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... French historian of astronomy , utterly disbelieves this tradition . He even impugns the certainty of the eclipse . Against the credibility of Thales having possessed the knowledge necessary for predicting it , he argues thus : " Such ...
... French historian of astronomy , utterly disbelieves this tradition . He even impugns the certainty of the eclipse . Against the credibility of Thales having possessed the knowledge necessary for predicting it , he argues thus : " Such ...
Side 11
... French academician , by arguing the astonishing accuracy of its ob- servations , yet I have not resumed courage to meditate so devoutly as I once did about the Chaldæan sages . $ 6 66 66 Delambre rates the obligation of the Greeks to ...
... French academician , by arguing the astonishing accuracy of its ob- servations , yet I have not resumed courage to meditate so devoutly as I once did about the Chaldæan sages . $ 6 66 66 Delambre rates the obligation of the Greeks to ...
Side 12
... French historian of astronomy is on their behalf . They speak constantly of their having been pri- mitively indebted to foreigners for all the elements of their improve- ment . 66 66 Herodotus says that Greece received from Chaldæa the ...
... French historian of astronomy is on their behalf . They speak constantly of their having been pri- mitively indebted to foreigners for all the elements of their improve- ment . 66 66 Herodotus says that Greece received from Chaldæa the ...
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... French school of music , till lately , was wretched . The national taste was bad ; and they had not a single native composer who was truly great . Till within the memory of the present generation , every advancement in French music was ...
... French school of music , till lately , was wretched . The national taste was bad ; and they had not a single native composer who was truly great . Till within the memory of the present generation , every advancement in French music was ...
Side 35
... French drinking song , taught me by the sub - prior Frère Jacques , and into- nate a Gloria in Excelsis " with a true nasal twang . I had ac- tually learned the Creed in English ; 1 and could call all the brothers by their name . I had ...
... French drinking song , taught me by the sub - prior Frère Jacques , and into- nate a Gloria in Excelsis " with a true nasal twang . I had ac- tually learned the Creed in English ; 1 and could call all the brothers by their name . I had ...
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Side 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Side 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Side 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Side 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Side 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Side 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Side 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Side 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Side 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Side 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.