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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · the fear of death · duty, conscience, and obligation · wilson concessions · will, choice, and freedom · turk's persecution · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · the problem of evil and theodicy · the passions and the emotions · the nature and attributes of God · sin, guilt, and repentance · seeking the prophet’s leave
Usually: argument (4) · indignation (4) · skepticism (4) · reflection (2) · confronting death (2) · deception discovered (2) · censure (2) · exhortation (2) · law or decree (1) · injustice endured (1)
“Thus, without any abatement of the verbal inspiration of the Fourteen Points, they became a document for gloss and interpretation and for all the intellectual apparatus of self-deception, by which, I daresay, the President's forefathers had persuaded themselves that the course they thought it necessary to take was consistent with every syllable of the Pentateuch.” John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace · insight
“Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · precept
“The evidence rather shews, that in all he did and wrote, Muhammad was actuated by a sincere desire to deliver his countrymen from the grossness of its debasing idolatries” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · insight
“The earnestness of those convictions which at Mecca sustained him under persecution, and which perhaps led him, at any price as it were, and by any means, not even excluding deceit and falsehood, to endeavour to rescue his countrymen from idolatry,-naturally stiffened at Medina into tyranny and unscrupulous violence.” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · insight
“Let not the Infidels think that they can weaken God on His own Earth: their dwelling place shall be the Fire! and right wretched the journey!” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · observation
“Thus doth God make clear to you His signs: and God is Knowing, Wise!” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · precept
“And when ye enter houses, salute one another with a good and blessed greeting as from God. Thus doth God make clear to you His signs, that haply ye may comprehend them.” G. Margoliouth (George), The Koran (Al-Qur'an) · precept
“It is on all hands agreed, that it is best, that he should think rightly; but since a fallible being will always make some deviations from exact rectitude, it is not wholly useless to inquire towards which side it is safer to decline.” Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Vol · insight
“Every man in the journey of life takes the same advantage of the ignorance of his fellow travellers, disguises himself in counterfeited merit, and hears those praises with complacency which his conscience reproaches him for accepting.” Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Vol · insight
“Every man deceives himself while he thinks he is deceiving others; and forgets that the time is at hand when every illusion shall cease, when fictitious excellence shall be torn away, and ALL must be shown to ALL in their real state.” Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Vol · insight
The translator/annotator argues that Muhammad sought to end idolatry and teach God’s unity, but also claims persecution at Mecca and later success fostered self-deception and escalating violence, then appends Qur’an Sura 51’s warnings and end-times judgment.
We had surely seized him by the right hand, And had cut through the vein of his neck.5 Nor would We have withheld any one of you from him. But, verily, It (the Koran) is a warning for the God-fearing; And we well know that there are of you who treat it as a falsehood. But it shall be the despair of infidels, For it is the very truth of sure knowledge. Praise, then, the name of thy Lord, the Great. ___________…
Believers must not depart from the Prophet until they seek his leave on shared matters; God warns against disobedience, and teaches that all creation belongs to God and humans will be assembled to be judged.
Let not the Infidels think that they can weaken God on His own Earth: their dwelling place shall be the Fire! and right wretched the journey! O ye who believe! let your slaves, and those of you who have not come of age, ask leave of you, three times a day, ere they come into your presence;-before the morning prayer, and when ye lay aside your garments at mid-day, and after the evening prayer. These are your three ti…
Keynes claims Wilson countermanded the George Washington escape but then became dangerous in compromise because he remained bound by the Fourteen Points, using “web of sophistry” to justify the resulting Treaty.
born in due course by the slow gestation of the League. Clemenceau had been clever enough to let it be seen that he would swallow the League at a price. At the crisis of his fortunes the President was a lonely man. Caught up in the toils of the Old World, he stood in great need of sympathy, of moral support, of the enthusiasm of masses. But buried in the Conference, stifled in the hot and poisoned atmosphere of Pari…
In response to Caesar’s motto, Johnson argues that people willingly believe what they wish, especially by expecting more time despite evidence of death, while postponing happiness through persistent self-deception.
man, however weakened by long life, is so conscious of his own decrepitude, as not to imagine that he may yet hold his station in the world for another year. Of the truth of this remark every day furnishes new confirmation: there is no time of life, in which men for the most part seem less to expect the stroke of death, than when every other eye sees it impending; or are more busy in providing for another year, than…
The narrator concludes that practicing fraud and adopting a temporary counterfeit merit are universal human behaviors, asserting that everyone will eventually be shown as they truly are.
most intimate friends, never to venture his money in the funds, but to put it out upon land security, till he could light upon an estate in his own country." It might be expected, that upon these glimpses of latent dignity, we should all have begun to look round us with veneration; and have behaved like the princes of romance, when the enchantment that disguises them is dissolved, and they discover the dignity of ea…
Vincent claims everyone denies seeking worldly goods for pleasure and says they want them to do good, but Anthony replies that people deceive themselves about hidden motives and that persecution tests sincerity.
XIII VINCENT: Verily, good uncle, this thing is so plainly true that no man can with any good reason deny it. But I think also, uncle, that no man will do so. For I see no man who will confess, for very shame, that he desireth riches, honour, renown, and offices of authority only for his worldly pleasure. For every man would fain seem as holy as a horse. And therefore will every man say--and would it were so believ…
Leighton urges reverence for even the weakest people, since “the name of God” may be on them, and warns that men of least merit tend to contempt because of ignorance and self-overestimation.
LEIGHTON. The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul th…