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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ... the contradictions in the scriptures and the unholiness of their warrior saints. They can rationalize the existence of evil with the plotting of dev... ...n the personal experiences of a few people who say they have seen angels, saints or Jesus. ―Religionists say that the chances for a cell ... ...ir thoughts. Others use absurdities to try to make their points. Nigerian Anglican Bishop Akinola has said that a homosexual relationship is a partn... ...e that Austria and France gave up their Catholicism and Wales gave up the Anglican religion. More recently Spain and Italy have given up Catholicism... ...iously using self-centered and society-based reasons for their decisions. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu supported the South African constitutional pr... ...s to prevent pregnancy. Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, said that ‗Planned parenthood is an obli... ...pproach. Other Christian fundamentalists, like many evangelicals and some Anglicans are with us.‖ —―I saw a major poll that showed that American...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... need. Islam, Catholicism and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints frown on family planning, so they will not follow the grand plan. B... ...situations may make people react to real or perceived threats. Only a few saints are willing to march to the guillotine or be sautéed at the stake f... ...to unite with Him immediately after death. As with Hinduism, some of your saints reach their holy states through knowledge or through doing good wo... ... —―But the Pope wouldn‘t offer a posthumous apology to Darwin like the Anglicans did.‖ —―What good would an apology do for a dead man? And ... ...t divide us into sects. The extremists who embrace the Golden Rule are the saints 49 and the Nobel Peace Prize winners. The extremists on the oth... ... Christian religions, especially with Catholicism, because so many of the saints were without families. Their goal, as yours, was to detach themselv...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Language: English (official) Literacy... ...n origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian origin Religion: Anglican (predominant), other Protestant sects, some Roman Catholic Langu... ...ic divisions: 96% Caucasian, 4% Asian, Aboriginal, and other Religion: 26.1% Anglican, 26.0% Roman Catholic, 24.3% other Christian Language: English, ... ... tive Bahamian Ethnic divisions: 85% black, 15% white Religion: Baptist 29%, Anglican 23%, Boman Catholic 22%, smaller groups of other Protestants, Gr... ...arbadian Ethnic divisions: 80% African, 16% mixed, 4% European Religion: 70% Anglican, 9% Methodist, 4% Roman Catholic, 17% other, including Moravian ... ...ry Society; includes Congrega- tional, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Latter Day Saints, Seventh-Day Adventist) Language: Samoan (Polynesian), English Inf...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. As pioneer printers spread out across Euro... ...ibuted to every church and chained to their pulpits. In addition, the new Anglican Church assigned readers to read the word of God to the illiterate... ... 22 Neither Roman Catholic nor truly Protestant, it became known as the Anglican Church or the Church of England. 23 Queen Anne Boleyn‘s perso...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. ... ... 22 Neither Roman Catholic nor truly Protestant, it became known as the Anglican Church or the Church of England. 23 Queen Anne Boleyn‘s perso... ...ibuted to every church and chained to their pulpits. In addition, the new Anglican Church assigned readers to read the word of God to the illiterate...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...denied and urged that the Buddha admitted women to be capable of attaining saintship and that it was unjust to refuse the blessings of religion to one... ...countless Christians. In some respects he has been the most popular of the saints, particularly for trav- eling Christians, because of the story that ... ...ional beliefs and rituals to varying degrees—ranging from the Lutheran and Anglican churches, which are Catholic Churches in all but name, to the Unit... ...urch to adopt this custom, though only for the dead, calling such persons “saints.” (In the New Testament all Christians, alive or dead are called “ho... ...the present. Guardian angels, one as- signed to each Christian, and patron saints are very much in vogue in the Catholic Church. Saints are popularly ... ...n behalf of those who petition them. But although there are as many female saints as male, and no saint is superior to another, they are not in any se...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...on more hu- manized figures, upon the tender figure of Mary, upon pa- tron saints and such more erring creatures, for the effect of mediation and symp... ... Family,” as if it were not the case that Socialists, Individualists, high Anglicans and Roman Catholics are ALL against Marriage and the Family as th... ...he world is full of such figures and their images, Christ and Mary and the Saints and all the lesser, dearer gods of heathendom. These things and the ...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

... admit, do anything of the sort?” The attentive reader of the lives of the Saints will find that this style of argument did in the past bring many tri... ...tirely within the Established Church of England, that is to say within the Anglican com- munion of the T rinitarian Christians. It contains among othe... ... the laws of refraction or gravitation. Since these views of God come from Anglican vicarages I can only conclude that this kind of belief is quite or... ...pirit in a tract, “The Call of the Kingdom,” by that very able and subtle, Anglican theologian, the Rev. W. Temple, who declares that under the vitali...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ons, and sunshine; the sign- boards, bottled-porter stores, the statues of saints and little chapels which jostle the stranger’s eyes as he goes up th... ...lashed and overset them; And they call in their emer- gence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrow- bones are bended, And they think the ... ...rade in beads and crosses, and mother-of-pearl shells, on which figures of saints are engraved; and which they purchase from the manufactur- ers, and ... ...real, and reasonable. 109 Thackeray Only a few feet off, the walls of the Anglican Church of Jerusalem rise up from their foundations on a picturesqu... ... mouldy doors of which are decorated with twopenny pic- tures of favourite saints and martyrs; and so great is the shab- biness and laziness, that you... ...gs of their own, and also swell the little con- gregation that attends the Anglican service. I have mentioned our fellow-traveller, the Consul-General...

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

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ther with these at home in England, or with those in the inner home of the Saints. When the sermon concluded with the words, ‘As we are giving of our ... ...on the religious state of Rome. The apparently direct supplications to the Saints, the stories told in sermons of desperate sinners—saved through some... ...were the ordinary Sunday ones, and Wednesday and Friday Matins and Litany, Saints’-day prayers and lecture, and an Advent and Lent Evensong and lectur... ...ly Eucharist shall be in some way united to him as well as to all departed saints—members of His Mystical Body. ‘April 12.—Bishop came out yesterday a... ..., and yet it is well that it should be seen how realising the Communion of Saints blessed the solitary man who had given up home. The next letter is t... ... question. His conclusions had been formed upon the teachings of the elder Anglican divines, and his predilections for the externals of worship upon t... ...sh divinity. I don’t want to be exclusive, far from it. I don’t want to be Anglican versus Primitive; but yet somehow, to me, there is a some- thing w...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...d out to him a charming little woman as one of the subsidiary wives of the Anglican Bishop of London. She added enco- miums on the episcopal courage—h... ...ted because a man is a priest?” “And, bye the bye,” she added, “are you an Anglican?” Gra- ham was on the verge of hesitating inquiries about the stat... ...! Look Slippy!” “What Christ would say to the Sleeper;—Join the Up-to-date Saints!” “Be a Christian—without hindrance to your present Occupation.” “Al...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...the con- versation towards such; talked often about Church, Chris- tianity Anglican and other, how essential the belief in it to man; then, on the oth... ... apartment; which was adorned by pictures of Architecture, and by Heads of Saints, better than many at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and which one pai... ...Wherefore, as a memorial of them, I bought there several Legends of Female Saints and Martyrs, and of other Ladies quite the reverse, and held up as w... ... bits of colored marble and gilding, and Gog-and-Magog colossal statues of saints (looking prodigiously small), and mosaics from the worst pictures in...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...final doubt remained, he must catch a hermit — the woods were full of them; saints they called themselves, and saints they were believed to be. They ... ...his animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place among the saints of the Roman calen dar. Thus made he his moan, this poor Sir La C... ...n will not quite bear description here. You can read it in the Lives of the Saints. * CHAPTER XXIII. RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN Saturday noon I wen... ...he Mansion House. A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London. Thus ... ...self.” “As how?” “For that she hath established the self same rule regarding saints. By her law none may be canonized until he hath lain dead four gen...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...ded, an elongated, bracelet. The windows of the attic are like shrines for saints. The gargoyles, the medallions, the statuettes, the festoons, are li... ...d, hanging garlands over a statue,—a picture suffused indefinably with the Anglican spirit, and exasperating to a member of one of the Latin races. It...

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The Lily of the Valley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ix, I believe it, we must pass through a fiery furnace before we reach the saints, the just made perfect of the upper spheres. Must I keep silence? Am... ... the halo of divine light Italian paint- ers put around the faces of their saints. I felt the icy wind of death pass over me. Then when the fire of he... ... the laborious glory of loving you,—it needs too many virtues, Catholic or Anglican, and I have no fancy for rivalling phantoms. The virtues of the vi...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...testantism or 5 The Chaplet of Pearls Lutheranism, in which they included Anglicanism. The min- ister Gardon I do not consider as representing his cl... ...ake it as well to know nothing. Farewell, Madame, I commend you to all the saints till I come for you on Monday morning.’ Eustacie gave him her hand t... ...evenants can do nothing worse than scare one; they can- not touch one; the saints and angels will not let them—and my uncle would do much worse.’ But ... ...ome aware that there was a low sound, a tramp, tramp, below her. ‘Gracious saints! The Templar! Have mercy on me! Oh! I was too sleepy to pray! Guard ... ... face, ruddy from sea-wind. ‘Welcome, my friends,’ he said. ‘Thanks to the saints who have guided you safely. You are drenched. Come to the fire at on... ...w my heart’s hunger for her! The Prioress, better read in the lives of the saints than in the sects of heretics, did not know whether this meant that ... ...y save that adapted to the doctrines of Calvin; so that in dealing with an Anglican of the school of Ridley and Hooker, it was like bow ad arrow again...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ssume the debt. My advice to you is, send the boy down to Lucknow. If your Anglican Chaplain thinks you’ve stolen a march on him –’ Bad luck to Bennet... ... black enamel, and there is a paper inside each one full of names of local saints and such things. Thatt is Huneefa’s look out, you see? Huneefa makes...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...o be relied upon where there’s a woman.” She refused her implicit trust to saints—”if ever a man really was a saint before he was can- onized!” Her pe... ...e...enter into orders if you aim at any distinction?” “And a member of the Anglican Church would not be al- lowed to exchange his frock for a cavalry ...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... but little with the majestic repose of a church such as the Romish or the Anglican, founded upon the broad basis of national ma- jorities, and shelte... ...nd generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered. And the... ...east; these, together with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint offic... ...may have stood almost as still as it would have done had she seen two of the saints in the great picture in the convent chapel turn their painted head...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...re moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delight- ful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint offi... ...y have stood almost as still as it would have done had she seen two of the saints in the great picture in the convent chapel turn their painted heads ...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...he polygynist nations have not gravitated to monogamy, like the latter-day saints of Salt Lake City. The answer is not far to seek: their polygyny is ... ...h in his pocket, where he keeps it to this day, in spite of the occasional saints and martyrs who contrive from time to time to get their heads and so... ...HE BISHOP . Dont be alarmed, Cecil. Let me explain. Y our parents were not Anglicans. You were not, I think, Anglican yourself, until your second year... ...ontract before the Registrar of the West Strand District. I ask you, as an Anglican Catholic, was that a marriage? SYKES [overwhelmed] Great Heavens, ... ... married? SYKES. Will somebody tell me what an honorable man and a sincere Anglican is to propose to a woman whom he loves and who loves him and wont ... ...hurch of England as The Scarlet Woman. Soames became secretly converted to Anglicanism at the age of fifteen. He longed to take holy orders, but didnt... ... it endurable? I have noticed in myself a great delight in pictures of the Saints and of Our Lady; but when I fall under that most terrible curse of t... ...fference. There is not one Chris- tian rule for solicitors and another for saints. Their hearts are alike; and their way of salvation is along the sam... ...n which the Church has founded to cast out and replace by the communion of saints. I learnt that from every mar- riage settlement I drew up as a solic...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...go rigidly through with the whole programme from the underdone beef to the Anglicanism. It won’t matter whether they be short or tall; whether the voi... ... more than sixteen. At one moment she would be talking of the lives of the saints and at the next she would be tumbling all over the lawn with the St ... ... And, when she opened her eyes she looked straight into mine. “The blessed saints,” she said, “you would think they would spare you such things. I don... ...hen it came unexpectedly. That was because the bad dreams that the blessed saints allowed her to have for her sins always seemed to her to herald them... ...d sat there for a long time— until the girl was well in bed—reading in the Anglican prayer- book. And about half-past ten she heard his footsteps pass... ...hough in different churches, since the one was a Catholic and the other an Anglican— they had said to each other, the night before, that, when the tim... ... was perfectly willing that the girls should be Catholic; the boys must be Anglican. I don’t understand the bearing of these things in English society... ...t be given the opportunity of choosing—and they must have first of all the Anglican teaching. He was perfectly unshakable about this. Leonora was in a... ...d in Catholics by their feeling for the Virgin Mary and for various of the saints. It is too little to say that the girl would have laid her life at L...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...ut a discontented idle lout crooning over the empty glories of our isle of Saints! You feel them, Pat. Phil’s all for his British army, his capabiliti... ...rate in faithfulness to the hoar and the legend- ary!—Anything rather than Anglican. The Cymry bear you no hatred; their affection likewise is undefin... ...s on Ireland; I love him; and his name is Caer Gybi; and it was one of our Saints gave him the name, I ‘ve read in books. I’ll be there before noon.’ ...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

... of his easy conquests of men since the glorious old times of the duelling saints. By virtue of his one incorrigible weak- ness, which we know him to ... ...or controversy. Nature-worship—or “ab- original genuflexion,” he calls it; Anglicanism, Methodism; he stands to engage them. It can’t be doubted, that... ...u have not forgotten that injury, Carinthia?’ ‘I am a mother.’ ‘By all the saints! you hit hard. Justly. Not you. Our deeds 342 The Amazing Marriage ... ... set out upon the grand old road of Rome: Lord Feltre’s ‘Appian Way of the Saints and Comforters.’ Chummy was pardoned when they separated at night fo... ...to the nation’s lasting gratitude. She has her opportunity for winning the Anglican English, as formerly she won the Dissenter Welsh. She may yet be t...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...character. ‘How *A Vindication of Protestant Principles. By Phileleutheros Anglicanus. London: Parker. 1847. 40 Theological Essays and Other Papers –... ...e, you say, is represented equally by the name in the title—Phileleutheros Anglicanus. T rue, but that’s as long as a team of horses. If it had but Es... ...out his work, is, not so much the defence of Protestantism, or even of the Anglican Church, as a report of the latest novelties that have found a roos... ...gs pointed to it; the ex- pectation and languishing desires of many Hebrew saints; the warning from signs; the prophetic alarms and kindling signals r...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

... suffer from such relatively slight changes as the disestablishment of the Anglican Church, an increased facility of divorce, adoption of female suffr... ...cending hierarchy,ordinarily comes a superhuman vicarious leisure class of saints, angels, etc. — or their equivalents in the eth- 211 Veblen nic cul...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...St. Francis into a white- hot hatred of the carnal. He could not be as the saints and love the Infinite with a seraphic ardour, but he could be a litt... ...—it can satisfy that test—and though it was un-English, and ignored by our Anglican cathedral, Leonard had a right to decide upon it. Moreover, he tru...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...rdinary people, his great interests were not forgot- ten by those guardian saints who were so anxious to shower down on his head all manner of tempora... ...in chanted services and intoned prayers, and in all the para- phernalia of Anglican formalities which have given such offence to those of our brethren...

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