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The Hebrew Literature of Wisdom in the Light of to-Day

Excerpt from The Hebrew Literature of Wisdom in the Light of to-Day: A Synthesis0 you suppose Shakespeare meant all that? Was once asked of a teacher under whose interpretative reading the pages of the Dramatist seemed to glow With new power and suggestion. Pausing for an instant's re¿ection, he replied, My concern is with What Shakespeare means, not with what he meant. Such, in a single discriminating word, is the con cern of the volume here ...

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The Man With the Pitcher and His Story, Retold for the Ch...

Genung, John Franklin

Excerpt from The Man With the Pitcher and His Story, Retold for the Christmas Season With the personal history of the man with the pitcher this little story is not concerned. He emerges into one fleeting moment of contact with our Lord's activity and then disappears, that is all. But like the man with the hoe, of whom we have all read, he is a representative. He speaks for the great unnamed body of the common people, who heard Jesus gladly, a...

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A Guidebook to the Biblical Literature (Classic Reprint)

Genung, John Franklin

Excerpt from A Guidebook to the Biblical Literature This book is meant to be just what its title names it: a guidebook to the Biblical literature, not a substitute for it. Its office is subsidiary, not principal. One does not study a guidebook for its own sake. The familiar little red-covered volumes that deck the traveled man's shelf bear witness not to erudition in that species of literature but to intimate memories and experiences wherein ...

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Tennyson's "in Memoriam", Its Purpose and Its Structure

Genung, John Franklin

Excerpt from Tennyson's "in Memoriam", Its Purpose and Its Structure: A Dissertation Presented to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of LeipzigThe Sonnets of Shakespeare are among the most vexed phenomena of the dramatist's career. This-is not the place to discuss the ever-open question who is their hero and how far they are autobiographical: their ground of comparison with In Memoriam lies in the fact that they portray a very re mark...