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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "...

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...), the most prominent English reformer before the Reformation and keenest of medieval critics of the doctrine of transubstantiation, was posthumously... ...estiones quarti libri sententiarum, quest. 6, E; folio cclxiv a. 60 Famous medieval textbook of theology, compiled circa 1150 by Peter Lombard (d. 1... ...ourth book treats of the sacraments in general. 61 The qualifies which, in medieval thought, were held to adhere to the invisible “substance,” and t... ... whenever they turned to repentance, remembered above all their exodus from Egypt, and remembering turned back to God who had brought them out. Moses... ...afterwards did the same. How much more ought we to remember our exodus from Egypt, and by this remembrance turn back to him who led us through the w... ...Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order. 136 religio. In medieval Latin this was a special designation for the particular piety of... ... (circa 350 A.D.), famous Latin grammarian, whose Ars Minor was the favorite medieval textbook. The chancellor of the University of Paris, John Gerso...

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...ialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek s... ...about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oce... ...o the Gregorian one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in... ... - until Faisal II of Iraq was deposed and killed in a military coup. Syria and Egypt proclaimed in a federation in February 1958. It lasted til... ...ary state: single flag and anthem, shared armed services and common foreign policy. Egypt retained the name - UAR - until 1971. Ukraine was nomi... ...he difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now Asw ān) and Alexandria, Egypt. Democritus (460-370 BC) invented the concept of a-toms ... ....com/mvm/htm/bc/71721.htm Nightmare The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" mea... ...as been a Jewish symbol for a mere 400 years, though. It appears, for instance, on medieval cathedrals. The symbol in known in India as the Sri... ...e/history.html http://www.readnrun.com/shortest_war.htm http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/hundred_years_war. html Warfare, Biologic...

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...ent summits as fresh ant-hills. Chaldea sends thee this message, father; Egypt salutes thee; Greece sends thee this song; a song of tribulation. F... ...er and stand each at one corner of the couch. The arrangement suggests a medieval church tomb, of which Mrs. Arnold's kneeling figure fm a part.] ...

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...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...h systems began appearing in India and as far away as China. In nearby Egypt, hieroglyphics were used more to record religious dogma and to glori... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Chi... ...nd scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...nglish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...aph systems began appearing in India and as far away as China. In nearby Egypt, hieroglyphics were used more to record religious dogma and to glori... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China... ... and scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...glish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...e end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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... worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria... ...terly detested by the Muslim street, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Af... ... protectorates throughout Asia Minor, Greece and today's Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt and North Africa. As Rome's sphere of interests and orbit ... ... of Vienna, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Pen... ...as in hiding from the law enforcement agencies of their own countries, most of all Egypt's. When Russia attacked Tajikistan, bin Laden and his folk... ...ures Why America is Hated In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, ... ...II. Just War or a Just War? In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover,... ...hen ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prevail? Enter the medieval doctrine of "Just War" (justum bellum, or, more precise...

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...0s and 1940s. Variants of fascist ideology sprang all over the world, from Iraq and Egypt to Norway and Britain. Even the Jews in Palestine had thei... ... the wreath of martyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica... ...ism - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 193... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The...

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...was pyramidal civilizations of accumulated dead things. Creating pyramids in Egypt, Creating pyramidal temples of stone: Creating the pyramids of A... ... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...e inside-out… as Rome was from the outside-in. The same thing happened to Egypt’s dominance and power. Until it became a cultural nation of dimw... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea... ...dden motives, multiple motives, secret agenda’s, secret plots… The history of Medieval England has many layers. Imagine sticking a bunch of ignor... ...rches. There are many first-hand accounts of the abysmal stupidity of the medieval Romans. The city became a pigsty of idiots… and every human ...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...sm - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 193... ...adition of incestuous marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more t... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units... ...ism - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 193...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...sm - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 193... ...adition of incestuous marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more t... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units... ...ism - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 193...

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...real unemployment rate of 9.5% (compared to the official figure of 3.1%). Egypt's official rate is 8% -but it masks vast over-employment in the publ... ...r to belong to less proletarian "associations", the modern equivalents of medieval guilds. Its muscle, though, is a response to the perceived threat... ...ns in France, the UK, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Chile, Argentina, Pakistan, and Egypt, among many others. More than 4 percent of all Dutch firms - c. 200... ...rchase shares in privatized firms in what was dubbed "labour capitalism". Egypt encouraged the establishment of almost 150 Employee Shareholder Asso...

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...re world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930's, li... ...ty's inevitable downfall and corruption is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval morality play. This trajectory – from rags to riches and fame a...

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...ty percent saw themselves as Muslims first and British second. This is a higher percentage than is found in Muslim countries like Jordan and Egypt.... ...erals and kings, the popes and the caliphs. Historical records relate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt ... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ...uities ―Then there was Aida again in the Coliseum in Verona. With the world‘s largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egypti...

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...nts of Jericho. But we don‘t have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be ... ...ly exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentateuch in hieroglyp... ...h in hieroglyphics? Or did he know Phoenician writing, which was based on Egyptian writing? If he lived about 1200 BCE he couldn‘t have written in H... ...hey may have developed their concept of there being only one God from the Egyptians or the Zoroastrians. Many think 48 that the ideas of Mithrai... ...ders the killing of whole nations, or lets the Red Sea engulf the pursing Egyptians after Moses had crossed. Can he tell lies, do uncharitable acts,... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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...rry-looking fruit around and bargained in the doorways of the houses with Egyptian mothers wrapped up in cloth. Men on worn-out scooters rattled past... ... rooftop. The pigeon swooped down to land on the shoulder of a rather fat Egyptian man standing shyly in the shade of a large pigeon coop. He smiled... ...been force-feeding you since you’ve been awake? Forgive us – affection in Egypt is often expressed by overeating.’ Omar came and sat next to Theo on... ...ortable and stared at his feet. ‘The guest is indeed “the face of God” in Egypt…. But you must understand – I must think about my family also. Times... ...e too intimidating to invite a closer look: A Study of the Folk Demons of Medieval Mongolia Bloodlines of the Ancient Celtic Priests Law and Ritual i... ...n “next time you see him”?’ Bozo yelled. ‘The man’s buried under half the Egyptian desert. He ain’t gonna be dropping by for tea anytime soon.’ Theo...

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...me, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content wil... ...where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content will once more become a collabora...

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...urse at the same hours, as in previous years. About a dozen photographs of Egyptian architecture to illustrate Greek (5 liavo been placed on ex- hibit... ...n stream, winds through the great desert past the pyramids and the ancient Egyptian cities, until it empties into the Mediter- ranean through the delt... ...or famine of the in- habitants of the valley. From the remotest times, the Egyptian peasant, and the phil- osoplier also, have been unable to account ... ... natural, the mysterious, and such a solving of the riddle appealed to the Egyptian mind. The average rise of the river is 25^ feet. If the freshet is... ... obtained. The necropolis of nnoient Memphis; Thebes, the capital of upper Egypt; the many chnpels and tombs hollowed out of the cliffs along the bank... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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...uch a dark night?—Why, you said—” “Never mind what I said,—’twas as dark as Egypt now, though pretty soon the moon began to rise, and——” “You mean th... ...high collared, puff sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff f... ...uilt if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances. The South has not yet recovered from the debilitating ... ...ver tires of it; it always has a fine sound to him. There is a kind of swell medieval bulliness and tinsel about it that pleases his gaudy barbaric so... ...the advantage of the gentlemen of the cowl and rosary, and he will stay. His medieval business, supplemented by the mon sters and the oddities, and t... ... starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advance... ... those wrought by “Ivanhoe.” The first swept the world’s admiration for the medieval chivalry silliness out of existence; and the other restored it. ...

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... of Moses, God justified men with- out the Law. He justified many kings of Egypt and Babylonia. He justified Job. Nineveh, that great city, was justif... ...trayed the proper use of the Law . When the children of Israel came out of Egypt a feeling of singular holiness possessed them. They boasted: “We are ... ...ain, the Red Sea even, could not have stopped them until they were back in Egypt once again? If they could not hear the Law, how could they ever hope ... ...Listen: “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods…showing m... ...they cannot escape. And you are to blame because you led the people out of Egypt. Y ou started all this.” And then the people started in on Moses. “Be... ...erit count alone for righteousness. St. Bernard was one of the best of the medieval saints. He lived a chaste and holy life. But when it came to dying...

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...painted windows; and as often as he gazed at them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...ve something to do. Half of the other pictures are Magdalens, Flights into Egypt, Crucifix- ions, Depositions from the Cross, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres... ...an artisans, all this while, had been at work on the Cleopatra. The fierce Egyptian queen had now struggled almost out of the imprisoning stone; or, r... ...wn offspring too,—I should like to hit poor Cleopatra a bitter blow on her Egyptian nose with this mallet.” “That is a blow which all statues seem doo... ...ject of wor- ship, in the Pantheon or elsewhere, since the days of ancient Egypt. See; there is a peasant from the neighboring market, actually kneeli...

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... blockheads. Now, as the Pharaohs and the croco- 101 dile domineered over Egyptian society, this accounts for a singular mistake that prevailed on th... ...ideous creatures, however visionary 8 , have a real traditionary ground in medieval belief—sincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with men... ...han in the Roman era. The reader must not look to single cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that sc... ...l nations that lived round the great pond of the Mediterranean. In Athens, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, everywhere, the ancients went to bed, like go...

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...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...barked on this expedition, and spent three months in Greece, in Turkey, in Egypt. Isabel found much to interest her in these countries, though Madame ... ... as these emo- tions had remained. She came back by the last of March from Egypt and Greece and made another stay in Rome. A few days after her arriva... .... Isabel had kept her sentiments to herself, and her journey to Greece and Egypt had effectually thrown dust in her companion’s eyes. Ma- dame Merle a...

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...and west is west, And never the twain shall meet. Instead of which, Egypt, India, and the subject countries generally had produced new generati... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near... ...sional Governments and Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the pop...

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...p- plied one of the recollections which Moses and the Israelites bore from Egypt into the desert. Perchance, on beholding the cloudy pillar and the fi... ...o foot in a costume minutely and scrupulously studied from that of ancient Egypt, as revealed by the strange sculpture of that country, its coins, dra... ...s have been dug out of its pyramids, graves, and catacombs. Even the stiff Egyptian head-dress was adhered to, but had been softened into a rich femin... ...t shunned to give the full Nubian lips, and other characteris- tics of the Egyptian physiognomy. His courage and integrity had been abundantly rewarde... ...as often as he gazed at 232 The Marble Fawn them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...ve something to do. Half of the other pictures are Magdalens, Flights into Egypt, Crucifix- ions, Depositions from the Cross, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres...

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...ew tree and the north aisle.’ ‘It’s a curious story; it carries us back to medieval times, when faith was a living thing!’ The remark, singular for a ... ...ies it was a pleasant excitement which might possibly be an advantage. The Egypt of one family was the Land of Promise to the family who saw it from a... ...ho saw it from a distance, till by residence there it became in turn their Egypt also; and so they changed and changed. However, all the mutations so ... ...e chattels of the ploughman in the direction of their land of Canaan — the Egypt of some other family who had left it only that morning. But the girls...

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...any interest, its many emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium. And they ruled and influenc... ...them wandering in the clear quiet of the ruins of Rome, among the tombs of Egypt or the temples of Athens, of their coming to Mainington and its stran...

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..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou... ...r instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. I shall probably... ...ch, 33; Strasburg, 33, Pesth, 35; Cassel, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 39; St. Petersburg, 40; Trieste, 40; Alexa... ..., in place of the criticism, the first-class daily gives you what it thinks is a gay and chipper essay—about ancient Grecian funeral customs, or the a...

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... mail-boat there. The owner is going home as he came out, overland through Egypt. The yacht would return round the Cape, of course.” 33 Joseph Conrad... ...er face, her head incredibly changed in character and suggesting something medieval, as- cetic, drooped dreamily on her breast. D’Alcacer waited, hold...

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...n but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all indeed are the poetry of the ages in which they lived. This... ...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. T...

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...ATRA by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ACT I AN OCTOBER NIGHT on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman compu... ...s, then, honorable? BELZANOR. O barbarous Persian, hear my instruction. In Egypt the bearer of good tidings is sacrificed to the gods as a thank offer... ...ded on our shores with a handful of followers, will make himself master of Egypt. He is afraid of the Roman soldiers. (The guardsmen laugh with boiste... ...Caesar? BEL AFFRIS (stepping between them). Listen, cousin. Man to man, we Egyptians are as gods above the Romans. THE GUARDSMEN (exultingly). Aha! BE... ...o inquire of Ptolemy why he had driven Cleopatra into Syria, and how we of Egypt should deal with the Roman Pompey, newly come to our shores after his... ...ilver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of p... ...command over Nature” which makes many of our English methods appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an a...

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...preparedness is, as he says, the final test of sincerity. Like Froissart’s medieval hero, who saw that “to rob and pill was a good life,” he is not th... ... haved bravely, admirably, and, in the final analysis, public- spiritedly. Medieval society, on the other hand, behaved very badly indeed in organizin... ...payers are not solid in defence of their position is that since we are not medieval rovers through a sparsely populated country, the poverty of those ... ...s collection of social nobod- ies; Julius Caesar appointing as governor of Egypt the son of a freedman—one who but a short time before would have been...

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...ren to be slaughtered; and Jesus escapes by the flight of his parents into Egypt, whence they return to Nazareth when the dan- ger is over. Here it is... ...craze no doubt led him to seek for some legend bearing out Hosea’s “Out of Egypt have I called my son,” and Jeremiah’s Rachel weeping for her children... ... on the credibility of the mas- sacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt. We may forget them, and proceed to the important part of the narra- ... ...e mostly also matters of fashion. We are conscious of a difference between medieval fashions in belief and modern fashions. For instance, though we ar... ...he stamp of superstition. We will believe in nothing less than millions. A medieval doctor gained his patient’s confidence by telling him that his vit... ... on the reader’s attention by facing the question whether, if and when the medieval and Methodist will-to-believe the Salvationist and miraculous side... ...eject Matthew’s story of the massacre of the innocents and the flight into Egypt without ceremony. The notion that Matthew’s manuscript is a literal a... ...criticism of religion: one does not offer the fact that a good deal of the medieval building in Peterborough Cathedral was found to be flagrant jerry-... ...th in St. Paul and Calvin. Imagine the effect of trying to govern India or Egypt from Belfast or from the Vatican! The position is perhaps graver for ...

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...n that ground. The recklessness with which they now recommend wintering in Egypt or at Davos to people who cannot afford to go to Cornwall, and the or... ...ary share of the risk. That has always been the case. We now know that the medieval horror of leprosy was out of all pro- portion to the danger of inf... ...t, mummy was a favorite medicament. You took a pinch of the dust of a dead Egyptian in a pint of the hottest water you could bear to drink; and it did...

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...t persuade himself to discard. The best part of his life had been spent in Egypt, in the practice of medicine, and the frigid summers of Europe scarce... ...ry, recounted the more extraordi nary operations that he had witnessed in Egypt. He had known Arthur Burdon ever since he was born, and indeed had mi... ...rmer, who brightened on hearing the language of his own country. ‘He is an Egyptian from Assiut,’ said the doctor. ‘I will buy tickets for you all,’ s... ...r which you gentlemen of science know it, and it is the most deadly of all Egyptian snakes. It is commonly known as Cleopatra’s Asp, for that is the s... ...poisonous.’ ‘I have not finished yet,’ smiled Haddo. He spoke again to the Egyptian, who gave an order to his wife. Without a word she rose to her fee... ...tern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an idea came to him. He took down a huge battle axe a...

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... February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ... ... conspiracies to explain their world. Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 execute... ...ry superficial acquaintance with W estern history and thought. Sent by the Egypt- ian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb... ...s such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Jordan still sur- vive today.Those in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and Y emen were eventually overthrown by secular nation... ...ing future, often tied to sweeping ide- ologies (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party ... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...

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...e, will not forgive people their past, but in the sight of God St. Mary of Egypt is no lower than the other saints. When it had happened to V assilyev... ...rts of nonsense. He said it would be nice if we could suddenly come upon a medieval castle with turreted towers, with moss on it and owls, in which we... ...red a place for her, and indeed from the life of the holy saint, Mariya of Egypt, one may see in what sense the word is used — excuse me …” The shopke...

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...olute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch in ... ...esque misconcep- tions of the composer’s aims—among others, the Khedive of Egypt and the Sultan of T urkey! The only change that has occurred since th...

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...her went; and although this is as undesirable an expertness as that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business goi... .... For four years she smote our firstborn and heaped on us plagues of which Egypt never dreamed. They were all as preventable as the great Plague of Lo...

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...and Medina and the intervening sands, see the caravans toiling onward, I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks. I look on chise... ...gh time, her voice by Castaly’s fountain, Silent the broken lipp’d Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century baffling tombs, Ended for aye the epics o... ... through past ages bending, building, We build to ours to day. Mightier than Egypt’s tombs, Fairer than Grecia’s, Roma’s temples, Prouder than Milan’s... ...ges, With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am, With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian,... ...t silent, strange, devout, rais’d, glowing heads, ecstatic faces. I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings, The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen, ... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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.... Yet we must get an electorate of capable critics or collapse as Rome and Egypt collapsed. At this moment the Roman decadent phase of panem et circen... ...ec- ognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bear- able after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the C...