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| 2bca4c8 | Christians in North America and Europe have always looked forward to celebrating Christmas. | William J. Bennett | ||
| c9a7603 | If not hatred," put in her brother-in-law as the path broadened so that they could walk all abreast, "what of love?" Out of the corner of her eye, Mary saw her sister and brother-in-law exchange a sickeningly speaking glance. "Hmph," was Mrs. Fustian's eloquent opinion on that subject. For the first time that evening, Mary found herself in perfect agreement with her. "Good enough for shepherdesses, but not at all the thing for civilized fol.. | letty-pinchingdale-snipe love mary-alsworthy miss-gwen newlyweds | Lauren Willig | |
| db73291 | Josephine!" A stentorian bellow shook the candles in their sconces. Unconsciously, Amy grabbed Richard's arm, looking about anxiously for the source of the roar. About the room, people went on chatting as before. "Steady there." Richard patted the delicate hand clutching the material of his coat. "It's just the First Consul." Snatching her hand away as though his coat were made of live coals, Amy snapped, "You would know." "Josephine!" The .. | guests miss-gwen napoleaon-bonaparte treaty | Lauren Willig | |
| af724e4 | And yet we are a resilient people, caretakers of a blessed nation. It has become a commonplace that we always rise to the occasion in this country. That is still true. And we surprise ourselves, never knowing with exact certainty from whence our next leader or hero will come--good reason to respect and defend one another as Americans, as fellow countrymen dedicated to a great proposition. Allow me a few simple illustrations. If you were sit.. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 6361499 | Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the moral crisis in that institution by contrasting the concerns of teachers in two different eras: 'Over the years teachers have been asked to identify the top problems in America's schools. In 1940 teachers identified them as talking out of turn; chewing gum; making noise; running in the hall; cutting in line; dress code infractions; and litterin.. | relativism | Francis J. Beckwith | |
| 7091ce3 | History is a ribbon, always unfurling. History is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us . . . | William J. Bennett | ||
| f69938d | The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 36d88bb | Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live. Individual | William J. Bennett | ||
| ccbf07e | Limited government that protects rights and freedoms is another important ingredient. For example, it is government's job to protect property rights, keep markets as free and fair as possible, and oppose discrimination in the workplace. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 050cea0 | Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live. | William J Bennett | ||
| 7ea7116 | The Montanists claimed that they were receiving direct revelation, or prophecy, from the Holy Spirit, | William J. Bennett | ||
| 44310af | to God alone we render worship, but in other things we gladly serve you, acknowledging you as kings and rulers of men, and praying that with your kingly power you be found to possess also sound judgment. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 04e4abc | The tradition holds that Hippolytus was torn in half by wild horses at this time, as was Martina, "a noble and beautiful" young woman.36 A presbyter named Calepodius was drowned in the Tiber." | William J. Bennett | ||
| 43d6d06 | Margaret Sanger, a public health nurse who challenged laws against distributing birth control information, embraced eugenics. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, ostensibly to encourage poor immigrants and other Americans to limit the number of children they bore. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 6a0bea7 | With that, Justin and his comrades were beheaded. Justin won the crown of martyrdom he so desired and is today known as Justin Martyr. | William J. Bennett | ||
| f95bdf4 | More broadly, a decent, humane, self-governing society will reject the belief that most human beings - homosexual or heterosexual - are slaves to their passions, their desires, their genetic predispositions. Our identities are not defined by sex, nor is sex itself an irresistible force. To believe otherwise is to vitiate the concept of individual responsibility and free will. Although our struggles are not all the same, we all do struggle a.. | William J. Bennett | ||
| b12e11c | The last great dispute of the era was a heavily theological affair between Hippolytus, one of the most influential theologians at Rome, and Callistus, the bishop of that city. | William J. Bennett | ||
| f456f25 | the Three-Fifths Compromise was a mere mathematical formula, advanced by Northern delegates, and was never intended as a statement that the Founders thought slaves to be less than fully human. After all, they referred to slaves as persons. Who, after all, wanted slaves counted fully for purposes of representation? Slaveholders. This would artificially increase their representation in the House of Representatives and as well in the electoral.. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 1370f7a | People who have no trouble advocating that cigarette commercials be banned from the airwaves on the grounds that they encourage young people to smoke should think again about the degree to which all people, and especially young people, take the media's well-crafted, market-tested messages to heart. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 596929a | Behold, into how great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by inculcating adultery and murder at the same time! And withal, after such audacious acts, they, lost to all shame, attempt to call themselves a Catholic Church! | William J. Bennett | ||
| 133a83e | Fabian, the bishop of Rome, was decapitated. Julian, a Christian in Cilicia, in Turkey, was stuffed into a leather bag with a number of serpents and scorpions and then thrown into the ocean. | William J. Bennett | ||
| dc57482 | In 250, Decius required that all citizens of the empire must perform a public sacrifice to the emperor. This sacrifice had to be performed with a Roman magistrate as an eyewitness, and a certificate (a libellus) that the task was done had to be issued as well. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 2ac0cf1 | The enraged proconsul who heard this ordered him stretched on a wheel, by which all his bones were broken, and then beheaded. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 6fb2171 | Conservatives recognize that free enterprise--or capitalism, as it's also known--is the best system the world has ever seen for creating jobs and good living conditions. It has lifted countless millions of people out of poverty and made their lives better. | William J Bennett | ||
| 790cfe0 | Competition between businesses creates better products and services, as well as lower prices. It encourages entrepreneurship and fosters good, hard work. The competition of free enterprise is a major reason businesses are usually more efficient and productive than government. | William J Bennett | ||
| de62b18 | Like Irenaeus, Tertullian defended the apostolic line of succession as the principle for determining true Christian doctrine, claiming that only those churches that were founded and perpetuated in the apostolic lineage were teaching the truth: "all doctrine must be prejudged as false which savours of contrariety to the truth of the churches and apostles of Christ and God."23 To Tertullian, the church at Rome, having been founded directly by.. | William J. Bennett | ||
| ac44da7 | where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile! | William J. Bennett | ||
| a8d8548 | By Tertullian's time, the catholic (universal) church was recognized as a collection of any churches that had an affection for each other based on a shared theology passed down from apostolic times. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 984d41a | As time passed, stories of Nicholas the gift giver spread. German lore, for example, says that when St. Klaus (Nicholas) became a priest, family members in the woolen trade presented him with a fine red woolen cape. Sometime later, a period of famine struck Lycia, and many poor people suffered from scurvy for lack of fruit. Nicholas had his red cape and other woolen material cut into pieces to make stockings. He filled the stockings with dr.. | history | William J. Bennett | |
| 2da2865 | I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn to humbly obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy; I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enj.. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 406ba8c | Inverness, | William J. Bennett | ||
| a9708f4 | The true pinnacle of the illuminated manuscript genre is the Book of Kells, created around 800 in an Irish monastery. | William J. Bennett | ||
| c20877c | 1948 President Truman signs legislation establishing the Marshall Plan. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 20d2aec | to declare that all those things must have been the work not of men but of angels.16 | William J. Bennett | ||
| 858601c | THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE KIEVAN RUS | William J. Bennett | ||
| 06c12c1 | Trinity College (Dublin) library, | William J. Bennett | ||
| deb0931 | Surely you'll agree that the planets order and control our destinies?" "They do not." "Not at all?" "No." "Then what does? Control our destinies, I mean." "The only external forces that have any influence on us are those we can see every day: the smile, the frown, the fist, the brick wall. What you call 'destiny' is merely a semantic fallacy, the attribution of purpose to blind causality. Insofar as any of us are compelled to resist the flo.. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 7ea32fb | The body, you know, is ninety percent water, and there are those who will tell you that life is only a device which water employs to move itself about. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 17b4c3b | and he was young and joyful and in love and his sweetie was here with him, and she loved him, too. All the world was theirs and bright with possibility. So it couldn't last. Who the fuck cared? | Michael Swanwick | ||
| a2007a8 | Copyright (C) 2012 by Michael Swanwick | Patrick Nielsen Hayden | ||
| 4dcd037 | Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end of your schemes. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 0eeebe3 | delegation of hobs came out of the deep woods and, in a ceremony that dated back to the founding of the House, presented her with five blue jay feathers and a single perfect acorn. She repaid them with silver, bolts of jacquard silk, and as many of the best and largest flat screen television sets commercially available as they could carry back to their burrows in a day. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| a147b44 | Per molto tempo il Baldwynn non parlo. -- Servirai la Dea, ora? -- disse infine. -- Consapevolmente e affettuosamente, in dolce obbedienza e umile riconoscimento di tutto cio che lei e? | Michael Swanwick | ||
| bfae180 | Love Might Be Too Strong a Word") and award-winning author Michael Swanwick ("Slow Life"). For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is "A Separate War" by Joe Haldeman, and we have an excerpt of Kitty Steals" | John Joseph Adams |