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... natural history , and at the age of twelve wrote a remarkable essay on the habits of the " flying spider . " He entered ... nature , and delighted in the allegorical in- sole test of conversion ; and the general convention of Congrega ...
... natural history , and at the age of twelve wrote a remarkable essay on the habits of the " flying spider . " He entered ... nature , and delighted in the allegorical in- sole test of conversion ; and the general convention of Congrega ...
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... nature , he illustrates by the example of Christ , whose acts were necessarily holy , yet truly virtuous , praise- worthy and rewardable . Even God Himself , Edwards here main- tains , has no other liberty than this , to carry out ...
... nature , he illustrates by the example of Christ , whose acts were necessarily holy , yet truly virtuous , praise- worthy and rewardable . Even God Himself , Edwards here main- tains , has no other liberty than this , to carry out ...
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... nature from those which colour the yolk or the feathers . While many eggs are either colourless or of one uniform tint , the majority have the surface broken up by spots or lines , or a combination of both , of varying tints : the ...
... nature from those which colour the yolk or the feathers . While many eggs are either colourless or of one uniform tint , the majority have the surface broken up by spots or lines , or a combination of both , of varying tints : the ...
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... nature of Egypt quickly asserted itself . Not sixty years after the accession of Akhenaton , his city was abandoned , its rulers branded as heretics , and the old religion restored in Thebes as completely as if the Aton had never ...
... nature of Egypt quickly asserted itself . Not sixty years after the accession of Akhenaton , his city was abandoned , its rulers branded as heretics , and the old religion restored in Thebes as completely as if the Aton had never ...
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... nature roughly determined , a more materialistic view was taken of it ; and many herbs and drugs that were originally used for some superstitious reason , when once they had been found to be actually effective , easily lost their ...
... nature roughly determined , a more materialistic view was taken of it ; and many herbs and drugs that were originally used for some superstitious reason , when once they had been found to be actually effective , easily lost their ...
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acid action al-din Alexandria alternating current amirs ancient angles army Author became body British Cairo caliph called canal centre century charge chemical church circuit conductor connexion copper Coptic death density desert dielectric direction disk distance dynamo Edwards eggs Egyptian electric current electric force electrified electrodes electrolyte electromagnetic electromotive force electroscope elements England English equation Greek important induction insulated ions iron J. J. Thomson Khartum khedive king Kingdom land later Leyden jar London Lord Lord Kelvin Mahommed Malik Mamelukes measure Mehemet Mehemet Ali metal monuments native Nile Osman Digna Pasha period plane plate position potential pressure produced quantity railway reign result Roman solution strain stress Suakin Sudan sultan supply surface Syria temple theory tion tombs town traction troops unit Upper Egypt Wadi Halfa wire XIIth Dynasty
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Page 165 - And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Page 88 - Thus saith the Lord God ; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Page 255 - STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean. II. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
Page 276 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 275 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 294 - Find the locus of a point the sum of whose distances from two given parallel lines is equal to a given length.
Page 138 - ... improved or rack rent of the premises, demised or holden in the possession of such tenant, to the person of whom he holds, to be recovered by action in any court of common law having juris| diction for the amount.
Page 114 - Highness imposes upon them the duty of giving advice with the object of securing that the order of things to be established shall be of a satisfactory character, and possess the elements of stability and progress.
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