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...word "Militant" in "Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church Militant." 6) Alter the instructions in the burial service in order to permit reading of the service over the body of a suicide and of an unbaptized person. Also, substitute "though this body be destroyed" for "though after my skin worms destroy this body...
Isostasy. The earth's crust is not uniformly rigid, and a good thing, too. If it were, the stress of gravity would destroy the equilibrium of the spinning globe. The theoretic principle maintaining this equilibrium is called isostasy, manifest in earthquakes, or crust- shiftings. Earthquakes are thus a sort of blessing. To isostasy, these lines...
...French and German, and had mastered the Turkish language, an uncommon achievement for a modern Turkish woman. Moreover, she profoundly believed in the enlightenment of her sex in Turkey. Her object was to bring Turkish women to the social and cultural level of Western women and, en route, to destroy traditions (many of which were not sanctioned by the Koran) which had for centuries bound women to men as slaves. Moreover, she was an heiress...
...force as the only means to win republicanism for Italy. At the beginning of the War, he was still a revolutionist, a republican. He wrote in the Socialist paper Avanti, of which he had previously become the editor: "We do not want war, because we are striving . . . to destroy the prestige of the dynasty, the Army and the State...
...into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle Ages...