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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... That the present visible church of the Gentiles, which hath been the depository of the oracles and the sacraments, and the ordinances, since the Jew... ... his apostles, and so carried the question into the arcana of Christian antiquities, of classical writers, and the authority of the fathers, whither ... ...to many without asking our consent, or making us privy to his purpose? I know that some classical authors are of opinion that the apostle St. John m... ...he four empires in the last times ? It were an undertaking truly difficult. Some of our classical authors touch this point, and make as if they woul... ...rist, we confess that nothing certain can be derived: 39 and nevertheless, in our most classical interpreters, you shall find these Danites frequent... ...word of lamentation, or any word whatever. These things, says a doctor, one of the most classical of them, are beyond all measure too great to be ap...

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Utility, Rationality and Beyond – from Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

...ty theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm... ...ein et. al., 1978). There is reasonably well-established theory of classical utility maximization in the case of deductible general insurance... ...l preferences exhibit risk aversion (Meyer and Ormiston, 1999). Under the classical utility maximization appoach, the wealth function at the end of ... ...in, 1988). We have already witnessed some possible pitfalls of the classical expected utility maximization approach which governs the risk-re... ...plement such a utility measure. Staying within the confines of the classical normative utility theory (von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1947), on... ... role. The crowd hangs on their every word and makes them the uncontested Oracles of the marketplace. If figures and formulae continue to sp...

...This work covers a substantial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its major pitfalls before moving into what is postulated as an entropic noti...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...in its infinite wisdom, helped him in some legal areas. We don‟t have any oracles here in Singaling, consequently we must look forward like China not... ...a real positive. We play Baroque music while we learn. We know that some classical music is very positive to mental health. “We think it‟s ab...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... a fool. Most people obeyed their sexual inclinations as if they were great oracles of wisdom that would broaden them beyond the limits of themselves... ...attentiveness within his infantile limitations. She often played for him the classical music, "Scaramouche-modere" by Darius Milhaud. It was her favor... ...n your coat. I'm leaving it right here." The radio music suddenly changed to classical music with a National Public Radio DJ. Gabriele waited a coupl... ...e and turned on the radio to keep herself awake. As she was listening to the classical music of Gabrieli's Canzoni and her own internal voice gabriele... ...n eyes. She even feigned a smile. "I am bad that way: I'd rather listen to classical music and read a book than know the news. Knowing how violent ... ...ed in the present moment where smallness percolated through the orifices and oracles of the senses. Scavenging on pink and yellow-stick legs like the ... ...r day チN well, not always. I met him in a concert hall. I thought he liked classical music. I guess he does but not as much. He turns on too much p...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...s of The Realm of the Undead and Conspiracies. Pg 1816 The Ugly Truth of the Oracles Pg 1820 The Undead cunning evil tactic of Reversal Pg 1823 ... ...ou would have no reason to gamble. Throughout history, people have worshiped oracles, believed in soothsayers, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six ... ...longer based upon a single common understood definition. The old standard classical English educational system has almost disappeared from the ea... ...out rather than see the actual horrible truth about his parents. The Delphic Oracles… born blind at birth. Blind beggars given a special place at ... ...tern art and literature cannot be exaggerated. The Metamorphoses is our best classical source of 250 myths. "The poem is the most comprehensive, cr... ...heir layered auras are continually changing. Cherubs, babies with wings… in classical oil paintings depicting love and sacred religious myths: were... ...ing, and abominations of secret, unseen, hidden evil. The Ugly Truth of the Oracles This book is not a fraud: this book is not a hoax. How do y... ...decision, all of the most powerful rulers without exception consulted famous ‘oracles’: which resided inside certain key religious temples… which th...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ................................................................ 96 THE PAGAN ORACLES ...................................................................... ...he Manchester Grammar School; not with a view to further improvement in my classical knowledge, though the head-master was a sound scholar, but simply... ...d in national peculiarities. T o translate the terms of whig politics into classical Latin, would be as difficult as it might be for a whig himself to... ... suppose that, even in that day, I belonged to the party who disparage the classical writers, or the classical training of the great English schools. ... ... one con- siderable town, were that orator a subject of study amongst even classical scholars. I doubt whether, at this day, there exist twenty men in... ...Locke should hold that high and influential station as teachers, or rather oracles of truth, which has been conceded to them. As to Locke, I, when a b... ... THE P THE P THE P THE P THE PA A A A AGAN ORA GAN ORA GAN ORA GAN ORA GAN ORACLES CLES CLES CLES CLES IT IS REMARKABLE—and, without a previous explan... ...luminate this truth, none is so instructive as the large question of PAGAN ORACLES. Every part, indeed, of the Pagan religion, the course, geographica...

........................................................................................................................................... 96 THE PAGAN ORACLES ........................................................................................................................................ 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. .....................................................

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Oral Mblems

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of t... ...timber Would jar upon the ear of slumber, And, like Dodona’s talking oak, Of oracles and judgments spoke. When to the music fingered well The feet of ...

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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The

By: Anonymous

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong...

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An Essay on Comedy

By: George Meredith

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...note of. They build a temple of arrogance; they speak much in the voice of oracles; their hilarity, if it does not dip in grossness, is usually a form...

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By: William Shakespeare

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...t truer stars did govern Proteus birth His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, Act II, scene vii 35 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, H...

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Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...speeches shine— Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope? But hush! no more. [Sennet sounded....

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The Acts of the Apostles

By: Various

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...pake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrus... ... Bible, return to http://www2.hn.psu.edu /faculty/jmanis/bible.htm. For more classical works of litera- ture, return to http://www2.hn.psu.edu /facult...

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The Argonautica

By: Apollonius Rhodius

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e was much admired by Roman writers who derived inspiration from the great classical writers of Greece by way of Alexandria. In fact Alexan dria was ... ... promises of Athena, and from the answers of the gods (for very favourable oracles has Phoebus given), and then from the help of the chieftains. But d... ... food. T o all alike, however poor he was that came, the aged man gave his oracles with good will, and freed many The Argonautica 57 from their woes ... ...ver the plain; and with them went Mopsus, son of Ampycus, skilled to utter oracles from the appearance of birds, and skilled to give good counsel to t...

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...leton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in... ... upon the mountains, cheering their rough life with psalms, eager to fight, eager to pray, listening devoutly to the oracles of brain-sick children, a... ...fellows, used to swing the sickle or to wield the forest axe, were likewise shaken with strange paroxysms, and spoke oracles with sobs and streaming t...

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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...y old green silk curtains, where were kept the immense ledgers, the silent oracles of the house. The too inquisitive gazer seemed to covet this little...

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King Henry Vi, Part Ii

By: William Shakespeare

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ... sandy plains Than where castles mounted stand.’ Come, come, my lords; These oracles are hardly attain’d, And hardly understood. The king is now in pr...

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The Ball at Sceaux

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ith the deepest joy; for, like all infatuated people, she explained it, as oracles are explained, in the sense that harmonized with her wishes; she be...

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Cratylus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of t... ... me, Socrates, to be quite like a prophet newly inspired, and to be uttering oracles. SOCRATES: Yes, Hermogenes, and I believe that I caught the inspi...

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The Meno

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of t... ...is deriding the phenom ena of love or of enthusiasm in the Symposium, or of oracles in the Apology , or of divine intima tions when he is speaking o...

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The Princess

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... our hall! Our statues!—not of those that men desire, Sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode, Nor stunted squaws of West or East; but she That taught th...

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