Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan: Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons, and General Views of the Geography, Population, Politics, Religion, Military and Naval Affairs, Arts, Literature, Manners, Customs, and Society, of Ancient and Modern Nations. : Accompanied by a Series of Questions, and Illustrated with EngravingsBelknap and Hamersley, 1849 |
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8. oldal
... Land , Greece , and Italy , in their cities , temples , aque ducts , columns , & c . Coins and medals offer very valuable means of historical information . They have often been examined and studied for that purpose , are abundant , and ...
... Land , Greece , and Italy , in their cities , temples , aque ducts , columns , & c . Coins and medals offer very valuable means of historical information . They have often been examined and studied for that purpose , are abundant , and ...
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... land was seen , crowned with a rich profusion of herbage , fruits , and flowers . These great occurrences occupied the first three days . The following day was devoted to an illumination of the earth . The heavens were accordingly ...
... land was seen , crowned with a rich profusion of herbage , fruits , and flowers . These great occurrences occupied the first three days . The following day was devoted to an illumination of the earth . The heavens were accordingly ...
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... land of Nod , on the east of Eden . He , however , built a city , at length , and his family and de- scendants became famous as inventors of useful and ingenious arts , though it does not appear that any of them were pious , and enjoyed ...
... land of Nod , on the east of Eden . He , however , built a city , at length , and his family and de- scendants became famous as inventors of useful and ingenious arts , though it does not appear that any of them were pious , and enjoyed ...
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... land of Nod , on the east of Eden . He at length built a city , and called it Enoch , after the name of his son . Nothing is recorded of the time and manner of his death . He was most probably a person of great energy and enterprise ...
... land of Nod , on the east of Eden . He at length built a city , and called it Enoch , after the name of his son . Nothing is recorded of the time and manner of his death . He was most probably a person of great energy and enterprise ...
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... land of Shinar . On this spot they began to erect a city and a tower , whose top might aspire to heaven , for the purpose of avoiding the dispersion of their households , and of acquiring a name . Such a purpose , and perhaps others ...
... land of Shinar . On this spot they began to erect a city and a tower , whose top might aspire to heaven , for the purpose of avoiding the dispersion of their households , and of acquiring a name . Such a purpose , and perhaps others ...
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201. oldal - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
232. oldal - ... your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
15. oldal - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
87. oldal - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
354. oldal - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. .From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
270. oldal - Mr Boyle's writings shall I recommend ? All of them. To him we owe the secrets of fire, air, water, animals, vegetables, fossils : so that from his works may be deduced the whole system of natural knowledge.
342. oldal - ... are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens ; and all promises, contracts, and obligations made or entered into, or to be made or entered into with purpose to secure the duties imposed by the said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void.
216. oldal - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
197. oldal - Edward, insensible to pity, struck him on the face with his gauntlet; and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for further violence, hurried the Prince into the next apartment and there despatched him with their daggers.
354. oldal - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.