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ese days there ought to be no churches built, no sacraments administered, that the saints as pilgrims, wander here as in a temple filled with smoke, not being able to find religion, and that, on this account, waiting for a church and for the coming of the Spirit as the apostles did, they ought to seek knowledge of any passenger, of any opinion or tenet whatsoever.--_Ed._] 485 [See note page 607.--_Ed._] 486 [Kindred alliance.--_Ed._] 487 [Or, in the third place.--_Ed._] 488 [Notwithstanding.--_Ed._] 489 [A cold desire.--_Ed._] 490 [That is a glimmering or slight degree of desire.--_Ed._] 491 [This was the exclamation of Archimedes the celebrated geometrician of Syracuse, ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}), after discovering, when in the bath, a method of detecting the quantity of alloy, which a fraudulent artisan had mixed with the gold of Hiero's crown. (Plut. Mor. et Phil. Op. p. 1094.) An exclamation somewhat similar was uttered by Cicero, when, searching for the tomb of Archimedes in the neighbourhood of Syracuse he at length perceived it covered with thorns and brambles (Cic. Tusc. Quest lib. v. cap 23.) But if they had cause to be delighted, much more surely had Philip the apostle reason to be so when addressing Nathanael, he cried out in ecstasy--We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph! John i. 45.--_Ed._] 492 [In the present world.--_Ed._] 493 [Specify or enumerate.--_Ed._] 494 [Acknowledging.--_Ed._] 495 [Path or way.--_Ed._] 496 [Than.--_Ed._] 497 [Fix upon.--_Ed._] 498 [That is, no thought of eternity.--_Ed._] 499 [Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacra fames? _Virg. AEneid_, lib. iii. ver. 56. "O sacred hunger of pernicious gold! What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?" _Dryden's Translation_. Nihil enim est fam angusti animi, tamque parvi, quam amare divitias nihil honestius, magnifi entrusque, quam pecuniam
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