The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, and Company, 1846 |
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... sense , which nevertheless he does not clearly define . His transi- tions are frequently so abrupt , or his progress from his pre- mises to his conclusion so rapid , that it is extremely difficult for the reader to perceive the train of ...
... sense , which nevertheless he does not clearly define . His transi- tions are frequently so abrupt , or his progress from his pre- mises to his conclusion so rapid , that it is extremely difficult for the reader to perceive the train of ...
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... sense . For the only solid basis for rhetoric , as for all those arts which have any thing to do with men , is a sound system of Anthropology . In connection with his analysis of each passion , he inquires , what persons are likely to ...
... sense . For the only solid basis for rhetoric , as for all those arts which have any thing to do with men , is a sound system of Anthropology . In connection with his analysis of each passion , he inquires , what persons are likely to ...
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... sense , but which had also a soul , and that a soul of true Promethean fire . Cicero enter- tained the highest respect , not only for Aristotle's genius as a philosopher , but for his skill and discernment as a critic . ' Quinctilian ...
... sense , but which had also a soul , and that a soul of true Promethean fire . Cicero enter- tained the highest respect , not only for Aristotle's genius as a philosopher , but for his skill and discernment as a critic . ' Quinctilian ...
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... sense , that no part can be altered or taken away without confusing or destroying the whole . As The Peripetia or catastrophe of a tragedy is an unexpected reverse of fortune arising naturally out of the incidents . in the Oedipus ...
... sense , that no part can be altered or taken away without confusing or destroying the whole . As The Peripetia or catastrophe of a tragedy is an unexpected reverse of fortune arising naturally out of the incidents . in the Oedipus ...
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... sense . As men are more inclined to the excess than to the defect in this case , the former only is called intemperance ; but the latter is also a vice , and may be called insensibility . In like manner , gen- erosity is the mean ...
... sense . As men are more inclined to the excess than to the defect in this case , the former only is called intemperance ; but the latter is also a vice , and may be called insensibility . In like manner , gen- erosity is the mean ...
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Page 429 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 518 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 688 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 292 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 291 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 551 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 313 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper ; the second, sapphire ; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald ; the fifth, sardonyx ; the sixth, sardius ; the seventh, chrysolyte ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Page 482 - According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Page 552 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the great men of the earth ; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Page 428 - Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.