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The ritual act itself, in the earliest systems, is powerful, in a sort magical, but tends to lose this character and take on the forms of ordinary human intercourse. +1018+. The precise ways in which extrahuman Powers were first approached by men it is not possible now to determine these procedures lie far back in a dim prehistoric time.
Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft As it was acted in the Family of Mr. Journals of the House of Lords, II, 269; Wm. Cobbett, Parliamentary History, I, 1017, 1018. Lords' Journal, II, 271, 316; Commons' Journal, I, 203-204. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1603-1610, 117. It had passed the third reading in the Commons on June 7; Commons' Journal, I, 234. Cited hereafter as Potts.
It is all clear as day now. Edric must have entered the royal chamber from the banqueting hall in the dead of the night, and thus, when no human eye beheld, have accomplished his evil deed. Ah, well! he could not escape the eye of Him who has said "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." Eastertide, 1018
Nay, I have served him as David did the Amalekite." Eric and Hermann, between them, raised the corpse, and flung it, all bleeding and disfigured, into the Thames, the tide just running out beneath the walls. I ought to write, "So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord!" But the awful doom of his unrepentant soul saddens me, much as he has hated me and mine. Lent, 1018.
Yet I wouldn't want any man to go out with me to-night unwillingly, Paddy." "Why, that's nothing. You got me my first run on this division. I'd pull you to hell if you said so." Glover turned to the night foreman. "What's the best engine in the house?" "There's the 1018 with steam and a plough." Glover started. "The 1018?" "She was to pull Six."
This early code of Russian law is a remarkable one, and goes farther than history at large in teaching us the degree of civilization of Russia at that date. In connection with it the chronicles tell a curious story. In 1018, we are told, Novgorod, having grown weary of the insults and oppression of its Varangian lords and warriors, killed them all.
In 804 Donatus, bishop of Zara, acted as envoy with the doge of Venice in concluding peace between Charlemagne and the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus. In the tenth century it was known as Diadora. In 991 it became Venetian for the first time, but without severing its relations with Byzantium; and Orso Orseolo fortified it in 1018.
The two railroad men were just starting across the yard to inspect an engine, the 1018, which was to pull the limited train that day for the first time. It was a new monster, planned by the modest little Manxman, Robert Crosby, for the first district run.
From Eadgar's day the Scots had pressed further and further across the Firth of Forth till a victory of their king Malcolm over Earl Eadwulf at Carham in 1018 made him master of Northern Northumbria. In 1031 Cnut advanced to the North, but the quarrel ended in a formal cession of the district between the Forth and the Tweed, Lothian as it was called, to the Scot-king on his doing homage to Cnut.
* See "Revue des Deux Mondes," 1865, vol. lviii, p. 776; also vol. lvii, pp. 768, 1018. The writer of M. de Moray's obituary notice in the "Revue des Deux Mondes"* boldly asked whether the duke, who was always fortunate, and to whom success had become a habit, had not died opportunely. He left the question for the future to decide. The answer was not long delayed. * Ibid., 1865, vol. lvi, p. 501.
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