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...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ...s of knowledge and community centres. They are also dominant promoters of new knowledge technologies. They are already the largest buyers of e-books... ...y constraints. The public sector steps in : higher education institutions, religious institutions, government, not for profit organizations, non gove... ...ed to their audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phas... ...retains one innovation of the parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was written on parchm... ...inception. The Church (formerly the largest publisher of bibles and other religious and "earthly" texts and the upholder and protector of reading in... ... public institutions (such as the Library of Congress)? Should open source movements gain access to Deja's source code in order to launch Deja II? An... ...cultures. I hope I made myself a lot clearer and I am awaiting your Hans Christian Andersen treatment of the technicians and their clothes. Sam ...

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...book and style sheet” was considered important enough to be preserved, along with other items from the Press’s early years, in the cornerstone of the new Press building in 1903. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and by 1906 the pamphlet had become a book: Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago Press, to which...

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...irst proofreader; added to from year to year, as opportunity would offer or new necessities arise; revised and re-revised as the scope of the work,... ... Kingdom, Northwest Territory, Cook County, Evanston Township, Kansas City (New York City-exception); (2) Department of the Lakes, Town- of Lake, Bo... ...ide Building, Capitol, White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, ... ...of the place in which they are located. 7. The names of political parties, religious denomina- tions or sects, and philosophical, literary, and art... ...n continental Europe, it is organized as a distinct parliamentary faction); Christian, Protestantism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultram... ...Seventh- Day Adventists, the Establishment, High Church (High €!hurchman), Christian Science, Theosophist, Jew (but: gen- tile), Pharisee (but: scr... ...ck Friars, Dominican, Jesuitism. 9. The proper (official) titles of social, religious, educa- tional, political, commercial, and industrial organiza... ...stitutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- sonian Institution, Sta... ... capi- talization of, 19, 20. "Demi," compounds with, 181. Denominations, religious, capitalization of names of, 7. De~tments: governmental, capi...

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...tion of the seed" and such a serious offence that it is punishable by the strongest religious penalty: eternal ex- communication ("Karet"). If abort... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...m Godwin and, later, Pierre Joseph Proudhon), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin)... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ...ed manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If race is defined in terms of genetic purity, the... ...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a...

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...tion of the seed" and such a serious offence that it is punishable by the strongest religious penalty: eternal ex- communication ("Karet"). If abort... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...m Godwin and, later, Pierre Joseph Proudhon), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin)... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ...ed manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If race is defined in terms of genetic purity, the... ...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a...

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...els based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to be replaced by new models with new, hopefully improved, assumptions. One way ... ...out there", in the real world. e. Insightfulness – It must cast the familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("dat... ...c abilities to self organize, reorganize, give room to emerging order, accommodate new data comfortably, and avoid rigid reactions to attacks from ... ...geometric patterns ... that can be profitably exploited to extrapolate future price movements." A less fanciful definition may be the one offered by... ...It is surprising how little abused these safety nets are - as Stephane Pallage and Christian Zimmerman of the Center for Research on Economic Fluct... ...against the ignorant, criminals, atheists, females, homosexuals, members of ethnic, religious, or racial groups, the old, the immigrant, and the poo... ...erstood in the absence of such a worldview. Such a worldview can be scientific, or religious – but it can also be ideological (Capitalism, Socialis... ...s, the media, fashion, show business, the arts, medicine, or business, and serve as religious leaders. By virtue of their standing in the community... ...ation of cultures. I hope I made myself a lot clearer and I am awaiting your Hans Christian Andersen treatment of the technicians and their clothe...

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...g children, and wrote frequently; but of course they had to consider their new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the wor... ... down on Harriet’s alliance with a dumpy man—a brewer— and had always kind Christian compassion for him if his name were mentioned. They seemed now, b... ...riet—’ Mr. Andrew hesitated, and branched off: ‘You ‘ve heard we ‘ve got a new baby?’ Evan congratulated him; but another inquiry was in Mr. Andrew’s ... ... “this is diplomacy. Inquire of me, or bet- ter, give me an opinion on the new glace silk from Paris.”— ”Madame,” said he, bowing, “I hope Paris may s... ...in the world, leading her to think that she tolerated Mr. Goren, as a lady-Christian of the highest rank should tolerate the insects that toil for us.... ... it was very decided. His sensitive ears were pained by the absence of his Christian name, which her lips had lavishly made sweet to him. He stopped i... ...ot quite return. ‘In that letter you told me all—all—all, Evan?’ ‘Yes, all-religiously.’ ‘Oh, why did I miss it!’ ‘Would it give you pleasure?’ She fe... ...y that Mrs. Bonner’s will contains a memento of the effect of our frequent religious conversations. So you would leave now? I suspect nobody, but we a... ...nly heard of it. In love, they say, you ought to excuse …. And the want of religious education! His sister ….’ Rose interrupted her with a sharp shudd...

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...n above; but he wrote to Mr Crawley begging to know what was in truth this new diffi- culty, and offering any assistance in his power. He explained al... ... when they had first come to Hogglestock, and which even then had not been new. Now nothing but a poor fragment of it remained in front of the fire-pl... ...in his eyes than ever, was endowed by these words from Miss Prettyman with new charms and brighter virtues than he had seen before. Let come what migh... ...doctrine of emanations. He had not faith in many things which she believed religiously;—and yet what could he do? If he attempted to explain, she woul... ...upporting voice. ‘Y es;—and looking of course 173 Anthony Trollope to the religious interests of your people, Mr Crawley, I came to the conclusion th... ... Mrs Dobbs Broughton had got into a way of calling her young friend by his Christian name. ‘All the world calls him Conway,’ she had said to her hus- ... ...ad reached Mr T oogood’s household, and that Maria, the men- tion of whose Christian name had been so offensive to the clergyman, had begged her husba... ...ngs ecclesiastical without any refer- ence to things theological or things religious. They are al- ways most worthy men, much respected in the society... ...sitors in the court. The names of Dobbs Broughton and of A. Musselboro—the Christian name of Mr Musselboro was Augustus—were on one of those dirty pos...

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...a one as Mark Robarts. Lady Lufton herself was a woman who thought much on religious matters, and would by no means have been dis- posed to place any ... ...might be. It was, therefore, a matter near to Lady Lufton’s heart to see a new church built, and she was urgent in her eloquence both with her son and... ... were exactly suited to it; and everything was in good order;— not exactly new, so as to be raw and uncovered, and redo- lent of workmen; but just at ... ...that Bishop Proudie was, of course, much a man addicted to religion and to religious thinking, and that Mr Sowerby himself had no particular religious... ...ere were many others included in the stigma whose sins were po- litical or religious than moral. But they were gall and wormwood to Lady Lufton, who r... ...ourcy Castle. As for the Duke of Omnium, he, comparatively speaking, was a new man. And then he was a member of Parliament, a friend of some men in po... ... the bishop. ‘All they want is guidance, encouragement, instruction—’ ‘And Christianity, ’ suggested the bishop. ‘And Christianity, of course, ’ said ... ...f the Church. It was well to humour such people, Mr Smith thought. But the Christianity was to be done in the Sunday sermon, and was not part of his w... ...abitants of India, ’ said Harold Smith, angrily. ‘Nor have we attempted to Christianize them, as the bishop so properly wishes to do with your islande...

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...” just as you call a certain kind of furniture “Empire furniture;” yet the new- comer only symbolized the Empire for those who had known that great an... ...he Cabinet des Estampes, borrow adroitly, and give out their pastiches for new inventions. Pons had obtained many a piece by exchange, and therein lie... ...us man is not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person ... ... went in search himself; and every day he was careful to provide something new for his friend, for they always breakfasted together at home. If any on... ...Schwab, taking Schmucke’s quaint inquiry for a gibe, of which that perfect Christian was quite incapable. “Come, gentlemen, take your places!” called ... ...up for years in the sacred college of cardinals, or in chapters of certain religious orders. At three o’clock, when the President came back from the l... ...ond- age. She was the only one among Pons’ hostesses whom he called by her Christian name; he addressed Mme. Berthier as “Felicie,” and he thought tha... ...Balzac suoe XLI. accords perfectly with the age inscribed on the pic- ture religiously kept by the Holzschuers of Nuremberg, and but recently engraved... ... she demanded, turning on the terror-stricken Schmucke. He had watched the religious ritual with its deep reverence for the creature made for such hig...

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... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ... seems, had sometimes been taken be- fore that. In the reign of Edward VI. religious zeal prohibited all interest. This prohibition, however, like all... ...ople into those trades than could otherwise pretend to follow them. In all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of church... ...ruction of monasteries, the poor had been deprived of the charity of those religious houses, after some other ineffectual attempts for their relief, i... ... the same awful solemnity to the set which succeeds; and in that sober and religious country, oaths are not yet disregarded. A rotation of this kind s... ...capable of defending them- selves. The pious purpose of converting them to Christianity sanc- tified the injustice of the project. But the hope of fin... ...ither theology, or something that was merely preparatory to theology. When Christianity was first established by law, a corrupted Latin had become the...

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...ver, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, wh... ... it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to everyone, including the new Pope. When it was later discovered that Pope Francis was not on... ...st five years. Pope Francis, with his magnetic personality and his inclusive religious pronouncements, had inspired and activated a dormant spiritu... ...ctivated a dormant spiritual power within the individual, regardless of their religious Faith. In the beginning, many had called him the Anti-Christ... ..., but now most of his detractors fell silent. He had proven himself as a true religious leader, that is, except, to Berini who yearned for the good-o... ...s office feeling like a great weight had been lifted from him. He felt like a new man; a man with a purpose. He knew what he had to do. As he dro... ... is now your mission...As it is mine," Gallucci said, solemnly. "But it is a Christian Heaven?" 216 J.Cross/Artemis Antonio responded, "Heave... ... Muslim in the holy city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham. Jews, Muslims, and Christians had worshipped peacefully in their own mosques, synagogues, ... ... new Pope – a new Vicar of Christ. It seemed as if every person in the world, Christian or not, had watched the televised funeral procession of Pope...

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...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

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... am. I feel good. My rationalization for why I did it may be societal, ‗he is in a different gang.‘ It may be God based, ‗he is in a different religi... ...have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religi... ...gy, anthropology and philosophy is whether humans have instincts. It is clear that animals have them. But if we are going to operate with the religi... ...of the nest in place. Marais took some of these finch eggs and removed them from their environment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new fi... ...ing which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After the fourth generation Marais allowed the new bi... ...y that they don‘t have control over their behavior, except in court then they are looking for excuses for their anti-social actions. ―New br... ...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ...alues and righteousness then is caught hustling young boys who work for him, or one who is caught in corrupt dealings, is not living the ideal Christ...

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... peace world forces in attempt to convert this world into peaceful world. All nations live peacefully in the long run. People respect each other’s religious, territorial limits and social taboo. This Novel is an action and adventure based fiction and an attempt to make this world as joint peaceful global village free of discriminations of caste and racial and Islamic an...

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... peace world forces in attempt to convert this world into peaceful world. All nations live peacefully in the long run. People respect each other‟s religious, territorial limits and social taboo. This Novel is an action and adventure based fiction and an attempt to make this world as joint peaceful global village free of discriminations of caste and racial and Islamic...

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...a of Kingsland, Hackney and Hoxton. A band- stand, an unfinished forum for religious, anti-religious and political orators, cricket pitches, a gymnasi... ... the park outside into strong relief. The Reverend James Mavor Morell is a Christian Socialist clergyman of the Church of England, and an active membe... ...hurch of England, and an active member of the Guild of St. Matthew and the Christian Social Union. A vigorous, genial, popular man of forty, robust an... ...yorrs by the Bishop of London, al- though the pore feller’s not a bit more religious than you are. But to-day, if henyone was to offer to bet me a tho... ...He found him sleeping on the Embankment last June. Haven’t you noticed our new picture (pointing to the Virgin)? He gave us that. BURGESS (incredulous... ...d. (She sits down beside him.) Wouldn’t you like to present me with a nice new one, with an ivory back inlaid with mother-of-pearl? MARCHBANKS (softly... ...he is busy with his letters: really he is puzzling with misgiving over his new and alarming experience that the surer he is of his moral thrusts, the ... ... congregation at St. Dominic’s! Why do they come to hear you talking about Christianity every Sunday? Why, just be- cause they’ve been so full of busi... ...typewriter, and obeys. Morell goes across to Burgess, Candida watching his movements all the time with growing wonder and misgiving. MORELL. Burgess: ...

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...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arr... ... toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and polit- ical pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for w... ...themselves the victims of successive foreign masters. He uses cultural and religious allusions to the holy Qur’an and some of its interpreters. He app... ...l destruction of the Caliphate on lead- ers who abandoned the pure path of religious devotion. 9 He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace marty... ...toum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road building.T... ... accepted Bin Ladin’s offer to ally JI with al Qaeda in waging war against Christians and Jews. 21 Hambali met with KSM in Karachi to arrange for JI m... ... mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and ...

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...and incompetent. It was a wonder to many that she had married – seeming so wholly of the stuff that makes old maids. But chance cast her in the path o... ...d and looked upon her with a face of wrath, into which there stole, as he looked, a twinkle of humour. “Noansense!” he said. “You and your noansense! ... ...s her next bond to life. Her frosted sen- timent bloomed again, she breathed deep of life, she let loose her heart, in that society. The miracle of he... ...ances that were to come, without hope or interest. As time went on, the tough and rough old sinner felt him- self drawn to the son of his loins and so... ... house of his father. The clearest of his inherit- ance was that family gift of prayer of which Kirstie had boasted; and the baffled politician now tu... ...e stockfish than his neeghbours! He rode wi’ the rest o’ them, and had a good stamach to the work, by a’ that I hear! God’s Remnant! The deil’s claver... ...k, by a’ that I hear! God’s Remnant! The deil’s clavers! There wasna muckle Christianity in the way Hob guided Johnny Dickieson, at the least of it; b... ... follow Archie, had it been the least possible, but the nature of the land precluded the idea. He did the next best, ensconced himself in a quiet cor-...

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...chant. He bought land and houses in the town, and des- patched a vessel to New York freighted with silks purchased in Lyons at reduced prices. He sent... ...dest little house in the rue Royale. The poor toiler had brought back from New Y ork, together with his cottons, a pretty little wife, attracted it wo... ...e Mignon chosen Charles Mignon as its deputy, three letters, arriving from New Y ork, Paris, and London, fell with the destruction of a hammer upon th... ...g still and thoughtful, gives vent to a wild, inward activity by impulsive movements,—in short, she is happy. There is a grace, a charm in the very id... ...rnelle when Dumay held the thirteenth card or drew out his last trump. Her religious faith drove Modeste for a time into a singu- lar track of thought... ...ectation for the calm of inno- cence. No matter how firmly family laws and religious pre- cepts may bind, there will always be the Clarissas and the J... ...ould examine the church, and the Chris- tians—more particularly the female Christians—who dipped their fingers in the holy water. An inward voice crie... ...tch them, when, on the evening of the fifth day, he received news of their movements through Latournelle. Canalis, excessively delighted at the idea o... ... refine- ment and delicacy in the curve of the throat, what harmony in her movements, and nobility in her bearing, what gran- deur in the perfect acco...

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... this history will understand the reasons which lead the writer to use the Christian names only of some who are mentioned in it. The motives which led... ...rovinces, where his liberal ideas, conflicting with the necessities of the new power, made him a troublesome instrument. Bitten with liberalism, he di... ...of which would be enough to sicken of life a young man long alienated from religious faith. Thus it was that Godefroid presented, even to the eye, the... ...man was floating between the promptings of despair and the moving voice of religious harmonies sound- ing in the bell of the cathedral when, amid the ... ... the priest. Though, like most of the sons of our century, he was far from religious, his sensibilities were touched by those words, and he returned t... ...ignated one of the four men present) was satisfied, and she would do for a new tenant just as she did for the others. “I do not think,” said the pries... ... Consolation Madame de la Chanterie furnish the rooms for him. He wanted a new life, and the very sight of these objects would remind him of that whic... ...ever- theless, it is a truth which rests on the authority of the first six Christian centuries, during which no recluse ever returned to social life. ... ... Consolation “You close my mouth, for if ever a soul resembled that of the Christian hero, it is yours,” said Godefroid. In spite of the hardness whic...

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...hese— why, it is like the shepherd’s glimpse at the pixies!—as one reads a new book, or watches what one only half under- stands—a rook’s parliament, ... ...s intelligent amber eyes, and black and red mouth. Charles began to find a new inter- est in his listless life in the attempt to draw Guy out, and mak... ...ity to begin with Dickens, when there is so much of a higher grade equally new to you. I suppose you do not understand Italian?’ ‘No,’ said Guy , abru... ...l in mind or cultivation, and though I hardly like to say so, not at all a religious man. At any rate, Marga- 56 The Heir of Redclyffe ret Morville w... ...us all, but you should remember that if you are a Morville, you are also a Christian.’ ‘He does remember it!’ said Amy, raising her eyes to his face, ... ... has been play- ing tricks on you. You know, my little cousin, that I am a Christian, and we live in the nineteenth century.’ Charlotte felt as if ann... ...tfit for Oxford; Mr. Edmonstone gave him a set of studs, Mrs. Edmonstone a Christian Year, Amabel copied some of his favourite songs, Laura made a dra... ...of agony. Guy, who had such a horror of singing anything deep in pathos or religious feeling to mixed or unfit auditors, asked to do so in her name! ‘... ...am not afraid of it. A naturally hot temper, controlled like his by strong religious principle, is far safer than a cool 193 Yo n g e easy one, witho...

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...n of them, dog a great House for centuries, and be at the birth of all the new heirs in succession, diligently taking confirmatory notes, to join hand... ... on Sir Willoughby maintained their station with strict observation of his movements at all hours; and were comparisons in quest, the sympathetic ea- ... ...ll you in advance, madam,” said he, “that I will do everything to obtain a new lease of it, except divorce you.” They were infinitely wittier, but so ... ...he name of their first husband, or do not ham- per his title with a little new squire at their skirts, that they can partially approve the objections ... ... the names of some of them, and repeated: “Mary, Susan, Charlotte—only the Christian names, pray! Well, my dears, you will bring your garlands to the ... .... Doctor Middleton has one of the grandest heads in England.” “What is her Christian name?” said Laetitia. He thought her Christian name was Clara. La... ...which was not in perfect harmony with him through the series of responsive movements to his own, informed him of a some- thing in her character that m... ...abel and Miss Dale were con- sulted. They had nothing to say about Clara’s movements, more than that they could not understand her exceeding rest- les... ...foolish? They expressed your feelings—hold them sacred. They are something religious to me, not mere poetry. Perhaps the third verse is my favourite …...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created a...

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...CTION THE K ORAN admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works... ...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ... into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great ... ...ractically the same as speaking of Muhammed, and in trying to appraise the religious value of the book one is at the same time attempting to form an o... ... assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard t... ...be two opin- ions now that the Koran has been thoroughly compared with the Christian and Jewish traditions of the time; and it is, besides some origin... ...ically a case in which originality consists not so much in the creation of new materials of thought as in the manner in which existing traditions of v... ...werfully affected the finest and most cultivated minds among both Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. This general progress of the Muhammedan worl... ... before they should differ regarding their scriptures, as did the Jews and Christians.” 2 In accordance with this advice, Othman determined to establ...

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...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ... quite distinct from his former nonchalant manner, he advanced towards the new-comer. He was an old man—an old man evidently, too, of the He- brew rac... ...count that Jowler married Mrs. J., a creature who had not, I do believe, a Christian name, or a single Christian quality: she was a hideous, bloated, ... ...tres. She consumed the first three platefuls with a fork and spoon, like a Christian; but as she warmed to her work, the old hag would throw away her ... ...ies whom I have mentioned, and some ladies in the cantonment of very rigid religious principles, refused to ap- pear at my little party. They had bett... ... Irishman, and a Catholic.” “But he has not been very particular about his religious du- ties?” “Alas, no.” “He has not been to his mosque for these t... ...fs. “I have,” said I, “unbelieving dogs! I have. Do you think to pervert a Christian gentleman from his faith and honor? Ruf- fian blackamoors! do you... ...m towards the emporium; but you may be sure did not neglect to perform his religious duties by the way. En- tering the cathedral, he made straight for...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors...

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...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...loam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobi... ...arliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Walden episode. Second, it appears, and the point is ... ...ehind their back. At the church door, between sermons, he would parade his religious views amid hisses. These details stamp the man. He had no genteel... ...“the satisfaction and aplomb of animals.” If he preaches a sort of ranting Christianity in morals, a fit consequent to the ranting opti- mism of his c... ...e would be honestly historical in method, of the human heart as at present Christianised. His is a morality without a pro- 75 Familiar Studies of Men... ...rs. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious revival. He watched Lincoln going daily to his work; he studied a... ...ppreciate them in us.” “The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.” “It is...