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... esteemed the happiest of mankind , prompted his enquiry . Solon proved by his reply , his attachment to truth , and abhorrence of flat- in a variety of compositions ancient and modern . See Juvenal , Sat. x . verse 273 * . See Ausonius ...
... esteemed the happiest of mankind , prompted his enquiry . Solon proved by his reply , his attachment to truth , and abhorrence of flat- in a variety of compositions ancient and modern . See Juvenal , Sat. x . verse 273 * . See Ausonius ...
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... found to be an obscure countryman , who employed all his time in cultivating a garden and a few acres of land about his house . " - Spectator , No. 610 . VOL . I. I esteemed most happy ; not doubting but the answer would CLIO . 65.
... found to be an obscure countryman , who employed all his time in cultivating a garden and a few acres of land about his house . " - Spectator , No. 610 . VOL . I. I esteemed most happy ; not doubting but the answer would CLIO . 65.
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Herodotus. esteemed most happy ; not doubting but the answer would now be favourable to himself . " Cleobis and Bito , " replied Solon : " they were Argives by birth , fortunate in their circumstances , and so remarkable for their bodily ...
Herodotus. esteemed most happy ; not doubting but the answer would now be favourable to himself . " Cleobis and Bito , " replied Solon : " they were Argives by birth , fortunate in their circumstances , and so remarkable for their bodily ...
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... esteemed , in our nation , both excellent and honourable to seek renown in war , or in the hunting of wild beasts ; but you now deprive me of both those opportunities of signalizing myself , without having reason to accuse me either of ...
... esteemed , in our nation , both excellent and honourable to seek renown in war , or in the hunting of wild beasts ; but you now deprive me of both those opportunities of signalizing myself , without having reason to accuse me either of ...
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Herodotus. CXXXVI . Next to valour in the field , a man is esteemed in proportion to the number of his off- spring 176 ; to him who has the greater number of chil- dren , the king sends presents every year ; their national Ille etiam ...
Herodotus. CXXXVI . Next to valour in the field , a man is esteemed in proportion to the number of his off- spring 176 ; to him who has the greater number of chil- dren , the king sends presents every year ; their national Ille etiam ...
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Page 238 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 67 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Page 181 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 326 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Page 234 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 328 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 387 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 131 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood...
Page 68 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 403 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria, And the fourth river is Euphrates.