The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, المجلد 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... century , entitled A Vindication of the Great Men who have been accused of Magic . Abano , however , although no student of magic , shared the universal belief of that and several succeeding ages in the delusions of astrology , and had ...
... century , entitled A Vindication of the Great Men who have been accused of Magic . Abano , however , although no student of magic , shared the universal belief of that and several succeeding ages in the delusions of astrology , and had ...
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... century , we find Richelet , the lexicographer , complaining that there was scarcely a young man , tolerably well made , and who had acquired the air of an ecclesiastic , who did not , by an insufferable abuse , assume the style of ...
... century , we find Richelet , the lexicographer , complaining that there was scarcely a young man , tolerably well made , and who had acquired the air of an ecclesiastic , who did not , by an insufferable abuse , assume the style of ...
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... century , when he speaks , in one of his writings , of having seen an abbot at the head of more than 600 horsemen , who served him as a cortege . By the pomp which these dignitaries exhibit , ' adds the Saint , you would take them , not ...
... century , when he speaks , in one of his writings , of having seen an abbot at the head of more than 600 horsemen , who served him as a cortege . By the pomp which these dignitaries exhibit , ' adds the Saint , you would take them , not ...
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... century , both for his extraordinary talents and his misfortunes , was born at Palais , a little town in the neigh- bourhood of Nantes , in the year 1079. His father , a gen- tleman of fortune , and of considerable merit , spared no ...
... century , both for his extraordinary talents and his misfortunes , was born at Palais , a little town in the neigh- bourhood of Nantes , in the year 1079. His father , a gen- tleman of fortune , and of considerable merit , spared no ...
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... century ; when it was ele- vated to the rank of a city by the removal to it of the | bishopric of Morthlac , in Banffshire . The cathedral of St. Machar is now nearly demolished ; a small part only being retained for the celebration of ...
... century ; when it was ele- vated to the rank of a city by the removal to it of the | bishopric of Morthlac , in Banffshire . The cathedral of St. Machar is now nearly demolished ; a small part only being retained for the celebration of ...
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الصفحة 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
الصفحة 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
الصفحة 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
الصفحة 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
الصفحة 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
الصفحة 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
الصفحة 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
الصفحة 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
الصفحة 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.