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Page 29 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 27 - Abbott.— HELLENICA. A Collection of Essays on Greek Poetry, Philosophy, History, and Religion.
Page 5 - That he was ay biforn and in good state. Now is not that of God a ful fair grace, That such a lewed mannes wit schal pace The wisdom of an heep of lernede men?
Page 36 - Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 32 - WAY OF LIFE : A Book of Prayers and Instruction for the Young at School, with a Preparation for Confirmation. Compiled by a Priest, i8mo.
Page 9 - A Short History of the English People." ROME. By the Rev. M. CREIGHTON, MA, late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. With Eleven Maps. iSmo. is. "The author has been curiously successful in telling in an intelligent way the story of Rome from first to last"— SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.
Page 27 - Edited by John Edwin Sandys, MA, Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, Classical Lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge. Persii Satirae. Edited by A. Pretor, MA, Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, Classical Lecturer of Trinity Hall. 3*.
Page 28 - AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS. Books I. -IV. (Book X., c. vi.-ix. in an Appendix.) With a continuous Analysis and Notes.
Page 38 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving...
Page 45 - The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence...

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