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...e protagonists that populate this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to p... ...s played host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you ... ...id what we had to do. We had no choice, a la guerre comme la guerre.” – in guttural French. As he took off his glasses, I noticed the abnormal pro... ...f good men carried them into a waiting van.” He hesitated but plunged on: “The Catholics helped me get here through Spain aboard a submarine. Th... ... authority on both the Nazi Party and the Holocaust, a beauty in a quirky, decadent French way, and, unbeknownst to her, the perennial cynosure of m... ... answer, Jew-dog!” – he barked shrilly. “My great-great grandfather was the wild, romantic artist type. He had a fling with a German servant-girl ...

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...ear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populations as ethn... ...that are called into question. It‟s the same with Protestant Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons. The more conservative, or I should say the more rea... ... 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And the nearly u... ...t back like the religious right in America or the fundamentalist Muslims, Catholics and Mormons. JUSTICE “Our justice system is a bit di... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m... ...erved, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and... ...migrants.. Our frowning on Western religions discourages many Muslims and Catholics from coming. And illegal immigrants are denied our health and we... ...ho have moved from poor to richer countries. “And don‟t forget that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant.” ...

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...ing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, French artist Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsy... ...d Danglars. “No! — you undertook to do so.” “True,” replied Danglars; “the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate... ...the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French in- vent.” “Do you invent, then,” said Fernand impatiently. “Waiter,... ... some accident, — he read: — “This treasure, which may amount to two... of Roman crowns in the most distant a... of the second opening wh... declare t... ...s of the Holy See, and Caesar Spada, one of the noblest and richest of the Roman nobility; both felt the high honor of such a favor from the pope. The... ... and his famous bre- viary. All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have a... ... reason for so publicly announcing all this is, that all good and faithful Catholics may offer up their prayers for the unfortunate culprits, and, abo...

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...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...ify Britain by prohibiting the residence of Charles within any part of the French dominions. It was in vain that France endeavoured to lessen the disg... ... to a dignified sub- mission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and send- in... ... confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to t... ...n, sir? Is not the foundation of our municipal law the ancient code of the Roman Empire, devised at a time when it was so much re- nowned for its civi... ...thee, and thou hadst not, as now, conceived thyself to be the hero of some romantic history, and converted, in thy vain imagi- nations, honest Griffit... ...edgauntlet, much stronger amongst the country gentlemen, many of whom were Catholics as well as Jacobites, and most others unwilling to quarrel with k... ...sed in a low tone the suspicions of old maids and the churlish scruples of Catholics, that made so many obstacles to helping a fellow creature, and wi... ... dead flesh, or spirits, all is one to me; and 325 Sir W alter Scott your Catholics have such d—d large hoods, with pardon, ma’am, that they can some...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ...ondoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the rising number of Catholics in Latin America who say they are warning Pope Benedict XVI: tha... ...traceptive needs than some elderly cardinals in Rome. It is true that many Catholics are soured by Vatican dogma but in my parish I hold strongly to ... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p...

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...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...oga and Secret Doctrines, second edn. BUDDHISM 41 Alexandra David-Néel, a French Buddhist, describes the practice of this yoga as she found it while ... ...s before Christ to more worthy times after Christ, or, to believers in the French Enlightenment, time progressed toward grand goals and completions, f... ...recorded in writing. The white man might be a Jeffersonian believer in the French Enlightenment, or an earnest Christian cherishing the story of Chris... ...ne has as much human validity as a thinking-doctrine. Both Protestants and Catholics alike tended to limit their discussion to debate about the intell...

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...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...ures, Churches and families? What impact have these cases in America had on Catholics around the world? Zero. Nothing. Catholics still send the... ...nts zealous acolytes who are as blind and as unquestioning of their gospel as Catholics are unquestioning of the pope’s edicts. If you ever try to p... ...ere was a secret war going on inside the Jamestown fort. Protestants against Catholics; they were systematically killing each other and poisoning e...

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...ll There's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a ... ...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ...0 "Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation." Ernest Renan, French historian "We spent the 1990's worrying about a Greater ... ...ucational efforts of Cyril and Methodius. Even before the traumatic schism of 1054, Catholics and nascent Orthodox were battling over (lucrative) re... ...legating them to the role of malevolent heretics, the Orthodox made the sins of the Catholics unforgivable, their behaviour inexcusable, their fate ... ...e attacks were directed at the "Latins" - foreigners from Germany and France. Local Catholics were somehow dissociated and absolved from the diabol... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most...

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...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the... ...ew upholds the true religion, the Reformed Jews are really misguided. The Catholics have the true Christian religion, but the Protestants claim that... ...00. It is no wonder that they are the three major languages of the world. French, once the world‘s language of diplomacy, has only a hundred thousand... ...n take traditional English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied ... ...atic church, Ray. The Pope decides something today and tomorrow a billion Catholics internalize his pronouncement.‖ 78 —―If it were only... ... Muslims. They make up 1 1/2% in Norway, 5% in the Netherlands and 8% of Frenchmen.(11) Turbans, yarmulkes, crosses, saris, pants suits, mini-skirts...

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...oblems I see relate to a large part of the world’s children. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Wheth... ...lete with religiously unethical behavior by the proponents of every belief. Catholics fought Protestants. Protestants fought each other. The Muslims... ...stant Dr. King would still face the ire of the protestant evangelicals, the Catholics, the Mormons and the Muslims. No matter how important an idea,... ...religions, into Islam, ‘born again’ evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics like me. “Of course you can’t put religious leaders in... ... not far behind at 1.18. It just goes to show that even in these supposedly Roman Catholic countries, family needs outweigh the commands of religion... ...raitors become heroes—patriots. Look at the instigators of the American and French Revolutions. “Talking about rights, in today’s world few p...

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...trements. The rich have a huge amount of money to spend on such things as French perfume, designer clothes, and high tech computers. The young chi... ...ng many. When Jesus 28 and Paul brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they torture... ... ―This direct appeal to the electorate has aided us in not having the French or American style of special interest protests, such as the French... .... This is the real world! People live longer. People will work longer. The French may riot for earlier retirement. But the government can‘t afford i... ...k they know. The Lutherans think they know. The Amish think they know. The Catholics think they know. The atheists think they know. The Republicans ...

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...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...n secretly foremost in the recent outbreak of fanaticism against the Roman Catholics; but unfortunately it happened that, although not hating the Low ...

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...upon them. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I ... ... sanctity of all Priests and Friars; I do no more than many conscientious Catholics both abroad and at home. I have likened these Pictures to shadows... ...e Pantechnicon near Belgrave Square, London, was observed (by a very small French sol dier; for I saw him look at it) to issue from the gate of the H... ...of good 6 Pictures from Italy humour who sat beside me in the person of a French Cou rier—best of servants and most beaming of men! Truth to say, he... ... this church, to see some painting which was being executed in fresco by a French artist and his pupil, I was led to observe more closely than I might... ... lorn surprise; and returning to my villa: the Villa Bagnerello (it sounds romantic, but Signor Bagnerello is a butcher hard by): have sufficient occu... ...ng with a clasp knife, his own personal property, something smaller than a Roman sword. The whole party on board were made merry by these un expected... ...rger than life and which is constantly having its great toe kissed by good Catholics. You cannot help seeing that: it is so very prominent and popular... ...m happy to know that it is not considered immaculate, by some who are good Catholics, and who are behind the scenes, from what was told me by the near...

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...the author that the con- struction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a ta... ...e rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an inde- pendent and arbitrary personage, who could compress ti... ...in Picardy, and it was while attending to some business connected with the French estate that my father had fallen in love with a beautiful young wido... ...elcomed at Walwyn Court by any one but the dear beauti- ful grandmother, a Frenchwoman herself, who was delighted again to hear her mother tongue, alt... ...g our life and its inconveniences endurable is to give them a colouring of romance.’ I did not understand her then, but I have often since thought of ... ...I appreciated; for now that I was a married woman, I was permitted to read romances, and I had just begun on the first volume of the Grand Curus. My h... ...f the Romans, even when Eustace had given her his word they were not Roman Catholics. She used to say she had the cramp, or that her foot was asleep, ... ...been bred a Puritan, he should have been amazed to perceive that the Roman Catholics were not all that they had been painted, and should find rest in ...

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... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...h—when there’s danger of its interfering with my measure of the truth. The French of course like more of it than I give—having by their own genius suc... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...o Paris from Versailles, on that most ominous day of the first half of the French Revolu- tion, the carriage of the royal family. The only thing is th... ...othing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered pi- azza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...sually very bad ones) or had been sent to superficial schools, kept by the French, from which, at the end of a month, they had been removed in tears. ... ...e had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The con- vent is a great institution; we...

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...el is, for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped ou... ... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...e had just been heard—a trial for infanticide against an ape- like native woman; and the audience were smoking ciga- rettes as they awaited the verdic... ...ins pre-eminent authority; the king be- comes his Mairedupalais; he can proscribe, he can com- mand; and the temptation is ever towards too much. Thus... ...seven hundred or a thousand feet above the beach, a Virgin looks insignificantly down, like a poor lost doll, forgotten there by a giant child. This l... ... it is the missionary’s delicate task to modify; and the more he can do so from within, and from a native stand- point, the better he will do his work... ...the foot of the ravine. Two roads divided it, and met in the midst. Save for this intersection the amphitheatre was strangely perfect, and had a certa... .... Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, con- ceiv...

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...ok (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to history might then have prepared th... ... vigorously defended. Moreover, un- der Henry VI. he defeated ten thousand French troops with fifteen hundred weary and famished men. So much for war.... ...ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, and the Vol... ...m- municable and communicated by thought, was an impossi- bility which the Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of. Alas! the victory of ... ...s ever the secret motor of her life. Later, the queen was to stand between Catholics and Calvinists, just as the woman had stood for ten years between... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ...head.” “God bless me, crony; we ought to do these fine things and yet stay Catholics,” cried the jeweller. “We are too old, you and I, to see the triu... ... country, as much from a principle of common sense as in opposition to the Roman worship. To those in the crowd who pitied these unfortunate gentlemen...

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...s, He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the piano by his aunt. Of French she was ignorant, but she knew ... ...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ...in her even voice read the opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous may... ...e study than the classics. Neither Ger - man nor chemistry was taught, and French only by the form-masters; they could keep order bet- ter than a fore... ...bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of ... ...hen— Mahommedans, Buddhists, and the rest—would spare Dissenters and Roman Catholics (though at the cost of how much humiliation when they were made t... ...n theirs and they had neglected it (in which category were obviously Roman Catholics and Dissenters), the punishment was sure and merited. It was clea... ...he Church of England, on that account were nearer the truth than the Roman Catholics. Most of the men—it was largely a masculine congregation—were Sou...

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...ainst the sky. She was riding to her anchor in the bay, and proved to be a French corvette. This pleased our captain exceedingly, and, coming on deck,... ...e a long strip from his girdle of white tappa, and handed it to one of the French officers, who, after explain- ing what was to be done, gave it to Je... ... him to stay where he was. By this time the officer of the deck aboard the Frenchman had noticed our movements, and hailed to know what had happened. ... ...yages. The journals of its first visitors, con- taining, as they did, such romantic descriptions of a country and people before unheard of, produced a... ...h it from similar places in and about Papeetee. 100 Omoo Though extremely romantic in appearance, on a near ap- proach it proved hut ill adapted to d... ...back the French had been mak- ing repeated ineffectual attempts to plant a Roman Catholic mission here. But, invariably treated with contumely, they s... ...ryman, was very serviceable to the rest of us; especially as we all turned Catholics, and went to mass every morning, much to Captain Bob’s consternat...

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...e lines which he laid down. The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with... ... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ... was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible,... ...exander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. ... ...was a very small room, over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which w... ...y . “Oh yes. In point of fact I’ve not spoken to a soul for three days. My French isn’t exactly bril- liant.” I wondered as I preceded him downstairs ... ...he’s a Protestant, and you know they don’t look upon these things like the Catholics.’ 203 Somerset Maugham “Then he said: `But what does Ata say to ...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ...d lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation. O Matilda, I wish you could have seen the dusky visages...

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...-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s goi... ...venue. If you meet any peasants, don’t ask your way. They don’t understand French, and they would pretend they did and mix you up. I’ll be back for yo... ...d a long price for the dog, for they were beginning to be in demand at the French court, and the sailor knew he had got hold of a good thing; but Anne... ... the course of his life two great things had happened to him: he had loved romantically, and he must have talked with Pascal. . . MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW ... ...n-raiser, the short sharp drama, the bour- geois-realistic and the lyrical-romantic—finally deciding that he would no longer “prostitute his talent” t... ...houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown—early melons and late, French, English, domestic—dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour an... ...r Lombard continued, “my daughter is indeed fortunate. She has chosen what Catholics call the higher life— the counsel of perfection. What other priva...

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... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...en many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Catholics had sent priests to instruct the early Norse settlers of that... ...red the strait, met with a yet more terrible fate, in the opinion of all good Catholics, for he renounced his religion and became a Mohammedan. In ad...

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...d Islands (Islas Malvinas) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 81 French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (... ...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...lim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rate: 106/1,000 (1984) Life expe... ...; 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law, with socialist principles; new constitution ado... ...6% unaffiliated or other; less than 5% of Protestants and about 25% of Roman Catholics active participants Language: German, Serbian Infant mortality ... ...s supported financially by contributions (known as Peter's pence) from Roman Catholics throughout the world; some income derived from sale of Vatican ...

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...running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune... ...him, feeling alone and very uncomfortable before the premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope a... ...ne may have merely viewed the beauty of Rome, but Father Antonio saw the Holy Roman Empire, headed by the most powerful religious leader in the worl... ... built into a crescendo of emotions. "We did it to protect ourselves from the French who invaded our island, pillaged our towns, slaughtered our peo... ...I.A., which was the first letter of each word in our credo: 'Death to all the French'. We took as our symbol the 'Black Hand' to strike terror in th... ... mother described their meeting as if she were telling a fairy tale: a young, romantic girl meets her daring knight and sweeps her off her feet and ... ...ice, "Gallucci said. "We either do what we have pledged since the time of the French: to protect our families, or we suffer the same fate we have jus...

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...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...knees before Adeline, took up the hem of her dress and kissed it, as pious Catholics kiss the holy relics of a martyr. “Nay, get up, Hortense,” said t...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...ppose it — inter nos . (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.) I only say suppose thi... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...undred souls Had left their bodies; and what ‘s worse, alas! When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass...

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...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...s waistcoat, and glued by gore to the lining of its pockets, was found the French knife. Next, it was matter of notoriety to everybody in the inn, tha... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... .... There went No. 5. Him succeeded a droller fellow than any of the rest. A French book-seller had caused a prose French translation to 77 Thomas de Q... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t...

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...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ...Jews and gypsies as the devils. Bin Laidin needed pro-Israel countries and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Cathol... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French... ...f all sins. So just when should we employ the merciful or forgiving behaviors that the Bible and Koran demand?‖ —―Ray, you know that the Cathol... ...you know that the Catholics have used the same rationalizations as the Islamic terrorists. The Christian rationalization for killing both good Cathol...

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...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ... and impartially with every sort of in- dustry. Since the down-fall of the Roman empire, the policy of Eu- rope has been more favourable to arts, manu... ...intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry the VIII. The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, T royes weight... ... of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real pen... ...the penny and the pound. During the first race of the kings of France, the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasions to have contained f... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan... ... that classical learning, which, though at first principally cultivated by catholics and Ital- ians, happened to come into fashion much about the same...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ... by all around him; and the rule which holds that men at Rome should do as Romans do, if true anywhere, is true in America. Therefore I say that in an... ...France; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Pr... ...; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Protesta... ...tely be their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is P... ...against one that is Protes- tant. I do not speak of numbers; for the Roman Catholics will increase and multiply, and stick by their religion, al- thou... ... that a new people should show their independence in all things. The Roman Catholics have a very strong party—as a matter of course—seeing how great h...

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...ing in the unobscured frown of his host. ‘Then you are accustomed to speak French?’ The interro- gation was put to extract some balm from the circumst... ...exity, and he leapt out of his tangle into the happy open spaces where the romantic things of life are as natural as the sun that rises and sets. Ther... ...hat fattens and swells him. Properly to speak, we’ve no light cavalry. The French 15 George Meredith are studying it, and when they take to studying,... ...es the title of lady. She had enjoyed the advantage of having an estimable French lady for her governess, she informed him, as they sauntered together... ...t, of course,’ Patrick spoke as he thought. ‘Madame Dugue is a Catholic of Catholics, and the most honourable of women.’ ‘That I’ll believe; and wasn’... ...ry, unless you had them fast by their spinning fancy. They called it being romantic. It was the ante-chamber of madness. Mad, was the word for them. Y... ...axon title for them. No, they are Cymry, Cambrians! They have forgiven the Romans. Saxon and Norman are still their enemies. If you stir their hearts ...

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... his own hat; so I got a bottle of Bass and a pipe and laid hold of an old French- man of somewhat filthy aspect (fiat experimentum in cor- pore vili)... ... of somewhat filthy aspect (fiat experimentum in cor- pore vili) to try my French upon. I made very heavy weather of it. The Frenchman had a very pret... ...ry heavy weather of it. The Frenchman had a very pretty young wife; but my French always deserted me entirely when I had to answer her, and so she soo... ...e hot water; and thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and eve... ...r, as his life hitherto has been disgracefully written, and the events are romantic and rapid; the character very strong, salient, and worthy; much in... ... again, the ever delightful man, sane, courageous, admirable; the birth of Romance, in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thr... ... (3) The Evictions. (4) Emigration. (5) Present State. V. RELIGION (1) The Catholics, Episcopals, and Kirk, and Soc. Prop. Christ. Knowledge. (2) The ...

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...’ll take that roll with me if I may,” said Alyosha, and taking a halfpenny French roll he put it in the pocket of his cassock. “And you’d better not h... ...2 there was a great in- vasion of Russia by Napoleon, first Emperor of the French, father of the present one, and it would have been a good thing if t... ...egan in our aristocracy. I have a charming pamphlet, trans- lated from the French, describing how, quite recently, five years ago, a murderer, Richard... ... s robes, as he was the day before, when he was burning the enemies of the Roman Church—at this moment he is wear- 85 Dostoevsky ing his coarse, old,... ...at He has said of old. One may say it is the most funda- mental feature of Roman Catholicism, in my opinion at least. ‘All has been given by Thee to t... ...ome, and not even the whole of Rome, it’s false-those are the worst of the Catholics the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!… And there could not be such a fant... ...f course it’s a fantasy. But allow me to say: do you really think that the Roman Catholic movement of the last centuries is actually nothing but the l... ...ere’s something of the same mystery at the bottom, and that that’s why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals breaking up the unity of the...

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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ...? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, an... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ...; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And wh... ...m. Both of these men have been Presbyterians, Uni versalists, Methodists, Catholics—then Presbyterians again, What Is Man and Other Essays 74 then M... ...tant Church retorts in kind about the confessional and other matters which Catholics hold sacred; then both of these irreverencers turn upon Thomas Pa...

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...olphus after the Battle of Leipzig. — Progress of Gustavus Adolphus. — The French invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly... ...nd. — Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of Nordlingen gained by Turenne and C... ...r the slightest suspi- cion of heresy. Distrust on the part of the Ro- man Catholics, and a rupture with the church, would have been fatal also to man... ...stances natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actu... ...s natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actuated t... ...the church widened, the firmer became the attachment of the Span- iards to Roman Catholicism. The German line of the House of Austria was apparently m... ...con- sistency could an apostate from the Romish Church wear the crown of a Roman emperor?) bound the successors of Ferdinand I. to the See of Rome. Fe... ...itants of Geneva, for instance, of England, of Germany, or of Holland, the French Calvinist possessed a common point of union which he had not with hi... .... for the use of Germany, to rec- oncile the differences between the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans, which, however, was rejected by both parties —...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And also ... ...ur letter of the 13th has given me great delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not ... ...than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like your- self. The news of Count Bezukhov’... ...Bourienne, they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, up to the appearance of the pauvre mere; they understood that they... ... went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope’s indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays. And ...

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...th- out its harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scot- tish, English, French, or German representatives of the science or literature of their res... ...nt Voltaire’s re- action on the whole of life. Je me’n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation “Who cares?” And the happy t... ...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...nite in character, which, the writer being a Swiss, I trans- late from the French original.[28] “I was in perfect health: we were on our sixth day of ... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...ourignon, a good woman, much persecuted in her day by both Protestants and Catholics, because she would not take her religion at second hand. When a y... ...en will serve as a specimen of the orthodox philosophical theology of both Catholics and Protestants. Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God’s list of ... ...gativity of it is to the Catholic mind incomprehensible. To intel- lectual Catholics many of the antiquated beliefs and practices to which the Church ...

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...ST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 7... ...of ‘‘sail ho,’’ and who by their dress and features appeared to be Swiss and French emigrants. She hailed us at first in French, but receiving no ans... ...ous for the day, that I might see more nearly, and perhaps tread upon, this romantic, I may almost say, classic island. When all hands were call... ... its still beauty, and I gave a parting look, and bid farewell, to the most romantic spot of earth that my eyes had ever seen. I did then, and have e... ... and got the word from him; and then, by signs, and the help of my Latin and French, contrived to get along. This was a good exercise for me, and no ... .... Consequently, the Americans and English who intend to remain here become Catholics, to a man; the current phrase among them beings—‘‘A man must le... ..., and they would not be allowed to remain, were it not that they become good Catholics, and by marrying natives, and bringing up their children as ... ...Catholicism’s spreading in New England; Yankees can’t afford the time to be Catholics. - 69 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana American... ...ith his own dignity. The boy was to act as cook; while myself, a giant of a Frenchman named Nicholas, and four Sandwich Islanders, were to cure the ...

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...a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gon...

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.................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...d – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of a... ...us nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an ... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...e never con- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t beli... ...adet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of the Scots-Dutc...