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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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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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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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138

VII. WARNING AGAINST THE SIRENS.

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Od., b. xii. 36.

“Then Circe spake, dread Goddess, ‘These things o'er
Another coming peril shalt thou find;
Hear thou my words, the warnings given before
The God shall in their season bring to mind;—
The Sirens next waft death upon the wind;
Whoe'er unconscious shall approach their shore,
And hear their voice, for him those left behind,
His wife and children hastening to the door,
Shall gathering stand around and welcome home no more.
“‘Charming the air with their melodious strains,
The Sirens sit within a flowery mead,
With bones heap'd round of the unburied slain:
That thine own comrades may not hear nor heed,
Stop thou each ear with wax, and swift proceed;
They to the mast must bind thee foot and hand;
And if from these thou strugglest to be freed,
Bind more and more and double every band,
Till thou hast ceased to hear the fatal-pleasing strand.’”
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SONG OF THE SIRENS.

Od., b. xii. 166, 181
“Then swiftly went toward the Sirenian Isle
The full-wing'd bark, and harmless breezes play'd,
When suddenly they sank, and scarce a smile
Ruffled the main, a God the billow stay'd;
The sea-men then arose, and furling, laid
The sails aside, themselves they sat along,
The seas all whitening with the oary blade;
Then near we drew as sounds a human tongue,
They knew of the approach, and thus began the song.
“‘Stay, stay thy course, O thou of Greece the boast,
Much-prais'd Ulysses! stay thy ship, draw near,
For never yet hath mortal pass'd our coast
But first he stops our honied voice to hear.
Hence he departs with song-delighted ear,
And heart with knowledge fraught to make him wise.
All things we know of Ilium, all that there
The brave endured by will of deities,
We know whate'er may be beneath the circling skies.’”
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ON THE FOREGOING.

And is there then a song the wise can charm,—
The man of many counsels, school'd in woes?
Can all his better soul at length disarm,
Who rose superior o'er so many foes,
With Circe and Calypso scorns repose?
What is that strain so subtle to the soul
That he who listens, till himself he lose
Will listen, though he 'scap'd th' enchanted bowl—
Sounds that from wisdom win her hard-earn'd selfcontrol?
Surely that song is with the promise stored
Which our first parents heard in Paradise,
Whereby the wisest fell, Creation's lord,
The pride that flatters man with honied lies;
And with the fatal promise to be wise;—
“Glorious thou art and prais'd,” the Siren saith,
Then comes that curiosity that dies
In knowing good and evil, which is death:
The Faith which stops her ears alone draws vital breath.
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