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... length , does not mention his conquest of India . That tale , it is probable , was invented in the period between the age of Herodotus and that of Diodorus Siculus , from whom we re- ceive a particular detail of the Indian expedition of ...
... length , does not mention his conquest of India . That tale , it is probable , was invented in the period between the age of Herodotus and that of Diodorus Siculus , from whom we re- ceive a particular detail of the Indian expedition of ...
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... length.- Savary . The same author adds , that the chain - buckets used in Ægypt to disperse the water over the high lands , gave to Ar- chimedes , during his voyage in Egypt , the idea of his ingeni- ous screw , which is still in use ...
... length.- Savary . The same author adds , that the chain - buckets used in Ægypt to disperse the water over the high lands , gave to Ar- chimedes , during his voyage in Egypt , the idea of his ingeni- ous screw , which is still in use ...
Side 14
... lengths of the shadow of the gnomon . It must be observed , in the first place , that this correspondence is the ... length of the shadow is the same for the hours equally distant from the mid - day point . The following is the table ...
... lengths of the shadow of the gnomon . It must be observed , in the first place , that this correspondence is the ... length of the shadow is the same for the hours equally distant from the mid - day point . The following is the table ...
Side 16
... length recovered his sight , he assembled all the women , except her whose urine had re- thority of Aristotle is of no weight , compared with that of our historian ; and probably , in that writer , instead of Darius , we should read ...
... length recovered his sight , he assembled all the women , except her whose urine had re- thority of Aristotle is of no weight , compared with that of our historian ; and probably , in that writer , instead of Darius , we should read ...
Side 22
... where he describes the voyage of Paris ; this evidence he has no where retracted . He informs us , that Paris , after va- rious wanderings , at length arrived at Sidon , in Phoenicia ; it is in the Bravery of Diomed 202 22 EUTER PE .
... where he describes the voyage of Paris ; this evidence he has no where retracted . He informs us , that Paris , after va- rious wanderings , at length arrived at Sidon , in Phoenicia ; it is in the Bravery of Diomed 202 22 EUTER PE .
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according Ægypt Ægyptians Æsop affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient Apollo appears Apries Arabian Aristeas army Asia asserted Athenæus authority Babylon Babylonians body brother called Cambyses camels chap circumstance Croesus cubits custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes Diodorus Siculus divine Egypt erected Ethiopians father feet gold Greece Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus Homer honour horse hundred Hyperboreans Ichthyophagi Indians inhabitants island Issedones king Lacedæmonians lake Larcher learned length Mæandrius magi magus Major Rennell means Memphis mentioned nations never Nile observed opinion oracle Otanes passage Pausanias Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Plutarch Polycrates present Prexaspes priests prince probably Psammitichus pyramid reader reign remarks river sacred Samians Samos satrapy says Scythians seems seen sent Sesostris Smerdis soon speak stone Strabo supposed Syloson talents temple thians thing thousand tion vessel voyage whilst Zopyrus
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Side 32 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
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