...volume is at last finished when I myself have already arrived at advanced middle age. Owing to my early relations with the editor and my interest in... ...umes comprise translations of the 1 I viii PREFACE sacred books of the Persians. Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main indigenous sys...

... volumes published under his supervision. N ow the fiftieth and concluding volume is at last finished when I myself have already arrived at advanced middle age. Owing to my early relations with the editor and my interest in the series ever since, I am glad to have this opportunity of accompanying with a few words by way of preface the volume that brings the series to an ...

...eive the clue which has led our author into his interpretation, that the Babylonian and Persian do together compose but one of the kingdoms, and tha... ... faith. For the rest, what our author says concerning the oneness of the Babylonian and Persian kingdom may be true politically considered but is not... ...t. This is further manifest from the vision of the eighth chapter of Daniel, where the Persian power comes upon the prophetic stage with its proper ... ...ly ones contained in scripture; while any speculation concerning the blessedness of the middle state is entertained as most orthodox and profitable,... ...r evil than this oblivion of the second advent and resurrection and exaggeration of the middle state, hath grown upon the church; which is the strang... ...s grand reunion with the Lord. For, as hath been said, I do find in the Apocalypse this middle state represented as a state of longing expectation, ... ...sorrow and death, which have thence flowed in upon us. But this finale of death and the middle state gives me, gives Christ’s people no sight nor ex... ...s sybilline leaves were never given up, invent fictions and imaginations concerning the middle state, adopt heathen ideas concerning the judgment, a... ...r count; so that they called the first the empire of the Babylonians, the second of the Persians. Now let us see how unfounded is this division, whi...

...state. Nevertheless it happens, and that with the utmost frequency, that in the middle of this accommodation which is made of the holy text to the p... ...ace upon the throne of Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, and afterward Cyrus the Persian. Babylon after that epoch remained the principal court of th... ...spoken of ancient Babylon, and the times in which it was taken by the Medes and Persians, it is certain that in those days and in that time, nothing ... ...d in that time, nothing of this kind was accomplished. After that the Medes and Persians had made themselves masters of Babylon, certain of the chil... ...le: but in the division of Ezekiel, the tribe of Judah and Jerusalem are in the middle of all the tribes; and the holy land will extend much more to ... ...cording to the merits of every one: Some shall be greatest, others great, others middle, others less, and the greatest number least, but as love, “wh...

...ent vortex like a tiny tornado enclosing her. She felt like she was in the middle of a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Speedy Gonzalez, The Road Runner, Tasma... ...e hobble-jogged towards the kitchen and bumped right into genie-man in the middle of the floor. He stood like a human wall, arms folded over finely ca... ...rieved and took particular offense at the coverage of the situation in the Middle East. Especially when the Western TV and radio newspeople referred t... ... and sat up against the sofa's camel back, feet firmly planted against the Persian rug. "You passed out." He only confirmed what she had known, but he... ... taught her, Riano would flip the script and change the rules right in the middle of a game. He did this with Monopoly and Scrabble too. For years, Th... ...e one throwing up obstacles. She couldn't forget that Jury had died in the middle of all this either. And she couldn't get over the idea that Kane's a... ...s confines, visually and tactually luxuriating in the colorful pile of his Persian carpet, eager to begin the next phase of the contest and engage his...

...ly gashes …” – Dan’s hand froze in mid-motion, the towel dripping all over his only Persian carpet. He gazed into far space and his eyes kept expand... ...r SS officers. They operated after the war mainly In Europe, South America, and the Middle East. They are supposed to have been concerned with the s... ...Jewish beast.” “But why physical, messy, costly, disruptive extermination in the middle of a global war? Why not simply ship the Jews somewhere a... ...unds released by the Reich authorities German products and market them all over the Middle East.” “I remember the scheme – or shall I say the scam... ...oebbels … about the Reichsminister, I accused her of playing both sides against the middle, of being a closet anti-Semite, a spineless opportunist, ... ... today war criminals. He wanted safe passage for them to South America, Canada, the Middle East, anywhere out of the reach of Allied courts and pros...

...ing softly. Then the figure vanished and Helen climbed out of the high bed and padded across the Persian rugs in her bare feet. She stood for a mome... ... door opened to reveal an octagonal room in the centre of which stood a marble tomb inscribed in Persian script. There was a stone bench at one end,... ...vin had mentioned, was all too evident in this vast rectangular room - marble floors covered with Persian carpets, rich tapestries adorning the wall... ...essed in a jewel-encrusted, gold tunic and tapered gold pantaloons. He wore a gold pugree in the middle of which sparkled a ruby the size of a goose... ...d Helen, checking and loading the pistol. ‘See those three lemons on that branch? I shall hit the middle one.’ She forgot about her state of undress... ... recognised that he was dressed in European clothes. His well oiled, black hair was parted in the middle and he had a thin moustache above equally t... ...iger being a nocturnal predator. A rota was drawn up by the Nawab’s chief huntsman for an early, middle and late night watch and everyone hoped that... ... weak, she gave me this book as a gift to you, Dr. Helen. She said it is her translation from the Persian of the love poems written by her ancestor,... ...ce could be transported direct to the dry kingdoms of the wealthy Rajput Princes, cutting out the middlemen, rich bunias who made an enormous profit...

...to place. “I have never known a woman, but I have read many texts from the Middle East. Some of them tell of ways to pleasure a woman.” He moved t... ...sume you have been successful in your quest?” “Yes, Erik, I have,” said the Persian, of whom I now knew something from Erik’s conversation. “Madame... ...ht admit any guests you’d wish to see.” I caught the hint of humor in the Persian’s tone; he knew there was only one guest I’d want to see. “Come ... ...I want to thank you for your kindness to us ... to him.” “Mademoiselle,” the Persian replied, turning his jade-green gaze to meet mine full-on, “I hav... ...en she came in from her afternoon ride, I met Claire at the door wearing my Persian trousers and loose shirt, but no mask. “Come upstairs with me, Cl... ... from afar as other men kissed the woman I love.” Claire stood silent in the middle of the room. I took her in my arms and bent down to kiss her. I...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 4 OPERATIONS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE PERSIAN GULF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Arab-Israeli Wars:1948, 1956, 1967–1973.147 The 1973 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Combat since 1973: Bekaa Valley . . . . . . 155 American Air Strikes ...

... or even denigrated by institutional religious bodies to ‘protect’ the ignorant. Long noticed similarities of the Song of Songs with other Ancient Middle Eastern love poetry from Sumeria through Egypt, and beyond into Persia, continues today into modern Tamil literature. A recent exhibition of 13th century Persian and related manuscripts from the State Library of Victor...

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...s in the throes of revolutionizing science. If a journalist – he is in the middle of the greatest story ever. If a novelist - he is on his way to a... ...poleon's Second Empire as the first modern dictatorship - supported by the middle and upper classes but independent of their patronage and, thus, s... ...t is not identified with any one class but does rely on the support of the middle class, the intelligentsia, the managers and industrialists, the s... ...ia's Idled Spies Russia's Last Oligarch Dimitry Goes to Washington Russia's Middle Class Russia in 2003 Russia Straddles the Euro-Atlantic Divide Rus... ...is loyal staff, and betrayed his countrymen by hiring the former enemy, the Persians, to supplant his Macedonian infantry. Alexander the Great was ... ...and united all the Greeks against him. Even his famed campaign against the Persians owed its success to the latter's precipitous decline rather tha... ...ne, other Greeks (the Ten Thousand, Agesilaus of Sparta) have defeated the Persians decisively. His bloodlust never abated: when his army mutinied ... ...to such ridicule that he reversed his decision. But, he kept on wearing the Persian royal garb and he did execute Calisthenes, an hitherto obsequiou... ...ja", "Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review", and oth...

...l design as that of butterflies; right down to the stem emerging out from the middle, which represents the Impetus Energy of sexual penetration- birt... ...thing else like odorless gas, they have no problem approaching campers in the middle of the night who mistakenly think their light and fire will prot... ...agers know full well that they can easily survive a few chilly moments in the middle of the night if they only slept together instead of alone… even ... ...igned to sleep before predators begin to prowl… And then stay up alert in the middle of the night…until they leave, and then catch a few winks befor... ...y, a psyche, a soul. But even more importantly: this created the realm of the middle-brain, where the split-off observer was supposed to function: i... ...ion of Greek civilization. Greek civilization was a recreated permutation of Persian civilization. Persian civilization was a recreated permutation... .... What was the advantage of Western agriculture practiced by the Greeks and Persians? They grew grapes: but not to eat them. They grew them in o... ...s and legends. Try to find it in the Myths of the Greeks, and Romans, or the Persians. You will not find it. The closest thing to fun or humor is ... ...rs: the Greek Golden Age would never have happened. If all the slaves of the Persian Empire had refused to work for their masters: the Persian Empi...

...ight on foot who in the battell of Plateæ, to open and to put to rowt the Persian Phalanx, advised themselves to scatter and put themselves backe, t... ... like injuries. Royall Majestie doth more hardly fall from the top to the middle, than it tumbleth downe from the middle to the bottom. But if the i... ...wered those of Delphos, in the Median warre, fearing the invasions of the Persians. They demanded of that God what they should doe with the treasure... ... Schoole of Zeno. In that excellent institution which Zenophon giveth the Persians, wee find, that as other nations teach their children Letters, so... ... unto his health; sometimes exceeding the sumptuousnesse and pompe of the Persians, and now and then surpassing the austeritie and frugalitie of the... ...answer was: 'Touching your Exordium or beginning I have forgotten it; the middle I remember not; and for your conclusion I will do nothing in it.' A... ...sed mee to imitate him: He maketh choice of the most convenient place and middle of everie wall, there to place a picture, laboured with all his ski... ... death when they tooke them prisoners; which was, to burie them up to the middle, and against the upper part of the body to shoot arrowes, and then ... ...life, far surmounting all other lives. Therefore doth neither the end nor middle of this counsell please me. We are ever falling into a relaps from ...

... Disunited Nations The War in Iraq – Coalition Building I. The Economies of the Middle East II. The Costs of Coalition Building III. Is It All ... ...s Jewish Friend VIII. Israel – The Next Target IX. Oil for Food Program X. Iraq’s Middle Class XI. Iraq’s Revenant Sons XII. Forgiving Iraq’s Deb... ...exploiter. To further its geopolitical and economic goals from Central Asia to the Middle East, it persists in buttressing regimes with scant regar... ...reside in five star hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehic... ... Rome claimed to be "liberating" Greek cities (from Macedonian domination and other Middle Eastern tyrants) - but then proceeded to establish a seri... ...y Turkic (that is, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Uighurs, while Tajiks are Persian). At the beginning of the 1990's Turkey tried to play th... ... environment, they block free trade, liberalization and deregulation. Consider the Persian Gulf, a corner of the world which subsists on trading wi... ...melight: the $800 million, 1000 megawatt light water reactor in Bushehr, an Iranian Persian Gulf port facing southern Iraq. Abandoned by West German...

...tual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. A report from the Middle Ages tells of seeing students of rhetoric in that era ―walking tens... ...  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the India-... ... Baghdad, where availability of inexpensive paper let them copy Greek and Persian writings and introduce science into the Arab world. Many of the Th... ...onquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most of the Middle East, and across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the Indi... ..., 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 Roman Empire and last... ...hores of the Danube in eastern Europe and from Siberia to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. ―The Mongol Khans, from Genghis Khan through his sons and ... ...y have been given by the Western historian.‖ In his highly praised The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Bernard Lewis seems ... ... luxuries, such as sleek Chinese silk, diamonds from Golconda, and costly Persian carpets. Islamic officials, however, blocked their way to China ...

...ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. A report from the Middle Ages tells of seeing students of rhetoric in that era ―walking tens... ...  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the India-... ... Baghdad, where availability of inexpensive paper let them copy Greek and Persian writings and introduce science into the Arab world. Many of the Th... ...onquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most of the Middle East, and across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the Indi... ..., 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 Roman Empire and last... ...hores of the Danube in eastern Europe and from Siberia to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. ―The Mongol Khans, from Genghis Khan through his sons and gr... ...y have been given by the Western historian.‖ In his highly praised The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Bernard Lewis seems ... ... luxuries, such as sleek Chinese silk, diamonds from Golconda, and costly Persian carpets. Islamic officials, however, blocked their way to China or...

...s use contraception and maybe some have had abortions. We are an upper to middle class parish. But I understand there are more problems in the poore... ...heistic elements in its beliefs. It was probably influenced by Indian and Persian pantheism. 76 ―Uniting with God is called a ‗mystical e... ... of many of them was a compromise between the blind theistic faith of the Middle Ages and the criticism of that faith by the philosophers of the Enl... ...ce IQ is measured in standard deviation percentiles, not percentages. The middle percentiles, between 90 and 110 IQs would include 50% of the populat... ...dence for them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss... ...tution, earlier prejudices have often died out, especially among those of middle class and above who don‘t have to compete for power in 120 the ... ...bject poverty is one question, but to bring up everybody‘s incomes to the middle then keep them there would be impossible without a huge overhaul of ... ... by the Assyrians in the 8 th century BCE. A few hundred years later the Persians ruled the area. Then we have the Roman conquest, then the Jews ag... ...ch. ―While the Donatists were Christians, the Manichaeans were a Persian religion that was religiously eclectic. They included Jesus as one...

...th. VII.—XI., mentions no one besides Aenesidemus, who lived later than the middle of the last century B.C. [6] The Basilides referred to by Sextus... ... in the third century, and that of Diogenes perhaps a little later than the middle, were it not that early in the third century the Stoics began to ... ...ns" only three times, [1] once comparing them to the Rhodians, once to the Persians, and once in general to other nations. [2] In the first two of... ...d by Antiochus. In fact, Sextus himself claims a close relation between the Middle Academy and Pyrrhonism. [1] Aenesidemus, although he was a Scept... ...demy. That Pyrrho had a strong influence over Arcesilaus, the founder of the Middle Academy, is evident [5] ; but there was also never a time when th... ... As Ariston said of him, [2] "Plato before, Pyrrho behind, Diodorus in the middle." Sextus also characterises the method of Arcesilaus as dialectic... ...hus: some of the Ethiopians tattoo new-born children, but we do not, and the Persians think it is seemly to have a garment of many colors and reachin... ...sition to other things, as for example to a law, when we say that among the Persians it is the custom to practice ἀξξελνκημίαη, but among the Romans... ... book of travels; among us it is forbidden κεηξάζη κίγλπζζαη, but among the Persians it is the custom by preference to marry so; the Egyptians marry ...

...erica III. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. South... ...4% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% th... ...cal year ending 31 December 1985 $12.7 million, about 3% of the total budget Persian Gulf Al Muharra MANAMA S regional map VI Geography Total area: 62... ...ies); dust storms; desertification Special notes: close proximity to primary Middle East crude oil sources and strategic location in Persian Gulf thro... ...proximity to primary Middle East crude oil sources and strategic location in Persian Gulf through which much of western world's crude oil must transit... ...aw cotton, fertilizer, manu- factured products Major trade partners: exports Middle East 19%, US 18%, Japan 7%, UK 5%, Italy 4.7%; imports US 13.7%, W... ...US 18%, Japan 7%, UK 5%, Italy 4.7%; imports US 13.7%, Western Europe 11.5%, Middle East 11%, Japan 7% (FY85) Budget: (FY87) current expenditures, $1.... ...dustries; numerous other associations representing bankers, manu- facturers, middle-class artisans, and the legal and medical professions; various org... ...lusive fishing zone: 50 nm in the Sea of Oman; median-line boundaries in the Persian Gulf Territorial sea: 12 nm Boundary disputes: none; on 17 Septem...