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... German Popular Legends ; and in 1808 , his work on the mythology of the Asiatic nations , and a further contribution to the legendary literature of Germany . these studies , however , in common with the great body of the German nation ...
... German Popular Legends ; and in 1808 , his work on the mythology of the Asiatic nations , and a further contribution to the legendary literature of Germany . these studies , however , in common with the great body of the German nation ...
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... German critics have been confident they were not our Gospels ; and Bishop Marsh has gone the length of saying , that Justin did not quote our Gospels . The question , therefore , as to whether Justin Martyr quotes our Gospels , may be ...
... German critics have been confident they were not our Gospels ; and Bishop Marsh has gone the length of saying , that Justin did not quote our Gospels . The question , therefore , as to whether Justin Martyr quotes our Gospels , may be ...
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... Germans were nearly a century in adopting the pointed style after its invention in France ; and when it was ... German Gothic are , for the most part , to be The regarded rather as excellent specimens of masonry than as artistic ...
... Germans were nearly a century in adopting the pointed style after its invention in France ; and when it was ... German Gothic are , for the most part , to be The regarded rather as excellent specimens of masonry than as artistic ...
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... German equivalent for Count ( q . v . ) , Comte , Comes , and for our Earl ( q . v . ) . The etymology of the word is disputed , but the most probable conjecture seems to be that it springs from the same root with the modern German ...
... German equivalent for Count ( q . v . ) , Comte , Comes , and for our Earl ( q . v . ) . The etymology of the word is disputed , but the most probable conjecture seems to be that it springs from the same root with the modern German ...
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... German tribes from the opposite coasts . Then followed invasions of Danes and other Scandinavian nations , and lastly the Norman Conquest . As the Normans , however , were originally from Scandinavia , they cannot be considered as ...
... German tribes from the opposite coasts . Then followed invasions of Danes and other Scandinavian nations , and lastly the Norman Conquest . As the Normans , however , were originally from Scandinavia , they cannot be considered as ...
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Page 111 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 362 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
Page 55 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Page 183 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London: He was the author of various articles in the scientific journals of the day, and in the Encyclopadia liritannica.
Page 249 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — "for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 17 - Hebrews published a Gospel in their own language ; while Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at Rome and founding a church there. And after their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself...
Page 302 - Fig. 36. growing complexity of shields arose from augmentations granted to distinguish the younger branches of a family, or charges assumed from the maternal coat by the descendants of an heiress.
Page 143 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 56 - GRAY, THOMAS, an English poet, was born in London on the 26th December 1716. His father, Philip Gray, a money-scrivener, was of a disposition so violent, that his wife was obliged to separate from him ; and it was mainly through her exertions that her son was placed at Eton, and afterwards at Cambridge. At Eton, he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole, the son of the prime minister ; and when his college education was completed, he accompanied his friend on a tour through France and Italy. After...