The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 12George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1861 |
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Pagina 57
... Nile . This revelation proves that the claim for the superiority of Egyptian music over Grecian is true ; for the harp of the former is wonder- ful as an exhibition of mechanical skill and acoustical proprieties . Its strings vary ...
... Nile . This revelation proves that the claim for the superiority of Egyptian music over Grecian is true ; for the harp of the former is wonder- ful as an exhibition of mechanical skill and acoustical proprieties . Its strings vary ...
Pagina 58
... Nile be taken as samples of the art of a polished people . We are enabled how- ever to arrive at the state of musical art among the ancient nations of the East , by considering it as it exists among those who still maintain their old ...
... Nile be taken as samples of the art of a polished people . We are enabled how- ever to arrive at the state of musical art among the ancient nations of the East , by considering it as it exists among those who still maintain their old ...
Pagina 137
... Nile alone , but the Arabian gulf also ; and the canal from Suez , begun before the exodus of the Hebrews ( and , after so long a period of neglect and decay , about to be reconstruct- ed , probably , in our own time ) , had for its ...
... Nile alone , but the Arabian gulf also ; and the canal from Suez , begun before the exodus of the Hebrews ( and , after so long a period of neglect and decay , about to be reconstruct- ed , probably , in our own time ) , had for its ...
Pagina 174
... Nile , a British admiral , born at Burnham Thorpe , Norfolk co . , Sept. 29 , 1758 , killed in the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805. His father was rector of the parish of Burnham Thorpe , and the early life of the son was marked ...
... Nile , a British admiral , born at Burnham Thorpe , Norfolk co . , Sept. 29 , 1758 , killed in the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805. His father was rector of the parish of Burnham Thorpe , and the early life of the son was marked ...
Pagina 176
... Nile was received with bound- less enthusiasm by the enemies of France , and congratulations and rewards without number were showered upon the victorious com- mander . He was created Baron Nelson of the Nile , with a pension of £ 2,000 ...
... Nile was received with bound- less enthusiasm by the enemies of France , and congratulations and rewards without number were showered upon the victorious com- mander . He was created Baron Nelson of the Nile , with a pension of £ 2,000 ...
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Pagina 178 - These are the only favours I ask of my king and country, at this moment when I am going to fight their battle.
Pagina 241 - He opened .the sight of my spirit, and thus let me into the spiritual world, and gave me to see the heavens and the hells, and also to speak with angels and spirits, and this now continually for many years, I testify in truth ; and also that, from the first day of that call, I have not received any thing which pertains to the doctrines of that church from any angel, but from the Lord alone, while I read the Word.
Pagina 359 - He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Pagina 324 - The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended, to which is prefixed a short Chronicle, from the first memory of Things in Europe to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
Pagina 381 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard : and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Pagina 370 - Then said the Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Pagina 393 - Besides this, he was not at all satisfied to give his unfeigned " assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the book of Common Prayer,
Pagina 373 - These edifices were great national monuments, upon the walls of which were represented in sculpture, or inscribed in alphabetic characters, the chronicles of the empire. He who entered them might thus read the history and learn the glory and triumphs of the nation. They served, at the same time, to bring continually to the remembrance of those who assembled within them on festive occasions, or for the celebration of religious ceremonies, the deeds of their ancestors, and the power and majesty of...
Pagina 438 - ... any thing done to the hurt or annoyance of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of another.
Pagina 297 - That it pleased God to command his servant Nature to indue her with a poetical and philosophical genius even from her birth, for she did write some books even in that kind before she was twelve years of age.