Calcutta Review, Bände 72-73University of Calcutta, 1881 |
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... lived , acquired by the Greeks and Romans from the time of Homer to that of the Emperor Antonine . The last was the high water mark of geographical knowledge for many centuries , until Europe woke up from the sleep of the Dark Ages ...
... lived , acquired by the Greeks and Romans from the time of Homer to that of the Emperor Antonine . The last was the high water mark of geographical knowledge for many centuries , until Europe woke up from the sleep of the Dark Ages ...
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... lived on the banks of the Ocean - stream in the farthest East , and Homer alludes to the voyage as even in his time world fa- mous . In this critical age we know from our experience of the poems and novels of Walter Scott , how soon the ...
... lived on the banks of the Ocean - stream in the farthest East , and Homer alludes to the voyage as even in his time world fa- mous . In this critical age we know from our experience of the poems and novels of Walter Scott , how soon the ...
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... lived in the ninth century of the Christian era , and , in his Myriobiblion , gives us the extracts from 280 antient writers , and is for many , as for the unhappy Ctesias , the sole source of informatiou . Ctesias wrote his treatises ...
... lived in the ninth century of the Christian era , and , in his Myriobiblion , gives us the extracts from 280 antient writers , and is for many , as for the unhappy Ctesias , the sole source of informatiou . Ctesias wrote his treatises ...
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... lived , perhaps further extension of knowledge would have followed , but his mantle fell upon less ambitious successors . We have next to consider what documents we have to record these mighty transactions , and it is clear that all con ...
... lived , perhaps further extension of knowledge would have followed , but his mantle fell upon less ambitious successors . We have next to consider what documents we have to record these mighty transactions , and it is clear that all con ...
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... lived a century later , wrote a treatise which has been lost , to criticise these conclusions . All that we know of it is from quotations in Strabo , who was not an astronomer . He had clearly conceived the idea that in a map every ...
... lived a century later , wrote a treatise which has been lost , to criticise these conclusions . All that we know of it is from quotations in Strabo , who was not an astronomer . He had clearly conceived the idea that in a map every ...
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Seite 293 - ... promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction ; embracing mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, anatomy, with other useful sciences, which may be accomplished with the sum proposed by employing a few gentlemen of talents and learning educated in Europe, and providing a college furnished with necessary books, instruments, and other apparatus.
Seite xxi - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Seite 177 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Seite 292 - But as the improvement of the native population is the object of the Government, it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction; embracing mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, anatomy, with other useful sciences...
Seite 45 - COURAGE, brother, do not stumble, ^-' Though thy path be dark as night ; There's a star to guide the humble ; — " Trust in God and do the right.
Seite 21 - God ; yet they slew him not, neither crucified him, but he was represented by one in his likeness...
Seite 104 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Seite 103 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.
Seite 25 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Seite 307 - I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. — JOHN iii. 3. Jesus answered, verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.