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... question . That it was an apple is a tradition per- petuated , as Sir Thomas Browne says , by writings , verses , pictures ; " and some have been so bad prosodians as from thence to derive the Latin word malum , because that fruit was ...
... question . That it was an apple is a tradition per- petuated , as Sir Thomas Browne says , by writings , verses , pictures ; " and some have been so bad prosodians as from thence to derive the Latin word malum , because that fruit was ...
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... question but the Tower had stood . " Dr. Cumming got a rap on the knuckles for his halting scholarship , when he implied in one of his books that Greek might already have been heard at Babel in advance of the age of Cadmus : " Then ...
... question but the Tower had stood . " Dr. Cumming got a rap on the knuckles for his halting scholarship , when he implied in one of his books that Greek might already have been heard at Babel in advance of the age of Cadmus : " Then ...
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... Questions now vex'd his spirit , most from those Who are call'd friends , because they are not foes . " Most of what Job's friends said to him were veracious state- ments , remarks Robertson of Brighton , and much of what Job said for ...
... Questions now vex'd his spirit , most from those Who are call'd friends , because they are not foes . " Most of what Job's friends said to him were veracious state- ments , remarks Robertson of Brighton , and much of what Job said for ...
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... question one to the other ; nothing could be really more sensible , though in the eyes of some people it might appear funny . " - Life and Letters of Rowland Williams , D.D. , vol . i . , p . 204 . Gayworthys , in the instance of stolid ...
... question one to the other ; nothing could be really more sensible , though in the eyes of some people it might appear funny . " - Life and Letters of Rowland Williams , D.D. , vol . i . , p . 204 . Gayworthys , in the instance of stolid ...
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... question , " Is't not enough , unhappy thing ! to know Thou art ? Is this a boon so kindly given That being , thou wouldst be again ? ,, And the last two stanzas of his Euthanasia resume the sombre strain : 666 " Ay , but to die , and ...
... question , " Is't not enough , unhappy thing ! to know Thou art ? Is this a boon so kindly given That being , thou wouldst be again ? ,, And the last two stanzas of his Euthanasia resume the sombre strain : 666 " Ay , but to die , and ...
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Page 195 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 212 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 142 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword : and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 128 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 267 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born ; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawninoAnother blue Day: ' : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 147 - With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
Page 291 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 319 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 275 - And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take : For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Page 274 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.