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Page 2 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 6 - Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, and Greene's Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.
Page 87 - It is the philosopher in the hay-field ; the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.
Page 167 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Page 7 - Pope. With Introduction and Notes. By Mark Pattison> BD, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. I. Essay on Man. Sixth Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. stiffcovers, w. 6d. II. Satires and Epistles. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. stiff 'covers, as.
Page 58 - The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey.
Page 2 - MY days among the Dead are passed ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old ; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 102 - To speak first of the Septuagint. We have already shown how the grammatical peculiarities of its authors are the first appearance of the same forms which are familiar to us in modern Greek. But more than this, the phraseology of the Septuagint is modern to an extent which is quite marvellous, when compared with that of contemporary writers, and only explicable by the assumption that the writers are using the common vernacular, which had already become in its spirit and essence much what modern Greek...
Page 16 - A Music Primer for Schools. By J. Troutbeck, MA, and R. F, Dale, MA, B. Mus. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, is. 6d. The Cultivation of the Speaking Voice. By John Hullah. Second Edition, Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth, as. 6«'.