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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him an

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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him an

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to

By Alexandr Radayev
“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum

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“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum

“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum. The literary evening was presided over by two Futurists: David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky (...) To scandalise the bourgeois, the Futurists pulled off the following trick: David Burliuk was proclaimed the father of Russian Futurism, and Vasily

By Alexandr Radayev
A Teacher and His Students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian Theologian Augustinus of Ancona

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A Teacher and His Students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian Theologian Augustinus of Ancona

A teacher and his students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian theologian Augustinus of Ancona. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that the tables with benches in this illustration of the fifteenth century bear a suspicious resemblance to the celebrated Erismann desks, invented

By Alexandr Radayev
In the ancient Indian collection of moral instruction, the "Panchatantra", there is a tale of a man who, fleeing a mad camel, leaps into a well where a dragon lies in wait; it turns out that the stones on which he might set his foot are guarded by snakes;

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In the ancient Indian collection of moral instruction, the "Panchatantra", there is a tale of a man who, fleeing a mad camel, leaps into a well where a dragon lies in wait; it turns out that the stones on which he might set his foot are guarded by snakes;

The moral of the parable is that the pulse of life is felt precisely at the moment when a man is escaping certain death and discovers beneath him an infernal abyss, when every element of existence undermines the footing beneath his feet, and the time by which he might cling

By Alexandr Radayev
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