Word: testament
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...remarked that the quotation, "A prophet," etc., is from the New Testament, - quite a different thing from the "Hebrew Scripture...
...five decades the mat was passed from one occupant of the room to the succeeding one, until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because...
...understand Tully, Virgill or any such ordinary classical authors, and can readily make, speake, or write true latine prose, and hath skill in makeing verse, and is competently grounded in the greek language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically to resolve ordinary greek as the greeke testament, Isocrates and the Minor poets or such like, having withall meet testimony of his toward-ness, he shall be capable of his admission Into Colledge...
...Subscription price for the course, $15. Subscription-list open at Schoenhof and Moeller's, 40 Winter Street, until April 15. The plays will chosen be from the following list: Le Demi-Monde, Les Pattes de Mouche, Les Crochets du pere Martin, Les Domestiques, Monsieur Alphonse, Les Femmes Terriribles, Le Testament de Cesar Girodot, La Petite Marquise, Le Sphinx, Le Marquis de Villemer, Quete a Domicile, Les Deux Sourds, Les Brebis de Parnurge...
...leave of his Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition (or such punishment as the President shall think meet), if he offend above once a week. The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning, the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles; and in the evening to read in the New Testament from the English or Latin into Greek. In this connection it may be mentioned that in 1688 President Increase Mather ordered from Utrecht, fifty...