Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BibleA. and C. Black, 1863 - 335 страница |
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... historians , and Livy or Herodotus . Also it contains poetry ; hence the merits of David , or Asaph , or Ezekiel as poets , can be compared with those of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . But all the while , so far from forgetting that ...
... historians , and Livy or Herodotus . Also it contains poetry ; hence the merits of David , or Asaph , or Ezekiel as poets , can be compared with those of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . But all the while , so far from forgetting that ...
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... historians , is precisely the style we look for in historic composition . The style of David and Isaiah - chief among the sacred poets — is eminently poetical . The style of Solomon , the sacred aphorist , has exactly the point ...
... historians , is precisely the style we look for in historic composition . The style of David and Isaiah - chief among the sacred poets — is eminently poetical . The style of Solomon , the sacred aphorist , has exactly the point ...
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... historian with- out Gibbon's fastidious elaboration . Oratory , poetry , history , flowed spontaneous from their pens , as the dew- drops of morning fall glittering on the flowers - neither receiving nor requiring the polish of labour ...
... historian with- out Gibbon's fastidious elaboration . Oratory , poetry , history , flowed spontaneous from their pens , as the dew- drops of morning fall glittering on the flowers - neither receiving nor requiring the polish of labour ...
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... historian would be extravagant ; but which in the prophet is dignified and becoming as the solemn folds of his own prophetic mantle . There is a noble obscurity , as when the clouds , gilded by the twi- light from the unrisen sun , seem ...
... historian would be extravagant ; but which in the prophet is dignified and becoming as the solemn folds of his own prophetic mantle . There is a noble obscurity , as when the clouds , gilded by the twi- light from the unrisen sun , seem ...
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... historian , has turned this maxim to account , no matter how remote the age , or alien the manners , which he describes , his description will at once come home with all the force and freshness of reality . We find this often verified ...
... historian , has turned this maxim to account , no matter how remote the age , or alien the manners , which he describes , his description will at once come home with all the force and freshness of reality . We find this often verified ...
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Страница 59 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls ; for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Страница 118 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
Страница 61 - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about : and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry.
Страница 65 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Страница 65 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Страница 55 - Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Страница 61 - So I prophesied as I was commanded : and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. " And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above : but there was no breath in them.
Страница 69 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word.
Страница 78 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Страница 55 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.