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Page 9
... echo of the restless scepticism which drove him to take refuge 1 Gibbon , c . XLI . 3 Mozley , Essays , I. p . 60 . 5 Voltaire , Euvres , Vol . x . p . 6 Thackeray , Ballads and Tales , 2 Hieron . Præf . in Eccles . 4 Luther , Præf . in ...
... echo of the restless scepticism which drove him to take refuge 1 Gibbon , c . XLI . 3 Mozley , Essays , I. p . 60 . 5 Voltaire , Euvres , Vol . x . p . 6 Thackeray , Ballads and Tales , 2 Hieron . Præf . in Eccles . 4 Luther , Præf . in ...
Page 88
... echo of Eccles . vi . 12 . The earlier Christian writers followed in the same track and the only trace of the book in the Apostolic Fathers is the quota- tion of Eccles . xii . 13 ( “ Fear God and keep His command- ments " ) in the ...
... echo of Eccles . vi . 12 . The earlier Christian writers followed in the same track and the only trace of the book in the Apostolic Fathers is the quota- tion of Eccles . xii . 13 ( “ Fear God and keep His command- ments " ) in the ...
Page 112
... echo of the current language of the Stoics who looked on all the weaknesses of mankind as so many forms of insanity . So Horace ( Sat. II . 3. 43 ) , " Quem mala stultitia et quemcunque inscitia veri Cæcum agit , insanum Chrysippi ...
... echo of the current language of the Stoics who looked on all the weaknesses of mankind as so many forms of insanity . So Horace ( Sat. II . 3. 43 ) , " Quem mala stultitia et quemcunque inscitia veri Cæcum agit , insanum Chrysippi ...
Page 119
... echo of the Mndèv ayar , the Ne quid nimis ( “ Nothing in excess " ) of Greek and Roman sages . So , with the same Hebrew word , we have in chap . vii . 16 , “ Be not righteous over much . " So it was that the sentence of ' Vanity ' was ...
... echo of the Mndèv ayar , the Ne quid nimis ( “ Nothing in excess " ) of Greek and Roman sages . So , with the same Hebrew word , we have in chap . vii . 16 , “ Be not righteous over much . " So it was that the sentence of ' Vanity ' was ...
Page 123
... echo loud . Yet , while reclining on the soft sweet grass They lie in groups along the river's bank , Beneath the branches of some lofty tree , And at small cost find sweet refreshment there , What time the season smiles , and spring ...
... echo loud . Yet , while reclining on the soft sweet grass They lie in groups along the river's bank , Beneath the branches of some lofty tree , And at small cost find sweet refreshment there , What time the season smiles , and spring ...
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