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... acted as if he had no other aim than to please himself , and to govern other people not that he cared to make them wiser , or happier , or better , but he merely desired his own glory . : When he was very young , Julius Cæsar ap- peared ...
... acted as if he had no other aim than to please himself , and to govern other people not that he cared to make them wiser , or happier , or better , but he merely desired his own glory . : When he was very young , Julius Cæsar ap- peared ...
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... acted gene- rously towards him or not , can never be known with certainty ; because , when Cato at last found it impossible any longer to escape from his powerful enemy , he resolved to kill himself , it being reckoned cowardly for a ...
... acted gene- rously towards him or not , can never be known with certainty ; because , when Cato at last found it impossible any longer to escape from his powerful enemy , he resolved to kill himself , it being reckoned cowardly for a ...
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... acted as he be- lieved to be right ; and when Cæsar was told of his having destroyed himself , he said in a voice of sorrow , " Cato ! I envy you your death ! why did you not allow me the glory of giving you your life ? " In the ...
... acted as he be- lieved to be right ; and when Cæsar was told of his having destroyed himself , he said in a voice of sorrow , " Cato ! I envy you your death ! why did you not allow me the glory of giving you your life ? " In the ...
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... acted in the theatres , and gladiators were made to fight for their amusement . He also ordered some mock battles to be fought , which must have been very beautiful and interesting to see , for there were elephants brought in on each ...
... acted in the theatres , and gladiators were made to fight for their amusement . He also ordered some mock battles to be fought , which must have been very beautiful and interesting to see , for there were elephants brought in on each ...
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... acted according to that which appeared to be his duty ; though it will be seen how sadly he was mistaken in what he thought it right to do , because he did not know that rule of Scrip- ture which tells us , we must not do evil that good ...
... acted according to that which appeared to be his duty ; though it will be seen how sadly he was mistaken in what he thought it right to do , because he did not know that rule of Scrip- ture which tells us , we must not do evil that good ...
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Seite 99 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 111 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Seite 152 - And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!
Seite 20 - Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities.
Seite 122 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Seite 106 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 180 - ... spite, however, of the edicts of the governing powers and the violence of the mob, the new faith continued to make progress. For some years prior to 1590, 10,000 natives were, it was reckoned, annually gained over to Christianity; and the state of affairs certainly seemed to prove the truth of the saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Seite 65 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Seite 180 - In the general, that there shall be such a happy period as the millennium, that ' the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,' Dan. vii. 27. that Christ shall have ' the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,
Seite 106 - Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.