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- 391: The Book Of Deuteronomy
- ... through the desert. Moses gives them instructions concerning many different aspects of the life in the land they are about to enter. The first four chapters recall the time when the people came out of Egypt and died in the wilderness because of their numerous sins. It then shows how God faithfully brought the next generation to the border of Canaan, which was the promised land. The next twenty-four chapters ...
- 392: The Alchemist
- ... Soul of the World or the will of God, it is an unstoppable force. If there is a will there is a way. Santiago's goal was to reach the treasure at the pyramids in Egypt. From the moment he had the dream about the treasure, the world worked with him so he could realize that goal. Here, Santiago discovers some good omens for his journey: " 'In order to find the ...
- 393: Streetcar Desire
- ... eyes? You come in here and you sprinkle the place with powder and you spray perfume and you stick a paper lantern over the light bulb - and, lo and behold, the place has turned to Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile, sitting on your throne, swilling down my liquor. And do you know what I say? Ha ha! Do you hear me? Ha ha ha! Blanche is extremely ...
- 394: Sappho (the Greek Poet)
- ... of it was burned. Most of them were lost, and Sappho was known only through quotations in other ancient writers until 1900, when considerable fragments of her work began to be found on papyrus in Egypt and so only a few hundred lines of her poetry remain. In her lifetime, she invented a 21-string lyre which she used to accompany herself when she sang her poems. She also founded a ...
- 395: Canterbury Tales Critical Analysis
- ... of her arguments she refers to biblical text. The first reference to the holy Bible she makes is of the many wives of Solomon. She explains that in the Bible, Solomon, while the king of Egypt, had close to seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines (Chaucer 118, ln. 35-37). In her second allusion to the Bible she quotes St. Paul, "It is better to marry, than to burn (Chaucer ...
- 396: Magic
- ... 7. The excerpt read, A mockery, now, seemed those magic arts of theirs; ignominious the rebuff to their boasted cunning. I read the whole passage and I thinking it was talking about the prisoners in Egypt. The concordance to bible wasnt even difficult to use. The last reference available in our school library was the Fifth Edition Rogets International Thesaurus, by Robert L. Chapman. Thanks to my helpful peers ...
- 397: King Solomon
- ... that the Lord his God have. The lord God granted Solomon with a wisdom that would surpass all. He would be wiser than everyone from the north would and wiser than all the people of Egypt. The lord blessed Solomon with riches and honor because he did not ask for these things from God. God blessed Solomon with this wisdom, riches, and honor mainly to bring about a new way for ...
- 398: Daniel 2
- ... in control. The Israelites only prayed to God when things got bad as they did in the desert. Once things were restored to good conditions, they forgot the Lord who had brought them out of Egypt into the Promised Land. The people were weak in their faith before the exile of the Israelites. Judah was exiled because they disobeyed God's word regarding covenant keeping, the Sabbath years, and idolatry. Daniel ...
- 399: Canterbury Tales - The Knight
- ... even paused before beginning it to change his clothes. The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania, Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy career, he is extremely humble ...
- 400: Baroque And Classical Music
- ... liturgical service known as the Roman Catholic and Anglican Vesper Services.Handel's best known oratorio in English is The Messiah. Two of his other oratorios with English texts are Judas Maccabaeus and Israel in Egypt.Handel also wrote instrumental music in the Italian style, notably two sets of concerti grossi. Another composer, an Italian, who wrote many concerti grossi in England and also reworked music by Corelli to add to ...
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