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'MY DEERE BROTHER, I have ere now assured you, that als long as I found you constant in amitie towards me, I would be your faithfull watche, to shunne all mishappes or dangers that, by assured intelligence, I might compasse to give you.
For a kyng of Fraunce boughte theise relikes somtyme of the Jewes; to whom the Emperour had leyde hem to wedde, for a gret summe of sylvre. And zif alle it be so, that men seyn, that this croune is of thornes, zee schulle undirstonde, that it was of jonkes of the see, that is to sey, rushes of the see, that prykken als scharpely as thornes.
Baudissin, Adonis und Esmun, remarks that Adonis belongs to "einer Klasse von Wesen sehr unbestimmter Art der wohl uber den Menschen aber unter den grossen Gottern stehen, und weniger Individualitat besitzen als diese." Such a criticism applies of course equally to Attis. Mithra, on the other hand, occupies an entirely different position.
There is a gode cytee, amonges othere, where there is duellynge gret plentee of the lytylle folk, and is a gret cytee and a fair, and the men ben grete that duellen amonges hem; but whan thei getten ony children, thei ben als litylle as the Pygmeyes, and therefore thei ben alle, for the moste part, alle Pygmeyes, for the nature of the land is suche.
But it is no less true that, as respects a higher power and a future state, man, in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend, "bleibt stets von gleichem Schlag, Und ist so wunderlich als wie am ersten Tag." The history of Catholicism strikingly illustrates these observations.
"There comes the doctor," said the lady, and the figure with the Turkish riding cloak thus announced himself: Doctor. "I' bin a' Wiener." Author. "Gratulire: dass iss a' lustige Stadt." Doctor. "Glaub'ns mir, lust'ger als Csatsak." Author. "I' glaub's." The Judge, a sedate, elderly, and slightly corpulent man, asked me what route I had pursued, and intended to pursue.
And they seyn also, that Jesu Crist spak als sone as he was born; and that he was an holy prophete and a trewe, in woord and dede, and meke and pytous and rightefulle and with outen ony vyce. And thei seyn also, that whan the angel schewed the Incarnacioun of Crist unto Marie, sche was zong, and had gret drede.
Thus Goethe says that a man may use his reason only for the purpose of being more bestial than any beast: Er hat Vernunft, doch braucht er sie allein Um theirischer als jedes Thier zu sein. For not only do we, like the beasts, satisfy the desires of the moment, but we refine upon them and stimulate them in order to prepare the desire for the satisfaction.
In consequence, fully expecting aid from England, a Danish army of forty thousand men crossed the border and attacked the Prussians. But England sent no aid and the Danes were forced to retreat and once more take refuge upon Als Island.
Philip Morgan, executed at Tyburne. Edmond Ensher, als. Arrow, indicted, condemned, reprieved by the parliament and banished. Thomas Budd, als. Peto, als. Gray, condemned, reprieved by the lord mayor of London, and others, justices, and since retaken by order of the councell of state, and is now in Newgate. George Baker, als. Macham, indicted, proved guiltie, and now in Newgate. Peter Beale, als.
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