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... ancient Ger- mans , " sincera gens , et sui tantum similis , " is the truest descrip- tion . We shall now proceed to offer a few remarks on the literary history of this nation , as far as it is capable of being considered apart from the ...
... ancient Ger- mans , " sincera gens , et sui tantum similis , " is the truest descrip- tion . We shall now proceed to offer a few remarks on the literary history of this nation , as far as it is capable of being considered apart from the ...
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... ancient his- torians have preserved a few fragments of it . Plato cites so me of the verses of Parmenides ; and Athenæus has preserved an entire poem ( the Meleager ) of Cleomenes of Rhegium . Ta- rentum produced three poets ...
... ancient his- torians have preserved a few fragments of it . Plato cites so me of the verses of Parmenides ; and Athenæus has preserved an entire poem ( the Meleager ) of Cleomenes of Rhegium . Ta- rentum produced three poets ...
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... ancient world ; and Count Orloff has mingled some just and pleasing reflections with a rapid enumeration of the writings of Cicero . We cannot but speak in terms of commendation , also , of his sketch of Sallust the historian , which ...
... ancient world ; and Count Orloff has mingled some just and pleasing reflections with a rapid enumeration of the writings of Cicero . We cannot but speak in terms of commendation , also , of his sketch of Sallust the historian , which ...
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... ancient poetry to be found in any language . From the time of Ovid , the reign of good taste and simplicity was no more . Words harmoniously balanced , antithesis , point , and an unsound floridness of diction , took their place ...
... ancient poetry to be found in any language . From the time of Ovid , the reign of good taste and simplicity was no more . Words harmoniously balanced , antithesis , point , and an unsound floridness of diction , took their place ...
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... learning . While he taught them to feel the beauties of the ancient writers , he employed them also in transcribing their works ; a pious labour to which we are indebted for many precious remains , 20 and Literary . Naples p.
... learning . While he taught them to feel the beauties of the ancient writers , he employed them also in transcribing their works ; a pious labour to which we are indebted for many precious remains , 20 and Literary . Naples p.
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Page 78 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Page 416 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 344 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 95 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 344 - Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Page 133 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 344 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me. Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm which beats upon me from every side.
Page 95 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead
Page 136 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 95 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.