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... period of the Creation , which they place in the 5493rd year before our era , on the 29th August , old style ; and their dates consequently exceed ours by 5492 years and 125 days . To reduce Abyssinian time to the Julian year , subtract ...
... period of the Creation , which they place in the 5493rd year before our era , on the 29th August , old style ; and their dates consequently exceed ours by 5492 years and 125 days . To reduce Abyssinian time to the Julian year , subtract ...
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... periods of the eighteenth century . See Sound . ACRE . This measure was formerly of uncertain quantity , and differed ... period of years the number of acts passed has been annually large , although varying considerably in every session ...
... periods of the eighteenth century . See Sound . ACRE . This measure was formerly of uncertain quantity , and differed ... period of years the number of acts passed has been annually large , although varying considerably in every session ...
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... period than his time.- Dissertation on the Customs of the East . There is a Rabbinical story of the aërial harmony of the harp of David , which , when hung up at night , was played upon by the north wind . - Baruch . AERONAUTICS . To ...
... period than his time.- Dissertation on the Customs of the East . There is a Rabbinical story of the aërial harmony of the harp of David , which , when hung up at night , was played upon by the north wind . - Baruch . AERONAUTICS . To ...
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... period immediately succeeding the Deluge . In China and the eastern countries it was , perhaps , coeval with their early plantation and government . Of the agriculture of the ancients little is known . Brought into England by the Romans ...
... period immediately succeeding the Deluge . In China and the eastern countries it was , perhaps , coeval with their early plantation and government . Of the agriculture of the ancients little is known . Brought into England by the Romans ...
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... period of the Reformation . Wynkin de Worde's Treatyse of Fysshinge , the first book printed on angling , appeared in 1496. Isaac Walton's book was printed in 1653 . ANGLO - SAXONS , OR ANGLES . The name of England is derived from a ...
... period of the Reformation . Wynkin de Worde's Treatyse of Fysshinge , the first book printed on angling , appeared in 1496. Isaac Walton's book was printed in 1653 . ANGLO - SAXONS , OR ANGLES . The name of England is derived from a ...
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Seite 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Seite 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Seite 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Seite 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Seite 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Seite 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Seite 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Seite 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Seite 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Seite 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.