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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to m...

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...IN JUNE that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be ca... ... rich, harmonious glow and variety of color. But the frescos were now very ancient. They had been rubbed and scrubbed by old Stein and many a predeces... ... in the hollow of a great tree, the pair spent a happy wedded life in that ancient neighborhood where now stood Donatello’s tower. From this union spr... ...whether the seven-branched golden candlestick,—the holy candlestick of the Jews, which was lost at the Ponte Molle, in Constantine’s time, had yet bee... ...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... ...ugliest part of Rome. In that vicinity lies the Ghetto, where thousands of Jews are crowded within a narrow compass, and lead a close, unclean, and mu...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...criptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organizing and propagating education. T owards these great objects... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...rom an early period: and in some remarkable curiosities illustrat- ing the Egyptian toilette, which were discovered in the cata- combs of Sahara in Mi... ...les. And at an after period, these ornaments were so much cherished by the Egyptian ladies, that, sooner than, appear in public without their tinkling... ...according to their size. This taste was very early established amongst the Jews, and chiefly, per- haps, through their intercourse with the Midianites... ...n the form of a half oval, such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by a ribbon or ... ...was fixed and determined either by religion and state policy, (as with the Jews,) or by state policy alone, (as with the Romans,) or by superstition a...

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...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ... fix’d on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disc... ...IS RIGHT . VARIATIONS. In former editions, VER 64— Now wears a garland, an Egyptian god. Altered as above for the reason given in the note. After VER.... ...o die like Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins w...

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...12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this hou... ...side the river, and at such a time. 12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, build ing the ... ... scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. 24 Then ceased the work o... ...ts, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Is rael, e... ... Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for ...

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... hitherto exulted in the prospects held out by the birth of an heir to his ancient property, failing which event it must have passed to a distant bran... ...ss who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteent... ...re called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth centur... ...Duretus, Maginus, Origen, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry... ...ng drunk after the lady or goodwife’s safe delivery. The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may he derived from the secret rites... ... lost, in a great measure, by this intermixture, the national character of Egyptians, and became a mingled race, having all the idleness and predatory... ...n of the impress service at D—; two children were soundly flogged, and one Egyptian matron sent to the house of correction. Still, however, the gipsie...

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... tells us in I Corinthians 1:23, 24: “We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them whic... ...ock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wis- dom of God.” Begin w... ...- served in every detail. They were supporters in this conten- tion by the Jews, with the result that those who were not firmly established in faith w... ... at Antioch. Among the disciples were some that had been brought up in the ancient customs of the Jews. These rose against Paul in quick indignation, ... ...les. The conference agreed that the Jews should be permitted to keep their ancient cus- toms for the time being, so long as they did not regard those ... ...gs of the monks or scholastics, nor for that matter in the writings of the ancient fathers. Augustine understood the difference somewhat. Jerome and o... ... away to die in the wilderness? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Ex. 14:11, 12.) But...

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...retched from house to house. Bright stuffs and handkerchiefs, curiosities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins,... ...istian spirit may dictate the observance. Hard by the cathedral stands the ancient Palace of the Popes, of which one portion is now a common jail, and... ... anecdote, quite appropriate to itself, connected with its adventures. ‘An ancient tradition relates, that in 1441, a nephew of Pierre de Lude, the Po... ...lings going on, and some profits realising; for there were arcades full of Jews, where those extraordinary people were sitting outside their shops, co... ... goal is reached; the prizes are won (they are given, in part, by the poor Jews, as a compromise for not running foot races themselves); and there is ... ...erground, high up in St. Peter’s, out on the Campagna, and stifling in the Jews’ quarter, Mrs. Davis turned up, all the same. I don’t think she ever s... ...e to be found in such profusion, as in Rome. There is a fine collection of Egyptian antiquities, in the Vatican; and the ceilings of the rooms in whic...

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...own. At the cost of sitting up stiff and stern, as much like those sitting Egyptian images one sees as I could manage, for pretty nearly twelve hours,... ...g to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quick... ...he last traces of the stuff. I took some last night, you know. But that is ancient history, now.” “And it goes twice?” I said, nearing his doorway in ... ... “Tell me all about yourself, dear. That journey has quite re- freshed our ancient friendship, and I do so want to keep in touch with you.” About Mr. ... ...y kindly (underlined). And Fanny replied most obtusely in the key of that “ancient friendship,” reminding Miss Winchelsea of a dozen foolish things of...

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...troduced by the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasin... ... Miss Wirt their gov- erness, that raw-boned V estal. They took her to the ancient concerts by way of a treat, and to the oratorio, and to St. Paul’s ... ... gusty, raw day at the end of April—the rain whipping the pavement of that ancient street where the old Slaughters’ Coffee-house was once situated—Geo... ...lly a reminder as that of the Death’s-head which figured in the repasts of Egyptian bon-vivants, a strange sardonic me- morial of V anity Fair. What? ... ...beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda’s diamonds, “which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.” “But I hope your lordship is orthodox,... ...es whisper to one another. The black slave was given to Bedwin Sands by an Egyptian pasha in exchange for three dozen of Maraschino. He has sewn up ev... ...s at hand, the band facetiously plays “The Camels are coming.” An enormous Egyptian head figures in the scene. It is a musical one—and, to the surpris... ...ocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews—sat under Mr. Rowls 664 V anity Fair on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on ...

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...I was exposed to view twenty-three minutes, odd seconds. Is there not some ancient story of a monstrous wretch baked in his own bull? My situation was... ...me; so I performed the task of offer- ing the Hock, stating that it was of ancient birth. The squire bunched his features; he tutored his temper, and ... ...tate, that he would, before leaving the place, do his utmost to revive the ancient glories of Bath: Bath had once set the fashion to the kingdom; why ... ...superb savage, proof against weather and compliments. Her face was like an Egyptian sky fronting night. The strong old Eastern blood put ruddy flame f... ...et is the national snapdragon bowl,” he says, and is very amusing upon the Jews; whether quite fairly, Mr. Beltham knows better than I, on my honour.’...

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... from Rome to put a subtle fragrance of Italy . He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar , finding distinction only in the decadence ... ...or the day; the keen air gave a fillip to their weariness. There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpu- lent ... ..., and whether a similarity of surname was not his only connection with the ancient family whose tree he was displaying. LXXXVIII There was a knock at ... ...ldren to help- less giggling. Just before he was due Athelny routed out an Egyptian tarboosh and insisted on putting it on. “Go on with you, Athelny ,...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ... 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... ...rvived intact for so long is that it has had more enemies than other culture. Jews THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human ... ...t? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jews perpetuated their culture for thousands of years… by rationalizing... ...Earth as being against them: all the time. They created their own fate. Now Jews are still justifying and rationalizing their culture as both a vic... ...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 ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis...

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...r of a large, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original s... ...ly as a symbol, is supremely great above every other type, whether Hindoo, Egyptian, or Greek. Virginity, the mother of great things, /magna parens re... ...the sake of a country that is all bog-land, they say, and full of horrible Jews, to say nothing of the Cossacks and the peasants—a sort of wild beasts... ...others, had kept their shop still in the Rue des Mauvaises-Paroles, in the ancient Hotel Langeais, built by that illustrious family at the time when t... ...e necessity of stopping payment unless the Baron could remit the sum. This ancient worthy, with the white hairs of seventy years, had such blind confi... ...odern cousins of Isis and her sister goddesses sheathed in marble folds by Egyptian sculptors. It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movemen... ...of country-folks never to give up bread-winning; in this they are like the Jews. Every morning, very early, Cousin Betty went off to mar- ket with the... ...uty, insists on interest, and is always engaged in seeking it! ‘God of the Jews, thou art supreme!’ says Racine. The perennial parable of the golden c... ...r,” he went on. “You, my Adeline, have not gone beyond the Rue Plumet. The Egyptians had lent enormous sums to the Hebrews, and what they ran after wa...

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...here of the human understanding. That, and the suggestive influence of the Egyptian T rinity that was then being worshipped at the Serapeum, and which... ...th, and that he has little to identify him with that hereditary God of the Jews who became the “Father” in the Christian system. On the other hand he ... ... one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded to be polytheis- tic; equally did they dread the least a... ... him.) But when one argues, one finds oneself suddenly in the net of those ancient controversies between species and individual, between the one and t... ...old religions derive from a patriarchal phase. God is in those systems the Ancient of Days. I know of no Christian attempt to represent or symbolise G... ...n are figures far past the prime of their vigour. These are gods after the ancient habit of the human mind, that turned perpetually backward for cause... ...e and the public-house? Why should gregariousness drive men out of crowded Egyptian cities into the cells of the Thebaid? Schopenhauer in a memo- rabl...

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... Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... ...l too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumi... ...s, till deeper griefs congeal our tears. So Juan wept, as wept the captive Jews By Babel’s waters, still remembering Sion: I ‘d weep,—but mine... ...sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin wan fingers beat t... ...the destiny of this young troop, How some were bought by pachas, some by Jews, How some to burdens were obliged to stoop, And others rose to... ...me bricks has got, And written lately two memoirs upon’t), Believe the Jews, those unbelievers, who Must be believed, though they believe not ... ... ‘And wonder what old world such things could see, Or hieroglyphics on Egyptian stones, The pleasant riddles of futurity— Guessing at what...

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... silver white, making it look more like those winged globes I have seen in Egyptian sculpture than anything else I can re- member upon earth. These I ... ...ht, staring at me over their shoulders, with an intent expression on their ancient faces. “Good-night,” I said, setting the door open. “It’s your own ... ... eyes; his hair was a dirty grey, and he wore a shabby blue frock-coat, an ancient silk hat, and car- pet slippers very much down at heel. He remained... ...own. At the cost of sitting up stiff and stern, as much like those sitting Egyptian images one sees as I could manage, for pretty nearly twelve hours,... ... “Tell me all about yourself, dear. That journey has quite re- freshed our ancient friendship, and I do so want to keep in touch with you.” About Mr. ... ...g to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quick...

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...pains to be so much historical, as will serve to show what hath been done by ancient and famous commonwealths against this disorder, till the very tim... ... shall therefore deem to have been large enough, in producing what among the ancients was punishable to write; save only which, all other argu ments ... ... as lineally as any pedigree. We have it not, that can be heard of, from any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our anc... ...o the demeanour of every grown man. And therefore when he himself tabled the Jews from heaven, that omer, which was every man’s daily portion of manna... ...en straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiri...

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...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... ...nothing divine in her save a sweet strange spirit of virginity. A lover in ancient Greece, who offered sacrifice before this fair image, might forget ... ...his usual calm. ‘I was telling these young people, when you came in, of an ancient Korân which I was given in Alexandria by a learned man whom I opera... ...e celebrated family of Bombast, and they were called Hohenheim after their ancient residence, which was a castle near Stuttgart in Würtemberg. The mos... ...sicians, surgeons and alchemists; from ex ecutioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gipsies, midwives, and fortune tellers; from high and low, from learn...

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...onal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo tism it eludes analysis. We know not h... ..., – In those two years of intellectual work, I discovered a truth which is ancient and simple, but which yet I know better than others do. I found out... ...ath throes of spiritual conflict issued a new birth and a new life. In the ancient Scripture “God is love” Tolstoy discerned fresh meaning, and strove... ...y one of those beautiful religious doctrines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great princ... ... to Him, and offering Him vinegar, and saying, ‘If Thou be the King of the Jews save Thyself. ’ And a superscription also was written over Him in lett... ...r Him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, say ing... ...mes, and is as tonished that the government can be so unwise as to permit Jews to enter the university. There is his guest, formerly the governor of ...

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...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ... lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture. ‘Y ou knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ...her cold fowl or hot boiled ham which many people don’t I dare say besides Jews and theirs are scruples of conscience which we must all respect though...

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...lead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Constantinople, or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or the negroes in Georgia, ... ...ng them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all b... ...tment of these problems is now. Finally, the time is drawing near when the Egyptian and the nations of India will ask us, “Are things going on for eve... ...royal line may continue, a line of hereditary presidents, with some of the ancient trappings and something of the picturesque prestige that, as the ol... ...e greatest devotion to the sovereign, and still truer was this of Indians, Egyptians, and the like. It might be easy to press this theory of devotion ... ...ical terms upon those used by the thinkers of the small Greek republics of ancient times before those petty states collapsed, through sheer political ... ...y. Now the modern intelligence, being under a sort of magic slavery to the ancient Greeks, has to adapt all these terms to the problems of states so v...

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...ch has powerfully affected the finest and most cultivated minds among both Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. This general progress of the Muhamm... ... In its finest passages we indeed seem to hear a voice akin to that of the ancient Hebrew prophets, but there is much in the book which Europeans usua... ...e people, before they should differ regarding their scriptures, as did the Jews and Christians.” 2 In accordance with this advice, Othman determined ... ...traditions of the Muhammadans themselves, with reference especially to the ancient chronological list printed by Weil in his Mohammed der Prophet, as ... ...f Bedr in Hej. 2, and of Ohod–the coalition formed against Muhammad by the Jews and idolatrous Arabians, issuing in the siege of Medina, Hej. 5 (A.D. ... ...10, composed annals of Muhammad’s life and of the progress of Islam. These ancient writers are the principal sources whence any- thing like authentic ... ...ured me that many learned Muslims were of the same opinion.” Lane’s Modern Egyptians, i. p. 75, note. 8 Like them, grow not old. 9 This seems a dire... ...gave them to the children of Israel for an heritage. 9 Then at sunrise the Egyptians followed them: And when the hosts came in view of one another, th... ...rs to be a stud- ied simplification of Ex. iv. 10-13. 5 The murder of the Egyptian. See Geiger, 159. 6 Lit. and thou hast done thy deed which thou h...

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...e to the Ro- mans. Answer to the arguments for the eternal election of the Jews. CHAPTER IV – Of the Divine Law. Laws either depend on natural necessi... ...y do not themselves distinctly state. (15) I must further premise that the Jews never make any men- tion or account of secondary, or particular causes... ...is, when the imagination is most active and uncontrolled. (26) Some of the Jews believe that the actual words of the Decalogue were not spoken by God,... ...ty, for God never deceives the good, nor His chosen, but (according to the ancient proverb, and as appears in the history of Abigail and her speech), ... ...ap. xix. he foretells first the calamities and then the restoration of the Egyptians (see verses 19, 20, 21, 25), saying that God shall send them a Sa... ...ith sacrifice and oblation; and, at last, he calls that nation the blessed Egyptian people of God; all of which particulars are specially noteworthy. ... ...in the end he prophesies their restoration, as also the restoration of the Egyptians, Ammonites, and Elamites. 47 Spinoza (62) Wherefore it is beyond...

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... Government often an insuperable impediment to forms of government. In the ancient world, though there might be, and often was, great individual or lo... ... causes of deterioration, as it even now is. Politics, as conceived by the ancients, consisted wholly in this. The natural tendency of men and their w... ... Considerations on Representative Government ancholy facts in history. The Egyptian hierarchy, the pater nal despotism of China, were very fit instru... ... afforded by another and a comparatively insignificant Oriental people—the Jews. They, too, had an absolute monarchy and a hierarchy, and their organi... ...ions more favor able to Progress could not easily exist; accordingly, the Jews, instead of being stationary like other Asiatics, were, next to the Gr... ...eyond any thing of which there is yet an example in any other mass of men, ancient or modern. The proofs of this are apparent in every page of our gre...

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...e hands symmetrically on his knees in the 45 Tolstoy naive attitude of an Egyptian statue, and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, ... .....,”* said 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... ...ear Olmutz and the camp swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering all sorts of tempting wares. The Pavlograds held feast after ... ... further initiation a like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hierogl... ...ositively that Helene is as innocent before you as Christ was be- fore the Jews.” Pierre was about to reply , but Prince V asili interrupted him. “And... ...said Sonya, who had al- ways learned well, and remembered everything. “The Egyptians believed that our souls have lived in animals, and will go back i... ...ho was considered an excellent reader, to read the appeal. “To Moscow, our ancient Capital! “The enemy has entered the borders of Russia with immense ...

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...; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as i... ...extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, D... ...y narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, Dorothea ... ... ebrations, and even to serve as an educating influence accord- ing to the ancient conception, I say nothing, for with these we are not immediately co... ...r,” she added, after a moment’s pause. “No, by George! They are as rich as Jews, those Waules and Featherstones; I mean, for people like them, who don... ...rgon, a small monograph on some lately traced indica- tions concerning the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain as- sertions of Warburton’s could be cor... ...recipient of praise. He spoke very hand- somely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,—using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to r...

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...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ...trast between this world and the next which through all the history of the Jews had continually been grow- ing wider: ‘As in heaven, so on earth.’ The... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ...r them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and look-... ...salem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotistic purposes the notoriety given ... ... interior life which are the exclusive object of our study. The baiting of Jews, 329 William James the hunting of Albigenses and Waldenses, the ston-...

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...dered as a son of Neptune, with full powers to play tricks upon others. This ancient custom is now seldom allowed, unless there are passengers on boa... ..., and we stood drenched through and blinded by the flashes, which broke the Egyptian darkness with a brightness which seemed almost malignant; whi... ...nese Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogue. The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The Chinese, too, are numer... ...raulic surface mining, where large mountain streams are diverted from their ancient beds, and made to do the work, beyond the reach of all other agen...

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...n. I often thought that as Jerusalem was besieged by the Ro- mans when the Jews were assembled together to celebrate the Passover – by which means an ... ...h it in the late plague there, wherein there died 20,000 in one day.’ ‘ An ancient gentlewoman, having practised with great suc- cess in the late plag... ...-house to drink af- ter nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city, upon the penalties ordained in that be... ...e to lie within six feet of the surface. I doubt not but there may be some ancient persons alive in the parish who can justify the fact of this, and a... ...hen they passed the Red Sea, and looked back and saw the 219 Daniel Defoe Egyptians overwhelmed in the water: viz., that they sang His praise, but th...

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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... ...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 ... ... bombings, Bin Ladin said that the W orld Islamic Front for jihad against “Jews and Crusaders” had issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gatio... ...issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime, ... ...e plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and other Jews as hostages.A special Israeli commando force stormed the plane, killed... .... Al Qaeda frequently moved the money it raised by hawala, an informal and ancient trust-based system for transferring funds. 124 In some ways, al Qae...