 | 1816 - 774 σελίδες
...and in many other inftances. A gigantic Phililtine, one of Goliath's brothers, is recorded to have had 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot, in 2 Sam. xxi. 20. and i Chron. XX. 6. M. de Maupertuis mentions a family at Berlin who have fix fingers... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1868 - 518 σελίδες
...having 10 fingers and 10 toes has led us into a system which is actually not the best; while if we had had 6 fingers on each hand, and 6 toes on each foot, we should probably have taken to using, like the carpenter, the more convenient system of duodecimals.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 σελίδες
...having 10 fingers and 10 toes has led us into a system which is actually not the best ; while if we had had 6 fingers on each hand, and 6 toes on each foot, we should probably have taken to using, like the carpenter, the more convenient system of duodecimals.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 518 σελίδες
...having 10 fingers and 10 toes has led us into a system which is actually not the best ; while if we had had 6 fingers on each hand, and 6 toes on each foot, we should probably have taken to using, like the carpenter, the more convenient system of duodecimals.... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1978 - 608 σελίδες
...of 6. The Bible speaks of 6 cities of refuge (Numb. xxxv. 6). JONATHAN slew the giant of Gath, who had 6 fingers on each hand, and 6 toes on each foot (2 Sam. xvii. 20, 21) ; the height of GOLIATH was 6 cubits and a span (i Sam. xvii. 4) and the breadth... | |
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... fives, tens, and twenties ; and the connection of this rule with the practice of counting on the fingers and toes will hardly be disputed. Indeed the remark has often been made that the fact of our having 10 fingers and 10 toes has led us into a system... 