The Classical Journal, Band 6A. J. Valpay., 1819 |
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... poet copied his description of it from models which he had seen in Egypt . ' There can be no doubt , that representations of the celestial bodies , the earth , and the ocean , were frequently exhibited in Egypt and in Asia , not only on ...
... poet copied his description of it from models which he had seen in Egypt . ' There can be no doubt , that representations of the celestial bodies , the earth , and the ocean , were frequently exhibited in Egypt and in Asia , not only on ...
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... poet put the Wain , by a figure of Speech , for all the constellations which never set , as being the most remarkable.3 Crates reads olos for om ; but Strabo vindicates the text , and understands , that by the Bear Homer meant the whole ...
... poet put the Wain , by a figure of Speech , for all the constellations which never set , as being the most remarkable.3 Crates reads olos for om ; but Strabo vindicates the text , and understands , that by the Bear Homer meant the whole ...
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... poet , therefore , either was not , or ought not to have been , unacquainted with those celestial signs , which never set . But it is further contended , that the Great Bear was the only Arctic constellation known to Homer , because the ...
... poet , therefore , either was not , or ought not to have been , unacquainted with those celestial signs , which never set . But it is further contended , that the Great Bear was the only Arctic constellation known to Homer , because the ...
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... Poet has said , that all the signs were engraven on the shield , and then names the Pleiades , the Hyades , Orion , and the Bear , commonly called the Wain . From this it is inferred , that he mentioned the appellations of all the signs ...
... Poet has said , that all the signs were engraven on the shield , and then names the Pleiades , the Hyades , Orion , and the Bear , commonly called the Wain . From this it is inferred , that he mentioned the appellations of all the signs ...
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... poet . But since the star a in Draco was only 10 from the Pole about 4000 years ago , and since about the Trojan times , or 3000 years ago , the star in Draco was within 5 ° of the Pole , it appears that the Pole's place , about 3000 ...
... poet . But since the star a in Draco was only 10 from the Pole about 4000 years ago , and since about the Trojan times , or 3000 years ago , the star in Draco was within 5 ° of the Pole , it appears that the Pole's place , about 3000 ...
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Seite 178 - The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.
Seite 384 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Seite 383 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Seite 381 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him ; male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Seite 382 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Seite 91 - The thing to be lamented is, not that men have so great regard to their own good or interest in the present world, for they have not enough ; but that they have so little to the good of others.
Seite 317 - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Seite 179 - Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Seite 243 - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Seite 370 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...