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a translation of the Greek New Testament into the vulgar tongue. In fact, though a 

 man of decided piety and of a pure Christian life, he found, like many other thinkers, 

 that large thinking, when practised all round, cannot fail to bring an honest man, with 

 certain classes, into the reputation of heresy ; for there always will be, both inside and 

 outside the clerical order, not a few persons with whom ignorance and narrow-mindedness 

 are the two prime postulates of orthodoxy. 



Adamantios Koraes died at Paris on the 25th April 1833, aged 85 years. The 

 last articulate word which with his dying breath he uttered was irarpU — my country ! 

 and coupled with this was the exclamation which he made when fixing his last look on a 

 portrait of Demosthenes that hung by his bedside on the wall — eiceii>o<s vto avdpw7ros: he 

 was a man ! 



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