Read All about It: A Hymn to Both Ancient and ModernByline: JULIE WOODGATEThe Mirror (London, England)
It just unfolds—like a hymn sung verse by verse. And there it was again. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Not “bless Him when everything’s going right.” Not “bless Him when you feel like it.” Just—”bless Him.” With all that is within me. Even the parts that ache. Even ...
In the book of Judges (Chapter iii), it is recorded that after Ehud had stabbed Eglon, King of Moab, he shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them, and when the servants came and found the doors locked, they took a key, and opened them. This would probably be in ...
Curiously for a Catholic, Biden quoted the King James Version of the Church of England: 'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning'
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For this reason, Classical Greek culture is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered as the cradle of Western civilization. (2) Stages Ancient Greece Went Through ① Mycenaean Culture (1600 BC–1100 BC) It was ...
Ancient Egyptian literature often suggests a similar ethos. In ‘The Great Hymn to the Aten’, from the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten (c.1350-35 BC), the pharaoh’s wife Nefertiti is described as ‘living and youthful for ever and ever’. Likewise, the power-crazed ‘Cannibal Hym...
philosophical worldview (see the Ipuwer papyrus); tales detailing the adventures of a certain individual, for example the Story of Sinhue; medical and scientific texts such as the Edwin Smith Papyrus and the Ebers papyrus; and poetic texts praising a god or a pharaoh, like the Hymn to the ...
Republic of Honduras to the southeast of Arizona; And this has a special interest because it was the first description of rubber, so important in the modern economy of the area, it was made when Oviedo wrote in the sixteenth century about the game and the ball that was used in his ...
Characteristic of ancient Greek philosophy and distinguishing it from medieval and modern European philosophy, was its cosmologic approach. The Greek philosophical schools were free associations in which like-minded persons, or students, gathered around the head of the school. The first of such schools...