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The Christian Scholar

By the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]
Williams, Isaac (1802-1865)

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CLASSICAL COMPLAINTS AND SCRIPTURAL REMEDIES.
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HEATHEN ORACLES CONFESSING CHRIST.
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XXXV. COINCIDENCES.
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GREEK PHILOSOPHY.
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PLATO.
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I. THE DEMON OF SOCRATES.
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II. SOCRATES ON JUDGMENT AFTER DEATH.
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III. SOCRATES REFUSING TO ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
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IV. THE LAST WORDS OF SOCRATES.
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V. EGYPT.
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VI. MYTHOLOGY.
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VII. THE GRECIAN JUPITER.
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VIII. PLATONISM.
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IX. THE PLATONISTS.
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X. THE STOICS.
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XI. THE PYTHAGOREANS.
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XII.
 XIII. 
XIII. THE CHANGE.
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XIV. POETS ADMITTED TO THE CITY OF GOD.
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XV. PLATO'S MUSIC OF THE SOUL.
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XVI. PLATO EXPELLING POETS.
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XVII. ON A FUTURE STATE.
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XVIII. ON CONSCIENCE.
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ARISTOTLE.
  
THE HYMN TO VIRTUE.
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PYTHAGORAS.
  
THE GOLDEN VERSES.
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GREEK POETS.
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HOMER.
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I. THE ILIAD.
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II. ATE EXPELLED FROM HEAVEN.
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III. ULYSSES AND CALYPSO.
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IV. ULYSSES SHIPWRECKED AND NAUSICAA.
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V. THE LOTOPHAGI.
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IV. THE ABODE OF CIRCE.
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VII. WARNING AGAINST THE SIRENS.
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VIII. SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.
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IX. THE RECOGNITION OF ULYSSES.
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HESIOD.
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I. WORKS AND DAYS .
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II. THE IRON AGE.
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III. THE WATCHERS.
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IV. THE PATH OF VIRTUE.
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V. THE RIGHTEOUS KING.
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ÆSCHYLUS.
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I. THE PROMETHEUS.
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II. KNOWLEDGE OF GOD BY SUFFERING.
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III. SACRILEGE.
  
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ON THE FOREGOING.
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IV. THE BESETTING SIN.
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V. ATE.
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VI. THE FURIES OVERTAKING ORESTES.
  
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ORESTES AT THE SHRINE.
  
SONG OF THE FURIES.
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VII. DIVINE POWER.
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SIMONIDES.
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I.
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II. ELEGIAC FRAGMENT.
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III. ON THE LIFE OF MAN.
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IV. MUTABILITY.
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V. DANAE AND HER CHILD.
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ANACREON.
  
TO THE GRASSHOPPER.
  
ON THE SAME.
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PINDAR.
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I.
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II. THE BIRTH OF HERCULES.
  
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THE CONTRAST.
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III. TRIAL AND REWARD.
  
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REFLECTION ON THE ABOVE.
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IV. BEGINNING WELL.
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V. THE FOUNDLING ON EARTH.
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VI. ASPIRATIONS OF EARTH.
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SOPHOCLES.
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I. GRECIAN TRAGEDY.
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II. THE TRAGIC CHORUS AND THE MORAL LAW.
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III. SIGHT OF ATHENS.
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EURIPIDES.
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I. ALCESTIS RETURNING FROM THE GRAVE.
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II. THE GARLAND OF HIPPOLYTUS.
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BION.
  
THE EVENING STAR.
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MOSCHUS.
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[“When the calm wind upon the dark-blue sea]
  
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THE CONTRAST.
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CALLIMACHUS.
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I. FROM THE HYMN TO APOLLO.
  
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ON THE SAME.
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II. EPITAPH.
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LATIN WRITERS.
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LUCRETIUS.
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I.
  
II. VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE.
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III. EFFECTS OF SIN IRREMEDIABLE.
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IV. BIRTH AND REARING OF MAN.
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V. DREAD OF ANNIHILATION.
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VI. OCULAR DECEPTIONS.
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VII. TRUE PHILOSOPHY.
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VIII. ATHEISM CORRECTED.
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CATULLUS.
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I. THE PINNACE.
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II. HOME.
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III. THE FADED FLOWER.
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IV. A BROTHER'S DEATH.
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V. TO HIMSELF.
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VIRGIL.
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I. FIRST ECLOGUE.
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II. THE GEORGICS.
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III. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.
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IV. THE ÆNEID.
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V. THE SHADES BELOW.
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VI. ÆNEAS AND DIDO.
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HORACE.
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I. LUCRETIUS AND HORACE COMPARED.
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II. THE WORLD RENOUNCED.
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III. ECCLESIA LABORANS.
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IV. ECCLESIA MIGRATURA.
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V. PROTECTING PROVIDENCE.
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VI. THE SICILIAN FEAST.
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VII. MEN DEIFIED.
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TIBULLUS.
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OVID.
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I. THE METAMORPHOSIS.
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II. OVID'S EPISTLES.
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III. OVID'S TRISTIA, OR LAMENTATIONS.
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JUVENAL.
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I. GUILT THE SELF-AVENGER.
  
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THE SAME ILLUSTRATED BY REVELATION.
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II. RURAL IMAGES IN THE SATIRIST.
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PERSIUS.
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I. SUFFERINGS OF CONSCIENCE.
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II. THE FAITHFUL INSTRUCTOR.
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LIVY.
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I. THE ROMAN CHARACTER.
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II. NUMA POMPILIUS.
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III. THE FAITHLESS GUARDIAN.

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XII.

“Ibant obscuri solâ sub nocte per umbras
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna.
Quale per incertam Lunam sub luce malignâ
Est iter in sylvis; ubi cœlum condidit umbrâ
Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.”
Æn. vi.

They seem to walk 'mid the surrounding mass
In light of goodness, virtue's benison,
Gazing upon all nature as a glass
Of things in Heaven; but unto us, alas!
In nightly groves obscure they wander on;
Good Socrates, sweet Plato, Xenophon,
And Plato's other sire, Pythagoras ,
With virtue-loving sage, Stagira's son.
In their imagin'd realms beyond the tomb
They see but shadows mingling with the gloom,
Which meteor lights may fitfully illume,
Serene yet all uncertain, fair but cold,
Nothing distinct, all vague and manifold;
Yet still they strove the better part to hold.
 

“Plato dicitur post mortem Socratis magistri sui, quem singulariter dilexerat, a Pythagoreis etiam multa didicisse.” Aug. Con Acad., lib. iii. 37.

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