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Página xvi
... Homer to the proof and elucidation of four state- ments concerning the style of Homer . In one place , by way of summary , he says : " Homer is rapid in his movement , Homer is plain in his words and style , Homer is simple in his ideas ...
... Homer to the proof and elucidation of four state- ments concerning the style of Homer . In one place , by way of summary , he says : " Homer is rapid in his movement , Homer is plain in his words and style , Homer is simple in his ideas ...
Página xvii
... Homer's narrative is uni- formly rapid , plain , simple , and noble . How does the Homeric narrative compare in these respects with those of the Bible ? Evi- dently it is with respect to narrative that Homer and the Bible should be ...
... Homer's narrative is uni- formly rapid , plain , simple , and noble . How does the Homeric narrative compare in these respects with those of the Bible ? Evi- dently it is with respect to narrative that Homer and the Bible should be ...
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... Homer , yet cannot well speak , prophesy , or know the living , except they drink blood , wherein is the life of man . And therefore the souls of Penelope's paramours , conducted by Mercury , chirped like bats , and those which followed ...
... Homer , yet cannot well speak , prophesy , or know the living , except they drink blood , wherein is the life of man . And therefore the souls of Penelope's paramours , conducted by Mercury , chirped like bats , and those which followed ...
Página xxvii
... Homer were reading of my own own selection , but my mother forced me , by steady daily toil , to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to read it every syllable through , aloud , hard names and all , from Genesis to the ...
... Homer were reading of my own own selection , but my mother forced me , by steady daily toil , to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to read it every syllable through , aloud , hard names and all , from Genesis to the ...
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... Homer and Isaiah . To know , in addition to one's native literature , a great poetry and literature not of home growth , is an influence of the highest value ; it very greatly widens one's range . The Bible has thus been an influence of ...
... Homer and Isaiah . To know , in addition to one's native literature , a great poetry and literature not of home growth , is an influence of the highest value ; it very greatly widens one's range . The Bible has thus been an influence of ...
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The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and Comments Albert Stanburrough Cook Vista completa - 1903 |
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Términos y frases comunes
according to thy apostles Aryan beasts behold Biblical Blessed cast children of Israel children of men Christ David my father dead rise delight Demosthenes diction earth enemies English Bible English language everlasting evil expression fear giveth glory gnomic poetry hath hear thou Hebrew poetry holy Homer iniquity Jerusalem judge keep thy king kingdom of heaven Latin lines literary literature Matthew Arnold mercy Moab Moses mouth nature parallel passage Pindar pray prophets Psalm quicken rejoice rhythm righteousness say unto Scripture Semitic languages sentence shalt thou simplicity song soul spake speak speech supplication things thou art thou hast thou in heaven thou shalt thought thy commandments thy judgments thy law thy name thy people Israel thy precepts thy servant thy statutes thy testimonies thy word tongue translation truth understanding unto the LORD unto thee unto thy verse voice whosoever wicked wisdom
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Página 54 - king, knoweth of these things, before whom, also, I speak " freely : for, I am persuaded, that none of these things, are " hidden from him ; for, this thing, was not done in a corner.
Página 53 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Página 50 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Página xxviii - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes "Woe unto the world because of offenses: for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom...
Página liv - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern; then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Página 56 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Página 46 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Página 3 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 49 - Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Página 22 - But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.