The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bea...r a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of them--Nestor, Agamemnon, Achilles--appe...ar to be of an age fixed from the very first. Even Odysseus, in whose case the long lapse of time and the many events which occurred offer so much opportunity for biographical development, shows almost nothing of it. Odysseus on his return is exactly the same as he was when he left Ithaca two decades earlier. But what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing by a wild beast!--between David the harp player, persecuted by his lord's jealousy, and the king, surrounded by violent intrigues, whom Abishag the Shunnamite warmed in his bed, and he knew her not! The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality; and it is this history of a personality which the Old Testament presents to us as the formation undergone by those whom God has chosen as his examples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?... Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That night ended the day when history was written in Abilene. August 14, 1865 was the date. That was the end of the first drive on... the Chisolm Trail. It was just the first of thousands of such drives bringing beef to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word o...f the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial, and promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and beho...ld what was there already. I make! O no! I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement, before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages, young with the life of life, the sunbright Mecca of the desert.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able... to take the damn thing off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state... Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »