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... Greeks deficient in the Requisites for Public Opinion.- Greek Barbarism and Absence of Moral Principle . Licentiousness of Greek Females and Prevalence of Infanticide . Commerce in the Grecian Republics ex- tremely limited . Extent of ...
... Greeks deficient in the Requisites for Public Opinion.- Greek Barbarism and Absence of Moral Principle . Licentiousness of Greek Females and Prevalence of Infanticide . Commerce in the Grecian Republics ex- tremely limited . Extent of ...
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... ( welfare ) of men ; which is that the Greeks call Philanthropia . This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest , being Milton , Reformation in England . the character of the Deity ; and without it man 26 INTRODUCTION .
... ( welfare ) of men ; which is that the Greeks call Philanthropia . This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest , being Milton , Reformation in England . the character of the Deity ; and without it man 26 INTRODUCTION .
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... Greek and Roman writers , of the state of Egypt many centuries before their days , must be received with great caution . Their information was only by tradition , and tradi- tion is often fond of exaggeration . That some arts had been ...
... Greek and Roman writers , of the state of Egypt many centuries before their days , must be received with great caution . Their information was only by tradition , and tradi- tion is often fond of exaggeration . That some arts had been ...
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... Greek and Roman historians , particularly Herodotus , Diodorus , and even Pomponius Mela , were fond of recording fables they were as willing to be marvellous on the subject of the Egyptians as Livy showed himself when he wrote his ...
... Greek and Roman historians , particularly Herodotus , Diodorus , and even Pomponius Mela , were fond of recording fables they were as willing to be marvellous on the subject of the Egyptians as Livy showed himself when he wrote his ...
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... Greeks , and even with the Romans , very great contempt was entertained for Egyptian superstition and information . Both the historians and poets of the ancients exercised their wit and satire on the absurdities which they deemed ...
... Greeks , and even with the Romans , very great contempt was entertained for Egyptian superstition and information . Both the historians and poets of the ancients exercised their wit and satire on the absurdities which they deemed ...
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Página 162 - He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Página 47 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part ; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
Página 47 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Página 59 - Think not but that I know these, things, or think I know them not; not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought: he, who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
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Página 46 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
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Página 192 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
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