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... land . — Larcher ( principally ) sure , and still wish for more . Plutarch himself , who has made the most violent attack on his veracity , allows him all the merit of beautiful composition . - Hayley . 4 In my version , as it now ...
... land . — Larcher ( principally ) sure , and still wish for more . Plutarch himself , who has made the most violent attack on his veracity , allows him all the merit of beautiful composition . - Hayley . 4 In my version , as it now ...
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... land . Repulsed by them , one only boon you gain , With frequent foot to dance on Tegea's plain , And o'er her fields the measuring - cord to strain . No sooner had the Lacedæmonians received this reply , than , leaving the other parts ...
... land . Repulsed by them , one only boon you gain , With frequent foot to dance on Tegea's plain , And o'er her fields the measuring - cord to strain . No sooner had the Lacedæmonians received this reply , than , leaving the other parts ...
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... land of the Massagetæ , he saw in the night this vision : He beheld the eldest son of Hystas pes having wings upon his shoulders ; one of which overshadowed Asia , the other Europe . Hystaspes was the son of Arsamis , of the family of ...
... land of the Massagetæ , he saw in the night this vision : He beheld the eldest son of Hystas pes having wings upon his shoulders ; one of which overshadowed Asia , the other Europe . Hystaspes was the son of Arsamis , of the family of ...
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... land they know by the sounding plummet if they are near Egypt , as within that distance it brings up the black slimy mud of the Nile , that settles at the bottom of the sea , which is often of great use in navigation , the low land of ...
... land they know by the sounding plummet if they are near Egypt , as within that distance it brings up the black slimy mud of the Nile , that settles at the bottom of the sea , which is often of great use in navigation , the low land of ...
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... land , measure them by orgyiæ , they who have larger by stadia , such as have consi- derable tracts by parasanges . The schænus , which is an Egyptian measure , used in the mensuration of more extensive domains , is equivalent to sixty ...
... land , measure them by orgyiæ , they who have larger by stadia , such as have consi- derable tracts by parasanges . The schænus , which is an Egyptian measure , used in the mensuration of more extensive domains , is equivalent to sixty ...
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Page 230 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 315 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 9 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 128 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 127 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Page 79 - In the vicinity of Thebes there are also sacred serpents," not at all troublesome to men : they are very small, but have two horns on the top of the head. When they die, they are buried in the temple of Jupiter, to whom they are said to belong.
Page 153 - Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
Page 40 - The earth of the trench was first of all laid in heaps, and when a sufficient quantity was obtained, made into square bricks, and baked in a furnace. They used as cement a composition of heated bitumen, which, mixed with the tops of reeds, was placed between every thirtieth course of bricks.
Page 171 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day ; the loss of children...
Page 243 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.