The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Volumes 57-58M. Bailey, 1909 |
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... light on customs which at an earlier time were more or less universal through- out Europe . In Norway and Iceland the girl was under a guardian , her father , if he were living . On reaching her majority she became free and managed her ...
... light on customs which at an earlier time were more or less universal through- out Europe . In Norway and Iceland the girl was under a guardian , her father , if he were living . On reaching her majority she became free and managed her ...
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... light and learning for the whole country around . When the universities be- gan to appear in the twelfth century the convents were no longer to the same degree demanded as places for the pres-- ervation of books and knowledge . As the ...
... light and learning for the whole country around . When the universities be- gan to appear in the twelfth century the convents were no longer to the same degree demanded as places for the pres-- ervation of books and knowledge . As the ...
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... light upon the Babylonian period . The city continued as a place of royal residence under the Achaememidae . The most noteworthy result of the excavations at Susa was the disclosing of the palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon with its fine ...
... light upon the Babylonian period . The city continued as a place of royal residence under the Achaememidae . The most noteworthy result of the excavations at Susa was the disclosing of the palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon with its fine ...
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... The early Greek poet and artist translated the impressions they received from nature into mythical personages . The crinkle of the sea in the sun- shine was the light footfall of the nereids , the. ΠΙΟ The Tale of Troy in Greek Art.
... The early Greek poet and artist translated the impressions they received from nature into mythical personages . The crinkle of the sea in the sun- shine was the light footfall of the nereids , the. ΠΙΟ The Tale of Troy in Greek Art.
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... light " about the very name Madonna , " as music round the shell . " When the fathers of the church met at Ephesus in 431 , to settle certain disputed points in theology , they laid spe- cial emphasis upon the divinity of the Savior ...
... light " about the very name Madonna , " as music round the shell . " When the fathers of the church met at Ephesus in 431 , to settle certain disputed points in theology , they laid spe- cial emphasis upon the divinity of the Savior ...
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Page 209 - Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets : and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Page 439 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road; the grey Dawn, and the Pleiades, before him danced, Shedding sweet influence...
Page 47 - THE VIKING AGE. The' Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations.
Page 425 - Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us, and humble, and precious, and clean. Praised be my Lord for our brother fire, through whom Thou givest us light in the darkness; and he is bright, and pleasant, and very mighty and strong. Praised be my Lord for our mother the earth, the which doth sustain us and keep us, and bringeth forth divers fruits, and flowers of many colors, and grass.
Page 426 - Praised be my Lord for our mother the earth, the which doth sustain us and keep us, and bringeth forth divers fruits and flowers of many colors, and grass. Praised be my Lord for all those who pardon one another for his love's sake, and who endure weakness and tribulation ; blessed are they who peaceably shall endure, for thou, O most Highest, shalt give them a crown.
Page 425 - Praised be my Lord for our brother the wind, and for air and cloud, calms and all weather by the which thou upholdest life in all creatures. Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean.
Page 379 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Page 425 - FROM the forests and highlands We come, we come ! From the river-girt islands, Where loud waves are dumb Listening to my sweet pipings...
Page 208 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Page 273 - When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and waves in wild unrest, Smote her with fear, she, not with cheeks unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, And said : "O child, what grief is mine ! But...