 | Owen Connellan - 1844 - 132 lehte
...trusting it will promote the cause of Irish literature, by facilitating the acquisition of perhaps one of the most ancient, as well as one of the most beautiful and expressive languages of Europe, and thus establish a medium of communication between... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 lehte
...ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony."] MAN IN THE MOON. THIS is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most popular superstitions. It is supposed to have originated in the account given in the book of Numbers,... | |
 | William Smith - 1849 - 1406 lehte
...Met. xiii. 337 ; compare Apollod. iii. 12. §3.) [LS] PHRYG1LLUS, an artist, who appears to have been one of the most ancient, as well as one of the most celebrated medallists and engravers of precious stones. There is a very beautiful intaglio by him,... | |
 | 1855 - 668 lehte
...here presented with the idea our ancestors entertained of an imaginary being*, the subject of perhaps one of the most ancient as well as one of the most popular superstitions in the world. He is represented leaning on a fork, on which he carries a bunch... | |
 | Josias Leslie Porter - 1855 - 430 lehte
...the plain of Kiriathaim.8 The temples and tombs of Upper Egypt are of great interest, as the works of one of the most ancient as well as one of the most enlightened nations of a 1 Compare Gen. xiv. 5, with Deut. iii. 3-14, Josh. xiii. 12, and 1 Kings iv.... | |
 | Josias Leslie Porter - 1855 - 428 lehte
...the plain of Kiriathaim.6 The temples and tombs of Upper Egypt are of great interest, as the works of one of the most ancient as well as one of the most enlightened nations of a 4 Compare Gen. xiv. 5, with Deut. iii. 3-14, Josh. xiii. 12, and 1 Kings iv.... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1857 - 712 lehte
...of any Body or Institution, chosen to give special attention to matters that concern the whole, is one of the most ancient, as well as one of the most striking and practical, of the characteristics of English Institutions.* The whole of our Jury system... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 lehte
...just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. XLV. POTTEKY. Pottery is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting of the arts. From its simplicity it has probably been one of the first manufactures of... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1866 - 426 lehte
...227 McQOFFIN .... 339 Jarable. THE PAKABLE. presentation of moral truth in the form of Parables JL is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting forms of literature. Parables are found far back in the earliest ages of the world ; they... | |
 | 1872 - 976 lehte
...other years." THE Saxon Cantuaria, or the City of Kent, the cradle of our English Christianity, is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting of all the cities of England. Winchester alone can presume to compete with Canterbury ;... | |
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It was one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting places in sacred record. 
