A History of Inventions and Discoveries: Alphabetically ArrangedC. and J. Rivington, London, 1827 - 547 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 45
... Strabo says , by Anacharsis , about 550 B. C. , who is , therefore , reputed the inventor of anchors . These anchors resembled the modern , with the exception of the wooden beam : -the largest anchor belonging to a first- rate man - of ...
... Strabo says , by Anacharsis , about 550 B. C. , who is , therefore , reputed the inventor of anchors . These anchors resembled the modern , with the exception of the wooden beam : -the largest anchor belonging to a first- rate man - of ...
Σελίδα 102
... Strabo to Anacharsis , who flourished about 600 years before the Christian æra : but Homer , who lived long before his time , describes Vulcan as employing twenty pair of bel- lows at once in the formation of the shield of Achilles ...
... Strabo to Anacharsis , who flourished about 600 years before the Christian æra : but Homer , who lived long before his time , describes Vulcan as employing twenty pair of bel- lows at once in the formation of the shield of Achilles ...
Σελίδα 155
... Strabo , however , ascribes the commencement of it to Sesostris , before the Trojan war : it was resumed and carried on by Darius , son of Hystaspes , who relinquished the undertaking on a representation being made to him by un- skilful ...
... Strabo , however , ascribes the commencement of it to Sesostris , before the Trojan war : it was resumed and carried on by Darius , son of Hystaspes , who relinquished the undertaking on a representation being made to him by un- skilful ...
Σελίδα 307
... Strabo ; and several other Greek writers might be mentioned who distinguished themselves by the cultivation and improvement of this science . Geography was transmitted with the other arts from Greece to Rome . Polybius , under a ...
... Strabo ; and several other Greek writers might be mentioned who distinguished themselves by the cultivation and improvement of this science . Geography was transmitted with the other arts from Greece to Rome . Polybius , under a ...
Σελίδα 308
... Strabo , maintain that the Egyptians were the inventors of it ; for the annual inundations of the Nile bearing away all the bounds and land - marks of men's estates , it became necessary for the owners to have recourse to some method of ...
... Strabo , maintain that the Egyptians were the inventors of it ; for the annual inundations of the Nile bearing away all the bounds and land - marks of men's estates , it became necessary for the owners to have recourse to some method of ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries: Alphabetically Arranged Francis Sellon White Πλήρης προβολή - 1827 |
A History of Inventions and Discoveries: Alphabetically Arranged Francis Sellon White Πλήρης προβολή - 1827 |
A History of Inventions and Discoveries: Alphabetically Arranged Francis Sellon White Πλήρης προβολή - 1827 |
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Σελίδα 57 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Σελίδα 436 - Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Σελίδα 484 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Σελίδα 436 - And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell...
Σελίδα 226 - For as the lightning cometh out of ?. the east, and shineth even unto the west ; so shall the Coming of the SON OF MAN be.
Σελίδα 305 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Σελίδα 290 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
Σελίδα 138 - Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Σελίδα 153 - Creed and the beginning of St John's Gospel within the compass of a farthing: what would he have said of our famous Peter Bales, who, in the year 1575, wrote the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, Decalogue, with two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the queen, to whom he presented it at Hampton Court, all of it written within the circle of a single penny, inchased in a ring and borders of gold,' and covered with a crystal, so accurately wrought...
Σελίδα 181 - The Romish priests had masses said for almost every thing : if a ship went out to the Indies, the priests had a box in her, under the protection of some saint : and for masses, as their cant was, to be said for them to that saint, &c. the poor people must put something into the priest's box, which was not opened till the ship's return.