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...Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. It includes several subplots: rape, torture and incest. It is the old story of the forces of goo...

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A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century. There were actually two authors: Ambrose Bierce and Adolph de Castro.

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...y during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and traditional folk tales. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred te...

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...the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has been scorned by traditional historians, who refer to the Monk as one who took pleasure in amusing anecdotes and witty tales, but who was ill-informed about the true march of historical events. However, several of the Monk's tales, such as that of the nine rings of the Avar strongho...

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...A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an unknown hand. (Summary by Douglas B. Killings)...

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...Levon Monk, a heart-broken drug dealer, suffers an identity crisis after inventing a new strain of psychedelic mushrooms that make him famous on the internet....

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...le, and The Prioress’s Tale Section XIV - The Prioress- Sir Topaz Link, Sir Topaz, the Topaz-Melibee Link, and The Tale of Melibee Section XV - The Monk’s Prologue and Tale Section XVI - The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue, Tale and Epilogue Section XVII - The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale Section XVIII - The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale Section XIX - The Manciple’s P...

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Dialogue format between three great philosophers. Two German and one Buddhist monk from 200 AD India.

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet someh...

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...Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech th... ...agne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to ... ...ingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Em... ... will expose you to offbeat tales that include the following:  ―Water monkeys.‖ 2  The ―goldsmith sire of capitalism.‖  Fearsome Mongol warr... ... of Aquatic Apes the previous week—wanted to hear more about ―those water monkeys. CHAPTER 1 ―I am thoroughly convinced that language evolved ... ...an’s basic need to complain.‖ —Comedienne Lily Tomlin (1939–) Did Water Monkeys Swim Before We Spoke? In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘... ...r a cat. Did Shellfish Nourish Our Brains? One other intriguing ―water monkey‖ concept cites ―evidence that the large brains of the earliest huma... ...before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The warrior-king was Charlemagne—in Latin, Carlos Mag... ...ic scholars who emphasized science and dialectical logic. In York, the monk Alcuin‘s liberal arts and sciences (LAS) school had become widely rec...

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...und me night & day..." "Beneath the white thorn lovely May..." "When Klopstock England defied..." "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau..." "I saw a Monk of Charlemaine... Morning The Birds "You dont believe—I wont attempt to make ye..." “If it is true what the Prophets write..." "I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea..." "Why was Cupid a Boy..." "Now Art has lo...

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...staring thoughtfully along the driveway, mentally preparing himself for their unwelcome guest. Sebastian stood beside him, equally pensive. ‘The mad monk’s done us a favour—saved us having to close the place ourselves. At least we’ve avoided depressing farewells.’ He shook his head in despair. ‘It feels odd knowing I’ll never see the place again. That’s where I found my f...

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...e of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk and head cook in his monastery's kitchens. He quickly gained an international reputation as a mystic and spiritual counselor. The Practice of the Presence records his last words of advice to his friends and disciples, as...

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...Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper Experiments on Plant Hybridization presents his results of studying genetic traits in pea plants. It is the ground breaking work on inheritance, being the first to d...

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...rch 2009 issue of Hinduism Today features Hindu of the Year, Swami Avdheshananda, head of Juna Akhara, Hinduism's largest monastic order with 500,000 monks....

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...rd "serious" had a negative connotation and he was that. Unless one was a monk, being contemplative was a tacit violation of laws in the Land of Smil... ...s, it is the best thing. I've been going to the temple to give food to the monks and blessings will follow. I'm sure of that. I've never gone on a fli... ... the red metallic tables on a plastic stool among a group of saffron robed monks, with the scents of rice or noodles penetrating his nostrils. He had... ... Thais were culturally programmed to give the "wei" to the Buddha and the monk but in their hearts that steamed with greed as they cooked their food ... ...onder. The present had come upon him as inconspicuously as the gait of the monk's orange robe in the subtle movements that philosopher made during the... ...imagined them glazed in morbidly saffron or vermilion dust the color of a monk's robe and the color of blood and death. All the pedestrians were indi... ...her and father had paid for him to go to a poor Buddhist school run by the monks. The monks had been impressed by his academic cleverness, and soon, a... ...notonous chant. The mosquito carried a wicker fan called a "balabot" that monks used to hide their faces as they gave the air their morbid and sonoro... ...oul to the insect as if the mosquito's appearance were only that mask Thai monks hid behind when they said their chants. "Kumpee said he would live wi...

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...ught and sold, traded and bartered, in the church. On these the priests and monks depend for their entire livelihood. I am attacking a difficult mat... ... can there be? There is no doubt, therefore, that in our day all priests and monks, together with their bishops and all their superiors, are idolator... ...land to make many proselytes [Matt. 23:15]; we fill the world with priests, monks, and nuns, and imprison them all in lifelong vows. You will find th... ...nless he is forearmed with this knowledge and understands that the works of monks and priests, however holy and arduous they may be, do not differ on... ... is often more acceptable to God than all the fastings and other works of a monk or priest, because the monk or priest lacks faith. Since, therefore,... ...at there is nowhere less of faith and of the church than among the priests, monks, and bishops. These men are in truth heathen or hypocrites. They i... ...craments: baptism, eucharist, unction, ordination of priests, ordination of monks, and burial rites. Schaff-Herzog, op. cit., X, 142. 196 The syste... ...ongues [I Cor. 14:23] cannot do that? But to pray the hours— that belongs to monks, hermits, and men in private life, even though they are laymen. The...

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...ithetics of the world of It, where there is no life of salvation. " If, 0 monk, the opinion dominates that soul and body are one in being, there is ... ...that soul and body are one in being, there is no life of salvation; if, 0 monk, the opinion dominates that the soul is one and the body another, the... ...e way". He ventures only one assertion, which is decisive: cc There is, 0 Monks, an Un­ born, neither become nor created nor formed". If there were ...

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...9,75 n. Abu Gahl, an enemy of Mohammed, 9, 300 n., 336 n. Abu 'Hamir, a monk \\'ho was op­ posed to Mohammed, 6, 188 n. Abu '1 'Abb/l,s, reproache...