“From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.”
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We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
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From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
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No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
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