Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
Frederic FarrarThe address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
Frederic FarrarMan's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
Frederic FarrarAnd now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."
Frederic FarrarSpeaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."
Frederic Farrar