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:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.
Ghetto diarist Emmanuel Ringelblum speculated that Romanies were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto because the Germans wanted :... to toss into the Ghetto everything that is characteristically dirty, shabby, bizarre, of which one ought to be frightened, and which anyway has to be destroyed.
:... means arranging various media to help each other so they won't cancel each other out, to buttress one medium with another.
:... the Theravāda tradition records ... as a fundamental axiom the principle that a single cause does not give rise to either a single result or several results ; nor do several causes give rise to just one result ; but rather several causes give rise to several results.
:... one of the many things the Buddha discovered in the course of his awakening was that causality is not linear.
He wrote, in 1859 he wrote that education played a key role in avoiding revolts like the one in 1857 :... assert its supremacy as it may at the bayonet's point, a free and civilized government must look for its stability and permanence to the enlightenment of the people and their moral and intellectual capacity to appreciate its blessings.
:... one of the more striking figures of the relatively small group of men who initiated that development which, within his own lifetime, brought Mathematics in America from a minor position to its present place in the sun.
:... the Earl of Ulster was treacherously seized while performing penance, unarmed and barefooted, in the churchyard of Downpatrick, on Good Friday, anno 1203, and sent over to England, where the king condemned him to perpetual imprisonment in the Tower ... After de Courcy had been in confinement about a year, a dispute happening to arise between King John and Philip Augustus of France concerning the Duchy of Normandy, the decision of which being referred to single combat, King John, more hasty than advised, appointed the day, against which the King of France provided his champion ; but the King of England, less fortunate, could find no one of his subjects willing to take up the gauntlet, until his captive in the Tower, the stout Earl of Ulster, was prevailed upon to accept the challenge.
:... and seeing that they tarried over long, hee at their coming enjoyed them all to a pennance, which was, that they should kisse his buttockes, in sign of duety to him, which being put over the pulpit bare, every one did as he had enjoyned them.
:... women and fairy-tales ... generally say that all witches will go here ( truly a rather difficult journey ) each Maundy Thursday ; but those who have visited the place once are not likely to return, and should find out the reason for the fable: If any place in the world looks hideous, this is surely one of the most cruel ...
:... the Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance ... May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants ; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
:... People who suggest I make SIGNIFICANT changes to the protocol, such as ' full duplex ', ' multiple outstanding blocks ', ' multiple destinations ', etc etc don't understand that the incredible simplicity of the protocol is one of the reasons it survived.
:... the most beautiful and gracious language, and the most noble one in the world to speak, after the latin of our schooldays.
:... There are on one level degrees of perfection or development ; and at the same time there is affinity by descent between the existents belonging to the level.
:... the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the US.
:... to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way.
:... However, as unlikely as it may seem, this does not mean for one moment that Judaism ’ s view rejects wholesale the veracity of Darwin ’ s theory.
:... a collection of music which I bought here, for which I paid with the binding about $ 400. 00 .... s. It is a varied collection and for its size I trust a good one.

:... and world's
:... From the world's bitter wind

:... and most
:... it seems most likely that it comes through Italian and French from the root pend-" to hang ," and so is equivalent to a pendant or charm hung about the neck.
:... grown up from a small place to be very considerable by the coal trade, that it is now the most eminent port in England for shipping off of coals, except Newcastle and Sunderland and even beyond the last.
:... I thought it close to the most flawless innings I had seen and I still believe that to be the case.
:... it is not expected that it would become a common form of order, partly because most children will still need the stability of a single home, and partly because in the cases where shared care is appropriate there is less likely to be a need for the court to make any order at all.
:... And little modified even by molecular genetics, Fisher's logic and ideas still underpin most of the ever broadening paths by which Darwinism continues its invasion of human thought.
:... among the bravest, ablest, most decent members of the Heath Government ... ut need the Prime Minister have got rid of Lord Jellicoe in such peremptory style?
:... the most prominent feature is that I enter into popular yet critical examination of those underlying fundamental problems which Darwin purposely excluded from his works as being beyond the scope of his enquiry.
:... evidence of a foreseeing mind which ... so directed and organised that life, in all its myriad forms, as, in the far-off future, to provide all that was most essential for the growth and development of man's spiritual nature ...
:... Hail with thankful, joyous heart at long last the constitution of International Council which history will acclaim as the greatest event shedding luster upon second epoch of Formative Age of Bahá ’ í Dispensation potentially unsurpassed by any enterprise undertaken since inception of Administrative Order of Faith on morrow of ‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá ’ s Ascension, ranking second only to glorious immortal events associated with Ministries of the Three Central Figures of Faith in course of First Age of most glorious Dispensation of the five thousand century Bahá ’ í Cycle.
:... One of the most well known ways our tradition has been able to hold onto both the scientific theory of evolution as well as the concept of a purposeful creation was by reading the creation story in Genesis in a more allegorical sense.
:... We believe in any event that the parody lyrics involved in this appeal would be permissible under the most rigorous application of the ' substantiality ' requirement.

:... and has
The authors write :... the overwhelming number of bites involving pit bull terriers in this study and others certainly has some degree of validity when it comes to identifying bite-prone breeds.
:... the urchin has what we mainly call its head and mouth down below, and a place for the issue of the residuum up above.
:... talking it over the next morning he told me that he had had many visions lately — he had seen the figure of himself which met him as he walked on the terrace and said to him — " How long do you mean to be content " — No very terrific words & certainly not prophetic of what has occurred.
:... the enjoyment of the property he has in this state is very unsafe, very unsecure.
:... while the Bible has a gospel to impart, who can be quite sure what Sir Thomas Browne himself believed?
:... why shouldn't an exceptionally spiritual woman like you who has already had the idea of giving birth to a Christ and who is now wedded in the spirit me?
:... criminal penalties may be inflicted only if the accused has committed some act, has engaged in some behavior, which society has an interest in preventing.
:... Who has not seen the scarus rise, decoyed and killed by fraudful flies ...
:... hes done roune ( has whispered in private )
:... the bridge is the object which attracts the visitor before he has become aware of the Jonesian facade.
:... The lord of Castile has proposed for us a respectable residence and has given us assurances of safety to which he pledged by his own handwriting, enough to convince the souls.
:... Ambassador Gleysteen has stated that the U. S. " approved " the movement of the 20th Division, and a U. S. Department of Defense spokesman on May 23, 1980 stated that the U. S. had " agreed " to release from OPCON control of the troops sent to Gwangju.
:... the Court has held that the Fourteenth Amendment permits the States a wide scope of discretion in enacting laws which affect some groups of citizens differently than others.
:... We feel that everyone who is involved in shidduchim, whether they are matchmakers, singles, or family and friends of singles, has an obligation to familiarize themselves with the halachos of lashon hora and richilus as they relate to this subject.
:... Christ has many services to be done.
:... five years of research has provided strong evidence that, if corroborated, would suggest that marijuana in various forms is far more hazardous than originally suspected.
:... Had we desired to disregard the interests of such workers of the land as are dependent, directly or indirectly, upon lands of the landlords, we could have acquired large and unlimited areas, but in the course of our conversation I have pointed out to you that this has not been our policy and that, when acquiring lands, it is our ardent wish not to prejudice or do harm to the interests of anybody.
:... Congress has denied the President the legislative authority to create military commissions of the kind at issue here.

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