If only my
malediction is needed for that, I bestow it upon him!
I have not enumerated half the vexatious propensities of my pupils, or half the troubles resulting from my heavy responsibilities, for fear of trespassing too much upon the reader's patience; as, perhaps, I have already done; but my design in writing the few last pages was not to amuse, but to benefit those whom it might concern; he that has no interest in such matters will doubtless have skipped them over with a cursory glance, and, perhaps, a
malediction against the prolixity of the writer; but if a parent has, therefrom, gathered any useful hint, or an unfortunate governess received thereby the slightest benefit, I am well rewarded for my pains.
This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the
malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this
Together with the four beatitudes, Luke enumerates four 'woes' that are not to be understood as
maledictions or curses but as warnings.
Unfortunately, Pakistan is among 7th most affected countries being affected by global warming and climate
maledictions as highlighted by incumbent premier, Imran Khan while addressing students.
In an essay on translation, titled "On Translating and Being Translated," Levi claims: "Linguistic friction tends to become racial and political resistance, another of our
maledictions. It should follow that whoever practices the trade of translator or interpreter should be honored, insofar as he labors to limit the damage of Babel's curse; but this doesn't usually happen because translating is difficult work." Primo Levi himself was a translator and had a very troubling experience translating into Italian Jacob Presser's 1962 novella, De Nacht der Girondijnen, and Franz Kafka's The Trial.
Elle se contentera de l'accabler de
maledictions. Une telle posture, faite de pudeur a l'heure ou des milliers de jeunes filles, lyceennes etudiantes ou employees, empoignent leurs sacs pour aller rejoindre leurs lieux de travail, les campus, ferait presque sourire.
En revanche, le rite sacrificiel zurki intervient clairement en contexte de purification: le rituel de gamuha fait allusion a des
maledictions et autres omauvaises paroleso et pane de orite sacrificiel zurki du dupfahi" de la malediction[much greater than].
La bonte de la mort est mise en evidence aussi par le caractere intentionnel des "souhaits" contenus par les
maledictions. Certes, il existe une grande variete de
maledictions qui evoquent la mort, la disparition de la personne objet de la haine--mais ici il s'agit de la mort prematuree.
Certes, vous pouvez vous defendre par l'evidence meme, en trouvant, avec d'autres, que je vous fais un mauvais proces en vous rendant responsable de l'oisivete, du chomage et de la decheance si propice a la delinquance,
maledictions qui, reunies - tragique deveine!
Such familial cursing and blessing offer a secular parallel to the ecclesiastical
maledictions and benedictions in Doctor Faustus.
Both chapter 5, "Impure, Sickly Bodies," and chapter 6, "Signs of the Beast: Animal Metaphors as
Maledictions of Resistance and Oppression," expose how Islamic and Jewish polemic deployed the Othering strategies of Christian polemic "as a way of signaling Christians' dangerous and undesirable nature" (196).
