The Classical Journal, Band 6A. J. Valpay., 1819 |
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... probably copied from an Egyptian model . From the time of Aristotle to the present , the critics have asked , how Homer could assert , that the Wain was the only constellation which never bathed itself in the ocean , or in other words ...
... probably copied from an Egyptian model . From the time of Aristotle to the present , the critics have asked , how Homer could assert , that the Wain was the only constellation which never bathed itself in the ocean , or in other words ...
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... probably resembling an armillary sphere , has been attributed by some to Atlas , and by others to Musæus . During the time of the Trojan war Palamedes was celebrated for his knowledge ofastronomy . " In Asia , and in Egypt , this ...
... probably resembling an armillary sphere , has been attributed by some to Atlas , and by others to Musæus . During the time of the Trojan war Palamedes was celebrated for his knowledge ofastronomy . " In Asia , and in Egypt , this ...
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... probably have made the form accord with the name . But they seem to have united the fish of the Chaldeans , with the serpent of the Egyptians , and to have borrowed the name from the Orientalists . Under all these circumstances , it is ...
... probably have made the form accord with the name . But they seem to have united the fish of the Chaldeans , with the serpent of the Egyptians , and to have borrowed the name from the Orientalists . Under all these circumstances , it is ...
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... probably be considered as the Polar star about 2450 years ago . I am aware that Bernouilli has brought the period down to 2000 years ago ; but with due deference to that great man , I am inclined to abide by my own statement . Let us ...
... probably be considered as the Polar star about 2450 years ago . I am aware that Bernouilli has brought the period down to 2000 years ago ; but with due deference to that great man , I am inclined to abide by my own statement . Let us ...
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... probably formed of 360 days , to which five intercalary days were added . 4. These five days probably constituted the period , which the ancient Athenians denominated their second Posideon ! 5. The Egyptians placed the intercalary days ...
... probably formed of 360 days , to which five intercalary days were added . 4. These five days probably constituted the period , which the ancient Athenians denominated their second Posideon ! 5. The Egyptians placed the intercalary days ...
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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...