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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...od, by which to ease her pain, and yet being an atheist there was none. For atheists like her there were just ideas to be posited as if raising these... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...t. It has a right to be a Plymouth Brother though its parents be convinced atheists. It has a right to dislike its mother or father or sister or broth... ...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ...necessary ends. It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indis- pensable gymnast... ...true, it need not trouble us. But it is a fact that ignorance of Latin and Greek and mathematics closes certain careers to men (I do not mean artifici...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...VINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine 20 Of my C... ... all thir fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles 620 Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, (Erelong to swim at larg) and laugh; for...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...ne to Chaldicotes and to Gatherum Castle, consorting with gamblers, Whigs, atheists, men of loose pleasure, and Proudieites. That she had condoned; an... ...uaded her husband? But yet she did not altogether like it. She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal s... ...t he did not believe it. She at any rate would revolt from the gift of the Greek of Chaldicotes. ‘Oh, indeed, ’ she said, when the vicar had with some... ... child to her. ‘I don’t know, ’ said Grace, with a sheepish face. ‘I am in Greek Delectus and the irregular verbs. ’ ‘Greek Delectus and the irregular... ...id Lucy, thinking, however, in her own mind, that Horace and the irregular Greek verbs savoured too much of precocious forcing in a young lady of nine... ...ey in particular, who, stand- ing up there at her father’s elbow, learning Greek irregular verbs, had appeared to Mrs Robarts to be an especial ob- je...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s freely and correctly. 10 ―I think that many who have become atheis... ...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ...loudly—are all possible activities of holy people in most religions. In fact just believing in an afterlife gives you a power over the stupid atheis... ...slims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek ... ...tter word was a bit more comprehensive than just "sex," I hadn't given it the deep consideration that Montagu had. ―I was familiar with the Greek ... ...I was familiar with the Greek concepts of erotic love, the lust and desire of Eros which can cloud our reasoning. I was also familiar with the Greek ...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... his Master, equally assumes a preexisting moral ity , namely , that of the Greeks and Romans; and his advice to Christians is in a great measure a s... ...a of obligation to the public ob tains in modern morality , is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of ... ...elements of human worth, as well as “Chris tian self denial.” 2 There is a Greek ideal of self de velopment, which the Platonic and Christian ideal... ...freedom. In On Liberty — Mill 87 former days, when it was proposed to burn atheists, chari- table people used to suggest putting them in a mad- hous...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...sign. In vain do bishops stoop to pick up the dis- carded arguments of the atheists of fifty years ago by plead- ing that the words of Jesus were in a... ..., and a return made to unity of time and place, as observed in the ancient Greek drama. In the foregoing tragedy, The Doctor’s Dilemma, there are five... ... ingenuity of the playwright is much less; but I find in practice that the Greek form is inevitable when drama reaches a certain point in poetic and i...

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Louis Lambert

By: Honoré de Balzac

...s and certain Saints, who, in our day, would be regarded as heresiarchs or atheists. He was rigidly calm during the ser- vices. His own prayers went u... ...taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and from the sacred Boo... ...scover whether we are inseparable from the future. “We have been Deists or Atheists in one direction only. “Is the world eternal? Was the world create...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...d the Episcopalians Mil lerites and the Millerites Hindus, and the Hindus Atheists, and the Atheists Spiritualists, and the Spiritualists Agnos tics... ...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...ece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “Do you speak Greek?” “Yes.” “Now, ain’t that strange! I never expected to live to see th... ...being a great widower haveing lost sev eral wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. John Bright is noted for...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathe... ...in the professor’s own hand, I cannot remember to have been present in the Greek class above a dozen times. Professor Blackie was even kind enough to ... ...al of trouble to put in exercise – perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek – and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with... ...ast, from which my truantry protected me. I am sorry indeed that I have no Greek, but I should be sorrier still if I were dead; nor do I know the name... ...- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t believe he had ... ...ough he read little, was constant to his favourite books. He had never any Greek; Latin he happily re-taught himself after he had left school, where h...

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