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...ent degree. He used a language and style that showed high respect for everybody, even toward those he personally did not view in positive light. In A Year Amongst the Persians (1893) he wrote a sympathetic portrayal of a Persian society which few Westerners had ever seen, including a frank account of the effects of opium. It did not attract the attention it deserved at the...

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... first to call to memory all that happened to this grateful people in the first years after the death of Messiah. So far was God from avenging the d... ...nsummation of the age. Notwithstanding those promises, it is certain that a few years thereafter he quitted the Jews, casting them into outer darkne... ... that they should not annihilate each other. “Who does not tremble (said a few years ago, one of the most learned and most zealous prelates of Fran... ...ivity and Dispersion till the Present Time. § 2. O NE hundred twenty and two years after the ten tribes, which composed the kingdoms of Israel an... ...o Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. This transmigration was perfectly concluded eleven years thereafter, when the same Nebuchadnezzar, irritated by the reb... ...rried not long, but became voluntary exiles, by flying into Egypt. The seventy years, predicted by Jeremiah (chap. xxix.) having been accomplished, ... ...ll offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.” Ezra i. 2-4. After many years (not fewer, as seemeth to me, than sixty) the seventh year of ... ...nt, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.” Ezra vii. 25,26. Thirteen years alter Ezra, in the twenty-first year of the same Artaxerxes, Ne... ...siah Vol. 2 Part II portion of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (which, a few years before the captivity, in the time of king Jehoshaphat, could f...

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...THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was still an undergraduate. I lost no time in makin...

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...n of the Sacred Books of the East exactly co­ incides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Mull... ...of Sanskrit at the University of Gbttingen, when I left school nearly two years before. During my under­ graduate days and later lowed much to Profes... ...d of Ethnology in the German University of Prague. The experience of many years has made me a conv)nced be­ liever in the great "alue of full and com... ...ong Oriental scholars in my student days was very different. About thirty years ago an eminent Sanskrit scholar began the publication of the editt'o... ...ranch of learning to which the work in question belongs. Even in , recent years I have hardly ever seen an index to Oriental works that has not seem... ... 1904- it was then thought possible to finish the Index volume within two years. When I set to work, and began reading through volume after volume, ... ...rk, and the preparation of the Index had to be ~nterrupted for nearly two years. When I took it up again 10 1900 I soon found that the huge mass of ... ...UCTORY NOTE Science of Religion have been written during the last twenty years. But most of these books are more concerned with theories on the ori...

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... seats, Than have those spirits which so late thou saw’st; Nor more or fewer years exist; but all Make the first circle beauteous, diversely Partaking... ...urse, when he of yore, Lavinia’s spouse, was leader of the flight, A hundred years twice told and more, his seat At Europe’s extreme point, the bird o... ...ds Have made it worthy reverence. Not unknown To thee, how for three hundred years and more It dwelt in Alba, up to those fell lists Where for its sak... ...hat must befall his seed: but, “Tell it not,” Said he, “and let the destin’d years come round.” Nor may I tell thee more, save that the meed Of sorrow... ...ous and costly, great renown hath left, And not to perish, ere these hundred years Five times absolve their round. Consider thou, If to excel be worth... ...e, bereav’d Of her first husband, slighted and obscure, Thousand and hundred years and more, remain’d Without a single suitor, till he came. Nor aught... ...Arno and the Tyber, he from Christ Took the last Signet, which his limbs two years Did carry. Then the season come, that he, Who to such good had dest... ...it added; “he, of whom Thy kindred appellation comes, and who, These hundred years and more, on its first ledge Hath circuited the mountain, was my so... ...then, my honour’d stem! what ancestors Where those you sprang from, and what years were mark’d In your first childhood? Tell me of the fold, That hath...

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...r rigorous teaching to become Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1672, Scougal was ordained minister in Auchterless and, after a year, returned to King's College as Professor of Divinity. He continued in this office until his death in 1678. The Life of God in the Soul of Ma is, in reality, a letter of doctrine and encouragement to a friend wavering in ...

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...h, and Dizahab -- 2. (There are eleven days? journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) -- 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;...

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...y of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the elev enth month, on the first day of the month, that Moses sp... ...y hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 An... ...deshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from amo... ...hou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what wa... ...y raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth... ...e eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the be ginning of the year even unto the end of the year. Deuteronomy 11:1 11:12 28 13 And it ... ...lt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place w... ...him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year,... ...work of thine hand which thou doest. Chapter 15 A t the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: E...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high ...

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...Haggai THE T HIRTY SEVENTH BOOK OF THE B IBLE Chapter 1 I n the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month,... ...ir God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. Chapter 2 I n the seventh month, in the one and tw... ... hosts. 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 1...

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...nty provinces:) -- 2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace -- 3. In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him -- 4. When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and th...

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...he throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; t... ... house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and s... ...f Mordecai. 7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from ... ...p the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Esther 9:10 – 9:21 17 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from... ... according to their writing, and accord ing to their appointed time every year; 28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout ever...

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...the original. The translation presented here is that of E. Foxcroft.</strong>Although the book first appeared in 1616, the story takes place over 150 years earlier. It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to...

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...This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a c...

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...erdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake -- 2. And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither....

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...f Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, a... ...eneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I... ...ion; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and pro claim ... ...5 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Molo...

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...The history of Israel from the final years of King David's life, through the reign of his son, Solomon, to the rule of King Jehoshaphat of Judah and King Ahaziah of Israel. (Summary by Joy Chan)...

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... Twentieth Century New Testament is considered the first translation of the Bible into modern English. It was produced in Britain over a period of 15 years by approximately 20 people -- ministers, housewives, school teachers and businessmen -- who were united by their desire for a New Testament in the language of the people. They were advised by such scholars as J. Rendel ...

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...RD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son... ...horam the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2 And he wroug... ... LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. 2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: ... ...t with her household, and so journed in the land of the Philistines seven years. 3 And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman retur... ...ce, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead. 16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king o... ...am the son of Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jeru... ...ity of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram... ...haziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. 26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he be gan to reign; and he reigned one year in ... ...s sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. 30 And wh...

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... his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in the field. The first edition of Strauss' book was published in Germany in 1835, when he was only 27 years old. He focused his attention on battling two theological fronts which were current at the time - the biblical Literalists who believed the miracles in the Gospels were to be taken as literal history, and the Rationalis...

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...99. She became a Bahá’í in 1907 and later served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British Isles for eight of its first eleven years. (Introduction by Nicholas James Bridgewater)...

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...rtunity University. Zechariah Chapter 1 I n the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Bere... ...twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Bere... ...f Judah, against which thou hast had indig nation these threescore and ten years? 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good w... ...the voice of the LORD your God. Chapter 7 A nd it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the... ... I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? 4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, 5 Speak... ...n ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and sev enth month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? 6 And when ye did eat, an... ...hich came against Jerusalem shall even go up Zechariah 14:4 14:16 17 from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feas...

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...ua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnat... ... of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. 9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD rais... ...s hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. 11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. 12 And the children of Israel did... ...trees. 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD rai... ...subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Phi... ... cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. 4 And Deborah, a prophe... ...e as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. Chapter 6 A nd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the L... ...ght of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of th... ...nto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut d...

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...orrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. Chapter 6 I n the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high ... ...amascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of E... ...l it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palest... ...l cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it u... ...oab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemne... ..., and Israel mine inheritance. Isaiah 19:14 – 19:25 32 Chapter 20 I n the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent hi... ... LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the ki... ... the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar sha... ...nd it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years sh...

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...heir merciless wrongs. Here Alexander dwells, And Dionysius fell, who many a year Of woe wrought for fair Sicily. That brow Whereon the hair so jetty ... ...on!” said he, “whoever of this throng One instant stops, lies then a hundred years, No fan to ventilate him, when the fire Smites sorest. Pass thou th... ...int, With us beyond but with a larger stride. E’en thus the Romans, when the year returns Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid The thronging multitude... ...ram’d to hold the pure baptismal streams, One of the which I brake, some few years past, To save a whelming infant; and be this A seal to undeceive wh... ... “Ha! already standest there? Already standest there, O Boniface! By many a year the writing play’d me false. So early dost thou surfeit with the wea... ...age safe. Yesterday, later by five hours than now, Twelve hundred threescore years and six had fill’d The circuit of their course, since here the way ... ... heavy laden, And following, his beloved footsteps mark’d. CANTO XXIV In the year’s early nonage, when the sun Tempers his tresses in Aquarius’ urn, A... ...stant resumed. So mighty sages tell, The’ Arabian Phoenix, when five hundred years Have well nigh circled, dies, and springs forthwith Renascent. Blad... ...out its voice, and spake: “When I escap’d From Circe, who beyond a circling year Had held me near Caieta, by her charms, Ere thus Aeneas yet had nam’...

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...say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be ... ...at it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and...

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...heir merciless wrongs. Here Alexander dwells, And Dionysius fell, who many a year Of woe wrought for fair Sicily. That brow Whereon the hair so jetty ... ...on!” said he, “whoever of this throng One instant stops, lies then a hundred years, No fan to ventilate him, when the fire Smites sorest. Pass thou th... ...int, With us beyond but with a larger stride. E’en thus the Romans, when the year returns Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid The thronging multitude... ...ram’d to hold the pure baptismal streams, One of the which I brake, some few years past, To save a whelming infant; and be this A seal to undeceive wh... ... “Ha! already standest there? Already standest there, O Boniface! By many a year the writing play’d me false. So early dost thou surfeit with the wea... ...age safe. Yesterday, later by five hours than now, Twelve hundred threescore years and six had fill’d The circuit of their course, since here the way ... ... heavy laden, And following, his beloved footsteps mark’d. CANTO XXIV In the year’s early nonage, when the sun Tempers his tresses in Aquarius’ urn, A... ...stant resumed. So mighty sages tell, The’ Arabian Phoenix, when five hundred years Have well nigh circled, dies, and springs forthwith Renascent. Blad... ...out its voice, and spake: “When I escap’d From Circe, who beyond a circling year Had held me near Caieta, by her charms, Ere thus Aeneas yet had nam’...

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...or you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be for ward a year ago. 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a rea... ...d, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. 3 Yet have I sent the bre... ...ions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body...

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...ght, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night ... ...sh? or seest thou as man seeth? 5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, 6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and search... ...em. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in pr... ..., as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! Job 16:5 – 16:21 27 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Chapter ... ... not shew you mine opinion. 7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. 8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspira... ...y obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the swor... ... Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour... ...itance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 So ...

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...them they had not cir cumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wil derness, till all the people that were men of war, which ... ...l manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up... ...l the kings thirty and one. Chapter 13 N ow Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and ... ... unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarne... ...now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children o... ... wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses... ...ua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timna...

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...th not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind the... ... vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and ...

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...it is an evil disease. 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled w... ...ing: this hath more rest than the other. 6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? 7 ... ...sant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness;... ...y Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While t...

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... an infidel. 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under three score years old, having been the wife of one man. 10 Well reported of for good wo...

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...from Sanskrit, the Song of God — is the most important part of the Indian epic poem “Mahabharata”. The latter describes events that are 5-7 thousands years old. The Bhagavad Gita is a great philosophical work that played the same role in the history of India as the New Testament did in the history of countries of the European culture. Both these books powerfully proclaim t...

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...In this and many other respects, the human pregnancy continues well into the fourth year of life (physiologically it continues in to the second year... ...f shares available to the public - is frequently marginal. Shareholders meet once a year to vent and disperse. Boards of directors are appointed by... ...ved in the minutia of accountancy, stock dealing, and banking than it was only two years ago. But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with... ...able to express anger and direct it at "forbidden" targets in his early, formative years (his parents, in most cases). The anger, however, was a ju... ...that " ... (t)here is nothing else going on in this country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and t... ...er all, these mono-cellular organisms were (and still are, hundreds of millions of years later) superbly adapted to their environment. It was Bergs... ...en an integral and essential part of democracy since it was invented in Athens 2500 years ago. The Jews and Israelis are no exception. Jews are, in... ...om East Europe, the Palestinians are likely to become a majority within the next 50 years. Israel will sooner or later face the need to choose wheth... ...days? What is it that we are toasting? Is it the fact that we have survived another year against many odds? Are we marking the progress we have mad...

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...ve or negative – plus the hint by dowsing, a discipline 17 thousands of years old, that matter could be represented by a waveform, providing a li... ...ever it is, is totally meaningless: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, centuries are all the same! So much for the immutability of time!... ...ay, and released from physical constraints, anything is possible. The year: 1919. The man: a little known Polish mathematician named Theodor Ka... ...cles can still display correlative behaviour even when separated by light years of space – too large a distance for information to pass instantaneo... ...t the slits are, this phenomenon can occur, even when the slits are light years apart! Fig.31. Constructive Interference. 88 If th... ...ction, on the same axis, whether it is only a matter of feet away or light years away! This is so angular momentum can be conserved. This f... ...ngly, as the instantaneous fixing of the axis of spin of a particle light years away simply by choosing an orientation of measurement of its partne...

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... attainable, not by any external general measures, but merely by that simple appeal to the consciousness of each separate man which, nineteen hundred years ago, was proposed by Jesus—that every man bethink himself, and ask himself, who is he, why he lives, and what he should and should not do. (Introduction by David Barnes, and extract from Chapter VI)...

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...e, when Soren was on his own, he rarely left Copenhagen, but he did walk about the streets and greet passersby, discussing events of the day. After 6 years of “splendid inactivity” he obtained his degree in Theology from the University of Copenhagen with the submission of his thesis paper in 1841, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. Just before gr...