The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... knowledge required for its cultivation accounts for the lateness of its growth . Without the aid of Mathematics and Astronomy , without acquaintance with the real shape of the earth , and without veracious information from voyagers and ...
... knowledge required for its cultivation accounts for the lateness of its growth . Without the aid of Mathematics and Astronomy , without acquaintance with the real shape of the earth , and without veracious information from voyagers and ...
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... knowledge . At the same time , though Geography was late in attaining the rank of a regular science , its elements were scattered over the earliest periods of literature . Homer's poetry furnishes , if not a map of Greece , yet a ...
... knowledge . At the same time , though Geography was late in attaining the rank of a regular science , its elements were scattered over the earliest periods of literature . Homer's poetry furnishes , if not a map of Greece , yet a ...
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... knowledge necessary for predicting it , he argues thus : " Such knowledge existed not in 66 66 the times of Thales , nor for centuries after him . The knowledge " requisite for predicting a solar eclipse , can be traced no higher " than ...
... knowledge necessary for predicting it , he argues thus : " Such knowledge existed not in 66 66 the times of Thales , nor for centuries after him . The knowledge " requisite for predicting a solar eclipse , can be traced no higher " than ...
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... knowledge . Philolaus of the school of Crotona , it is equally true and strange , surmised truths , which Copernicus afterwards promulgated . The fact is proved by Cicero's words , and does high honour to that seat of philosophy . But ...
... knowledge . Philolaus of the school of Crotona , it is equally true and strange , surmised truths , which Copernicus afterwards promulgated . The fact is proved by Cicero's words , and does high honour to that seat of philosophy . But ...
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... knowledge of the altitude of the earth's pole . For this far - fetched idea Ideler compliments him by saying , that it shows his utter ignorance respecting the dials of the ancients . I shall scarce- ly be able however to do justice to ...
... knowledge of the altitude of the earth's pole . For this far - fetched idea Ideler compliments him by saying , that it shows his utter ignorance respecting the dials of the ancients . I shall scarce- ly be able however to do justice to ...
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Page 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Page 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.