Progressive Readings in ProseRudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 376 páginas |
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... story - teller may all along have meant nothing but what he said ; and , that , incredible as the events may appear , he himself literally believed - and ex- pected you also to believe - all this about Hercules , without any latent ...
... story - teller may all along have meant nothing but what he said ; and , that , incredible as the events may appear , he himself literally believed - and ex- pected you also to believe - all this about Hercules , without any latent ...
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... story first crystallized into its shape , we shall find ourselves led back generally to one or other of two sources - either to actual historical events , represented by the fancy under figures personifying them ; or else to natural ...
... story first crystallized into its shape , we shall find ourselves led back generally to one or other of two sources - either to actual historical events , represented by the fancy under figures personifying them ; or else to natural ...
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... story is always , not what wild hunter dreamed , or what childish race first dreaded it ; but what wise man first perfectly told , and what strong people first perfectly lived by it . And the real meaning of any myth is that which it ...
... story is always , not what wild hunter dreamed , or what childish race first dreaded it ; but what wise man first perfectly told , and what strong people first perfectly lived by it . And the real meaning of any myth is that which it ...
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... be our subject of closer in- quiry - the story of Athena and of the deities subordinate to her . This great goddess , the Neith of the Egyptians , the Athena or Athenaia of the Greeks , and , with INFORMATIVE PROSE 19.
... be our subject of closer in- quiry - the story of Athena and of the deities subordinate to her . This great goddess , the Neith of the Egyptians , the Athena or Athenaia of the Greeks , and , with INFORMATIVE PROSE 19.
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... story of Troy again " ( thus he writes to a noble youth of Rome whom he cared for ) , " quietly at Præneste , while you have been busy at Rome ; and truly I think that what is base and what is noble , and what useful and useless , may ...
... story of Troy again " ( thus he writes to a noble youth of Rome whom he cared for ) , " quietly at Præneste , while you have been busy at Rome ; and truly I think that what is base and what is noble , and what useful and useless , may ...
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Progressive Readings in Prose Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain,Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Visualização completa - 1923 |
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Página 213 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Página 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Página 14 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 69 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Página 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Página 211 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Página 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Página 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 14 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...