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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...the whole earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of r... ...ered its great weight and value, as an all-sufficient argument for the orthodoxy of the ancient system, and the heterodoxy of the commonly received ... ...be at all compared to him. His book is the finest demonstration of the orthodoxy of the ancient system of the millenarians which can be imagined; in... ...lonish captivity did possess the same assurance of the divinity of this book, which the ancient Jews had of all their prophecies when they had seen ... ...ed with all manner of rust and corruption. But as he hath justified the opinions of the ancient Millenarians from the errors and gross indelicacies ... ... them, in fine, the instruction which St. Paul gives upon this subject to the church of Corinth, and thereby to all the churches besides, saying, tha... ...s treats diffusely of this matter, in the fifteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, and coming to the 23 rd verse he speaks thus, ... ...t, is to be found registered in this same fifteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, towards the end of the 51 st verse: where the a... ...se she is made sorry, but because she sorrowed to repentance; as St. Paul speaks to the Corinthians, 2 Cor. vii. 9. This sorrow, which is after a god...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...marble floors, and a collection of rare Athenian busts. His library has a Corinthian copy of Homer and a collection of Periander’s maxims, while I h... ...ught he had forgotten me. What a good companion he was, all those days in Corinth... Companion? He was more like a father! His handwriting is the mo... ...ve him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth and sat beside me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and... ...ld run the farthest, were it to happen. “I may have to flee soon, back to Corinth, it seems. These rulers here have friends. They know how to apply ... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,...

... back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. T...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...i &t nithde Aarhundrede; Geschiedenis &r Nederlandsche Taal. 38. Titles of ancient manuscripts (singular, MS; plural, MSS) : Codex Bezae, Vatican ... ...talics 23 Books of the Bible, both canonical and apocryphal, and titles of ancient manuscripts, should be set in roman type (see 27 and 38). 53. T... ...utwlsal Antiquities, p. 199. 1 G. L. Hendrickson "Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style," Am. Jour. Phil. XXV (~gog), pp. 25c-75. 3... ...O. 67 When thoughtful Greeks like Polybius saw the fall of Carthage and of Corinth, they mnst have felt that they had reached one of the great turni... ... 67 When thoughtful Greeks like Polybius saw the fall of Car- thage and of Corinth, they must have felt that they had reached one of the great turn... ...O. 67 When thoughtful Greeks like Polybius saw the fall of Carthage and of Corinth, they must have felt that they had reached one of the gre&t turn... ...O. 66 When thoughtful Greeks like Polybius saw the fall of Carthage and of Corinth, they must have felt that they had reached one of the great turn... ... NO. 83 When thoughtful Greeks like Polybius saw the fall of Caahage and of Corinth, they must have %It that they had reached one of the great turni...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ... a more authenticall testimonie of humane imbecilitie, it is noted by our Ancients that Diodorus the Logician, being surprised with an extreme passi... ...nd gaine. So did Nicias lose the advantage hee had clearely gained of the Corinthians; and contrariwise, Ageshaus assured that, hee doubtfully had g... ...ing by shooting of arrowes to draw God to some reason. Now, as saith that ancient Poet in Plutarch, Point ne se faut corroucer aux affaires, Il ne ... ...ners and Scriveners at Rome: and of Tyrants of Sicilie, School-masters at Corinth. One that had conquered halfe the world, and been Emperour over so... ...tised by effect, I will relate an ancient singular example. Eudamidas the Corinthian had two friends: Charixenus a Sycionian, and Aretheus a Corinthi... ... big and ratling words of Pilasters, Architraves, Cornixes, Frontispices, Corinthian and Dorike works, and such like fustian-termes of theirs, I can...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...marble floors, and a collection of rare Athenian busts. His library has a Corinthian copy of Homer and a collection of Periander’s maxims, while I h... ...ught he had forgotten me. What a good companion he was, all those days in Corinth... Companion? He was more like a father! His handwriting is the mo... ...ve him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth and sat beside me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and... ...ld run the farthest, were it to happen. “I may have to flee soon, back to Corinth, it seems. These rulers here have friends. They know how to apply ... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...o you break off?” I asked. He did not answer but said: “They knew, those ancients, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...s... ...ds by the seaward window in her library... carved ivory racks hold books, ancient papyri, Egyptian clay tablets, copies of hymns. Blue from the b...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

... an educator, his rank is high. He took the broader view that the study of ancient languages should have as its purpose the enlarge- ment of the stude... ...a language, and held to the rather questionable doctrine that the study of ancient Greek should be approached through modern Romaic. He adopted a tuto... ...es, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A. D. The ancients wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, thoug... ... ath- letics of this country with the simpler organizations in England and ancient Greece. He favored a return to the old-tiuie spirit of sport. Whitt... ...t the in- vitations this year were not in the form of a summary demand but ANCIENT SELF-DEFENSE oouohed in diplomatio terms, bnt this (lid not detract... ...the ground from Potras to Delphi; and Professor Howes, in turn, will treat Corinth and its vicinity. Of tlie trip through the islands, Professor Howes... .... After returning to Patras by ship through the Olympian Gulf and into the Corinthian Gulf, the ship dropped anchor at a little sea- town but three mi... ..., Ool. 3. to be remembered. Returning again to the gulf and recroesing it, Corinth was visited, with its views surpassed only by those of Delphi. Then...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...he has found the secret to immortality. 50 There was another king in ancient times that shared this same burning desire and that travelled tir... ...w much can the love we receive help us, if we do not free ourselves of the ancient hatred we carry within ourselves? This story reminds me of the ... ...nds over twenty years of his life surrounded by much love and happiness in Corinth. But as soon as he leaves Corinth and arrives in Thebes, his life... ...e to try to understand what the Sirens are singing, as many have done from ancient times until today. Only the laws of biological growth manage to ... .... The fact that Homer’s poems are books of wisdom was something all the ancient commentators recognized. I am not the first to assert this, and no... ...oughout the numerous commentaries on the Odyssey, written from the time of ancient Greece up until today, which Filippomaria Pontani gives an accura...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...uggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - both Ancient Rome and Byzantium hold relevant - albeit very limited -... ...rs meddled in the internal affairs of these territories. Opposition - in Carthage, Corinth and elsewhere - was crushed by overwhelming force. Lesse... ...istan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gateway through... ...lan involves immoral or even illegal acts. As international law evolves beyond the ancient percepts of sovereignty, it should incorporate new think... ...lan involves immoral or even illegal acts. As international law evolves beyond the ancient percepts of sovereignty, it should incorporate new think...

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Bible (KJV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians

By: King James Version

... a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The traditional view is that the second epistle to the Thessalonians was probably written from Corinth not many months after the first. Apparently the first letter was misunderstood, especially regarding the second advent of Christ. The Thessalonians had embraced the idea that Paul had taught that the day of Christ was...

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First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, The

By: Pope Clement I ; Roberts-Donaldson Version

...st Christian documents outside the New Testament canon. The epistle was written by Clement, one of the elders of the church of Rome, to the church in Corinth, where it was read for centuries. Indeed, historians generally hold First Clement to be an authentic document dating from the first century. From the fifth century to the eighth century, many of the eastern churches a...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

... other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever ri- valled this astonishing metropolis in... ...and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of the world in ev... ...for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the ha... ...t once. As respected the hand of man, Rome slept for ages in absolute *“Of ancient days.”—For it is remarkable, and it serves to mark an indubitable p... ...erself; upon which topic there is a burst of noble eloquence in one of the ancient Panegyrici, when haranguing the Emperor Theodosius: “Thou, Rome! th... ...conquest of Parthia; and the cut- ting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. The refor- mation of the calendar he had already accomplished. And...

...eived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of Lond...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451 52 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469 53 The Second Epis... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469 53 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486 54 The Epistle of St... ...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ...ur habitations you shall eat unleavened bread. 21 And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by you... ...nd the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Is- rael: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst str... ...ith them. Chapter 18 After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. 2 And nding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately c... ...the synagogue, be- lieved in the Lord, with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Pa...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...ies. That was the elementary base of Schreiber; and the superstructure, or Corinthian decoration of his fron- tispiece, was, that Schreiber cultivated... ...the other, sad, fuscous, begrimed with the snuff of ages, namely, the most ancient Schreiber. Ah! if they could have been divided—these twin yoke-fell... ...ly; such me- mentos, I mean, as, by reviving painful recollections of that ancient Schreiber, who was or ought to be by this time ex- tinct, would nat... ...uthoritatively (that is, authorized and supported by some civil community, Corinth, or Athens, or Rome, which he represented) the homage and gratitude... ...t important points of the revolt. On the fifth of May, the T artar reached Corinth, but found the siege already raised. Thence he marched to Argos, se... ...plessness, and car- ried him to his master and mistress, King and Queen of Corinth, who adopted and educated him as their own child. That he was not t...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...eserva- tion; and that the buildings of this bastard Rome, raised upon the ancient productions, although they might excite the ad- miration of the pre... ...n simply out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that i... ...ans it was that Nicias lost the advantage he had visibly obtained over the Corinthians, and that Agesilaus, on the contrary, assured that which he had... ...er, became joiners and scriveners at Rome; a tyrant of Sicily, a pedant at Corinth; a conqueror of one-half of the world and general of so many armies... ...of this, I will here produce an ancient and singular example. Eudamidas, a Corinthian, had two friends, Charixenus a Sicyonian and Areteus a Corinthia... ... out their bombast words of pilasters, ar- chitraves, and cornices, of the Corinthian and Doric orders, and suchlike jargon, my imagination is present...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...ate family, laboring under the same distemper; for Medea, having fled from Corinth, and prom- ised Aegeus to make him, by her art, capable of having c... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...s were ordained by Theseus. At the same time he made an agreement with the Corinthians, that they should allow those that came from Athens to the cele... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... and awe of him; many foreign nations, too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fide... ...s so called because the citizens were called Quirites; others, because the ancients called a dart or spear Quiris; thus, the statue of Juno resting on... ...le used to the sight of any other kind of work, that, being entertained at Corinth in a stately room, he was much surprised to see the timber and ceil... ...concerns. It is said, that they had an interview at Delphi, and another at Corinth, by the procurement of Periander, who made a meeting for them, and ...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ...r which had been banished out of her? I by no means assent to Demaratus of Corinth, who said, that those Greeks lost a great satisfac- tion, that did ... ...ders in playing them against each other in the fields of Leuctra, Coronea, Corinth, and Arcadia. Nothing was greater or nobler than the behavior of 6... ... brought him from Sparta, of several great captains slain in a battle near Corinth, in which the slaughter fell upon other Greeks, and the Lacedaemoni... ... they were brought out of Asia. He sent for two divisions of the army near Corinth to his assistance. The Lacedaemonians at home, in honor to him, mad... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...ace. When Epaminondas restored Messene, and recalled from all quarters the ancient citizens to inhabit it, they were not able to obstruct the design, ... ...from Agesilaus; who was slain by Leonidas, while attempting to restore the ancient discipline of Sparta. 89 Plutarch’s Lives POMP POMP POMP POMP POMP...

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...ential points, must have remained the secret of the poet.” [Note: Heeren’s Ancient Greece, p. 96.] From this criticism, which shows as much insight in... ...ælio, oo dixa tæs sphodrotætos paramenei to megethos] and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names [Note: See Tatian, quoted in Fabric. Bibl... ...y plough the watery way. The proud Mycene arms her martial powers, Cleone, Corinth, with imperial towers, 63 Fair ArÆthyrea, Ornia’s fruitful plain, A... ...or named, For riches much, and more for virtue famed. Who held his seat in Corinth’s stately town; Polydus’ son, a seer of old renown. Oft had the fat... ...y, well worth a careful perusal.”—Coleridge, p. 211, sq. 63 The mention of Corinth is an anachronism, as that city was called Ephyre before its captur...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ... and contrary aspects; but the Syracusans, sending at the same time to the Corinthians to solicit their protection, and to require of them a captain f... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ...man’s foot. That good man, who, when I was young, gelded so many noble and ancient statues in his great city, that they might not corrupt the sight of... ...not corrupt the sight of the ladies, according to the advice of this other ancient worthy: “Flagitii principium est, nudare inter gives corpora,”... ...her own, not alto- gether vain; for Alexander disdained the ambassadors of Corinth, who came to offer him a burgess-ship of their city; but when they ...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

..., and, God bless him! thro’ him I’ve learnt to love a whole nation.”’ The ancient man paused, winking dim. XXIV A curious look, half woeful, was seen... ...ve upon a mortal lease. I cannot take the woman at her worth! Where is the ancient wealth wherewith I clothed Our human nakedness, and could endow Wit... ... the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. THE STAR ... ...hung, O grey one! pendant on a loosened peg. Thou art for this our life an ancient egg, Or a tough bird: thou hast a rudderless tongue, T urning dead... ...of are strange tales to tell; Some in blood writ, tombed in bell. Here the ancient battle ends, Joining two astonished friends, Who the kiss can give ... ...e his brows were black of her, Runs barking for his bread, a fugitive, And Corinth frowns on them that feed the cur. II There is no Corinth save the w... ...n them that feed the cur. II There is no Corinth save the whip and curb Of Corinth, high Periander; the superb In magnanimity, in rule severe. Up on h... ... struck at weeds Was author of the flowers raised face to him. 292 IV His Corinth, to each mood subservient In homage, made he as an instrument T o y...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...and, like the superb Medea towering amongst her children in the nursery at Corinth, 13 smote me senseless to the ground. Again I am in the chamber wi... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ...e glorious plenitudes of health, as faithfully as the cavities within this ancient Memnonian bust reported this mighty event of sunrise to the rejoici... ... “The Wandering Jew,” and sublimer even than our own. 10 First Epistle to Corinthians, chap. xv., beginning at ver. 20. 11 This beautiful expression... ...nd there is no doubt that they both connect them- selves, through links of ancient tradition, with the gloomy realities of paganism, when the whole Ha...

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