The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Հատոր 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... Greek and Latin languages . In consequence of his attainments , he was appointed at an early age to receive the public revenues of the province ; but he resigned his office soon after his appointment , and retired to a monastery in the ...
... Greek and Latin languages . In consequence of his attainments , he was appointed at an early age to receive the public revenues of the province ; but he resigned his office soon after his appointment , and retired to a monastery in the ...
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... Greeks and Romans have been collected with great research by Guichard in his Funé- railles , et diverses Manières d'ensevelir des Romains , Grecs , et autres Nations , ' 4to . , Lyon , 1581 ; by Meursius , in his treatise De Funere ...
... Greeks and Romans have been collected with great research by Guichard in his Funé- railles , et diverses Manières d'ensevelir des Romains , Grecs , et autres Nations , ' 4to . , Lyon , 1581 ; by Meursius , in his treatise De Funere ...
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... Greek . Augustus , at the early age of twelve , performed this office for his grandmother , and afterwards , when ... Greeks and Romans . An early example of this occurs in the funeral games celebrated by Achilles in honour of Patroclus ...
... Greek . Augustus , at the early age of twelve , performed this office for his grandmother , and afterwards , when ... Greeks and Romans . An early example of this occurs in the funeral games celebrated by Achilles in honour of Patroclus ...
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... Greeks chry- soxylon . He also thought that it was the Lycium of Dioscorides , but this has been shown by Dr. Royle ... Greek Islands British North American colonies British West Indies United States of America Mexico Columbia . Brazil ...
... Greeks chry- soxylon . He also thought that it was the Lycium of Dioscorides , but this has been shown by Dr. Royle ... Greek Islands British North American colonies British West Indies United States of America Mexico Columbia . Brazil ...
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Fire , St. Anthony's [ Erysipelas ] | Flowers , 326 Fire , Greek , 280 Firenze [ Florence ] Firkin , 281 Firm [ Partnership ] Firmán , or Firmáun , 281 Firola [ Nucleobranchiata ; Cari- naria , vol . vi . , p . 294 ] Flustra [ Cellariæa ...
Fire , St. Anthony's [ Erysipelas ] | Flowers , 326 Fire , Greek , 280 Firenze [ Florence ] Firkin , 281 Firm [ Partnership ] Firmán , or Firmáun , 281 Firola [ Nucleobranchiata ; Cari- naria , vol . vi . , p . 294 ] Flustra [ Cellariæa ...
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Էջ 212 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Էջ 212 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Էջ 125 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Էջ 157 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
Էջ 168 - Charlotte, in which are equally involved the happiness of your royal highness in your parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the state, that the intercourse between her royal highness the princess of Wales, and her royal highness the princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulation and restraint.
Էջ 127 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Էջ 289 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Էջ 159 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Էջ 212 - A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new...