Marcus Aurelius: A Biography Told as Much as May be by Letters, Together with Some Account of the Stoic Religion and an Exposition of the Roman Government's Attempt to Suppress Christianity During Marcus's ReignYale University Press, 1922 - 309 pages |
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Marcus Aurelius; a Biography Told as Much as May be by Letters: Together ... Henry Dwight Sedgwick Affichage du livre entier - 1921 |
Marcus Aurelius; a Biography Told as Much as May be by Letters: Together ... Henry Dwight Sedgwick Affichage du livre entier - 1921 |
Marcus Aurelius; a Biography Told as Much as May be by Letters: Together ... Henry Dwight Sedgwick Affichage du livre entier - 1921 |
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Page 230 - To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 23 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 269 - Reason (for those only are by their nature fitted to hold communion with God, being by means of Reason conjoined with Him) — why should not such an one call himself a citizen of the world...
Page 91 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 23 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Page 5 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Page 111 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 230 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 210 - Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Page 267 - All that is in tune with thee, O Universe, is in tune with me ! Nothing that is in due time for thee is too early or too late for me! All that thy seasons bring, O Nature, is fruit for me ! All things come from thee, subsist in thee, go back to thee.