The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. kötetH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... side , where it is joined by a neck of hill to the Areopagus . On this side there existed down to later times the remains of fortifications built by the earliest inhabitants , with nine doorways , ' one within the other , called τὸ ...
... side , where it is joined by a neck of hill to the Areopagus . On this side there existed down to later times the remains of fortifications built by the earliest inhabitants , with nine doorways , ' one within the other , called τὸ ...
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... side of the city , at the one gate whose site is absolutely certain , the Thriasian gate ( called also the Sacred ... side . The isthmus of Piraeus , though somewhat more distant than Phalerum , presented obvious advantages as a sea ...
... side of the city , at the one gate whose site is absolutely certain , the Thriasian gate ( called also the Sacred ... side . The isthmus of Piraeus , though somewhat more distant than Phalerum , presented obvious advantages as a sea ...
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... side which confronts those mighty Doric shafts , the columns of the smaller building are allowed to trans form themselves into Canephori . The temple of Athena Polias , which contained the ancient wooden image of the goddess , and ...
... side which confronts those mighty Doric shafts , the columns of the smaller building are allowed to trans form themselves into Canephori . The temple of Athena Polias , which contained the ancient wooden image of the goddess , and ...
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... side of the Ilissus , at right angles to the stream , a hollow space was scooped out of the soil , some 680 feet in length and 130 in breadth . It is possible that the site had been used for gymnastic contests before the orator's time ...
... side of the Ilissus , at right angles to the stream , a hollow space was scooped out of the soil , some 680 feet in length and 130 in breadth . It is possible that the site had been used for gymnastic contests before the orator's time ...
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... side . Augustus himself received the honour of a small circular shrine upon the Acropolis , dedicated to Augustus and Roma . His son - in - law Agrippa was honoured by an equestrian statue in front of the Pro- pylæa , the pedestal of ...
... side . Augustus himself received the honour of a small circular shrine upon the Acropolis , dedicated to Augustus and Roma . His son - in - law Agrippa was honoured by an equestrian statue in front of the Pro- pylæa , the pedestal of ...
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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.