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... probably , as has been said above , between the sixth and twelfth centuries ) represents the opinions of a large number of Rabbis , all of whom 1 The words of the Fragment as they stand are " Et sapientia ab amicis in honorem ipsius ...
... probably , as has been said above , between the sixth and twelfth centuries ) represents the opinions of a large number of Rabbis , all of whom 1 The words of the Fragment as they stand are " Et sapientia ab amicis in honorem ipsius ...
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... probably from the Library of Ptolemy Euergetes , king of Egypt . " He goes on to point to the Book of Proverbs as having been composed in the same way , the maxims which came from the king's lips having been taken down and edited by ...
... probably from the Library of Ptolemy Euergetes , king of Egypt . " He goes on to point to the Book of Proverbs as having been composed in the same way , the maxims which came from the king's lips having been taken down and edited by ...
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... probably not long before , or possibly after , the Christian era . If the book Ecclesiastes were , at the time when that author , wrote , generally recognized as having the authority which attached to the name of Solomon , there would ...
... probably not long before , or possibly after , the Christian era . If the book Ecclesiastes were , at the time when that author , wrote , generally recognized as having the authority which attached to the name of Solomon , there would ...
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... probably Shakespeare's own experience , of his Sonnets , yet more in the Childe Harold of Byron , in the " Palace of Art " and the " Vision of Sin , " of Tennyson , we have types of the temper of meditative scorn and unsatisfied desire ...
... probably Shakespeare's own experience , of his Sonnets , yet more in the Childe Harold of Byron , in the " Palace of Art " and the " Vision of Sin , " of Tennyson , we have types of the temper of meditative scorn and unsatisfied desire ...
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... probably because he had already done so in the Prologue , and had fixed the time when he had come under his power . He does not name the nature of the charge , but the Apologia that follows ( Ecclus . li . 13—30 ) seems to imply that in ...
... probably because he had already done so in the Prologue , and had fixed the time when he had come under his power . He does not name the nature of the charge , but the Apologia that follows ( Ecclus . li . 13—30 ) seems to imply that in ...
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Page 189 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 185 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 76 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 246 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 138 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 185 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 211 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 43 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still. The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 248 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 220 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.