Guest thanatoid Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in news:1ucdxvsp32e7j$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net: <SNIP> > Windows 98SE, or even Windows 98 would run just fine on my > computer. Not very surprising since you are now running later ME and later. Sigh. > Indeed, the difference between the HP Pavilion > 6745C and the HP Pavilion 6746C was the OS. Windows ME vs. > Windows 98SE. I would never buy a brand name compurer. I get them made to order. > Opera 7.23 is afflicted with exploitable vulnerabilities, The biggest vulnerability is the user, and I know what I'm doing. I thought I explained why I went back to 7.23. > as is just about any browser version number over a couple > of years old, and no longer maintained by the publisher. > E.g., Netscape 7.2 has been superseded by SeaMonkey 1.1.7. > >> I have a 2GHz 98SE Lite machine but it is not connected to >> the net. > > Probably backwards. The newer machine can run new, more > secure application. That should be the one with the > Internet connection. Great. I'll get on that RIGHT AWAY. And I'll let you know when I need someone to help me with my new wardrobe, OK? > I don't have a ten-year old computer with which to > experiment. I am reasonably certain that my twenty-year old > boxen won't support even Windows 95 (1 HP Vectra 486/33T, > which is an Intel i486DX-33MHz processor, 32MBytes of RAM, > and 1 HP Vectra 25T, which was an Intel i486DX-25MNz > processor, 32MBytes of RAM. The last has an Cyrix 50MHz > replacement processor). A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years ago. I have a Vectra 486/66, 16MB RAM and it runs 95 fine. It has a 28.8 Supra modem and I have used it with the internet. -- Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's, but I'd thought I'd play along just once... thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions. 01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups. 02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups. 03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a gun. 04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once. 05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3 hour orgy. 06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions breakfast. 07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.
Guest N. Miller Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads On 04 Jan 2008 08:06:44 GMT, thanatoid wrote: > A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years > ago. And just three years later: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n4_v42/ai_11404421 Closer to 20 years than 10. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys.
Guest N. Miller Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads On 04 Jan 2008 08:06:44 GMT, thanatoid wrote: > A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years > ago. Oh, and HP cut the price on the HP Vectra RS/25C (the correct name for that model) in *1989*, after it had been out for at least a year (probably closer to two). http://www.cbronline.com/article_cg.asp?guid=E6312FFA-E1C3-432A-92CF-9B97A1A5C8D6 -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys.
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. However unconvinced you may now be of the truth of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it. Those that are gone from being in the like circumstances with you, see that it was so with them; for destruction came suddenly upon most of them; when they expected nothing of it, and while they were saying, Peace and safety: now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You
Guest mm Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads enthusiasm, but rather to the contrary extreme. It is in no-wise the temper of the family to be ostentatious of experiences, and it was far from being her temper. She was, before her conversion, to the observation of her neighbors, of a sober and inoffensive conversation; and was a still, quiet, reserved person. She had long been infirm of body, but her infirmity had never been observed at all to incline her to be notional or fanciful, or to occasion any thing of religious melancholy. She was under awakenings scarcely a week, before there seemed to be plain evidence of her being savingly converted. She was first awakened in the winter season, on Monday, by something she heard her brother say of the necessity of being in good earnest in seeking regenerating grace, together with the news of the conversion of the young woman before mentioned, whose conversion so generally affected most of the young people here. This news wrought much upon her, and stirred up a spirit of envy in her towards this young woman, whom she thought very unworthy of being distinguished from others by such a mercy; but withal it engaged her in a firm resolution to do her utmost to obtain the same blessing. Considering with herself what course she should take, she thought that she had not a sufficient knowledge of the principles of religion to render her capable of conversion; whereupon she resolved thoroughly to search the Scriptures; and accordingly immediately began at the beginning of the Bible, intending to read it through. She continued thus till Thursday: and then there was a sudden alteration, by a great increase of her concern in an extraordinary sense of her own sinfulness, particularly the sinfulness of her nature, and wickedness of her heart. This came upon her, as she expressed it, as a flash of l
Guest C B Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. 226. Infidels, who profess to follow reason, ought to be exceedingly strong in reason. What say they then? "Do we not see," say they, "that the brutes live and die like men, and Turks like Christians? They have their ceremonies, their prophets, their doctors, their saints, their monks, like us," etc. (Is this contrary to Scripture? Does it not say all this?) If you care but little to know the truth, here is enough of it to leave you in repose. But if you desire with all your heart to know it, it is not enough; look at it in detail. This would be sufficient for a question in philosophy; but not here, where it concerns your all. And yet, after a trifling reflection of this kind, we go to amuse ourselves, etc. Let us inquire of this same religion whether it does not give a reason for this obscurity; perhaps it will teach it to us. 227. Order by dialogues.--What ought I to do? I see only darkness everywhere. Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God? "All things change and succeed each other." You are mistaken; there is... 228. Objection of atheists: "But we have no light." 229. This is what I see and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and I see only darkness everywhere. Nature presents to me nothing which is not matter of doubt and concern. If I saw nothing there which revealed a Divinity, I would come to a negative conclusion; if I saw everywhere the signs of a Creator, I would remain peacefully in faith. But, seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied; wherefore I have a hundred times wished that if a God maintains Nature, she should testify to Him unequivocall
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads hands shall be transmitted as they please. Some place it in election by the people, others in hereditary succession, etc. And this is the point where imagination begins to play its part. Till now power makes fact; now power is sustained by imagination in a certain party, in France in the nobility, in Switzerland in the burgesses, etc. These cords which bind the respect of men to such and such an individual are therefore the cords of imagination. 305. The Swiss are offended by being called gentlemen, and prove themselves true plebeians in order to be thought worthy of great office. 306. As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because might rules all, they exist everywhere and always. But since only caprice makes such and such a one a ruler, the principle is not constant, but subject to variation, etc. 307. The chancellor is grave and clothed with ornaments, for his position is unreal. Not so the king; he has power and has nothing to do with the imagination. Judges, physicians, etc., appeal only to the imagination. 308. The habit of seeing kings accompanied by guards, drums, officers, and all the paraphernalia which mechanically inspire respe
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads have but esteem for a religion which knows so well the defects of man, and desire for the truth of a religion which promises remedies so desirable? 451. All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretnece and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate. 452. To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to lust. On the contrary, we can quite well give such evidence of friendship, and acquire the reputation of kindly feeling, without giving anything. 453. From lust men have found and extracted excellent rules of policy, morality, and justice; but in reality this vile root of man, this figmentum malum, is only covered, it is not taken away. 454. Injustice.--They have not found any other means of satisfying lust without doing injury to others. 455. Self is hateful. You, Milton, conceal it; you do not for that reason destroy it; you are, then, always hateful. No; for in acting as we do to oblige everybody, we give no more occasion for hatred of us. That is true, if we only hated in Self the vexation which comes to us from it. But if I hate it because it is unjust and because it makes itself the centre of everything, I shall always hate it. In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it is inconvenient to others since it would enslave them; for each Self is the enemy, and would like to be the tyrant of all others. You take away its inconvenience, but not its injustice, and so you do not render it lovable to those who hate injustice; you render it lovable only to the unjust, who do not an
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads virtue of a hook. 56. To guess: "The part that I take in your trouble." The Cardinal did not want to be guessed. "My mind is disquieted." I am disquieted is better. 57. I always feel uncomfortable under such compliments as these: "I have given you a great deal of trouble," "I am afraid I am boring you," "I fear this is too long." We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them. 58. You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken..." The only thing bad is their excuse. 59. "To extinguish the torch of sedition"; too luxuriant. "The restlessness of his genius"; two superfluous grand words. SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD 60. First part: Misery of man without God. Second part: Happiness of man with God. Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself. Second part: That there is a Redeemer. Proved by Scripture. 61. Order.--I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, sceptics, stoics; but the order would not have been kept. I know a little what it is, and how few people understand it. No human science can keep it. Saint Thomas did not keep it. Mathematics keep it, but they are useless on account of their depth. 62. Preface to the first part.--To speak of those who have treated of the knowledge of self; of the divisions of Charron, which sadden and weary us; of the confusion of Montaigne; that he was quite aware of his want of method and shunned it by jumping from subject to subject; that he sought to be fashionable. His foolish project of describing himself! And this not casually and against his maxims, since every one makes mistakes, but by his maxims themselves, and by first and chief design. For to say silly things by chance and weakness is a comm
Guest ... et al. Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads Mr. Mills. There was a considerable revival of religion last summer at Newhaven old town, as I was once and again informed by the Rev. Mr. Noyes, the minister there, and by others: and by a letter which I very lately received from Mr. Noyes, and also by information we have had other ways. This flourishing of religion still continues, and has lately much increased. Mr. Noyes writes, that many this summer have been added to the church, and particularly mentions several young persons that belong to the principal families of that town. There has been a degree of the same work at a part of Guildford; and very considerable at Mansfield, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Eleazar Williams; and an unusual religious concern at Tolland; and something of it at Hebron, and Bolton. There was also no small effusion of the Spirit of God in the north parish in Preston, in the eastern part of Connecticut, of which I was informed, and saw something, when I was the last autumn at the house, and in the congregation of the Rev. Mr. Lord, the minister there; who, with the Rev. Mr. Owen, of Groton, came up hither in May, the last year, on purpose to see the work of God. Having heard various and contradictory accounts of it, they were careful when here to satisfy themselves; and to that end particularly conversed with many of our people; which they declared to be entirely to their satisfaction; and that the one half had not been told them, nor could be told them. Mr. Lord told me that, when he got home, he informed his congregation of what he had seen, and that they were greatly affected with it; and that it proved the beginning of the same work amongst them, which prevailed till there was a general awakening, and many instances of persons, who seemed to be remarkably converted. I also have lately heard that there has been something of the work at Woodbury. But this shower of divine blessing has been yet more extensive: there was no small degree of it in some part of the Jerseys; as I was info
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads a few days, and others for months or years. There were many in this town, who had been, before this effusion of the Spirit upon us, for years, and some for many years, concerned about their salvation. Though probably they were not thoroughly awakened, yet they were concerned to such a degree as to be very uneasy, so as to live an uncomfortable disquieted life. They continued in a way of taking considerable pains about their salvation; but had never obtained any comfortable evidence of a good state. Several such persons, in this extraordinary time, have received light; but many of them were some of the last. They first saw multitudes of others rejoicing, with songs of deliverance in their mouths, who before had seemed wholly careless and at ease, and in pursuit of vanity; while they had been bowed down with solicitude about their souls. Yea, some had lived licentiously, and so continued till a little before they were converted; and yet soon grew up to a holy rejoicing in the infinite blessings God had bestowed upon them. Whatever minister has a like occasion to deal with souls, in a flock under such circumstances, as this was in the last year, I cannot but think he will soon find himself under a necessity, greatly to insist upon it with them, that God is under no manner of obligation to show mercy to any natural man, w
Guest mm Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads on this occasion as before. And thus, while the present never satisfies us, experience dupes us and, from misfortune to misfortune, leads us to death, their eternal crown. What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself. He only is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been serviceable in taking His place; the stars, the heavens, earth, the elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, pestilence, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since man has lost the true good, everything can appear equally good to him, even his own destruction, though so opposed to God, to reason, and to the whole course of nature. Some seek good in authority, others in scientific research, others in pleasure. Others, who are in fact nearer the truth, have considered it necessary that the universal good, which all men desire, should not consist in any of the particular things which can only be possessed by one man, and which, when shared, afflict their possessors more by the want of the part he has not than they please him by the possession of what he has. They have learned that the true good should be such as all can possess at once, without diminution and without envy, and which no one can lose against his will. And their reason is that this desire, being natural to
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads nothing. It is not so with the bishops. Port-Royal fears, and it is bad policy to disperse them; for they will fear no longer and will cause greater fear. I do not even fear your like censures, if they are not founded on those of tradition. Do you censure all? What! Even my respect? No. Say then what, or you will do nothing, if you do not point out the evil, and why it is evil. And this is what they will have great difficulty in doing. Probability.--They have given a ridiculous explanation of certitude; for, after having established that all their ways are sure, they have no longer called that sure which leads to heaven without danger of not arriving there by it, but that which leads there without danger of going out of that road. 921.... The saints indulge in subtleties in order to think themselves criminals and impeach their better actions. And these indulge in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked. The heathen sages erected a structure equally fine outside, but upon a bad foundation; and the devil deceived men by this apparent resemblance based upon the most different foundation. Man never had so good a cause as I; and others have never furnished so good a capture as you... The more they point out weakness in my person, the more they authorise my cause. You say that I am a heretic. Is that lawful? And if you do not fear that men do justice, do you not fear that God does justice? You will feel the force of the truth, and you will yield to it... There is something supernatural in such a blindness. Digna necessitas.231 Mentiris impudentissime.232 Doctrina sua noscetur vir...[233] False piety, a double sin. I am alone against t
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads don't know : about you, but I'm not convinced.) [ What a bunch of hooey. ] : : Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana : likely stems from a recent addition to his staff: : policy aide Chris McLean. : : McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in : former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean : drafted the notorious Communications Decency : Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail : "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall. : Then, not long after McLean moved to his current : job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor : and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White : House party line: "The President has put forward : a plan which in good faith attempts to balance : our nation's interests in commerce, security, and : law enforcement." Kerrey has since introduced a bill that parrots the Clinton administration's philosophy: * http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/mccain_kerrey/analysis.html * * Comparison: Major Features of the Administration and McCain-Kerrey Bills * * Administration Draft* * McCain-Kerrey** [w. section#] * Federal licensing of certificate * authorities(CA) and key recovery * agents * Yes. Yes. [401-404] * * Linkage of CA's and key recovery: * Encryption public key certificates only * issued to users of key recovery * Yes. Yes. [405] * * Export controls codified: 56-bit limit * on encryption exports, no judicial * review. * No. Yes. [301-308] *
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads is none that teacheth us, yea, there is none that declareth the future." Is. 42: "I am the Lord, and my glory will I not give to another. I have foretold the things which have come to pass, and things that are to come do I declare. Sing unto God a new song in all the earth. "Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and see not, and the deaf that have ears and hear not. Let all the nations be gathered together. Who among them can declare this, and shew us former things, and things to come? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth. "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He. "I have declared, and have saved, and I alone have done wonders before your eyes: ye are my witnesses, said the Lord, that I am God. "For your sake I have brought down the forces of the Babylonians. I am the Lord, your Holy One and Creator. "I have made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. I am He that drowned and destroyed for ever the mighty enemies that have resisted you. "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. "This people have I formed for myself; I have established them to shew forth my praise, etc. "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put in remembrance your ingratitude: see thou, if thou mayest be justified. Thy first father hath si
Guest buffalo rider Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 RE: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads and, in sight of the whole world, have had charge of these books which foretell their Messiah, assuring all nations that He should come and in the way foretold in the books, which they held open to the whole world. Yet this people, deceived by the poor and ignominious advent of the Messiah, have been His most cruel enemies. So that they, the people least open to suspicion in the world of favouring us, the most strict and most zealous that can be named for their law and their prophets, have kept the books incorrupt. Hence those who have rejected and crucified Jesus Christ, who has been to them an offence, are those who have charge of the books which testify of Him, and state that He will be an offence and rejected. Therefore they have shown it was He by rejecting Him, and He has been alike proved both by the righteous Jews who received Him and by the unrighteous who rejected Him, both facts having been foretold. Wherefore the prophecies have a hidden and spiritual meaning to which this people were hostile, under the carnal meaning which they loved. If the spiritual meaning had been revealed, they would not have loved it, and, unable to bear it, they would not have been zealous of the preservation of their books and their ceremonies; and if they had loved these spiritual promises, and had preserved them incorrupt till the time of the Messiah, their testimony would have had no force, because they had been his friends. Therefore it was well that the spiritual meaning should be concealed; but, on the other hand, if this meaning had been so hidden as not to appear at all, it could not have served as a proof of the Messiah. What then was done? In a crowd of passages it has been hidden under the temporal meaning, and in a few been clearly revealed; besides that, the time and the state of the world have been so clearly foretold that it is clea
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads people of this kind; so that when we are well instructed, we see in this rather evidence of the care of God than of His forgetfulness in regard to us. 890. Tertullian: Nunquam Ecclesia reformabitur.222 891. Heretics, who take advantage of the doctrine of the Jesuits, must be made to know that it is not that of the Church, and that our divisions do not separate us from the altar. 892. If in differing we condemned, you would be right. Uniformity without diversity is useless to others; diversity without uniformity is ruinous for us. The one is harmful outwardly; the other inwardly. 893. By showing the truth, we cause it to be believed; but by showing the injustice of ministers, we do not correct it. Our mind is assured by a proof of falsehood; our purse is not made secure by proof of injustice. 894. Those who love the Church lament to see the corruption of morals; but laws at least exist. But these corrupt the laws. The model is damaged. 895. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. 896. It is in vain that the Church has established these words, anathemas, heresies, etc. They are used against her. 897. The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth, for the master tells him only the act and not the intention. And this is why he often obeys slavishly, and defeats the intention. But Jesus Christ has told us the object. And you defeat that object. 898. They cannot have perpetuity, and they seek universality; and therefore they make the whole Church corrupt, that they may be saints. 899. Against those who misuse passages of Scripture, and who pride themselves in finding one which seems to favour their error.--The chapter for Vespers, Passion Sunday, the prayer for the k
Guest buffalo rider Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 RE: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads not state all its effects. Every one knows that the sight of cats or rats, the crushing of a coal, etc., may unhinge the reason. The tone of voice affects the wisest, and changes the force of a discourse or a poem. Love or hate alters the aspect of justice. How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction! I should have to enumerate almost every action of men who scarce waver save under her assaults. For reason has been obliged to yield, and the wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced. He who would follow reason only would be deemed foolish by the generality of men. We must judge by the opinion of the majority of mankind. Because it has pleased them, we must work all day for pleasures seen to be imaginary; and, after sleep has refreshed our tired reason, we must forthwith start up and rush after phantoms, and suffer the impressions of this mistress of the world. This is one of the sources of error, but it is not the only one. Our magistrates have known well this mystery. T
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads this future land as though he had been its ruler, gave a portion to Joseph more than to the others. "I give you," said he, "one part more than to your brothers." And blessing his two children, Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Joseph had presented to him, the elder, Manasseh, on his right, and the young Ephraim on his left, he put his arms crosswise, and placing his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and his left on Manasseh, he blessed them in this manner. And, upon Joseph's representing to him that he was preferring the younger, he replied to him with admirable resolution: "I know it well, my son; but Ephraim will increase more than Manasseh." This has been indeed so true in the result that, being alone almost as fruitful as the two entire lines which composed a whole kingdom, they have been usually called by the name of Ephraim alone. This same Joseph, when dying, bade his children carry his bones with them when they should go into that land to which they only came two hundred years afterwards. Moses, who wrote all these things so long before they happened, himself assigned to each family portions of that land before they ente
Guest philo Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads save, to send down bread from heaven, etc.; so that the people hostile to Him are the type and the representation of the very Messiah whom they know not, etc. He has, then, taught us at last that all these things were only types and what is "true freedom," a "true Israelite," "true circumcision," "true bread from heaven," etc. In these promises each one finds what he has most at heart, temporal benefits or spiritual, God or the creatures; but with this difference, that those who therein seek the creatures find them, but with many contradictions, with a prohibition against loving them, with the command to worship God only, and to love Him only, which is the same thing, and, finally, that the Messiah came not for them; whereas those who therein seek God find Him, without any contradiction, with the command to love Him only, and that the Messiah came in the time foretold, to give them the blessings which they ask. Thus the Jews had miracles and prophecies, which they saw fulfilled, and the teaching of their law was to worship and lo
Guest BMillikan Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads sought.... 51. Sceptic, for obstinate. 52. No one calls another a Cartesian but he who is one himself, a pedant but a pedant, a provincial but a provincial; and I would wager it was the printer who put it on the title of Letters to a Provincial. 53. A carriage upset or overturned, according to the meaning. To spread abroad or upset, according to the meaning. (The argument by force of M. le Maitre over the friar.) 54. Miscellaneous.--A form of speech, "I should have liked to apply myself to that." 55. The aperitive virtue of a key, the attractive virtue of a hook. 56. To guess: "The part that I take in your trouble." The Cardinal did not want to be guessed. "My mind is disquieted." I am disquieted is better. 57. I always feel uncomfortable under such compliments as these: "I have given you a great deal of trouble," "I am afraid I am boring you," "I fear this is too long." We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them. 58. You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken..." The only thing bad is their excuse. 59. "To extinguish the torch of sedition"; too luxuriant. "The restlessness of his genius"; two superfluous gra
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose. This is one point settled. But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. "That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much." Let us see. Since there is an equal risk of gain and of loss, if you had only to gain two lives, instead of one, you might still wager. But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play (since you are under the necessity of playing), and you would be imprudent, when you are forced to play, not to chance your life to gain three at a game where there is an equal risk of loss and gain. But there is an eternity of life and happiness. And this being so, if there were an infinity of chances, of which one only would be for you, you would still be right in wagering one to win two, and you would act stupidly, being obliged to play, by refusing to stake one life against three at a game in which out of an infinity of chances there is one for you, if there were an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain. But there is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite num
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads God defies other religions to produce such signs: Isaiah 43:9; 44:8. 593. History of China.--I believe only the histories, whose witnesses got themselves killed. Which is the more credible of the two, Moses or China? It is not a question of seeing this summarily. I tell you there is in it something to blind, and something to enlighten. By this one word I destroy all your reasoning. "But China obscures," say you; and I answer, "China obscures, but there is clearness to be found; seek it." Thus all that you say makes for one of the views and not at all against the other. So this serves, and does no harm. We must, then, see this in detail; we must put the papers on the table. 594. Against the history of China.--The historians of Mexico, the five suns, of which the last is only eight hundred years old. The difference between a book accepted by a nation and one which makes a nation. 595. Mahomet was without authority. His reasons, then, should have been very strong, having only their own force. What does he say, then, that we must believe him? 596. The Psalms are chanted throughout the whole world. Who renders testimony to Mahomet? Himself. Jesus Christ desires His own testimony to be as nothing. The quality of witnesses necessitates their existence always and everywhere; and he, miserable creature, is alone. 597. Against Mahomet.--The Koran is not more of Mahomet than the Gospel is of Saint Matthew, for it is cited by many authors from age to age.
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads in distress, expostulating with him, why he had not told her more of her sinfulness, and earnestly inquiring of him what she should do. She seemed that day to feel in herself an enmity against the Bible, which greatly affrighted her. Her sense of her own exceeding sinfulness continued increasing from Thursday till Monday and she gave this account of it: That it had been her opinion, till now, she was not guilty of Adam's sin, nor any way concerned in it, because she was not active in it; but that now she saw she was guilty of that sin, and all over defiled by it; and the sin which she brought into the world with her, was alone sufficient to condemn her. On the Sabbath-day she was so ill, that her friends thought it best that she should not go to public worship, of which she seemed very desirous: but when she went to bed on the Sabbath night, she took up a resolution, that she would the next morning go to the minister, hoping to find some relief there. As she awakened on Monday morning, a little before day, she wondered within herself at the easiness and calmness she felt in her mind, which was of that kind she never felt before. As she thought of this, such words as these were in her mind: The words of the Lord are pure words, health to the soul, and marrow to the bones: and then these words, The blood of Christ cleanses from all sin; which were accompanied with a lively sense of the excellency of Christ, and His sufficiency to satisfy for the sins of the whole world. She then thought of that expression, It is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun; which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to J
Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads pure sacrifices established. Malachi 1:11. That the order of Aaron's priesthood should be rejected, and that of Melchizedek introduced by the Messiah. Ps. Dixit Dominus. That this priesthood should be eternal. Ibid. That Jerusalem should be rejected, and Rome admitted, Ibid. That the name of the Jews should be rejected, and a new name given. Isaiah 65:15. That this last name should be more excellent than that of the Jews, and eternal. Isaiah 56:5. That the Jews should be without prophets (Amos), without a king, without princes, without sacrifice, without an idol. That the Jews should, nevertheless, always remain a people. Jer. 31:36 611. Republic.--The Christian republic--and even the Jewish--has only had God for ruler, as Philo the Jew notices, On Monarchy. When they fought, it was for God only; their chief hope was in God only; they considered their towns as belonging to God only, and kept them for God. I Chron. 19:13. 612. Gen. 17:7. Statuam pactum meum inter me et te foedere sempiterno... us sim Deus tuus...[108] Et tu ergo custodies pactum meum.109 Perpetuity.--That religion has always existed on earth which consists in believing that man has fallen from a state of glory and of communion with God into a state of sorrow, penitence, and estrangement from God, but that after this life we shall be restored by a Messiah who should have come. All things have passed away, and this has endured, for which all things are. Men have in the first age of the world been carried away into every kind of debauchery, and yet there were saints, as Enoch, Lamech, and ot
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