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Excerpt from Selections From Latin Authors (285 B. C.-200 A. D.)Sic expectabat populus atque ora tenebat Rebus, utri magni victoria sit data regni. Interea sol albus recessit in infera noctis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally rec...

Excerpt from The Art of Translating: With Special Reference to Cauer's Die Kunst Des UebersetzensOur teaching of a foreign tongue is apt to be too mechanical. The student must be made to feel that the language he is study ing is not something strange and mysterious, but natural and simple. This he cannot do until he changes his position and looks at the unfolding of the thought from the standpoint of the original. It is then, and not till then...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Urbs Beata: A Vision of the Perfect LifeSo many go through a' spring day heedless of the song of birds, unobservant of the ¿owers and trees, seeing not the cloud shadows resting on the hills or the glories of the sunset.On how many ears are the rapturous sym phonies of a Beethoven but dull sounds!Far truer is it in the spiritual world. Life is a divine vision, but how few grasp it!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundr...

Excerpt from Via Crucis: The Lesson of Holy WeekTradition says that the triumphal procession approached the city by the portals of the Golden Gate. This gate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from Christi Imago or the Christed Life: Thoughts for the Sundays of the Christian YearChristianity is the life of Christ realized in the personal capacity of man. The new birth is the beginning of this life in the soul. Its complete development is Christian Character. Salvation is the gradual emancipation from our lower selves bringing us unto the attainment of the perfect freedom of the sons of God. Its consummation is Christ similit...

Excerpt from A Guide to the Old Persian InscriptionsThe Old Persian language deserves a larger place in American scholarship than it has yet received. Here tofore the work has been left entirely to European scholars, and it is due to a desire to awaken an inter est ih this old tongue among scholars of our own country that this little book has come into existence. I take the opportunity of expressing my gratitude to my pupil, wolcott webster el...

Excerpt from Cuneiform Supplement (Autographed) To the Author's Ancient Persian Lexicon and Texts, With Brief Historical Synopsis of the LanguageProfessor F. H. Weissbach has been working on some very satisfactory photographs, recently come into his possession, of the Grave of Darius at nak's-i-rustam. He has been enabled to correct many readings in the upper inscription (n Ra), as well as to discover quite a number of somewhat isolated words ...

Excerpt from Ancient Persian Lexicon: And the Texts of the Achaemedian Inscriptions Transliterated and Translated With Special Reference to Their Recent Re-ExaminationThe results of their Elamite studies put forth with such assur ance by Husing, Jensen, Bork, and others, I have used perhaps with too great caution. We are forced to admit that our knowl edge of this language, notwithstanding our richly increased ma terial (seheil, T ewtes e'lami...

Excerpt from Cuneiform Supplement (Autographed) To the Author's Ancient Persian Lexicon and Texts, With Brief Historical Synopsis of the LanguageProfessor F. H. Weissbach has been working on some very satisfactory photographs, recently come into his possession, of the Grave of Darius at nak's-i-rustam. He has been enabled to correct many readings in the upper inscription (n Ra), as well as to discover quite a number of somewhat isolated words ...

Excerpt from Some Critical and Supplementary Notes to His Guide to Old Persian InscriptionsConstant reference should be made to the Median and Assyrian translations. For this end the author recom mends the following: (i?) Die Achaemeniden-inschrif ten. Transscription des babylonischen Textes nebst Uebersetzung, textkritischen Anmerkungen und'einem 1winter-11nd Eigennamenverzeichniss von Carl Bezold. Mit dem Keilschrifttexte der kleineren achii...

Excerpt from Some Critical and Supplementary Notes to His Guide to Old Persian InscriptionsConstant reference should be made to the Median and Assyrian translations. For this end the author recom mends the following: (i?) Die Achaemeniden-inschrif ten. Transscription des babylonischen Textes nebst Uebersetzung, textkritischen Anmerkungen und'einem 1winter-11nd Eigennamenverzeichniss von Carl Bezold. Mit dem Keilschrifttexte der kleineren achii...

Excerpt from Mycenaean Troy: Based on Dorpfield's Excavations in the Sixth of the Nine Buried Cities at Hissarlik4. Of the many gates of Troy (b, Homer gives the names of two, the Scaean and the Darda nian. Of the three gates unearthed in our city, VI T must have formed the principal entrance on that por tion of the hill where the city was most accessible, while on the northern side, where the wall is entirely destroyed, the gate towering high...

Excerpt from Herodotus and the Empires of the East: Based on Nikel's Herodot Und Die KeilschriftforschungIf this volume can add to the charm of the simple style of Herodotus an appreciation of the historical value of his statements, the purpose of the editors will be fulfilled. Herbert cushing tolman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a r...

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