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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...e a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christianity.‖ —―And many Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ...hild abuse. With the exception of Lot having sex with his daughters or Judah with his daughter-in-law, incest is against God‘s laws in the Mid-Easter... ...that‘s not where we war. It‘s the Muslims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthod... ...ng our personalities into middle age. So it's never too late. ―While his ideas of a collective unconscious mind were inspired by the Easter... ...t of as a whole country or a culture but may be thought of as a smaller group of people with similar interests. So what might be normal for an Orthod... ...ial. Sometimes it is bullying, sometimes it is fighting or killing randomly. But larger violent power outbursts may be political. Skinheads in Russia...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ...e chosen group can be rewarded. But is that chosen group Sunni, Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Shi‘ite, evangelical, conservative or some other sec... ...ce of panenthism, with a God that is the force behind all nature, in early orthodox writings and in later Reformed and Conservative Jewry. But we als... ...a number of Christian mystics in the West. Panentheism is more common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Here God is both the creator and the creati... ...slims and a couple billion Christians believing in their own brands of Mid-Eastern monotheism. Then we have Judaism, Sikhism, Bahai, Shinto and other... ...f murder, stealing and lying. ―Atheists make up a high percent of the Russian and Czech populations, probably because atheistic Marxism was a fa...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...bespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a mob assembling outside. "I ... ... of San Stefano unwillingly, following a terminal defeat at the hands of a wrathful Russian army. The newly re-invented nation incorporated a huge s... ...turn they carry on a licensed and modified robbery of their own.' Self-defense by Orthodox peasants was dangerous: 'The Government makes its prese... ...nmity has long roots in the Balkans). It was a holy war for the protection of holy (Orthodox) mother church. It was this conflict that led to the Tu... ...to the very cohesion of Empire. And Serbia blocked the hitherto unhindered path to eastern territories - depriving Austria of lebensraum and raison... ... part of "Europe" rather than the "Balkans". To this very day, they hold all things Eastern (Serbs, the Orthodox version of Christianity, Belgrade, ... ... century, from self-determination through religious affiliation to nationalism. The Christians of the Balkan were easy prey. They were dispirited pe... ...ary or civil officials) and Muslim "reaya" ("flock" of taxpayers). It is true that Christians paid the arbitrarily set "harac" (or, less commonly, ...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...- but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists and that it has the potential to de... ... to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I believe otherwise. Some physical syste... ...ure Vehement protestations to the contrary notwithstanding - this is largely true. Orthodox Jews and secular Jews differ, of course, in their perce... ...ly the Jewish community as a whole - seem to benefit no matter what. When Czarist Russia collapsed, Jews occupied 7 out of 10 prominent positions ... ...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... ...s to the afterlife, to immortality, and eventual reincarnation (or karmic cycle in eastern religions). For this reason, to this very day, orthodox... ...ed on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europe, feudalism endured well into the... ...sponsible and accountable for the well-being and lives of those who wrong us? True Christians are, for instance. Moreover, most of us, most of the ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...y to shut out was an ungracious office, though mighty for the interests of orthodoxy through the land. The children of this world, who became the agit... ... insuffi- ciency. He is put on his trial as to these points only: 1. Is he orthodox? 2. Is he of good moral reputation? 3. Is he suffi- ciently learne... ...ngine of civi- lization, to the potent infidel nations on her southern and eastern frontier. A vast revolution was at hand for Europe; all her tribes ... ... least is the accredited theory; so that modern Greece is con- nected with Russia not merely by the bond of a common church, but also by blood, since ... ...n during an interval, and in a corner, Jews could have inter- married with Christians. Generally, the intensity of recipro- cated hatred, long oppress... ... excitement of mere scenery. Some laud the Caucasus; some the northern and eastern val- leys of Spain; some the Alpine scenery; some the Pyrenean. All... ... with literature. NOTE 3. Some will urge the intolerance of the Greeks for Christians of the Latin Church. But that did not hinder alli- ances, and am...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ...ond remark was substantially this which follows: What is a reli- gion? T o Christians it means, over and above a mode of wor- ship, a dogmatic (that i... ...ammar. The doctor was the most unworldly and guileless of men. Amongst his orthodox breth- ren he was reputed a “Methodist;” and not without reason; f... ...e; this was a church of England parish cler- gyman, who was to be strictly orthodox, faithful to the ar- ticles of our English church, yet to these ar... ...ble, whether Baron of Germany, Count of France, or Prince of Sicily and of Russia, is simply on a level with the common landed esquire of Britain, and... ...f political authority. Consequently, in sacrificing public amusements, the Christians sacrificed all pleasure whatso- ever that was not rigorously dom... ... their gross appreciations, Christian truth was like the scavenger bird in Eastern climates, or the stork in Holland, which signalizes its presence by... ... required exactly one other century to carry out and ac- complish even its eastern triumph. Dating from the era of the very inaugurating and merely lo...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...eserved for the edification of posterity. Among other sayings—I am quoting from memory—I remember this solemn admonition: “Let all thy words have the ... ... a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the Eastern Archi- pelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “A... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters—some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in t... ... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good 41 Joseph Conrad doctor’s c... ... a few women among them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...d for the edifica- tion of posterity. Amongst other sayings—I am quot- ing from memory—I remember this solemn admo- nition: “Let all thy words have th... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters, some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in ... ...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good doctor’s coffin with sobs an... ...uted Polish kingdom under the sceptre of Alexander I., Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an acknowledgment ... ... few women amongst them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ... ...the dawn, only the steady little draught got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. It was...

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...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...imize the importance of all dated and explicit evidences and arguments for orthodox beliefs, and to resort to vague symbolic and liberal interpretatio... ...y, of the former work that an elderly colonel, a Wombash parishio- ner, an orthodox Layman of the most virulent type, had sent him. He perceived that ... ...oque controversy. The idea of a reunion of the two great state churches of Russia and En- gland had always attracted him. But hitherto it had been a t... ...lle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the sinking of the Falaba, the Russian defeat in the Masurian Lakes, all deepened the bishop’s impression ... ... incidental of observations. “What puzzles me,” he said, “is why the early Christians identified the Spermaticos Logos of the Stoics with the sec- ond... ...ty we ever ceased to be friends,” he said. “You Englishmen aren’t like our Christians,” he went on. The Engiishmen wanted to know why. “You haven’t pr... ...y to attend to it. It’s well we’re through with Easter. Bishop Buncombe of Eastern Blowdesia was coming here anyhow. And there is Canon Bliss. There’s...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...and flame of a bonfire. That was fun to set boys jigging. No wonder how in Russia the Cossacks feared him, and scampered from the shadow of his plumes... ...braltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable of the Castle, and ha... ...were?” “Not at all.” “You like the Jews?” “Those I know I like.” “Not many Christians have the good sense and the good heart of Arthur Abner. Now go a... ... Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too, if only they will come! The mo... ...ent of a Phoebus Apollo, with his golden bow and quiver off the fairest of Eastern horizon skies, followed suddenly by the sight of him toppling over ... ...to do habitually, to the chapel herself; but to denounce the ritual of the Orthodox Church under the de- nomination of ‘barbarous,’ to say of the invo... ...their history, but now they ‘re down I don’t side with the Philistines, or Christians. They ‘re good citizens, and they ‘ve got Samson in the brain, t...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ...ir Lewis town exploded. Only at the annual balls of the Firemen and of the Eastern Star was there such prodigality of chif- fon scarfs and tangoing an... ...em. But rats, what do we care! This is an independent town, not like these Eastern holes where you have to watch your step all the time, and live up t... ...t it was their privilege as relatives to laugh at Carol, and their duty as Christians to let her know how absurd her “no- tions” were. They objected t... ...vious of their wives as they gave the social passwords of Main Street, the orthodox opin- ions on weather, crops, and motor cars, then flung away rest... ...would never, Carol fancied, be one of the town pillars, because he was not orthodox in hunting and motoring and poker. But he was winning approbation ... ...t speak so bitter about `pious’ people. There’s lots of sincere practising Christians that are real tolerant. Like the Champ Perrys.” “Yes. I know. Un...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...ressing-room, so that the smell of hot-pressed paper, vellum, morocco, and Russia leather, contended in it with the smell of divers pairs of boots; an... ...Mr Dombey alone remained unmoved. He might have been hung up for sale at a Russian fair as a specimen of a frozen gentleman. The prevailing influence ... ...orried her bitterly. Those Saturdays were Sabbaths for at least two little Christians among all the Jews, and did the holy Sabbath work of strengtheni... ...Miff has received, being of this nature, Mr Sownds the Beadle, who, though orthodox and 442 Dombey & Son corpulent, is still an admirer of female bea... ...nient slop-selling establishments of which there is abundant choice at the eastern end of London, purchased on the spot two suits of mourning—one for ... ...in- ner on the same day. Accordingly , Mr Dombey produced a list of sundry eastern magnates who were to be bidden to this feast on his behalf; to whic...

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...etch of a Survey of the Prin- ciples and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.” Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in... ...– Part Eight who were specialists and savants, occasionally—unmis- takably from politeness—alluded to it. The rest of his acquaintances, not intereste... ...e, leaving no trace. Sergey Ivanovitch’s position was still more difficult from the fact that, since he had finished his book, he had had no more lite... ...h it was impossible not to sympathize. The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the suffere... ...Ivanovitch as soon as Stepan Arkadyevitch had left them. “What a typically Russian, Slav nature! Only, I’m afraid it won’t be pleasant for Vronsky to ... ...ds, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two churches, ... ...are being massacred. Even supposing they were not our brothers nor fellow- Christians, but simply children, women, old people, feel- ing is aroused an... ...at tea his brother drew him on to ex- plain his views of the future of the Eastern question, and he spoke so simply and so well, that everyone lis- te...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 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 Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...ason.” 70 The hijackers attacked at 9:28.While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the ... ... reason they were scrambled.As the lead pilot explained,“I reverted to the Russian threat....I’m thinking cruise missile threat from the sea.Y ou know... ...lims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and... ... 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 ... ...iry was reputed to be an Islamic fundamental- ist and a strict adherent to orthodox Wahhabi doctrine. Some Muslims concerned about his preaching have ...

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...les by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Introduction by John Cournos INTRODUCTION Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative myster... ... mystery than Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol (1809- 1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. B... ...ly by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol inj... ....” Russian history gives him no plea- sure, and he separates it definitely from Ukrainian history. He is “ready to cast everything aside rather than r... ...es. Ever on the alert, he regarded himself as the legal protec- tor of the orthodox faith. He entered despotically into any village where there was a ... ... shout- ing, “Play faster, musicians! Begrudge not, Thoma, brandy to these orthodox Christians!” And Thoma, with his black- ened eye, went on measurin... ...ng, “Play faster, musicians! Begrudge not, Thoma, brandy to these orthodox Christians!” And Thoma, with his black- ened eye, went on measuring out wit... ... you, Remen?” And these heroes, gathered from all the roving population of Eastern Russia, kissed each other and began to ask questions. “But what has... ... harm lies not in the carts, but in the fact that not horses, but orthodox Christians*, are harnessed to them. Listen! I have not yet told all. They s...

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...stic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo tism it eludes analysis. We k... ... and writings of men of the most diverse creeds and na tionalities. Apart from those who, like Buddha and Mahomet, have been raised to the height of ... ...e Greek Leo Tolstoy 6 Church. It was the cumbrous ritual and dogma of the orthodox state religion which roused Tolstoy to impas sioned protests, and... ...cross or a new order. I see only one thing. To morrow one hundred thousand Russians and one hundred thousand Frenchmen will meet to fight; they who fi... ... struck by the steadfastness under fire which has always distinguished the Russian soldier. The fall of each man acted as an increasing stimu lus. Th... ...vely in Court circles. She was intelligent and sym pathetic, but strictly orthodox and mondaine, so that, while Tolstoy’s view of life gradually shif... ...e said. “It is all very well for the masters to be unfair, but we are true Christians. We must do as God bids. Such is the law of Christ.” “Where have... ...WO YEARS previous to those events a strong and hand some young girl of an eastern type, Katia Turchaninova, came from the Don military settlements to... ...one to death by underfeeding, there are men living who consider themselves Christians; and 147 The Forged Coupon and other stories others so enlighte...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...n some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— some by Jews and others by Christians, perhaps equally Jew- ish. Superadded to these stationary elemen... ...erly executioner’s mode of tying a knot; did it herself in a ‘ship-shape,’ orthodox man- ner; received in return the enthusiastic plaudits of the crow... ...fe-withering marches of the locust. Then again, in the gloomy vengeance of Russia and her vast artillery, which hung upon the rear and the skirts 141... ...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...te departure; that is, for signifying whether the settled intention of the Eastern Kalmucks might not have been suddenly interrupted by ad- verse inte... ... those intrigues by which Zebek-Dorchi had practised upon the pride of the Eastern tribes, now stepped in to save their people from ruin. Be the cause... ... Turks act, in putting so high a value on the words of idiots. Enlightened Christians have often wondered at their allowing any weight to people beref...

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...it to go to sleep at the same time as the hens. His coarse red hair peeped from under one end of the greasy patchwork quilt, made up of coloured rags,... ...ork quilt, made up of coloured rags, while his big unwashed feet stuck out from the other. He was listening. His hut adjoined the wall that encircled ... ...k for it. What do we want a bridge for? We don’t want it!” “Brothers, good Christians, we cannot leave it like this!” “ All right, let ‘em!” said Kozo... ...peless autumn mud, he might have been a fanatical monk, wandering from one Russian monas- tery to another, continually seeking “a peaceful life, free ... ...rstand how a live, sober man could fail to remember his name. “Y ou are an orthodox Christian, aren’t you?” he asked. “Yes,” the tramp answered mildly... ... as Ptaha, and apparently knew very well the reasons which might induce an orthodox Christian to conceal his name from other people. His expressive fa... ...who doesn’t re- member his name, and it’s the very most if they send me to Eastern Siberia and give me thirty or forty lashes; but if I were to tell t... ...” The tramp took off his cap and crossed himself. “And let them send me to Eastern Siberia,” he said; “I am not afraid of that.” “Surely that’ s no be... ...h Russia and has the same God and T sar as here. They are just as orthodox Christians as you and I. Only there is more freedom there and people are be...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 b... ... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global ... ...t sleeping in his wife’s room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows. “Ah, ah, ah! Oo!. . . ” he muttered,... ...ented herself to be. No one knew what her faith was—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. But one fact was indubitable—she was in amicable relations with... ...tal, wages, and rent. He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern— much the larger—part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nin... ... wife had to go to the concert and some public meeting of a committee on the Eastern Question, there was a great deal to consider and settle. Levin ha... ...ich it was impossible not to sympathize. The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the suffe... ...ards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two churches... ...e, are being massacred. Even supposing they were not our brothers nor fellow Christians, but simply children, women, old people, feeling is aroused an...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...Parc-aux-cerfs, and pray with and for them, that they might preserve their—orthodoxy? (Dulaure, viii. (217), Besenval, &c.) A strange fact, not an une... ...beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glit- tering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from its shafts of light; let the Abs... ...pit tone, in these words? “Tithe, that free- will offering of the piety of Christians”—”Tithe,” interrupted Duke la Rochefoucault, with the cold busin... ... he has learned from the English, “that free-will offering of the piety of Christians; on which there are now forty-thousand lawsuits in this realm.” ... ...al-Allemand, nor any soldier now there. Gone is military order. On the far Eastern Boulevard, of Saint-Antoine, the Chasseurs Normandie arrive, dusty,... ... at the Gate by the River, bear inscriptions, if weak, yet well-meant, and orthodox. Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane ... ...Rue de Clichy,’ far North, to wait there till wanted. Apparently a certain Russian Baroness de Korff, with Waiting-woman, Valet, and two Children, wil...