Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-12-10

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Without Wings" So many Of the tri-
umphs Of tie world had been followed Dy
defeat tbat the Greeks wished In marble 70
indicate that victory for Athens mad conn. I
never again 70 fiy away, aud hence tbs
teuirie 70 Victory Without wings"-a
tempe Of marble. snow white aud glitter
ing Yonder behpld the PEDESTAL Of Agrip-
pa, twenty-seyen feet high and twelve feet |
square.
wOHDKRs os fHE PARTHEHoH.
But the overshAdowing wonder Of all /
the hill is the Parthenon. In days when |
money was ten times more valuable than |
now it cost four milli0n six hundred |
thousand dollars It is q Doric grand /
eur having forty-six columns, each col
umn thirty-four feet high and six feet
two inches in diameter. Wondrous inter
columniationsl Painted porticos, arciii-
traves tinged with ocher, shields Of gold
hung up, lines Of most delicate curve, fig
ures of horses aud men and women and
gods, oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues
Of the deities Dionysius, Prometheus,
Hermes, Demster, Zsus, Hera, Poseldon;
In one frieze twelve divinities; centaurs in
battle; weaponry from Marathon; chariot
Of night; chariot Of the morning; horses
Of the sun. the fates,. the furies; statue of
Jupiter holding in bis right hand the
thunderbolt; silver footed chair In which
Xerxes watched the battle of SalRmis only
few miles away.
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fan,o1,. Ioro hofora Nav Testament tinoea
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ad the Acronolis from this hilton Here
essemhled the conrt to trv criminals n
,yas beld in the niqbttime 40 that the
faces Of tbe iudges could NOT be seen. nor
tha facas of tbs LAWYERS who made the
nlea and 60. instead of a trial being one OF
emotion e. must have beep one of cool ius
t;oa Rnt thers was one occasion on tbis
hill n,er,oranla abova all otners
A iittIe man nbvsicaIlv weak and his
rhetoric described by himself as contemo
tihla had nv his sermons rocked Athens
w;tb commotion and he was sum moned
a;thar NV writ of law or hearty invitatior
! tn come unen that nuInit of rock and pivs
a asnaci,nen of his theolopv All the wise
acres of Athens turned ont and turned mr.
4, bear MIN The more venerable of them
sat in an amnhitbeater the granite seat,
of which are still visible, hut the othe,
neonle swarmed ON all sides of the Hill and
st tbe hasa Of II to hear this man whom
some called 4 fanatic. and others called !
madcap. ami others q blasphemer. anG
others stvled eontemptuousiv .sthis fel
low
paul arrived in answer 70 the writ or in