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New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... some petition. A characteristic variety here is the poem of prayer, especially the lament which naturally issues ... various sorts, liturgical pieces, dithyrambic poems, epic poems, moralistic pieces, or religious-philosophic poems. II Purpose. 1. Relation to ...
NPNF-213. Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... the seven-syllabled. In his more elaborate poems, such as the Nisibene series, which ... to throughout the poem—sometimes throughout a group of cognate poems. In other poems, especially in ... . In point of literary value as poems, a high place cannot be claimed ...
Systematic Theology - Volume I by Hodge, Charles (1797-1878)
... were called theologians among the Greeks, because their poems treated of the nature of the gods. Aristotle ...
Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. by Wernle, Paul (1872-1939)
... gods appear, and this, especially in the Homeric poems, as over-men, of whose birth, suffering, and ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 10: 1864 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... if we overlooked the fact that the choice poem before us is a hymn of faith. As ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... Ont cimente ma fortune et mon rang. The poem which contains these lines may be read with ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... . v. p. 152, 153,) Paul Silentiarius, (in a poem of 1026 hexameters, and calcem Annae Commen. Alexiad ...
Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. by Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
... a very odd passage in Mr. Herbert’s poems, which whether it be only the prudent conjecture ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... lines disconnected from the rest of the great poem—and consider them as positive statements and suitable ...
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume II by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
... by the Stoic philosopher and poet Cleanthes, a poem which will be found with a Latin version ...
