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............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...h of these positions has its roots in antiquity. Our modern thinking just polishes the philosophers‘ stones a bit. Of course as empirical science has... ...m the wall you could see the metal tube up the back of it that 95 the monks forced water through so that it came out of small holes in the eyes. ... ...became a magical magnet for increasing a couple‘s closeness. But celibate monks may not have understood the pursuit of physical passion by their lai...

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... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...reaking is that it successfully explains the idea of Intelligent Design which Christian fundamentalists use in trying to refute the Big Bang Theory o... ...of Science. This chapter not only answers the Intelligent Design theories of Christian Fundamentalists, it supports it. Except it supports it not ... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucki... ...e you die, that table will not care one speck about all the hours you wasted polishing it. This is the one-sided, imbalanced insanity of living th... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s Oak table for twenty years. Once y... ... Simply because the only ones who were literate were detached holy Christian Monks detached and isolated from the outer world. So of course; if a h... ...ystem that goes against the very ethics of Christianity these supposedly holy monks were supposed to believe-in, espouse, and support. In the Mi... ...vaded Tibet, and not all the spiritual goodness and nonviolence of the ruling monks helped them fight off a larger invading army. Non-violence only...

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...at submerge in whorls. How quiet the blue, how serene where afternoon sun polishes a path aimed for the shore, Cretan, Ethiopian, Etruscan, where me... ...ricord, most of us ate in the refectory or the kitchen. Were there thirty monks at the monastery? All of them were dirty and resentful. This her- mit... ...y finely woven wires. And there was a day when Andrea’s famous sphere was polished and ready. How it glistened! How proud he was, how proud all of u... ...old up obe- lisks!) Ai, the marble columns tottered across the piazza; the monks and priests, with penises dangling, dashed out of church and monaste... ...boomed and Pliny, the upright Roman, governor, senator, consul, killer of Christians, stood before me in his white toga: P - I respect your porti... ... sketches of a spool- winding machine; I remember I evolved my machine for polishing crystals. My sketchbook filled...my ellipsograph, my new perspec... ...table must not distract. I made the tableware similar to that used by the monks as they ate in the room. It took me almost a month to arrange the fo... ...e such a thing as common sense where the bulk of mankind is concerned? Is Christianity a bulwark to be counted on, or is it cleverly concocted prete... ...dely from each other in the sectarian denominations. They all claim to be Christians, and interpret their sev- eral creeds as infallible ones. I doub...

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..., desires, fears. It's impossible to isolately live, not even hermits or monks stay alone but they at least interfere with nature. They have to - i... ... scholasticism, urged to "join faith to reason" in order to reconcile the Christian judgement with the rational judgement. For example <mind> a... .... ºukasiewicz, together with Kotarbi ½ski and Le Ñniewski from the Warsaw Polish Logic group (1919-1939), questioned the status of truth: eternal, s...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 112 THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL ........................................................................................................... 113 ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY58..................................................

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............................................................... 112 THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL ........................................................ ...more amiable and childlike person than Pope. He had much more, too, of the Christian. He was not so elaborately polished and fur- bished as the author... ...n Pope. He had much more, too, of the Christian. He was not so elaborately polished and fur- bished as the author of “The Rape of the Lock;” but he ha... ...ed in the Prologue to the Satires,—a portrait drawn with the perfection of polished malice and bitter sarcasm, but which seems more a caricature than ... ...seven times hotter than before. In 1712 appeared “The Messiah,” “The Dying Christian to his Soul,” “The Temple of Fame,” and the “Elegy on the Memory ... ...of its couplets remind you of “pebbles which had long been rolled over and polished in the ocean of his mind.” It has been asserted, but not proved, t... ...l was construed to be good; A second deluge Learning thus o’errun, And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured ...

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...city. The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop sho... ...action, and yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by th... ...rom her own breast through a pipe. Alas! the visits were detected, and the Christian prince had less mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in ... ... who had arisen at the time of the Crusades. At first they had been merely monks, who kept open house for the reception of the poor penniless pilgrims... ...t Jerusalem in need of shelter, and often of nursing and healing. The good monks not only fed and housed them, but did their best to cure the many dis... ..., and they obtained permission from the Pope to become warriors as well as monks. They were thus all in one—knights, priests, and nurses; their monast... ... an unbroken line of spears, projecting beyond the wall of gay shields and polished impenetrable armor. The Swiss were not only few in number, but arm... ...nd determined nobles of her Court? One thing was certain, that if once the Polish king were crowned with St. Stephen’s crown, it would be his own faul... ... confided her desire that the crown might be secured, so as to prevent the Polish party from getting access to it. Helen herself has written down the ...

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... tipsy fellow, finding himself held by the ice. “Then Godenot, like a good Christian, released him from his dilemma, and opened the door of the house ... ...“Then he led her to the guard-house, where he told her to sweep the floor, polish the saucepans, stir the fire, and keep a watch on everything, adding... ... your presence, was as good a 18 Balzac worker, night and day, as any two monks together. They were soon betrothed, and the marriage was arranged; bu... ...say there are no stories like the stories of our host.” “By the faith of a Christian, I never heard a better story in my life.” “Why, I can hear the r... ...t at her departure the Queen of all Marguerites was charged, by these good Christians, to kiss the captive heart- ily for all the ladies of the realm;... ...eek skin, amorous body, rosy feet, and velvet tail—a high born mouse and a polished speaker with a natural love of bed and idleness—a merry mouse, mor... ...er of convents situated in this street, where the severe continence of the monks and nuns might have caused the walls to be made so hot that some woma... ... to break up, and from lack of provisions return to their houses. Then the monks of Touraine, the lords, and the citizens, in great apprehension of pi...

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... voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ stammered the boy. The gentleman who spoke last was... ...man who spoke last was unconsciously right. It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for ... ...f bread besides. 14 OLIVER TWIST The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had pe... ...ous to attach himself to his windpipe without delay. ‘He’s as willing as a Christian, strike me blind if he isn’t!’ said Sikes, regarding the animal w... ...aid the Dodger, surveying his boots with much satisfaction when Oliver had polished them. ‘Fagin will make something of you, though, or you’ll be the ... ...night?’ asked the Jew, laying the same emphasis on the pronoun as before. ‘Monks, do you mean?’ inquired the landlord, hesitating. ‘Hush!’ said the Je... ...ey might have been talk ing, thus, for a quarter of an hour or more, when Monks— by which name the Jew had designated the strange man sev 189 OLIVE... ...do you mean to say you couldn’t have done it, if you had chosen?’ demanded Monks, sternly. ‘Haven’t you done it, with other boys, scores of times? If ... ...y I am coming.’ ‘I beg your pardon, Mr. Harry,’ said Giles: giving a final polish to his ruffled countenance with the handkerchief; ‘but if you would ...

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...ille, leaning out of a low garret window, watching the drying of his newly polished shoes on the little parapet outside (if a gentleman), or the airin... ... Gratitude and Devotion are Chris tian qualities; and a grateful, humble, Christian spirit may dictate the observance. Hard by the cathedral stands t... ...bour. Hav ing been duly astonished, here, by the sight of a few Cappucini monks, who were watching the fair weighing of some wood upon the wharf, we ... ...nts and virgins’ shrines at the street corners—of great numbers of friars, monks, and soldiers—of vast red curtains, waving in the doorways of the chu... ...cked hats, stand at the gate to search you if they choose, and to keep out Monks and Ladies. For, Sanctity as well as Beauty has been known to yield t... ...ts; but looking up into the steeples, and seeing (and hearing) these young Christians thus engaged, one might very naturally mistake them for the Enem... ...ses arrive in about an hour. In the interval, the driver swears; sometimes Christian oaths, sometimes Pagan oaths. Sometimes, when it is a long, compo... ...t jackets; quaint old stomachers, more wicked than the smart est bodices; Polish pelisses, strained and tight as ripe goose berries; tiny Greek caps...

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...w face; and above it a cocked hat, that shone so, I thought it was made of polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with bl... ...summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edifices for murder Christian science ever adopted. My hobby-horse is a quiet beast, suited for... ...e he went upon his sea martyrdom. I felt a love for that soft- hearted old Christian. Ah! let us hope his governante tucked him comfortably in bed whe... ...s glittering and pure as the Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasur... ...h and meat fizzing in the enormous pots of the cook-shops are only for the Christians. The children abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, ... ...had been battling, and which had charmed all—from our great statesman, our polished lawyer, our young Oxonian, who sighed over certain passages that h... ...nd hideous gifts ever devised by uncouth piety. Instead of a bell, the fat monks of the con- 117 Thackeray vent beat huge noises on a board, and drub... ... a fever. W e all found quarters in the Greek convent at Ramleh, where the monks served us a supper on a terrace, in a pleasant sun- 122 Notes on a J... ...y miles off at sea. The convent is a huge caravanserai; only three or four monks dwell in it, the ghostly hotel-keepers of the place. The horses were ...

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... been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on... ...r led a sumpter mule, loaded probably with his superior’s baggage; and two monks of his own order, of inferior station, rode together in the rear, lau... ...carlet, showed that he did not belong to any of the four regular orders of monks. On the right shoulder of the mantle there was cut, in white cloth, a... ... of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon. The ... ...escaped by the proper vent. The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them w... ...the Templar, “my Saracen slaves are true Moslems, and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew.” “Now, in faith,” said Wamba, “I ... ...d by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 39 Sir Walter Scott and hesitation, and many a bow of deep h... ...ot say of arrant thieves, but of errant knights and errant squires, errant monks and errant minstrels, errant jug- glers and errant jesters, that a ma... ...reeted her new dignity. Meantime, the sun shone fierce and bright upon the polished arms of the knights of either side, who crowded the opposite extre...

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...and hang at such an angle, as to be absolutely destructive to the leg of a Christian. There is no part of the Christian body with which the Turkish sa... ...s in the world this one should be the spot most cherished in the memory of Christians. It was there that He stood when He wept over the city. So much ... ...s considered necessary after the ceremony. To these mem- bers of the Greek Christian Church it had been handed 17 Anthony Trollope down from father t... ...d on the site of Arimathea, and is marked as such in many of the maps. The monks at this time of the year are very busy, as the pilgrims all stay here... ...we returned to breakfast. “The steamer has come to anchor,” said our dirty Polish host to us in execrable English. “And we may be off on board,” said ...

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...nand III in the great campaign of 1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his ... ...e and character that abound in the pages of “Don Quixote:” the Benedictine monks with spectacles and sunshades, mounted on their tall mules; the strol... ...s – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. her own and “some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her;” and as for Sancho, though on dissection we fail to fi... ...o anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself. It has only to 44 Don Quixote... ...gotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that... ... the ‘Pastor de Filida.’” “No Pastor that,” said the curate, “but a highly polished courtier; let it be preserved as a precious jewel.” “This large on... ...ustere professions in the world, and I imagine even that of the Carthusian monks is not so austere.” 100 Don Quixote “As austere it may perhaps be,” ... ... as I said, he was a graceful and gracious youth, and in his courteous and polished language showed himself to be of good birth and courtly breeding, ... ...ack for white, as was seen when he said the windmills were giants, and the monks’ mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, and much more ...

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...en and mustached counte- nance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...ot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing no- bly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...hal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good 41 Joseph Conrad doctor’s c... ...uth, he had also read deeply the authors of the eighteenth century. In him Christian charity was joined to a philosophical indulgence for the failings... ...d must have come now and then to hermits in their cells, to the cloistered monks of middle ages, to lonely sages, men of science, reformers; the revel...

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...n and moustachioed countenance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...riot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing nobly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our Uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...l Marmont; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ...d the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good doctor’s coffin with sobs an... ...uth, he had also read deeply the authors of the eighteenth century. In him Christian charity was joined to a philosophical indul- gence for the failin... ...d must have come now and then to hermits in their cells, to the cloistered monks of Middle Ages, to lonely sages, men of science, reformers; the revel...

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...of the two languages permit. With this idea, no at- tempt had been made to polish or round many of the awk- wardly constructed sentences which are cha... ...ure, they are far more in keeping with the spirit of the original than the polished periods of modern romance. Taking into consideration the many diff... ...ntioned. Now this work is the production of the joyous leisure of good old monks, of whom there are many vestiges scattered about the country, at Gren... ...claiming at the Council against the shameless behaviour of the apostles of Christianity, Philippe de Mala spent his angels—acquired with so much labou... ...irtues, and Madame Imperia to the sweet naughtiness of the goddess Venus”— Christian words which shocked the good ladies, to their credit be it said. ... ...ncil—for before her bowed humbly all the authority, science, and wisdom of Christianity. The major domo did not know him, and was going to bundle him ... ...a right reserved to bishops, so take yourself off; go and herd with simple monks, and never come back here again under pain of excommunication.” “Do n... ...plans ending in smoke, gave the arch- bishop to more devils than ever were monks alive. Thus they got halfway through the repast, which the young prie... ...ith his hand the pretty limb, and even ventured so far as to verify if the polished knee and its surroundings were satin. At this sight the poor child...

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..., and Christ be with us all.” Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the stro... ...algos setting up in oppo- sition to them, particularly squire hidalgos who polish their own shoes and darn their black stockings with green silk.” “Th... ...alm from all the knights-errant; for the Moor in his own language, and the Christian in his, have taken care to set before us your gallantry, your hig... ...squire, if he had said anything about me that was at all unbecoming an old Christian, such as I am, the deaf would have heard of it.” “That would be w... ...ack for white, as was seen when he said the windmills were giants, and the monks’ mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, and much more ... ...e baldric; the spurs were not gilt, but lac- quered green, and so brightly polished that, matching as they did the rest of his apparel, they looked be... ...and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fierces...

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...a learned lady, famed For every branch of every science known In every Christian language ever named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone... ...od, her breast was peaceable — A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles... ...en every drop had seem’d To taste of heaven—If this be true, indeed Some Christians have a comfortable creed. There were two fathers in this gha... ...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ...ould be Now under arms. Ho! Katskoff, take him to (Here he call’d up a Polish orderly) His post, I mean the regiment Nikolaiew: The strang... ... left us can compare Withal: it lies perhaps a little low, Because the monks preferr’d a hill behind, To shelter their devotion from the wind.... ...rraqueous sigh, Much as a monk may do within his cell: And a propos of monks, their piety With sloth hath found it difficult to dwell; Tho...

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... sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of worl... ...an, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian, and penetrated into the ... ...le moment’s grace allowed to Memmius, during which, had he been capable of Christian faith and love, he might have knelt before the cross, and receive... ...an’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gleaming along the hem of her kerchief, or to ... ...aces; its churches, lined with the gor- geous marbles that were originally polished for the adorn- ment of pagan temples; its thousands of evil smells... ... year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism. The company this evening included several men... ...ead of footsteps over them. The church appertains to a convent of Capuchin monks; and, as usually happens when a reverend brotherhood have such an edi... ...d ingenuity has been shown in this queer way, nor what a multitude of dead monks, through how many hun- dred years, must have contributed their bony f... ...ry of a victory. In the side walls of the vaults are niches where skeleton monks sit or stand, clad in the brown habits that they wore in life, and la...

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..., pious burgher, who will value this precious jewel of mine.” “And let her polish his flagons to the end of her days,” laughed Hugh grimly, but manife... ...igious feasts, where old T eutonic mythological observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation. In the mountains, or around the castles... ...ble language. And she knew be- sides a few German rhymes and jingles, half Christian, half heathen, with a legend or two which, if the names were Chri... ...end or two which, if the names were Chris- tian, ran grossly wild from all Christian meaning or moral- ity. As to the amenities, nay, almost the propr... ...aying at draughts in that portion of his youth which had been a shade more polished, and he felt as if the game were making Ermentrude more hike a lad... ...ny owed to the English who came to the Council of Constance, and which the monks of St. Ruprecht’s hoped might infuse some religious notions 65 Yo n ... ...box, ready in due time to be kissed; and a preaching friar (not one of the monks of St. Ruprecht’s) was in the midst of a ser- mon, telling how St. Jo... ... in the archway. Sir Kasimir was a handsome man of about thirty, of partly Polish descent, and endowed with Slavonic grace and cour- tesy, and he had ... ...g and drifting, so that it was impossible to leave the castle, and the two monks were kept there for a full fortnight, during which Christmas solemnit...