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Updated: June 20, 2025
In the seventh century, John of Damascus compiled from the Greek Fathers a celebrated treatise on theology. But the period of original thought in theology, as elsewhere, had passed by. This work of the Damascene was made up chiefly of excerpts from the Fathers before him. In the declining days of the empire, literary effort was mainly confined to compilations and comments.
When this had been done gliding was resumed, and after a few trials glides of 366 and 389 feet were made with prompt response on the part of the machine, even to small movements of the rudder. The rest of the story of the gliding experiments of 1901 cannot be better told than in Wilbur Wright's own words, as uttered by him in the lecture from which the foregoing excerpts have been made.
Her Letter is addressed "TO MADAME DU DEFFAND, at Paris;" most free-flowing female Letter; of many pages, runs on, day after day, for a fortnight or so; only Excerpts of it introducible here:
I meet with so little that is encouraging, that it would really be of untold import to me if, at least in Dresden, things should go according to my wish!" These excerpts afford some notion of the struggles and disappointments of this time struggles that were to be repeated when, more than twenty years later, Tristan and the Mastersingers were produced in Munich.
From that English weekly, to bar out which a large and perspiring staff of Press censors toiled seven days of the week at Cape Town, did Pinewood of the Reserve read unctuously excerpts of the speeches of the accredited leaders of His Majesty's Opposition.
Here are a few excerpts from these entries: "1597. This decides a matter which has sometimes been disputed, that, while with us, in our old times, "the passing bell" indicated the progress of a funeral train, anciently in England it signified that a soul was believed to be passing from a body supposed to be in extremis.
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Here, meanwhile, in a Letter to myself, and in Excerpts from others, are some glimpses of his advent and first summer there: To his Mother. "Clifton, June 11th, 1839.
From my childhood I have been in the habit of keeping a diary, a running comment on the daily incidents of my pleasant but uneventful life, and occasionally, when Bunsey's society seemed too assertive and familiar, I sought to punish him by reading long and numerous excerpts.
An account of the concert in La France musicale of May 2, 1841, contained a general characterisation of Chopin's artistic position with regard to the public coinciding with that given by Liszt, but the following excerpts from the other parts of the article may not be unacceptable to the reader: We spoke of Schubert because there is no other nature which has a more complete analogy with him.
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