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"hellenic" school a gymnasium or college, and an ecclesiastical seminary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Afghan things are lovely, and much more hellenic than you expect; you forget that there were post-Alexandrian Greek regimes in central Asia.
Whizzing through the colonies Ra 2009
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Ikaria has been inhabited since at least 7000 B.C. when it was inhabited by the Neolithic pre-hellenic people that Greeks called Pelasgians.
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By highlighting this the Pope suggests in a subtle manner that this shared civility may just have something to do with a common intellectual heritage - the synthesis of Christian and hellenic thought which is found in the intellectual patrimony of Europe.
Why the Pope chose to say what he did Mike L 2006
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By highlighting this the Pope suggests in a subtle manner that this shared civility may just have something to do with a common intellectual heritage - the synthesis of Christian and hellenic thought which is found in the intellectual patrimony of Europe.
Archive 2006-09-01 Mike L 2006
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In the theories of Plato and Aristotle are found the highest reaches of hellenic thought regarding the prupose and nature of education.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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There are traces in Oedipus of the pre-hellenic Medicine King, the
Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles 1911
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Thus in hellenic plastic art has been discovered the calm and serene intuition of life of those peoples, who feel, nevertheless, so poignantly, the universality of sorrow; thus has recently been discerned on the faces of the Byzantine saints "the terror of the millennium," a terror which is an equivoke, or an artificial legend invented by modern scholars.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Having fortified Thy disciples, O Saviour, with wisdom and miracles, Thou hast made them stronger than the hellenic charlatans, and they overthrew the deceitful doctrines of these.
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Certainly, there was no trace here of sombre German gothicism and all that old - fashioned stuff; under the hands of my friend, the piece ran along the keyboard with a degree of "Greek serenity" that left me at a loss whither to turn; in my innocence I deemed myself transported to a neo-hellenic synagogue, from the musical cultus of which all old testamentary accentuations had been most elegantly eliminated.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848
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