The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volumen1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... Herodotus calls them , who lived south of Egypt , and were in the army of Xerxes when he invaded Greece , B.C. 480 . It is conjectured by Ritter , that the Ababde , as well as the Bisharye , may be a remnant of that people , whom we ...
... Herodotus calls them , who lived south of Egypt , and were in the army of Xerxes when he invaded Greece , B.C. 480 . It is conjectured by Ritter , that the Ababde , as well as the Bisharye , may be a remnant of that people , whom we ...
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... Herodotus , is dedicated It is divided into two to the caliph Nasir ledin - illah . books : the first treats , in six chapters , on Egypt generally , on its plants , its animals , its ancient monuments , pecu- liarities in the structure ...
... Herodotus , is dedicated It is divided into two to the caliph Nasir ledin - illah . books : the first treats , in six chapters , on Egypt generally , on its plants , its animals , its ancient monuments , pecu- liarities in the structure ...
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... Herodotus , who says that the river ran through the town . The exact site of this place is , we believe , unknown . ABDICATION ( from Abdicatio ) , in general is the act of renouncing and giving up an office by the voluntary act of the ...
... Herodotus , who says that the river ran through the town . The exact site of this place is , we believe , unknown . ABDICATION ( from Abdicatio ) , in general is the act of renouncing and giving up an office by the voluntary act of the ...
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... Herodotus ; a fact strongly marked by the head and neck being bare , and of a deep black colour . It may be worthy of remark that Strabo mentions this bird as frequenting the coast to the east of the Straits of Babelmandeb . ( Salt , p ...
... Herodotus ; a fact strongly marked by the head and neck being bare , and of a deep black colour . It may be worthy of remark that Strabo mentions this bird as frequenting the coast to the east of the Straits of Babelmandeb . ( Salt , p ...
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... ( Herodotus ii . 76 ) The ibis is all over very black : it has the legs of a crane , and a beak considerably curved : its size is about that of a crex . Such is the appearance of the black ibis , which fights against the serpents . But ...
... ( Herodotus ii . 76 ) The ibis is all over very black : it has the legs of a crane , and a beak considerably curved : its size is about that of a crex . Such is the appearance of the black ibis , which fights against the serpents . But ...
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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.