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...n". As usual, Judaism was there first, agonizing over similar moral conflicts. Two Jewish sayings amount to a reluctant admission of the relativity... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...as many drawbacks. One, it leads to moral relativism. Consider this maxim from the Jewish Talmud: "Do not do unto thy friend that which you hate". ... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...itic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If ra... ... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ...

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...iving in retirement. “The preparatory poem is biographical, and conducts the history of the Au thor’s mind to the point when he was emboldened to hop... ...s the cabinet 225 Of their sensations, and in voluble phrase Run through the history and birth of each As of a single independent thing. Hard task, va... ...omestic table: and, dear Friend! In this endeavour simply to relate A Poet’s history, may I leave untold 80 The thankfulness with which I laid me down... ...tal trim; Short velvet cloak, (her bonnet of the like), 220 A mantle such as Spanish Cavaliers Wore in old times. Her smooth domestic life, Affectiona... ...— From Homer the great Thunderer, from the voice That roars along the bed of Jewish song, And that more varied and elaborate, Those trumpet tones of h...

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...AJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.... ...inistration of his vineyard according to those sentences fulminated against the Jewish people: “the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given... ... you will not fail to recollect, that this same thing anciently happened to the Jewish doctors, when they came to the explanation of those passages ... ... 1 Bossuet, in his Discourse upon Universal History. c. 20. Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part II in the Holy Scr... ...g under consideration, various passages of scripture (whether of prophecy or of history) and speaking upon them, to quit the historical and literal ... ...ading the terrible threatenings against Babylon, he observes, as well in sacred history as in profane, that this city maintained itself without any ... ...mplished with all fulness, therefore Messiah is not come. This argument of the Jewish doctors, is of all which they advance, the only one to which ...

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...O GICO PR PR PR PR PRODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO ODIGIOSO From the Spanish of Calderon. Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824; d... ... Spirit that pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman; or is angered at the consequences of that necessity, which is... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...s put into our hands when children, called the Bible, the purport of whose history is briefly this: That God made the earth in six days, and there pla...

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...1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But ... ... are unknown to us) continued to operate. Though the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly ... ...oms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It ... ... who lead the masses. Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as repre... ...to the historians: to one of them this goal is the greatness of the Roman, Spanish, or French realm; to another it is liberty, equal- ity, and a certa...

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...s old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settle... ...allowance. The story is current, at any rate, though I believe that strict history will not bear it out, that the only bridge ever carried away on the... ... associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, n... ...anity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Fort... ...ee from earth to heaven, and see there standing, still a fixture, that old Jewish scheme! What right have you to hold up this obstacle to my understan... ... bears Manilla twine, Or in her hold Madeira wine, Or China teas, or Spanish hides, In port or quarantine she rides; Far from New England’...

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...s. Some high boy’s voice is appeal- ing to me in Belgian, Italian, Polish, Spanish and—beautiful English. “Hey, Jack, give me a cigarette, Jack ….” I ... ...st thirty voices in eleven languages (I counted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and Eng... ...en were upstairs after the second promenade (which gave the writer of this history an exquisite chance to see an atrocity at first-hand), Lena was tak... ...ive all day—being conducted to and from her society by a planton. He spoke Spanish well and French passably; had black hair, bright Jewish eyes, a dea... ...planton. He spoke Spanish well and French passably; had black hair, bright Jewish eyes, a dead-fish expression, and a both amiable and courteous dis- ... ...as indeed he had been cheerfully expecting for some time. If he reads this history I hope he will not be too angry with me for whatever injustice it d... ...ddened—or at any rate galvanized—by the biggest single contribution in its history; the arrival simulta- neously of six purely extraordinary persons, ...

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...ed by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively . I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign b... ...irs to my own storey. An hour later I was sitting at my table, writing my “History of Railways,” and the starving peasants did not now hinder me from ... ... to send for Shrek really.” A little red-haired man with a long nose and a Jewish accent arrived; then a tall, stooping, shaggy individual, who looked... ...walk along the road which I have known for thirty years, and which has its history for me. Here is the big grey house with the chemist’s shop; at this... ...ndmill. He had a solemn and majestic air. Pressing his hat to his bosom in Spanish style, he took a step towards my uncle and made a bow such as a mar...

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... Laurent Valla, Rabelais had retranslated into Latin the first book of the History. That translation unfortunately is lost, as so many other of his sc... ...strument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming. Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be more easily understood. The Inquis... ...s death, John Ozell, translator on a large scale of French, Ital- ian, and Spanish authors, revised Motteux’s edition, which he published in five volu... ...t. It is the adventures of Baldo, son of Guy de Montauban, the very lively history of his youth, his trial, imprisonment and deliverance, his journey ... ...egyrist has made them patterns of all the virtues. In reality it is both a history and in some sort a romance; especially is it a collec- tion of exam... ...rdly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Ther... ... and combing his head with a comb, which was nine hundred foot long of the Jewish cane measure, and whereof the teeth were great tusks of elephants, w... ...dpiece. Panurge, the day thereafter, caused pierce his right ear after the Jewish fashion, and thereto clasped a little gold ring, of a ferny-like kin... ...ne chapter, swallow me this rare gloss. Formerly an ancient prophet of the Jewish nation ate a book and became a clerk even to the very teeth! Now wil...

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...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ...owever, was not realized in actual composition till a calmer period of his history. Of this early harsh and crude, yet fervid and genial period, Werte... .... We are here looking at the work chiefly as a docu- ment for the writer’s history; and in this point of view, it certainly seems, as contrasted with ... ...peared to be hidden under strange appellations. I was also taught that the Jewish nation, as long as it flour- ished, actually were satisfied with the... ...ese family scenes, before they were to lose themselves in a history of the Jewish nation, show us now, in conclusion, a form by which the hopes and fa... ...givings of the boy, and even of the youth, was especially the state of the Jewish quarter of the city (Judenstadt), properly called the Jew Street (Ju... ...und something which did not quite satisfy our eyes or our imagination. The Spanish mantles, the huge plumed hats of the ambassadors, and other objects... ...he open air. The ambassadors of the absent tem- poral electors, with their Spanish dresses of gold brocade, embroidered over with gold, and trimmed wi... ...ntly mounts his horse: he was a very handsome, slender gentleman, whom the Spanish cos- tume, the rich doublet, the gold mantle, the high, feathered h...

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.................. 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................................................... 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ...............................................................

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....................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN .................................................................. ...ct. 76 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SPANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN WHY IS IT THAT Adventur... ... basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French wri... ...f sortilege was then coming to be thought irreligious in Christendom, as a Jewish and a Heathen mode of question- ing the dark future. She simply gues... ...her must have been painted to meet the intense interest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastica... ...eason why the Spanish of all nations became the most gloomily jealous of a Jewish cross in the pedigree, was because, until the vigilance of the Churc... ...cross so common. The hatred of fear is ever the deepest. And men hated the Jewish taint, as once in Jerusalem they hated the leprosy, because even whi... ...a. Her first adventure was a bagatelle, and fitter for a jest- book than a history; yet it proved no jest either, since it led to the tragedy that fol... ...R AR AR AR TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE THERE IS NO GREAT EVENT in modern history, or perhaps it may be said more broadly, none in all history, from ...

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...et of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. But in what sense you understood these, or ... ...y that a genus comprehends the subordinate species. He has even a personal history: he has passed through cer- tain adventures, faced certain dangers,... ... deadly enmity, to be explained only by one who should know the mysterious history of both parties from the eldest times. It is extraordinary, however... ...r doctrinal religions. The Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of mor... ...he same line of argument applies to all the compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , w... ...ge- ment of a learned prince, Ptolemy Philadelphus, by an asso- ciation of Jewish emigrants in Alexandria. It was, as the event has shown in very many... ...ge that we remember can do justice to the first of these acts, except that Spanish legend of the Cid, which assures us that, long after the death of t...

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...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f... ...id Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war. “The E... ...Emperors— that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history . Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on ... ... fashion. In the midst of a conversation that was started about Napoleon’s Spanish affairs, which they all agreed in approving, Prince Andrew began to... ...m for our adored Emperor. “My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more. “Y ou heard... ... Salamanca, which was described by Crosart, a newly arrived Frenchman in a Spanish uniform. (This Frenchman and one of the German princes serving with... ...to the historians: to one of them this goal is the greatness of the Roman, Spanish, or French realm; to another it is liberty, equality, and a cer- ta...

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...-named criterion, there is a grow- ing opinion among students of religious history that Muhammed may in a real sense be regarded as a prophet of certa... ...ons now that the Koran has been thoroughly compared with the Christian and Jewish traditions of the time; and it is, besides some original Arabian leg... ... Hell, make way for gradually increasing historical statements, first from Jewish, and subsequently from Christian histo- ries; while, in the 29 Suras... ...n by his now open attacks upon idolatry (T aghout)–increasing reference to Jewish and Christian his- tories, shewing that much time had been devoted t... ...- ford much facility: and the peculiar manner in which the details of each history are increased by fresh traits at each recurrence, enables us to tra... ... same name) were among his Meccan precur- sors. See n. pp. 209, 387. Their history is to be found in the Fihrist– MS. Paris, anc. fonds, nr. 874 (and ... ...e 202 The Koran Gagnier’s Vie de Mahom. i. 362. 8 Ar. fulani (whence the Spanish fulano) identical with the Heb. p. 155, used of a person only in Ru...

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...st vermin. The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, accord- ing to the ideas of that time, as the ... ...nd, those forces of middle class public opinion which hardly existed for a Spanish nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant ever... ...th me. I am not discuss- ing literature: the book about the bee is natural history. It’s an awful lesson to mankind. You think that you are Ann’s suit... ... of vegetation: even a touch of aridity in the frequent patches of stones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north o... ... hear that, Henry? STRAKER. I’ve heard my sister say so. She was cook in a Jewish family once. MENDOZA. I could not deny it; neither could I eradicate... ... men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between th... ...e of the clockmaker’s pendu- lum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but ...

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...t might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more ...

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...R VIII? CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE, 110 -- CHAPTER IX? THE EVERLASTING YEA, 118 -- CHAPTER X? PAUSE, 126 -- BOOK III 133 -- CHAPTER I ?INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY, 133 -- CHAPTER II ?CHURCH-CLOTHES, 137...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . . . . .... ...e or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravit... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philoso phies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ... the solitude of the North Cape, on that June Midnight. He has a “light blue Spanish cloak” hanging round him, as his “most commodious, principal, ind... ...whom Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summ... ...nspotted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a w... ...e Fire balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this...

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...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ...egree— Third degree— Automatisms, their frequency among religious leaders— Jewish cases— Mohammed— Joseph Smith— Religion and the subconscious region ... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now ... ...things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing. The universe i... ...autobiographies, or other individual documents. Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic who flour- ished—or rather who existed, for there was little... ...vely strong minds and characters we find quite opposite results. The great Spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ec- stasy as far as it has often ... ...d monistic in Vedanta philosophy. I called it pan- theistic; but the great Spanish mystics are anything but pantheists. They are with few exceptions n... ... was altogether conscious of what he was doing.[323] Here, to take another Jewish case, is the way in which Philo of Alexandria describes his inspirat...