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o Painting-- _Sculpturing_ (_Page 667-694_)--Sculpture in Greece and Egypt-- Sculptures of Ancient Kings--Animal Sculpture--Modeling of the Human Figure--"The Sculptor of the Gods"--Grandeur of Style-- Statues--Description of Statues--Work of Lysippus--The Macedonian Age--Roman Art--Copies of Ancient Gods--_Mosaic_ (_Page 695-702_)--Mosaic Subjects--Battle Represented in Mosaics--Grandeur of Style 643-702 LITERATURE. Homer--Paris--Achilles--The Vengeance of Odysseus--Sophocles-- Herodotus--The Crocodile--Artabanus Dissuades Xerxes--Socrates-- Socrates and Aristodemus--Aristophanes--Plato--The Perfect Beauty--Last Hours of Socrates--Demosthenes--Philip and the Athenians--Measures to Resist Philip--Former Athenians Described--Oration on the Crown--Invective against Catiline-- Expulsion of Catiline from Rome--The Tyrant Praetor Denounced-- Immortality of the Soul--Julius Caesar--The Germans--Battle of Pharsalia--Virgil--Employment of the Bee--Punishments in Hell-- Horace--To Licinius--Happiness Founded on Wisdom--The Equality of Man--Plutarch--Proscription of Sylla--Demosthenes and Cicero Compared 703-832 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. Extent of the Tombs--An Acre and a quarter in a Tomb-- Sculpturings--Painting--Burying According to Rank--Mummies--Mummy Cases and Sarcophagi--Roman Tombs--Inscriptions--_The Catacombs_ (_Page 873-910_)--Inscriptions--Catacombs--Christian Inscriptions--Early Inscriptions--Catacombs, nearly 900 miles long--Utensils from the Catacombs--Paintings--S. Calixtus-- Lord's Supper 833-910 TRUTH OF THE BIBLE. The Assyrian and Babylonian Discoveries--1100 Christian Inscriptions--The use of the Bible for Excavators--Accordance with Ancient Writings--Frieze from the Arch of Titus--No Book produced by Chance--God the Author--Its Great Antiquity--The Pentateuch--Preservation of the Scripture--Its Important Discoveries--Its Peculiar Style--Its Harmony--Its Impartiality-- Its Prophecies--Its Important Doctrines--Its Holy Tendency--Its Aims--Its Effects--Its General Reception--Persecuted but not Persecuting 911-944 [Page Decoration] [Page Decoration] ILLUSTRATIONS BY GERMAN ARTISTS. DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII
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