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... The usual points are here illustrated at great length : the na- tural and artificial measures of time , among all the known nations of antiquity ; the constitution and numerous refor- mations Hales's Analysis of Chronology . 7.
... The usual points are here illustrated at great length : the na- tural and artificial measures of time , among all the known nations of antiquity ; the constitution and numerous refor- mations Hales's Analysis of Chronology . 7.
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... illustrated carefully , and with many apposite quotations from Shaw , Niebuhr , and other travellers . To prove that " the level of the Mediterranean Sea was , in ancient times , considerably higher than at present , " Dr. H. adduces an ...
... illustrated carefully , and with many apposite quotations from Shaw , Niebuhr , and other travellers . To prove that " the level of the Mediterranean Sea was , in ancient times , considerably higher than at present , " Dr. H. adduces an ...
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... illustrate the reasouings . The reader will be prepared to accept this mode of infusing both vivacity and instructive force into the composition , instead of brilliance of imagination ; comprehensive knowledge in- stead of argumentative ...
... illustrate the reasouings . The reader will be prepared to accept this mode of infusing both vivacity and instructive force into the composition , instead of brilliance of imagination ; comprehensive knowledge in- stead of argumentative ...
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... illustrated and enforced as indispen- sable or highly useful for one profession , are again fully in- sisted on with reference to another , and still another . Nor do we complain of this repetition . The value of what may be called a ...
... illustrated and enforced as indispen- sable or highly useful for one profession , are again fully in- sisted on with reference to another , and still another . Nor do we complain of this repetition . The value of what may be called a ...
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... illustrate an instance of ambiguity by ren- dering it more ambiguous , our author has not assigned the actual limits between which the ambiguity subsists . If B be the fixed , and A and C the variable angles , then , when the length of ...
... illustrate an instance of ambiguity by ren- dering it more ambiguous , our author has not assigned the actual limits between which the ambiguity subsists . If B be the fixed , and A and C the variable angles , then , when the length of ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.