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... respect , we have satisfied our readers . A change is operating in the system which has too long been pursued in this country , of making interested persons the covert critics of their own publications , and injuring literature by false ...
... respect , we have satisfied our readers . A change is operating in the system which has too long been pursued in this country , of making interested persons the covert critics of their own publications , and injuring literature by false ...
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... respecting the ancestors of the Tartars ; but still his mention of those countries indicates no minute acquaintance with them ; and in other quarters of his map he is as imaginative as Gulliver . I can see no proof that he knew anything ...
... respecting the ancestors of the Tartars ; but still his mention of those countries indicates no minute acquaintance with them ; and in other quarters of his map he is as imaginative as Gulliver . I can see no proof that he knew anything ...
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... respecting the dials of the ancients . I shall scarce- ly be able however to do justice to Ideler's ideas of ancient gnomonics without quoting them in his own words : " During the day , " he says , men made their first calculations of ...
... respecting the dials of the ancients . I shall scarce- ly be able however to do justice to Ideler's ideas of ancient gnomonics without quoting them in his own words : " During the day , " he says , men made their first calculations of ...
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... respecting their calculations , he says , “ their ex- " actness must excite our astonishment . They discovered the syno- " dical month , or period of the moon's return to the sun , only with " an error of 44 seconds ; and the periodic ...
... respecting their calculations , he says , “ their ex- " actness must excite our astonishment . They discovered the syno- " dical month , or period of the moon's return to the sun , only with " an error of 44 seconds ; and the periodic ...
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... respect and gratitude that we owe to his memory . His prin- cipal object was history and not geography ; yet so much did he extend geographical - information , that the proportion of space on the globe , known to Ptolemy centuries later ...
... respect and gratitude that we owe to his memory . His prin- cipal object was history and not geography ; yet so much did he extend geographical - information , that the proportion of space on the globe , known to Ptolemy centuries later ...
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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.