The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volumen1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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Página 69
... Acarnanians , inhabiting the country which we have called Acarnania . It is difficult to give , in a limited space , any definite or correct idea of the origin of many of the Greek nations . The Acarnanians are never mentioned by Homer ...
... Acarnanians , inhabiting the country which we have called Acarnania . It is difficult to give , in a limited space , any definite or correct idea of the origin of many of the Greek nations . The Acarnanians are never mentioned by Homer ...
Página 70
... Acarnania . Bordering on Acarnania , on the north - east , was the small territory of Amphilochia , which , with its capital Argos , was sometimes reckoned a part of Acarnania , owing to the poli- tical connexion between the two people ...
... Acarnania . Bordering on Acarnania , on the north - east , was the small territory of Amphilochia , which , with its capital Argos , was sometimes reckoned a part of Acarnania , owing to the poli- tical connexion between the two people ...
Página 82
... Acarnania . But it is exceedingly difficult to fix the precise limits of the Roman provinces of Macedonia and Achæa . Nicopolis , a town which Augustus built near the northern entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf ( Gulf of Arta ) to ...
... Acarnania . But it is exceedingly difficult to fix the precise limits of the Roman provinces of Macedonia and Achæa . Nicopolis , a town which Augustus built near the northern entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf ( Gulf of Arta ) to ...
Página 83
... Acarnania , but at a later period this river formed a boundary between Acarnania and Etolia . At the time when the present king of Belgium , Leopold I. , had the offer of the sovereignty of Greece from the three great powers , this ...
... Acarnania , but at a later period this river formed a boundary between Acarnania and Etolia . At the time when the present king of Belgium , Leopold I. , had the offer of the sovereignty of Greece from the three great powers , this ...
Página 164
... Acarnania and Etolia , and as we are still only imperfectly acquainted with of South Thessaly , with the Cephallenian isles ; and it had the mountains of northern Greece , any further description besides , close alliances with other ...
... Acarnania and Etolia , and as we are still only imperfectly acquainted with of South Thessaly , with the Cephallenian isles ; and it had the mountains of northern Greece , any further description besides , close alliances with other ...
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Página 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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."!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.