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Tiamat, mother of all gods, represented as a dragon, is the primaeval chaos. She plans to overthrow the gods, her children, gathers an army of monsters, and puts Kingu, her son and only faithful child, in command. Both Anu, the god of the heavens, and Ea, the god of the waters under the earth, are turned back in fright before this army. These events occupy the first two tablets. The third tablet tells how Marduk, son of Ea, offers to oppose Tiamat, if the gods in reward will make him ruler over them. In the fourth tablet Marduk defeats Kingu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marduk and the Dragon. | 3/14/1896 | See Source »

...Hale gave out copies of Dean Stanley's chapter on "The Ea;ly Clergy of the Christian Church" from his volume on "Christian Institutions," and referred to this for most of the information necessary for the rest of his lectures. The second lecture will be this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rev. E. E. Hale's Lecture. | 5/2/1894 | See Source »

Legi cum multa voluptate epistolam Quindecim Harvardensium in vestro numero hujus hebdomadis. Sunt autem in ea quaedam expressiones quae eram attonitus videre; quia videntur mihi non satis classicae. Pro exemplo, "Multi Bullyi" debet esse (existimo) "Sortes Bullyorum," quia est multa differentia inter "Multi" et "Sortes," ut omne corpus scit. Exceptionem quoque caperem ad expressionem "ludum vilis globi" quae non in ullo bono scriptore possis invenire, et quae in mea opinione debet esse "humilis pilae." Non scire hoc crassam ignoran tiam arguit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/14/1887 | See Source »

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