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...o have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time as bishop of Rome. The letter is addressed to various churches in Asia Minor suffering religious persecution. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...tpouring of the Spirit, is known in scripture by “the latter rain,” of which I deem the religious revivals of the last thirty years to be as the fir... ...s revivals of the last thirty years to be as the first droppings of the shower, and our religious works and societies to be a sickly uncertain hue o... ...ews, and will prove the touchstone of both; —amongst the Gentile church awakening those persecutions of the last Antichrist which the faithful are ta... ... to possess the kingdom, here it is not till after a long long period of oppression and persecution. This was what occasioned the prophet’s abject s... ...ntichrist, the Jewish church may be suffering the same three years and a half trial and persecution, which Messiah endured for them, ending in that ... ...long with it the papal hierarchy and kingdom, that it will be supported by these in the persecution of the true church of Christ; that it will stand... ... the event, as we see in the acts of creation; so that the proverb might have this more religious form, 'Word makes wierd.’ Furthermore, it is this ... ...of a newspaper. This kind of discoursing in Tillotson and his school, brought forth the religious formality and ignorance of the last century in the... ...ummated before the world was, and made manifest in these latter times. Every thing of a religious kind instituted by God was prospective of him, and...

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...ht to be Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part II regarded as a brief, sincere, and religious confession of our faith. Secondly, the notion o r idea, eq... ...ho are found at present in extreme misery, doth not appear a work proper to the religious Abraham. —This Abraham did not. § 4. With the distinctio... ...hich might easily pass into presumption; and that you may give way to a holy and religious fear. Know, brethren, that the present blindness of the Je... ...t exclamation, which is one of the most sublime, and most expressive, and m ost religious pieces to be met with in all the scriptures: “O the depth o... ...ely so insignificant, should there be an exclamation so sublime, and so full of religious enthusiasm, in the mouth and in the pen of the teacher of t... ...ty of the just Abraham alone, the house of Jacob alone, in the midst of so many persecutions, in the midst of such extreme depression and contempt, ... ... Rome only by way of precaution, that is, not to occasion without necessity any persecution against himself, or against the Christians, if this epist... ...n this account? In the epistle itself he exhorts the Christians not to fear the persecution which might come upon them as Christians, but that which... ...nning of the emperor Claudius, which is more than twenty years before the first persecution of the church in the time of Nero. What then, at such a ...

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...is vic- tory is received by the Hebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the Jews from that time until this day. Book of Es... ...n, and is known with the just and faithful. 17 The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge. 18 Religiousness shall keep and justify the hea... ...reof are long-lived. 26 In the treasures of wisdom is understand- ing, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sin- ners wisdom is an abomination. 27 T... ...ause he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever and ever. 90 O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him, and give him thanks... ...ey made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day. 12 Now I beseech those that shall read thi... ...: for they shall be called children of God. 10 Blessed are they that su er persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Bles... ... himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribu- lation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized. 22 And he tha... ...ibulation The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1307 and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized. 18 And oth... ...ses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting. 31 But many that a...

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...a high price would all; Carthusians, monks, and nuns pay , if in all their religious doings they could bring into God’ s presence a single work done b... ...be able to accomplish anything and we remain firm against all violence and persecution, and submit to such will of God. Such prayer, then, is to be ou...

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...recedes the appearance of the point in the heart. In that situation, both the religious and the secular prefer the literal part of the Torah. When a ... ...ime truth and superior knowledge. Religion does not deal with any of that. A religious person must know how to follow rules and live within their b... ... S Q: Judaism or Kabbalah? That is the question! A: Judaism is a collection of religious rules that dictate how to conduct ourselves in our world. Ot... ..., as the wisdom of Kab- balah is not necessary for those who are occupied with religious rituals. Moreover, the wisdom of Kabbalah intensifies both th... ...g Kabbalah? A: A great many people tried to deter me from Kabbalah: they were religious, secular, Jews and non-Jews alike, and strangers and relative... ... Q: I am surprised to find that great Kabbalists can be victims of murder and persecution. I always thought that Kabbalah renders unlim- ited powers ...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious v...

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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly... ...ons, Washington Square Press, New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-195... ...t Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Religious Belief Systems Versus An Emotional Response To God Religion As An... ...Response To God Religion As An Organized System An Example Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 1... ...ality Of Beliefs The Holy Rituals Exclusive Allegiance The Social Bases Of Religious Divergence Unconditional Love Versus Eternal Punishment The Spiri... ...n the part of al-Hallaj. For this reason mystics have frequently undergone persecution from “orthodox” believers, regardless of which God-focused tra-... ... though five centuries later (1920) formally proclaimed to be a saint. The persecution of communion mystics generally was based on their tendency to s...

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...Jesus. The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world. Jealous for its own religious views, the wor... ...ears quickly undone by such reli- gious fanatics. This hurts more than the persecution of ty- rants. We are treated shabbily on the outside by tyrants... ...have been launched for the purpose of securing peace of conscience through religious exercises, but they proved fail- ures because such devices only i... ...loss and dung. Let us condemn as filthy rags all talk about free will, all religious orders, masses, ceremo- nies, vows, fastings, and the like. In br... ...her I serve men or God. Everybody can see that my preaching has stirred up persecution against me everywhere, and has earned for me the cruel hatred o... ...is sort of preaching procures for us the hatred and disfavor of the world, persecutions, excommunications, 26 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galati... ... those flatterers of men. They taught circumcision to avoid the hatred and persecution of men. T o this day you will find many who seek to please men ... ... no use to me. This shows how little insight the pope and the whole of his religious coterie have into spiritual matters, and how little they concern ... ... the death of Christ fifteen hundred years ago, long before there were any religious orders, canons, or rules of penance, merits, etc. What did people...

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...th which the partisans of reform were regarded some few years ago, nor the persecutions to which they were exposed. He had been from youth the victim ... ...the blood- less dethronement of their oppressors, and the unveiling of the religious frauds by which they had been deluded into submission; the tranqu... ...e anguish he felt, and sel- dom gave vent to the indignation roused by the persecutions he underwent; while the course of deep unexpressed pas- sion, ... ...t on the site of a Capuchin convent, demolished when the French suppressed religious houses; it was situated on the very overhanging brow of a low hil... ...easure. In the minds of those who consider that magnificent fiction with a religious feel- 232 V olume One ing it engenders something worse. But Prom... ...d had been rendered a painful residence to Shelley, as much by the sort of persecution with which in those days all men of liberal opinions were visit... ...ise me how it shall not be again. 342 V olume One I thought to die; but a religious awe Restrains me, and the dread lest death itself Might be no ref... ... _625 His virtue, awful and prodigious;— He was the most sublime, religious, Pure-minded Poet of these days.’ 35. 35. 35. 35. 35. As soon as ... ...lers, Bishops and Deacons, and the entire army Of those fat martyrs to the persecution Of stifling turtle-soup, and brandy-devils, ...

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... A nd Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all ... ...xt sabbath. 43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, p... ... the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their co...

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...unken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the E... ...th he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is of- fended. 22 He ... ...in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when a ic- tion or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are o ended. 18 A... ...And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all sc... ...ted repentance unto life. 19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cypru... ...ab- bath. 43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, per... ... this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this m...

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...eir lovers; and so had they done, had not an old knight come among them in religious clothing; and then he spake all on high and said: Fair lords, whi... ...he castle at another gate. And there met Sir Galahad an old man clothed in religious clothing, and said: Sir, have here the keys of this castle. Then ... ... teach and preach the holy Christian faith; and therefore he suffered many persecutions the which the enemies of Christ did unto him, and in the city ... ...enance enjoined to him. W hen Bors was departed from Camelot he met with a religious man riding on an ass, and Sir Bors saluted him. Anon the good man... ... thus he rode seeking a great while. Then he over- took a man clothed in a religious clothing; and rode on a strong black horse blacker than a berry, ... ...hen they saw all this they turned to the chapel, and saw the good man in a religious weed and in the armour of Our Lord, for he would sing mass of the...

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... The rigid rules of the caste system were codified in the Manusmriti, a Hindu religious text which decreed that Sudras and Dalits were to be distres... ...o categorize untouchability practiced due to Hindu religion. Nodes related to religious untouchability, as given by an expert who is a social activi... ...follows: R 1 - Religion R 2 - Superstition R 3 - Faith in particular religious sect R 4 - Discrimination in religion R 5 - No freedom o... ...be discussed. For instance, the concepts of purity and pollution are merely religious taboos. 45 R 3 : Faith in a particular religious sect ... ...socio-economic status. Besides, the vicious cycle of ‘karma’ can be broken by religious conversion. Faith gives hope for betterment. Faith also pr... ...oups in recent years have mobilized agricultural workers against their social persecution and economic exploitation by the landlords. The Sena was ...

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...h 9. A Kabbalistic Reality 10. Kabbalah as a Daily Reality 11. Becoming Religious 12. A Spiritual Task 13. How to Study Correctly Part 3: The ... ... obligate each person to study Kabbalah, regardless of their age, sex or religious background: in the study of the Kabbalah there is a great streng... ...(Isaiah 49, 22) Question: What about our duties in keeping the Jewish religious laws, is that not a part of our duty? Answer: What we know as ... ... heart of each and every one of us, and the temple of us all. Becoming Religious Question: Do I have to become religious if I study Kabbalah? ... ...o I have to become religious if I study Kabbalah? Answer: No. Becoming religious is an ascent from our current degree to a degree called “man.” I... ...an the entire picture of reality through the ruining of the temples, the persecutions, the Spanish inquisition, and up to the contemporary threats ...

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...ion of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Ye... ...eligious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity, and of super... ... procuring unity; men must be ware, that in the procuring, or reuniting, of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity, and... ...d, or like unto it; that is, to propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences; except it be in cases of overt scandal... ...compound the smaller differences; to proceed mildly, and not with sanguinary persecutions; and rather to take off the principal authors by winning and...

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...e stands at the top, but it also presents with clarity and warmth the simple religious interest of the Christian soul. It is sharp in its attitude to... ...h is the people of God. But now I ask, where is the necessity, where is the religious duty, where is the practical use of denying both kinds, that i... ...., pp. 32–33. 52 Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, whither he had fled during the persecution of Diocletian (303–305); martyred under Julian the Apostate,... ...eatise by Stephen of Autun (d. 1139). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (12 volumes) [hereinafter cited as Schaff-Herzog], X... ...nk, which is penance. This has given rise to those endless burdens of vows, religious orders, works, satisfactions, pilgrimages, indulgences, and mo... ... 16:16]. This promise must be set far above all the glitter of works, vows, religious orders, and whatever else man has introduced, for on it all ou... ...ce to Blandina, a young slave and Christian martyr, whose courage during the persecution under the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius (161–180), was exto...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements t...

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...ACE CE CE CE CE THIS BOOK sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; i... ...ed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reade... ...ed, was one of the most disas- trous and one of the least venerable of all religious gather- ings, and he holds that the Alexandrine speculations whic... ...rticularly necessary to clear them out of the way of those who are seeking religious consolation at this present time of exceptional religious need. H... ...role played by these dogmas in ob- scuring, perverting, and preventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the... ...e heresy had not been washed out of the world for- ever after centuries of persecution in torrents of blood. But whatever the present state of Christe... ... declare that God is not sexual, and that religious passion and insult and persecution upon the score of sexual things are a barbaric inheritance. But... ...sation and hu- miliating display; who seize upon religion and turn it into persecution, and upon beauty to torment it on the altars of some joyless vi... ...ty, with its encrustation and suf- focation in dogmas and usages, its dire persecutions of the faithful by the unfaithful, its desiccation and its unl...

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...m through Shap, Penrith, Carlisle. Probably they were seeking to elude the persecution of the stage-coaches, which, for the last thirty hours, had bee... ...HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE IT IS SOMETIMES SAID, that a religious messenger from God does not come amongst men for the sake of teac... ... mission. The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether— overlaid and confo... ...in its strongest light, when we recur to the fact of his astonishment at a religious princess refusing to confer a bishoprick upon one that had treate... ...on to record his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main... ...of death than that of life. This expresses rudely the character of awe and religious horror investing the Greek theatre. But to my own feeling the dif... ... up within our own memories, unsupported by a grand traditional history of persecutions— conflicts—and martyrdoms, lurking moreover in blind al- leys,... ...hasing and sur- mounting another, or of abysses that swallowed up abysses. Persecutions of this class oftentimes are amongst the symp- toms of fever, ...

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...Nyla runs into the hard facts of life. Her school nativity play turns out to be a pretty ugly affair. It opens up the cracks in the social divides, religious discrimination and dark family secrets. Told with wry humour and compassion for the pain of children, unseen by adults, a complex web of history unfolds underneath the rivalries and small disasters of Nyla's school...

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...el Gabriel. A consolation prize, appearing in only one scene. Why? The answer was a lot more complex than I knew. In fact I had fallen afoul of religious discrimination. It was a late aftertaste of the persecution that had made my ancestors walk all the way across Europe in search of a sanctuary. And although I was only nine years old, my life was inextricably entang...

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...e in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – The Religious Narcissist For the Love of God The Narcissist and So... ...ia, fashion, show business, the arts, medicine, or business, and serve as religious leaders. By virtue of their standing in the community, their c... ...en they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as "victims of persecution". The narcissistic leader fosters and encourages a personali... ...litan, a part of the establishment, of being "decadent". They are hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual o... ...r is of crucial importance, to others his ancestral roots. At one time, the religious affiliation, and at another, the right education, or a vision ... ...en they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as "victims of persecution". The narcissistic leader fosters and encourages a personali... ...they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", they are hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual o...

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...tion of the seed" and such a serious offence that it is punishable by the strongest religious penalty: eternal ex- communication ("Karet"). If abort... ...m Godwin and, later, Pierre Joseph Proudhon), radical individualism (Max Stirner), religious anarchism (Leo Tolstoy), anarcho- communism (Kropotkin)... ...andedly. But it takes one Jew to really know another. Conditioned by millennia of persecution, Jews are paranoid, defensive, and obsessively secre... ...ed manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If race is defined in terms of genetic purity, the... ...ews and secular Jews differ, of course, in their perception of this supremacy. The religious attribute it to divine will, intellectuals to the outs... ...lti-ethnic and multi-cultural (an anathema to anti-Semites, I know). Every ethnic, religious, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic or bu... ...cussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as "victims of persecution". The narcissistic leader fosters and encourages a ... ...hy, usually beginning at the group's early history and present in various contexts. Persecution and abuse are often the causes - or at least the ant...

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...The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly illustrated with many woodcuts, it was ...

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...The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in 1563. Lavishly illustrated with many woodcuts, it was ...

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...England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into opposition with them, suppressing them, and closing religious houses. In that period a famous shrine, erected centuries earlier at Walsingham and dedicated to our Lady, drew people from far and near for it was a favorite place of pilgrimage and the site of many miracles. On th...

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...t common mistake to get rid of is that mankind consists of a great mass of religious people and a few eccentric atheists. It consists of a huge mass o... ...- tion, and one Tom Paine, with his smaller congregation. The passionately religious are a people apart; and if they were not hopelessly outnumbered b... ...onal acquaintances a single atheist or a single Plymouth Brother. Unless a religious turn in ourselves has led us to seek the little Societies to whic... ...sing rewards in heaven or threatening torments in hell, they encourage the religious people up to a certain point: for instance, if Savonarola only te... ...Lion RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM The religion of the tolerated religious minority has always been essentially the same religion: that is w... ...nd chastity. We become mad in pursuit of sex: we become equally mad in the persecution of that pursuit. Unless we gratify our desire the race is lost:... ... Paul, or Saul, as he was first called. The horror accounts for his fierce persecution of the Christians. The fascination accounts for the strangest o... ...ther it was a symbolic or a real ingestion of divine substance, pro- duced persecution, slaughter, hatred, and everything that Jesus loathed, on a mon...

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...divine things, becomes requisite; for all the direct terms, expressing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek te... ...en [Greek text], though not used sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘religious.’ This condition of language we need not wonder at: the language ... ...logical Essays and Other Papers – V olume One none so much as in habits of religious demeanor under a Pagan [that is, a degrading] religion. T o be a ... ...e the ancient religions of Paganism. Because the gods were wicked, man was religious; because Olympus was cruel, earth trembled; because the divine be... ...here was a sort of truce, indeed, between the parties; temples, with their religious services, and their votive offerings, recorded this truce. But be... ...go, a sect of reforming or fa- natical Mahometans, in Bengal,* commenced a persecution of the surrounding Hindoos. At length, a reaction took place on... ... Papists draw a plenary justification of intolerance, or even of atrocious persecution, from the evan- gelical ‘Compel them to come in!’ The right of ...

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...asing to God. In Luther’s time ev ery one who was seriously interested in religious ques tions was reared under the influence of these ideas. Now, s... ...er before, demanded nothing less than a breach with the whole of prevalent religious views, and at that time must have been perceived as the dis cove... ...are a little discourse after my fashion. If accomplishment were as easy as persecution, Christ would long since have been cast out of heaven again, an... ... they who ask, what works are good; what they shall do; how they shall be religious? Y es, and where are they who say that when we preach of faith, ... ...s such faith, such honoring of God and such worship, he rages and stirs up persecution, attacks body, goods, honor and life, brings upon us sickness, ... ...and of the wicked, and help the forsaken to maintain his just cause.” Such persecution, it is true, has now become infre quent; but that is the fault... ...nd so have abandoned the very thing because of which such wit nessing and persecution should arise; and in its place they teach us their own law and ...

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...ans; they were to act as mediators; they had internal regulations like other religious bodies. The above mentioned M. Loderingo was the founder of th... ...hich is imitated from Ezekiel, c. xvii. 3, 4. appears to be typical of the persecutions which the church sustained from the Roman Emperors. v. 118.... ...erpent brake, hope to appease the anger of the Deity by any outward acts of religious, or rather superstitious, ceremony, such as was that, in our po... ...known by the appellation he derived from Marseilles, and at last resumed the religious habit. One of his verses is cited by Dante, De Vulg. Eloq. 1. ... ...the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his twenty seventh year. In three years he was made p... ...f the truth.] Son di lor vero ombriferi prefazii . So Mr. Coleridge, in his Religious Musings, v. 406. Life is a vision shadowy of truth. v. 88. —the...

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...out Beranger and Eustacie de Ribaumont being man and wife. Every ceremony, religious or domestic, that could render a marriage valid, was gone through... ...g to provide for the Chevalier’s disappointed heir in some commandery of a religious order of knighthood. The Baron’s wife was English. He had, when o... ...t all with the grave, steadfast cast of countenance imparted by unresisted persecution, stood gath- 14 Yo n g e ered round the green mound that serve... ... to shine forth; and though I verily believe what Maitre Gardon says, that persecution is a blessed means of grace, yet it is grievous to expose one’s... ...n in your father’s vexed country, where the Reformed re- ligion lies under persecution. Natheless, being a born liegeman of the King of France, and he... ...mit. There were a large number of these gathered at Paris; for the lull in persecution that had followed the battle of Moncontour had given hopes of a... ...was partitioned into small farms, inhabited by a simple-hearted peasantry, religious and dili- gent, with a fair amount of rural wealth and comfort. T... ...lk, beheld the cluster of stone buildings, substantial as the erections of religious orders were wont to be. Martin found a seat for her, where she mi... ... as it were with penances, processions, and sermons, for which the host of religious or- ders then at Paris had given ample scope; and she was con- st...

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............................................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF ?THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? ............................................................................................................................................................ 508...

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” ...................................................... .................................................... 508 4 The V arieties of Religious Experience The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human... ... documents— Questions of fact and questions of value—In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which conde... ...beled heresy. But if it then still prove contagious enough to triumph over persecution, it becomes itself an orthodoxy; and when a religion has become... ...cies, have conspired to fan this temper to a glow, so that intolerance and persecution have come to be vices associated by some of us inseparably with...

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...comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be the better understood....

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...ion of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poe... ... to appreciate them. He failed to see their intimate con nection with the religious worship of the Finns in paganism. The next to study the Finnish p... ...garian by Ferdinand Barna, and who, familiar with the habits, customs, and religious no tions of the Finns, has furnished much valuable material used... ...nds with briny water, Thus to still the Fire child’s fury, Thus to end his persecutions. Long reflecting, Ilmarinen Thus addressed the flame of Ukko: ... ...ished 459 The Kalevala In the deep and boundless blue sea, T o escape thy persecutions, Then thou wert not evil treated, Wert not banished by thy peo...

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...d on an enterprise, the success of which would be the triumph of civil and religious rights and the salvation of New England. It was but a doubtful wh... ...ates in his priestly vestments, the fitting representatives of prelacy and persecution, the union of church and state, and all those abominations whic... ...t of the nature of things and the character of the people. On one side the religious multitude, with their sad visages and dark attire, and on the oth... ...ufficiently vigorous, were entirely un- successful. The Quakers, esteeming persecution as a divine call to the post of danger, laid claim to a holy co... ...eserved the moderate chastisement of the rod. These extravagances, and the persecution which was at once their cause and consequence, continued to inc... ...hame and an- ger against the gratuitous cruelty of the instruments in this persecution. In the awakened warmth of his feelings he re- solved that, at ... ..., unprovided with a bell, the signal for the 51 Hawthorne commencement of religious exercises was the beat of a drum. At the first sound of that mart... ...fered her to pass. A general sentiment of pity overcame the viru- lence of religious hatred. Sanctified by her love and her af- fliction, she went for... ...ial exer- cise under the orders of John Endicott. It was a period when the religious exiles were accustomed often to buckle on their armor, and practi...

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...dwelt an old French refugee, by name Mr. Pastoureau, one of those whom the persecution of the Hugue- nots by the French king had brought over to this ... ... had been banished, the Prince of Orange was on the throne, and the direst persecutions of those of the Catholic faith were apprehended by my lady, wh... ...” “Y ou hanged as many of ours,” interposed Harry; “and, for the matter of persecution, Father Holt told me that a young gentleman of Edinburgh, eight... ...and solemnly asked pardon for his errors.” “Faith! there has been too much persecution on both sides: but ’twas you taught us.” “Nay, ’twas the Pagans... ...oper in the regiment: and he swore Harry to secrecy too, which vow the lad religiously kept, until he found that officers and privates were all taken ... ...r; not that any fault attaches to my lord, who is one of the best and most religious men in this king- dom.” And very likely she believed so. ’Tis str... ...ingle person, who is not very likely in a condition even to understand the religious message whereof the priest is the bringer—being uneducated, and l... ...voy’s compliments coming to his Grace the Captain-General during the day’s religious ceremony, and concluding, as it were, with an Amen. And now, havi... ....” As Esmond embraced his young pupil now, ’twas with the feeling of quite religious thankfulness and an almost paternal pleasure that he beheld him. ...

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...d her old cry still, Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill. He fled the persecution of her glory And, in a far off, gentle valley stopping, Cried a... ...ut toys. III She turns the Dolls’ Faces to the Wall Because to day is some religious festival They had a priest say Mass, and even the Japanese, Heel ... ...pair May love me for myself alone And not my yellow hair.’ ‘I heard an old religious man But yesternight declare That he had found a text to prove Tha... .... YEATS And found his family tomb And copied out what I could read In that religious gloom; Found many a famous man there; But fame and virtue rot. Dr...