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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plot is of a rather more substantial character than that of most light operas. Don Manuel, the young and handsome Alcayde of Seville, is desperately in love with Farina, an orphan maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when...
Buddha himself had a marvellous birth. At the age of thirty he retired from the world and finally attained illumination. Then he went about preaching until his death at the age of eighty. The Bo-tree temple and the stufas are great memorials with sculptures commemorating his life and teachings...
...Buddha Legend.- Buddha as a sun-myth.- No "Life of Gotama." - "The Light of Asia."- Historical basis of the tradition.- The Bodhisat. Gotama's birth and youth.- His names.- Retirement from the world.- Attainment of illumination.- Life-work.- Death...
...Clarkson, W. S. Leaflet, Vol. No. 6, p. 4.- (4) Brothel keepers would not allow their inmates to register.- (x) Registration would furnish evidence as to the character of the houses without the necessity of a raid.- (e) The objection that honest women, because ignorant or of foreign birth, would vote detrimentally to municipal interests, fails.- (1) The strongest instinct in every woman is the protection of her children from evil.- (2) This instinct may be trusted to vote.- (x) in the interests of the family, for good public education, improved sanitary conditions, the reduction to a minimum of evils...
...speaker began by tracing the outline of the important circumstances in the life of Charles Lamb, who was the subject of the discourse. He was born in the Temple in the year 1775, and the family remained there for seven years after his birth. He was sent to Christ's Hospital, the blue-coat school, but not to the university; and in 1800 Lamb and his sister began their "dual loneliness" in the Temple. This lasted until 1817, when they took up their residence in Great Russell Street at the corner of Bow Street in a house which stood...