The Saturday Magazine, Volúmenes16-17John William Parker, 1840 |
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... Greek astronomer , Sosigenes , that the year then employed was too short , and that it could never be properly settled but by referring it to the ( apparent ) annual revolution of the sun , and finding that about ninety days had been ...
... Greek astronomer , Sosigenes , that the year then employed was too short , and that it could never be properly settled but by referring it to the ( apparent ) annual revolution of the sun , and finding that about ninety days had been ...
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... Greeks they were called schedai , and many writers , that the ancients ventured out to sea with them , on piratical expeditions , as well as to carry on com- 483 merce ; and that after the invention of ships ,. 509 91010 ...
... Greeks they were called schedai , and many writers , that the ancients ventured out to sea with them , on piratical expeditions , as well as to carry on com- 483 merce ; and that after the invention of ships ,. 509 91010 ...
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... Greeks and Romans , medicinal herb - gardens were highly estimated , and frequently mentioned by their celebrated writers . The Chinese make extensive use of them ; and having no schools for the study of physic , they consider it a duty ...
... Greeks and Romans , medicinal herb - gardens were highly estimated , and frequently mentioned by their celebrated writers . The Chinese make extensive use of them ; and having no schools for the study of physic , they consider it a duty ...
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... Greeks , and sigillarii by the Romans , who worked principally in wax . The bed- rooms of the Greeks were often adorned with wax figures of boys ; but the subjects most frequently represented were branches , fruit , flowers , wreaths ...
... Greeks , and sigillarii by the Romans , who worked principally in wax . The bed- rooms of the Greeks were often adorned with wax figures of boys ; but the subjects most frequently represented were branches , fruit , flowers , wreaths ...
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... Greek , and the same predicament , when he points to the Straw - signifies in the original " to adorn : " hence it is berry Girl , as one of the cleverest of his performances . A very serious complaint was made against Sir Joshua in the ...
... Greek , and the same predicament , when he points to the Straw - signifies in the original " to adorn : " hence it is berry Girl , as one of the cleverest of his performances . A very serious complaint was made against Sir Joshua in the ...
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Página 52 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Página 132 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 6 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Página 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 122 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 59 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Página 172 - Here the gray smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Página 46 - PANSIES, Lilies, Kingcups, Daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are Violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, Tis the little Celandine.
Página 11 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Página 59 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.