After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman FoundationYale University Press, 1922 - 224 pagine |
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Pagina 182 - ... multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris. Ergo exercentur poenis veterumque malorum supplicia expendunt. Aliae panduntur inanes 740 suspensae ad ventos, aliis sub gurgite vasto infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni...
Pagina iv - STELLAR MOTIONS. With Special Reference to Motions Determined by Means of the Spectrograph. By WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL, SC.D., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, University of California.
Pagina 112 - And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day, Support the fervours of the heavenly morn ? No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing — only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Pagina 125 - Continuo auditae voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animae flentes in limine primo, Quos dulcis vitae exsortes et ab ubere raptos Abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo.
Pagina 144 - I am a child of Earth and of Starry Heaven; But my race is of Heaven (alone). This ye know yourselves. And lo, I am parched with thirst and I perish. Give me quickly The cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory.
Pagina 144 - Thou shalt find to the left of the House of Hades a Well-spring, and by the side thereof standing a white cypress. To this Well-spring approach not near. But thou shalt find another, from the Lake of Memory — cold water flowing forth, and there are guardians before it.
Pagina 83 - non ego Tartareas penetrabo tristis ad undas, | non Acheronteis transvehar umbra vadis, | non ego caeruleam remo pulsabo carinam | nee te terribilem fronte timebo Charon, | nee Minos mihi iura dabit grandaevus et atris | non errabo locis nee cohibebor aquis. . . . nam me sancta Venus sedes non nosse silentum | iussit et in caeli lucida templa tulit,
Pagina ix - Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It , , was the belief of the testator that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any »,' attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science o , ., and history,...
Pagina 144 - But thou shalt find another, from the Lake of Memory Cold water flowing forth, and there are guardians before it. Say, "I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven; But my race is of heaven (alone).
Pagina ix - College was requested and directed to establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world.