The Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature ...P. Hill, 1834 - 960 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 3
... live two months without nourishment . Leeu- wenoek had a scorpion that lived three months . Redi kept a cameleon eight months , and vipers ten months , in a state of perfect abstinence . Vaillant had a spider that lived ten months ; nay ...
... live two months without nourishment . Leeu- wenoek had a scorpion that lived three months . Redi kept a cameleon eight months , and vipers ten months , in a state of perfect abstinence . Vaillant had a spider that lived ten months ; nay ...
עמוד 17
... pas- sages of scripture ; the relics of martyrs ; or images AMPHIBIA . A class of animals which live of the saints . may be left undisturbed in a pursuit , which will 3 AMP AMU 17 gen; and, is distinguished from the other alkalies ...
... pas- sages of scripture ; the relics of martyrs ; or images AMPHIBIA . A class of animals which live of the saints . may be left undisturbed in a pursuit , which will 3 AMP AMU 17 gen; and, is distinguished from the other alkalies ...
עמוד 18
... live . Tone is an anagram of note . In former times , such plays of ingenuity were popular , and we frequently find , in old inscriptions , the year and date indicated by means of an anagram . Calvin , in the title of his In- stitutions ...
... live . Tone is an anagram of note . In former times , such plays of ingenuity were popular , and we frequently find , in old inscriptions , the year and date indicated by means of an anagram . Calvin , in the title of his In- stitutions ...
עמוד 22
... live ; but animals have the power of locomotion , of seeking and appropriating nourishment . ANIMAL HEAT . The property of all animals , by means of which they preserve a certain tempera- ture , which is quite independent of that of the ...
... live ; but animals have the power of locomotion , of seeking and appropriating nourishment . ANIMAL HEAT . The property of all animals , by means of which they preserve a certain tempera- ture , which is quite independent of that of the ...
עמוד 24
... live , he might they often oiled their statues . The combatants who loan this capital at a certain rate during his life , and , took part in their public games , anointed themselves , by taking every year , besides the interest , a ...
... live , he might they often oiled their statues . The combatants who loan this capital at a certain rate during his life , and , took part in their public games , anointed themselves , by taking every year , besides the interest , a ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 78 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
עמוד 232 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
עמוד 89 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
עמוד 82 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
עמוד 270 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
עמוד 301 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a very striking spectacle.
עמוד 181 - The duties of children to their parents arise from a principle of natural justice and retribution. For to those who gave us existence we naturally owe subjection and obedience during our minority, and honour and reverence ever after: they who protected the weakness of our infancy are entitled to our protection in the infirmity of their age; they who by sustenance and education have enabled their offspring to prosper, ought in return to be supported by that offspring, in case they stand in need of...
עמוד 117 - Reasons, to which if they consent not, the Difference to be compounded at the General Meeting, which is to be of the chief Persons of each Company, at the end of the work.
עמוד 269 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country!
עמוד 264 - Discretion has large and extended views, and like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.