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...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ...ieved in neither. (23) There were huge differences by country with 95% of Maltese believing in God and only 16% of Estonians having such a belief. Wh... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...tually they were written. Some people question whether God chose the best writers for his revelations. Perhaps Sophocles, or if we wanted more humor... ...ies necessary in a functioning society. If you have read the works of the writers seeking utopia, like Thomas More and Plato, they recognized the im...

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...” said the pilot in bad French. “I am,” replied Dantes, in bad Italian, “a Maltese sailor. We were coming from Syracuse laden with grain. The storm of... ...ld them that all hands might turn in, and he would take the helm. When the Maltese (for so they called Dantes) had said this, it was sufficient, and a... ...exandre Dumas 191 when her toilet should be completed. “What are we to do, Maltese?” asked the captain. “We cannot leave you here so, and yet we canno... ...or was hired by a very rich gentleman who was supposed to be a Sicilian or Maltese; but the host was unable to decide to which of the two nations the ... ...onte Cristo?” asked Franz of his host. “A very great nobleman, but whether Maltese or Sicilian I cannot exactly say; but this I know, that he is noble... ...has remained invisible to my eyes, although present to my heart. A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in vers...

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...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ... late, used to be quartered in these sham inns; but last year two or three Maltese took houses for the reception of tourists, who can now be accommoda... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...more.” 20 Aesop’s Fables THE A SS AND THE L APDOG A MAN had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had... ... at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera omnia. Amsterdam. 1709. 16 The clai...

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...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...ut his cabbage-leaf hat; there was Spanish Jack, with curls of black hair, rings in his ears, and a knife not far from his hand, if you got into troub... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange... ... lower-deck, and thence up to the light of day again, and to my former sta- tion. Surely, an extraordinary people in their power of self-ab- straction... ...icularly droll, and was an oddity of which I certainly had had no adequate experience in life until I turned that curi- ous fly-leaf. My old acquainta...

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...o ice-floors. I’m sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me. Maltese sailor. Me too; where’s your girls? Who but a fool would take his l... ...born, high-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva! Maltese sailor. (Reclining and shaking his cap.) It’s the waves—the snow’s ... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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..................................................................... 150 THE MALTESE CAT................................................................... ...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla... ...one hundred and fifty-six miles in two hundred and twenty-one minutes. THE MALTESE CAT T HEY HAD GOOD REASON to be proud, and better reason to be afra... ...it—” 166 Rudyard Kipling “Ah, but we aren’t playing the maxims,” said The Maltese Cat. “We’re playing the game; and we’ve the great advantage of know... ...gold-coloured Arab, who had been playing very badly the day before, to The Maltese Cat; “didn’t we meet in Abdul Rahman’s stable in Bombay, four seaso... ...p next season, you may re- member?” 167 The Day’s Work “Not me,” said The Maltese Cat, politely. “I was at Malta then, pulling a vegetable-cart. I do...

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..., although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as “... ...here any effort at plausibility in the de- tails of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astr... ...ered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists ... ...ese species. The owner, (who is ascertained to be a sailor, belonging to a Maltese ves- sel,) may have the animal again, upon identifying it satis- fa... ... I asked, “that you should know the man to be a sailor, and belonging to a Maltese vessel?” “I do not know it,” said Dupin. “I am not sure of it. Here... ...this knot is one which few besides sailors can tie, and is peculiar to the Maltese. I picked the ribbon up at the foot of the lightning-rod. It could ... ...induction from this ribbon, that the Frenchman was a sailor belonging to a Maltese vessel, still I can have done no harm in saying what I did in the a...

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...est- headed materialist will become a consulter of table-rappers and slate-writers if he loses a child or a wife so beloved that the desire to revive ... ...e been the ardor of conviction as to tuberculosis, tetanus, enteric fever, Maltese fever, diphtheria, and the rest of the diseases in which the charac... ...trained not to believe anything unless it is worded in the jargon of those writers who, because they never really understand what they are trying to s...

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...on is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s most naive toys. “It is painful to me to see... ...“I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy... ...s making great progress in Miss Brooke’s good 28 Middlemarch opinion. The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omis- sion which Dorothea afterw... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...lessington and L. E. L.” Rosamond herself was not without relish for these writers, but she did not readily commit herself by admiration, and was aliv... ...n’t want a man—they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—cry- ing up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and... ... Dowager. Sir James was annoyed, and leaned for- ward to play with Celia’s Maltese dog. “That is very rare, I hope,” said Lady Chettam, in a tone in- ...

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...on is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s most naive toys. “It is painful to me to see... ...“I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy... ...sense that he was making great progress in Miss Brooke’s good opinion. The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwar... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...’t want a man— they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—crying up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and c... ...he Dowager. Sir James was annoyed, and leaned forward to play with Celia’s Maltese dog. “That is very rare, I hope,” said Lady Chettam, in a tone inte...

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...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...rd, and he was aware of a broad hat under the tree. Simultaneously a small Maltese dog sprang forward, and Francie’s head rose from leaning over the l...