The Atlantis, Volume 2

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1859
 

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Page 54 - And when they had performed all things, according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Page 65 - And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said. Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased.
Page 65 - NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Page 139 - Aristotle and the author of the Essay ; and whether all that is there traced comes wholly from the senses and experience ; or whether the soul originally contains the principles of several notions and doctrines, which the external objects only awaken on occasions, as I believe with Plato/' The nature of the problem is well stated here ; and Leibnitz sides with Plato in his solution of it.
Page 52 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 270 - England, bounded on the west by the Atlantic, on the north by the...
Page 61 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Page 173 - ... grove, or on hills crowned with a few scattered pines, or in the flowering meadow where the breeze murmurs through the trembling foliage of the birch? A feeling of melancholy, or solemnity, or of light buoyant animation is in turn awakened by the contemplation of our native trees. This influence of the physical on the moral world — this mysterious reaction of the sensuous on the ideal, gives to the study of nature, when considered from a higher point of view, a peculiar charm which has not...
Page 15 - The monk proposed to himself no great or systematic work, beyond that of saving his soul. What he did more than this, was the accident of the hour, spontaneous acts of piety, the sparks of mercy or beneficence, struck off in the heat, as it were, of his solemn religious toil, and done over almost as soon as they began to be.
Page 91 - Philadelphus, was BERENICE, whose name is found on a ceiling at Karnak, in the phrase, " Ptolemy and . . Berenice, the saviour gods.

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