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:" Amid this desolation, the inhabitants of Jarlshof had contrived, by constant labour and attention, to keep in order a few roods of land, which had been enclosed as a garden, and which, sheltered by the walls of the house itself, from the relentless sea-blast, produced such vegetables as the climate could bring forth, or rather as the sea-gale would permit to grow ; for these islands experience even less of the rigour of cold than is encountered on the mainland of Scotland ; but, unsheltered by a wall of some sort of other, it is scarce possible to raise even the most ordinary culinary vegetables ; and as for shrubs or trees, they are entirely out of the question, such is the force of the sweeping sea-blast.
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:" There was now a tumult arisen at Alexandria, between the Jewish inhabitants and the Greeks ; and three ambassadors were chosen out of each party that were at variance, who came to Gaius.
:" The name Aztalan was given to this place by Mr. Hyer, because, according to Humboldt, the Aztecs, or ancient inhabitants of Mexico, had a tradition that their ancestors came from a country at the north, which they called Aztalan ; and the possibility that these may have been remains of their occupancy, suggested the idea of restoring the name.
The name " Kastoria " first appears in the middle of the 6th century ( 550 AD ), mentioned by Procopius as follows :" There was a certain city in Thessaly, Diocletianopolis by name, which had been prosperous in ancient times, but with the passage of time and the assaults of the barbarians it had been destroyed, and for a very long time it had been destitute of inhabitants ; and a certain lake chances to be close by which was named Castoria. There is an island in the middle of the lake, for the most part surrounded by water ; but there remains a single narrow approach to this island through the lake, not more than fifteen feet wide. And a very lofty mountain stands above the island, one half being covered by the lake while the remainder rests upon it.
:" Foula, or Fughley as it was once also known, means literally ' Bird Island ', with an estimated half million birds of various breeds sharing the rock with the inhabitants.
:" Communist regimes claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands.
:" Providence having placed us in possession of the Grand Duchy of Finland, we have desired by the present act to confirm and ratify the religion and the fundamental laws of the land, as well as the privileges and rights which each class in the said Grand Duchy in particular, and all the inhabitants in general, be their position high or low, have hitherto enjoyed according to the constitution.
:" The great commerce of every civilised society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country.
:" The inhabitants of cities and towns were, after the fall of the Roman empire, not more favoured than those of the country.
He established regular trade connections with Iraq, and expanded the Rashidi sphere of influence :" The inhabitants of Kaseem, weary of Wahhabee tyranny, turned their eyes towards Telal, who had already given a generous and inviolable asylum to the numerous political exiles of that district.
:" For the purposes of the present Treaty, nationals of the Republic of China, shall be deemed to include all the inhabitants and former inhabitants of Taiwan ( Formosa ) and Penghu ( the Pescadores ) and their descendents who are of the Chinese nationality in accordance with the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan ( Formosa ) and Penghu ( the Pescadores ); and juridical persons of the Republic of China shall be deemed to include all those registered under the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan ( Formosa ) and Penghu ( the Pescadores ).
Landru seems to be " all-seeing " and " all-knowing " with spies everywhere, one of whom turns in the party when he does not recognize them as members of " The Body :" the telepathic collective being, symbiotic with Landru, that most of the inhabitants belong to.
:" Onesicritus ... expatiates also in praise of the country of Musicanus, and relates of the inhabitants what is common to other Indian tribes, that they are long-lived, and that life is protracted even to the age of 130 years, ( the Seres, however, are said by some writers to be still longer lived ), that they are temperate in their habits and healthy ; although the country produces everything in abundance.
:" its inhabitants, who are for the most part foreigners and made up of every nation except Americans so to speak, have in general no mind for anything but business.
Once the surviving witnesses, Milan Starcevic, residing today in Pale, testified :" After they say that a part of the village inhabitants was missing the Ustashe sent out search parties and came to the Alija Hill.
The inhabitants were incorporated by Charles II., in the fourteenth year of his reign, by the designation of the " Portreeve, Free Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Borough of Tulsk :" the charter also conferred the elective franchise, with power to hold a court of record and a weekly market.
:" and Jarlshof
:" Man, however, had in former days considered this as a remote or unlikely event ; for a Norwegian chief of other times, or, as other accounts said, and as the name of Jarlshof seemed to imply an ancient Earl of the Orkneys had elected this neck of land as the place for establishing a mansion-house.
:" and had
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.
:" Because he had besieged them, the Amathusians cut off Onesilos ’ head and brought it to Amathous, where they hung it above the gates.
Aristotle knew of this tradition when he began his Metaphysics, and had already drawn his own conclusion, which he presented under the guise of asking what being is :" And indeed the question which was raised of old is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz., what being is, is just the question, what is substance?
:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.
:" Ansgar then undertook the mission committed to him by the emperor, who desired that he should go to the Swedes and discover whether this people was prepared to accept the faith as their messengers had declared.
:" Ansgar accomplished the journey on which he had set out, and after spending nearly twenty days in a ship, he arrived at Birka --" ( Chapter XXVI )
:" Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.
:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".
:" We do not believe that he ever had a church on earth without revealing himself to that church: consequently, there were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the same.
:" All the little redoubts that they had in that place, which are said to be ( list ) ... and around the Drusine marsh ... he ( frater Hermannus magister ) assaulted and levelled by rendering them into ash, after the infidels had been killed or captured.
Moore argued that once arguments based on the naturalistic fallacy had been discarded, questions of intrinsic goodness could only be settled by appeal to what he ( following Sidgwick ) called " moral intuitions :" self-evident propositions which recommend themselves to moral reflection, but which are not susceptible to either direct proof or disproof ( PE § 45 ).
Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.
:" They made their foes flee in horror because their swarthy aspect was fearful, and they had, if I may call it so, a sort of shapeless lump, not a head, with pin-holes rather than eyes.
:" It was indeed nothing short of a summary, in sequential and numbered paragraphs, of everything that the mind of European man had yet conceived or discovered.
:" And then, when Jesus had come to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, and when Jesus came down into the water, a fire was even kindled in the Jordan, and when He was rising up from the water, the Holy Spirit fluttered down upon Him in the form of a dove, as the < U > apostles have written </ U > about this very Christ of ours.
:" Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais ( Don ), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.
:" If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never had been made.
Bonnet had Havas issued a statement at midnight on 1 September saying :" The French government has today, as have several other Governments, received an Italian proposal looking to the resolution of Europe's difficulties.
On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.
:" and by
:" A choice function exists in constructive mathematics, because a choice is implied by the very meaning of existence.
:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."
Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....
:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )
:" On this account I have not the power, nor do I dare, to approve the objects of your mission until I can consult our gods by the casting of lots and until I can enquire the will of the people in regard to this matter.
:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.
:" A corporate body can only act by agents, and it is, of course, the duty of those agents so to act as best to promote the interests of the corporation whose affairs they are conducting.
:" This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.
:" It was stated ... that ' a function is effectively calculable if its values can be found by some purely mechanical process.
:" Actually the work already done by Church and others carries this identification considerably beyond the working hypothesis stage.
:" The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find.
:" I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father through the Son is worshiped and glorified who spoke by the Prophets and in One, Holy, Universal, and Apostolic church.
:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.
:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.
:" Having noticed by the marks ( on his body ) that Arulmozhi was the very Vishnu " in reference to the Emperor Raja Raja Chola I.
:" It was from noble families that this evil first started, and when shameful things seem to be approved by the fashionable, then the common people will surely think them correct ... This only, they say, stands the stress of life: a good and just spirit in a man.
:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.
:" If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence.
:" A wild story of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of savages.
Strategies for Combatting After-Meal Highs :" an instructional presentation by Gary Scheiner
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