The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... Achelous . The length of sea - coast from Actium , near the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf to the mouth of the Achelous , is reckoned , by Strabo , to be about 570 stadia , or 57 miles , reckoning 10 to a mile . Our modern charts give a ...
... Achelous . The length of sea - coast from Actium , near the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf to the mouth of the Achelous , is reckoned , by Strabo , to be about 570 stadia , or 57 miles , reckoning 10 to a mile . Our modern charts give a ...
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... Achelous , or rather the moun- tain chain , which here forms the western margin of the basin of that river . Tradition named Amphilochus , the son of Amphiaraus , as the founder of the state of Amphilochia , and of its capital Argos ...
... Achelous , or rather the moun- tain chain , which here forms the western margin of the basin of that river . Tradition named Amphilochus , the son of Amphiaraus , as the founder of the state of Amphilochia , and of its capital Argos ...
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... Achelous rises in the lofty mountain range of Pindus , which is the back - bone of northern Grecce , and , after flowing through a very uneven country , enters the level land of Acarnania . Here it discharges itself into the sea ; in ...
... Achelous rises in the lofty mountain range of Pindus , which is the back - bone of northern Grecce , and , after flowing through a very uneven country , enters the level land of Acarnania . Here it discharges itself into the sea ; in ...
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... Achelous . In the time of Thucydides these islands were increasing so fast , that he predicts ( ii . 102 ) all of them will be shortly joined to the main land ; some , he says , were already attached to it . There is still , however , a ...
... Achelous . In the time of Thucydides these islands were increasing so fast , that he predicts ( ii . 102 ) all of them will be shortly joined to the main land ; some , he says , were already attached to it . There is still , however , a ...
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... Achelous eastwards along the north 6000 and 7500 feet , and produces the barberry ( Berberis shore of the Corinthian gulf as far as its narrow entrance at atnensis ) , soap - wort ( Saponaria depressa ) , toad - flax ( Linaria ...
... Achelous eastwards along the north 6000 and 7500 feet , and produces the barberry ( Berberis shore of the Corinthian gulf as far as its narrow entrance at atnensis ) , soap - wort ( Saponaria depressa ) , toad - flax ( Linaria ...
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Seite 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Seite 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
Seite 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Seite 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Seite 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Seite 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
Seite 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
Seite 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
Seite 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.