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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

... principle or value which aids their writing production or their sanity. The words can serve as task-master, guidance counselor or just plain comforte... ...t writers in the business to share their inspiration with us, their favorite words of wisdom, and explain why they find them so special. So take a mom... ...r, or even better, be inspired to find your own special quote or verse. What words do you write by? Robin Bayne 6 This page is blank 7 Chapter One E... ...age, of having written. Love for fellow writers. God’s love for us, the most divine love of all. Self-discipline. The ability to set the seat of our p... ...was convinced He would lead me into using my home as a B and B for traveling missionaries. But God showed me He had other plans for my life. He wanted... ...h better than anything I could ever imagine. No longer do I think of hosting missionaries in my home. For I too have become a missionary, a “wordsmith... ... never know if something we write will touch just one person, according to a divine plan. Write words from your heart, pray for direction, and you’ll ... ...o a foreign missions field. Being a writer is a lot like being a missionary. Missionaries go through extensive training, including learning the langua... ...asm via email. I open the tent flap to my life, share my dreams, and give my Divine Muse all the credit. Like a native storyteller, I spread word of p...

... all aspects of the writing life: basic motivation, rejection, publishing and succeeding. Spend some time with the writers you love and discover what words they write by. www.robinbayne.com...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

..........................................................................218 § 3. ANOTHER ORDER AND ANOTHER EXPLANATION OF THESE FOUR KINGDOMS IS PROPO... ...ly Spirit, whose office it is to show you things to come, you may come to some light of divine knowledge, and determination of holy purpose, upon th... ...have always deemed it an honour to be instructed by good and wise men in any portion of divine truth, and felt it to be, of all others the most prope... ... there was not the shadow of a doubt left upon my mind that I had been in error, if the word of God was in the right. And perceiving upon the ground... ...ign of the saints and the elect, designated in scripture, “a thousand years,” and among divines, “the millennium.” Having broken ground in this grea... ... world began: in the which work of conveying to them his Spirit by the preaching of the word, he may, and it is likely will use the election accordi... ... seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness; and send forth the law from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem; and rule among the nations,... ...mmation, the one of condemning that nation, the other of condemning the whole world; in order that all being concluded under sin, the Lord might come... ... that we have such shrinking from posts of danger, such fencing and fitting out of our missionaries, such shrieking out if any evil befall them, ins...

...entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithfully drawn from the divine testimony, or not....

... ARTICLE III....184 CHAPTER VI....192 CHAPTER VII.....205 CHAPTER VIII....210 CHAPTER IX....213 PART II...217 PHENOMENON I....218 § 3. ANOTHER ORDER AND ANOTHER EXPLANATION OF THESE FOUR KINGDOMS IS PROPOSED.....221 SECOND PART OF THE PROPHECY....227 PHENOMENON II....233 THE FOUR BEASTS OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE SAME BOOK OF DANIEL...233 PHENOMENON III....24...

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Rossum's Universal Robots

By: Karel Capek

...e E. B. Huyson Agency, New York, U.S.A. "We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for five thousand Robots. As you are sending your own vessel, please... ...ter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." (Telephone rings) Hello! This is the Ce... ... telephone) Where did I leave off? SULLA "We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." DOMIN Fifteen thousand R. Fifteen thou... ...ot to divulge the least... HELENA (standing up and giving him her hand) My word of honor. DOMIN Thank you. Won't you raise your veil? HELENA Of course... ...overed by me today." Now imagine him, Miss Glory, writing those wonderful words over some colloidal mess that a dog wouldn't look at. Imagine him si... ...ose upon a hundred saviours and prophets here. Every ship brings us some. Missionaries, anarchists, Salvation Army, all sorts. It's astonishing what... ...ing's happening, Nana. NANA Very likely. It always does. (Spelling out the words) "War in the Bal-kans." Is that far off? HELENA Oh, don't read it. It... ...e holds good. HALLEMEIER If the timetable holds good human laws hold good; Divine laws hold good; the laws of the universe hold good; everything hol...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...foTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ...ndardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergen... ...r told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Techno... ... they cracked. From the way they cracked, the priests supposed they could divine the answers. Most words in ancient China could be spoken with a s... ... years in Asia. 13 Kublai welcomed European merchants, travelers, and missionaries from different orders to his court. He sent and received envo... ...y-four years in Asia. Kublai welcomed European merchants, travelers, and missionaries from different orders to his court, and he sent and received ... ... ―demon‖ letters—another black-art link to print. Some dark sides of the “Divine Art” Print‘s blessings would prove to be mixed:  On the relig... ...nal bankruptcy spotlighted the dark side of industrial capitalism. the ―divine art‖ helped them escape the low social status traditionally assigned...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...esses 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....

... 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. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, a...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...foTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ...ndardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergen... ...r told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Techno... ... they cracked. From the way they cracked, the priests supposed they could divine the answers. Most words in ancient China could be spoken with a sin... ...ur years in Asia. 13 Kublai welcomed European merchants, travelers, and missionaries from different orders to his court. He sent and received envo... ...y-four years in Asia. Kublai welcomed European merchants, travelers, and missionaries from different orders to his court, and he sent and received ... ... ―demon‖ letters—another black-art link to print. Some dark sides of the “Divine Art” Print‘s blessings would prove to be mixed:  On the religio... ...ook their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with the ―divine art‖ helped them escape the low social status traditionally assigned...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins w...

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...V). Pictures courtesy: The Unesco Courier, June 1995. This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQue... ...fe-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability; or in other words, it influences the entire society. When used in the geographical con... .... This perceived and heightened sense of masculinity is garnered from the words the AIDS affected migrant workers use to describe the reasons for vi... ...e period may be 21-30 and other 31-35 so on.. So, in the second stage, in order to obtain an unbiased uniform effect on each and every data so coll... ...the heat of their bodies--so they had to particularly have intercourse in order to ‘cool’ their bodies. The shocking observation was that they ar... ... His wife was very angry, she does not talk to him and uses disrespectful words and ill-treats him. If the government helps his children it is suffi... ...e hot water, good food, good bedding etc. and recreation like TV., radio, divine music, religious consolation and psychological counseling. 15. 8... ... results from the fact that the patients had been approached by Christian missionaries, and these religious people had given them a patient hearing....

...ibution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability; or in other words, it influences the entire society. When used in the geographical context, the term ‘migration’ refers to the ‘permanent or semipermanent change in the residence of an individual person or group of people.’ Traditional s...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

... the Internet, or by any information storage and retrieval system; in other words, share and spread this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right o... ...know who you are (Bands that kept me focused while writing, in no particular order) Warsaw · Joy Division · New Order The Stooges The Velvet Undergrou... ...hange. Please finish reading this book before formulating any prejudices, in order to acquire the full grasp of my message. All in all, this novel is... ... at UCI. Are you daydreaming again? Jordan asks, sneaking up from behind in order to “ ” startle me on purpose. She loves to catch me daydreaming, e... ...us vines and descending sidewalks neatly paved with erect signs posting the words: No Parking At All Times. The City of Irvine doesn't like parked c... ...I can sum up why Mommy and Daddy are the way that they are with one, single word: culture. Mommy and Daddy are from the old country; and their paren... ...w it's the language of the future when only Chinese people, and maybe a few missionaries in China, speak Mandarin. It's like with Yao Ming, a Chinese... ... white sheath dress. She walks down the hallway, looking like an ethereally divine angel sent to save me. "Well, what do you think?" "You look amazi...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ry. It calls for the maximization of utility (life, happiness, pleasure). In other words, the life, happiness, or pleasure of the many outweigh the... ... parties which are "moral personhoods" or "morally significant persons" – in other words, persons who are holders of rights and can demand from us ... ... only against the background of existence. Criticism is aimed at changing. In other words, it relates to what is missing. But it is no mere sentence... ...our welfare and longevity. Ideologies - from the benign to the malign and from the divine to the pedestrian - have driven the gullible human race t... ...r, of course, in their perception of this supremacy. The religious attribute it to divine will, intellectuals to the outstanding achievements of Je... ... the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaimed missionaries of Western civilization in the Levant and Arabia. I... ...e considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all. The post-mortem integrity of ... ...cular tribe at that particular time). Popularizers of modern science and religious missionaries are all first at doing their thing - but they are n... ...e you do not allow a monster like Saddam Hussein to prevail"; "People like you are missionaries, bringing democracy and a better life to all corner...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ry. It calls for the maximization of utility (life, happiness, pleasure). In other words, the life, happiness, or pleasure of the many outweigh the... ... parties which are "moral personhoods" or "morally significant persons" – in other words, persons who are holders of rights and can demand from us ... ... only against the background of existence. Criticism is aimed at changing. In other words, it relates to what is missing. But it is no mere sentence... ...our welfare and longevity. Ideologies - from the benign to the malign and from the divine to the pedestrian - have driven the gullible human race t... ...r, of course, in their perception of this supremacy. The religious attribute it to divine will, intellectuals to the outstanding achievements of Je... ... the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaimed missionaries of Western civilization in the Levant and Arabia. I... ...e considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all. The post-mortem integrity of ... ...cular tribe at that particular time). Popularizers of modern science and religious missionaries are all first at doing their thing - but they are n... ...e you do not allow a monster like Saddam Hussein to prevail"; "People like you are missionaries, bringing democracy and a better life to all corner...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...tail and horn measured for shrinkage or total loss. After all that, he is ordered to sing Hell’s National Anthem, which is a test of intelligence, a... ...abbed each other in the back to gain position. There was no idle chatter, words of encouragement or tea and biscuits; no, just the usual crude gestu... ...e angel held, shook his head and looked up at the Heavens. Without spoken word, the message was passed on concerning Snakelex’s arrival. Before the ... ... for adding a few letters of his own. With enthusiasm, he loudly spat the word, Flopswood, like it was a bad taste. The supposed name of the town br... ...eving them to be of historic value. You would be extremely lucky to get an order from a top shelf selection. Beer, stout, wine and scotch are the lim... ...money.” Morris rubbed his hand over his whiskers. “Let’s just say, it was divine intervention. I have an open mind; I’ve watched the Twilight Zone.”... ...he wood grain, staring contempt for the creature. “Okay Morris, you want divine intervention, I’ll give it to you.” Snakelex’s smirked. “Morris me m... ...d to America and only God knows what they are up to now. The Sullys became missionaries in some remote part of the planet. They had left behind a lit... ...gel, you’re suppose to be humble.” “What’s wrong with showing my glorious divine side?” “I already did, first chapter. As he is not yet on a health p...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University o... ...e ancient thought″: <The rational is moral, since by its essence it is an order (cosmos), while the moral is rational, since the good is but the exp... ... 5.The stochastic* (Brownian) and permanent motion is an attribute of the divine will (Nihil sine Deo). According to the graphical representation b... ...predestined, as an acquired lot within the spiritual reality, through the divine will. For any rational entity, when penetrating material reality at... ...a spiritual travel in the past. One can imagine a situation where, by the divine will and (or) by the will of the rational entity itself, the code a... ...s, to the extent of their being affectively apt to this process. In other words, the MESER concept affords a plausible scientific for the disputed ph... ...pothesis on the existence of an Orionian civilization, with messengers or missionaries sent to Terra and Mars, who could have been ″recalled″ from mi... ... entity exists in another dimension (but within the same space). In other words, the ″existence within another dimension″ for each substantial entity... ...jectivization of the substantial reality is unique (there are no parallel words) and cannot undergo what in a mathematical language is called partiti...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... mere intellectual reasoning. His mentor, Socrates, had known the vox dei (divine voice within) which gave him internal direction. But, as Plato repor... ...ck to their own distinctive styles and feeling-worlds by reading their own words as they wrote them. There is a major step to be taken after working t... ...ers. I was discovering that the attainment of “oneness,” which is what the word “individuation” means, is a life-long process that has its own timetab... ...ory of which we know literally nothing. DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION We use the word religion for a number of related but distinct concepts. It takes but l... ...esulting from the Egypt of King Akhenaton’s day implies a similar claim to divine revelation by King Akhenaton. Through the influence of Zoroastrianis... ... traditions, and promulgated primarily by Muhammad, c. AD 600, who claimed divine inspiration as had the founders of the earlier religions. From this ... ... converts to Judaism. To these people the teachings of the early Christian missionaries were a welcome message: while the thoroughgoing monotheism and... ...lture had been broken up by whites and their traditional beliefs eroded by missionaries, when the Sioux were left only poor reservations on which to l... ... the dominion of the whites, as well as considerable pressure by Christian missionaries, may have created the predisposition to try the new direction....

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...founders of the Macedonian version - all members of the intelligentsia - added the word "Internal" to their name. Thus, they became, in November 18... ...Greeks transferred his bones to Bulgaria. Stalin, in a last effort to placate Tito, ordered Bulgaria to transfer them to Macedonia. Even in his deat... ... disastrous outcome. Four years later, he abdicated in disgrace. Not till 1893 was order restored in the person of King Alexander whose most import... ...(reversing a trend three centuries old) lent an air of inevitable invincibility and divine justice to the whole endeavour. It is interesting to ment... ...rcumstances of wrathful helplessness and frustration. "Native fascism" attributed a divine mission or divine plan to the political unit of the natio... ...that "only" 60-70,000 were killed in Jasenovac and other camps. The very use of the word "only" in this context ought to send a frisson of repulsion... ... horrors that the Ustashi have committed over the Serbian small girls is beyond all words. There are hundreds of photographs confirming these deeds ... ... the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self- proclaimed missionaries of Western civilization in the Levant and Arabia. I... ...gy became an all out argument about derided customs and ceremonies. Diet, dates and divine practices all starred in these grotesque exchanges. The ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. T... ...tness Chapter One: The Universe 1 How the Universe Came into Being. In order to understand how the Big Bang happened, some basic facts must be... .... It did not explode for no reason at all. It did not explode by magic. In order for it to explode, there had to be a pre-existing Condition of C... ...ry action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” However this Law is not worded correctly. The proper wording is: “For every action: there is ... ...that is Actually Infinite. I use the term: Actual, to separate my use of the word Infinity from those who think that Infinity is merely an idea, an... ... Spain and France. Southern Europe rotted in its religious patronage and its Divine Right of Kings. Until French peasants became tired of starving ... ...e of making money ever since it was invented. There was no such thing as the Divine Right of Kings… that was supposed to give them a magical power a... ...l power and the right to rule over their subjects and exploit them. But this Divine Right managed to last for over ten thousand years. Without bei... ...nt and follow his corrupted sayings as interpreted by the corrupted Christian missionaries. The early Christian zealots, who overrode that grassroot...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... days had captured 18 humans to be sacrificed to her. As you know our word ―thug‖ comes from those religious marauders of yesteryear.‖ —―My... ... the World Bank has proposed penalties against countries that disobey the order, if it is passed. ―A politician in a democratic country who tr... ...es us the command that the Inquisition and Salem have used to enforce the Divine authority. :Recently a family was buried alive in Northeas... ... term ‗yoga‘ means ‗path‘ or ‗way‘ or ‗yoke‘ or ‗unite‘. It is a Sanskrit word. There are several yogas, but they are all said to lead us to ascetici... ...hman on one‘s physical death. ―These paths to salvation, or to the Divine, are seldom exclusive. By that I mean when you take a whole belief ... ...feminine, good and evil. In fact the name ‗hatha‘ is a combination of the words for sun and moon, ‗ha‘ and ‗tha‘. ―You have probably heard ... ...uslim and Christian push for converts, have you experienced problems with missionaries or with terrorism?‖ 55 —―No. In Indus we are a Hin... ...rance of our religion we don‘t have problems. We have however discouraged missionaries of other religions. We sometimes refuse visas. In reality, s... ...rnment to help to finance their planned population reduction. Because the missionaries in their country have been mainly liberal Lutherans from Scan...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...an, or jerked beef -- Origin of the term "Buccaneer" -- Whence was derived the word "filibuster " -- Sailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on despera... ...Canaan. The father of these ancient peoples is known as Canaan, from which the word Canaanite is derived. Finding the country exceedingly fertile, the... ...by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BUILDING... ...ast voyage began. Following the example set by the most ancient navigators, he divined by means of moon and stars; carrying with him to sea the supers... ...and only occasionally are allowed, to go on shore for the purpose of attending divine service. At Ballyvaughn, on the west coast of Ireland, a boat wa... ...s boasting that they themselves were the chosen instruments of Heaven to visit divine vengeance on the Spaniard in return for the horrible cruelties t... ...years of the present time, and which we are assured by Ellis some of the early missionaries were disposed to believe. On his return to England, Master... ...he islanders customs of the most revolting barbarity. Nor has the influence of missionaries, powerful as it is, been able as yet to totally suppress t... ... to his remains, does not agree with information since given by the natives to missionaries stationed on the islands. Mr. Ledyard, who was one of the ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...tion of her death, all three had been functioning with such dead but hopeful words and perfunctory gestures which were then ripped out of them as the ... ...the pond are beautiful. Maybe they are." He had hesitated feebly. The coarse words and tone had surprised both of them. "I hear that doctors can now m... ...ntinual waterfall can come from your ass." Sang Huin had not known where the words came from. His gentle imagination had rarely formed such an aggress... ... maybe that was just his own life. The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written ... ...unwilling to tamper with fate or reduce his exposure to the sun, shaped with divine human limbs like Aten himself, that kept putting him to sleep. A m... ...celled his classes. Then, near the bus terminal, he went to a restaurant. He ordered some bogum bop, a thick mixture of rice and vegetables that one m... ...he pesty fly that was as pesty as Mormon flies (those sententious dragon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illin... ...kens, soap, and bleach that they would put into their washers. How human and divine they were! She felt cheered and soothed to see their distinct face... ...ves (watching, meditating, and loving all passerby) surely this realm of the divine that separated gods from self-centered beasts could not be willful...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... would have to invent Him—or Her. And who better than God to provide us with an existence after death that surpasses our earthly life in every divine... ...then showed his rats how to trip a switch and get an electric ‗high.‘ Then he set up an electrified grid that the animals had to run across in order ... ...d a couple of dozen male students for a two week study. He assigned some to be prisoners and others to be guards. The guards were told to keep order ... ...ould never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word l... ... I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek word m... ... met the individual can go on to satisfy the ‗truly human needs‘ or as Maslow called them ‗meta needs.‘ ―The meta needs include beauty, order,... ...on out of a God based value system or because of a drive for power. Being right, having God‘s ear, and having many people hang on your every word i... ...e of love a few minutes ago. Jesus may be said to have been such a person; Albert Schweitzer in his ministry in Africa might be another; some missio...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

...Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura . HE SAT, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old A... ...cond hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nu... ...th consisted of three papers–one he called his ‘ne varietur’ because those words were written below his signature thereon, and another his ‘clearance ... ...s of his own. As he reached the years of indiscretion, he learned to avoid missionaries and white men of serious aspect who asked who he was, and what... ...dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries of charitable societ ies could not see the be... ...he Wonder House!’ Kim gave him no title–such as Lala or Mian. He could not divine the man’s creed. ‘Ah! The Wonder House! Can any enter?’ ‘It is writt... ...there are many images in the Wonder House of Lahore?’ He repeated the last words as one making sure of an address. ‘That is true,’ said Abdullah. ‘It ... ...ay.’ 18 Kim ‘But there is no place to sleep.’ The old man was used to the order of his monastery, and though he slept on the ground, as the Rule decr... ... deliver himself of his tale at evening, and Mahbub would listen without a word or ges ture. It was intrigue of some kind, Kim knew; but its worth la...

...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great ...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...ings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger. In the same moment with his advent, he stepped aboard the... ...f just beside the placard, when, producing a small slate and tracing some. words upon it, he held it up before him on a level with the placard, so tha... ... with the placard, so that they who read the one might read the other. The words were these: “Charity thinketh no evil.” As, in gaining his place, som... ...o his proceedings afforded in the actions—quite in the wonted and sensible order of things—of the barber of the boat, whose quarters, under a smok- in... ...ction than to be a snow-flake in a snow-squall. What are a score or two of missionaries to such a people? A pinch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sen... ...ch a people? A pinch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sending ten thousand missionaries in a body and converting the Chinese en masse within six month... ...the spell by saying that, from the spectacle before them, one would little divine what other quarters of the boat might reveal. He cited the case, acc... ...iews gently to make distant allusions to this questionable propensity. She divined him. But, in her cold loveless way, said it was witless to be telli... ... of human nature the same that, in view of its con- trasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better apprec...

...ompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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