Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Zväzok 1Fetridge, 1854 |
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... means of them they recorded their astronomical observations . One step farther in this process is the expression of ideas by painting . When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico , the inhabitants of the seacoasts sent intelligence to their ...
... means of them they recorded their astronomical observations . One step farther in this process is the expression of ideas by painting . When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico , the inhabitants of the seacoasts sent intelligence to their ...
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... mean- ing of such monuments , and preserve the tradition , as illustrating the ancient history of that country which they had subdued . Coins and medals are the invention of a polished people , and are of singular use as the records of ...
... mean- ing of such monuments , and preserve the tradition , as illustrating the ancient history of that country which they had subdued . Coins and medals are the invention of a polished people , and are of singular use as the records of ...
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... means of numberless canals , which extend to a considerable distance , that the benefit of the periodical floods is rendered general . When the inundation has attained its height , as marked by the Nileometer , a proclamation is made ...
... means of numberless canals , which extend to a considerable distance , that the benefit of the periodical floods is rendered general . When the inundation has attained its height , as marked by the Nileometer , a proclamation is made ...
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... means . We shall observe a similar institution in treating of the Athenian republic . The unnecessary contracting of debts was likewise restrained in Egypt by a singular and very laudable regulation . The debtor was obliged to give in ...
... means . We shall observe a similar institution in treating of the Athenian republic . The unnecessary contracting of debts was likewise restrained in Egypt by a singular and very laudable regulation . The debtor was obliged to give in ...
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... mean knowledge in that science to trace a meridian line with perfect accuracy . is probable , too , that the Egyptians had an idea of the motion of the earth , since Pythagoras , who has given plain intimations of that opinion , is ...
... mean knowledge in that science to trace a meridian line with perfect accuracy . is probable , too , that the Egyptians had an idea of the motion of the earth , since Pythagoras , who has given plain intimations of that opinion , is ...
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Strana 82 - THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Strana 227 - First unadorned, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heaved ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath.
Strana 473 - To tamper, therefore, in this affair, or try experiments merely upon the credit of supposed argument and philosophy, can never be the part of a wise magistrate, who will bear a reverence to what carries the marks of age; and though he may attempt some improvements for the public good, yet will he adjust his innovations, as much as possible, to the ancient fabric, and preserve entire the chief pillars and supports of the constitution.
Strana 225 - Doric has a masculine grandeur, and a superior air of strength to both the others. It is therefore best adapted to works of great magnitude, and of a sublime character.
Strana 82 - ... yet considered it as an emancipated child over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction. The colony settled its own form of government, enacted its own laws, elected its own magistrates, and made peace or war with its neighbours as an independent state, which had no occasion to wait for the approbation or consent of the mother city.
Strana 506 - ... repose. The emperor presented Zenobia with an elegant villa at Tibur, or Tivoli, about twenty miles from the capital; the Syrian queen insensibly sunk into a Roman matron, her daughters married into noble families, and her race was not yet extinct in the fifth century.
Strana 440 - ... and some of them too upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you hear, that, for some time, he engaged in the profession of an advocate; that he died in his fifty-sixth year...
Strana 519 - By these voluntary fasts he prepared his senses and his understanding for the frequent and familiar visits with which he was honoured by the celestial powers. Notwithstanding the modest silence of Julian himself, we may learn from his faithful friend, the orator Libanius, that he lived in a perpetual intercourse with the gods and goddesses ; that they descended upon earth to enjoy the conversation of their favourite hero ; that they gently interrupted his slumbers by touching his hand or his hair...
Strana 472 - IT is not with forms of government, as with other artificial contrivances; where an old engine may be rejected, if we can discover another more accurate and commodious, or where trials may safely be made, even though the success be doubtful. An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established; the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to any thing that has not the recommendation of antiquity.
Strana 82 - Asiatic, the other in an Italian colony. All those colonies had established themselves in countries inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, who easily gave place to the new settlers. They had plenty of good land, and as they were altogether independent of the mother city, they were at liberty to manage their own affairs in the way that they judged was most suitable to their own interest.