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... treasure that has continued to accumulate from the earliest times , till it now comprehends a brief abstract of the wisdom of all ages . CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS . Plautus . born about B.C. 4 PREFACE TO THIRD EDITIÓN .
... treasure that has continued to accumulate from the earliest times , till it now comprehends a brief abstract of the wisdom of all ages . CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS . Plautus . born about B.C. 4 PREFACE TO THIRD EDITIÓN .
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... wisdom , cannot confine himself in due bounds if he reach high fortune and wealth . THE SOUL . Therefore , for many other reasons , the souls of the good appear to me to be divine and eternal ; but chiefly on this account , because the ...
... wisdom , cannot confine himself in due bounds if he reach high fortune and wealth . THE SOUL . Therefore , for many other reasons , the souls of the good appear to me to be divine and eternal ; but chiefly on this account , because the ...
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... wisdom , the gods have given us anything better . Blair ( " The Grave , " 1. 88 ) : - " Friendship : mysterious cement of the soul ! Sweet'ner of life , and solder of society . " FRIENDSHIP RENDERS PROSPERITY MORE BRILL- IANT ...
... wisdom , the gods have given us anything better . Blair ( " The Grave , " 1. 88 ) : - " Friendship : mysterious cement of the soul ! Sweet'ner of life , and solder of society . " FRIENDSHIP RENDERS PROSPERITY MORE BRILL- IANT ...
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... wisdom , those seem to take the sun out of the world who remove friendship from the pleasures of life ; than which we have received nothing better or more pleasant from the gods . Euripides ( Fr. Incert . 47 ) says : - " There is no ...
... wisdom , those seem to take the sun out of the world who remove friendship from the pleasures of life ; than which we have received nothing better or more pleasant from the gods . Euripides ( Fr. Incert . 47 ) says : - " There is no ...
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... wisdom . LEARNING . We are all drawn and attracted to the desire of knowledge and learning , in which we think it honorable to excel ; but to make mistakes and to Le ignorant , we regard as base and disgraceful . THE EARTH CREATED FOR ...
... wisdom . LEARNING . We are all drawn and attracted to the desire of knowledge and learning , in which we think it honorable to excel ; but to make mistakes and to Le ignorant , we regard as base and disgraceful . THE EARTH CREATED FOR ...
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Page 30 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 178 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 39 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 549 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 131 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 580 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 196 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 189 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak...