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:" There is naught on earth to compare with the future life.
The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.
:" 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 )
:" A little later he built a church on his own ancestral property and served God with the utmost devotion.
:" On one occasion lie himself was sitting in an assembly of people, a stage having been arranged for a council on an open plain.
:" such care as an ordinary man might be expected to take on his own behalf.
:" Okay, now on the count of three, I want you all to yell nigger.
:" A computable number one for which there is a Turing machine which, given n on its initial tape, terminates with the nth digit of that number on its tape.
:" His only idea at the time was that it might be possible, in terms of effective calculability as an undefined notion, to state a set of axioms which would embody the generally accepted properties of this notion, and to do something on that basis ".
:" For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth.
:" 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 ".
:" Do not imagine that the anointed King must perform miracles and signs and create new things in the world or resurrect the dead and so on.
" How they create their music is described on their website :" each album is written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days, and tells a unique story.
White :" Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor.
:" Having noticed by the marks ( on his body ) that Arulmozhi was the very Vishnu " in reference to the Emperor Raja Raja Chola I.
:" 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.
" Van Tassel later described the historic play to the United Press :" I was the right halfback, and on this formation played one yard back of our right tackle.
:" 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.
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 ).
:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in as it were the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.
Gregory Nagy, on the other hand, sees both Persēs (" the destroyer ": / perthō ) and Hēsiodos (" he who emits the voice :" / hiēmi + / audē ) as fictitious names for poetical personae.
:" Who sail on stormy seas ;
:" Many will say to me on that day, ' Lord, Lord, did we not in your name eat and drink and prophecy and drive out demons?
Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.

:" and more
:" He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity.
:" I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself.
:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).
:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.
" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.
:" One more word, I beseech you.
:" The postwar generations of European elites aimed to create more democratic societies.
:" And so, sir, in the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend that will be all the way with LBJ.
:" The peace that the Anglo-American leaders are urging on us amounts to no more than maintaining a status quo that suits their interests.
:" a company of Greeks, often of ten or more persons, stepped forth to the open place, took each other by the hand, made a round circle, and now stepped backward, now forward, sometimes went around, singing in Greek the while, sometimes stamped strongly on the ground with their feet.
/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate :" – William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
:" To prevent the excessive duration of operas, without however prejudicing the fame often sought by opera singers from the repetition of vocal pieces, I deem the enclosed notice to the public ( that no piece for more than a single voice is to be repeated ) to be the most reasonable expedient.
:" The zodiacal light is nothing but the solar atmosphere, a rare and subtile fluid, either luminous by itself, or made so by the rays of the sun surrounding its globe ; but in a greater quantity, and more extensively, about its equator, than any other.
:" As the great day drew nearer, there was more singing in the slave quarters than usual.
:" I have continued the revolution I began in Il giuramento: varied forms, cabalettas banished, crescendos out, vocal lines simplified, fewer repeats, more originality in the cadances, proper regard paid to the drama, orchestration rich but not so as to swamp the voices, no long solos in the ensembles ( they only force the other parts to stand idle to the detriment of the action ), not much bass drum, and a lot less brass band ".
:" Dynamic, highly parameterized software is harder to understand and build than more static software.
:" In 1833, the entrepreneur Vincenzo Florio, a Calabrese by birth and Palermitano by adoption, bought up great swathes of land between the two largest established Marsala producers and set to making his own vintage with even more exclusive range of grape ".
A still more significant variation in the ancient historical account appears in the writing of Plutarch in the late 1st – early 2nd century AD :" Athens was torn by recurrent conflict about the constitution.
:" One of them told and confessed, without any pressure, that she had killed thirty children by bleeding them ... she confessed more, saying she had killed her own son ... Answer me: does it really seem to you that someone who has killed twenty or thirty little children in such a way has done so well that when finally they are accused before the Signoria you should go to their aid and beg mercy for them?
:" The mistakes all appear to have gone in the direction of making it seem like climate change is more serious by overstating the impact.
:" All my informants in the areas of Taipei and Sanhsia considered nuns at least as respectable as monks, or even more so.
:" Broadly, the approach is one of much more partnership and engagement on the basis of mutual respect.
:" Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful ... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names.
:" many contrapuntal and other church items ; further a great number of symphonies, some only à 4 but others with all the customary instruments ; likewise more than 30 large serenades in which solos for various instruments appear.

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