A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden., 1846 - 518 páginas |
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... collected with the utmost diligence whatever he thought useful or curi- ous , and whose desire of communicating knowledge seems to have been equal to his thirst for acquiring it . Of all those nations whose history has been preserved ...
... collected with the utmost diligence whatever he thought useful or curi- ous , and whose desire of communicating knowledge seems to have been equal to his thirst for acquiring it . Of all those nations whose history has been preserved ...
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... collected in a receiver for fur- ther use . Those also who wash gold from the sand found near rivers , use ... collecting of gold , and particularly in the Rhine , there is a description of the manner in which gold sand is washed by ...
... collected in a receiver for fur- ther use . Those also who wash gold from the sand found near rivers , use ... collecting of gold , and particularly in the Rhine , there is a description of the manner in which gold sand is washed by ...
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... collected by Hakluyts . It was written in the above year by a merchant named Henry Hawks , and contains only the following information : " A good owner of mines must have much quicksilver ; and as for this charge of quicksilver , it is ...
... collected by Hakluyts . It was written in the above year by a merchant named Henry Hawks , and contains only the following information : " A good owner of mines must have much quicksilver ; and as for this charge of quicksilver , it is ...
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... collected also natural curiosities , and brought them with him from the Levant . Nay , he tells us that he paid very dear to the Turks for these tulips ; but I do not find he anywhere says that he was the first who brought them from the ...
... collected also natural curiosities , and brought them with him from the Levant . Nay , he tells us that he paid very dear to the Turks for these tulips ; but I do not find he anywhere says that he was the first who brought them from the ...
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... collected and described all the then known species . - . These flowers , which are of no further use than to orna- ment gardens , which are exceeded in beauty by many other plants , and whose duration is short and very precarious , be ...
... collected and described all the then known species . - . These flowers , which are of no further use than to orna- ment gardens , which are exceeded in beauty by many other plants , and whose duration is short and very precarious , be ...
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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.