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...‟t mean being eternally youthful. It reminds me of Homer‟s recounting the Greek myth of the Trojan Tithonus who was granted eternal life by Zeus. He... ...s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that don‟t make sense today. For example, the words of Menc... ...n‟t like change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.... ... change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And t... ...tual, practical and recreational activities. Children could learn sports, astronomy, tailoring, advanced mathematics, dance, and scores of other past... ...a partnership or a marriage as indentured servitude, slavery or any other ancient arrangement. So there‟s no reason to pay somebody who voluntarily ...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a ...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...me and defective, might be brought to the same perfection with other arts of astronomy. The king would be the most absolute prince in the universe, if... ... called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me upon his honour “that ... ... understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy. In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wh...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ... Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two the elaborate computus of Practical Astronomy. But these collations, it will be said, are upon questions not pr... ...xilabeln] of its elements, (to speak by a metaphor borrowed from practical astronomy)— i. e. of the principal and most conspicuous points which its pa...

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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; ... ...e even at the present time, when there is a far more accurate knowledge of astronomy, some begin the month at one time, and some at another. After thi...

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...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ...I con- tend that it was not. I contend, that to have uttered the truths of astronomy, of geology, &c., at the era of new-born Chris- tianity, was not ... ...to speak the language of scientific truth in dealing with the phenomena of astronomy, geology, or of any merely human knowledge. Now, thirdly and last... ...hould actually have succeeded in carrying through the Copernican system of astronomy, as an article of blind belief, sixteen cen- turies before the pr... ...er to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent. On these double wings he soared into a region of public in... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ...tailor and co. As to ‘Cato,’ Schlosser, as usual, wanders in the shadow of ancient night. The English ‘people,’ it seems, so ‘extravagantly applauded’... ...ed reader knows well what is coming. Fox is ‘formed after the model of the ancients’—Fox is ‘simple’—Fox is ‘natu- ral’—Fox is ‘chaste’—Fox is ‘forcib...

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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. ... ...ly, perhaps of the costly apparatus re- quired for such studies as Sideral astronomy, galvanic chem- istry or physiology, &c.]; all these are uses whi...

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...ains to be so much historical, as will serve to show what hath been done by ancient and famous common- wealths against this disorder, till the very... ...s much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a militar... ...hall therefore deem to have been large enough, in producing what among the ancients was punishable to write; save only which, all other arguments ... ...as lineally as any pedigree. We have it not, that can be heard of, from any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our an... ...aul, who were skilful in all the learning of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all s... ...ught it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstan... ...mous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition, for think- ing in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers though...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ...e yet further, it would not be amiss to give these shepherds some skill in astronomy, as far as it may be useful to that sort of life. And an air of p... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s...

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...,’ adds the Vizier, ‘in winning knowledge of every kind, and especially in Astronomy, wherein he attained to a very high pre-eminence. Under the Sult... ... his Bibliotheque, under Khiam.*— “‘It is written in the chronicles of the ancients that this King of the Wise, Omar Khayyam, died at Naishapur in the... ... but oftener (as here imitated) the third line a blank. Somewhat as in the Greek Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave... ... Jamshyd’s Sev’n-ring’ d Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows. VI. And David... ...nscribed by some stray hand among the ruins of Persepolis. The Ringdove’s ancient Pehlevi Coo, Coo, Coo, signifies also in Persian “Where? Where? Wh... ...ri- ous Speaking-pot story in the V espae, which I had quite for- gotten. [Greek text deleted from etext.] “The Pot calls a bystander to be a witness ... ...vet, it would show more sense in you!’ The Scholiast explains echinus as [Greek phrase deleted from etext].” One more illustration for the oddity’s s...

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...d by my earliest footsteps, are completely lost to my memory; and of those ancient walls among which I began to breathe, I retain no recollection more... ...etent skill in construing Latin, I think also an elemen- tary knowledge of Greek; add ciphering to a small extent, Euclid perhaps in a rather imaginar... ... of an exact scholar, or technical proficient at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various m... ...nt at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages; and in all fields, in the ... ...well, attempt 32 The Life of John Sterling that course. At the same time, Greek and the Greeks being here before him, he could not fail to gather som... ...ticking ostrich- like your head into fallacies on Earth, equally as by the ancient and by all conceivable methods,—is forever for- bidden. High-treaso... ...s one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. I do not think I shall take your advice as to lear...

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...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...e envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Di... ...de Paris (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318).) Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a ... ...the tools and emblems of their crafts; among which we notice a Plough, and ancient Baucis and Philemon seated on it, drawn by their children. Many- vo... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi... ...ag Business of the Champ-de- Mars;—one may say in general, for leaving his Astronomy to meddle with Revolution. It is the 10th of November 1793, a col...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ... its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishment. We are ... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ...ull story of an instantaneous transfer from some planet unknown to Utopian astronomy. That he and all his world exists only upon a hypothesis that wou...

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...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...refused to consider the pork and gave its whole blaz ing interest to that ancient incident. O.M. What was the incident? Y.M. An armed desperado slapp... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...oc cupied. It is many and many a year since I have seen the like. In that ancient day Mrs. Clemens and I used to slip softly into the nursery at midn... ...m down—and of course, also, he was made to feel unwelcome, for this is the ancient law with man and the other animals. Hardy was thirty years old, and... ...; VII. History; VIII. “Intellectual”; IX. Phi losophy; X. Physiology; XI. Astronomy; XII. Politics; XIII. Music; XIV. Oratory; XV. Metaphysics. You p...

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... Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... ... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...l too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumi... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ...sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin wan fingers beat t... ... An usurer could scarce expect much more— But my best canto, save one on astronomy, Will turn upon ‘political economy.’ That is your present t...

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...ible), and delivered it to our foremost man. In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the school, an... ...foremost man. In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the school, and in Spanish these words: “Land... ...om he citeth. For assuredly, such a thing there was. But whether it were the ancient Athenians that had the glory of the repulse and resistance of tho... ... true, the like law against the admission of strangers without license is an ancient law in the Kingdom of China, and yet continued in use. But there ... ...tical house, where are repre sented all instruments, as well of geometry as astronomy, exquisitely made. “We have also houses of deceits of the sen... ...ntor of letters, the inventor of printing, the inven tor of observations of astronomy, the inventor of works in metal, the inventor of glass, the inv...

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...your nose there’s beauty; but you can’t try after all kinds of beauty. The ancients, they didn’t try after it; beauty came down of itself upon their c... ...ly I’m afraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it. But we are not Greeks, O ny... ...fraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it. But we are not Greeks, O nymph! we ... ...n by nerves?’ or if some one alluded in his presence to the discoveries of astronomy, asking: ‘And do you believe in astronomy?’ When he wanted to ove... ...rned public has been caught by his two articles: ‘On some peculiarities of ancient law as regards judicial sen- tences,’ and ‘On the significance of c...

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... hitherto exulted in the prospects held out by the birth of an heir to his ancient property, failing which event it must have passed to a distant bran... ...ss who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteent... ...se who are willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Domi... ...he had already attained that honourable title) descend the stairs from the Greek class, with his Lexicon under his 28 Guy Mannering arm, his long mis... ... fire. Under all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of ti... ...ng drunk after the lady or goodwife’s safe delivery. The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may he derived from the secret rites... ... Mannering cannot get in a word for ye!— and so, Mr. Mannering, talking of astronomy, and spells, and these matters, have ye been so kind as to consid...

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...agments to find her; for she spent her childhood playing with the wreck of ancient castles heaped in the depths of that old shop. There were other day... ... the silent street, at that tranquil hour, through the soft shadows of the ancient stairway, Graslin appeared to the mod- est, artless Veronique, her ... ... large edges discolored by the condition of his blood,—in short, he was an ancient sa- tyr in a black satin waistcoat, brown frock-coat, and white cra... ...hich has for its object to put the whole of physical science, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and all their nomenclatures into the minds of young m... ...ike the classic or traditional brow given by sculptors to Lycurgus and the Greek sages? The revo- lution of July has an evidently retrograde tendency,... ...rder the Mediterranean, in the very unimportant schism which separates the Greek religion from the Latin religion; and it is a great misfortune for hu...

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...ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, S... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil Dam; from her, hopped ove... ...ers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow white ... ... in the calf, or in the bowels, I suppose, as the old women talk Surgeon’s Astronomy in the back country. And by Jove, he’s found something there in t...

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...llen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW A... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ...he name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped ove... ...rs, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white ... ... in the calf, or in the bowels, I suppose, as the old women talk Surgeon’s Astronomy in the back country. And by Jove, he’s found something there in t...