The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cr...oss each other up somewhere along the line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at t...he windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend u...pon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbelieving a future state even when he had death before his eyes....... I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least.... "Well," said I, "Mr. Hume, I hope to triumph over you when I meet you in a future state; and remember you are not to pretend that you was joking with all this infidelity." "No, no," said he. "But I shall have been so long there before you come that it will be nothing new."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any additio...n to my character from my having had the friendship of Dr. Johnson and many eminent men, made the tour of Europe, and Corsica in particular, and written two very successful books. I was as a board on which fine figures had been painted, but which some corrosive application had reduced to its original nakedness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: and... has often, in reality, the force ascribed to it. LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, ...as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »