The Complete Works of Thomas Dick ...A. C. Goodman & Company, 1853 - Moral education |
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... whole earth becomes too narrow a theatre for her rapacity and ambition . Alexander , in the mad carcer of his conquests , subdued and plundered the greater part of the known world , and had the riches and splendour of its most ...
... whole earth becomes too narrow a theatre for her rapacity and ambition . Alexander , in the mad carcer of his conquests , subdued and plundered the greater part of the known world , and had the riches and splendour of its most ...
Page 293
... whole value of this dedicated treasure , calcu- lated at the rate formerly stated , would amount to £ 761,250 ... whole of these offerings , besides the brass and iron , amounted to 108,000 talents of gold , and 1,017.000 talents of ...
... whole value of this dedicated treasure , calcu- lated at the rate formerly stated , would amount to £ 761,250 ... whole of these offerings , besides the brass and iron , amounted to 108,000 talents of gold , and 1,017.000 talents of ...
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... whole fami- forward in the days of the millennium , or 1. such an object . Let us look at New England , which , only about two centuries ago , was one immense forest , without the least cultivation , inhabited by a few savages . From a ...
... whole fami- forward in the days of the millennium , or 1. such an object . Let us look at New England , which , only about two centuries ago , was one immense forest , without the least cultivation , inhabited by a few savages . From a ...
Page 327
... whole life , of only the one - hun- dredth part of them ? He would be in the same condition as a man who had a hundred dishes placed before him at dinner , but who could nly partake of one , or of a person who had a hundred mansions ...
... whole life , of only the one - hun- dredth part of them ? He would be in the same condition as a man who had a hundred dishes placed before him at dinner , but who could nly partake of one , or of a person who had a hundred mansions ...
Page 329
... whole earth to be made up of particles of sand , and suppose a bird to come every thousand years to pick up and fly away with one grain , how immense must be the duration before the whole sands which compose the earth , could , by this ...
... whole earth to be made up of particles of sand , and suppose a bird to come every thousand years to pick up and fly away with one grain , how immense must be the duration before the whole sands which compose the earth , could , by this ...
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