King Alfred's booksSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920 - 390 oldal |
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Népszerű szakaszok
264. oldal - While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he' composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarisim of the times and the situation of the author.
265. oldal - Such topics of consolation so obvious, so vague, or so abstruse, are ineffectual to subdue the feelings of human nature.
337. oldal - ... of time; and when he had sown them he committed to the younger gods the fashioning of their mortal bodies...
xii. oldal - Hearing this, and perceiving his ingenuous benevolence and devout desire of studying the words of Divine wisdom, I gave, though in secret, boundless thanks to Almighty God, who had implanted such a love of wisdom in the king's heart. But I could not find any empty space in that book wherein to write the quotation, for it was already full of various matters...
336. oldal - And having made it he divided the whole mixture into souls equal in number to the stars, and assigned each soul to a star; and having there placed them as in a chariot, he showed them the nature of the universe...
372. oldal - ... slaves? Then said I : I should not think it at all right, or moreover suitable, if men in a state of slavery should serve him. Then said he : How much more unnatural would it be, if God had not in all his kingdom any free creature under his power? Therefore he created two rational creatures free, angels and men.
56. oldal - And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shall bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
337. oldal - ... and the like within him, and overcame by the help of reason the turbulent and irrational mob of later accretions, made up of fire and air and water and earth, and returned to the form of his first and better state.
227. oldal - Easter-Day is the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon, or next after, the 21st day of March : and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter- Day is the Sunday after.
341. oldal - ... because no one of the elements can exist without another, though it be imperceptible in the other. Thus water and earth are very difficult to be seen or to be perceived by ignorant men in fire, and yet they are nevertheless mixed therewith. So" is there also fire in stones, and in water, very difficult to be seen, but it is nevertheless there. Thou hast bound the fire with very indissoluble chains, that it may not come to its own region, that is, to the greatest fire, which is over us ; lest...