College Greek Course in English, Volumen59Phillips & Hunt, 1884 - 302 páginas |
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... readers as may chance to take up this book first in order , we will simply , in repetition , say that the two previous volumes were devoted to those parts of Greek literature , and Latin , respectively , which are usually studied by ...
... readers as may chance to take up this book first in order , we will simply , in repetition , say that the two previous volumes were devoted to those parts of Greek literature , and Latin , respectively , which are usually studied by ...
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... readers desirous of explanatory information not fur- nished in the text . It is due that acknowledgment again be made of debt to Dr. J. H. VINCENT for his important part in the pres- ent series of volumes . The original idea of the ...
... readers desirous of explanatory information not fur- nished in the text . It is due that acknowledgment again be made of debt to Dr. J. H. VINCENT for his important part in the pres- ent series of volumes . The original idea of the ...
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... readers not versed in any tongue but the English , with the means of obtaining , at their leisure and without change ... reading prescribed for their stu- dents . The same colleges even from time to time vary their courses , according to ...
... readers not versed in any tongue but the English , with the means of obtaining , at their leisure and without change ... reading prescribed for their stu- dents . The same colleges even from time to time vary their courses , according to ...
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... Readers of our volume will , therefore , not look to find themselves , as the result of their reading , conversant with altogether the same Greek literature - much less , with exactly the same portions of the same Greek literature ...
... Readers of our volume will , therefore , not look to find themselves , as the result of their reading , conversant with altogether the same Greek literature - much less , with exactly the same portions of the same Greek literature ...
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... readers a taste of some ten or twelve Greek authors , representing four different departments of Greek literature . In history , there are , be- sides Xenophon previously presented , two great Greek names standing forth so conspicuously ...
... readers a taste of some ten or twelve Greek authors , representing four different departments of Greek literature . In history , there are , be- sides Xenophon previously presented , two great Greek names standing forth so conspicuously ...
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Página 185 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His...
Página 240 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 64 - Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy; for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.
Página 215 - Oh, our yEschylus, the thunderous, How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath ! Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's place, And who made the whole world loyal, Less by kingly power than grace ! Our Euripides, the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres...
Página 238 - Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Página 217 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Página 121 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Página 219 - Close around him and confound him, the confounder of ' us all ! Pelt him, pummel him, and maul him, — rummage, ransack, overhaul him ! Overbear him, and out-bawl him ; bear him down, and bring him. under ! Bellow like a burst of thunder — robber, harpy, sink of plunder ! Rogue and villain ! rogue and cheat ! rogue and villain ! I repeat. Oftener than I can repeat it has the rogue and villain cheated. Close upon him left and right — spit upon him, spurn and smite ; Spit upon him as you see :...
Página 81 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 235 - Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things — Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, The welcome stall to the...