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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... policy of the Roman court. The Greeks obtained, with much difficulty, that ... ." Philelphus, absurdly enough, derives this Greek or Oriental jealousy from the manners of ... distinction has been already noticed: the Greeks were stationary or retrograde, while the ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... Europe. According to some writers, the Greek emperor had been awed, or seduced, ... had embraced both the Latin and Greek learning,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... Cape Thinners,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... the corruption and debility of the modern Greeks, the elevation of a plebeian from ... , which she still occupies in the Greek calendar.…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... , had attached the loyalty of the Greeks to the Macedonian dynasty, which had ... of twenty-eight years,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... of the great duke: the subtle Greek soon obtained the esteem and confidence of ... and his servant Saladin,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... , were styled by themselves and the Greeks Amogavares. Moncada derives their origin from ... province. The inhabitants escaped (says a Greek historian)…
Commentary on Romans by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
... to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 16. Non enim pudet me Evangelii Christi ... the Jew and then to the Greek. Under the word Greek, he includes all the Gentiles, ... the gospel covenant; and, secondly, because the Greeks, on account of their vicinity, and the ...
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book V. The Gospels. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
CHAPTER X. THE GREEK GOSPEL IS CORRECTED AND COMPLETED (MATTHEW). The defects ... for his personal use avails himself of the Greek version, but when he translates the Hebrew Gospel ...
Word Pictures in the New Testament - 1 Thessalonians by Robertson, Archibald Thomas (1863-1934)
... 3). The only superscription in the oldest Greek manuscripts (Aleph B A) is [ ... with the principal verb [eucharistoumen], the Greek being fond of the circumstantial participle ... aorist middle indicative as in the late Greek generally). So also [eis humās] like ...