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...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...tually they were written. Some people question whether God chose the best writers for his revelations. Perhaps Sophocles, or if we wanted more humor... ...ies necessary in a functioning society. If you have read the works of the writers seeking utopia, like Thomas More and Plato, they recognized the im... ...d there 200,000 years ago, then the Kebarans 20,000 years ago. Egyptians, Syrians, and others from the area settled, warred and conquered. The Canaa... ... Palestine--the Neanderthals, the Egyptians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Iranians, the Italians, the Muslims, the Jews? ―Is poss...

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...ct, let us consider an example. Study the couple "I am an Israeli" and "I am not a Syrian". Assuming that there are 220 countries and territories,... ...ry X, which is not Israel)". You can safely derive the true statement "I am not a Syrian" from the statement "I am an Israeli". Can I derive the ... ...eli". Can I derive the statement "I am an Israeli" from the statement "I am not a Syrian"? Not with any certainty. The negative statement "I am n... ...try X, which is not India)", including the statement "I am an Israeli". "I am not a Syrian and I am a citizen of ... (220 possibilities)" Negative ... ...sraeli") immediately generates 220 certain negative statements (such as "I am not a Syrian"). One's positive self-definition automatically excludes ... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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...ct, let us consider an example. Study the couple "I am an Israeli" and "I am not a Syrian". Assuming that there are 220 countries and territories,... ...ry X, which is not Israel)". You can safely derive the true statement "I am not a Syrian" from the statement "I am an Israeli". Can I derive the ... ...eli". Can I derive the statement "I am an Israeli" from the statement "I am not a Syrian"? Not with any certainty. The negative statement "I am n... ...try X, which is not India)", including the statement "I am an Israeli". "I am not a Syrian and I am a citizen of ... (220 possibilities)" Negative ... ...sraeli") immediately generates 220 certain negative statements (such as "I am not a Syrian"). One's positive self-definition automatically excludes ... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ... turbans on their heads, prodded camels, heavily laden animals. Were they Syrians? Somewhere along the way I met a blind man led by a boy. The sun s...

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...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ... ... Jews should leave their true faith in one God, and do like the Greeks and Syrians, his other subjects, worship the same idols, and hold drunken feast... ... the offender, and his brave sons gather- ing round him, they attacked the Syrian soldiers, killed the commissioner, and threw down the altar. Then, a... ...ge of Mount Moriah looking down on the T emple rock, was still held by the Syrians, and he had no means of taking it; but he and his men loved the san... ...Deeds ing. The bravest of them were set to keep watch and ward against the Syrians in the tower, while he chose out the most faithful priests to clean... ...nd Judas came to the rescue with his little army, to meet the far mightier Syrian force, which was made more terrific by possessing thirty war elephan...

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...for example, that two eminent per- sons, whose names were Attis, the one a Syrian, the other of Arcadia, were both slain by a wild boar; that of two w... ... But the great battle of all that was fought with Darius, was not, as most writers tell us, at Arbela, but at Gaugamela, which, in their language, sig... ...oked homeward, and had no design to reside among the barbarians. Thus some writers give their account of this action, while others say it was done del... ... were then celebrated, a feast at the first institution belonging, as some writers say, to the shepherds, and having some connection with the Arcadian... ... various parts of the sen- ate-house, several of the most expert and rapid writers, whom he had taught to make figures comprising numerous words 348 ... ...that he, who was possessed of all the vast provinces between India and the Syrian sea, should think himself so poorly off as for the sake of two citie... ...at were with him, carried him, not to the presence of Seleucus, but to the Syrian Chersonese, where he was committed to the safe custody of a strong g... ...she spoke herself, as to the Ethiopians, Troglodytes, Hebrews, Arabi- ans, Syrians, Medes, Parthians, and many others, whose lan- guage she had learnt... ... effecting the thing, which was this: there were in Corinth four brothers, Syrians born, one of whom, called Diocles, served as a soldier in the garri...

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...hile they did it, with a kick to send them down the rock into the sea. The writers of 11 Plutarch’s Lives Megara, however, in contradiction to the re... ...every nine years a tribute of seven young men and as many virgins, as most writers agree in stating; and the most poeti- cal story adds, that the Mino... ...ates, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Some writers, to take away this accusation of one of the great- est crimes laid ... ...as found lying on the bier. And many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, deifying creatures naturally mortal; for though altogether ... ...t judges, avoid the imputation of parricide. And, indeed, one of the Attic writers, perceiving it to be very hard to make an excuse for this, feigns t... ... foot guards, I advise you not to be surprised; since in fact they are all Syrians differently armed.” After his achievements in Greece, and when the ... ...tain oracles. And, in fact, he used solemnly to carry about in a litter, a Syrian woman, called Martha, a supposed prophetess, and to do sacrifice by ... ...nd te- dious, through the upper country, being informed by his freedman, a Syrian by nation, of the direct road, left that lengthy and fallacious one;... ...nions and their weapons, being saved, came to Sinope, and dispossessed the Syrians there. The Syrians held it, descended from Syrus, as is the story, ...

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...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...iter of the present, occasion to behold a second beauty. This was a native Syrian damsel, who bore the sweet name of Mariam. So it was she stood as tw... ... had actually made his appear- ance at Windsor, where he was received as a Syrian Prince, and treated with great hospitality by Royalty itself. I don’... ... board, and to point me out as the dignified personage in question. So the Syrian Prince was introduced to the Royal equerry, and a great many compli-... ..., as we were getting under way, who should come on board but my friend the Syrian Prince, most eager for a last interview with the Windsor equerry; an... ...arness of the horse, the gallant steed on which I was about to gallop into Syrian life. What a figure we cut in the moonlight, and how they would have... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...t is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction—not to say, suggesti... ...ies than could be had in the metropolis. Cato the elder, and all the early writers, notice the quality of such levies as being far superior to those d... ...Lætus, and dismissed the praetorian cohorts. Thence march- ing against his Syrian rival, Niger, who had formerly been his friend, and who was not want... ...ar upon the Parthians, who had naturally, from situa- tion, befriended his Syrian rival. Their capital cities he over- threw; and afterwards, by way o... ... soon arose; and, to the astonishment of all the world, in the person of a Syrian. The Emperor Severus, on losing his first wife, had resolved to stre... ...al romancers, in order to heighten the interest of the tale, or by ethical writers, in order to point and strengthen the moral. *Some of these traditi... ...bbers in Isauria which survived himself by cen- turies; and Odenathus, the Syrian. Others were mere T erra filii, or adventurers, who flourished and d...

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...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ...onosyllable, is here made a dissyllable. But Thebez, the dissyllable, is a Syrian city. It is true that Causabon deduces from a Syriac word meaning a ... ...ooked by those who either write En- glish history or comment upon it. Most writers of or upon English history proceed either upon servile principles, ... ...s pretensions are at stake. Pretty much under the same feeling have modern writers written with a rancorous party spirit of the political struggles in...

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...and laid to heart, I should say a better kind than that of those miserable Syrian Sects, with their vain janglings about Homoiousion and Homoousion, t... ...Reality, direct from the great Heart of Nature once more. Arab idolatries, Syrian formulas, whatso- ever was not equally real, had to go up in flame,—... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp... ...hbishop, the Primate of England and of All England? I many a time say, the writers of Newspapers, Pamphlets, Poems, Books, these are the real working ... ...rld, there is no class comparable for importance to that Priesthood of the Writers of Books. This is a fact which he who runs may read,—and draw infer...

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...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...entations are made, to what standard of a just discipline is it that these writers would be understood as appealing? Is it to some ideal, or to some e... ...s, who hate us out of mere envy or shame, have amongst us some hundreds of writers who will die or suffer martyr- dom upon this proposition—that arist... ...ng to heaven, as a penitential litany, that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the prophet Elijah as a reason for a personal dispensatio... ...cy about Ecbatana, when suddenly a horrid discovery was made—that the very Syrian village at his own head-quarters was known by the pompous name of Ec...

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...That the Hebrew style of the coif- fure may probably be collected from the Syrian coins; and, 2. That black hair being admired in Palestine, and the J... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...t Jaffa, perpetrated by Napoleon in coun- cil. 13 In the Saxon, as in the Syrian massacre, the numbers were between four and five thousand; not that ...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rpse, again the pomps of life rise up in silence, the glory of summer, the Syrian sunlights, the frost of death. Dream forms itself mysteriously withi... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...til several moons later, when he formed the invaluable acquaintance of the Syrian “butcher,” viz., Djezzar, the Pacha of Acre. I record this little tr... ...ints of domestic morals, se- vere and high toned, (I say it in defiance of writers, such as Lord Byron, Mr. Hazlitt, &c., who hated alike the just and... ...great quar- ter in London, Mary-le-bone, as ludicrously ungrammatical. The writers had learned (or were learning) French; and they had thus become awa...

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...ady coming. Christian thought struggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection... ...hly thought out than those of any other of 63 H. G. Wells these sceptical writers I have quoted. On that account they are perhaps more typical. He sp... ...ious,” or they become murderous, or they become suicidal. All these letter-writers in confinement have con- vinced their fellow-creatures by some extr...

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... a resemblance, which does not depend upon their own will, between all the writers of any particular age. They cannot escape from subjection to a comm... ...ct, I have written fear- lessly. It is the misfortune of this age that its Writers, too thoughtless of immortality, are exquisitely sensible to tem- p... ...the Republic, fast verging itself to slavery and ruin, that a multitude of Syrian captives, big- oted to the worship of their obscene Ashtaroth, and t... ...lley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national histor... ...ore than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of their contemporari... ...an mine. It is impossible that any one who inhabits the same age with such writers as those who stand in the fore- most ranks of our own, can conscien... ...rious degrees of complacency and panegy- ric, “Paris”, and “Woman”, and a “Syrian Tale”, and Mrs. Lefanu, and Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Howard Payne, and a... ... THIRD MESSENGER: THIRD MESSENGER: The Christian tribes Of Lebanon and the Syrian wilderness Are in revolt;—Damascus, Hems, Aleppo ...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...rches into our art as connected with those early and eminent art- ists the Syrian assassins in the period of the Crusaders; that his work had been for... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ...

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... Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward ... ...ng the world’s capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.... ...o man doubt this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the va... ... incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Warde... ...eaning may lurk here. There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers — the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain lim... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an o...

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... Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward ... ...ng the world’s capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.... ...o man doubt this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the va... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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...Paul is not going to be inferior to the rest of the apostles. Some secular writers put Paul’s boasting down as carnal pride. But Paul had no personal ... ...ut the Law, therefore the Law cannot justify. Take the case of Naaman, the Syrian, who was a Gentile and did not belong to the race of Moses. Yet his ...

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..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ...all hemlock! What the dickens is all this stuff about, Carrie?” She was no Syrian queen. She was Mrs. Dr. Kennicott. She fell with a jolt into a white... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i... ...cent of dust and trampled grass and sun-baked wood gave her an illusion of Syrian caravans; she forgot the speakers while she lis- tened to noises out...

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...om relative oblivion. I will enumerate the reasons after a little while. Generally the writings of the contemporary English or British writers, of the English rule period of the sub-continent, are qualitatively good, compared to the jingoist writings of the native ‘scholars’ of the peninsula. The latter fill their writings with the...

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... 9. SHANARS 10. POTTERS 11. PANDARAMS 12. MALAYALAM SUDRAS 13. THE ROYAL FAMILY 14. NAMBURI BRAHMANS 15. MUHAMMADANS 16. THE SYRIAN CHRISTIANS 17. NEPOTISM 18. THE KUDUMI, OR HINDU TUFT OF HAIR 19. FEMALE LIFE 20. AGRICULTURE 21. COFFEE CULTIVATION 22. COTTON MANUFACTURE 23. COCOANUT FIBRE AND MANUFACTURES 24. BOATS AND FISH...

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... his common humanity and his subjection to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and fal... ... in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute specific Ch... ... that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus ever existed) tha... ...b- ject of detecting discrepancies in the four narratives to show that the writers were as subject to error as the writers of yesterday’s newspaper. A... ...earliest codices are Greek manuscripts of the fourth century A.D., and the Syrian ones are translations from the Greek, the paleographic expert has no...

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...ism trans- planted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelli- gible, and, w... ...tion of the real spiritual inspiration), that a series of more than thirty writers, speaking in succession along a vast line of time, and absolutely w... ...doctrine; and in sect.31, p.66, he thus describes it:—‘ According to these writers’ (viz., the writ- ers ‘who advocate the theory of development’), ‘t... ...ing to the hakim, which is en- tirely my own suggestion) belongs to German writers. The whole construction of Iscariot’s conduct, as arising, not out ... ...troying them in detail. About nineteen days brought him within view of the Syrian fields. On the last day of February he slept at the Arimathea of the... ...latter years of Nero, a most tragical catastrophe happened at Joppa to the Syrian pirates, by which the very same number perished as in the Napoleon m... ...ons made it indispensable to murder prisoners in cold blood—in that case a Syrian war became impossible to a man of honor; and the guilt commences fro... ...ood in his title-page. Heliogabalus, says Lampridius, had been told by the Syrian priests that he should be Biathanatos, i. e. should commit sui- cide... ...h he had eaten as a guest. There is a cleaving pollution, like that of the Syrian leprosy, in the act of abusing your privileges as a guest, or in any...

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..., although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as “... ...here any effort at plausibility in the de- tails of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astr... ...ributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellish... ...heavens; his Sunship is not there — at least not the Sunship adored by the Syrians. That deity will be found in the interior of yonder building. He is... ...pardon— will be given—by the learned of future ages, to the Ashimah of the Syrians. Put on your spectacles, and tell me what it is. What is it? “Bless... ... all human efforts will be of no avail in quelling the mob. Several of the Syrians have already been devoured; but the general voice of the four-foote... ...ered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists ...

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...ifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused as Pope. Some writers, des- tined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurel... ... Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him too... ...notony of manner and versification, he is one of the most interest- ing of writers, and many find a greater luxury in reading his pages than those of ... ... than those of any other poet. He is the facile princeps of those poetical writers who have written for, and are so singularly appreciated by, the fas... ...d men, long before he had either lei- sure or inclination to call them bad writers; and some had 165 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 be... ...gh his house be sold; To headless Phoebe his fair bride postpone, Honour a Syrian prince above his own; Lord of an Otho, if I vouch it true; Bless’d i... ...ll’d, and said, Rattling an ancient sistrum at his head; ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian prince? 423 T raitor base! Mine, goddess! mine is all the hornèd ra... ...tus tells the same thing of it in his time.—P . W . 423 ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fi... ... a true relation in Spon’s Voyages. Vaillant (who wrote the History of the Syrian Kings as it is to be found on medals) coming from the Levant, where ...

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...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ... ...l; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages o... ...Miscellaneous Papers it suggests to a very common error. In some period of Syrian warfare, a large military detach- ment was entering at some point of... ...nformation of a skull which he saw amongst many others on an altar in some Syrian convent. He offered a considerable sum in gold for it; but it was by... ...n attached to it, the skull would endanger any vessel carrying it from the Syrian shore: the vessel might escape; but it would never succeed in reachi... ... the vessel might escape; but it would never succeed in reaching any but a Syrian harbor. After this, for the credit of our country, which stands so h... ...he peremptory assurance of Sully and other Protes- tants, countersigned by writers both historical and contro- versial, that not only was he prepared,...

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...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla... ...ery other change; and two to one is heavy odds. Again, as Shiraz, the grey Syrian, pointed out, they were meeting the pink and pick of the polo-ponies... ...ity, from Mhow to Peshawar, from Allahabad to Multan; prize ponies, Arabs, Syrian, Barb, country-bred, Deccanee, Waziri, and Kabul ponies of every col...

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...of his school-for we may as well designate in this way the entire class of writers whose poems are bound up in the volume before us, and throughout al... ...is preface :— “‘Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if they persist in reading this book to a conclu- sion (impossible... ...testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He live...

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...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome g... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info... ...res, but the Muse makes us free of her city. Well, the world has a million writers. One would think then that good thought would be as familiar as air... ...reative, so that there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books. But some of the conditions of intellectual const...

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...); Selections with introduction and explanatory notes (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Reli... ... Ommeyads and Abbâsides. It was under the 5th Caliph, Al-Mâmûn, that three writers (mentioned below) on whom we mainly depend for all really reliable ... ...o died A.H. 124, aged 72; but his works, though abundantly quoted by later writers, are no longer extant. Much of his information was derived from Orw... ...osed annals of Muhammad’s life and of the progress of Islam. These ancient writers are the principal sources whence any- thing like authentic informat... ...ledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting link between the West and t... ...end was adopted by some of the Eastern Christians; and commemorated in the Syrian Cal- endar on Jan. 29. (Hyde de Rel. V. Pers. 74). Comp. the Abyssin... ...ere, the opinions, not only of the Jews, but of a much wider circle of the Syrian natives.” 4 Sura [cxiii.] ix. 115. 5 That is, by their conversion ...

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...ancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely sought t... ...loes, of heavy per fumes of the scent merchants, and drowsy odours of the Syrian gardens. The fragrance of the East filled her nostrils. And all thes...

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...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ...d, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be sty... ...and who, as an enemy to Macedon, had interest enough with the Egyptian and Syrian princes to effect a breach of their engagements with the league. The... ... with such an excess. If it be true, as has been insinuated by some of the writers on the other side, that the difficulty arises from the nature of th... ...ted States.’’ It has been very properly observed by different speakers and writers on the side of the Constitution, that if the exercise of the power ...

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... too hard for her to learn. It is remarkable, that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or to ac... ... and one may ride on horseback through the openings. All the distinguished writers of that period possess a greater vigor and naturalness than the mor... ...very flower of all reading, which we had postponed to such a season “Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure.” But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a ... ...nn, in the barren society of ostlers and travellers, I could undertake the writers of the silver or the brazen age with confidence. Almost the last re...

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...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe... ...at, who died in 1748. He had a most thorough knowledge of the French prose-writers of the sixteenth century, and he made them accessible by his editio... ...Plinius, lib. 7, cap. 32 and 34, A. Gellius, lib. 3, c. 15, and many other writers,—to Diagoras the Rhodian, Chilon, Sophocles, Dionysius the tyrant o... ..., devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of Pythagoras, and Greek poet Alcmaeon, and others—an...

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...tiful schooner yacht, with his Lord Feltre, bound to make an inspection of Syrian mon- asteries, and forget, if he could, the face of all faces, anoth... ...nown), would, while it might imitate the latent poetry, expose venturesome writers to the wrath of a people commendably believing their language a per...

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...asks! You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground! You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah! You ... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ...

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... of a copy of the sayings and sermons of “the God fearing Father Isaac the Syrian, which he read persistently for years together, understanding very l... ...t it over the notes. The book was The Sayings of the Holy Father Isaac the Syrian. Ivan read it mechanically . “I won’ t have any lemonade,” he sa... ... Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Yet such dreams are sometimes seen not by writers, but by the most ordinary people, officials, journalists, priests…....

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...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...First is a 1997 trip to the United States by Ghasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun, a Syrian living in Spain. During the trip, Ghalyoun videotaped a number of U....