He himself cannot keep perfectly aloof from their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence. The relation in which he stands to Fate is not uniformly... A History of Greece - Page 71by Connop Thirlwall - 1845Full view - About this book
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1835 - 492 pages
...aloof from their quarrels : he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overreached by artifice, blinded by desire, and hurried by resentment into unseemly...described as emanating from his will ; but sometimes he voL. i. o appears to be no more than the minister of a stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to... | |
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 568 pages
...aloof from their quarrels : he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overreached by artifice, blinded by desire, and hurried by resentment into unseemly...probably the poet had not formed a distinct notion of it.1 Fate is generally described as emanating from his will ; but sometimes he appears to be no more... | |
| Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1860 - 586 pages
...aloof from their quarrels : he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overreached by artifice, blinded by desire, and hurried by resentment into unseemly...to fate is not uniformly represented in the Homeric yoerns, and probably the poet had not formed a distinct notion of it. Fate is generally described as... | |
| 1881 - 882 pages
...their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his_ purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....emanating from his will, but sometimes he appears to bo no more than the minister of a stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to elude." l And Zeus bears... | |
| George Rawlinson - Religions - 1883 - 278 pages
...their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....minister of a stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to elude."1 1 Thirlwall, ''History of Greece," vol. i. pp. 217-219. And Zeus bears to man the relation... | |
| 1884 - 106 pages
...their quarrels; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to elude." * 169. And Zeus bears to man the relation of " father." Each mortal who has a supplication to make... | |
| Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon - Christianity and other religions - 1909 - 308 pages
...their quarrels; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to elude." A suffering Christ endears Him more to us than if He had visibly proved the Godhead when scourged,... | |
| George Rawlinson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 396 pages
...their quarrels ; he occasionally wavers in his purpose, is overruled by artifice, blinded by desires, and hurried by resentment into unseemly violence....described as emanating from his will, but sometimes he apliears to be no more than the minister of a stern necessity, which he wishes in vain to elude." *... | |
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