...ANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO ... ...D EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING... ...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... ...wealth of the place -- A startling strategy -- A thrilling episode -- Nuns and monks employed as advance skirmishers -- A slaughter of the priests -- ... ...ur visited Iceland and conquered its inhabitants, which were said to have been Irish. This, like other traditions, however, is scarcely to be credited... ...here is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made expeditions to America in about the seventh ce... ...s said to have spent 70 years in two unsuccessful voyages in the company of 75 monks, in quest of an island which inspiration told them was a land pro... ... foot of man, which are the abodes of demons. One such travels up and down the Irish coast, appearing at various points once in seven years; another i... ...hed to the convents, churches and monasteries, from which they dragged out the monks, priests, and nuns who had remained, trusting that the sanctity o...

...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...

............................................................ 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... ...in Europe, behind Ireland, France, the Czech Republic and the UK. And the Irish are the most church going in Europe. Of course the French and the Cze... ...m the wall you could see the metal tube up the back of it that 95 the monks forced water through so that it came out of small holes in the eyes. ... ...he social welfare benefits were not reduced and were often increased. The Irish taxation model has shifted from taxing labor to taxing consumption. I... ... 21%, but it is still below the Nordic countries level of 25%. ―The Irish approach is now seen as the most efficient. It surpassed all other EU... ...became a magical magnet for increasing a couple‘s closeness. But celibate monks may not have understood the pursuit of physical passion by their lai...

... 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 ... ... to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jew... ... Simply because the only ones who were literate were detached holy Christian Monks detached and isolated from the outer world. So of course; if a h... ...ystem that goes against the very ethics of Christianity these supposedly holy monks were supposed to believe-in, espouse, and support. In the Mi... ...bal crop failure. Without a high diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China ... ...re of Ulster had deflected attention away from England herself, and the Ire of Irish, all their energy was wasted fighting Scots in Ulster, not Engla... ...vaded Tibet, and not all the spiritual goodness and nonviolence of the ruling monks helped them fight off a larger invading army. Non-violence only...

...ricord, most of us ate in the refectory or the kitchen. Were there thirty monks at the monastery? All of them were dirty and resentful. This her- mit... ...old up obe- lisks!) Ai, the marble columns tottered across the piazza; the monks and priests, with penises dangling, dashed out of church and monaste... ...boomed and Pliny, the upright Roman, governor, senator, consul, killer of Christians, stood before me in his white toga: P - I respect your porti... ...table must not distract. I made the tableware similar to that used by the monks as they ate in the room. It took me almost a month to arrange the fo... ...some, Countess Bardolph, Lord Fenton, Lady Page, were perfumed bores; the Irishmen were troublemakers... The Captain of the Guard requested a dance... ...n...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared grin. Meerie, talking Irish, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filt... ...e such a thing as common sense where the bulk of mankind is concerned? Is Christianity a bulwark to be counted on, or is it cleverly concocted prete... ...dely from each other in the sectarian denominations. They all claim to be Christians, and interpret their sev- eral creeds as infallible ones. I doub... ...t an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With his friendly Irish spirit, he has favored Irish immigration. With his eye on the presid...

...f mortality could be eased. In the face of challenges from other ideologies, Christians protected their God and religion with defensive armament of an... ...imed as infallible, the Buddhist and the Moslem were threats for an American Christian no less than the witch. She wondered why she did not hate relig... ...d a child, she thought, she or he would not be allowed to be subject to this Christianity, which had the plagiarism of Ancient Egyptian Literature, th... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ...own as the Circus Maximus. The ensuing days were of seeing the bones of 400 monks at the Cappuchin Cemetery, going to the ancient Pantheon temple of ... ...irst she yearned to return to Buddhism and saffron or deep dirt-orange robed monks to find an equilibrium and harmony within herself. She thought abo...

............................................................... 112 THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL ........................................................ ...more amiable and childlike person than Pope. He had much more, too, of the Christian. He was not so elaborately polished and fur- bished as the author... ...seven times hotter than before. In 1712 appeared “The Messiah,” “The Dying Christian to his Soul,” “The Temple of Fame,” and the “Elegy on the Memory ... ...l was construed to be good; A second deluge Learning thus o’errun, And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured ... ...e entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. 78 ‘Harp:’ the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c. 79 ‘Prologues:’ Dryden used to se... ...e Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins which Pris...

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... slept in the same tent. “In the meantime, Montrose had been joined by the Irish under the command of Alexander Macdonald; these, on their march to jo... ...ve up my commission, and took service with Wallenstein, in Walter Butler’s Irish regiment.” “And may I beg to know of you,” said Lord Menteith, ap- pa... ... leave so gainful a service?” “Why, truly, sir,” answered the soldier, “an Irish cavalier, called O’Quilligan, being major of our regiment, and I hav-... ... by water and land, walked in and out of the boat with the discretion of a Christian. Embarked on the bosom of Loch Fine, Captain Dalgetty might have ... ...who had driven two kings out of the field—namely, Ferdinand of Bohemia and Christian of Denmark. And anent this water, which is none of the most sweet... ...e who intromit with their offspring forcibly, much more any ratio- nal and Christian creatures, who have had violence done upon their small family. Bu... ...esembling those of another ele- ment, as there be fishes at sea resembling Monks of late or- der in all their hoods and dresses, so as the Roman inven...

...most improbable here is the actual fact. The Comte de Bourke was really an Irish Jacobite, naturalised in France, and married to the daughter of the M... ...‘M. Arture’ was really of the party, but I have made him Scotch instead of Irish, and I have no knowledge that the lackey was not French. The imbecili... ...rses; but this was not the garb of any province of the kingdom, and was as Irish as the brogue in which she was conversing with the tall fine young ma... ...wn a century and a half ago by the Huguenots, and there had never been any monks in it since, so the only effect was that little Phelim Burke went by ... ... Madame. His name is Arthur Max- well Hope; but we call him usually by his Christian name.’ ‘A tall, dark, handsome youth, almost like a Spaniard, or ... ...at was felt to be due to the monstrosity that crowned her. Forbearance and Christian patience may be exercised even on a toilette a la Louis XV . Long... ...ugh his Protestant feelings recoiled. ‘Ah!’ said Estelle, ‘but you are not Christian.’ ‘Yes, truly, Mademoiselle.’ ‘ And these died for the Christian ...

...city. The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop sho... ...action, and yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by th... ...rom her own breast through a pipe. Alas! the visits were detected, and the Christian prince had less mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in ... ... who had arisen at the time of the Crusades. At first they had been merely monks, who kept open house for the reception of the poor penniless pilgrims... ...t Jerusalem in need of shelter, and often of nursing and healing. The good monks not only fed and housed them, but did their best to cure the many dis... ..., and they obtained permission from the Pope to become warriors as well as monks. They were thus all in one—knights, priests, and nurses; their monast... ...ad that it is almost impossible to separate them. At the time of the great Irish rebellion of 1641 the head of the Edgeworth family had left his Engli... ... young maid-servant to carry the candle; which, as might be expected in an Irish household of the seventeenth century, was devoid of any candlestick. ...

...se beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland, and still more voluble, the Irish traveller will be able to form an opinion of their capabilities. Thro... ...summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edifices for murder Christian science ever adopted. My hobby-horse is a quiet beast, suited for... ...is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest and simplest of Irishmen:he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garr... ...e he went upon his sea martyrdom. I felt a love for that soft- hearted old Christian. Ah! let us hope his governante tucked him comfortably in bed whe... ...quer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without depriving you of any blessed rest. Men of... ...h and meat fizzing in the enormous pots of the cook-shops are only for the Christians. The children abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, ... ...nd hideous gifts ever devised by uncouth piety. Instead of a bell, the fat monks of the con- 117 Thackeray vent beat huge noises on a board, and drub... ... a fever. W e all found quarters in the Greek convent at Ramleh, where the monks served us a supper on a terrace, in a pleasant sun- 122 Notes on a J... ...y miles off at sea. The convent is a huge caravanserai; only three or four monks dwell in it, the ghostly hotel-keepers of the place. The horses were ...

...Above all, it was in the Roman time, and by means of Roman ships, that the Christian Reli gion was first brought into Britain, and its people first t... ... Castle. Kent is the most famous of the seven Saxon kingdoms, because the Christian religion was preached to the Saxons there (who domineered over th... ...ng Ethelbert, of Kent, was soon converted; and the moment he said he was a Christian, his courtiers all said they were Christians; after which, ten th... ...unstan, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was one of the most sagacious of these monks. He was an ingenious smith, and worked at a forge in a little cell. T... ...an did this because the young King’s fair wife was his own cousin, and the monks objected to people marrying their own cousins; but I believe he did i... ... the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into slavery in Ireland. But the Irish people pitied and befriended her; and they said, ‘Let us restore the ... ...d priests out of the monasteries and abbeys, and replaced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid or der called the Benedictines. He made h... ...power in Ireland—which was an ac ceptable undertaking to the Pope, as the Irish, who had been converted to Christianity by one Patricius (otherwise S... ... I have elsewhere mentioned. The King’s opportunity arose in this way. The Irish were, at that time, as barbarous a people as you can well imagine. Th...

... voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ stammered the boy. The gentleman who spoke last was... ...man who spoke last was unconsciously right. It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for ... ...Good, strong, wholesome medi cine, as was given with great success to two Irish labourers and a coal heaver, ony a week before—sent ‘em for nothing, ... ... of the place, were the pub lic houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wran gling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which h... ...ous to attach himself to his windpipe without delay. ‘He’s as willing as a Christian, strike me blind if he isn’t!’ said Sikes, regarding the animal w... ...night?’ asked the Jew, laying the same emphasis on the pronoun as before. ‘Monks, do you mean?’ inquired the landlord, hesitating. ‘Hush!’ said the Je... ...ey might have been talk ing, thus, for a quarter of an hour or more, when Monks— by which name the Jew had designated the strange man sev 189 OLIVE... ...do you mean to say you couldn’t have done it, if you had chosen?’ demanded Monks, sternly. ‘Haven’t you done it, with other boys, scores of times? If ...

...ound in the lines of Wace. Uther Pendragon, in a deadly battle against the Irish invaders under Gillomar and Pascent, slays Gillomar, then overtakes P... ...ll be mine. For the rest thou art not of the faith. Pagan thou art, and no Christian man Men, therefore, will deem that I do very wrongfully should I ... .... So thickly did the heathen wend, and so closely did they mingle with the Christians, that you might scarcely know who was a christened man and who w... ...or their lives. When the law of God was restored, and Britain made again a Christian land, hearken now what foul work was done by treason and by envy.... ...d therefore to pass the sea with fifteen thousand men to make war upon the Irish, and to ease them of the stones. Uther, at his own desire, was chosen... ...hat strangers were arrayed in his land, he assembled his household and the Irish, and menaced them proudly, seeking to chase them from the realm. Afte... ...y ing of the Scots. Then the bishops and abbots of the realm, with divers monks and other orders, carrying in their hands bodies of the saints and ma...

... been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on... ...r led a sumpter mule, loaded probably with his superior’s baggage; and two monks of his own order, of inferior station, rode together in the rear, lau... ...carlet, showed that he did not belong to any of the four regular orders of monks. On the right shoulder of the mantle there was cut, in white cloth, a... ...the Templar, “my Saracen slaves are true Moslems, and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew.” “Now, in faith,” said Wamba, “I ... ...d by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 39 Sir Walter Scott and hesitation, and many a bow of deep h... ...ot say of arrant thieves, but of errant knights and errant squires, errant monks and errant minstrels, errant jug- glers and errant jesters, that a ma... ...new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince the... ...ndants could not resist the tempta- tion of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly ... ...black vault of Denure, a strong fortalice, built on a rock overhanging the Irish channel, where to execute leases and conveyances of the whole churche...

... to you or yours; But, for that pack of churlish boors, Not fit to live on Christian ground, They and their houses shall be drowned; Whilst you shall ... ...alf untold. But to say truth, such dulness reigns Through the whole set of Irish Deans; I’m daily stunned with such a medley, Dean W , Dean D l, and D... ...But through a pious resolution; For he had made a holy vow Of chastity, as monks do now; Which he resolved to keep for ever hence, As strictly, too, a... ...nerate into men. CHAPTER XIV AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY IN EN GLAND MAY , AS THINGS NOW STAND, BE AT TENDED WITH SOM... ...may perhaps be neither safe nor prudent to argue against the abolishing of Christianity, at a juncture when all parties seem so unani mously determin... ...hinkers; among whom Toland, the great oracle of the Anti Christians, is an Irish priest, the son of an Irish priest; and the most learned and ingeniou...

...and hang at such an angle, as to be absolutely destructive to the leg of a Christian. There is no part of the Christian body with which the Turkish sa... ...s in the world this one should be the spot most cherished in the memory of Christians. It was there that He stood when He wept over the city. So much ... ...s considered necessary after the ceremony. To these mem- bers of the Greek Christian Church it had been handed 17 Anthony Trollope down from father t... ...I could see it, and it was a mass of blood, and sores, and broken skin. An Irish girl would walk from Jerusalem to Jericho with- out shoes, and be not... ...d on the site of Arimathea, and is marked as such in many of the maps. The monks at this time of the year are very busy, as the pilgrims all stay here...

...Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldham in “The Christian Gospel” (T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...rments and fled. 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 ... ...ho had sat still and dormant by the table was in reality a keen and bitter Irish Roman Catholic. Then the question, a question-begging question, was p... ...aying of his that the aim of socialism—the right sort of socialism —was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on either hand, regardless... ...fault that we’ve differentiated.” “But you haven’t understood the drift of Christianity,” said the bishop. “It’s just to assert that men are One commu... ...er jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their homes and l... ...that indeed is the unfortunate aspect of the whole af- fair.” And then the Irish Catholic came down on him…. 3 3 3 3 3 How the bishop awakened in the ...

...s in the Chapel—a most holy example for them. “ Ay, for such as seek to be monks and shavelings,” broke in the North Country voice sarcastically. “The... ...elf came to attend them, and likewise all the neighbouring clergy, and the monks, friars, and nuns, over- flowing the chapel, while peasants and begga... ...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... ...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 ... ...ond the river to the southward, Ridley pointed to the tall square tower of Monks Wearmouth Church dominating the great monastery around it, which had ... ...hing worse than a qualm or two.” “That was to France,” said his son. “This Irish Sea is far wider and far more tossing, I know for my own part. I’ d h... ... they call the English sort, are nigh about as wild and savage as the mere Irish. It was as much as my Lord Duke could do to hinder two of them from c...

...a learned lady, famed For every branch of every science known In every Christian language ever named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone... ...od, her breast was peaceable — A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles... ... The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wine) last year. ‘Have ... ...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... ...or ‘t is just One should not rail without a decent cause: There was an Irish lady, to whose bust I ne’er saw justice done, and yet she was ... ...nd for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. Lambro presented, and one instant more Had st... ... left us can compare Withal: it lies perhaps a little low, Because the monks preferr’d a hill behind, To shelter their devotion from the wind.... ...rraqueous sigh, Much as a monk may do within his cell: And a propos of monks, their piety With sloth hath found it difficult to dwell; Tho...

...m Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed there... ...cept as appended to my own person, nowhere occurs. Again, what may the un- christian rather than Christian ‘Diogenes’ mean? Did that reverend Basket-b... ...by act and daily reverent look and habitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, ... ...burnt; but the sounder Rags among them be quilted to- gether into one huge Irish watch-coat for the defence of the Body only!”—This, we think, is but ... ...vals) a not-inconsider- able resemblance to that Superstition of the Athos Monks, who by fasting from all nourishment, and looking intensely for a len... ...he Universe, and Man, and Man’s Life, picture themselves to the mind of an Irish Poor-Slave; with what feelings and opinions he looks forward on the F... ...acal Sect in their grand principle of wearing a peculiar Costume. Of which Irish Poor-Slave Costume no description will indeed be found in the present...