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...ession with decapitating every living thing he sees and can get his hands on. Mosaic tiles. All the billions of tiny tiles manufactured in the ancie... ... myth comes from a supposed Bishop called Nicholas: in the 4 th century AD in Byzantine THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Eff...

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...Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the base of the mountain where Moses received the Tablets of the Law. Set in rugged country, accessible in times past only by a man...

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... a marvel, it is a miracle. Some of the effects are very daring, approaching even to the boldest flights of the rococo, the sirocco, and Mark Twain 2... ...ative walk. St. Mark’s is not the oldest building in the world, of course, but it seems the oldest, and looks the oldest—especially inside. When the a... ...nd to smarten it up would only damage it. One day I was sitting on a red marble bench in the vestibule looking up at an ancient piece of apprentice-wo...

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...en one. First we went to the Church of St. Roch, to see a famous piece of mosaic-work there. It is a famous work of art, and was bought by I don’t kn... ...rmation may be perfectly relied on, though the fact is, we did not see the mosaic-work:the sacris- tan, who guards it, was yet in bed; and it was veil... ...’s toilette was done, and at the price of a dollar. So we were spared this mosaic exhibition; and I think I always feel relieved when such an event oc... ... and mortal can do no more. In order to reach that church of the forbidden mosaic, we had sweated up several most steep and dusty streets—hot and dust... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ...

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...rly Christian churches in Rome; they even faintly recalled to me the great mosaics of Ravenna. The Temple de Saint- 91 Henry James Jean has neither t... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th...

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...espair. Our party alighted; we inspected a 24 War and the Future very old mosaic floor which has been uncovered since the Austrian retreat. The Austr... ... place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I came out of the brightly lit Gall...

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...ansing stood leaning in the embrasure of the window, his eyes fixed on the mosaic volutes of the floor. “I was right enough when I said it would be sh... ...o had promised to explain to us the differ- ence between the Sassanian and Byzantine motives in Carolingian art; but the Manager has sent up word that... ... was to have enlightened the party on the difference between Sassanian and Byzantine ornament. Lansing, also aloof, had picked out a post from which h...

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... if she inclined to an indulgence verily Byzan- tine. If one could only be Byzantine!—wasn’t that what she insidiously led one on to sigh? Milly tried... ...tried to oblige her—for it really placed Susan herself so handsomely to be Byzantine now. The great ladies of that race—it would be somewhere in Gibbo... ... Susan at all events proved scarce more inquisitive than if she had been a mosaic at Ravenna. Susan was a porcelain monument to the odd moral that con... ...nished void of their sitting-room, where, a little, re- ally, like a caged Byzantine, she had been pacing through the queer long-drawn almost sinister...

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...perceive more and more distinctly that one is dealing with a sort of human mosaic; that each patch in that great place is of a different quality and c... ...aotic forces. “There is no clear right in the world any more. The world is Byzantine. The justest man to-day must practise a tainted goodness.” These ...

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...f scroll-work; the round table, a fixture in the middle of the room, was a mosaic of fragments of Italian and antique marbles, brought from Rome, wher... ...he rigid, slim figure. Lisbeth, like a Virgin by Cranach or Van Eyck, or a Byzantine Madonna stepped out of its frame, had all the stiffness, the prec...

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...many indications of a relenting kindness and a ten- derness of love in the Mosaical ordinances. And recently there has been suggested another argument... ...n solitary altar? The insti- tution of the Sabbath, again—what part of the Mosaic economy could it more plausibly have been expected that God should v... ...ed in the early records of Moses; but it is not until we come down to Post-Mosaical records, Job, for example (though that book is doubtful as to its ... ...r: GREECE, in the largest extent of that term, having once belonged to the Byzantine empire, is included, by the mis- conception of hasty readers, in ... ...lves not less of the decrepitude which had by that time begun to palsy the Byzantine sceptre, than of the martial and religious fanaticism which disti...

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...y city of Byzantium. III O sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singi... ...1 WISDOM THE true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass mosaic, window glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeller;... ... QUEEN MAEVE A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked of his country and its people, sang To some stringed... ...e spring gave The heart need suffer no defeat; but I Who have accepted the Byzantine faith, That seems unnatural to Arabian minds, Think when I choose...

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...ussian Emperor, either it is built upon some confusion between him and the Byzantine Caesars, as though the former, being of the same religion with th... ...nder the shape of theories applied to processes past and accomplished. The Mosaic cosmogony, indeed, gives the succession of natu- ral births; and tha... ...inople, the triple serpent, (having perhaps an origi- nal reference to the Mosaic serpent of the wilderness, which 263 Thomas de Quincey healed the i... ... kai ocheto xunon es Adaen.’ Now really these verses, by force of a little mosaic tesselation *It was printed at the end of Aristotle’s Poetics, which...

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... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ... ...nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing rightly, ...

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...braham–a doctrine that should present to mankind Juda- ism divested of its Mosaic ceremonial, and Christianity di- vested of the Atonement and the Tri... ...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t... ...ny Arab or believer, shall remit the penalty of death. 69 Of the stricter Mosaic lex talionis, as well of the ante- Islamitic Arabian custom, by whic...