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... meridian : which it enjoyed pro- they were withdrawn ; and , a compromise having bably about the time that the president De Thou taken place , the city was restored to its former wrote his Historia sui Temporis , in which he immunities ...
... meridian : which it enjoyed pro- they were withdrawn ; and , a compromise having bably about the time that the president De Thou taken place , the city was restored to its former wrote his Historia sui Temporis , in which he immunities ...
Page 65
... meridian : which it enjoyed pro- they were withdrawn ; and , a compromise having bably about the time that the president De Thou taken place , the city was restored to its former wrote his Historia sui Temporis , in which he immunities ...
... meridian : which it enjoyed pro- they were withdrawn ; and , a compromise having bably about the time that the president De Thou taken place , the city was restored to its former wrote his Historia sui Temporis , in which he immunities ...
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... meridian : on the other side of the Azores , and this side of the equator , the north point of the needle wheeleth to the west . Browne's Vulgar Errours . Needles incline to the south on the other side of the equator ; and at the very ...
... meridian : on the other side of the Azores , and this side of the equator , the north point of the needle wheeleth to the west . Browne's Vulgar Errours . Needles incline to the south on the other side of the equator ; and at the very ...
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... meridian ' t departed or sailed from ; or it is the difference of longitude , either east or west , between the present meridian the ship is under , and that where the last reckoning or observation was made . This departure , any where ...
... meridian ' t departed or sailed from ; or it is the difference of longitude , either east or west , between the present meridian the ship is under , and that where the last reckoning or observation was made . This departure , any where ...
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... meridian , passing through the stile , is called the meridian of the dial , or the hour line of XII . 15. Meridians , the planes of which pass through the stile , and make angles of 15 ° , 30 ° , 45 ° , 60 ° , 75 ° , and 90 ° , with the ...
... meridian , passing through the stile , is called the meridian of the dial , or the hour line of XII . 15. Meridians , the planes of which pass through the stile , and make angles of 15 ° , 30 ° , 45 ° , 60 ° , 75 ° , and 90 ° , with the ...
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Page 260 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 344 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 79 - ... how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God ? and for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Page 284 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 75 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 65 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 162 - ... penalty of being reputed a deserter, and suffering accordingly. And in case any officer shall knowingly receive and entertain such noncommissioned officer or soldier, or shall not, after his being discovered to be a deserter, immediately...
Page 410 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'Here was, or is', where all is doubly night?
Page 349 - And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Page 98 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.