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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...rs and theologians prove their positions to us—without the hocus pocus and mythology that any educated mind would certainly reject. Our problem is th... ...their observations of the real world with the 106 parentally provided mythology of fairy tales and the community imposed basic assumptions— wheth... ...ld, be punished by death. 329 ―But as Paul tells us in First Corinthians 13 ‗If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the myste... ... is happy with you. Although it is not describing suicide, Paul, in First Corinthians 3:15, gives a good description of what happens to a Christian ... ...Acts 1:18. But a major question remains regarding Paul‘s message in First Corinthians 3:17, when he wrote not to defile or violate one‘s body. Was he... ...r people in profound ways. This is confirmed in St. Paul‘s epistle to the Corinthians, ‗Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the S... ...or the temple of God is holy and that is what you are.‘ That was in First Corinthians Chapter 3 verses16 and 17. So you see that we are made in the ... ...their representatives, often find extra-marital flings as exciting. Hindu mythology has a number of stories telling us how the gods often indulged th...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...back home is blind to his true identity. The symbols of blindness in Greek Mythology have been screaming and shrieking to whoever wants to listen... ...ers. What culture has ever glorified its lower classes as America has into mythology and lies? Rome did. Like the famous, much-loved TV show: T... ...e heading on a paragraph, somersaults, head-over-heels, crowns, the crowns of Corinthian pillars, pillars do not have heads: all pillars are decapit... ...reams: the God known as Morpheus… ‘Morpheus was the god of dreams in Greek mythology. According to some ancient sources - such as the roman poet ... ...ian ideas and symbols and where they STOLE them from in Egyptian religion and mythology: you can find the ideas of Cain and able in Seth and Osiris. ... ...n brothers. You can find the two symbols of the early Christians in Egyptian mythology combined into one symbol: r1732 The Path of Splitness ...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...s were ordained by Theseus. At the same time he made an agreement with the Corinthians, that they should allow those that came from Athens to the cele... ...onides, he said, that he was a man of little judgment to speak against the Corinthians, who were inhabitants of a great city, and to have his own pict... ...o him; for being chosen as arbitrator in a difference between them and the Corinthians, he decided the controversy by ordering the Corinthians to 202... ...vised the people to send help to the Corcyrseans, who were attacked by the Corinthians, and to secure to themselves an island possessed of great naval... ...rward to Corcyra, which arrived after the fight was over. And when now the Corinthians, angry and indignant with the Athenians, ac- cused them publicl... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes

By: Honoré de Balzac

...le opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know mythology and the fable of Argus.” Before entering the carriage, the golden... ...ff, over which an Indian muslin was stretched, fluted after the fashion of Corinthian columns, in plaits going in and out, and bound at the top and bo...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...have been eager to build and christen:so that it seems as if, in the Malta mythology, they had been turned into freestone. In the armoury is the very ... ...have ladies to consider Greece “romantic,” they who get their no- tions of mythology from the well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”?What is the reaso... ...mpleteness of the Parthenon. The little Temple of Victory, with its fluted Corinthian shafts, blazed un- der the sun almost as fresh as it must have a...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...lus, as the mythus itself differs so much from all the rest of the Grecian mythology, (belonging apparently to an age and a people more gloomy, auster... ...Even honest labor was tolerated, though, of course, disgrace- ful. But the Corinthian order of society, to borrow Burke’s image, was the bold sea-rove...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ies. That was the elementary base of Schreiber; and the superstructure, or Corinthian decoration of his fron- tispiece, was, that Schreiber cultivated... ...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ... ..., concurring with other circumstantial exposures, should convict the young Corinthian emigrant of parricide. For the present, Œdipus viewed himself as...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology. Ovid ‘s a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon’s ... ...e metal The devil may decompose, but never settle: I think it may be of ‘Corinthian Brass, ’ Which was a mixture of all metals, but The braz...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...h- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeared in a ship, taking the... ... sought the Lord, and He heard me.” The closing chapters of the Gospels, 2 Corinthians, and how many other parts of the New Testa- ment were blessings... ...t know so much about heathen ways then, and, besides, read St. Paul to the Corinthians, and see how the idea of sanctity of marriage, and of chastity ... ...par excellence, of all unchristian people. Look at St. Paul’s words to the Corinthians and others. And we must not expect, though we must aim at, and ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...e the second time. Shortly after this there came towards me a pretty young Corinthian wench, who brought me a boxful of conserves, of round Mirabolan ... ...en Philip, King of Macedon, enterprised the siege and ruin of Corinth, the Corinthians having received certain in- telligence by their spies that he w... ...ved or old, who made not her harness to be well furbished; as you know the Corinthian women of old were reputed very courageous combatants. Diogenes s... ... Licinia, the Cornelia, the Lepidiana, the Antia, 309 Rabelais and of the Corinthians—by the which they were inhibited, under pain of great punishmen... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...vice-boats, named the Chelidonia; because on the stern of it was carved in Corinthian brass a sea-swallow, which is a fish as large as a dare-fish of ...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...e of the good government of a State. In the discussion about religion and mythology, Adeimantus is the respondent, but Glaucon breaks in with a slig... ...it is useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we were just now speak ing—because we do not know the... ...igible if I put the matter in this way. You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narra tion of events, either past, present, or t... ...t you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative — instances of this are supp... ...nk not. Nor, if a man is to be in condition, would you allow him to have a Corinthian girl as his fair friend? Certainly not. Neither would you appro... ... sort? An ideal image of the soul, like the composite creations of ancient mythology, such as the Chimera or Scylla or Cerberus, and there are many o...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...s den. The whole place is well furnished, though not in a very pure taste; Corinthian much of it; showy and not strong. About your place I shall try t...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ... ...s; which, ah, when will they grow green? The Images all run into amorphous Corinthian brass; all Dwellings of men destroyed; the very mountains peeled...

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