... III
The reason why children are like their parents; and that the Mother's imagination contributes thereto; and
whether the man or the woman is the cause of the male or female child.
In the ... it is, they say, that the child more frequently resembles the mother than the father, because the mother
contributes more towards it. And they think it may be further instanced, from the endeared ... out the natural cause of their generation, which
(according to the ancients who have dived into the secrets of nature) is either in the mother or in the agent, in
the seed, or in the womb.
The...
... anything to do with spirituality, it
would be the end of his career. The Passion of the Christ” proved them wrong by bursting out of
the box office into the bank grossing millions of dollars in ... Comfort:
The New York Times
reported, “As the overwhelming success of
The Passion of the Christ
reverberates
through Hollywood, producers and studio
executives are asking whether the movie ... breath. I’ve got a
feeling, that despite the financial success of
The Passion movie, much of Hollywood hate the things of God more than they love the money
they could make. In spite of this, my...
... one hand, they are bored
with the endless advertisements hiding in the newspapers and magazines, clamoring on the
radio, or dazzling on the TV. On the other hand, they still need the information ... concerned with the needs and wants, the hopes and fears of the target audience.
(4) Action - the advertising makes consumers to response to the advertising information and
evokes them to take the action ... use the word “buy” in it. Statistics show only two out of ten
advertisements use the verb “buy” directly. On one hand, the advertisers try their best to
promote their product; on the other...
... will
consider a cruise ship to be their destination, while others on the same cruise may perceive the
ports visited during the trip as their destination. Often destinations are artificially divided ... intermediaries and members of the public to promote their offerings.
They produce brochures, which they distribute to all their partners in the industry and to
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destination and the attraction of consumers. ... consumers. For instance, the depreciation of the Spanish Peseta
and the Greek Drachma as well as the high inflation rate of the Turkish Lira have all determined
the pricing of their destinations and...
... long search, the boots were found; they
were hid under the trunk; the handkerchief lay in one of the boots; the coat in the box; and the waistcoat in the
drawer of the table. Every time that Paganini ... of the Duke of York, who was spending his honeymoon there with his
young bride, the Princess of Prussia. " ;The sight of the kind German face and the familiar sound of the German
tongue of the ... supplied all the music of the
Church, and these masses are the first important work by an Italian musician. The Pope recognised their value
by appointing Palestrina one of the singers of the papal...
... front of
their first position, and turning to the right, had ridden down everything between them and the rear-guard.
Then, with one howitzer playing upon the advance and the other upon the rear-guard, ... how bravely they had withstood the onset. I have seen the
victory decided alone by the superiority of the pistol over the saber, where the opposing columns had crossed
each other in the charge ... in the fight.
But the Rangers were compelled to discard the carbine and the saber for other reasons than their inferiority in
the hand-to-hand conflict. It was always their policy to take the...
... he then take another wife and she
bear him children: if then the father die, the sons must not partition the estate according to the mothers, they
Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1, The ... help, they take pains not to go. The child weeps, the young man is
uneasy, the hearts of the old men are in despair, their limbs are bent, they crouch on the earth, they fold their
hands; the courtiers ... exclusions
as the others.
Two fundamental signs mark the conformity of castes, and separate from all the others the persons belonging
to them. The first is that the individuals of the same caste...
... success and the
overthrow of their enemies; and then, having laden themselves with the spoils of the dead, they returned to
their humble occupations, whence the defence of their country and their lives ... and the Pope; the lords and the
townsmen hastened thither irritated against the bull, heated by the violence of the royal answer. The members
of the assembly were influenced each by the other ... would
serve them for an excuse at Rome. They acknowledged themselves obliged, in common with the other orders,
to defend the rights of the King and of the kingdom, whether they held estates from the...
... Ardres, the frontier of the French, nor farther from Gravelines, the frontier of the imperialists,
to join either the one or the other, as they please, and to add their strength to him with whom they ... witnessing. The angel of death seems to hover over them; there is something dreadful
in their rejoicing; their gaudy robes, their mantles, their vases, their fringes of gold, assume the sable hue of
the ... employing them upon such thankless offices as their hearts
revolted from, though they had not the courage to refuse them. But beyond the immediate circle of the palace
she was the queen and the mother...
... as they can, then they cover themselves
with them, and fasten them by a belt round the waist. When they do not wish to be clothed from the waist
upward, they let that half fall which is above the ... the King thereof did them great honor, which
could not be exceeded. There they treated with the King for their cargo, and the King engaged to give them
whatever there was in the country for their ... clothes. They are very agile people and do no harm, and thus follow their flocks; wherever
night finds them, there they sleep; they carry their wives along with them, with all the chattels they...
... once. The Hungarians rose in arms to fight
for independence. The Bohemians expelled the Austrian troops from Prague. In Italy the Northern Provinces
followed the example set them in the South. The ... from the merchant marine to the royal navy, and thus be made
to assist in the defence of the country.
Of course, the ship-owners themselves upheld the navigation laws, on the plea that, if the ... importance. These matters, as well as the simultaneous calculation of the
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they elected as president of the republic Louis Napoleon, nephew of their once famous...
... impatience. On the 10th there were only two, and those
on the other side. On the 11th two again, but one bigger than the other. On the 12th the three reappeared, and
on the 13th there were four. ... wounded. The darkness probably
saved them from the savages, but at the same time it prevented their finding the vessel, so that they did not
return till the next day, when they appeared, bringing the ... to
superintend the collection of the furs and the trade with the Indians while the ships should be on their long
journey between the two hemispheres. The agents thus employed pitched their cabins on the...
... contrariety of the motives by which they were
actuated. They granted the Yorkists a general indemnity; and they restored the protectorship to the Duke, but
at the same time they renewed their oaths ... all the freshness of a chamber in Pompeii, the type
and chases of their famous Polyglot lying about, as if the workmen had but just left the office.
The accordance of the art of printing with the ... which the Greeks kept possession. During the winter the Emperor sent out his fleet to ravage the coast
of the Propontis as far as Cyzicus, and the spirit of the Greeks was roused by the booty they...
... the person of Serena,
the Romans might have respected the niece of Theodosius, the aunt, nay, even the adoptive mother, of the
reigning Emperor; but they abhorred the widow of Stilicho; and they ... they had only invoked the name of the Deity they would
consult the public safety, and trust their souls to the mercy of heaven; but they had sworn by the sacred head
of the Emperor himself; they ... by
their later settlements that we follow their march into the heart of Britain. Seizing the valley of the Don and
whatever breaks there were in the woodland that then filled the space between the...
... in the West, the rise of Spain, the conquest of the last of the
western Saracens at Granada and the rise of the Turks in the East, the rise of Russia, the downfall of the last
vestige of the ... than the beasts with which they herded. Gradually the tradesmen, the
middle classes, forced their way to practical equality with the nobles. Then came the turn of the masses to do
the same. The ... contrariety of the motives by which they were
actuated. They granted the Yorkists a general indemnity; and they restored the protectorship to the Duke, but
at the same time they renewed their oaths...