I gently open the ancient cover of the little volume. Terra pacis. A true testification of the spiritual Lande of Peace; which is the spirituall Lande of Promyse, and the holy Citee of Peace or the heavenly Ierusalem; and of the Holy and spirituall People that dwell therein; as also of the Walking in the Spirit, which leadeth therunto. Set-foorth by HN: and by Him newly perused and more-playnly declared. Translated out of Base-almayne 拙译： 我轻轻展开小书古老的封面。《清平世界》。真实见证神圣之"清平世界"，吾侪之精神乐土。真实见证神圣之"清平之都"及天堂耶鲁撒冷。见证神圣崇高之彼岸居民及其引路人"灵魂之足"。HN最新浅白释义。*-译自Base-almayne。
long tim no see. One of the most widely used of all catch phrases, long time no see came into the language from pidgen English(q.v.),/i>, brought home from the Far East by U.S. and Britsh sailors in the early 1900s along with other expressions such as chop chop for "hurry" and no can do(qq.v.). Long time no see is said ot be a direct translation into pidgen of the Chinesed expression ch'ang chih mei, meaning the same.
no can do; can do. The negative phrase, and its opposite, are not contemporary expressions , as many people believe. They date back about a century and a half to England, where they probably originated in the Royal Navy. 瞎猜：这句很可能来自粤语的“冇得倾”（“倾”犹“商量”、“讨论”，整句即“不行”，“办不到”�*
Source: The Facts on File Encyclopeadia of Word and Phrase Origins, by Robert Hendrickson
long tim no see. One of the most widely used of all catch phrases, long time no see came into the language from pidgen English(q.v.),/i>, brought home from the Far East by U.S. and Britsh sailors in the early 1900s along with other expressions such as chop chop for "hurry" and no can do(qq.v.). Long time no see is said ot be a direct translation into pidgen of the Chinesed expression ch'ang chih mei, meaning the same.
no can do; can do. The negative phrase, and its opposite, are not contemporary expressions , as many people believe. They date back about a century and a half to England, where they probably originated in the Royal Navy. 瞎猜：这句很可能来自粤语的“冇得倾”（“倾”犹“商量”、“讨论”，整句即“不行”，“办不到”�*
long tim no see. One of the most widely used of all catch phrases, long time no see came into the language from pidgen English(q.v.),, brought home from the Far East by U.S. and Britsh sailors in the early 1900s along with other expressions such as chop chop for "hurry" and no can do(qq.v.). Long time no see is said ot be a direct translation into pidgen of the Chinesed expression ch'ang chih mei, meaning the same.
no can do; can do. The negative phrase, and its opposite, are not contemporary expressions , as many people believe. They date back about a century and a half to England, where they probably originated in the Royal Navy. 瞎猜：这句很可能来自粤语的“冇得倾”（“倾”犹“商量”、“讨论”，整句即“不行”，“办不到”�*
我认为，这里的“spirituall”“ Lande”“Promyse”“ Citee”“leadeth”...全是古英语, not sure, for your reference.
作者：Cheyenne - 2000/08/15 23:44:30
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FYR also, from Yahoo: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Benet/young-adventurer ...Before the day was born, He took the Almayne Kaiser's head To be his... ...the last lees must be drained up, Base wine from an ignoble cup; (Yet not...
The British Library's English edition is undated, but from the style it must have been published not too long after Plantin's Low German original. I slowly turn over the packed, irregular pages. It's a kind of novel--the story of the pilgrim's painful journey out of this sinful world, which it identifies as "the North Country", or "the Country of Ignorance," to the New Jerusalem, the promised land of the soul's peace. The journey is entirely on foot, and the laboriousness of the travel is brought out by the archaic spelling of the word. "For as long as one is in the Journey, he must accout of him self, as a Pilgrim or Walker in strainge Landes...This great unpathed Lande that he travaileth thorow is named Many-maner-of-walkings because the Travaillers do travaille and passe from all Quarters thorow the same Lande to that one good Lande of Rest..." 拙译： 英国图书馆这本英文版是没写日期的，但从其风格可以肯定是在Plantin那本低地德语原版面世后不久出版。书的内页压得很紧而且不整齐。我慢慢翻了起来。书与长篇小说相类似，讲述朝圣者逃出称为"北国"或"无知之国"的罪恶世界，前往灵魂得以安息的乐土新耶路撒冷的痛苦历程。全程均徒步行走。旅行的艰辛由"蹇"这个古字一语带出。"途中旅者必自视为'朝圣者'或'奇地行者'……旅者蹇步之地，大而无路，谓"徒步百法"，盖旅者必蹇越各隅方可抵"安息国"……"
Founder of an important printing house and publisher of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. (from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Tielemans/hp149.htm)
一篇文章，只能代表一家之言，不足以盖棺定论，尤其是对影响了中国历史进程的“太平天国”运动。正如“知之甚少”不给人以充分理由骤下结论那样。本文有多少历史事实，又有多少道听途说，有几分诚实，又有多少偏见？这些都有待商榷。我对历史很无知，但看了一边倒的文章，会天然地对作者失去几分信任。该如何定义“太平天国”，I keep an open mind.
不清楚鲁迅是否讲过历史是吃人的话，只记得他说过旧礼教吃人之类的话。虽然鲁迅对中国传统文化持批判态度，但也并不是全盘否定，尤其是对西方文明还是很推崇的。读过《野草》中的“复仇（2）”篇，则很难把“宗教是麻痹人类的鸦片”与鲁迅相联系，尽管他是从人文的角度来理解耶酥的。（那句话源自马克思：Religion is opium of the people，我故意开了个玩笑，请谅）
至于“天国的运数”，不知文情弟（我是从不善于称兄道弟的，既然跟隐士开了先例，再认一位老弟也不妨，跟从感觉，不一定同真实年龄符合。下不为例:)）听说过这么一句话没有：In the beginning is the end. 从某种程度上讲，对于处于时间中的人事，一开始就已意味着终结，包括你我的生命。这是万物的悲哀，亦是其辉煌。当然这是一个复杂的哲学与宗教问题。这里不宜深谈。
如果从宗教的角度看，洪氏假借天父之名达个人政治野心，比“挟天子以令诸侯”还要大逆不道。但从革命或政治的角度出发，All's fair in love and war，他假天父以建天国的做法也可以理解了。无论如何，太平天国毕竟影响了中国的历史，今天还在影响着我们的思维。如果其开创者真的如潘文所说，一无是处，那可真的是可悲可叹也！
引一句Mahler供参考：There are no great men without some goodnes.