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... light when put side by side with the master - spirits of the Attic age ; but their lesser importance in the scale of genius rather adds to than diminishes from their importance as representa- tives . They were more the children of their ...
... light when put side by side with the master - spirits of the Attic age ; but their lesser importance in the scale of genius rather adds to than diminishes from their importance as representa- tives . They were more the children of their ...
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... light , seem to us to form part of the original meaning , and are with difficulty disentangled . We bring to both the Christian and the Greek world the inductions respecting them which have been already made by ourselves and by others ...
... light , seem to us to form part of the original meaning , and are with difficulty disentangled . We bring to both the Christian and the Greek world the inductions respecting them which have been already made by ourselves and by others ...
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... light up the darkness of this stormy sea with a light that is never dim . LECTURE II . GREEK EDUCATION . THE general result of 24 I. INTRODUCTORY .
... light up the darkness of this stormy sea with a light that is never dim . LECTURE II . GREEK EDUCATION . THE general result of 24 I. INTRODUCTORY .
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... light from an unseen fire . " 4 The combination of these three feelings , the mystery of writing , the reverence for antiquity , the belief in inspiration , tended to give the writings of the ancient poets a unique value . It lifted ...
... light from an unseen fire . " 4 The combination of these three feelings , the mystery of writing , the reverence for antiquity , the belief in inspiration , tended to give the writings of the ancient poets a unique value . It lifted ...
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... 3 Xen . Sympos . 4. 6 ; 3. 5 . 4 Ps - Plutarch , de vita et poesi Homeri , vol . v . pp . 1056 sqq . , chapters 148 , 164 , 182 , 192 , 216 . t and the habit of reading him by the light of 56 III . GREEK AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS .
... 3 Xen . Sympos . 4. 6 ; 3. 5 . 4 Ps - Plutarch , de vita et poesi Homeri , vol . v . pp . 1056 sqq . , chapters 148 , 164 , 182 , 192 , 216 . t and the habit of reading him by the light of 56 III . GREEK AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS .
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