Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Том 151851 |
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... present volume . The whole work will be THOROUGHLY REVISED , many NEW TREATISES will be added , and the articles will all be provided with comprehensive INDEXES , or with analytical TABLES OF CONTENTS . It will be abundantly Illustrated ...
... present volume . The whole work will be THOROUGHLY REVISED , many NEW TREATISES will be added , and the articles will all be provided with comprehensive INDEXES , or with analytical TABLES OF CONTENTS . It will be abundantly Illustrated ...
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... Present Time . Illustrated by numerous Engravings , foolscap 8vo , 5s . cloth extra , gilt . CHILD ( MRS . ) - BIOGRAPHIES OF GOOD WIVES . By the Author of the Mother's Book , & c . Third Edition , foolscap 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth , or 4s ...
... Present Time . Illustrated by numerous Engravings , foolscap 8vo , 5s . cloth extra , gilt . CHILD ( MRS . ) - BIOGRAPHIES OF GOOD WIVES . By the Author of the Mother's Book , & c . Third Edition , foolscap 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth , or 4s ...
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... XII . , were contributed to the first edition of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana by writers who are unknown to the present Editor . They have all been revised for this edition . CONTENTS . 6. The Pythian Games CHAPTER I. - PRELIMINARY.
... XII . , were contributed to the first edition of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana by writers who are unknown to the present Editor . They have all been revised for this edition . CONTENTS . 6. The Pythian Games CHAPTER I. - PRELIMINARY.
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... present to the eye of guilt . But if the creative intellect of the Homeric sculptor filled with substantial life the noble forms bequeathed to him by the great poet , his most subtle energies were to be tasked in embodying conceptions ...
... present to the eye of guilt . But if the creative intellect of the Homeric sculptor filled with substantial life the noble forms bequeathed to him by the great poet , his most subtle energies were to be tasked in embodying conceptions ...
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... present ; while another strong reason for the vast influx of visitors , was the fact of its being the grand rendezvous for commercial transactions from the Commercial most distant countries . The rival splendour of the Theōrōi , or ...
... present ; while another strong reason for the vast influx of visitors , was the fact of its being the grand rendezvous for commercial transactions from the Commercial most distant countries . The rival splendour of the Theōrōi , or ...
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Стр. 155 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Стр. 477 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Стр. 445 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Стр. 375 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Стр. 116 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Стр. 113 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Стр. 148 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
Стр. 365 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Стр. 375 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Стр. 34 - The sire of gods and all the ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move 560 The high tribunal of immortal Jove.