On Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, by E. Norman Gardiner (published 1910).| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, by E. Norman Gardiner (published 1910).| Men Of The West
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Imprecatory Psalms. You'll never hear them preached on Sunday mornings. It's dangerous. The sentiments sound selfish and vindictive to our Enlightened ears. Bring up this verse and this Psalm to any number of American Christians and most would begin their response with "Ok, but..." They would go on to talk about how this is taken out of context. They would thoughtfully explain how this was the Old Testament and how we're under a completely new covenant now. They may even wring their hands. Mo...| Men Of The West
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom,And before honor is humility.– Proverbs 15:33 Let us praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. All these men were honoured in their generations, and were a glory in their days.– Chariots of Fire Another birthday has passed for all of us. Mine was recently. Another year. Another season of met or lost goals. So as I reflected, I revisited Chariots of Fire for inspiration. For a reset. To be reinvigorated for the battle against ...| Men Of The West
The shocking defeat that shortened the life of a Caesar, and saved Northern Germany from Roman conquest.| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874, by Charles Kingsley (published 1875).| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Roman Historians, a Series of Lectures Delivered by Louis E. Lord (published 1927).| Men Of The West
There is nothing wrong with wanting justice. But now is not the time.| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Memoirs of Great Commanders, by G.P.R. James (published 1839).| Men Of The West
The Italian War was the turning-point in the history of the Second Empire. Up to 1860 everything seemed to have succeeded with the man who twelve years before could not boast of fifty acquaintances in France. But now the sky was overcast. The Emperor had wished to drive the Austrians out of Italy, and the white-coats were still encamped in Venice| Men Of The West
“They WILL recover from it….soon.”| www.menofthewest.net
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (published 1912).| Men Of The West
That the impenetrable “Antichrist” himself was fully aware of the nature of the hazard there is no reason to doubt, or that he was concentrating all the deepest faculties of his genius on the delivery of a blow which should be immense and final. He was much alone in his tent, and his orders were laconic and momentous. The ordinary mind cannot picture such a situation, and dismiss its surrounding distractions—one might say its hauntings. There were the arsenals, the forges, the rope walk...| Men Of The West
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Westerns. I love Western movies. Hold on to your 10-gallon hats, because I’m doing a speedrun through 10 reviews.| Men Of The West
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It is not the least among the many merits of Dr. Guest, in his treatment of our earliest history, that he has had the courage to acknowledge the merits of Gildas. Few contemporary writers have been visited with equal severity by later historians; even those who, like Dr. Lappenberg, set aside the absurd doubts thrown recently on his authenticity, lavish their censures on his ignorance of the Roman rule, his rhetorical exaggeration, and the provoking haziness of his description of the Great Co...| Men Of The West
Friday Music: September 87 – Room Service| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Essays and Monographs, by William Francis Allen (published 1890).| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from A History of the Middle Ages, by Dana Carleton Munro (published 1902). | Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Lectures on Foreign History, 1494-1789, by J. M. Thompson (published 1925).| Men Of The West
It was in the dark hour before the arrival of French aid that treason entered into the heart of Benedict Arnold, the commander of the all-important lines upon the Hudson. Arnold had been one of the best of the American commanders, perhaps the most daring of them all. He had reason to complain of slights and wrongs, not at the hands of Washington who valued and trusted him, but at the hands of the politicians. He seems to have despaired of the revolutionary cause and to have shrunk from the Fr...| Men Of The West
The war opened at Boston, where General Gage, now its military governor, lay with a small army of occupation and repression, and it opened in a way ominous of the final result and significant of the means by which the result was to be brought about. Gage sent out a detachment to seize rebel stores at Lexington. The militia of the country, called Minute Men because they were always to be in readiness, excellent sharp-shooters, swarmed out, surrounded the detachment, and forced it to fall back ...| Men Of The West
Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Heroes of England, edited by John G. Edgar (published 1884).| Men Of The West
