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... brought to their pre- sent utility . If my extending the term Invention farther than is perhaps usual , by comprehending under it several police- establishments , be a fault , it is at any rate harmless , and on that account may be ...
... brought to their pre- sent utility . If my extending the term Invention farther than is perhaps usual , by comprehending under it several police- establishments , be a fault , it is at any rate harmless , and on that account may be ...
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... brought forth and put to death . In the first place , his daughter was paraded before him , with many maidens of noble birth , clothed as slaves ; and though the other parents uttered piteous lamentations , yet Psammenitus kept his eyes ...
... brought forth and put to death . In the first place , his daughter was paraded before him , with many maidens of noble birth , clothed as slaves ; and though the other parents uttered piteous lamentations , yet Psammenitus kept his eyes ...
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... process em- ployed for gilding in this manner , the horns of the cow brought by Nestor as an offering to Minerva . 2 Epist . 115 . 2 Cento , an artist of Palermo , found out the 20 HISTORY OF INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES . Gold Varnish.
... process em- ployed for gilding in this manner , the horns of the cow brought by Nestor as an offering to Minerva . 2 Epist . 115 . 2 Cento , an artist of Palermo , found out the 20 HISTORY OF INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES . Gold Varnish.
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... brought to us from the Levant . A few have been pro- cured from other parts of the world ; and some of our own indi- genous plants , that grow wild , have , by care and cultivation , been so much improved as to merit a place in our ...
... brought to us from the Levant . A few have been pro- cured from other parts of the world ; and some of our own indi- genous plants , that grow wild , have , by care and cultivation , been so much improved as to merit a place in our ...
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... brought to us , may be proved by the testimony of many writers . Busbequius found it on the road between Adrianople and Constantinople1 ; Shaw found it in Syria , in the plains between Jaffa and Rama ; and Chardin on the northern ...
... brought to us , may be proved by the testimony of many writers . Busbequius found it on the road between Adrianople and Constantinople1 ; Shaw found it in Syria , in the plains between Jaffa and Rama ; and Chardin on the northern ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 37 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Página 446 - ... and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
Página 468 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Página 490 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep...
Página 2 - BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON ; BY THE RIGHT HON. JC CROKER. Incorporating his Tour to the Hebrides, and accompanied by the Commentaries of all preceding Editors : with numerous additional Notes and Illustrative Anecdotes ; to which are added. Two Supplementary Volumes of Anecdotes by HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MURPHY, TTKKS, RET^OLUS STEEVKNK, and others.
Página 446 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them : and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Página 5 - It is, indeed, a lasting memorial of eminent literary exertion, devoted to a subject of great importance, and one dear, not only to every scholar, but to every reader of intelligence to whom the truth of history is an object of consideration.
Página 138 - About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.