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... means Chal- dea ] resided there ; and ruins of great edifices still remain * . " Niebuhr , the intelligent traveller , and the present explorer of these ruins , attest that it still bears its ancient denomination . It may be remarked ...
... means Chal- dea ] resided there ; and ruins of great edifices still remain * . " Niebuhr , the intelligent traveller , and the present explorer of these ruins , attest that it still bears its ancient denomination . It may be remarked ...
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... means to refrain from all idle conjecture , and to adhere to facts alone ; to relate only what he saw , and in the order in which he saw it . He de- scribes the whole country between Bagdad and Hella , a distance of 48 miles , as a ...
... means to refrain from all idle conjecture , and to adhere to facts alone ; to relate only what he saw , and in the order in which he saw it . He de- scribes the whole country between Bagdad and Hella , a distance of 48 miles , as a ...
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... means of successive observers . In the course of such a prolonged life , one diligent astronomer might have observed Saturn go through more than twenty of his revolu- tions ; and knowledge , thus gradually advancing , might rapidly ...
... means of successive observers . In the course of such a prolonged life , one diligent astronomer might have observed Saturn go through more than twenty of his revolu- tions ; and knowledge , thus gradually advancing , might rapidly ...
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... mean additional argument in favour of the Chaldæans being the oldest race of astronomers , that some of the more conspicuous constellations are at that early period enumerated in its pages . These are ARCTURUS , ORION , the PLEI- ADES ...
... mean additional argument in favour of the Chaldæans being the oldest race of astronomers , that some of the more conspicuous constellations are at that early period enumerated in its pages . These are ARCTURUS , ORION , the PLEI- ADES ...
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... means they obtained that accu- rate knowledge of her motions , of which the Chaldæan Saros above mentioned was the result , and which is the same with the famous Metonic cycle , comprising a period of nineteen years , of the Greeks ...
... means they obtained that accu- rate knowledge of her motions , of which the Chaldæan Saros above mentioned was the result , and which is the same with the famous Metonic cycle , comprising a period of nineteen years , of the Greeks ...
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Page 28 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 26 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 66 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 118 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 118 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 60 - Judah; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Page 117 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Page 64 - Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words." Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 26 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 68 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.