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Page 253 - with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the Word was made Flesh, and
Page 231 - all. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Page 128 - Nothing necessitates the admission of different independent beginnings for the material elements of the Turanian, Semitic and Aryan branches of speech ; nay, it is possible even now to point out radicals which, under various changes and disguises, have been current in these three branches ever since their first separation.
Page 336 - Ricci was active, skilful, full of schemes, and endowed with all the talents necessary to render him agreeable to the great, . . more a politician than a theologian. . . . Kings found in him a man full of complaisance ; the pagans a minister who accommodated himself to
Page 336 - is the skilful carrying on of the undertakings of parents and ancestors. The filial pious reverence those whom their fathers honoured, that is, their ancestors, and love those whom they regarded with affection. " Thus they served the dead as they would have served them alive.
Page 247 - Ode to Duty "— " Glad hearts without reproach or blot, Who do Thy work, and know it not.
Page 145 - A people numerous as the ocean-sands, And glorying as the mightiest of mankind, Yet where they are contented to remain : From age to age resolved to cultivate Peace, and the arts of peace—turning to gold The very ground they tread on, and the leaves They gather from
Page 186 - begun to revolve, nor the sun and moon to shine. In the midst thereof there existed neither form nor sound. Thou, O spiritual Sovereign, earnest forth in Thy presidency, and first didst divide the grosser parts from the purer. Thou madest heaven, Thou madest earth