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...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...nd you, in that High and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from your several avocations, lay aside your several speculat... ...erritories, which the statue shut up within its womb; Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Greece. In short, almost th... ...ly, not only must that empire be still extant, in that remnant of it which they seek in Germany, but it must continue till the end of the world. In ... ...is side in quality of his counsellor and prophet, and shall proceed with him in all his expeditions. Which confidence of the sovereign the faithful m... ...hat neither the blind nor the deaf were ignorant of it. It is true, that many cities of Germany and of Italy, and Vienna among the rest, received him...
...which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithfully drawn from the divine testimony, or not....
...typing) Ready? SULLA Yes. DOMIN Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robot... ...now, sir. She brings this card of introduction. DOMIN (reads the card) Ah, from President Glory. Ask her to come in. MARIUS Please step this way. Ente... ...ting over a test tube, and thinking how the whole tree of life would grow from it, how all animals would proceed from it, beginning with some sort ... ... some sort of beetle and ending with a man. A man of different substance from us. Miss Glory, that was a tremendous moment. HELENA Well? DOMIN Now, ... ...Go and search! He returns to his book. FOURTH ROBOT We have sent ships and expeditions without number. They have been everywhere in the world. And no...
...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...e long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Af... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...ttlements and cities founded in Cuba -- Cortez the hero/of a love adventure -- Expeditions to Yucatan -- Cortez appointed to the command of an expedit... ...Return to Mexico with additional honors -- He wastes his fortunes in fruitless expeditions -- -- Divested of all authority -- Proceeds to Spain with a... ...orth, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proceeded as far north as Iceland.... ...the cliffs. Sometimes the Spectres give notice of their own death, as in North Germany the spirits of sailors drowned at sea go into their own houses ... ...er and conquer new worlds for the mighty Charles, King of Spain and Emperor of Germany. A GRAND PROCESSION. And now glad shouts cleave the air, for ma...
...- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and foun...
...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...nds were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recovery of the sunken Tit... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn... ... of a poor village teacher, Ottmar Mergenthaler was born May 11, 1854, in Germany about a hundred miles southeast of Mainz. That was the same town in...
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...
... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...e of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 1020 Shari... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ... this to me: I do not understand. There is a famous research experiment in Germany called: Biosphere. Where some of the most famous scientists g... ... human stupidity and destruction called Science… is still being carried on in Germany. Studying the effects of its own experiment. Studying the ef... ...l of Science, all civilized people are obsessed with dead things. Scientific expeditions spend 100’s of millions of dollars unearthing old, dead, f... ...Columbus. How do these two dates coincide? Chinese, and a Portuguese sailing expeditions to find new lands? 70 years apart? How is this explained...
... 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 and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....
...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...
...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...nds were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recovery of the sunken Tit... ...s, and the Jutes began launching raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds o... ...aden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patrician parents reportedly had high-level family conn... ... of a poor village teacher, Ottmar Mergenthaler was born May 11, 1854, in Germany about a hundred miles southeast of Mainz. That was the same town in...
...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...
...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...- but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists and that it has the potential to de... ...'s right not to be killed include the right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the rights of other people against A? Does A's ri... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...he natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying ... ...s of besieged cities (e.g., during the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, Cali... ... harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest t...
...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...nowne, that in Domitians time the newes of the battle lost by Antonius in Germany many daies journeies thence, was published in Rome, and divulged th... ...r/montaigne/2xxxvii.htm (15 of 23)4/10/2005 4:40:29 AM Montaigne's Essays Germany and Loraine: those of Baden in Switzerland; those of Luca in Tuscan... ...over ours. This ensueth that here our Souldiers become more licentious in expeditions, that they prove more circumspect and fearfully wary. For smal... ... into it selfe; I wot not whether every man will take it. I have seene in Germany that Luther hath left as many divisions and altercations concerning...
...ast but surviving in our memory,—whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to t... ...hed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a f... ...the theatrical. Though his features were handsome and impos- ing, his hat, from beneath which thick black curls stood out, was perhaps tilted a little... ...The husband is, I believe, a native of Cremona and has just come here from Germany. He was hoping to get the T edeschi to try some new music and some ... ..., as a man of the world, you are too ungrateful to the classic land whence Germany and France derived their first teaching. While the compositions of ... ... tenor of the former, and transformed the latter into a bass. At that time Germany had no musician excepting Sebastian Bach.—But you, monsieur, though... ...llow, accompanied on a wretched guitar. On the way, Marianna, who on these expeditions covered her head with a sort of veil of coarse muslin, would ta...
...y the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling f...
...6, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...e and Rennes, and even beyond, as far as the banks of the Loire, nocturnal expeditions were orga- nized, which attacked, especially in Normandy, the h... ...woman Bryond (for it is stated that this woman accompanied Rifoel on these expeditions on horseback and dressed as a man), arrived during the evening ... ...d he studied much and observed much, but he had travelled in every part of Germany, Russia, Persia, and Turkey, whence he had gath- ered many a tradit...
...pt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...
... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...e all in the habit of calling by the wide name of “the continent,” France, Germany, Switzerland, and Bel- gium) my mother was aware that the most flag... ...l. Every moment might bring the Brit- ish cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certaint...
...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............
...eep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of ... ...nded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shad- ows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting befor... ... now playing at ball with Jamie when in comes a lay-brother, with a letter from Sir Patrick to say that he is coming the night to crave permission fro... ...in Scottish ears. The ladies on their side had not the relaxation of these expeditions. The Abbey was a large and wealthy one, but decidedly provincia... ...shelter themselves behind one or other of us till it is, what they call in Germany a Rat Castle, the refuge of all the ecorcheurs and routiers of this... ... on the frontier as it did, had become closely connected with the feuds of Germany as well as the wars in France. The old Baron had been lamed in a ra... ...d, had been taken by surprise. He was in the habit of making 133 Yo n g e expeditions on his own account, and bringing home some- times lawless comra...
...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coa...
...ed severity of logic. A million and a half of souls—that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for s... ...classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four million... ... purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who defl... ...he most interesting political crisis in the reign of Marcus was the war in Germany with the Marcomanni, concurrently with pestilence in Rome. The agit... ...he way, a fine remark upon Christianity, made by an infidel philosopher of Germany, which suggests a re- markable feature in the merits of Marcus Aure... ... quieted for the present; but the Goths of the Ukraine, in three marauding expeditions of unprecedented violence, ravaged the wealthy regions of Asia ...
...ndon; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four mil...
...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ... thing and having a lot of tadpoles in a flat was another; he said that in Germany it was an ascertained fact that a man with an idea like his would a... ..., he feared, at present, in this country at any rate, a Utopian demand. In Germany—Etc. As Redwood’s Bull calves needed his daily attention, the selec... ...ank that delight of human fellowship that comes to happy armies, to sturdy expeditions—never to those who live the life of the sober citizen in cities...
... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...
...of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasur... ...mily, having been at T rafalgar and dis- tinguished himself in cutting out expeditions. My eldest brother bore his name. The second was named after th... ...aws against going into shops or buying dainties without express permission from mamma or nurse; but one day when Clarence had by some chance been sent... ...sed with a month’s wages, and poor Clarence underwent a strange punishment from my mother, who was getting about again by that time, namely, a drop of... ...sketch the ruin, while my two companions started on one of their exploring expeditions. It was getting late enough to think of going to prepare for th... ...se to the rev- elations of Amos Bell, when he attended Emily and me on our expeditions with the donkey. Though living over the border of Hillside, he ... ...od, but devoted the long vacation of the ensuing year to a walking tour in Germany, with one or two congenial spirits, who shared his delight in scene...
...uld not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotte...
...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ... had, who so nearly became King of France, and whose cousin was Emperor of Germany.” “On my word, I think you are right, Lucien,” said Albert absently... ...en spent in Oriental countries, so you are not aware how human justice, so expeditions in barbarous countries, takes with us a pru- dent and well-stud...
...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...
... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ... from Great Britain, Ireland, or the British colonies; 2,643,069 came from Germany or northern Europe; and about half a million from the south of Euro... ...less perils and privations which always attend the commence- ment of these expeditions. I have often met, even on the verge of the wilderness, with yo... ...est which have not been visited by Europeans, consult the ac- count of two expeditions undertaken at the expense of Con- gress by Major Long. This tra...
...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 to the preservation of the liberties which...
...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...t of their bloody-minded politics. Young Kemble, whom you have seen, is in Germany: but I have the happiness of being also acquainted with his sister,... ...tion and to all other schemes,—he went across, with his wife and child, to Germany; purposing to make not so much a tour as some loose ramble, or desu... ...s, such as ‘snow- and-rosebloom maiden:’ an attractive damsel doubtless in Germany, but, with all her charms, somewhat uncouth here. ‘Life-vision’ is ... ...able and duly increasing current to the end. One of Sterling’s com- monest expeditions, in this time, was a sally to the other side of London Bridge: ...
...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...
...olement: so answer France. 26 Chat. Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth, 27 The farthest limit of my Embassie. 28 K.I... ... Essex. My Liege, here is the strangest controuersie 52 Come from the Country to be iudg’d by you 53 That ere I heard: shall I pro... ...hem approach: 55 Our Abbies and our Priories shall pay 56 This expeditions charge: what men are you? 57 Enter Robert Faulconbridge, ... ...mine, 76 The which if he can proue, a pops me out, 77 At least from faire fiue hundred pound a yeere: 78 Heauen guard my mothers hon... ...her. 107 Rob. And once dispatch’d him in an Embassie 108 To Germany, there with the Emperor 109 To treat of high affaires touching...
...y withheld, K. John. Heere have we war for war, & bloud for bloud, Controlement for controlement: so answer France. Chat. Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth, The farthest limit of my Embassie. K. John. Beare mine to him, and so depart in peace, Be thou as lightning in the eies of France; For ere thou canst report, I will be there: The thunder of my Cannon shall be h...