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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highe...

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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSL... ...LORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWAR... ...Y...................................................................................113 TO THE READER. ................................................. ...g those who sleep in Jesus, and changing those of the Gentile church who still abide in life; and preserving the mourning Jewish church, as Goshen w... ...umber seven be disposed to regard them as including in some larger sense the successive states of the whole Christian church up to the coming of the ... ...ts by which he takes possession of the purchased inheritance of this earth and sets the prisoners free; which arc given under the emblem of seals ope... ...one another in the great object of our hopes, instead of being thereby concentrated and united from all places, and all times, and all conditions. N... ...promised possession; that the captivity of Babylon was prophetical of her captivity and imprisonment for so long, and dreary, and dark a period, und... ... that all the good on the one hand, and all the wicked on the other, will be judged and sentenced simply for the reason which is there pointed out; ...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...a-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ........................................................ 325 Torture to Gain Life Saving Information from Enemies ......................................... ...y always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when people are survey... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...e of unprecedented magnitude and extraordinary audacity.‘ For this he was sentenced to several years in prison. He lamented his actions once he was ... ...that ‗Nobody takes any joy in carrying out these strict punishments, be it imprisonment, caning or execution, but it has to be done. It must be done.... ... equally to the full-bellied well adjusted people with good jobs! And the prisoners get three square meals, while the honest homeless don‘t! ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Cla... ...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...owers of the huge machine of government. You will speak of the police as a statesman should, admiring everything, the Prefet included. The very best m... ...he word ac- cepted constitutes a bill of exchange, and makes you liable to imprisonment. The word entails, on the person who is so im- prudent as to s... ...and the terror inspired by the law, her evidence led to the prisoner being sentenced to twenty years of hard labor. The convict, one of those men who ... ...there can be no doubt that an imitation of this vehicle would be a boon to prisoners. This ignominious conveyance, yellow-bodied, on high wheels, and ... ...o us, on seeing two 324 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life handsome creatures united and happy, always did honor to Madame de Stael, in spite of her ‘rom...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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