The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Ancient GreeceC. Griffin, Limited, 1903 - 711 pages |
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Achæans Achilles Agamemnon amongst ancient Antigone Apollo Arcadia Argos Aryan Athenians Athens Attica beautiful Boeotia Bursian civilisation coast Curtius Delphi Divine Dorians early earth Edipus Epeirus Eschylus Euboea Euripides evidence experiments eyes fact fate father forest goddess gods Greece Greek hand hath heart Hector Hellas Hellenes Hence Heracles hero Herodotus Hesiod Homer honour idea Iliad individual Ionians island justice king Kreon land language later means Messenia mind Minyæ moral mother mountains Mycenae myths nature noble Odysseus Olympus Oracle Orchomenus origin pass Peloponnesus Phoenician Pindar plain Plato poet Poseidon primitive probably Prometheus race religion religious river sacred sagas says seen side Sophocles soul Sparta story suppliant supposed Thebes thee Theseus Thessalian Thessaly things thou thought Thracian Tiryns tribes Trojans true truth whilst whole words worship Zeus
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Page 459 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Page 270 - 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 gospe.1.
Page 644 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 621 - John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not ; he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Page 109 - For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed.
Page 108 - We would not have our guardians grow up amid images of moral deformity, as in some noxious pasture, and there browse and feed upon many a baneful herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather a festering mass of corruption in their own soul.
Page 617 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Page 243 - For that sweet mother land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names, Graven on memorial columns, are a song Heard in the future; few, but more than wall And rampart, their examples reach a hand Far thro...
Page 595 - Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant-man, seeking goodly pearls ; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.