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...of Scripture in order to acknowledge the mere dreams of your brains! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heretics and godless schismatics, for you presume upon your figments alone against the clear Scriptures of God. Wash yourself of that, men!”...

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...ee magpies are addressing me, the first in good Latin, the second in better Greek, the third in purest Hebrew. ... ...ic Encyclopedia (15 vols.), IV, 650. 19 Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, was accused of atheism by his contemporaries because o... ...y are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks, 47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans... ...s. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven ... ...romises of God from the beginning of the world; indeed, whatever value those ancient promises possessed was altogether derived from this new promise ... ...ed a sacrament of the New Law and of the church alone. The marriages of the ancients were no less sacred than are ours, nor are those of unbelievers... ...“Was fürchtst du, Feind Herodes, sehr.” The above translation is taken from Hymns Ancient and Modern, No. 60. Woolf, op. cit., 329, has this translat...

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...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...ic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as Troy, long considered a mere fab... ...re written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 5... ... victory against the Spaniards in 1819: "The triumphal arches, the flowers, the hymns, the acclamations, the wreaths offered and placed upon my ... ...s etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle appears to be a British institution, as ancient as the monarchy and a lot more rewarding. The surpri... ...reat_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of modern knowle...

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...indirect acceptance of what is past, as western Christianity accepted the Greek world. These cultures. then, enlarge their world of It not merely th... ... dwellings for God and dwellings for men, and fill swaying time with new hymns and songs, and shape the very community of men. But he is free and c... ... outside and his feverish desire to use it. Use needs only to be given an ancient name, and it companies with the gods. When this DUm says Thou, he... ...ho was thus named they alw.ays had the Thou in . d: the first myths were hymns of praise. Then the names took refuge in the language of It; men wer...

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...(Naso, 90). 2 T o facilitate comprehension of the spiritual meaning of ancient Hebrew sources, quotes are not direct translations, but rather refl... ... all other people, it seems like a collection of narratives, stories, and ancient philosophy. Only those who do not comprehend this book argue over ... ...d to the impure forces. The Torah does not tell us about the history of an ancient nation, but about the structure of the spiritual degrees that we m... ...all his heart, but he did not pay attention to David. For by the praises, hymns, and mercy that the moon offers the sun, the moon draws the sun clos... ...stormy wind), which is raised to ZA (called “Heaven”), as a result of the hymns, praises, and mercy, Malchut receives the Light of Benayahu Ben Yeho... ...we use our hands and auxiliary means in our world. First, in the songs and hymns of the Supernal angels, and according to the order of chants sung by... ...kish. In the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, Greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live broadcast...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e... ... of vegetables. As they went along, the priests in the centre canoe sung their hymns with great solemnity; and after paddling round the ships, instead...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho 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 poetr...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...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... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...re of her hair, face, breasts, belly, and drapery. Voices sing Homeric hymns. A woman, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light ... ...ivory racks hold books, ancient papyri, Egyptian clay tablets, copies of hymns. Blue from the bay inundates the library, her face, obliterates t...

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...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...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... ...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,... ...re of her hair, face, breasts, belly, and drapery. Voices sing Homeric hymns. A woman, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light ... ...ivory racks hold books, ancient papyri, Egyptian clay tablets, copies of hymns. Blue from the bay inundates the library, her face, obliterates t... ... is the memory of her voice, as she spoke, as she sang. She loved to sing hymns and frontier songs—her voice so feminine. The touch of her hand, th...

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...ble database of articles stretching back to 1998 on its website. The student yearbook is called The Gulielmensian, which means "Williams Thing" in Greek.[52] It was published irregularly in the 1990s, but has been annual for the past several years and dates back to the mid-...

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...lege, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H.—College, Geology 1. Go... ...ry 1, Economics 2, Eng- lish 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wedn... ...y a (lance. Prof. Hewitt gave an IlluatrHfed lecture before the classes in Greek 1 Thursday evening on Homeric subjects. Hanson '09, because of inelig... ... 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... ...et, consisting of Rising '08, Matz'09. E.'skine '10 and Hoch '09, sang two hymns and Professor Hewitt made o few remarks on the life of Mrs. Mears. Pr...

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...an. “I could chew straighter and faster through wood than he can with his ancient bow saw. He avoids power tools like the plague and still thinks in... ...hris would go to church on Sunday with her grandparents and loved to sing hymns, it was as if she had memorised the entire hymnbook. She was very se... ... and what he recalled of the time made him cringe. The thought of singing hymns and being serious for more than an hour, was definitely not his cup ... ...gether for a while, it soon wears off. But then again, he is built like a Greek God, has a good job, is great with the kids and thinks the world of ...

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...“I just wish I knew how dressing like a sheep-herding strumpet fits in with Greek myth,” she muttered to the darkness. ***** Daniel wished h... ... poetic spells to run away with themselves. Morgan worried her choice of a Greek myth as her theme might tempt her to do that tonight. She’d made ... ... very little. I was fourteen.” “Mmmm.” He stroked his chin and nodded. “Ancient.” “It was only five years ago. And you didn’t think me so litt... ...d muddled, her brain bumped through jumbled memories until she extracted an ancient chestnut about one of Rupert’s last successes as Shylock in Merch... ...me meant gapped rock, and it hunched above the sea like the remains of some ancient monster clove in two by an angry god. Nestled in the cleft were ... ... tried to sleep but the monks kept whispering, first in prayers and then in hymns. A voice so sweet, it could have been Daniel’s. She almost though...

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...are invade their space unless given permission. The church folks have the hymns down to a fine art, as Miss Armstrong, an introvert and the organist... ...l tongues and received the response; ‘I don’t think I would like to learn Greek or Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the ... ...o be put out of their misery. The sausages dried and shrivelled like some ancient artefact. The triangles of toast lay stiff as pavers on the bread ... ... you always forget. And no, I’m not going to write you have the body of a Greek god and don’t have to bleach your teeth. It doesn’t sound right comi...

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...o Chapter 2 34 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 34 ancient Persia. (In Mr. Helprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream wo... ...ight. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure... ...ding his own publishing house (also in East Liverpool) to make sure that his hymns reached the people. I can quote as much of the song as I want with-... ... gospel standard). The chain of borrowing I describe here has one end in the hymns and spiritu- als of the early 1900s and the other in the twenty-firs... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o... ...vanescent subject matter; a favorite title of mine is I. Trotter Hardy, “The Ancient Doctrine of T respass to Web Sites,” 1996, art. 7, Journal of Onl...

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...Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica .................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE....................................................................................

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...a A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- ti... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), the Pennsyl- va... ...iversity is an equal opportunity University. Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica........................................................... ..., The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod. NOTE: Greek words at times appear in ALL CAPS. In text notations are in red and s... ...e, Rampton, NR. Cambridge. Sept. 9th, 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic — that is, poetry as a natural and popu- lar, and not (as it bec... ...in sections. a) After the pre- lude, which Pausanias failed to find in the ancient copy en- graved on lead seen by him on Mt. Helicon, comes a general... ...hessalian (while the heroines of the Catalogues belong to all parts of the Greek world), believes the author to have been either a Boeotian or Thessal... ... regarded as either devotional or liturgical. The Hymn is doubtless a very ancient form; but if no example of extreme antiquity survive this must be p... ...ocuments such as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, or are quoted by various ancient authors. These poetic fragments clearly antedate the Life itself, w...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble s...

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...CT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hi... ...te battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendere... ...e reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of ... ...siness with him. Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his ... ...archy, but as those of the Druids, and to have furnished the chorus to the hymns of those venerable persons when they went to the wood to gather mistl... ..., attended upon the car in which the body of Athelstane was laid, and sang hymns as it was sadly and slowly borne on the shoulders of his vassals to h... ... and ward, the good monks were particularly careful not to interrupt their hymns for an instant, lest Zernebock, the ancient Saxon Apollyon, should la... ...aid Malvoisin apart to Mont- Fitchet, “were it well directed—but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.” The Judges had now been two h...

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...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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... 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... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...n the following day he would unite his joy with their joy, and would chant hymns of victory (epinicia)—”which by the way,” said he, suddenly, breaking...

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... 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... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...e wildness is only equalled by their inconsistency with each other. As the hymns, and some other poems usually ascribed to Homer, are not included in ... ...goblets crown’d, And, pleased, dispense the flowing bowls around; 29 With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends, The pÆans lengthen’d till the sun des...

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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...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... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...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; ... ... works of devotion. For whereas the choruses which the cities sent to sing hymns to the god were wont to arrive in no order, as it might happen, and, ... ... to the god, and led the chorus, sumptuously ornamented, and singing their hymns, along over the bridge. The sacrifices, the games, and the feast bein...

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...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... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...y or Constantia,—in fact, had scarcely heard tell of any poetry but Watts’ Hymns,—he seemed petrified: and at last, with a deep sigh, as if recover- i...

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...te were moved with pity, and granted a pardon. The same story is told of a Greek lady, called Euphrasia, who thus nourished her father; and in Scotlan... ...d, that even the heathens saw and knew the glory of self-devotion; and the Greeks had two early instances so very beautiful that, though they cannot i... ...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...hem from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwelling on ... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t... ... of the great profanation, the T emple was newly dedicated, with songs and hymns of rejoicing, and a festival day was appointed, which has been observ... ...Emperor’s will. Christmas had come, but for one man at Milan there were no hymns, no shouts of ‘glad tidings!’ no midnight festival, no rejoicing that... ...ers-on could not understand. T o see a Christian die, with upward gaze and hymns of joy on his tongue, was the most strange unaccountable sight the Co...

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...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ... 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... ...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... ..., wearing a band around his head, not pure white, but mingled with purple. Hymns were sung to the harp by the singers of the feasts of Bacchus; the pr...