The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 33
... collection ; whatever the date of this or that indivi- dual poem , the collection as a whole - whether by selec- tion or authorship - is adapted to express a religious life of which the exile is the presupposition . Only in this way can ...
... collection ; whatever the date of this or that indivi- dual poem , the collection as a whole - whether by selec- tion or authorship - is adapted to express a religious life of which the exile is the presupposition . Only in this way can ...
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... collection was not originally formed as part of the temple liturgy . The title , as preserved in the subscription to Ps . lxxii . 20 , was not Psalms " but " Prayers of David . " Again , while the Levitical psalms were sung in the name ...
... collection was not originally formed as part of the temple liturgy . The title , as preserved in the subscription to Ps . lxxii . 20 , was not Psalms " but " Prayers of David . " Again , while the Levitical psalms were sung in the name ...
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... collection of special plicated in several respects . In other words , if psychical continua , viz . , the groups of movements possible to each magnification were possible , we might be directly aware limb and certain combinations of ...
... collection of special plicated in several respects . In other words , if psychical continua , viz . , the groups of movements possible to each magnification were possible , we might be directly aware limb and certain combinations of ...
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... Collection of Prognostics . It is a calendar of a kind common amongst the Greeks under the name of apámŋyμa , or a collection of the risings and settings of the stars in the morning or evening twilight , which were so many visible signs ...
... Collection of Prognostics . It is a calendar of a kind common amongst the Greeks under the name of apámŋyμa , or a collection of the risings and settings of the stars in the morning or evening twilight , which were so many visible signs ...
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... collection of Sentences ( sententiæ ) , a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse . This collection must have been made at a very early date , since it was known to Aulus Gellius in the 2d century A.D. maxim is comprised in ...
... collection of Sentences ( sententiæ ) , a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse . This collection must have been made at a very early date , since it was known to Aulus Gellius in the 2d century A.D. maxim is comprised in ...
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