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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...urch.” The reference is clear from the contents of the document: just as the Jews were carried away from Jerusalem into captivity under the tyranny o... ...ve treatises in this volume on the sacraments, all of which were written in German and were intended for the individual Christian, whether layman or ... ...ent. One of Luther’s most bitter enemies, Thomas Murner, translated it into German, confident that it would expose Luther to the rank and file of th... ...kind of Latin the Italians are beginning to write nowadays. Another friar, a German of Leipzig, that same lecturer, as you know, on the whole canon o... ... speaking of a spiritual eating, by which he who eats has life; whereas the Jews understood him to mean a bodily eating and therefore disputed with ... ...), the most prominent English reformer before the Reformation and keenest of medieval critics of the doctrine of transubstantiation, was posthumously... ...estiones quarti libri sententiarum, quest. 6, E; folio cclxiv a. 60 Famous medieval textbook of theology, compiled circa 1150 by Peter Lombard (d. 1... ...ourth book treats of the sacraments in general. 61 The qualifies which, in medieval thought, were held to adhere to the invisible “substance,” and t... ... 1, 187. Cf. also p. 62. In short, why did not Abraham believe for all the Jews? Why was faith in the promise made to Abraham demanded of every ind...

...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the arm... ...about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oce... ...Barbie Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth'... ...ectrelations.html Berliner When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 - then besieged by the Russians - he visited Ger... ...kly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible... ...nd, third, and, possibly, fourth trips were financed by property expropriated from Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. He introduced the slave trade - ... ...laudius, by comparison, has executed 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of the Roman empire - and rehabilitated disaste... ....com/mvm/htm/bc/71721.htm Nightmare The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" mea... ...as been a Jewish symbol for a mere 400 years, though. It appears, for instance, on medieval cathedrals. The symbol in known in India as the Sri...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...oner to an Arab-infested prison. After all, I was held up by Arab assassins who slaughtered Jews!" The legalistic side (they are big on it in penal ... ...le, the single chair, my scattered clothing, the metered rotary dial phone, the French and German television channels I cannot understand. Once wee... ...death, I kicked the ripeness of dispersing acorns. I stopped in front of Dudley's home – a medieval French chateau – to study yet again its contuma... ...up and three loaves of bread when she came back from work at the shop owned by the Yekkes (German-Jews) whom she admired. When I was born, the radi... ...three loaves of bread when she came back from work at the shop owned by the Yekkes (German-Jews) whom she admired. When I was born, the radio broad... ...n jest. These Yekkes with their order and efficiency and table manners and how she studied German and they all admired her in return. And now this:...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway i... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ... The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from ... ...emeny came to America in 1940 after his father foresaw the dark future of Jews under the Nazis and brought his family here. A grandfather as well as ...

...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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The Belgian Curtain : Europe after Communism

By: Dr. Sam Vaknin

... as the Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum (older spelling) with the objective of applying the same rigour to the philology and textual criticism of medieval German texts as was already current with Greek and Latin.[1] With volume 13 (1867) the Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum began a new series (German: Neue Folge).[2] In 1876, with volume 19 (New Series 7) its nam...

...an CAP XII. History of Previous Currency Unions XIII. The Concert of Europe, Interrupted XIV. The Eastern Question Revisited XV. Europe’s New Jews XVI. The Author XVII. About "After the Rain"...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

..., the dream of a Greater Serbia is no less a recurrent nightmare than the numerable German Reichs and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less fr... ...ia and Hungary) deprived Vojvodina of its autonomy. The Magyars rushed back in with German and Austrian settlers and immediately embarked upon a ma... ...anning the murders of King Nicholas of Montenegro, King Constantine of Greece, the German Kaiser and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. How much of it was... ...ogy sprang all over the world, from Iraq and Egypt to Norway and Britain. Even the Jews in Palestine had their own fascists (the Stern group). And ... ...ion relied heavily of the existence of a demonized and dehumanized enemy (Marxists, Jews, Serbs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Hungarians in Romania, etc.).... ...oked by sporadic violence. The Serbs were evidently a fifth column and so were the Jews. Indeed, Croatia's Serbs wasted no time in joining resistan... ... the wreath of martyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nations The W... ... countries and 38,000 interviewees. Two other surveys published last year - by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relation... ...en March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rus... ...Washington, often support Turkish causes on the Hill. Three years ago, for example, Jews helped quash a resolution commemorating the Armenian genoci... ...esponsible for the insurgency in southeastern Turkey. The Turks felt, too, that the Jews could help them with their Greek problem (via the Jewish lo... ... Sons By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Iraqi Jews - a quarter of a million strong - are known in Israel for t... ...ures Why America is Hated In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, ... ...II. Just War or a Just War? In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover,... ...hen ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prevail? Enter the medieval doctrine of "Just War" (justum bellum, or, more precise...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...rvived intact for so long is that it has had more enemies than other culture. Jews THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human ... ...t? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jews perpetuated their culture for thousands of years… by rationalizing... ...Earth as being against them: all the time. They created their own fate. Now Jews are still justifying and rationalizing their culture as both a vic... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the c... ... the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is ... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...es The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from th... ...emeny came to America in 1940 after his father foresaw the dark future of Jews under the Nazis and brought his family here. A grandfather as well as ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...countries that are reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn’t take... ...dern decade has its special problems. The 40s required the surrender of the German and Japanese aggressors. The 50s were quiet, but the times pushed ... ...omen to succeed in business and politics. The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the real... ...s and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterpar... ...eliminated in their own land by the white settlers. And of course 6 million Jews, gypsies and other religiously or ethnically objectionable people we... ...ivilized as “reactionary.” I would never have expected Ray to duplicate the Medieval approach to religion that the Polish and German popes have been ... ...cted Ray to duplicate the Medieval approach to religion that the Polish and German popes have been advocating. If anything, I would have expected hi... ...r of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...his leads to horrors such as the Holocaust. The Nazis did not regard as humans the Jews, the Slavs, homosexuals, and other minorities - so they sou... ...most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...t it takes one Jew to really know another. Conditioned by millennia of persecution, Jews are paranoid, defensive, and obsessively secretive. It is i... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...his leads to horrors such as the Holocaust. The Nazis did not regard as humans the Jews, the Slavs, homosexuals, and other minorities - so they sou... ...most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...t it takes one Jew to really know another. Conditioned by millennia of persecution, Jews are paranoid, defensive, and obsessively secretive. It is i... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are concepts that w... ...begin to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats w... ...d with what is the truth. It was abominable for the Nazis to kill innocent Jews, but it is acceptable for the Israelis to kill innocent Palestinians ... ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...ope. The teen abortion rate is 3 times that of France and 8 times that of Germany. And while Americans start their sexual experiences only a few mont... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studies in German... ... 20 in authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young German... ...merican boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machine bent on conquering the world while gassing undesirable gypsies and Jews a... ...everely maladjusted, will give a rationalization for why he or she did what was done. For the advancement of National Socialism, Hitler needed Jews a... ...sm, is credited with having been revealed the truth of there being only one God. This he passed down through his son Isaac to his progeny, the Jews. ... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ...a Venetian shell hit it and exploded the ammunition that the Turks had stored there. I experienced the spectacle in English, Greek, French and German...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.—College, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek.... ...esday, April 3, 1907, 9.00 a. m., 4 H. H. —College, English 2, English 14, German 1, Latin 1, Meteorology; Entrance, English, French. Wednesday, April... ... 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wednesday, April 3, 1907. 7.30 p... ... STORE Broadway, Troy DIEGES & CLUST "If w. Made It, It'i Rlyht." Official Jewslers of the Leadlne CoHeees, Schools and Aisoclatlons. Class Pins, Frat... ...ist, Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemns. These men, either for fear of the Jews or because they lacked the courage of their own convictions, failed to... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...ho once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who,... ...acial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britai... ...Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserv... ...ually reserved to non- whites) to the white race itself. It started with the Jews - a non-controversial proposition - but then expanded them to incl... ...them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. The far right in Fra... ... the Man, only to re-appear as Hitler the stychia. What was the role of the Jews in all this? Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - a... ...ty's inevitable downfall and corruption is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval morality play. This trajectory – from rags to riches and fame a...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...A perfectionist," she repeated, barely able to say the word through her thick German accent. Joey McCully's father had been a Master Sergeant durin... .... But, the stories that Joey loved hearing the most was how the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whippi... ...gs whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned streets in his German village were as clear as if they were yesterday. At the time,... ...rious kinds and sizes. Absorbed with the scene, they hadn't noticed the huge, medieval castle looming in front of them. The castle was fit for a Shog... ...ate. He was born a Muslim in the holy city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham. Jews, Muslims, and Christians had worshipped peacefully in their own m... ...ing, had hired him to discover more caches of oil. His only quarrel with the Jews was that they had bombed an Iraqi power plant. 274 J.Cross/Arte... ... done so. His family was safe, and he had no personal animosities against any Jews. Growing up, he played with many of them as friends. And then t...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyright Levy XXIV. The Future of Online Reference XXV. Ol... ...bones about their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebre... ...he sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Germany or the USA - all combined in one employee in these deprived countr... ...where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content will once more become a collabora... ...hers know or thought they knew about heredity, nationalism, the atom, the Jews, and germs? It is startling to discover both how far we have progress... ...l not be available to tender souls. anti-Semitic sites will be blocked to Jews and communists will be spared Evil Empire speeches. Filtering will be...

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...rican church-member to read any translations that would adhere to Luther’s German or Latin constructions and employ the Mid-Victorian type of English ... ...f Latin, and particularly of Luther’s Latin. The work had to be condensed. German and English transla- tions are available, but the most acceptable En... ... tells us in I Corinthians 1:23, 24: “We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them whic... ...ock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wis- dom of God.” Begin w... ...e Galatians, i.e., fallen away in name and in fact.” Some believe that the Germans are descended from the Galatians. There may be something to that. F... ...- served in every detail. They were supporters in this conten- tion by the Jews, with the result that those who were not firmly established in faith w... ...erit count alone for righteousness. St. Bernard was one of the best of the medieval saints. He lived a chaste and holy life. But when it came to dying...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...seum by look- ing up the caricatures of capital and labor that adorned the German and American socialistic papers of the old time. 36 In the Days of ... ...oused from my egotistical broodings to wider interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irration... ...g and pervading some new region of thought, and that was the antagonism of Germany and Great Britain. When I think of that growing proportion of reade... ...any interest, its many emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium. And they ruled and influenc... ...ring amidst folds and wrinkles. He made his confes- sion for his race. “We Jews,” he said, “have gone through the system of this world, creating nothi...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...e Ital- ian tongue. The words, so far as they could be distinguished, were German, and therefore unintelligible to the Count, and hardly less so to th... ...painted windows; and as often as he gazed at them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ... gentleness and courtesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that... ...ll a-glimmer, as she hastened to her congenial and delightful toil. An old German artist, whom she often met in the galler- ies, once laid a paternal ... ...whether the seven-branched golden candlestick,—the holy candlestick of the Jews, which was lost at the Ponte Molle, in Constantine’s time, had yet bee... ...ugliest part of Rome. In that vicinity lies the Ghetto, where thousands of Jews are crowded within a narrow compass, and lead a close, unclean, and mu...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...ze; and the tall roofs, the spires of the churches, gave it a pleas- antly medieval air. There was a homeliness in it which warmed the heart. Hayward ... ...or the day; the keen air gave a fillip to their weariness. There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpu- lent ...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...umulation of wealth within the family. Another story hinted that she was a German prin- cess, whom, for reasons of state, it was proposed to give in m... .... Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and exc... ...layfulness, Miriam let her fancy run off into wilder fables than any which German ingenuity or Italian supersti- tion had contrived. For example, with... ...as often as he gazed at 232 The Marble Fawn them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...whether the seven-branched golden candlestick,—the holy candlestick of the Jews, which was lost at the Ponte Molle, in Constantine’s time, had yet bee... ...ugliest part of Rome. In that vicinity lies the Ghetto, where thousands of Jews are crowded within a narrow compass, and lead a close, unclean, and mu...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...e Valera, be deported. Dead right, by golly! All these agitators paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 B... ...e of Saragossa, the defini- tion of the word “sabotage,” the future of the German mark, the translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the num- ber of ... ... get onto the way a city fellow’s mind works, and then, of course, they’re Jews, and they’d lie right down and die if they knew Sid had anted up a hun... ...ky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life,... ..., was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith. And... ...e stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns. With exclamati... ... elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other lone delegates. A dozen of them went... ... workmen who jeered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, ...

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The High History of the Holy Graal

By: Holy Graal

...e author he translates in assigning him a foremost rank among the masters of medieval prose romance. With these testimonies to its age and genuineness... ...val, “See here your cousin, for King Ban of Benoic was your father’s cousin german. Make him right great cheer!” He maketh them take off their helmet... ...them be dis armed right tenderly. There was a damsel within that was cousin german to King Pelles and had tended Perceval within in his sickness. She... ...e; you and Messire Gawain between you have slain my uncle and my two cousins german in the forest, whom behoved me bury in the chapel where you were, ... ...hew,” saith the Hermit, “These twelve hounds that bayed in the beast are the Jews that God had fed, and that were born in the Law that He established,... ...avage what time they had torn the beast to pieces, so in like manner are the Jews that were and ever shall be savage, subject to them of the New Law h...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ther came from that cradle of the human race; her mother was a Jewess. The Jews, though so often deteriorated by their contact with other nations, hav... ...will be first Secretary to an Embassy; later, he shall be Minister at some German Court, and God, or I—better still—helping him, he will take his seat... ...ne as a diplomate, and he would probably be accredited as Minister to some German Court. For the last three years Lucien’s life had been regular and a... ...ayfarers. The footman, seated be- hind, was snoring like a wooden top from Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ... ...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...osto amongst Italians, Camoens amongst those of Portugal, Schiller amongst Germans, however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages, ... ...lued by the refined and the elegant, but he is not (what Shakspeare is for Germany and America) in any proper sense a popular favorite. NO NO NO NO NO... ...eps and has long slept as a subject of criticism or com- mentary, while in Germany as well as England, and now even in France, the gathering of wits t... ...notion found little counte- nance in Lamb’s own way of treating the gloomy medieval traditions propagated throughout Europe about the Jews, and their ... ...ting the gloomy medieval traditions propagated throughout Europe about the Jews, and their secret enmity to Christian races. Lamb, indeed, might not b... ...arous Christian supersti- tions upon the pretended bloody practices of the Jews, and of the early Jewish physicians. Being himself a Lincoln man, he t... ...voke and to cherish, naturally enough produced its own justification. Like Jews or slaves, whom all the world have agreed to hold contemptible, the Ge...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

...om lower Egypt; some, much darker, from upper Egypt; with a few Greeks and Jews. Promi- 24 Shaw nent in a group on Ptolemy’s right hand is Theodotus,... ...ilver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of p... ...command over Nature” which makes many of our English methods appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an a... ...han the daughter of a modern Oxford professor would believe them about the Germans (though, by the way, it is possible to talk great nonsense at Oxfor... ... Gentile has nothing to do with the difference between an Englishman and a German. The characteristics of Britannus are local characteristics, not rac...

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The Doctors Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ecause it is the custom to eat veal and insist on its being white; or as a German purveyor nails a goose to a board and stuffs it with food because fa... ...ary share of the risk. That has always been the case. We now know that the medieval horror of leprosy was out of all pro- portion to the danger of inf... ...as to circumcision and the declaring certain kinds of flesh unclean by the Jews. To advertize any remedy or operation, you have only to pick out all t... ...nd naval forces. It is silly that an Englishman should be more afraid of a German soldier than of a British disease germ, and should clamor for more b... ...us it makes us paupers, though they never say that if the State fights the Germans for us it makes us cowards. Fortunately, when a habit of thought is...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ... bombings, Bin Ladin said that the W orld Islamic Front for jihad against “Jews and Crusaders” had issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gatio... ...issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime, ... ...al leader of the 9/11 conspiracy , Mohamed Atta, went online from Hamburg, Germany, to research U.S. flight schools.Targets of intelligence collection... ...e plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and other Jews as hostages.A special Israeli commando force stormed the plane, killed... ...e head of his computer operations and weapons procurement, was arrested in Germany. He was the most important Bin Ladin lieutenant captured thus far. ... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...

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The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

...er pale blond hair, made me think of a Water-Nixie—for my mind was full of German lyrics, and this pale, fatal-eyed woman, with the green weeds, looke... ... to dissect all my favourite poems, and especially contemptous towards the German lyrics which were my pet literature at that time. To this moment I a... ...y father, and now my brother, now Mrs. Filmore or her husband, and now our German courier, whose stream of thought rushed upon me like a ringing in th... ...ng was far advanced. I thought with a sense of relief, as we en- tered the Jews’ quarter, where we were to visit the old syna- gogue, that we should b... ...h its shrunken lights, this surviving 23 George Eliot withered remnant of medieval Judaism, was of a piece with my vision. Those darkened dusty Chris... ... shrivelled death- in-life than their own. As I expected, when we left the Jews’ quarter the elders of our party wished to return to the hotel. But no...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...t clerk in the town. They have taken him away. The story is that with some Germans he killed Alexeyev, the Mayor, in Moscow.” “Who told you that?” “Th... ...as in the windows of the passenger trains, and in the vile vodka which the Jews drugged with thorn-apple. Sometimes there would be a glimpse of a woma... ...rts of nonsense. He said it would be nice if we could suddenly come upon a medieval castle with turreted towers, with moss on it and owls, in which we... ...bles on tele- grams alone. He sold his land and mortgaged his house to the Jews. He grew gray and bent, and yellow in the face, as though he was in co... ...respected by everyone. He was for some reason looked upon by everyone as a German, though he was in reality on his father’ s side Swedish, on his moth... ...e Russian, and attended the Orthodox church. He knew Russian, Swedish, and German. He had read a good deal in those languages, and nothing one could d...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...chest, and walked out of the room. It was Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock. Stepan Arkadyevitch remembere... ...dyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, “that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches,” an... ...ch rights as our local self government to any other European people—why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, ... ...ed Vronsky that he even wore a hat and flung a cloak over his shoulder in the medieval style, which, indeed, was extremely becoming to him. “Here we li... ...ng his portrait of Anna, deciding that it was now not needed. His picture of medieval life he went on with. And he himself, and Golenishtchev, and sti... ...government position. It was in the hands of two ministers, one lady, and two Jews, and all these people, though the way had been paved already with th... ...ou tell it to me. . . But what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?. . . Take it as you twill, it’s a low business.” Stepan Arkadyevitc... ...er men in one body of be lievers, which is called the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them?” he pu...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

... and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profession. Whenever he could sn... ...and placed his two large hands on the table. 32 TheMagician ‘Burkhardt, a German with whom I was shooting, was down with fever and could not stir fro... ...ill the other day, when our friend Miss Ley asked me to meet at dinner the German explorer Burkhardt. I dare say you remember that Burkhardt brought o... ...sicians, surgeons and alchemists; from ex ecutioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gipsies, midwives, and fortune tellers; from high and low, from learn... ...tern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an idea came to him. He took down a huge battle axe a...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...se of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling an... ... Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets... ...s yearning and thoughtful, It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia o... ...in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground! You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah! You thoughtful Armenian ponde... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...been paid to a third person, and a bill had been given, and Heaven and the Jews only knew how much money Lord Lufton had paid in all; and now it was e... ..., ’ said he. ‘But I shall win through yet, in spite of them all. But those Jews, Mark!’—he had become very intimate with him in these latter days—’wha... ... for my tail, and swear that she smelt brimstone. By-bye, old fellow!’ The German student when he first made his bargain with the devil felt an indesc... ... whistled again. ‘No bill of his dishonoured! Why, the pocket-books of the Jews are stuffed full of his dishonoured papers! And you have really given ... ...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ... ...lia had been a terrible flirt and greatly given to waltzing with a certain German count, with whom she had since gone off—that, I suppose, Mrs Proudie...

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