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... Greek quotation we cannot but think was in very bad taste , to say no worse of it ; we will not disturb it by any further remark . The conclusion of this speech is the only part of it which shall draw from us any additional comment ...
... Greek quotation we cannot but think was in very bad taste , to say no worse of it ; we will not disturb it by any further remark . The conclusion of this speech is the only part of it which shall draw from us any additional comment ...
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... Greek language , -that we cannot obtain a faith- ful portraiture of the manners and habits of the Greeks , but through their scenic representations , and that of these we can obtain no satisfactory information without much intercourse ...
... Greek language , -that we cannot obtain a faith- ful portraiture of the manners and habits of the Greeks , but through their scenic representations , and that of these we can obtain no satisfactory information without much intercourse ...
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... Greek , will be enabled to supply the lacunce , which are thus brought under their observation , and which would not perhaps otherwise have invited their attention . The difficulties , however , of this authorare , in general , so truly ...
... Greek , will be enabled to supply the lacunce , which are thus brought under their observation , and which would not perhaps otherwise have invited their attention . The difficulties , however , of this authorare , in general , so truly ...
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... Greek comedy , we must be allowed to remark that more than two centuries had now elapsed , during which the tragic exhibitions from their first dithyrambic origin having successively passed through the hands of Thespis , Phrynicus , and ...
... Greek comedy , we must be allowed to remark that more than two centuries had now elapsed , during which the tragic exhibitions from their first dithyrambic origin having successively passed through the hands of Thespis , Phrynicus , and ...
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... Greek drama . Mr. Mitchell deserts his poet in neither of these conflicts . It seems that Aristophanes is to be saved harmless , no matter at whose expense . If Socrates or Euripides stand in the way of his full and perfect commend ...
... Greek drama . Mr. Mitchell deserts his poet in neither of these conflicts . It seems that Aristophanes is to be saved harmless , no matter at whose expense . If Socrates or Euripides stand in the way of his full and perfect commend ...
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Página 436 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Página 435 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Página 245 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Página 382 - The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring.
Página 146 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Página 185 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Página 387 - Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me — 'tis substantial, heavy, thick ; I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life ! My God ! I never knew what the mad felt Before ; for I am mad beyond all doubt ! [Afore wildly.
Página 185 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Página 499 - Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ? Sovereign. I solemnly promise so to do.
Página 211 - ... it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.