For their contempt of death [and of its sequel] is patent to us every day, and likewise their restraint in cohabitation. For they include not only men but also women who refrain from cohabiting all through their lives ; and they also number individuals who, in self-discipline and self-control in matters of food and drink, and in their keen pursuit of justice, have attained a pitch not inferior to that of genuine philosophers.

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Page viii ... private," a zone of immunity to which we may fall back or retreat, a place where we may set aside arms and armor needed in the public place, relax, take our ease, and lie about unshielded by the ostentatious carapace worn for protection in the outside world. This is the place where the family thrives, the realm of domesticity; it is also a realm of secrecy. Appears in 6 books from 1992-1999

Page viii We started from the obvious fact that at all times and in all places a clear, commonsensical distinction has been made between the public — that which is open to the community and subject to the authority of its magistrates — and the private. In other words, a clearly defined realm is set aside for that part of existence for which every language has a word equivalent to "private... Appears in 6 books from 1992-2006

Page 368 - We sit down at table [we do not recline] only after offering a prayer to God. We eat as much as hunger requires. We drink as much as... Appears in 5 books from 1858-2005

Page 253 - But now the righteous have been gathered And the prophets have fallen asleep, And we also have gone forth from the land, And Zion has been taken from us, And we have nothing now save the Mighty One and His law. Appears in 19 books from 1896-2008

Page 390 - ... who legally owned the house site and all its occupants (Clarke 1991; Gazda 1991; Wallace-Hadrill 1994). The focus on men's display of public power through their houses emerges from ungendered language with the use of male pronouns, such as: "The design of individual rooms and the overall organization of a building, taken together, emphasized the power of its owner and provided a prestigious background against which he played his assigned social role Appears in 4 books from 1991-2007

Page 231 - He speaks in the name of all and makes no claim that his readers should be interested in his own personal state of mind. To talk about oneself, to throw personal testimony into the balance, to profess that personal conviction must be taken into account provided only that it is sincere is a Christian, indeed an eminently Protestant idea that the ancients never dared to profess. Appears in 4 books from 1992-2003

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