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Σελίδα 73 - i. 52} the children of Israel are enjoined to pitch their tents, 'every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard,' with the ensigns of his father's house. The poets of the Greeks and Romans speak of paintings and devices on shields and helmets.
Σελίδα 147 - in general, strictly Saxon; and the pillars which support them, short, strong, and massy. In some places, however, there are pointed windows, which indicate that the building has been repaired at a period long subsequent to the original foundation.' The exterior ornaments of the building, being of a light sandy stone,
Σελίδα 103 - That night the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men.
Σελίδα 296 - It should be observed that most of the terms connected with the chase and warfare differ in each of the Aryan dialects, while words connected with more peaceful occupations belong generally to the common heir-loom of the Aryan language. The proper appreciation of this fact in its general bearing . . . will show
Σελίδα 296 - She rose up, spreading far and wide, and moving towards every one. She grew in brightness, wearing her brilliant garment. The mother of the morning clouds,
Σελίδα 29 - dissipated so as to be incapable of further useful transformation. It therefore follows, that as energy is in a constant state of transformation, there is a constant process of degradation of energy going on, a process by which energy constantly approaches the unavailable form of uniformly diffused heat; and
Σελίδα 141 - I can, if I please, make seven lords of seven ploughmen; but I cannot make one Holbein even of seven lords.' Holbein died at Whitehall of the plague in
Σελίδα 156 - since which period it has remained quietly in the possession of Great Britain. The population is composed chiefly of negroes, who were first brought to the country as slaves. With exception of a few Caribs, who have fled into it as a place of
Σελίδα 201 - he alights he always prefers the small dead twigs of a tree or bush, where he dresses and arranges his plumage with great dexterity. His only note is a single chirp, not louder than that of a
Σελίδα 299 - Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland, with the continuation by Peter of Blois, and other writers,

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