"Xxxviii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to Job, (chap. xxxviii,) and tells him "to gird up his loins like a man and answer him." ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... act, recently detected, and which men of character were prepared to substantiate: adulterii etiam crimen accedit. quod patres nostri graves viri deprehendisse se nuntiaverunt, et probaturos se asseverarunt. Epist. xxxviii. The heretic has now darkened into a man of notorious and general profligacy. Nor can it be denied that of the whole long epistle, very far the larger and the more passionate part dwells on the breach of ecclesiastical unity rather than on ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... resemble Seneca's LATIN style: Shakespeare, then, took up Greek tragedy in later life; after the early period when he dealt with Seneca. Here is a sample of borrowing from Horace, "Persicos odi puer apparatus" (Odes. I, xxxviii. I). Mr. Collins quotes Lear (III, vi. 85) thus, "You will say they are PERSIAN ATTIRE." Really, Lear in his wild way says to Edgar, "I do not like the fashion of your garments: you will say they are Persian; but let them be changed." Mr. Collins changes ...
— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang
... Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the scenes represented upon the architraves of the pronaos at Edfu (Rosellini, Monumenti del Culto, pl. xxxviii. No. 1). ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... horns, and then, by main force wrenching his neck round, hurls him powerless to the ground on his back! Such an achievement appears almost incredible; but it is represented, in all its particulars, in one of the Arundel marbles, (Marmor. Oxon. Selden, xxxviii,) under the name of [Greek: Tayrokathapsia], and is mentioned as a national sport of Thessaly, the native country of Theagenes, both by Pliny (Hist. Nat. viii. 45), and by Suetonius (Claud. cap. 21)—"He exhibited," (says the latter writer,) "Thessalian horsemen who drive wild ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various
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