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... distinguished Heroes . 370 Celebrated Greeks 372 Eminent Historical Characters 374 CHAP . IX . Biography . British Biography General Biography 378 402 CHAP . XII . - Scientific Subjects . Science and Natural Philosophy • Elements of ...
... distinguished Heroes . 370 Celebrated Greeks 372 Eminent Historical Characters 374 CHAP . IX . Biography . British Biography General Biography 378 402 CHAP . XII . - Scientific Subjects . Science and Natural Philosophy • Elements of ...
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... distinguished rank . 2. Experience every day convinces us that no part of learning affords us so much wisdom upon such easy terms as the study of these sciences ; every step we take only serves to increase our ardour : we here profit by ...
... distinguished rank . 2. Experience every day convinces us that no part of learning affords us so much wisdom upon such easy terms as the study of these sciences ; every step we take only serves to increase our ardour : we here profit by ...
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... distinguished rank ? 2. Of what does experience convince us ? In what do we profit by studying History ? 3. What is one of the most distinguishing characters of History ? 4. What does particular History give us ? What general ? 5. In ...
... distinguished rank ? 2. Of what does experience convince us ? In what do we profit by studying History ? 3. What is one of the most distinguishing characters of History ? 4. What does particular History give us ? What general ? 5. In ...
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... distinguished for their courage and enterprise ; but the moderns , by whom a large portion of Asiatic Turkey is inhabited , are chiefly noted for trade and commerce . They also form the chief class of traders in the Persian empire . 20 ...
... distinguished for their courage and enterprise ; but the moderns , by whom a large portion of Asiatic Turkey is inhabited , are chiefly noted for trade and commerce . They also form the chief class of traders in the Persian empire . 20 ...
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... distinguished characters were the natives of Mesopotamia ? 5. What was its more ancient name ? Why so cal- led ? What does it include ? What now called ? 6. Describe this country in the time of David . Name its several kingdoms of this ...
... distinguished characters were the natives of Mesopotamia ? 5. What was its more ancient name ? Why so cal- led ? What does it include ? What now called ? 6. Describe this country in the time of David . Name its several kingdoms of this ...
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385. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
164. oldal - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
163. oldal - And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
164. oldal - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
18. oldal - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
13. oldal - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
171. oldal - And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel...
390. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
382. oldal - He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity. May this tribute to his fame excite an emulation of his truly glorious achievements.
111. oldal - Around his waist he wore a golden girdle, after the manner of women, whence his scimitar hung, the scabbard of which flamed all over with gems ; on his head he wore a tiara, or mitre, round which was a fillet of blue mixed with white.