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... earth to heaven and back again . Also this peculiarity of the speeches is apparent ; they faithfully express the general characters of the speakers , whether human or divine , but there are none of the little intimate touches which ...
... earth to heaven and back again . Also this peculiarity of the speeches is apparent ; they faithfully express the general characters of the speakers , whether human or divine , but there are none of the little intimate touches which ...
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... earth , comes when Patroclus inter- venes , wearing the armour of Achilles and leading his Myr- midons to battle . Hector kills Patroclus and a nobler " wrath " lifts the epic to a loftier range of emotion . Even the Greek critics ...
... earth , comes when Patroclus inter- venes , wearing the armour of Achilles and leading his Myr- midons to battle . Hector kills Patroclus and a nobler " wrath " lifts the epic to a loftier range of emotion . Even the Greek critics ...
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... earth , and the heavens , and the sea , and the unwearying sun , and the moon waxing to the full , and the signs every one wherewith the heavens are crowned , Pleiads and Hyads and Orion's might , and the Bear that men call also the ...
... earth , and the heavens , and the sea , and the unwearying sun , and the moon waxing to the full , and the signs every one wherewith the heavens are crowned , Pleiads and Hyads and Orion's might , and the Bear that men call also the ...
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... earth ; and most certainly there is no echo in the Ten Commandments of the many gods of Egyptian polytheism . Nowhere does the difference between Egyptian and Israelite religion appear more markedly than in connection with the doc ...
... earth ; and most certainly there is no echo in the Ten Commandments of the many gods of Egyptian polytheism . Nowhere does the difference between Egyptian and Israelite religion appear more markedly than in connection with the doc ...
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... earth ? Probably Moses , like the great prophets in subsequent centuries , held the latter view ; but popular opinion , after the fusion of the Israelite and Canaanite races , thought it natural that different peoples should have ...
... earth ? Probably Moses , like the great prophets in subsequent centuries , held the latter view ; but popular opinion , after the fusion of the Israelite and Canaanite races , thought it natural that different peoples should have ...
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