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... plain of Attica , and some heights which run down into the plain , but are quite detached from the mountains on the north frontier of the province . Of these eminences , the most conspicuous are Mount Anchesmus ( now St. George ) with ...
... plain of Attica , and some heights which run down into the plain , but are quite detached from the mountains on the north frontier of the province . Of these eminences , the most conspicuous are Mount Anchesmus ( now St. George ) with ...
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... plain , with its sides naturally scarped , except at the west end ; its greatest length may be about 1200 , and its greatest breadth about 550 feet . Before we describe briefly the edifices which stand on the platform of the Acropolis ...
... plain , with its sides naturally scarped , except at the west end ; its greatest length may be about 1200 , and its greatest breadth about 550 feet . Before we describe briefly the edifices which stand on the platform of the Acropolis ...
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... plain waved with a harvest hitherto un- known to man . A second Erechtheus fought with the Eu- molpidae of Eleusis , and lost his life . Egeus , the son of a second Pandion , in course of time came to the throne , and his son Theseus ...
... plain waved with a harvest hitherto un- known to man . A second Erechtheus fought with the Eu- molpidae of Eleusis , and lost his life . Egeus , the son of a second Pandion , in course of time came to the throne , and his son Theseus ...
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... plain of Marathon , the scene of his father's victory , a spot well adapted for the movements of the cavalry in the Asiatic army . The Athenians , supported only by the Plateans . under the command of Miltiades , defeated the formidable ...
... plain of Marathon , the scene of his father's victory , a spot well adapted for the movements of the cavalry in the Asiatic army . The Athenians , supported only by the Plateans . under the command of Miltiades , defeated the formidable ...
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... plain along the banks of the Amazon river corre- sponds to that traversed by the Quorra : further , that the mountains of Parime in America lie opposite to those of Upper Guinea , and that the great plains , which before this ...
... plain along the banks of the Amazon river corre- sponds to that traversed by the Quorra : further , that the mountains of Parime in America lie opposite to those of Upper Guinea , and that the great plains , which before this ...
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Página 233 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Página 39 - ... them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 249 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 243 - For we can give such figures to transparent bodies, and dispose them in such order with respect to the eye and the objects, that the rays shall be refracted and bent towards any place we please ; so that we shall see the object near at hand, or at a distance under any angle we please. And thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and may number the smallest particles of dust and sand...
Página 248 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Página 191 - The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.
Página 289 - Evidence given before him shall be such as neither to raise a strong Presumption of Guilt nor to warrant the Dismissal of the Charge, such Justice shall order the Person charged to be detained in Custody until he or she shall be taken before Two Justices at the least...
Página 249 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 240 - If you bear any number of men before you have entered a man taken up, and which, consequently, you were obliged to enter, such men, so borne, must be entered again in your adversary's tables, as well as the man taken up.
Página 195 - At the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries...