King James James VI James I : (1566-1625), son of Mary Queen of Scots, became King James VI of Scotland from 1567 when his mother was forced to abdicate, only to be embroiled in successive combinations of the nobility & clergy in a complicated struggle between his mother’s Catholic party, which favoured an alliance with France, & the Protestant faction, which wished an alliance with England. His alliance with England’s Queen Elizabeth I in 1586 led to the execution of his mother which he calmly accepted. On the death of Elizabeth in 1603, he became James I, King of England, but was never as well-liked there as in Scotland. He is famous for his True Law of Free Monarchy (1598) & Basilikon Doron (1599), a treatise of the art of government.
... will easily judge when I have told you a very little of what I know of you. You are Patrick, the second son of Sir Gerald Curran who got his estate from his wife, Margaret Dacre, his baronetcy from King James and his death from Cromwell who took him prisoner at Worcester and hanged him. You were to have married Lady Alicia Nevil, when the conspiracy of which you were one of the heads as well as the hand ...
... p.m. Nowadays one may react to declarations like these with a smile, but “Ussher’s date was recognized by the Church of England in 1701, and was thereafter published in the opening margin of the King James Bible right the way through to the twentieth century. Even scientists and philosophers were happy to accept Ussher’s date well into the nineteenth century.” 7 “In the early nineteenth century ...
... lasting of the Empire for about 330 years. Disciple : Then there is still a long time? Sri Aurobindo : No, it was to be counted from the beginning of her colonies. That means from James I. In that case it should end now. Disciple : From Chamberlain's speech today it seems Britain is not obliged to side with France in case of war, – it looks like it. Sri Aurobindo : ...
... to have heard of Nostradamus, "and foretold, among other things, the execution of Charles I, the establishment of the British Empire and the lasting of the Empire for 330 years (to be counted from James I)." It so happened that Mother had seen the old Book of Nostradamus in the original form and she said that "anything could be made out of anything from it." As a rule, people notice only the prophecies ...
... the lasting of the Empire for 330 years. NIRODBARAN: Then there is a long time before it goes. SRI AUROBINDO: No. It is to be counted from the beginning of Britain's colonies. That means from James I. In that case it should end now. DR. MANILAL: Judging from Chamberlain's utterance lately, it looks as if Britain were not obliged to side with France in case of war. SRI AUROBINDO: The English ...
... Earth, and all things on it, happened not more than a few thousand years ago. The Anglican archbishop James Usher calculated that the year of creation had been -4004. Printed in the margins of the King James Bible, Usher’s chronology became quasi gospel for British and American Protestants during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is still the belief of millions of people who have been taught ...
... willing to propose Rs. 200/- per month as a good sum. It would be more than £10/- and it is surprising that he thought it was very good! But I left the negotiations to my elder brother and James Cotton. I knew nothing about life at that time. Disciple : What were the expenses in those days? Sri Aurobindo : Before the war, it was quite decent living for £5/-. Our landlady was an angel ...
... things. He said we could propose Rs.200/- per month but should accept even Rs.130/- which was then equivalent to El 0 and was quite a good sum. I left the negotiations to my eldest brother and James Cotton. I knew nothing about life at that time.' This is how Sri Aurobindo joined the Baroda State Service. The Gaekwad apparently was very pleased and went about telling people that he had got an ICS man ...
... the history of the British isles. The Stuarts were a race of born poets whom the irony of their fate insisted upon placing one after the other upon a throne; with the single exception of Charles II (James VI was a pedant, which Page 197 for practical purposes is as bad as a poet) they were all men of an imaginative temper, artistic tastes & impossible ideals, and the best of them had in a ...
... not pursuing Brown's line, but it does not seem to pay heed to the beginning of Paul's passage. Would not the folding up of a tent that we live in on earth mean the dying of the earthly body? The King James Bible says: "...if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved..." Then surely "a house built by God for us, an everlasting home... in the heavens" could suggest an after-death existence ...
... it up like a native in daily conversation. Before long he was spending much of his time reading. Almost from the start, he devoted himself to serious literature. As a ten-year-old he read the King James Bible." 12 Soon the attentive and wakeful student mastered half a dozen European languages, including Greek and Latin in which he scored highest marks ever obtained in a school examination. Not ...
... about telling people that he had got a civilian for Rs.200. It is surprising the authority was quite satisfied with Rs. 200 per month. But I left the negotiations to my eldest brother and James Cotton. I knew nothing about life at that time." ² So by January 1893 everything seemed to be settled, and Aurobindo sailed on the Carthage to join the Baroda state service. As we learn from ...
... the lack of the definite article, the natural impression from the phrase is undoubtedly that a divine agent or being is the Page 227 father of Mary's child. The Authorised King James Version, although substituting like the Jerusalem Bible as well as Brown "the" for the original "a" out of theological considerations, does justice to the natural impression of the Greek and lets... it, yet his knowledge of it and tacit dependence on it may well be surmised, as by Brown's fellow Catholic scholar Vogtle ("Offene", 46). Not only is Luke's 1:31, particularly as worded in the King James Authorised Version - "behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus" -an echo of the Isaiah-text as rendered in the same Version: "Behold, a virgin ...
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