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... ancient republics are the study of our statesmen and orators . The dead languages in which their literature is buried consume the best years of our choicest youth . An acquaintance with their poetry , philosophy , archi- tecture , and ...
... ancient republics are the study of our statesmen and orators . The dead languages in which their literature is buried consume the best years of our choicest youth . An acquaintance with their poetry , philosophy , archi- tecture , and ...
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... ancients , and because intellectual education was carried at Athens to a perfection which has been seldom equalled One of the first things that strikes the inquirer into the practical education of the Greeks is the commanding position ...
... ancients , and because intellectual education was carried at Athens to a perfection which has been seldom equalled One of the first things that strikes the inquirer into the practical education of the Greeks is the commanding position ...
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... ancients was peculiar , and the estimation in which the art was held , may be seen in the dif- ferent senses in which the word was used , and in the promi- nence which was given to it in education . According to Plato , education ...
... ancients was peculiar , and the estimation in which the art was held , may be seen in the dif- ferent senses in which the word was used , and in the promi- nence which was given to it in education . According to Plato , education ...
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... ancient philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to ...
... ancient philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to ...
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... ancient discipline as old fashioned , vulgar , and contemptible , while the lover of the good old ways in reply institutes a comparison between the two . " Thus summoned I prepare myself to speak Of manners primitive , and that good ...
... ancient discipline as old fashioned , vulgar , and contemptible , while the lover of the good old ways in reply institutes a comparison between the two . " Thus summoned I prepare myself to speak Of manners primitive , and that good ...
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Page 463 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Page 127 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 471 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 135 - The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Page 2 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword : and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 472 - And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces and worshipped God, saying, Amen, blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen.
Page 136 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Page 471 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 51 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Page 1 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.