The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...H.W. Hagemann Publishing Company, 1894 - 896 páginas |
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... Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs , by ...
... Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs , by ...
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... considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The History of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the most terrible sanctions , and the strangely fascinating desire of having some visible and ...
... considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The History of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the most terrible sanctions , and the strangely fascinating desire of having some visible and ...
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... considered only as a beacon to word- catchers , who wish to become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the " Æneæ magni dextra , " gives it all its fame with the present generation . In that age the state of things was ...
... considered only as a beacon to word- catchers , who wish to become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the " Æneæ magni dextra , " gives it all its fame with the present generation . In that age the state of things was ...
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... considered , he will not lose by comparison with Washington or Bolivar . Had his moderation been met with corresponding moderation , there is no reason to think that he would have over- stepped the line which he had traced for him- self ...
... considered , he will not lose by comparison with Washington or Bolivar . Had his moderation been met with corresponding moderation , there is no reason to think that he would have over- stepped the line which he had traced for him- self ...
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... considered necessary that reasons should be forced by law or opinion , has been the servil- given , either by one person to others , or by ity of mankind towards the supposed prefer- each to himself . People are accustomed to ences or ...
... considered necessary that reasons should be forced by law or opinion , has been the servil- given , either by one person to others , or by ity of mankind towards the supposed prefer- each to himself . People are accustomed to ences or ...
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able Alexander Humboldt Antiphanes Athens beautiful better body born cause character child Cicero conduct culture death deeds Demosthenes desire Diphilus earth Euripides everything evil exercise eyes father favor fear feel fortune give glory gods Goethe Greek habit hand happy hath heart heaven honor human idea intel intellectual Jove kind king knowledge labor language less liberty live Lord Macedon mankind marriage means Menander ment mental Milton mind moral nature ness never noble opinion Paradise Lost parents perfect person Pindar Plato pleasure poet possess produce Proverbs Psalms Publius Syrus pursuits reason rich Sainte-Beuve says Shakespeare society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit thee Theocritus things thou art thought tion true truth unto virtue whole wicked wisdom wise words write youth
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Página 363 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Página 438 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Página 480 - To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.
Página 382 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Página 495 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 477 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 366 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 340 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 429 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 333 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.