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... particular authors , whether it be entertained by men or women , it is liberal in its kind , and ought by all means to be gratified . Nor is it only to unlearned persons that translations may be of service : to those also who are ...
... particular authors , whether it be entertained by men or women , it is liberal in its kind , and ought by all means to be gratified . Nor is it only to unlearned persons that translations may be of service : to those also who are ...
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... particular and selected portions ; but there must have been something very captivating in his style , some regular and con- nected series of interesting history , some superior and striking character of genius : for we are informed that ...
... particular and selected portions ; but there must have been something very captivating in his style , some regular and con- nected series of interesting history , some superior and striking character of genius : for we are informed that ...
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... particular . for even a man to be seen naked , is deemed a matter of the greatest turpitude . 7 With her clothes a woman puts off her modesty . ] We can by no means , says Plutarch , in his Conjugal Pre- cepts , allow this saying of ...
... particular . for even a man to be seen naked , is deemed a matter of the greatest turpitude . 7 With her clothes a woman puts off her modesty . ] We can by no means , says Plutarch , in his Conjugal Pre- cepts , allow this saying of ...
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... particular mention . him to her chamber , and placed him behind the These now stand in the treasury of Corinth ; same door , with a dagger in his hand . Can- though , in strict truth , that treasure was not daules . was murdered in his ...
... particular mention . him to her chamber , and placed him behind the These now stand in the treasury of Corinth ; same door , with a dagger in his hand . Can- though , in strict truth , that treasure was not daules . was murdered in his ...
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... particular oracle . Of the oracular answers in general we have no account remaining ; but the Lydians had no sooner entered the temple of Delphi , and proposed their questions , than the Pythian answered thus , in heroic verse : 6 I ...
... particular oracle . Of the oracular answers in general we have no account remaining ; but the Lydians had no sooner entered the temple of Delphi , and proposed their questions , than the Pythian answered thus , in heroic verse : 6 I ...
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Page 230 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 315 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 9 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 128 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 127 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Page 79 - In the vicinity of Thebes there are also sacred serpents," not at all troublesome to men : they are very small, but have two horns on the top of the head. When they die, they are buried in the temple of Jupiter, to whom they are said to belong.
Page 153 - Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
Page 40 - The earth of the trench was first of all laid in heaps, and when a sufficient quantity was obtained, made into square bricks, and baked in a furnace. They used as cement a composition of heated bitumen, which, mixed with the tops of reeds, was placed between every thirtieth course of bricks.
Page 171 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day ; the loss of children...
Page 243 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.