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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ... greatly afflicted because of the present unawakened and even dead condition of all the churches, with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ... ...e Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of... ... galleon which was ever carried into a British port; this parish priest received from a Catholic friend on the continent, whose name I may not mentio... ...ind is historical, and it is observant of the present, and it is metaphysical, that is, independent of place and time, but it is not prophetical. I ... ...etical office, and consisteth of all those parts of the word of God, which being wholly independent of space and time, apply themselves to the pure ... ...etend to give of these thrones, and of those who sat on them, some saying that they are bishops, and others that they are the souls of the blessed i... ...s two new things, and that in so obscure a manner, at a time when the world was full of bishops, and heaven peopled with righteous and holy souls. Th...

The coming of the Messiah.

...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune... ...e warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignoring Alfre... ... 8 J.Cross/Artemis newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and... ...government, or just plain scared off. There were no real hospitals, only a few churches that were converted into crude medical stations, and run by t... ... men compromised in the field. I suggest you have the appropriate departments independently investigate what we have uncovered for themselves, and t... ...s CHAPTER 32 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA Ben Ahmed Soule’ was as a wealthy independent terrorist, and he was now on his way to fulfill his destin... ...nd Christians had worshipped peacefully in their own mosques, synagogues, and churches for centuries . When the Iraqi and Iranian war broke out, he...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...ian nation with its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an independent state, settling instead for an autonomy and an indep... ...ated in Bulgaria, the civilized and advanced society and culture. Others wanted an independent state - though they, too, believed that the salvatio... ...declared it on October 1929. It was a union of East and West, the Orthodox and the Catholic, Ottoman residues with Austro-Hungarian structures, the... ...ous reversal of pan-Serbist beliefs: "If there were more freedom... Serbia would be Catholic in twenty years. The most ideal thing would be for the ... ...acify their subjects. Mehmet II bestowed upon the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, its bishops and clergy great powers. The trade off was made explicit... ...the Christian reaya and its proceeds served to secure the lavish lifestyles of the bishops and the patriarch. In true mob style, church functionari... ... yourself inspired the apostles....You see, Lord, the battle of many years of your churches. Grant us humility, quiet the storm, so that we may kno...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ...ossibilities and explain them in their decisions. A medical ethicist at a Catholic hospital will often have a quite different decision on what is et... ...of view. Whether based on our religion, the tradition of our society, our independent thinking or our self-centered desires—our thinking is clouded ... ...hurch, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New E... ...son he wrote ‗My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than... ...federal government gives $200,000,000 a year to support the ministers and bishops. Then from the federal money given to the communes to run their go... ...by the Zoroastrians. Did the Christians borrow the idea or did it develop independently? There were also other Messiahs at the time of Jesus, but t...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ... education in Europe, the U.S. or Russia. But Americans are following the Catholic idea which is still officially pushing for more births. Pope Paul... ...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ... twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have been burned. And, of course, there has b... ... have been mainly liberal Lutherans from Scandinavia they haven‘t had the bishops and the muftis criticizing their population reduction plans. In bo... ...y of opportunity and equality of parental responsibilities. ―Newly independent women in India buck their parents‘ plans for them to marry. Th... ...o to college and work far away from their parents homes. They have become independent. We expect that our women will soon follow suit. This will have...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...wareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abstractions, ideas, emoti... ...ty. Depending on numbers, not the individual. 3. Wild dogs: they are very independent. They are free roamers. And not afraid of Lions or Hyenas.... ...ms is based upon competition and cooperation… is the same as if all Christian Churches preached that it is Good and Holy to love and hate God. Yet n... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...ords translated for them from Latin by lying hypocritical priests, Cardinals, bishops and Popes. But… however… Nobody did anything about it. Nobo... ...tion. Martin Luther may have sparked it, but soon everyone from peasants to bishops took up arms against the church and published their criticisms...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ... In the idol temples of Yucatan -- A battle with the natives -- Conversions to Catholicism -- A terrible slaughter of Indians -- Indian maidens distri... ..., which they brought into their service and placed as sentinels to guard their churches and grave-yards, and cattle, and other possessions. He asserts... ...a son of Erik, returned to Norway in 999, and finding his country converted to Catholicism, he also embraced the faith, after which he took a priest w... ...ich he took a priest with him and returned to Greenland where he built several churches, the ruins of which may still be seen. The Norsemen, as we hav... ...oning their country, went to the south, where they resolved themselves into an independent nation. This happened in the year 1100. Sixty-two years lat... ...nd trodden under foot by the most tyrannical power upon earth. We were once an independent and happy people, but the prosperity of the Totonacs is now... ...a bishop, several convents and monasteries, and a lineal succession of sixteen bishops, when, as the seventeenth was on his way to take possession of ...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ... Pew report. Yet, even this "embrace of things American" is ambiguous. Violently "independent", inanely litigious and quarrelsome, solipsistically... ...ecause it presupposes the existence of an objective, universal, culture and period independent set of preferences. Luckily, there is no such thing.... ...zerainty of the Ottomans, their former mercenaries. When emperor John V united the churches of Constantinople and Rome in a vain and impetuous effo... ... wringed its hands but provided no material or military help. The union of the two churches - Rome and Constantinople - was celebrated in the magni... ... "War and Massacre", and Elizabeth Anscombe in "War and Murder". According to the Catholic Church's rendition of this theory, set forth by Bishop ... ...s theory, set forth by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in his Letter to President Bush on Iraq, dated ... ..., set forth by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in his Letter to President Bush on Iraq, dated September...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...e were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, masturbation i... ... have in the ranks of the SS. Perhaps to find a definition of achievement which is independent of social context would be the first achievement to ... ... moral authority. Each and every one of us is allowed to spin his own moral system, independent of others. The Talmudic dictum establishes a privile... ... into the Body and Blood of Christ, is the express doctrine of the Church ...." (Catholic Encyclopedia) "CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the... ...y preconcerted - ideological tensions. In their drive to become broad, pluralistic, churches (a hallmark of totalitarian movements) - these secular ... ..., set forth by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in his Letter to President Bush on Iraq, dated September... ...ies, it is an individual's trait. Yet, can families, organizations, ethnic groups, churches, and even whole nations be safely described as "narcis...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...e were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, masturbation i... ... have in the ranks of the SS. Perhaps to find a definition of achievement which is independent of social context would be the first achievement to ... ... moral authority. Each and every one of us is allowed to spin his own moral system, independent of others. The Talmudic dictum establishes a privile... ... into the Body and Blood of Christ, is the express doctrine of the Church ...." (Catholic Encyclopedia) "CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the... ...y preconcerted - ideological tensions. In their drive to become broad, pluralistic, churches (a hallmark of totalitarian movements) - these secular ... ..., set forth by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in his Letter to President Bush on Iraq, dated September... ...ies, it is an individual's trait. Yet, can families, organizations, ethnic groups, churches, and even whole nations be safely described as "narcis...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...re, they had turned away the Roman magistrates, and declared themselves an independent people. Five hundred years had passed, since Julius Caesar’s fi... ...hen labourers are digging up the ground, to make foundations for houses or churches, they light on rusty money that once belonged to the Romans. Fragm... ...ferred the Normans to the English. He made a Norman Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; his great officers and favourites were all Normans; he introduced ... ...t known as William the Conqueror. It was a strange coronation. One of the bishops who performed the ceremony asked the Normans, in French, if they wo... ...some Protestant prisoners for denying the Pope’s doctrines, and some Roman Catholic prisoners for denying his own supremacy. Still the people bore it,... ... who inclined to the Protestant opinions, and whose husband being a fierce Catholic, turned her out of his house. She came to London, and was consid ... ...ntemptible character, he was always jeal ous of making some show of being independent of the King of France, while he pocketed his money. As—notwiths...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ized him to take the rank of retired colonel in view of his service in the Catholic armies of the West. Besides his fiction of an annuity, about which... ...wards to the Duc d’Alencon, many magistrates to the long robe, and various bishops to the clergy. Monsieur de Sponde, the maternal grandfather of Made... ...lic opinion was 47 Balzac against her; for society accepts the verdict an independent woman renders on herself by not marrying, either through losing... ... as it were, in bulk without the slightest imagination of love. Rose was a Catholic Agnes, incapable of inventing even one of the wiles of Moliere’s A... ...hich kept the town in the choicest gossip, the banns were published in the churches and at the mayor’s office. Athanase prepared the deeds. As a matte...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of miracles were not al- ways shielded from the wrath of kings, Christian bishops could expect no special interposition in their favor, when they sto... ...mercy, purity, and truth is the cause of God. The first of these Christian bishops was Ambrose, the sainted prelate of Milan. It was indeed a Christia... ... cheeks with which, of old, victorious generals were welcomed at Rome. The churches were visited instead of the Temple of Jupiter, and there was no mu... ...R hundred years of the Roman dominion had entirely tamed the once wild and independent Gauls. Everywhere, except in the moorlands of Brittany , they h... ...as. On his way he was set upon by seven hundred horsemen of the savage and independent tribe of Tchetchenges. There was a sharp fight, more than half ... ..., Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power of assisting him. The Duk... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...me back on these spring Sundays.” “I should not like to live among so many churches,” said Mrs. Best, “and so far from them all!” “Y ou love your old ... ...roke in Paulina, “it is horrid. Here we are equidistant from three or four churches, and condemned to the most behind the world of them all, and then ... ...e one where there is this distant fragrance of swells, instead of the only Catholic one.” Agatha had a little more common sense than the other two, an... ...cause Dissenters learnt pieces of Scripture! You seem to me like the Roman Catholic child, who said there were five sacraments, there ought to be seve... ...stand, as I think you do, about the future, for you must be prepared to be independent.” “I should have wished for a career if I had been a million- a... ... tell Miss Merrifield yourself, and alone, and make her feel that it is an independent opin- ion? It may save both the poor child and Angel a great de... ...t quite the case with his wife, who did not par- ticularly esteem colonial Bishops, and still less Sisterhoods 176 Modern Broods or devotion to missi...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...teson, will you give me Coley?’ She started, but did not say no; and when, independently of this, her son told her that it was his greatest wish to go... ...nse and judgment made his authority of great weight in the school, and his independent spirit led him to choose, amongst his most intimate friends and... ...of Rome at that time, and arrived at conclusions strongly adverse to Roman Catholicism as such, though he retained uninjured the Catholic tone of his ... ...this way behind the scenes, as it were. His inti- macy with so many of the Bishops, too, makes his position really of very great importance. I don’t w... ...that a sectarian char- acter, as of fixing him with party names. His was a catholic mind. What distinguished him was his open-mindedness, his essentia... ...ntrymen, for whom they had little love. After an interview between the two bishops, the ‘Undine’ returned to New Zealand, where the native boys were b... ...ed by men of energy, and power, and high 113 Yo n g e character; in fact, churches must be organised, the Gospel must be preached by men of earnest z...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ere grey and solemn. Farms and gardens, convent towers, white villages and churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp ... ...he lions in one capital roar very much like the lions in another; that the churches are more or less large and splen- did, the palaces pretty spacious... ...and powder that have simpered out of those plate-glass windows— the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hat- ted abbes which they have... ...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca... ... important per- haps is the American Convent, a Protestant congregation of Independents chiefly, who deliver tracts, propose to make con- verts, have ... ...smal barbarous creed must that expressed by the Bethesda meeting-house and Independent chapels be?)—if, as they would gravely hint, because Gothic arc...

...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...l, clothed with so weak a flesh, showed her the multiplied commandments of Catholicism as so many stones placed for protection along the precipices of... ...inions and consid- ered him a patriot,—a word which meant revolutionist in Catholic minds. Loved by his inferiors, who dared not, how- ever, proclaim ... ...ing into relief in the mystical statues placed beside the portals of their churches. Gravity of thought, word, and ac- cent, harmonized in this man an... ...boire to the postilion. Consequently he travelled slowly. Postilions drive bishops and other clergy with the utmost care when they merely double the l... ...nt. This church, one of the poorest in France where there are so many poor churches, was like one of those enormous barns with projecting doors covere... ...n into a shop at sixteen, will not in ten years be on the high-road to an independent property? I learned then to what these terrible efforts of ment... ..., was by this time living in the contemplative state of an ancient hermit. Independent through privation, no personal consideration acted on his mind;...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he differences between the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The process of ordination and... ...st, it would have seemed possible that the two demands might have grown up independently, and so far conscientiously. But, according to the realities ... ...ere falls to the ground at once the whole fabric of civil authority in any independent form. Accordingly, we are satisfied that the claim to a spiritu... ...ame time. At the opening of this present century, both of these na- tional churches began to show a marked rekindling of reli- gious fervor. In what e... ...lem. As to the talking, there would be no difficulty at all in that point; bishops, and other ‘sacred’ people, if they ever go a-masquing, for their o... ...n secretly foremost in the recent outbreak of fanaticism against the Roman Catholics; but unfortunately it happened that, although not hating the Low ... ...ric sketches of society, even where the direct object may happen to have a catholic intelligibility, there is much amongst the allusions that surround...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...riginal plan and purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- trol, except for general purposes, is the root ... ... threaten the rights of minorities. It is the public opinion formed in the independent expres- sions of towns and other small civil districts that is ... ... State Papers,” vol. i. p. 630. ****By the penal law of Massachusetts, any Catholic priest who should set foot in the colony after having been once dr... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ...ited States was then about 4,000,000, divided into 43 dioceses, with 3,795 churches, under the care of 45 bishops and 2,317 clergymen. But this rapid ... ...0,000, divided into 43 dioceses, with 3,795 churches, under the care of 45 bishops and 2,317 clergymen. But this rapid increase is mainly supported by... ...t ministers of the Gospel into the new Western States to found schools and churches there, lest religion should be suffered to die away in those remot...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nsciences. O.M. Yes. That is a good enough name for it: Con science—that independent Sovereign, that insolent abso lute Monarch inside of a man who... ...? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, an... ...i can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you... ...esses did you score? Y.M. Not one. O.M. It is as I have said: the mind is independent of the man. He has no control over it; it does as it pleases. I... ...e file. At three five a cardinal arrives with his atten dants; later some bishops; then a number of archdeacons— all in striking colors that add to t... ... mild he looked by the tender light of the storm. The towers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the riggi...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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