 | Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...late which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear city of God ? MASCUS AURELTOS. Let me go where'er I will, I hear a sky-born music still. It is not only in the... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1888 - 60 pages
...Nature, from thee are all things. in theo are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, " Dear city of Cecrops" ; and wilt thou not say, " Dear city of Zeus ?"— IV, 23. APRIL 3. A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but unnecessary thoughts,... | |
 | Charles Loring Brace - God - 1889 - 364 pages
...Nature ! From thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear city of Zeus? (book iv. § 23.) The Day of Death. If any god told thee that thou shall die to-morrow, or certainly... | |
 | WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...Nature : from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of Zeus ? " 2 But compare even as devout a passage as this with a genuine Christian outpouring, and it... | |
 | Iōannēs Gennadios - Arbitration (International law) - 1904 - 98 pages
...averse to war at the outset, and counselled that differences should be adjusted amicably. When Mli\is Aristides wrote, (towards the middle of the second...the aphorism, " ubi bene, ibi patria." Long before 49 In the preceding article I omilted to refer to another case of mediation, if not, strictly speaking,... | |
 | Ethics - 1904 - 214 pages
...Nature; from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, dear City of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of God ? — Prayer of Marcus Aurelius. THE NEED AND SCOPE OF MORAL TRAINING OF THE YOUNG.* BY PROFESSOR MARTIN... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...Nature : from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear city of Zeus ? MARCUS AURELIUS (Long's translation) Logic and sermons never convince ; The damp of the night... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - Courage - 1910 - 476 pages
...Nature! From thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of God?" Surely the Universe is the City of the Infinite. Thus may we come to one general conclusion, that true... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - Hellenism - 1918 - 348 pages
...Nature : from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops, and wilt thou not say, Dear City of God?" Epictetus says : " If you consider yourself a part of a whole, it is for the sake of that whole that... | |
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O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of Zeus? 
