The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... contains a market - place and two squares , one of which is a public promenade , with rows of linden trees , an electoral palace and grounds , eleven churches , one of which is Lutheran , a Roman Catholic Lyceum , which was instituted ...
... contains a market - place and two squares , one of which is a public promenade , with rows of linden trees , an electoral palace and grounds , eleven churches , one of which is Lutheran , a Roman Catholic Lyceum , which was instituted ...
Σελίδα 17
... containing the mausolea of St. Canute , Erichslaf , John , and Christian III . , kings of Denmark and Norway ) , a chapter ... contains the remains of the palace in which the kings of Denmark held their courts and national diets , with a ...
... containing the mausolea of St. Canute , Erichslaf , John , and Christian III . , kings of Denmark and Norway ) , a chapter ... contains the remains of the palace in which the kings of Denmark held their courts and national diets , with a ...
Σελίδα 18
... contains the laboured harangue delivered by Pericles at the solemn funeral ceremony instituted in honour of those Athenians who fell at the beginning of the Pelopon- nesian war ; and other similar orations are extant in Greek . Augustus ...
... contains the laboured harangue delivered by Pericles at the solemn funeral ceremony instituted in honour of those Athenians who fell at the beginning of the Pelopon- nesian war ; and other similar orations are extant in Greek . Augustus ...
Σελίδα 25
... contains about 400 houses and 3100 inha- bitants . The palace , high church , archivarium , public offices , and riding - house and stables are handsome modern buildings : the town has also a gymnasium , and a very ex- tensive ...
... contains about 400 houses and 3100 inha- bitants . The palace , high church , archivarium , public offices , and riding - house and stables are handsome modern buildings : the town has also a gymnasium , and a very ex- tensive ...
Σελίδα 27
... contains an arsenal which is protected by a strong mud fort . The chief industry carried on within the town is the manu- facture of tents , which are made of good materials and ex- cellent workmanship . Futtehghur is distant 90 miles ...
... contains an arsenal which is protected by a strong mud fort . The chief industry carried on within the town is the manu- facture of tents , which are made of good materials and ex- cellent workmanship . Futtehghur is distant 90 miles ...
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Σελίδα 212 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Σελίδα 212 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Σελίδα 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Σελίδα 125 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Σελίδα 157 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
Σελίδα 168 - Charlotte, in which are equally involved the happiness of your royal highness in your parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the state, that the intercourse between her royal highness the princess of Wales, and her royal highness the princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulation and restraint.
Σελίδα 127 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Σελίδα 289 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 159 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Σελίδα 212 - A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new...