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...gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge the mere dreams of your brains! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heret...

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...rimary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important ... ...us interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. I... ...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...bility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her spiritual- temporal power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the ... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...is? Will you not overturn the practice and teaching of all the churches and monasteries, by virtue of which they have flourished all these centuries?... ... whenever they turned to repentance, remembered above all their exodus from Egypt, and remembering turned back to God who had brought them out. Moses... ...and obedience. 135 Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) founded 163 Cistercian monasteries in different parts of Europe, which by his death had increas...

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...ildren 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 vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ...autama had in fact set up an organized movement which included a system of monasteries and systematic meditation before his death is unknown. It is cl... ...past and in the present tends to escape due attention. The introduction of monasteries for men was fairly easy, but the finding of a role for women pr... ...uddhism among the peasants in contrast with the rarefied atmosphere of the monasteries. But I have not set out to present an introductory textbook of ...

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...dventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and r...

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...ANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO ... ... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...D EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...under which the elder Polos went to Cathay -- They are sent back to Venice for Christian instructors -- The little boy Marco returns to Cathay with hi... ...was molested, but instead, the Buccaneers rushed to the convents, churches and monasteries, from which they dragged out the monks, priests, and nuns w... ...in ashes, the fire consuming the cathedral, four or five other churches, eight monasteries and convents, a great number of warehouses and stores, and ... ...which the stealing was to be done. All priests in charge of churches, heads of monasteries, and all nunneries were admonished that although their hous...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...nts of Jericho. But we don‘t have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be ... ...ly exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentateuch in hieroglyp... ...ieties have ever attempted this. A few small religious groups, such as in monasteries and convents, have done it,. —―It‘s strange that only a ...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ............................................................ 17 MEDICAL COSTS IN THE U.S. ................................................................. ...c equality that Marx desired? But such equality has only been found in the monasteries and convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In t... ...ut such equality has only been found in the monasteries and convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In the West, laws and unions have gi... ... legendary Queen Eyleuka of Ethiopia in 4500 BCE and Pharaoh Hatshepsut of Egypt right up through Cleopatra and Elizabeth, all had gained power thro... ...brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered N... ... more diversity, it can get into the way of progress. Having more Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Falun Gongs gives more competing ideas as to how s... ...rs and satellites. We let the British, Germans and Americans study ancient Egypt, organ transplants, and Tibetan literature. We merely read their wor...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ...nth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented the complete colla... ...ir proper dates—and biblical studies. Along with other works from English monasteries, they contributed greatly to a rebirth of scholarship on the c... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...ong the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen d...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ...eenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented the complete colla... ...ir proper dates—and biblical studies. Along with other works from English monasteries, they contributed greatly to a rebirth of scholarship on the c... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s i... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...along the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen de...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...reaking is that it successfully explains the idea of Intelligent Design which Christian fundamentalists use in trying to refute the Big Bang Theory o... ...of Science. This chapter not only answers the Intelligent Design theories of Christian Fundamentalists, it supports it. Except it supports it not ... ...was pyramidal civilizations of accumulated dead things. Creating pyramids in Egypt, Creating pyramidal temples of stone: Creating the pyramids of A... ... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...person. But even after two thousand years: people still enter nunneries and monasteries to take voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and practi...

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... forever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the ide... ...erwards with excruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under he... ...hat she would experience on awakening from these sleeps was serendipitous in its own way, for it made her reluctant to use the drug, or to use it spa... ...sh ceiling lights turned on at 6:00 in the shelter, and the mandates of a Christian organization compelling the exodus of these “guests” onto trash s... ...me, then I’d just float away, wouldn’t I? According to Herodotus cats in Egypt jump into fire; but why would they? Material goes to material when i... ...w long can I maintain an atheistic stance? I am half calling to Him now. Christians would claim Him humbling me to bring me to the light, if I had ... ...ristians would claim Him humbling me to bring me to the light, if I had a Christian as a friend, if I had any friend. Chuckles pulled the plug on th... ... sleeping on park benches, in hostels, living in guest houses of Buddhist Monasteries, having no money but no responsibilities in exchange for the c...

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...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...ance. then, is our second picture. The third and last picture shows us the Christian looking into his own heart. This is taken from the sixth verse of... ...l conference of eastern college men on the oppor- tunities and work of the Christian ministry will be held at tlie Union Theological seminary, 700 Par... ...l, by his assistance ill a great drought, he won over the entire island to Christianity. Wars gave way to peace, resulting in increased prosperity, th... ...roiri the 5th to the 10th cen- turies, medicineand anatomy were studied in monasteries, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A... ...urse at the same hours, as in previous years. About a dozen photographs of Egyptian architecture to illustrate Greek (5 liavo been placed on ex- hibit... ...n stream, winds through the great desert past the pyramids and the ancient Egyptian cities, until it empties into the Mediter- ranean through the delt...

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...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...retains one innovation of the parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was written on parchm... ...d laymen alike and liberated books from the scriptoria and "libraries" of monasteries. The printing press technology shattered the content monopoly. ... ...me, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content wil... ... by private entrepreneurs (traders) of the day. Established "publishers" (monasteries), with a few exceptions (e.g., in Augsburg, Germany and in Sub... ...cultures. I hope I made myself a lot clearer and I am awaiting your Hans Christian Andersen treatment of the technicians and their clothes. Sam ...

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...ace: The preparation of this edition of Luther?s Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in March, 1937. The consultation had the twofold merit of definiteness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther?s for the general American ma...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther, tr... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eat. It presents like no other of Luther’s writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ’s meri... ...6 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians the Galatian churches, Jewish-Christian fanatics moved in, who perverted Paul’s Gospel of man’ s free jus... ...nd every blessing. Just for that the world abhors the Gospel. These Jewish-Christian fanatics who pushed themselves into the Galatian churches after P... ... of Moses, God justified men with- out the Law. He justified many kings of Egypt and Babylonia. He justified Job. Nineveh, that great city, was justif... ...t to be kept in a state of uncertainty concerning his status with God. The monasteries recruit the youth on the plea that their “holy” orders will ass... ...hey entered the monastery . Not the world, but Christ, is crucified in the monasteries. In this verse Paul expresses his hatred of the world. The hatr...

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... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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... at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times....

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... THE SUCCUBUS ............................................................................................................................ 91 DESPAIR IN LOVE ...................................................................................................................... 137 EPILOGUE ........................................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... tipsy fellow, finding himself held by the ice. “Then Godenot, like a good Christian, released him from his dilemma, and opened the door of the house ... ...say there are no stories like the stories of our host.” “By the faith of a Christian, I never heard a better story in my life.” “Why, I can hear the r... ...t at her departure the Queen of all Marguerites was charged, by these good Christians, to kiss the captive heart- ily for all the ladies of the realm;... ...he saints, in their own fashion, and said that all they admired in Mary of Egypt was her fashion of paying the 25 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 boatmen. Fro... ...know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by the ancient Egyptians, who held them in great veneration, and adored them like other sa... ... well learned and well informed, through having left his footprint in many monasteries, consumed much midnight oil, and manured his brain with many a ...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every one in the house ran together to the spot whence the cries proceeded, namely, the lower court, where t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. GRISLY, GRISELL, orThe Laidly Lady of Whitbernthe Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...r father, nor is it binding otherwise. No! but no one can take away from a Christian maid the power of holiness. Bear that for ever in mind, sweethear... ... dog love the master who beats him, so it is with us, only with the higher Christian love. Service and prayer open the heart to love, hoping for nothi... ...ncountered town or village. There were resting-places on the way. In great monasteries all were accommodated, being used to close quarters; in castles... ...agger— though it went to my heart, for his good old eyes looked at me like Christians, and my lord told me I was a fool for my pains, for the Elliots ... ... Bernard. She ventured to ask “Master Poticary” whether he sold “Balsam of Egypt.” He was inter- ested at once, and asked whether it were for her own ...

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.................................................................... 20 CANTO VI. Justinian tells of his own life.?The story of the Roman Eagle.?Spirits in the planet Mercury.? Romeo.................................................................................................................................................................... 23 CANTO VII. Discourse of Beat...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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