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... various poems , translations , and professional treatises . Of his original poems we need say nothing . Amongst his translations we may notice his Song of Songs , or Sacred Idylls , translated from the Hebrew , 1803 ; his translation of ...
... various poems , translations , and professional treatises . Of his original poems we need say nothing . Amongst his translations we may notice his Song of Songs , or Sacred Idylls , translated from the Hebrew , 1803 ; his translation of ...
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... Various explanations have been given of the myth both by the ancients and the moderns , but no one in particular can be said to be satisfactory . - Compare Levezow , Ueber die Entwickelung des Gorgonenideals in der Poesie und bildenden ...
... Various explanations have been given of the myth both by the ancients and the moderns , but no one in particular can be said to be satisfactory . - Compare Levezow , Ueber die Entwickelung des Gorgonenideals in der Poesie und bildenden ...
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... various grades , many of whom are men celebrated throughout Europe . The average number of students is about 700. The chief manufactures of the town are hosiery , leather , and musical and scientific instruments , but the only ...
... various grades , many of whom are men celebrated throughout Europe . The average number of students is about 700. The chief manufactures of the town are hosiery , leather , and musical and scientific instruments , but the only ...
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... various purposes , but chiefly for the perpetuation and propagation of the finest varieties of fruit - trees , which could not be accom- plished by seed , and is accomplished by grafting more rapidly and easily than by layers or ...
... various purposes , but chiefly for the perpetuation and propagation of the finest varieties of fruit - trees , which could not be accom- plished by seed , and is accomplished by grafting more rapidly and easily than by layers or ...
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... various ; and in its size , strength , and hardness , it is adapted to the kind of food ; some , as snipes , which feed chiefly on worms and other soft animals , having a very soft weak bill , whilst others , which feed on larger and ...
... various ; and in its size , strength , and hardness , it is adapted to the kind of food ; some , as snipes , which feed chiefly on worms and other soft animals , having a very soft weak bill , whilst others , which feed on larger and ...
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Page 19 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 19 - Florence), and a protracted discussion took place, the chief points of which were the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 19 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Page 30 - I have so ruled my life, that when death came, I might face it without fear.
Page 12 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 19 - Viet. c. 96, no irregular marriage of that kind in Scotland is now valid unless one of the parties had at the date thereof his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for 21 days next preceding such marriage.
Page 30 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London.
Page 30 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 30 - He accompanied the king after the battle to Oxford, where, according to the same authority, 'he came several times to our college (Trinity), to George Bathurst, BD, who had a hen to hatch eggs in his chamber, which they opened dayly to see the progress and way of generation...
Page 30 - The husband of an heiress is entitled to bear her arms in an escutcheon of pretence, ie, a small escutcheon in the centre of his paternal shield, and the children of an heiress may quarter her arms with their paternal coat. Neither practice is of very early introduction in heraldry. See MARSHALLING OF ARMS.