Sentences with phrase «of peasants at»

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

Then he continues: «That too was wit, and the wit of a peasant at that; but the situation made it inevitable.»

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

Only let a law be made and rigorously executed, that the body of every self - murderer, Lord or peasant, shall be hanged in chains, and the English fury will cease at once [The Works of John Wesley (Baker Book House, 1979).

Rich and powerful party leaders at the top, masses of poor terrorized peasants at the bottom.

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

One of the other areas of activity of MST is also peasant - farmer education, i.e. literacy and schooling, since I should point out that the level of illiteracy in the Brazilian countryside stands at 40 - 50 %.

I come from Burkina Faso, at the heart of West Africa and I represent here a peasant - farmer organisation created in 1996 to build a capability for representation and negotiation, to defend the interests of the farmers faced with certain trends, certain programs, certain policies over which they have no control.

At the same time, an international association launched a study on the peasant - farmer movement of Burkina Faso, and other three West African countries.

MST also has agreements with the universities, so that courses at university level be given to peasants and to the members of MST who want it.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

When nearby villagers and passing pilgrims stopped at the hermitage to pay their respects Paradisi heard grisly stories about depraved atrocities inflicted by Videnskabelige on the defenseless peasants of the beautiful isle.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

Clearly, the group of knights and peasants who sacked Muslim - controlled Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade was better equipped to fight than to rule.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

The parable of the Soil has been called a «parable on parables» because of the life of God that it witness to through an abundant harvest.145 At the arrival of the harvest, the peasant is overjoyed for the opportunity for his involvement in the creative process of producing something.146

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7

Then the drunken peasant awoke, looked at his legs, and since by reason of the shoes and stockings he didn't recognize them, he said to the driver, «Drive on, they are not my legs.»

It is here that human emotion, repressed at some points by the austerity of the doctrine of God as developed in theology, has its full outlet — a warm human emotion which the peasant can share with the mystic.

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

His confident mangling of the Polish language amused him as much as us, and he partook with gusto in such fare as dark bread slathered in lard and salt, served with plenty of vodka at a local peasant restaurant.

So it was a pleasant surprise to me at the end to discover that the compassionate, resourceful, and brave peasant woman we had followed throughout the show turned out to be the love of Robin's life.

at the same time the parable of the talents came to mind and having grown up in Brazil, with parents who were peasants in pre-communist Russia, it was ingrained in me to become an engineer to be successful which I became after i came to the «land of milk and honney, where money grows on trees» and many foreigners aspire to do the same to come and live here, the good ol USA...

The lower - case term got him into trouble because a pathological horror of chaos caused him to lead his followers into maintaining order at the expense of peasants and reformers, as they have done ever since.

It portrays Jesus as a «peasant Jewish Cynic,» whose conception of the kingdom of God involved «a religious and economic egalitarianism that negated alike and at once the hierarchical and patronal normalcies of Jewish religion and Roman power.»

At first glance, it seems like an ordinary, innocent photograph: a group of Polish peasants holding shovels in a field on a sunny day.

Then Goliath hurled himself once again at David, that is, against the workers, the peasants, against the young people and women, against children, against the heroic people of Nicaragua.2

As to Luther, everyone knows what stand he took at the time of the peasant war.

There were splendid buildings erected under Herod and his successors in Jerusalem and other Jewish cities — palaces, theatres, hippodromes — but no mention of them occurs in the gospel record; from the gospels we learn nothing at all about the economic situation in Palestine, except that there were peasants and fishermen, hand workers and merchants, rich and poor — and all this only incidentally, mostly from the parables.

Not only, for Levi, do the peasants live at a level of «subterranean» intensity beneath the «clear - cut meanings» of reason, religion, and history, they are finally and deeply antagonistic to those meanings:

At the outset, in a suburb of Hamburg he trained young men, largely artisans and peasants, to form a kind of Protestant order to serve in orphanages, hospitals, and asylums for the feeble - minded and epileptics.

Peasants with baskets of wheat in their hands threw fistfuls of it at the Madonna, so that she might take thought for the harvest and bring them good luck.

Think of his disciples — Galilean peasants — going down to Jerusalem as recorded in Mark 13 and gawking at the Temple and saying to Jesus, «Look at these enormous stones.»

There, at Worms, in the presence of the newly elected Emperor, Charles V, the mightiest monarch in Europe, and of the dignitaries of Church and State, Luther, the son of peasant parents, declared that he could not accept the authority of Popes and councils, since they had often contradicted one another, and that unless he was convinced by Scripture and plain reason he could not in good conscience recant anything he had written.

While at first he urged the authorities to be moderate, he later came out against the more radical features of the extreme reformers and urged the use of force against what he called the «murderous and thieving hordes of peasants.»

Public reaction, already aghast at the massive slaughter of the peasants, was immediate.

On 15 May, a series of encounters between the armies of the peasants and of four rulers who had united to defeat them, was capped by a final and total victory for the latter at Frankenhausen.

At the words of Martin Luther 100,000 protestant peasants in Germany were killed.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

A five second inquiry at wik - ipedia told me that you have no basis for your claims of Luther ki - lling 100,000 peasants.

I've always used a recipe that ran in the paper at the time of the movie's release that very much looks like the «peasant dish» Anton Ego describes.

Or at least, Patti's Paella, priced for the peasant in all of us.

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It's more about Kroenke, Gazidis and Wenger diving into a pool of money Scrooge McDuck style while they laugh at all the fans expecting us to win like peasants.

The peasants who form the majority of the population generally have little to no grip on politics at the national level.

On 30 April 2014, they held a rally at Fobbing in Essex, the site of the 1381 Peasants» Revolt, and declared, «let the English revolt begin.»