Dante and the Early AstronomersA. Wingate, 1807 - 359 sider |
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... sometimes one at each side , as we see in large barges on the Thames at this day . Now as men in a boat with an oar at each end , acting in different directions , produce the same effect , and assist one another in turning her , might ...
... sometimes one at each side , as we see in large barges on the Thames at this day . Now as men in a boat with an oar at each end , acting in different directions , produce the same effect , and assist one another in turning her , might ...
Side 24
... sometimes carry off our lambs , chickens , and otherwise injure us ; but , in return , they rid us of thousands of rats , mice , frogs , & c . & c . that would annoy us ; and if it happen that any of these are saved from the claws of ...
... sometimes carry off our lambs , chickens , and otherwise injure us ; but , in return , they rid us of thousands of rats , mice , frogs , & c . & c . that would annoy us ; and if it happen that any of these are saved from the claws of ...
Side 46
... sometimes , to the people not agreeing among themselves as to the division and modes of enclosure , lie shamefully waste , and scarcely good for any thing . Not many years ago the common belonging to this place , consisting of some ...
... sometimes , to the people not agreeing among themselves as to the division and modes of enclosure , lie shamefully waste , and scarcely good for any thing . Not many years ago the common belonging to this place , consisting of some ...
Side 48
... sometimes agitate water to the distance of fifty or more miles , why does the castle of Edinburgh fire her guns upon any but important occasions ? Perhaps the firing the guns of the castle of Edinburgh has done more mis- chief , by ...
... sometimes agitate water to the distance of fifty or more miles , why does the castle of Edinburgh fire her guns upon any but important occasions ? Perhaps the firing the guns of the castle of Edinburgh has done more mis- chief , by ...
Side 55
... sometimes found turned on their face in coffins and suffocated , having re- turned to life after they have been buried , and bleeding at the nose , mouth , and ears . Having thus done what I could to have the body kept a little longer ...
... sometimes found turned on their face in coffins and suffocated , having re- turned to life after they have been buried , and bleeding at the nose , mouth , and ears . Having thus done what I could to have the body kept a little longer ...
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Side 94 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
Side 554 - Neither is it any quantity of knowledge how great soever that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can fill, much less extend, the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God; and therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing...
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Side 365 - I observed two magpies hopping round a gooseberry bush, in a small garden, near a poor-looking house, in a peculiar manner, and flying out and into the bush. I stepped aside to see what they were doing, and found, from the poor man and his wife, that...
Side 53 - ... you sufficient to perform your journey, as well as for all those whom you may choose to take with you in your train ; you will then deposit your charge at the holy sepulchre of our Lord, where he was buried, since my body cannot go there. You will not be sparing of expense...
Side 161 - How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the seaman's toil ! Not that another's danger soothes the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure...
Side 53 - All those present began bewailing bitterly; and when the Lord James could speak, he said, 'Gallant and noble king, I return you a hundred thousand thanks for the high honour you do me, and for the valuable and dear treasure with which you...
Side 106 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Side 103 - TUNE—" The Boatman." YE gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not this discover, While parents rate A large estate, Before a faithful lover. But I...