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... received opinion , Vulcan was educated in heaven with the rest of the gods , but his father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was ...
... received opinion , Vulcan was educated in heaven with the rest of the gods , but his father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was ...
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... received , the existence of an only God , the Author of the world , the Rewarder of the good , and the Punisher of the bad ; but he re- jected all the stories contained in the Ko- ran , especially those concerning Moham- med , whom he ...
... received , the existence of an only God , the Author of the world , the Rewarder of the good , and the Punisher of the bad ; but he re- jected all the stories contained in the Ko- ran , especially those concerning Moham- med , whom he ...
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... received orders to proceed , with the tribes which had ad- hered to Mohammedanism , against the Wahabees , who , however , by great pres- ents , bribed the generals sent against them to retreat , and then attacked the town of Iman ...
... received orders to proceed , with the tribes which had ad- hered to Mohammedanism , against the Wahabees , who , however , by great pres- ents , bribed the generals sent against them to retreat , and then attacked the town of Iman ...
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... received this post , and , with his successors , who were also Greeks , did much towards civilizing and improving the condition of the country . The insurrection of 1821 ( see Hetaireia , and Greece , Revolution of ) was quelled , and ...
... received this post , and , with his successors , who were also Greeks , did much towards civilizing and improving the condition of the country . The insurrection of 1821 ( see Hetaireia , and Greece , Revolution of ) was quelled , and ...
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... received under the pater- nal roof , and in the celebrated Protestant school at Goldberg , in Silesia , he had no taste . His restless , impetuous disposition was hostile to discipline , and , in all mis- chievous exploits ; he was the ...
... received under the pater- nal roof , and in the celebrated Protestant school at Goldberg , in Silesia , he had no taste . His restless , impetuous disposition was hostile to discipline , and , in all mis- chievous exploits ; he was the ...
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Página 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 147 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 463 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Página 257 - Descriptive Sketches. In Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps.
Página 475 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Página 475 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Página 475 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Página 400 - If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to our mountains and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until, tired of combating, in vain, against a spirit which victory after victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. — No, sir, — we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilt, we have no doubt...
Página 452 - FORGERY at common law has been defined as "the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right ;" (a) or, more recently, as " a false making, a making malo animo, of any written instrument, for the purpose of fraud and deceit...
Página 110 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.