Comparative TheologyMethuen, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 11 - Bvo. las. 6d. net. For this edition all the important MSS. have been re-collated. An appendix deals with the accentual element in early Latin verse. The Commentary is very full. ' A work of great erudition and fine scholarship.
Page 1 - Library. Caldecott (Alfred), DD See Handbooks of Theology. Calderwood (DS), Headmaster of the Normal School, Edinburgh. TEST CARDS IN EUCLID AND ALGEBRA. In three packets of 40, with Answers. is. each. Or in three Books, price 2rf.
Page 12 - Bvo. 6s. A popular history of the most remarkable flying animals which ever lived. Their relations to mammals, birds. and reptiles, living and extinct, are shown by an original series of illustrations. The scattered remains preserved in Europe and the United States have been put together accurately to show the varied forms of the animals. The book is a natural history of these extinct animals which flew by means of a single finger.
Page 331 - Mr. Balfour has done his work extremely well — done it, in fact, as Stevenson himself would have wished it done, with care and skill and affectionate appreciation.
Page 18 - Svo, cloth, 3*.; leather, y. 6d. net. OXFORD AND ITS COLLEGES. By J. Wells. MA Illustrated by EH New. Fourth Edition. CAMBRIDGE AND ITS COLLEGES. By A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated by EH New.
Page 4 - At last there is an adequate modern edition of Gibbon. . . . The best edition the nineteenth century could produce.
Page 23 - A picture finely and amply conceived. In the strength and insight in which the story has been conceived, in the wealth of fancy and reflection bestowed upon its execution, and in the moving sincerity of its pathos throughout, " Sir Richard Calmady" must rank as the great novel of a great writer.
Page 10 - The whole art of war in its historic evolution has never been treated on such an ample and comprehensive scale, and we question if any recent contribution to the exact history of the world has possessed more enduring value.
Page 14 - Irresistible in their raciness, their variety, their animation ... of extraordinary fascination. A delightful inheritance, the truest record of a "richly compounded spirit" that the literature of our time has preserved.'— Times.
Page 145 - For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another), in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.