Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sculptured Funeral Monuments of Ancient Athens (illustrated). Dr. Tarbell. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...proving, explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principles of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." Dr. Gottheil chose as the part of this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly...
...four volumes of Browning's Tuscany have been given to this department. The department of Biography has been enlarged by Peigrot's French Biography; Politics, by Carson's work on the Centennial of the Constitution. To the department of Poetry have been added Hartsome's edition of the "Ancient Nutrical Tales," Falkoner's Shipwreck, and a new edition of Wadsworth. To Art, three volumes of Jackson's Dalmatic; and to Fiction, another edition of Poe's works have been given...
...consequence of the success of the adventure an American school was established at Athens. The students, thirty in number, come in direct contact with the work of the great masters and no more broadening influence can be exerted on men than being present with these ancient works of art. The French school is a marked example of this. The students returning thoroughly interested in their work have influenced the whole French system of education. The Athenian school is a centre from which men may start in their researches, and Athens itself has many advantages as a place for a school...
...pretty well acquainted with the descriptions of the beautiful situation of ancient Delphi but now the seat of the temple is covered with some two hundred huts of natives. A few remaining facts may not be out of place. The old temple was burned in 548. No one knows how long it had been built nor exactly how it was constructed. Only a single chamber, the one containing the oracle, was saved from the fire and this was built into the new temple. Apollo was the chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo...