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...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...ntention of the dispensation itself, as it hath been understood and is expressed by all orthodox divines; who have agreed in holding that the idea o... ...ness and peace harmonized, and goodness reigning universally. Fye, oh, fye upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of ... ... bring in all nations to the Church, and bind the whole world in one great community of Christians, acknowledging the Son of God, as the Lord of all... ...the more I discovered its great weight and value, as an all-sufficient argument for the orthodoxy of the ancient system, and the heterodoxy of the c... ... of its place to make room for the parallel succession of the trumpets which affect the eastern as the seals do the western half of the fourth empir... ...that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword.” But, for as much as in the eastern half of the church, the visitation of Mahomedanism wa... ... up within its womb; Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Greece. In short, almost the whole of Europe, Asia Minor, wit...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ...ment in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altoget... ...a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians appear only 3 times (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16)... ...http://www.obgyn.net/displayarticle.asp?page=/urogyn/murphy- book/cover Calendars Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Their "old... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...mas Day to January 1, effective from 1911 onwards. All that time, the Christian Orthodox continued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Co... ...iene was rediscovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. Water was...

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...ORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD I... ... of defending the contrary ideas; that we may either prudently yield and retire from the contest, or follow some other road without any fear. These ... ...he Apostle of the Gentiles. § 6. Part first. —“IT is commonly thought amongst Christians, that the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, who del... ... and the prophets announce, as being irreconcilable to the honour of the Gentile christians, and to allow them in exchange for the same, other ordina... ...ith quotations from authors? Some say that this is the understanding of all the orthodox interpreters. And what does this mean in relation to t he p... ...therwise? Or haply that the said understanding is a point of Catholic faith, is orthodox, is true, is indisputable? See you not, sir, their challenge... ...ion, and withdrew some to Carthage, a colony of the Tyrians, others to Ionea or Greece, others to different parts of Europe or Africa, leaving to th... ...r there shall be no night there.” Rev. xxi. 25. Whereas Ezekiel, speaking of the eastern gates of his city, doth say of one of them, by which the glo... ...aul, writing to the Corinthians, which was one of the most flourishing cities of Greece, most prudently accommodates himself to the opinions which pr...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ................................................................... 79 MODERN GREECE ....................................................................... ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...y to shut out was an ungracious office, though mighty for the interests of orthodoxy through the land. The children of this world, who became the agit... ... insuffi- ciency. He is put on his trial as to these points only: 1. Is he orthodox? 2. Is he of good moral reputation? 3. Is he suffi- ciently learne... ...ngine of civi- lization, to the potent infidel nations on her southern and eastern frontier. A vast revolution was at hand for Europe; all her tribes ... ...n during an interval, and in a corner, Jews could have inter- married with Christians. Generally, the intensity of recipro- cated hatred, long oppress... ... excitement of mere scenery. Some laud the Caucasus; some the northern and eastern val- leys of Spain; some the Alpine scenery; some the Pyrenean. All... ... with literature. NOTE 3. Some will urge the intolerance of the Greeks for Christians of the Latin Church. But that did not hinder alli- ances, and am...

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...mely, 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 participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ....................................................... 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ...................................................................... ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ...ond remark was substantially this which follows: What is a reli- gion? T o Christians it means, over and above a mode of wor- ship, a dogmatic (that i... ...ammar. The doctor was the most unworldly and guileless of men. Amongst his orthodox breth- ren he was reputed a “Methodist;” and not without reason; f... ...e; this was a church of England parish cler- gyman, who was to be strictly orthodox, faithful to the ar- ticles of our English church, yet to these ar... ...f political authority. Consequently, in sacrificing public amusements, the Christians sacrificed all pleasure whatso- ever that was not rigorously dom... ... their gross appreciations, Christian truth was like the scavenger bird in Eastern climates, or the stork in Holland, which signalizes its presence by... ... required exactly one other century to carry out and ac- complish even its eastern triumph. Dating from the era of the very inaugurating and merely lo...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...prevalent among the women of Arles, a mode of attire borrowed equally from Greece and Arabia. But, by degrees, watch-chains, necklaces, parti-colored ... ... allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible — utterly impo... ...ir, of hunger,” said Caderousse. “I am as certain of it as that we two are Christians.” The abbe, with a shaking hand, seized a glass of water that wa... ...checked by the long peace which seemed likely to endure throughout Europe. Greece only had risen against Turkey, and had begun her war of independence... ...nd vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of an eastern clime. Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundr... ...g is utterly unknown to me, and up to the present time I have followed the Eastern customs, which are entirely in contrast to the Parisian. I beg you,... ...rry us.’ Marriage is a civil affair in France, and in order to marry in an orthodox manner you must have papers which undeniably establish your identi...

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...ey urged, therefore, that, with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a... ...did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance—in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my ... ...ranks, and carried the subjects of Britain into all quarters of the world. Greece, so attractive by its remains of art, by its struggles for freedom a... ... said they, “that King Rich- ard is on the track, that you stray so wildly from it?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an an... ...f the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from the Norman; and at first certainly having a pretence to be termed a wo... ...d be invested with certain parts of Syria, which they were to yield to the Christians. Richard, according to the romance which bears his name, “could ... ...- ing down his glove, offered to become a pledge for his fidel- ity to the Christians; but his offer was rejected, and he was obliged to give way to R... ...he canon, Lord Marquis,” said the T emplar; “thou art more scrupulous than orthodox. The absolution of the wicked priest is as effectual as if he were...

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...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...imize the importance of all dated and explicit evidences and arguments for orthodox beliefs, and to resort to vague symbolic and liberal interpretatio... ...y, of the former work that an elderly colonel, a Wombash parishio- ner, an orthodox Layman of the most virulent type, had sent him. He perceived that ... ...d of propounding plainly and without the acereted mythology of Asia Minor, Greece and Rome, the pure Gospel of Christ…. they present it overloaded wit... ... incidental of observations. “What puzzles me,” he said, “is why the early Christians identified the Spermaticos Logos of the Stoics with the sec- ond... ...ty we ever ceased to be friends,” he said. “You Englishmen aren’t like our Christians,” he went on. The Engiishmen wanted to know why. “You haven’t pr... ...y to attend to it. It’s well we’re through with Easter. Bishop Buncombe of Eastern Blowdesia was coming here anyhow. And there is Canon Bliss. There’s...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ...od, her breast was peaceable — A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles... ...en every drop had seem’d To taste of heaven—If this be true, indeed Some Christians have a comfortable creed. There were two fathers in this gha... ...g. He had an only daughter, call’d Haidee, The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; Besides, so very beautiful was she, Her dowry was as... ...im a good friend, but bad acquaintance. But something of the spirit of old Greece Flash’d o’er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward ... ...resent, and abused the past, Reversing the good custom of old days, An Eastern anti jacobin at last He turn’d, preferring pudding to no prai... ...To ‘do at Rome as Romans do, ’ a piece Of conduct was which he observed in Greece. Thus, usually, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the diffe... ...ir Perhaps; but as I suffer from the shocks Of illness, I grow much more orthodox. The first attack at once proved the Divinity (But that I ...

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...; they are forbidden certain reading, just as they are carefully prevented from seeing social life as it is. Must it not therefore be a source of prid... ...st master’s name) was obliged to shade his eyes with one hand to keep them from being dazzled. With the air of a man who was tired of waiting, he look... ...cts of religion on the soul of a child, where love was like those trees of Eastern climes, bear- ing both flowers and fruit, always fragrant, always f... ...e contem- poraneous with civilization, cultivated by Egypt and Chaldea, by Greece and India, met in Paris in the eighteenth century the fate that Trut... ...atred as it was possible to be in those days of V oltairean tolerance. The orthodox physician refused to consult with those who adopted the Mesmerian ... ...u speak of your death, dear godfather?” said Ursula in a grieved tone. “We Christians do not die; the grave is the cradle of our souls.” “Well,” said ... ...s of religious ecstasy. The hymn served as the evening prayer of the three Christians kneeling together for the first time. “What has happened?” asked...

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.............. 124 CASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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......................................................... 143 143 143 143 143 GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE ... ...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...should grudge to others a health which does not inter- fere with your own! Christians, therefore, Mahometans, and Jews originally, in proportion as th... ...impransus. Consequently, the question virtually amounted to this: Were the Christians to separate themselves altogether from those whose interests wer... ...e One in heresy (that are always prying into ugly secrets) to be the least orthodox thinker, one or other, amongst the whole bri- gade of fifteen thou... ...lf for the sake of a trifle; but an impossibility is not a trifle. If from orthodox T urkey you pass to heretic Persia, if from the rigor of the Sonne... ...patriotically distressed at not being able to deny the double power of the eastern English coal, suddenly revivifies his Scottish heart that had been ... ...elves in any splen- did manner with the Roman empire, they did so with the eastern horn of that empire, and in point of time from the foundation of Co...

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....................... 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR ........................................................

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.......................................................................... 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ................................................... .......................................................................... 59 FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE .................................................. ... _20 And so we sought you, king. We were sailing Near Malea, when an eastern wind arose, And drove us to this waste Aetnean rock; The one-eyed c... ...CL CL CLOPS: OPS: OPS: OPS: OPS: Oh, basest expedition! sailed ye not From Greece to Phrygia for one woman’s sake? 41 Shelley UL UL UL UL ULYSSES: YS... ...isit thee, And place no impious food within thy jaws. For in the depths of Greece we have upreared _270 Temples to thy great F... ... _95 And which the straining eye can hardly seize When melting into eastern twilight’s shadow, Were scarce so thin, so slight; but the fair sta... ... _175 Makes human will an article of trade; Or he was changed with Christians for their gold, And dragged to distant isles, where to the sound... ...Fall”, etc., volume 2, page 210. See also, for the hatred of the primitive Christians to love and even marriage, page 269.) But if happiness be the ob... ...spira- tion carried internal evidence, I fear their inspired brethren, the orthodox missionaries, would be so uncharitable as to pronounce them obstin...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ... journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruins of Rhamnus—you are a great Grecian, now. I don’t... ...ing for Parnassus, the double- peaked Parnassus.’ All this volume is about Greece, you know,” Mr. Brooke wound up, rubbing his thumb transversely alon... ...he woods and fields. Though he had never regarded himself as other than an orthodox Christian, and would argue on prevenient grace if the subject were... ...n silence towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that s... ...ful to marry again, I suppose; else we might as well be Hindoos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the c... ...g at six guineas—it is an insult to religion, ladies; it touches us all as Christians, gentlemen, that a subject like this should go at such a low fig...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments. And Christians generally—surely there are women in heaven now who wore jewels.”... ... journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruins of Rhamnus— you are a great Grecian, now. I don’... ...ning for Parnassus, the double peaked Parnassus.’ All this volume is about Greece, you know,” Mr. Brooke wound up, rubbing his thumb transversely alon... ...the woods and fields. Though he had never regarded himself as other than an orthodox Chris tian, and would argue on prevenient grace if the subject we... ...march 343 towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that s... ...ful to marry again, I suppose; else we might as well be Hindoos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the c...

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...d with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again banished from Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another... ...n December, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary ... ...the Quaker, “nor any of my brethren.” “Zounds!” say I to him, “you are not Christians, then.” “Friend,” replies the old man in a soft tone of voice, “... ...t tone of voice, “swear not; we are Chris- tians, and endeavour to be good Christians, but we are not of opinion that the sprinkling water on a child’... ...ther is greater than the Son. Do you remember what is related of a certain orthodox bishop, who, in order to convince an emperor of the reality of con... ...ed as absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects as an eastern mon- arch; and forbade, upon pain of death, the English either fire... ...ht very well be allowed to differ entirely in opinion from one another. In Greece, the infant seat of arts and of errors, and where the grandeur as we... ...y obliged to cultivate their understandings. In England the governments of Greece and Rome are the subject of every conversation, so that every man is...

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...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Koran The Koran Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the ... ...s, of course, the prophet par excellence, and the Koran is regarded by the orthodox as nothing less than the eternal utterance of Allah. The eulogy pr... ...y claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard to the first-named criterion, there is a gr... ...werfully affected the finest and most cultivated minds among both Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. This general progress of the Muhammedan worl... ...he style. To them the matter is all true and the manner all perfect. Their eastern temperament responds readily to the crude, strong, and wild appeal ... ... before they should differ regarding their scriptures, as did the Jews and Christians.” 2 In accordance with this advice, Othman determined to establ... ..., the submission of Hadramont, Yemen, the greater part of the southern and eastern provinces of Arabia–and the final sol- emn pilgrimage to Mecca. Whi... ...uitted him in disgust at his subsequent proceed- ings, and to have died an orthodox Christian. It has been supposed that Muhammad derived many of his ... ...the Koran the principle of Evil. See Sura [xci.] ii. 32, n. 15 The sea of Greece and the sea of Persia. But as no literal interpretation of the passa...

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...ly by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol inj... ....” Russian history gives him no plea- sure, and he separates it definitely from Ukrainian history. He is “ready to cast everything aside rather than r... ...es. Ever on the alert, he regarded himself as the legal protec- tor of the orthodox faith. He entered despotically into any village where there was a ... ... shout- ing, “Play faster, musicians! Begrudge not, Thoma, brandy to these orthodox Christians!” And Thoma, with his black- ened eye, went on measurin... ...ng, “Play faster, musicians! Begrudge not, Thoma, brandy to these orthodox Christians!” And Thoma, with his black- ened eye, went on measuring out wit... ... you, Remen?” And these heroes, gathered from all the roving population of Eastern Russia, kissed each other and began to ask questions. “But what has... ... harm lies not in the carts, but in the fact that not horses, but orthodox Christians*, are harnessed to them. Listen! I have not yet told all. They s... ...cated a Southern origin, but to what particular nation he belonged, India, Greece, or Persia, no one could say with certainty. Of tall, almost colossa...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...n some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— some by Jews and others by Christians, perhaps equally Jew- ish. Superadded to these stationary elemen... ...erly executioner’s mode of tying a knot; did it herself in a ‘ship-shape,’ orthodox man- ner; received in return the enthusiastic plaudits of the crow... ...te departure; that is, for signifying whether the settled intention of the Eastern Kalmucks might not have been suddenly interrupted by ad- verse inte... ... those intrigues by which Zebek-Dorchi had practised upon the pride of the Eastern tribes, now stepped in to save their people from ruin. Be the cause... ... Turks act, in putting so high a value on the words of idiots. Enlightened Christians have often wondered at their allowing any weight to people beref... ...able, that the whole ancient system of civi- lization, all the miracles of Greece and Rome, Persia and Egypt, moved by the machinery of races that wer...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai... ...his lady hath admitted a certain latitude of theological reading which her orthodox father would never 94 Henry Esmond have allowed; his favorite wri... ...r coming to him at Bar; he called you ‘le grand serieux,’ Don Bellianis of Greece, and I don’t know what names; mim- icking your manner” (here Castlew... ...ews, eating together, and not choosing to take their meals in the sight of Christians. The Prince tried to cover his displeasure; he was but a clumsy ...