How To Use Borgia In A Sentence
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Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, did not graft any of the apples he brought with him on his treks westward from New England, because his Swedenborgian Church viewed grafting exactly as many religions today view genetic engineering: only God could create an apple.
Beyond the McIntosh
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Fancy a woman of superlative beauty, of the highest courage and calmness, a woman of many resources, of genius, brought up by a petty princelet of a father, upon Tacitus and Sallust, and the tales of the great Malatestas, of Caesar Borgia and such-like!
Hauntings
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'Yes, yes -- I forgot the horrid name -- a Swedenborgian, that is it.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
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A passenger from South Korea walks with Italian firefighters after being rescued from the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia which ran aground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP
Couple rescued from submerged ship Costa Concordia
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He was a Swedenborgian mystic and freelance theologian, as interested in psychic phenomena as radical egalitarian politics.
William James, part 1: A religious man for our times
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Friday, the 25th, on behalf of the victims of the war, the fifth act of "Hernani" by the actors of the Théâtre Français and the last act of "Lucrece Borgia" by the actors of the Porte Saint Martin, and in addition the recitation as an intermede of extracts from _Les
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.
The Borgias: Grace Dent's TV OD
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Page 28 of the Codex Borgia is, in effect, one page in an almanac produced by astronomer-calculators to suit a particular time and place of celestial observation.
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My friend Rafael Sabatini, than whom no man living has dug deeper into Borgia history, explains the calumniation of Lucretia in this fashion: Adultery and promiscuous intercourse were the fashion in Rome at the time of Alexander VI.
She Stands Accused
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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Is there still time before Tuesday for a look at the Swedenborgian vote?
RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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The writers paid by the party antagonistic to the Borgia growth in power therefore slung the more scurrile accusation.
She Stands Accused
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The 1893 World Parliament of Religions was suggested by a Swedenborgian lawyer (Chryssides, 1998: 75), and was co-organised by the Free Religious Association, founded in 1867 by a group of Unitarians who affirmed that a universal spirit underlay all historic faiths (Hill, undated: 16).
The Rammohun Roy connection
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She wasn't a Christian or Jew or any of the major religions, and spoke about that--but she's also sometimes associated with Swedenborgian beliefs, so maybe it's just a case where everybody wants to claim Helen Keller.
Disability and Freethinking
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In the place where the breach was opened by his cannon he ordered the placing of a marble panel bearing his arms; and there it is to be seen to this day: Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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Cyberspace must thereby be understood as an intersubjective construction of cyborgian selves.
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I thought of Lucrezia Borgia's "Brindisi"; but that instantly went out of my mind.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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Cesare's claims of provocation weren't disputed; nobody quarrelled with Cesare Borgia at the height of his power.
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One little sip of this antidote would have rendered the most virulent poisons of the Borgias innocuous.
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Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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He was going around to park the car and there she was, strolling along right in front of the Swedenborgian Church.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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Cesare Borgia, the son of the pope Ezio kills near the end of ACII, is laying siege.
Kotaku
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I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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He was clad in mail and leather, and from his lance fluttered the bannerol bearing the Borgia arms, which had announced his quality to
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
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At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest.
What Happened to the Baby?
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On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
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The year 1965 was a watershed: she replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
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The new film deals with the infamous Borgia family which produced no less than two saintly Popes in Italy during the 14th and 15th century.
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Cardinal Borgia had been vice-chancellor, or papal lawyer, for several Popes.
THE FAMILY
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Buffalo Bill used a Springfield which he called Lucretia Borgia, and he preferred firing from horseback.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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Machiavelli admired Borgia for enforcing the summary punishment of evildoing without incurring the hatred of his subjects.
Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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I had to find titles, in English first editions usually, that would have been in the libraries of the great European satraps and plenipotentiaries like the Sforzas or the Borgias.
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Eminence with him; and his conversation was a kind of Borgia Brocade shot with Machiavelism.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Its family is Solanaceae which has, like the Borgias, many toxic members, such as belladonna and black henbane, more suitable for a witches brew than a chef's.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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His mother was a Swedenborgian six years older than her husband.
Robert Frost
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When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed.
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When Servetus wrote Christianity Restored he sought to expose a corruption, as he saw it, far deeper and more endemic than the concupiscence of a Borgia Pope.
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Once back in New York and then in Albany, where he moved for two years, the victim of the vastation began to correspond with other Swedenborgians, calling his next son, born in 1845, Garth Wilkinson after one of the most enthusiastic of them.
The Admirable Mrs. James
