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...rsal application, if not the promise of universal conquest; such uncivil and implacable language, concerning overwhelming judgments upon the very eve... ... all upon the very words of our Lord himself, and using the Old Testament only when the language manifestly carried me thither, and the other books ... ...hood, of the Spanish work, and having in former days become acquainted with the Spanish language, thought well, or rather was directed of God, to re... ...evious to this it would have been a sealed book to me, by reason of my ignorance of the language, but during that short time having taken a few lesso... ...ut being at all hastened, I resolved at length, insufficient as was my knowledge of the language at that time, to conquer all difficulties, and heart... ...aphrase. From the sight of the face of the Lord of all the earth, says the very ancient Arabic version. Besides, it is confessedly a figurative expre...

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... being essentially one, it comprehendeth within itself all peoples, tribes, and languages, which have sought and may henceforth seek to enter into a... ...Abraham, according to the spirit; that is, to all believers, of every tribe and language and people and nation, without excluding the Jews who may d... ...aham according to the spirit; of all true believers, of every people, tribe, and language of the whole world. All these may say with truth, we then a... ...ellbeing of my neighbours, if I desire with truth that all peoples, tribes, and languages should adore the true God, I comprehend all this in my peti... ...was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion,... ...rsal righteousness; “righteousness and peace have kissed each other,” or as the Arabic version reads, “shall see each other face to face;” (Psalm lx...

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...r life, anyone who wishes to find a happy, fulfilling life, will find the answers in this book. Since the days of The Zohar and the Tree of Life, the language of Kabbalah has never been as clear as it is in this moving piece. It is worthwhile contemplating the answers in the text, experiencing them in the simplest meaning of the word. Any student of Kabbalah, novice or adv...

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...hole of the Torah relates only to the spiritual world. It ex- plains it in the language of pictures, but not a single word of it speaks of our world.... ...Because the spiritual world is the world of emotions and has no words, we use languages such as the language of the Bible (Pentateuch), the language... ...as the language of the Bible (Pentateuch), the language of legends (Agada the language of legends (Agada the language of legends ( ), the language of... ... of legends ( ), the language of the Talmud (Jewish re- ligious laws), and the language of the Kabbalah (Sefirot), which is the most precise of all, ... ... to explain and describe that world. For that reason, most Kabbalists use the language of the Kabbalah. Within the Kabbalah are several sub-language... ...ah wrote in Ara- maic, Hebrew and some Greek. There are also Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the middle ages wrote in ancient French. Aga...

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...r of an Index to forty-nine volumes of trans­ lations from seven different languages, belonging to as many religions, had to grapple with peculiar di... ...ro = Pdlkrit. t. w. = title of a work. Zd.= Zend. References. The large arabic figures denote volumes, the smaller arabic pages, and the smaller r...

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...ire to receive pleasure—evolves. It only took one ses- sion to create a common language among the scientists. Later that evening, the scientists prese... ...ry. Dr. Wolf has also authored eleven books that were translated into several languages. Among his books are: Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physi... ...r. Satinover has written five successful books that were translated into nine languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. His most famous bo... ... Laitman has written thirty books on Kabbalah, which were translated into ten languages. His daily lessons are broad- cast live and recorded on cable... ...est Internet site on Kabbalah, offering a wealth of information in twenty-two languages, and the most extensive media and text archive of lessons, b... ...s well educated, and became the tutor of King James II of Aragon. He wrote in Arabic, Latin and Catalan. He wrote treatises on alchemy and botany, A...

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...ourne in Australia and moving gradually from teaching biblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Chris... ...hem both equally for what they felt and knew. I even polished my German, a language I particularly disliked when I studied it in university, to be abl... ... that is the closest approximation to a description of nirvana which human language can express. Nevertheless, there is something inexpressible about ... ...r title for the expected prophet was “Messiah,” a term used in the Aramaic language, which translated as “Christ” in Greek. In most of the New Testame... ...y texts the specific phrase “son of God” is applied to Jesus. In a Semitic language, such as Hebrew or Aramaic, such a phrase would usually be taken t... ...t except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to 86. These letters in Arabic spell the Hebrew name of God. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 128 tell. 87 ... ...outh, and robed and haloed. (This dress has raised theories of shipwrecked Arabic or Asian sailors.) It was the Wandjinas who formed the landscape in ...

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...lation of the Koran by a Muslim Englishman. Many Muslims, however, including Pickthall, believe that true translations of the Koran from the original Arabic are impossible, and see translations into other languages only as useful interpretations. (Summary by Leon Mire)...

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...This is Perhaps the best Quran English translation. It is clear, easy to read, and very faithful to the Arabic original. It closely follows the Arabic text, and often reminds the reader of the Arabic original. It uses today's English language, and today's English vocabulary, thus it is easy to read and understand. The flow is s...

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...view of your American Papyrus, but I have also left that in.   What I would like you to do is to change the Roman numerals in your end notes to Arabic numbers, and to put the list of Works Consulted below the end notes, and send it back to me.   I see at the end of the review of American Papyrus that you studied in Springfield, Missouri, just up the road from N...

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...ed sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘religious.’ This condition of language we need not wonder at: the language of life must naturally receive... ... so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and, [Greek text], A system of mysteries; as, for instance, the ... ...contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language in which the Gospels appeared, excepting only St. Matthew’s, was t... ...g time, colonizing Syria under princes of Grecian blood,—had not the Greek language (as a lingua Hellenistica) become steeped in Hebrew ideas,—no door... ...tianity and clearing the road before it; first, the diffusion of the Greek language through the whole civilized world [Greek text] some time before Ch... ...ot recovered; but at length there was found (in the Bodleian, I think,) an Arabic translation of it. An En- glish mathematician, Halley, knowing not o... ...ey, knowing not one word of Ara- bic, determined (without waiting for that Arabic key) to pick the lock of this MS. And he did so. Through strength of... ... now become so powerful an instrument of analysis, he translated the whole Arabic MS. He printed it—he published it. He tore—he extorted the truth fro... ...the truth from the darkness of an unknown language—he would not suffer the Arabic to benefit by its own obscurity to the injury of mathematics. And th...

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... pierc’d by no star, That e’en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, Wit... ...d Aesop’s fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. For language hath not sounds more like in sense, Than are these chances, if t... ...hus while no way they found Nor avenue immediate through the flame, Into its language turn’d the dismal words: But soon as they had won their passage ... ...o more One tongue prevails. But pass we on, nor waste Our words; for so each language is to him, As his to others, understood by none.” Then to t... ...of Greek, and who was therefore compelled to avail himself of the unfaithful Arabic versions. D’Herbelot, on the other hand, informs us, that “Averroe... ...ms us, that “Averroes was the first who translated Aristotle from Greek into Arabic, before the Jews had made their translation: and that we had for ... ...of Aristotle, except that of the Latin translation, which was made from this Arabic version of this great philosopher (Averroes), who afterwards added... ...tor, hath left us a work so little read, that both the subject of it and the language of it have been mistaken. It is in the French spoken in the reig...

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... pierc’d by no star, That e’en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, Wit... ...d Aesop’s fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. For language hath not sounds more like in sense, Than are these chances, if t... ...hus while no way they found Nor avenue immediate through the flame, Into its language turn’d the dismal words: But soon as they had won their passage ... ...o more One tongue prevails. But pass we on, nor waste Our words; for so each language is to him, As his to others, understood by none.” Then to t... ...of Greek, and who was therefore compelled to avail himself of the unfaithful Arabic versions. D’Herbelot, on the other hand, informs us, that “Averroe... ...ms us, that “Averroes was the first who translated Aristotle from Greek into Arabic, before the Jews had made their translation: and that we had for ... ...of Aristotle, except that of the Latin translation, which was made from this Arabic version of this great philosopher (Averroes), who afterwards added... ...tor, hath left us a work so little read, that both the subject of it and the language of it have been mistaken. It is in the French spoken in the reig...

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...l, Holy Father,” Antonio replied in perfect English. “I also speak five other languages fluently,” Antonio said with pride. “And, if I might say, Hol... ...she said after studying her husband’s face. His calm, firm voice and his body language 34 J.Cross/Artemis conveyed a seriousness that she had s... ...ould lead his double life. He loved being close to the people, and his native language, which for the most part he had kept hidden. The warm sun, an... ...to a blue tranquil ocean. Aside from the women, and being close to his native language, it was the ocean that calmed his mind and body and replenish... ...vi said. "Come in," Walter said without any facial expression, but his body language spoke volumes. Antonio walked in not sure what to expect af... ...s he was told. The big man stared at him. Soule's clothes were non-descript Arabic. "I will kill you, if that is what you want. He said quietly. "...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2....

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... CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We eas... ...ommunity flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast to... ...dinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Tr... ...mply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Ou... ...reatest invention,‖ then its runner-up must be the numeral system we call Arabic with the once-missing invisible number. Just as the alphabet‘s ad... ...habet‘s advantages tower over pictorial writing‘s shortcomings, so too do Arabic numerals prove infinitely easier to manipulate than Roman numerals. ... ...en in common use from Libya to Morocco. That‘s probably why we call them ―Arabic numerals.‖ Arabs themselves, however, connect them to their origin ... ...m to their origin and call the system ―Hindu numerals.‖ At first, the Arabic numbering system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It ... ... a book written by Leonardo of Pisa—Liber Abaci—explained how much easier Arabic numbers could handle complex calculations, as opposed to Roman numer...

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...for their scholarship, uniqueness, and style. He published in areas which few other Western scholars had explored to any sufficient degree. He used a language and style that showed high respect for everybody, even toward those he personally did not view in positive light. In A Year Amongst the Persians (1893) he wrote a sympathetic portrayal of a Persian society which few ...