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Side 2
... latter luminary being invariably placed in a subordinate position with regard to the former , probably on account of its inferior magnitude , and its lesser influence upon the earth . Thus the moon was worshipped by the Scandinavians on ...
... latter luminary being invariably placed in a subordinate position with regard to the former , probably on account of its inferior magnitude , and its lesser influence upon the earth . Thus the moon was worshipped by the Scandinavians on ...
Side 4
... latter was universal in Egypt , and the people were taught by the priests that the annual inundations of the Nile were caused by the tears which the goddess shed on the anniversary of the murder of Osiris by their brother Typhon ...
... latter was universal in Egypt , and the people were taught by the priests that the annual inundations of the Nile were caused by the tears which the goddess shed on the anniversary of the murder of Osiris by their brother Typhon ...
Side 5
... latter festival lasted seven days , during which the sacred bull was led in solemn pro- cession through the streets by the priests , the people running by the animal's side , with every demonstration of joy , stroking him , prostrating ...
... latter festival lasted seven days , during which the sacred bull was led in solemn pro- cession through the streets by the priests , the people running by the animal's side , with every demonstration of joy , stroking him , prostrating ...
Side 9
... latter a youth represented by the mythologists as having been accidentally slain by the god with a quoit - were jointly honoured with an annual solem- nity which lasted three days . The first day was one of fasting and mourn- ing for ...
... latter a youth represented by the mythologists as having been accidentally slain by the god with a quoit - were jointly honoured with an annual solem- nity which lasted three days . The first day was one of fasting and mourn- ing for ...
Side 12
... latter years in instructing the vestal virgins who were in their novitiate . At the expiration of the thirty years they were permitted to marry , and leave the service of the temple ; but incontinence during that term was severely ...
... latter years in instructing the vestal virgins who were in their novitiate . At the expiration of the thirty years they were permitted to marry , and leave the service of the temple ; but incontinence during that term was severely ...
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Side 11 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Side 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Side 27 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Side 30 - OH ! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Where Pleasure lies, carelessly smiling at Fame, He was born for much more, and in happier hours His soul might have burned with a holier flame...
Side 10 - And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Side 27 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Side 10 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Side 10 - ... rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble supplications at the throne of mercy, that that mercy may be poured down upon the people, in a larger measure than the merits of its rulers may deserve, and that your hearts may be turned to...
Side 3 - ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Side 9 - I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning ; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy, or Experimental Philosophy.