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... from contemplating the mind of Thucydides ; who was in his prime , as he tells us , when the war broke out , 431 years before the Christian era . The Grecian communities of Asia Minor and of Italy , had a considerable start of E 2 51 ...
... from contemplating the mind of Thucydides ; who was in his prime , as he tells us , when the war broke out , 431 years before the Christian era . The Grecian communities of Asia Minor and of Italy , had a considerable start of E 2 51 ...
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Minor and of Italy , had a considerable start of Greece Proper in every element of civilization ; and with them , accordingly , philosophy and prose - composition also began at an earlier period . But although the growth of the national ...
Minor and of Italy , had a considerable start of Greece Proper in every element of civilization ; and with them , accordingly , philosophy and prose - composition also began at an earlier period . But although the growth of the national ...
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... Italy , the connexion of his followers with the Orphic priests , so called , combine to make him remarkable . We can here only notice the morality and the mythology taught in the Pythagorean schools . The most beautiful specimen extant ...
... Italy , the connexion of his followers with the Orphic priests , so called , combine to make him remarkable . We can here only notice the morality and the mythology taught in the Pythagorean schools . The most beautiful specimen extant ...
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... Italy had been persecuted and scattered in a political contest upon the triumph of democracy in their cities . The remnant of them united themselves to the Orphic associations , not , as would seem , through any close agreement of ...
... Italy had been persecuted and scattered in a political contest upon the triumph of democracy in their cities . The remnant of them united themselves to the Orphic associations , not , as would seem , through any close agreement of ...
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... Italy , the towns were supreme , and the country people were , politically , as nothing . Now the latter are the ballast of the ship of state : the Greek vessels carried too much sail , and were generally capsized . - The wise Solon ...
... Italy , the towns were supreme , and the country people were , politically , as nothing . Now the latter are the ballast of the ship of state : the Greek vessels carried too much sail , and were generally capsized . - The wise Solon ...
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Page 129 - Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Page 438 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 331 - And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Page 124 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 126 - Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Page 510 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Page 438 - Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here who shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Page 124 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 546 - And, pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own.
Page 444 - But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.