Clavis Calendaria: Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar, Illustrated with Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Classical Anecdotes, Volume 1 |
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... became practically useful . DANTE , who was born in 1265 and died 1321 , mentions a clock in Italy that struck the hours , which is the earliest instance on record . Some such kind of horologe was , about the same period , fixed to the ...
... became practically useful . DANTE , who was born in 1265 and died 1321 , mentions a clock in Italy that struck the hours , which is the earliest instance on record . Some such kind of horologe was , about the same period , fixed to the ...
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... became wholly Christian , and that they might be made as universally serviceable as possible , they were sometimes cut on sword scabbards , implements of husbandry , & c . & c . In Denmark and Sweden they are to this day cut on walking ...
... became wholly Christian , and that they might be made as universally serviceable as possible , they were sometimes cut on sword scabbards , implements of husbandry , & c . & c . In Denmark and Sweden they are to this day cut on walking ...
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... became a mixed mon- archy , and the success which then attended that great people was such as might be justly expected from so wise an institution . The British nation have , after various struggles , settled their govern- ment upon a ...
... became a mixed mon- archy , and the success which then attended that great people was such as might be justly expected from so wise an institution . The British nation have , after various struggles , settled their govern- ment upon a ...
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... became victims to a race of barbarians , against whom neither their emperors , nor themselves , retained sufficient of their original valour to offer a defence . ROMULUS , regardful of whatever tended to increase his influence ...
... became victims to a race of barbarians , against whom neither their emperors , nor themselves , retained sufficient of their original valour to offer a defence . ROMULUS , regardful of whatever tended to increase his influence ...
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... became established , September was called Halig monath , or holy month , in reference to some important religious ceremonies then peculiarly attended to . In other paintings of less antient date September is drawn as a man cloathed in a ...
... became established , September was called Halig monath , or holy month , in reference to some important religious ceremonies then peculiarly attended to . In other paintings of less antient date September is drawn as a man cloathed in a ...
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Page 196 - Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Page 101 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.
Page 402 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 245 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Page 180 - And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 290 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Page 180 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: **And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 290 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 245 - Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.