The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... ancient poets also divided the dura- tion of the world into four ages , or periods ; the first of which they called the golden age , the second the silver age , the third the bra- zen age , the fourth the iron age . Not un- like these ...
... ancient poets also divided the dura- tion of the world into four ages , or periods ; the first of which they called the golden age , the second the silver age , the third the bra- zen age , the fourth the iron age . Not un- like these ...
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... ancient , and partly of novel institution , enforced by the consideration of rewards and punishments , both temporal and eternal , and to bring all to the obedience of Mahomet , as the prophet and ambassador of God , who was to ...
... ancient , and partly of novel institution , enforced by the consideration of rewards and punishments , both temporal and eternal , and to bring all to the obedience of Mahomet , as the prophet and ambassador of God , who was to ...
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... ancient date and gradual pro- gress , is not easily ascertained . The most ancient treatise on that part of analytics , which is properly called algebra , now ex- tant , is that of Diophantus , a Greek author of Alexandria , who ...
... ancient date and gradual pro- gress , is not easily ascertained . The most ancient treatise on that part of analytics , which is properly called algebra , now ex- tant , is that of Diophantus , a Greek author of Alexandria , who ...
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... ancient Rome , there were ordinarily three altars ; the first was placed in the sanctuary , at the foot of the statue of the divinity , upon which in- cense was burnt , and libations offered : the second was before the gate of the ...
... ancient Rome , there were ordinarily three altars ; the first was placed in the sanctuary , at the foot of the statue of the divinity , upon which in- cense was burnt , and libations offered : the second was before the gate of the ...
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... ancient poe- try , a kind of verse , so called from its being much used by the poet Anacreon . It consists of three feet and a half , usually spondees and iambics , and sometimes anapests ; such is that of Horace , Lydia dic per omnes ...
... ancient poe- try , a kind of verse , so called from its being much used by the poet Anacreon . It consists of three feet and a half , usually spondees and iambics , and sometimes anapests ; such is that of Horace , Lydia dic per omnes ...
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