A History of Inventions and Discoveries: Alphabetically ArrangedC. and J. Rivington, London, 1827 - 547 páginas |
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Página 71 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 57 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Página 179 - I much notyd in the hawle of Bolton, how chimeneys were conveyed by tunnells made on the syds of the walls betwyxt the lights in the hawle, and by this means, and by no covers, is the smoke of the harthe in the hawle wonder strangely conveyed.
Página 442 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Página 225 - IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and...
Página 504 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 442 - And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham .his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Página 109 - John. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra has all the letters of the alphabet in it. The 19th chapter of the 2nd Book of Kings, and the 37th chapter of Isaiah, are alike. The Book of Esther has 10 chapters, but neither the words Lord nor God in it.
Página 442 - God is with thee in all that thou doest : now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son : but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. And Abraham said, I will swear.
Página 127 - When a book was bought," observes Mr. Warton, " the affair was of so much importance, that it was customary to assemble persons of consequence and character, and to make a formal record that they were present on the occasion.