"WHAT did you think of my nice Daggett boy?" Claire demanded of Eva Gilson, the moment bruncheon was over.
"Which one was---- Oh, the boy you met on the road? Why, really, I didn't notice him particularly. I'd rather fancied from the way you referred to him that he was awfully jolly and forceful, but rather crude. But I didn't notice him at all. He seemed…

— Sinclair Lewis
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Homily XLIX.
Acts XXIII. 68
“But when Paul perceived
that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out
in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a
Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in
question. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the
Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the…

— Philip Schaff
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Why the Temple of Artemis Was the Greatest Wonder of the World

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was so magnificent that it was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

by Kieren Johns

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"An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."

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IT has by this time appeared that the doctrine of the mortality of the human soul, by which the name of Pomponazzi is best known, was but a consequence of his general view of the soul's nature. The question of the mortality or immortality of the soul was the question whether the soul were separable or inseparable from the body, whether, that is, it…

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It was reputedly Socrates who complained that the youth of his day were rude, uneducated and had no respect for their elders, although he was probably not the first to do so. The so-called youth of his times wanted change, more for themselves but without the responsibility, less stress and p

Glancing Back at a Vanishing World.
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If, any one wishes to know what we mean when we say that Christendom was and is one culture, or one civilization, there is a rough but plain way of putting it. It is by asking what is the most common, or rather the most commonplace, of all the uses of the word "Christian." There is, of course, the highest use of all; but it has nowadays many other uses.…

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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