The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, and Company, 1846 |
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... things - from all that is showy and frivolous , to all that is solid and substantial . In making so much of proof and so little of every thing else , Aristotle is not so partial or defective as , at first sight , he might appear to be ...
... things - from all that is showy and frivolous , to all that is solid and substantial . In making so much of proof and so little of every thing else , Aristotle is not so partial or defective as , at first sight , he might appear to be ...
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... things imitated , or by imitating in a different manner . The means of imitation in poetry are language , harmony or music , and rhythm or movement . The dance imitates by rhythm alone ; epic poetry , by language only , oftener verse ...
... things imitated , or by imitating in a different manner . The means of imitation in poetry are language , harmony or music , and rhythm or movement . The dance imitates by rhythm alone ; epic poetry , by language only , oftener verse ...
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... thing . We might have had some better poetry , but we should have had a vast deal of worse , if Aristotle had never written . German authors and scholars for the most part complain that the Poetic is not sufficiently ideal , and adheres ...
... thing . We might have had some better poetry , but we should have had a vast deal of worse , if Aristotle had never written . German authors and scholars for the most part complain that the Poetic is not sufficiently ideal , and adheres ...
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... things for their own sake , and other things for the sake of their consequences -in other words , that he seeks some ... thing is cowardice ; to fear nothing is audacity . True cour- age fears that which is formidable , and fears nothing ...
... things for their own sake , and other things for the sake of their consequences -in other words , that he seeks some ... thing is cowardice ; to fear nothing is audacity . True cour- age fears that which is formidable , and fears nothing ...
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... thing to an extreme . And the intellectual extreme in morals is particularly vicious , because it strikes out the corner - stone of virtue . Well might Bacon say : " I find it strange that Atistotle should have written divers volumes of ...
... thing to an extreme . And the intellectual extreme in morals is particularly vicious , because it strikes out the corner - stone of virtue . Well might Bacon say : " I find it strange that Atistotle should have written divers volumes of ...
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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.