Verona and Other LecturesG. Allen, 1894 - 168 pages |
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Page 122 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 122 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 122 - Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
Page 80 - Christ, will be made to acknowledge this, " that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure,
Page 98 - Franks ; and they resolved, through unknown seas, to explore their way from the mouth of the Phasis to that of the Rhine. They easily escaped through the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, and cruising along the Mediterranean, indulged their appetite for revenge and plunder, by frequent descents on the unsuspecting shores of Asia, Greece, and Africa. The opulent city of Syracuse, in whose port the navies of Athens and Carthage had formerly been...
Page 30 - Titanian hammer-strokes beating, out of lava, these glittering cylinders and timelyrespondent valves, and fine ribbed rods, which touch each other as a serpent writhes, in noiseless gliding, and omnipotence of grasp ; infinitely complex anatomy of active steel...
Page 81 - Under the protection of the Romans, ninety-two considerable towns had arisen in the several parts of that great province ; and, among these, thirty-three cities were distinguished above the rest, by their superior privileges and importance.
Page 12 - Now if, with this sympathy, you look at their dragon and wild beast decoration, you will , find that it now tells you about these Lombards far more than they could know of themselves. You may smile at my saying...
Page 7 - I do not think that there is any other rock in all the world, from which the places and monuments of so complex and deep a fragment of the history of its ages can be visible, as from this piece of crag, with its blue and prickly weeds. For you have thus beneath you at once, the birthplaces of Virgil and of Livy ; the homes of Dante and Petrarch ; and the source of the most sweet and pathetic inspiration...
Page 51 - II. chap. 4.] as the lineal descendant of Herakles. Recollect, then, we have the actual historic king celebrating the games as the descendant of the God. And real history begins. 2. Pheidon of Argos — I now use Mr. Grote's words — " first coined both copper and silver money in Aegina;" and he presently adds: — " The first coinage of copper and silver money is a capital event in Grecian history." 1 It is so, and in wider history than that of Greece.