The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Volume 2F. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 - Bible |
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... Persius Flaccus .. .... 309 317 322 332 .... . 351 354 358 365 379 36 392 ... 405 409 LIII . Lucius Annęus Seneca 416 LIV . Caius Cornelius Tacitus .... 431 LV . Caius Suetonius Tranquillus 458 CHAFTER PAGE LVI . Caius Plinius Cęcilius ...
... Persius Flaccus .. .... 309 317 322 332 .... . 351 354 358 365 379 36 392 ... 405 409 LIII . Lucius Annęus Seneca 416 LIV . Caius Cornelius Tacitus .... 431 LV . Caius Suetonius Tranquillus 458 CHAFTER PAGE LVI . Caius Plinius Cęcilius ...
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... dis- tinguished for a contempt of the Heathen deities , and he considers it as a mark of human weakness to frame an image and form of God † . * Lib . xiii . c . 4 . + Lib . ii . c . 7 . CHAP . LII . Aulus Persius Flaccus . PERSIUS is 408.
... dis- tinguished for a contempt of the Heathen deities , and he considers it as a mark of human weakness to frame an image and form of God † . * Lib . xiii . c . 4 . + Lib . ii . c . 7 . CHAP . LII . Aulus Persius Flaccus . PERSIUS is 408.
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... Persius Flaccus . PERSIUS is supposed to have been born in the reign of Tiberius , A. D. 32 , at Vo- laterra , in Etruria , though he himself seems to intimate that he was a Ligurian * . He is said to have been of the equestrian order ...
... Persius Flaccus . PERSIUS is supposed to have been born in the reign of Tiberius , A. D. 32 , at Vo- laterra , in Etruria , though he himself seems to intimate that he was a Ligurian * . He is said to have been of the equestrian order ...
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... Persius . The satires of Persius , amidst the obscu- rity of a figurative style , abound with pointed and striking moral passages . His instruc- tions are delivered in a mild tone of con- templative philosophy , though occasionally ...
... Persius . The satires of Persius , amidst the obscu- rity of a figurative style , abound with pointed and striking moral passages . His instruc- tions are delivered in a mild tone of con- templative philosophy , though occasionally ...
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... Persius speaks of the prayers and sabbaths of the Jews , but does not appear to be aware of the importance of institutions which were expressive of a reverence for an eternal and immutable God , worshipped in mental con- templation ...
... Persius speaks of the prayers and sabbaths of the Jews , but does not appear to be aware of the importance of institutions which were expressive of a reverence for an eternal and immutable God , worshipped in mental con- templation ...
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Page 48 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 184 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 463 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 40 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 48 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 135 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 132 - As, therefore, among men we make best trial of the affection and gratitude of our neighbour by showing him kindness, and discover his wisdom by consulting him in our distress, do thou, in like manner, behave towards the gods. And if thou wouldst experience what their wisdom and what their love, render thyself deserving the communication of some of those divine secrets which may not be penetrated by man, and are imparted to those alone who consult, who adore, who obey the Deity.
Page 434 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 271 - Jewish legislator, no ordinary person, having conceived a just idea of the power of god, has nobly expressed it in the beginning of his law. "And god said, - what? - Let there be light, and there was light. Let the earth be, and the earth was.
Page 225 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.