The Bible and Men of Learning: In a Course of LecturesAnson D. F. Randolph, 1859 - 400 pages |
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... Greece abounded with virtuous men . But where could Jesus learn , among his compatriots , that pure and sublime morality of which he only hath given us both precept and example . The greatest wisdom was made known amidst the most ...
... Greece abounded with virtuous men . But where could Jesus learn , among his compatriots , that pure and sublime morality of which he only hath given us both precept and example . The greatest wisdom was made known amidst the most ...
Page 123
... Greece , Italy and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty , in both the last . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third she joined the other two . But the poetry of Milton is ...
... Greece , Italy and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty , in both the last . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third she joined the other two . But the poetry of Milton is ...
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... Greece and Rome , in their palmy days , though under the darkness of Paganism . And most willingly do we admit whatever can be justly claimed for the au- thors and artists of those distinguished nations . A scholar scarce deserves the ...
... Greece and Rome , in their palmy days , though under the darkness of Paganism . And most willingly do we admit whatever can be justly claimed for the au- thors and artists of those distinguished nations . A scholar scarce deserves the ...
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... Greece that breathes in the historians , poets , and orators of Rome , perhaps mellowed and refined by age and experience . And even when you turn to those branches of science and art in which Greece stands comparatively alone ; to her ...
... Greece that breathes in the historians , poets , and orators of Rome , perhaps mellowed and refined by age and experience . And even when you turn to those branches of science and art in which Greece stands comparatively alone ; to her ...
Page 217
... Greece indebted for her distinction in Letters and the Arts to no foreign source ? And if so , to what nation or people can we trace her ob- ligations ? Rome borrowed largely from her . Did she also borrow from some other nation that ...
... Greece indebted for her distinction in Letters and the Arts to no foreign source ? And if so , to what nation or people can we trace her ob- ligations ? Rome borrowed largely from her . Did she also borrow from some other nation that ...
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