Proceedings, Volumes 22-24

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Rules and list of members included in each volume.

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Page 39 - For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 7 - De te pendentis, te respicientis amici. 105 Ad summam : sapiens uno minor est Jove, dives, Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, Praecipue sanus, nisi cum pituita molesta est. EPISTOLA II. TROJANI belli scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi, Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Planius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Page 36 - ... that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall ; that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Page 62 - ... 12. The Election of the Officers and Council at the General Meeting shall be by a majority of the votes of those present...
Page 190 - A series of Greek and Latin Texts, with English Translations on the opposite page. The series is to contain all that is best in Greek and Latin Literature, from the time of Homer to the end of the Western Empire. 'We shall never be independent of our Loeb.
Page 36 - Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves...
Page 27 - A gluttonous race of Jutes and Angles, capable of no grand combinations, lumbering about in pot-bellied equanimity ; not dreaming of heroic toil, and silence and endurance, such as leads to the higher places of this universe and the golden mountain-tops where dwell the Spirits of the Dawn." Only a few short centuries before the age of Pericles, only a few short centuries after the fall of Troy, there was but a settlement of shepherds on the Palatine Hill. Yet within a thousand years the tramp of...
Page 61 - Council, provided not more than one of the three present be a permanent officer of the Society, shall be a quorum.
Page 52 - Biathanatos, a Declaration of that Paradox, or Thesis, that Self-homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwise.
Page 73 - Council. 9. The President shall be elected for one year, and shall not be eligible for re-election until after the lapse of five years. 10. The "Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer, and the Secretaries shall be elected for one year, but shall be eligible for re-election.

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