licly acknowledged that he was a Hanyf–and this sec... ...oran alludes when it reproaches the Christians with having “split up their religion into parties.” But for Muhammad thus to have con- founded Gnostici... ...ion was adopted by Muhammad as likely to reconcile the Jews to Islam, as a religion embracing both Judaism and Christianity, if they might believe tha... ...The Koran orientales) factam esse postquam lingua Arabica per victorias et religionem Muhammedanicam per Orientem propagata fuerat, et in multis locis... ... Arabia previous to the time of Muhammad was one of preparedness for a new religion that the scattered elements were there, and wanted only the mind o...

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...orld of morals lies condensed, the very pith and epitome of all ethics and religion; and a young man with these precepts engraved upon his mind must f... ... adulteries are committed in the bed of marriage and under the sanction of religion and law. Thou shalt not bear false witness. How? by speech or by s... ...that we should regard it as a blemish in a priest? Damien believed his own religion with the simplicity of a peasant or a child; as I would I could su... ...r dogs; shocked the principles, scorned the scruples, and blas- phemed the religion of their humble hosts; and when they had reduced them to destituti... ...d be lost by rogues– that among a thou- sand men, even though fighting for religion, there should not be one Achan in the camp? At Lanark a declaratio... ...urner. *Kirkton. 69 Lay Morals selves for the peace, the liberty, and the religion of their fellow-countrymen, lay bleaching in the field of death fo... ... the Pentland insurgents, who fought for life and liberty, for country and religion, on the 28th of November 1666, now just two hundred years ago. Edi... ...shouted for their installation. The ancients had hallowed them to some ill religion, and their neighbourhood had long been avoided by the prudent befo...

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... no hour sacred; in which duty, obedi- ence, affection, home, morality and religion are detestable tyrannies, and life is a vulgar round of punishment... ...ay be allowed to change the subject, Miss Clandon, what is the established religion in Madeira? GLORIA. I suppose the Portuguese religion. I never inq...

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... the sacred names of the forty-nine Imaums. Y ou have but to renounce your religion and your service, and all these rewards are yours.” He produced a ... ... prop- erty he possessed. Whenever he so ransomed or benefited one of this religion, he would moreover give them a little token or a message (were the... ...ac. “Father,” she said, in a thrilling low steady voice, “I am not of your religion—I am not of the Prince Boabdil’s religion—I—I am of his religion.”... ...the Prince, “the saints have won for us a great victory—the enemies of our religion have been overcome—the lilies are restored to their native soil. Y...

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...s, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth century -- imperia in imperio, foreign things at home....

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...h, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth cen... ... to change the faith of Japan, and openly professed their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connect... ...ence of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’s faces, not... ... wad hae nae mair words about it!” One thing was noticeable about Robert’s religion: it was neither dogmatic nor sectarian. He never expatiated (at le... ... with his doubts. Both the last talkers deal much in points of conduct and religion studied in the “dry light” of prose. Indirectly and as if against ... ...c- ing Shakespeare’s fairy pieces with great scenic display. A moderate in religion, he was much struck in the last years of his life by a conversatio...

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...d with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom. By the same wife he had four children more born th... ...or friendship. I had caught it by reading my father’s books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into ... ...ring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an inf... ...g man, of great integrity; the others rather more lax in their principles of religion, particularly Ralph, who, as well as Collins, had been unsettled... ... Palmer’s I was employed in composing for the second edition of Wollaston’s “Religion of Nature.” Some of his rea sonings not appearing to me well fo... ...rotes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had lived much am... ...iv’d opinions, slovenly to extream dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal. We continu’d there near three mont... ...rewarded, either here or hereafter. These I esteem’d the essentials of every religion; and, being to be found in all the religions we had in our count... ...e that might tend to lessen the good opin ion another might have of his own religion; and as our prov ince increas’d in people, and new places of wo...

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...owledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whi... ...the admirable but ill- written character of Javert, the man who had made a religion of the police, and would not survive the moment when he learned th... ...f this great Ayrshire academy. This arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which... ...or the past and terror for the future. He was still not perhaps devoted to religion, but haunted by it; and at a touch of sickness prostrated himself ... ...hard to fancy they are not gravely making fun of each other as they write. Religion, poetry, love, and charming sensibility, are the current top- ics.... ...- ics. “I am delighted, charming Clarinda, with your honest enthusiasm for religion,” writes Burns; and the pair enter- tained a fiction that this was... ...the facts of life. Any conviction, even if it be a whole system or a whole religion, must pass into the condition of commonplace, or postulate, before... ...s, all thoughts, trees and people, love and faith, astronomy, history, and religion, enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not... ... enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not against religion; not, 72 Robert Louis Stevenson indeed, against any religion. He ...