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... Isocrates was composing " his Panegyric . " A wonderful parallel in- deed between the conqueror of the world 1 Timæus was a Sicilian historian . Cicero has sketched a short character of him in his Orator , l . 2. c . 14. which agrees ...
... Isocrates was composing " his Panegyric . " A wonderful parallel in- deed between the conqueror of the world 1 Timæus was a Sicilian historian . Cicero has sketched a short character of him in his Orator , l . 2. c . 14. which agrees ...
Page 49
... Isocrates , in expedition ; for they spent thirty years in the siege of Messene , he only ten in writing that Pane- gyric . But how does he inveigh against those Athenians who were made prisoners after the defeat in Sicily . " Guilty ...
... Isocrates , in expedition ; for they spent thirty years in the siege of Messene , he only ten in writing that Pane- gyric . But how does he inveigh against those Athenians who were made prisoners after the defeat in Sicily . " Guilty ...
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... Isocrates , and insert the Copulatives in this passage , wherever they may seem requisite . " Nor indeed is one " observation to be omitted , that he who " commits violence on another , may do many " things , & c . first in his gesture ...
... Isocrates , and insert the Copulatives in this passage , wherever they may seem requisite . " Nor indeed is one " observation to be omitted , that he who " commits violence on another , may do many " things , & c . first in his gesture ...
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... Isocrates , which after ten , or , as some say , fifteen years labour spent upon it , begins in so indiscreet a manner , Longinus , Sect . iii . has censured Timæus , for a frigid parallel between the expedition of Alexander and Iso- crates ...
... Isocrates , which after ten , or , as some say , fifteen years labour spent upon it , begins in so indiscreet a manner , Longinus , Sect . iii . has censured Timæus , for a frigid parallel between the expedition of Alexander and Iso- crates ...
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... Isocrates . His genius was too hot and impetuous , which was the occasion of a remark of his master Isocrates , that " Ephorus always wanted a spur , but Theopompus a " curb , " : " quantity " quantity of wrought silver and gold , cups ...
... Isocrates . His genius was too hot and impetuous , which was the occasion of a remark of his master Isocrates , that " Ephorus always wanted a spur , but Theopompus a " curb , " : " quantity " quantity of wrought silver and gold , cups ...
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Page 127 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 40 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 96 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 67 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Page 92 - I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 114 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Page 116 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 167 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 138 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 90 - These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.