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... birth is very doubt- ful. For long it was placed as far back as 1483: now scholars are disposed to put it forward to about 1495. The reason, a good o... ... detailed proof would be altogether too dangerous. Thus, for instance, the old Fabliaux—the Farces of the fif- teenth century, the story-tellers of th... ...natural- ize him completely in England. Thomas Urquhart belonged to a very old family of good standing in the North of Scotland. After studying in Abe... ...emind us of Rabelais. The kind of Fabliaux in mono- rhyme quatrains of the old Aubery anticipate his coarse and popular jests. But all that is beside ... ... 5. Plautus, in his Cistelleria. Marcus Varro, in his satire inscribed The Testament, alleg- ing to this purpose the authority of Aristotle. Censorinu... ... Poictiers, where, as he stud- ied and profited very much, he saw that the scholars were oftentimes at leisure and knew not how to bestow their time, ... ...on four pillars in the midst of a field, to no other end but that the said scholars, when they had nothing else to do, might pass their time in gettin... ...pply thy mind to the study of the Holy Scriptures; first in Greek, the New Testament, with the Epistles of the Apostles; and then the Old Testament in... ...sistance of their devout prayers and holy ad- monitions? Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial...

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...f this man, belonging in every sense to our own time, some touches of that old, divine spirit, which had long passed away from among us, nay which, as... ... religious Wisdom, which 6 Autobiography may still, with something of its old impressiveness, speak to the whole soul; still, in these hard, unbeliev... ...any a British heart, now that the whole matter is no longer new,—is indeed old and trite,—we may judge with what vehement acceptance this Werter must ... ...Being: he there- fore sought him in his works, and would, in the good Old- Testament fashion, build him an altar. Natural productions were set forth a... ...ther. His price was moder- ate, and he was indifferent as to the number of scholars at one lesson. My father instantly determined to make the attempt,... ...no longer strange to the Germans. The per- sonages of both the Old and New Testaments had received through Klopstock a tender and affectionate nature,... ...over, the instruction seemed contrived only for cheating and degrading the scholars. If one forgot to hook or loosen the curb-chain, or let his switch... ...reek likewise, since my acquaintance with it did not extend beyond the New Testament. I therefore the more zealously kept to Latin, the masterpieces i... ...he other wealth of all ages in translations, and the works of the greatest scholars. I consequently read much in this language, with great ease, and w...

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... E MERSON THE M USKETAQUID, or Grass ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized hi... ...w is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which... ...urpose of a ship, so our boat, being of wood, gladly availed itself of the old law that the heavier shall float the lighter, and though a dull water f... ...t we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature. The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I con fess to having been slightly... ...ee that there is any wit in them. Such has been my experience with the New Testament. I have not yet got to the crucifixion, I have read it over so ma... ...is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defe... ...; there should be one hour, if no more, which the day did not bring forth. Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. But is i... ...xpression the emphasis and sincerity of his action. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly... ...r all. There are some passages in the Antigone of Sophocles, well known to scholars, of which I am reminded in this connec tion. Antigone has resolve...

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...ing fate, commonly called necessity, they are em ployed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves ... ...may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the ... ...ted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for ... ...s of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The suc cess of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a court ier like success, not kingly, no... ... Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few scholars read, and a few scholars only are still reading it. However much... ...who could pronounce the Greek it self taught him to read his verse in the Testament in his native parish far away; and now I must translate to him, w... ...With his hos pitable intellect he embraces children, beggars, insane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding to it commonly some bre...

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...could have been opened between the new world of Christian feeling, and the old world so deaf to its music. Here, therefore, we may observe two prepara... ..., but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the good old ferocious times of paganism, as may be seen in the Iliad: it was not sa... ...ery far’ from every one of us. And I will venture to say, that many a poor old woman has, by virtue of her Christian inoculation, Sir Isaac’s great id... ...rthodox Christianity is possible for those who are not behind their age in scholarship and science; this is a solemn fact, which may be ignored by the... ...ible disturbance offered to the Christian by vari- ous readings in the New Testament. You thought that the carelessness, or, at times, even the treach... ..., yet carrying one’s eye from this Epistle to the whole domains of the New Testament— yet, looking away from that defrauded village to universal Chris... ...to show how scandalous an error has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian eth... ...lation to ‘all prisoners and captives;’ and in relation to slaves! The New Testament had said nothing directly upon the question of slavery; nay, by t... ...ed by Mahomet in the Koran. And this has been the opinion of many European scholars. They fancy that Mahomet, however worldly and sensual as the found...

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...STION seems a hopeless one after 2000 years of reso- lute adherence to the old cry of “Not this man, but Barabbas.” Yet it is beginning to look as if ... ...as- suming that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus ever ex... ...is rapidly becoming obsolete; so that even in the United States, where the old tradition of the verbal infalli- bility of “the book of books” lingers ... ...rifice, a sufferer for our sins. And this leaves the poor man still in his old difficulty; for if it was impossible for him to procure rams and goats ... ...time of some of his hearers is to date the gos- pel without the aid of any scholarship. It must have been written during the lifetime of Jesus’s conte... ...revela- tion, and rejecting that view later on, begin by rejecting the Old Testament, and give up the belief in a brimstone hell before they give up (... ...nd doctrines. But these disintegrations, though technically interesting to scholars, and gratifying or exasperating, as the case may be, to people who...

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...solent, did they but know how much better I find ye esteem it to imitate the old and elegant humanity of Greece, than the barbaric pride of a Hunnish ... ...er questioned by the laws. Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid; and... ...f Italy. But Scipio and others of the noblest senators withstood him and his old Sabine austerity; honoured and admired the men; and the cen sor hims... ...demeaned the mat ter, we are become hitherto the latest and the backwardest scholars, of whom God offered to have made us the teachers. Now once agai... ...rd with ye, so full of meekness and breathing charity, that next to his last testament, who bequeathed love and peace to his disciples, I can not cal...

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... golden morning the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old, the timid and the bold, nay, even of the most delicate valetudinarians... ...oble crea- ture, as I first looked at her, when yet upon the early thresh- old of womanhood ‘With household motions light and free, And steps of virgi... ...ian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup) peculia... .... But the capital argument against such doctrine is to be found in the New Testament. Strange that Milton should overlook, and strange that moralists ... ...mmerce, by whatever sense, with a spiri- tual being. We find it in the Old Testament, where the ex- pression, ‘I have seen God and shall die,’ means s... ...as a scholar. We are not going to enter on so large a field as that of his scholarship in con- nection with his philosophic labors, scholarship in the... ...on with his philosophic labors, scholarship in the re- sult; not this, but scholarship in the means and machinery, range of verbal scholarship, is wha... ...ge ever be- come an accurate Grecian in later times, when better models of scholarship, and better aids to scholarship, had begun to multiply. But sti... ...lf- crown and its surplus, nobody can doubt after reading my last will and testament. After reciting a few inconsiderable legacies to the three contin...

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...office ever taken in the new federal city in the new Senate Chamber (now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) of the partially built Capitol building. The o... ...favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with al... ...Govern ment possessing all the energies of any government ever known to the Old World, with an utter incapacity to oppress the people. Entering with ... ... of the principles of international law would be helpful, and the efforts of scholars to pre pare such a work for adoption by the various nations sho... ...eighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write. For the more tha... ...ion today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand, are testament to our re solve, but our greatest strength is the power of our...

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...es of life, for himself, and such of his family or tribe as are either too old, or too young, or too infirm, to go a- hunting and fishing. Such nation... ...of directly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to p... ...by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old clothes which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other clothes w... ..., or doctor (words anciently synonymous), in the liberal arts, and to have scholars or apprentices (words likewise originally synonymous) to study und... ...ety of pri- 113 Adam Smith vate founders, have established many pensions, scholarships, ex- hibitions, bursaries, etc. for this purpose, which draw m... ...ersities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. In ancient times, before any charities of this kind had be... ...n some are not, proportioned to the value of the property transferred. All testaments must be written upon stamped paper, of which the price is propor...

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...and not any antique fashion; and though it be not yet current by the public stamp, yet it may, for all that, be as old as nature, and is certainly not... ...ording to which they are there called virtues or vices. And whatever authority the learned Mr. Lowde places in his Old English Dictionary, I daresay i... ... will answer:—Because the public requires it, and the Levia- than will punish you if you do not. And if one of the old philosophers had been asked, he... ...e matters of the highest concernment, so there will be the greatest difficulty. 23. Especially of the Old and New Testament Scriptures. The volumes o... ...specially of the Old and New Testament Scriptures. The volumes of interpreters and commentators on the Old and New Testament are but too manifest proo... ...ertain propositions which were self-evident, or to be received for true; which being settled in the minds of their scholars as unquestionable 593 Joh... ...ci- ence, do not without reason place this and some other such maxims at the entrance of their systems; that their scholars, having in the beginning p... ...t overturned by an upstart novelist? Can any one expect that he should be made to confess, that what he taught his scholars thirty years ago was all e...

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... instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a winter p... ... good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title of the once famous New England Primer, and Chri... ...one with the fact that the reli- gious age par excellence would seem to be old age, when the uproar of the sexual life is past? The plain truth is tha... ...rite, adulterer, eccentric, or lunatic… . Home we come again, then, to the old and last resort of certitude—namely the com- mon assent of mankind, or ... ... the days are over.” 43 William James Much as we may admire such a robust old game- cock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit wo... ...e of characteristic passages from Parker’s correspon- dence.[34] “Orthodox scholars say: ‘In the heathen classics you find no consciousness of sin.’ I... ... memory became exceedingly clear, and it appeared to me just as if the New Testament was placed open before me, eighth chapter of Romans, and as light... ... that I would not let my parents know it until I had first looked into the Testament. I went directly to the shelf and looked into it, at the eighth o... ...to adorn them with some books to give the visitors a better opinion of our scholarship.”[192] Since Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, and Moham- medan der...

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...world has somehow been arrested, but research has shown that what European scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, and like sc... ...the Christian Scriptures, though it is just possible that fragments of the Old or New T estament may have reached him through Chadijah or Waraka, or o... ... in mind that we have no traces of the existence of Arabic versions of the Old or New Testa- ment previous to the time of Muhammad. The passage of St.... ... does not refer to versions, but to idiom. The earliest Ar. version of the Old T estament, of which we have any knowledge, is that of R. Saadias Gaon,... ... date is uncertain. Michaelis thinks that the Ara- bic versions of the New Testament were made between the Saracen conquests in the seventh century, a... ...rd Eblis. See note, p. 185. Eblis is used in the Arabic version of the New Testament, for the probable date of which, see Tischendorf, Prol. p. 78. 17... ...ween you, when death draweth nigh to any of you, at the time of making the testament; two witnesses–just men from among yourselves, or two others of a...

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...y possessed is a stronger sentiment than that which prompts to improve the old and acquire new advantages; while there are others who lean the contrar... ...nothing inconsistent with it. The natural and spontaneous admixture of the old and the young, of those whose position and reputation are made and thos... ...ng to do for his country, and he will not care for it. It has been said of old that in a despotism there is at most but one patriot, the des pot hims... ...and kick,” agreeably to the maxim of Cardinal Richelieu in his celebrated “Testament Politique.” All these things are for the interest of a king or ar... ...pacity and general intelligence. But a school supposes teachers as well as scholars: the utility of the in struction greatly depends on its bringing ...

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...man, married a conge- nial spouse, and lived orderly and died reputably an old man. It is his chief title that he refrained from “the wrong that amend... ... common, trashy mind of our gen- eration is still aghast, like the Jews of old, at any word of an unsuccessful virtue. Job has been written and read; ... ...esire a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobility of soul, which saw virtue and vice alike go unrewarded,... ...llections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. According to Whitman, on the other hand, “the time has arrived t... ...nt and abusive in speech, his lessons were apt to go over the heads of his scholars and to leave them gaping, or more often laughing. Such was his pas... ... brawling, dirty, and eccentric teacher. But as the years went by, and the scholars of Yoshida continued in vain to look around them for the abstractl... ...a- ment, and perpetuate his name in a sort of glorious ignominy. THE LARGE TESTAMENT. Of this capital achievement and, with it, of Villon’s style in g... ...singly expensive vol- umes, we are entitled to be treated rather more like scholars and rather less like children. But Mr. Bright may rest as- sured: ... ...instead of simply transferring them, like so many sheep, by a marriage, or testament, or private treaty, is thoroughly characteristic of what is best ...