Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 18, Part 2Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 404
... Chrift . Some years after , Thefpis made his first attempts in tragedy , and acted his Alcestis in 536 . Theatre . fhorten its part , and perhaps even carried. players on the flute who entered into competition were en- Theatre . joined ...
... Chrift . Some years after , Thefpis made his first attempts in tragedy , and acted his Alcestis in 536 . Theatre . fhorten its part , and perhaps even carried. players on the flute who entered into competition were en- Theatre . joined ...
Page 405
... Chrift , 11 years after Thelpis had acted his Alceftis . He had for competitors Cheerilus Pratenas , and Phrynichus , whofe glory he eclipted , and Sophocles , who rivalled his own . Sophocles was born about the year 497 B. C. about 14 ...
... Chrift , 11 years after Thelpis had acted his Alceftis . He had for competitors Cheerilus Pratenas , and Phrynichus , whofe glory he eclipted , and Sophocles , who rivalled his own . Sophocles was born about the year 497 B. C. about 14 ...
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... Chrift ; and the other to Ptolemy Fhiladelphus king of Egypt . Hiero , though a prince diftinguished in arms and political wildom , does not feem to have been a patron of learning . This is fuppofed Theocritus went to Alexandria , where ...
... Chrift ; and the other to Ptolemy Fhiladelphus king of Egypt . Hiero , though a prince diftinguished in arms and political wildom , does not feem to have been a patron of learning . This is fuppofed Theocritus went to Alexandria , where ...
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... Chrift , and to teach the ignorant what they are to believe , tended for and what to do , in order to work out their own falvation . the fervice The wildom and riety of our ancestors have accordingly founded profefforfhips of theology ...
... Chrift , and to teach the ignorant what they are to believe , tended for and what to do , in order to work out their own falvation . the fervice The wildom and riety of our ancestors have accordingly founded profefforfhips of theology ...
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... Chrift and his apottles in the holy fcrip- To fupply the defects of his theory of morals , we would recommend to the ftudent an attentive perufal of Cumberland on the Law of Nature , and Paley's Elements of Moral Philofophy . A learned ...
... Chrift and his apottles in the holy fcrip- To fupply the defects of his theory of morals , we would recommend to the ftudent an attentive perufal of Cumberland on the Law of Nature , and Paley's Elements of Moral Philofophy . A learned ...
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Page 459 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 481 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And hath put all things under his feet : and gave him to be the head over all things, to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all...
Page 474 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 465 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
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Page 446 - Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine, Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste, Of virtue to make wise: What hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body and mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat!
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Page 449 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 443 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 484 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers (Le. various) kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.