Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

If we adore him as the Son of God, we do not deny his birth from the virgin ...

He later wrote: " After more than forty years, we have had no third world war, and the balance of nuclear terror ... may have helped to prevent one.

Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....

If he himself philosopher did not exist, he would not be there to ask questions about the nature of reality ... on the other hand, this fundamental fact, which we call existence, soon proves a rather barren topic for philosophic speculation ...

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

Captain Parker described the march discipline – " As we marched through the country of our Allies, commissars were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries for man and horse ... the soldiers had nothing to do but pitch their tents, boil kettles and lie down to rest.

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

A case has been made out for borrowings of many place-names and even misremembered rhymes such as " Here we go looby-loo ... " – chiefly from one of the Luba varieties – in the USA.

On this topic, Malachi deals with divorce both as a social problem (" Why then are we faithless to one another ...

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

Unofficially, we are telling you ... take no prisoners from U-boats.

The species we see today are but the smallest part of what blind destiny has produced ...

Last week when Jo did that, we agreed ...

::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

In his letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes, " The Lord himself will descend from heaven ... and the dead in Christ will rise first .” But he adds that “ we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ." Th.

This is because we arrange things such that for every integer, there is a distinct odd integer: ... − 2 → − 3, − 1 → − 1, 0 → 1, 1 → 3, 2 → 5, ...; or, more generally, n → 2n + 1.

“ If you slaughter sheep, you will be considered guilty of a crime .” He issued a regulation to that effect ... 1279 / 1280 under Qubilai all the Muslims say: “ if someone else slaughters animal we do not eat ”.

Searle disagrees with this analysis and argues that " the study of the mind starts with such facts as that humans have beliefs, while thermostats, telephones, and adding machines don't ... what we wanted to know is what distinguishes the mind from thermostats and livers.

I never meant to ... forbid or suppress, by sovereign decree, ground rent and interest on capital.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

It is the business of the pope to look after the interests of the Roman empire, since the empire derives its origin and its final authority from the papacy ; its origin, because it was originally transferred from Greece by and for the sake of the papacy ... its final authority, because the emperor is raised to his position by the pope who blesses him, crowns him and invests him with the empire .... Therefore, since three persons have lately been elected king by different parties, namely the youth son of Henry VI, Philip Hohenstaufen, brother of Henry VI, and Otto Brunswick, of the Welf family, so also three things must be taken into account in regard to each one, namely: the legality, the suitability and the expediency of his election ...... Far be it from us that we should defer to man rather than to God, or that we should fear the countenance of the powerful .... On the foregoing grounds, then, we decide that the youth should not at present be given the empire ; we utterly reject Philip for his manifest unfitness and we order his usurpation to be resisted by all .... since Otto is not only himself devoted to the church, but comes from devout ancestors on both sides ..... therefore we decree that he ought to be accepted and supported as king, and ought to be given the crown of empire, after the rights of the Roman church have been secured.

3 ) The father of Josiah, the priest who dwelt in Jerusalem when Darius issued the decree that the temple should be rebuilt ... ( Zech 6: 10 ).

There is absolutely no rationalistic explanation for the Holocaust except for the fact that it was a Divine decree ... why it happened is above human comprehension – but it is definitely not because of punishment for sin.

According to Livy, " Popilius ... placed in hand the tablets on which was written the decree of the senate withdraw ... drew a circle round the king with the stick he was carrying and said, ' Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.

At some point thereafter, according to the Samguk Yusa, the Silla king, " concerned about the strengthening of the country ... again issued a decree and chose boys from good families who were of good morals and renamed them hwarang.

The decree affected Khachaturian profoundly: " Those were tragic days for me ...

" In the Old Kilkenny Review, year unknown, Peter Smithwick, K. M., Solicitor, wrote that the tradition of Kilkenny is that Sullivan ’ s Brewery was founded in 1702 ... Daniel Sullivan, allegedly a Protestant, bought the property in trust for Pierse Bryan of Jenkinstown, who was Catholic but prohibited by the Penal Laws from buying land ... Twenty years later a Protestant informer got a decree declaring himself the owner of the property ... The property was on the West side of High Street, " standing backward in James ’ Street.

* 1545: Oratio Philatelis Peripatetici in senatulo hominum scholasticorum de decreto conventus, quo pagi civibus adimi permittuntur, habita ... ( The Discourse Of A Truthful Peripatethic spoken among the learned men about the parliamentary decree, which allows country estates to be taken away from townfolk, Polish title Mowa Prawdomówcy Perypatetyka o postanowieniu sejmu zezwalającym na odbieranie mieszczanom wiejskich posiadłości, wypowiedziana w kole ludzi uczonych )

Mongke offered Louis IX his cooperation but warned all Christians that " If, when you hear and understand the decree of the eternal God, you are unwilling to pay attention and believe it ... and in this confidence you bring an army against us-we know what we can do ".

With the decree Postquam sanctissimus of 27 July 1914, Pope St. Pius X declared that 24 theses formulated by " teachers from various institutions ... clearly contain the principles and more important thoughts " of Thomas.

But today we proclaim it to the universe, and generations to come will glory in this decree ; we are proclaiming universal liberty ... We are working for future generations ; let us launch liberty into the colonies ; the English are dead, today.

I never meant to ... forbid or suppress, by sovereign decree, ground rent and interest on capital.

: was established by decree of Almighty God ... it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation ... it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts-Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America

" Article 4, however, provides that "... title to all agricultural lands which were capable of adjustment under the Royal decree of ... 1880, but the adjustment of which has not been sought at the time of promulgation of this decree ... will revert to the State.

A change from Stalinist architecture to standard prefabricated concrete is usually associated with Khrushchev's reign and particularly the November 1955 decree On liquidation of excesses ... ( November, 1955 ).

The AAA's current ' Statement of Professional Responsibility ' clearly states that " in relation with their own government and with host governments ... no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given.

# Comparisons of mean squares, along with F-tests ... allow testing of a nested sequence of models.

Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The great Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides ( Ramban 1195-1270 ), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted in Job's saying " God does all these things twice or three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit to ... the light of the living ' ( Job 33: 29, 30 ).

Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

He referred to a charge that his " Mother ... held to public scorn as a prostitute who intermarried with a Negro, and his ... eldest brother sold as a slave in Carolina.

The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.

were " enriched by Christ the Lord with a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit ...

The 1937 British Methodist Conference located the " true continuity " with the Church of past ages in " the continuity of Christian experience, the fellowship in the gift of the one Spirit ; in the continuity in the allegiance to one Lord, the continued proclamation of the message ; the continued acceptance of the mission ;..." a long chain which goes back to the " the first disciples in the company of the Lord Himself ...

" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.

... with regard to race, a naive version of the evolution of consciousness, a theory foundational to both Steiner's anthroposophy and Waldorf education, sometimes places one race below another in one or another dimension of development.

This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.

* 1992: Album of the Year – Heart in Motion ( lost to Unforgettable ... with Love by Natalie Cole )

What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.

*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...

Neither do they use worldly sword or war, since all killing has ceased with them ...

It is damn hard to concentrate ... when all the atmosphere is filled with gloom and forebodings about will the show get the money to go on?

Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.