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alexandrian
1. “This separation took place in the first half of the 6th century (AD 500+)…About 560, a Monophysite, Askusnages…a noted Alexandrian philosopher…conceived the idea of styling the three persons of the Deity (as) three Gods
2. includes the beautiful story of the Alexandrian monks, showing that there is
3. 1 DURING the Alexandrian sojourn of Jesus, Gonod, and Ganid, the young man spent much of his time and no small sum of his father's money making a collection of the teachings of the world's religions about God and his relations with mortal man
4. 1 Only recently had the manuscripts of this Far-Eastern religion been lodged in the Alexandrian library
5. 1 They shortly arrived at the olden center of Greek science and learning, and Ganid was thrilled with the thought of being in Athens, of being in Greece, the cultural center of the onetime Alexandrian empire, which had extended its borders even to his own land of India
6. THE ALEXANDRIAN APPEARANCE
7. salvation according to the Alexandrian alchemist
8. Warm like the peoples it nurtures on its shores, vivid blue in colour with the characteristic large, foamy-white Alexandrian waves lapping energetically the sand, sending us a humid, cool breeze that made me go into the room for a jumper
9. The rabbinic schools of Palestine presented a phase of thought the very opposite of that of the Alexandrian writer
10. She 'showed her treasures to the ambassadors from Babylon,’ and learned their speech; she 'went down to Egypt for help,’ and 'leaned not on the Lord of Hosts;’ she 'trafficked with Javan,’ and 'committed fornication with Tyre and Sidon;’ she received her doctrine from the ascetic heathenism of the Athenian and Alexandrian philosophies, rather than from the 'unlearned’ but inspired apostles of the Incarnate Word
11. In this case, not half a dozen, but the whole body of Jewish converts from Pharisaic teaching, the Oriental luminaries, and the entire army of Greek converts from the Alexandrian and Athenian philosophies, supported on all sides the hell-passion of such a man as Tertullian whose devoutly ferocious disposition offered a fitting engine for the fresh propagation of the dogma in the Latin-speaking world
12. Ptolemy House proved to be an unremarkable squared-off building near the Alexandrian University
13. Instead, when he emerged from the long hallway into the glaring Alexandrian morning, he found the class clustered in the shade of a taller building, while Wolfe and the High Garda soldier consulted a timepiece
14. In that one message, his father had ordered him to search for a particular book, and to deliver it to contacts in the Alexandrian smuggling trade … and by using a quotation by Descartes, he’d indicated how urgent the acquisition was
15. Portero idly stared out the window as the wide, clean Alexandrian streets rolled by
16. As Alexandrian custom dictated, Wolfe touched his fingers first to the small inset statue of the household god Bes on one side of the doorway, and then to the goddess Beset on the other
17. Jess took in a deep breath of the tainted air and walked down the hallway, out into the bright Alexandrian sun
18. The Alexandrian Serapeum’s gigantic pyramid rose up in clean angles beyond that, blurred by distance, and Jess slowed his run just a step or two to check the map
19. Despite all the differences – the gleaming pyramid, the rising Alexandrian sun, the clean, orderly city laid out beneath with its flat roofs and statues of lost gods – Jess felt he was back in grey London, stalked by lions
20. The Alexandrian Express was a special train, one that used technology only the Library possessed; it was fast as lightning, and ran on special rails that only the Express could use
21. They rounded the corner, and there sat the Alexandrian Express
22. If the Alexandrian Express hadn’t been the best, most advanced piece of machinery in the world, built to carry no less than the Archivist Magister, they likely would have all been dead
23. The Iron Tower was just a dark shadow out there, but the Alexandrian Serapeum stood out brilliantly, washed by colourful lights on all sides
24. These were sphinxes, again, the same as lounged on the sides of the Alexandrian Serapeum
