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... seems formed , in a of the peo- great measure , from local circumstances . Extreme ple . simplicity of dress and manners prevail : the women use no artificial decorations , trusting only to what na- ture has bestowed . The people are ...
... seems formed , in a of the peo- great measure , from local circumstances . Extreme ple . simplicity of dress and manners prevail : the women use no artificial decorations , trusting only to what na- ture has bestowed . The people are ...
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... seems , ever thought of resisting such a mandate ; so formidable was the tyrant's resentment . But the philosopher resolved to give him a strong hint ; for arming himself with a naked sword , and slipping in- to the chair instead of the ...
... seems , ever thought of resisting such a mandate ; so formidable was the tyrant's resentment . But the philosopher resolved to give him a strong hint ; for arming himself with a naked sword , and slipping in- to the chair instead of the ...
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... seems to have been invested with some authority over his native country ; for , on his arrival , he took an active part in the government of Tarsus : he reformed abuses , expelled one Boetus and his partizans , introduced a new code of ...
... seems to have been invested with some authority over his native country ; for , on his arrival , he took an active part in the government of Tarsus : he reformed abuses , expelled one Boetus and his partizans , introduced a new code of ...
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... seems anxiously to have studied to provide a balance against that extreme power of the popular assembly , which he granted less perhaps from his own inclination , than from finding them al- ready the predominant order , possessing both ...
... seems anxiously to have studied to provide a balance against that extreme power of the popular assembly , which he granted less perhaps from his own inclination , than from finding them al- ready the predominant order , possessing both ...
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... seems not to have been great , nor do we find their name often mentioned in the course of Athenian history . When any law had been digested in the senate , a programma , or statement of its nature , was posted up in some public ...
... seems not to have been great , nor do we find their name often mentioned in the course of Athenian history . When any law had been digested in the senate , a programma , or statement of its nature , was posted up in some public ...
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165 ページ - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
165 ページ - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
101 ページ - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
168 ページ - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
168 ページ - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there : and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures : and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
58 ページ - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
66 ページ - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest...
181 ページ - His principal fault seems to have been the excess of that virtue which covers a multitude of faults. This betrayed him to so great an indulgence towards his servants who made a corrupt use of it, that it stripped him of all those riches and honours which a long series of merits had heaped upon him.
165 ページ - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Birth of LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the Abram earth.
337 ページ - ... that they frequently eat their own relations when aged and infirm, and that, not so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, " The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it...