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  • Belief in such "demigods" was quite widespread in Greek and Hellenistic religions.†   (source)
  • I could have gone and played squash at the Hellenic Club.†   (source)
  • A few interiors of shops and houses and flats, the Hellenic Club—and the bars.†   (source)
  • I said, as I was getting ready to leave, "You must come with me to the Hellenic Club one afternoon.†   (source)
  • Nothing like that came between me and the people I met at the Hellenic Club.†   (source)
  • I was going to the Hellenic Club for my afternoon squash.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of going to the Hellenic Club—or what remained of it—when I heard car doors slam.†   (source)
  • But the most remarkable philosophic trend in the late Hellenistic period was first and foremost inspired by Plato's philosophy.†   (source)
  • The longing for "salvation" in the sense of redemption was widespread all over the Hellenistic world.†   (source)
  • But remember one thing—before the Romans managed to conquer the Hellenistic world, Rome itself was a province of Greek culture.†   (source)
  • As I have said, Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • From the point of view of cultural history, it is interesting to note that the Arabs also took over the ancient Hellenistic city of Alexandria.†   (source)
  • A common feature of the new religious formations during the Hellenistic period was that they frequently contained teachings about how mankind could attain salvation from death.†   (source)
  • The new superpower gradually conquered all the Hellenistic kingdoms, and from then on Roman culture and the Latin language were predominant from Spain in the west to far into Asia.†   (source)
  • Christianity also has a Semitic background, but the New Testament was written in Greek, and when the Christian theology or creed was formulated, it was influenced by Greek and Latin, and thus also by Hellenistic philosophy.†   (source)
  • At the Hellenic Club, for instance, though there was no rule about it, we never talked of local politics.†   (source)
  • And I was made almost calm by something a German from the capital, a man in his late fifties, said to me at the Hellenic Club one afternoon.†   (source)
  • I thought of going to the Hellenic Club, to use up the energy that had come to me, and to sweat a little more.†   (source)
  • I reported the Hellenic Club chatter back to Mahesh, expecting him to share my attitude or at least to see the joke, bad as the joke was for us.†   (source)
  • The flat, the shop, the market outside the shop, the Hellenic Club, the bars, the life of the river, the dugouts, the water hyacinths—I knew it so well.†   (source)
  • In the Hellenic Club, in the bars, they brought at last that touch of Europe and the big city—the atmosphere in which, from his stories, I had imagined Nazruddin living here.†   (source)
  • At the Hellenic Club—which he treated like his private charity, and ruled, having kept it going through very bad times—he used to say that the country was his home.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't have given her cause to show me her profile against the white wall of the studio—sitting room; we might instead have simply gone to the Hellenic Club.†   (source)
  • But at the Hellenic Club—where only a fortnight before, throwing dust in our eyes, Noimon had been talking in his usual practical way about improving the swimming pool—we put a brave face on things.†   (source)
  • It was against this white wall that, after some talk about the paintings and the Hellenic Club, both of us standing, she showed me her profile, turning away when I drew close, not rejecting me or encouraging me, just seeming weary, accepting a new encumbrance.†   (source)
  • On another day at this time I would have been starting to think of tea at the flat, squash at the Hellenic Club, with cold drinks afterwards in the rough little bar, sitting at the metal tables and watching the light go.†   (source)
  • And if I became Raymond's encourager, after Yvette, if I became his champion and promoted him even at the Hellenic Club as the man who hadn't published much but really knew, the man every intelligent visitor ought to see, it wasn't only because I didn't want to see him go away, and Yvette with him.†   (source)
  • Diana and Actaeon (marble metope, Hellenic, Sicily, c. 460 B.C.).†   (source)
  • The Hellenic Dawn.†   (source)
  • In Hellenistic Greece and in Imperial Rome, the ancient gods were reduced to mere civic patrons, household pets, and literary favorites.†   (source)
  • The asceticism of the medieval saints and of the yogis of India, the Hellenistic mystery initiations, the ancient philosophies of the East and of the West, are techniques for the shifting of the emphasis of individual consciousness away from the garments.†   (source)
  • She saw that his hands were not in keeping with a Hellenic face.†   (source)
  • Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic[125] world, that I would know.†   (source)
  • He had persistently elevated Hellenic Paganism at the expense of Christianity; yet in that civilization an illegal surrender was not certain disesteem.†   (source)
  • It is doubtful whether he could have bought a drink or asked the way to the Kursaal in either language, but he understood the universal Hellenistic scientific jargon, and he pawed through the heavy books, rubbing his eyes, which were filled with salty fire.†   (source)
  • "And yet," continued Lord Henry, in his low, musical voice, and with that graceful wave of the hand that was always so characteristic of him, and that he had even in his Eton days, "I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.†   (source)
  • For after the failure of a certain plot to overthrow the state in Turin, in which he had been involved both in word and deed, he very narrowly escaped Prince Metternich's hirelings and spent the years of his banishment fighting and bleeding for a constitution in Spain and the independence of the Hellenic peoples.†   (source)
  • He spoke of the Egyptian god Thoth, identical with the Hellenistic god Hermes the Thrice Great, and worshiped as the inventor of writing, the patron of libraries, the inspiration for all intellectual endeavor.†   (source)
  • They tried to enforce their rule as far as Greece, but they had to retreat before the indomitable resistance of the Hellenic people.†   (source)
  • The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.†   (source)
  • But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?†   (source)
  • A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement: to obtain a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E. C.): to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain admission (gratuitous or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandmann Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street.†   (source)
  • Of the military exploits by which our various possessions were acquired, or of the energy with which we or our fathers drove back the tide of war, Hellenic or Barbarian, I will not speak; for the tale would be long and is familiar to you.†   (source)
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