The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... ancient authors , enables us to form a more perfect conception of the topo- graphy of ancient Athens than of any other Greek city . Recent excavations have added greatly to our knowledge of it , and the literature of the subject is very ...
... ancient authors , enables us to form a more perfect conception of the topo- graphy of ancient Athens than of any other Greek city . Recent excavations have added greatly to our knowledge of it , and the literature of the subject is very ...
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... ancients as marking an important era in Athenian topo- graphy . We have already mentioned the fountain of Enneacrunus as being built by them . It was Pisistratus who laid the foundations of the great temple of Zeus Olympius upon the ancient ...
... ancients as marking an important era in Athenian topo- graphy . We have already mentioned the fountain of Enneacrunus as being built by them . It was Pisistratus who laid the foundations of the great temple of Zeus Olympius upon the ancient ...
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... ancient walls , we may take our start from the N.W. side of the city , at the one gate whose site is absolutely certain , the Thriasian gate ( called also the Sacred gate , as opening upon the sacred way to Eleusis , and also Tò Aímulov ...
... ancient walls , we may take our start from the N.W. side of the city , at the one gate whose site is absolutely certain , the Thriasian gate ( called also the Sacred gate , as opening upon the sacred way to Eleusis , and also Tò Aímulov ...
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... ancient wooden image of the goddess , and formed the centre of her worship , suffered from fire in the Persian War ( 479 B.C. ) A building so sacred would hardly have been allowed to remain for long in ruins ; but it was reserved for ...
... ancient wooden image of the goddess , and formed the centre of her worship , suffered from fire in the Persian War ( 479 B.C. ) A building so sacred would hardly have been allowed to remain for long in ruins ; but it was reserved for ...
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... ancient grotto was by Thrasyllus battery , and so preserved . Thus the temple was at once converted into a choragic monument . The Byzantine restored by a reconstruction of the original fragments . Christians transformed the building ...
... ancient grotto was by Thrasyllus battery , and so preserved . Thus the temple was at once converted into a choragic monument . The Byzantine restored by a reconstruction of the original fragments . Christians transformed the building ...
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61. oldal - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
303. oldal - Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles...
74. oldal - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
210. oldal - MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
208. oldal - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
49. oldal - It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance...
50. oldal - By sec. 1, from and after the passing of this Act, no confession, verdict, inquest, conviction, or judgment of, or for any treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any attainder or corruption of blood, or any forfeiture, or escheat, provided that nothing in this Act shall affect the law of forfeiture consequent upon outlawry.
303. oldal - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
87. oldal - ... what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has...
47. oldal - ... we know, be of the kind which metaphysicians call necessary. We may use our knowledge of such truths for purposes of deduction, but we have no data for speculating as to their origin.