Dante and the Early AstronomersA. Wingate, 1807 - 359 Seiten |
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... stone , and require three or four sets of ' new windows before the walls tumble down , would it not be economical , as well as elegant , to have windows of all sorts of cast - iron ? They could be painted any colour . The frames with ...
... stone , and require three or four sets of ' new windows before the walls tumble down , would it not be economical , as well as elegant , to have windows of all sorts of cast - iron ? They could be painted any colour . The frames with ...
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... stones adorned with Roman sculpture are found in the doors and windows of almost every house . The isthmus between the Forth and the Clyde naturally became the principal seat , or scene of the Roman arms and colonization in what is now ...
... stones adorned with Roman sculpture are found in the doors and windows of almost every house . The isthmus between the Forth and the Clyde naturally became the principal seat , or scene of the Roman arms and colonization in what is now ...
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... stones , which are now common , and may be had at an easy rate . The people here , as in some other parts of the world , imagine that briars and thorns , being the ef- fect of the fall of man , are sent as a curse , though they find ...
... stones , which are now common , and may be had at an easy rate . The people here , as in some other parts of the world , imagine that briars and thorns , being the ef- fect of the fall of man , are sent as a curse , though they find ...
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... stones . Though this town contains not above five hundred inhabitants ; yet , as the parish is large , and some of the ... stone of peculiar construction , I went to see it , but I found the inscription almost totally effaced . Upon ...
... stones . Though this town contains not above five hundred inhabitants ; yet , as the parish is large , and some of the ... stone of peculiar construction , I went to see it , but I found the inscription almost totally effaced . Upon ...
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... stone was not erected till many years after the death of the tyrant of Clackmannan ; which is indeed almost certain otherwise there would have probably been a farther application of roasted eggs . One day I went to see Sir John de ...
... stone was not erected till many years after the death of the tyrant of Clackmannan ; which is indeed almost certain otherwise there would have probably been a farther application of roasted eggs . One day I went to see Sir John de ...
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Seite 94 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
Seite 554 - Neither is it any quantity of knowledge how great soever that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can fill, much less extend, the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God; and therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing...
Seite 52 - I beg and entreat of you, dear and special friend, as earnestly as I can, that you would have the goodness to undertake this expedition for the love of me, and to acquit my soul to our Lord and Saviour ; for I have that opinion of your nobleness and loyalty, that, if you undertake it, it cannot fail of success — and I shall die more contented ; but it must be executed as follows : — " I will, that as soon as I shall be dead, you take...
Seite 599 - And it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when the farmers who allow thistles, ragweed, and the like, to seed on their fields, without having attempted to prevent them, will be subjected to a penalty •f.
Seite 365 - I observed two magpies hopping round a gooseberry bush, in a small garden, near a poor-looking house, in a peculiar manner, and flying out and into the bush. I stepped aside to see what they were doing, and found, from the poor man and his wife, that...
Seite 53 - ... you sufficient to perform your journey, as well as for all those whom you may choose to take with you in your train ; you will then deposit your charge at the holy sepulchre of our Lord, where he was buried, since my body cannot go there. You will not be sparing of expense...
Seite 161 - How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the seaman's toil ! Not that another's danger soothes the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure...
Seite 53 - All those present began bewailing bitterly; and when the Lord James could speak, he said, 'Gallant and noble king, I return you a hundred thousand thanks for the high honour you do me, and for the valuable and dear treasure with which you...
Seite 106 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Seite 103 - TUNE—" The Boatman." YE gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not this discover, While parents rate A large estate, Before a faithful lover. But I...