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... Greek Article in the Revised Version . By Professor J. S. Blackie South Africa . By Sir David Wedderburn , Bart . , M.P. The Industrial Training of Pauper and Neglected Girls . By Ellice Hopkins Contemporary Life and Thought in France ...
... Greek Article in the Revised Version . By Professor J. S. Blackie South Africa . By Sir David Wedderburn , Bart . , M.P. The Industrial Training of Pauper and Neglected Girls . By Ellice Hopkins Contemporary Life and Thought in France ...
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... Greeks , whom they fancied to be the great masters of it . But they have forgot that in the best and greatest of the Greeks - in Homer , Pindar , Æschylus , and Sophocles— colour and grace of attitude are rigorously subordinated to the ...
... Greeks , whom they fancied to be the great masters of it . But they have forgot that in the best and greatest of the Greeks - in Homer , Pindar , Æschylus , and Sophocles— colour and grace of attitude are rigorously subordinated to the ...
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... Greek scholars over Italy , contributed more than anything else to the revival of materialism , called the Renaissance , and to all that came therefrom , including the Protestant Reformation , which , in Germany * at all events ...
... Greek scholars over Italy , contributed more than anything else to the revival of materialism , called the Renaissance , and to all that came therefrom , including the Protestant Reformation , which , in Germany * at all events ...
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... Greek , I need not speak . It lay outside the limits of Latin Christendom , as also did Russia , Greek too in religion and civilization , and hardly as yet accounted a European power . Such , in the brief outline which alone is possible ...
... Greek , I need not speak . It lay outside the limits of Latin Christendom , as also did Russia , Greek too in religion and civilization , and hardly as yet accounted a European power . Such , in the brief outline which alone is possible ...
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... Greeks , meant a state where men were subject only to law , and where the law was more powerful than men . " It is manifest that where the servile maxim prevailed , " Quidquid principi placuit legis habet vigorem , " liberty thus ...
... Greeks , meant a state where men were subject only to law , and where the law was more powerful than men . " It is manifest that where the servile maxim prevailed , " Quidquid principi placuit legis habet vigorem , " liberty thus ...
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Page 573 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 21 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 251 - I have loved justice and hated iniquity ; therefore, I die in exile.
Page 786 - I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there.
Page 571 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 251 - Servants of God! — or sons Shall I not call you? because Not as servants ye knew Your Father's innermost mind, His, who unwillingly sees One of his little ones lost Yours is the praise, if mankind Hath not as yet in its march Fainted, and fallen, and died!
Page 543 - They summ'd their pens ; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 762 - It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Page 31 - Listen alone beside the sea, Listen alone among the woods ; Those voices of twin solitudes Shall have one sound alike to thee : Hark where the murmurs of thronged men Surge and sink back and surge again, — Still the one voice of wave and tree.
Page 27 - King, in a death-light of thine own I saw thy shape arise. "And in full season, as erst I said, The doom had gained its growth; And the shroud had risen above thy neck And covered thine eyes and mouth.