| 1903 - 536 Seiten
...following sermon, whose every sentence rings with eloquent patriotism: Ecclesiasticus 44:1, 2 and 13. "Let us now praise famous men and our Fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through His great power from the beginning. Their seed shall remain forever, and... | |
| Rose Barton - 1904 - 480 Seiten
...the mighty dead reposing there — "a cloud of witnesses" — rest the ashes of the great artist. " Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning Leaders of the people by their counsels... | |
| Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 Seiten
...Simon God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. — Elbert Hubbard Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. — Ecclesiasticus 44:1 Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. — Max Beerbohm Whenever... | |
| Bruce Robbins - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...which he idealized much as he idealized his father. The passage from which his title is taken goes on: "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." Agee is willing to distort the lives of the tenant farmers in order to make them the supporting antithesis... | |
| John Bowker - 1993 - 264 Seiten
...on the dead when they obey the exhortation of Ecclesiasticus (much beloved of school Speech Days), 'Let us now praise famous men, And our fathers that begat us' (xliv.1). Yet even in Ecclesiasticus there are limited hopes, based on the exegetical opportunities... | |
| Manuel Komroff - 1992 - 366 Seiten
...of his works. For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he given wisdom. Chapter 44 LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms,... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 428 Seiten
...them the spirit of pious veneration for the ancestry from whom we have in like manner descended. " Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought groat glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdom,... | |
| Ian Bent - 1994 - 404 Seiten
...61 The Vulgate reads in the plural: Laudemus viros gloriosos, et parentes nostros in generatone sua ['Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.'] (Authorized Version: Apocrypha). 63 Ecclesiasticus, 44.5; Vulgate again reads in the plural: requirentes.... | |
| William Gerber - 1994 - 260 Seiten
...Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Chapter 44 contains an apt expression which has become a byword. 88 "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. ... Such as ... were renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, . . . men of... | |
| Harold Scheub - 1996 - 480 Seiten
.../ To paint the new light in the sky."31 •> Prologue FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE "LET ME GO BACK" Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. ... Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their... | |
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