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Greek period (beginning with Alexander's conquest); forty-two to the late Greek period, and to the Machabean period Pss. xxxiii, cii (b), cix (b), cxviii, cxxxix (c), cxxix of the Pilgrim Psalter and cxlvii, cxlix of the Hallels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The Word is numerically distinct from the Father (Dial., cxxviii, cxxix; cf. lvi, lxii).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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In the Latin Rite, Pss. vi, xxxi, xxxvii, l, ci, cxxix, cxlii (Douai) have long been recited, in the above order, as prayers of sorrow for sin; they are lyric cries of the sorrowing soul and have hence been called the "Penitential Psalms".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Among the 1028 hymns of the Rig-Veda, none is so famous as cxxix of Book X, of which a translation was given by Max
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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{152} Shakespeare's noble sonnet on the ravages of lust (cxxix.), for example, treats with marvellous force and insight a stereotyped theme of sonnetteers, and it may have owed its whole existence to Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet on 'Desire.' {153a}
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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[Footnote S: _North American Review_, vol. cxxix, p. 347.]
Admiral Farragut 1877
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Inexperienced critics have often named this, which may be called the Homeric manner, superficial, from its apparent simple facility; but first-rate excellence in it (as shown here, and in cxcvi., clvi., and cxxix.) is in truth one of the least common triumphs of poetry.
Notes: Book Fourth. Palgrave, Francis T Francis T. Palgrave 1875
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These papers are reprinted in _Littell's Living Age_, cxxviii. 154, cxxix.
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Christ's Redemption is abundant, "_plentiful_" as Holy Scripture, says (Ps.cxxix. 7), and Catholics do not believe that those Christians who die guilty only of _venial the practice of the Catholic Church to offer prayers and other pious works in suffrage for the dead, as is amply testified by the Latin Fathers; for instance, Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Augustine, St. Gregory; and amongst the Greek Fathers, by
Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861
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Gualter (in _Zurich_, and _Original Letters, Parker Society_) little can be gathered; thus much have I gleaned, that though mention is oftentimes made of Scotland, yet not sufficient to identify Gualter as being a native of that country; yet it should be observed that he dedicated his Homilies on the Galatians to the King of Scotland, _Zurich Letters_ (second series) cxviii., see also, cxxix., cxxx.
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