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Page 46 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 1 - The active powers of man, with wise intent The hand of Nature on peculiar minds Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil.
Page 15 - Moloch was of brass, sitting on a throne of the same metal, adorned with a royal crown, having the head of a calf, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they...
Page 1 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of...
Page 2 - Stephen Henry II Richard I John Henry III Edward I Edward II Edward III Richard II Henry IV Henry V Henry VI Edward IV Edward V Richard III Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI Mary Elizabeth James I Charles I The Commonwealth...
Page 37 - Stars, with the Time they Rife, South and Set, either before or after the Seven Stars } as alfo their Colour, Magnitud«, and Meridian Altitude, by which they may be readily difcovered.
Page 4 - Midsummer Day. — The Exchequer opens eight days before any term begins, except Trinity, before which it opens but four days.
Page 23 - The Times of the Eclipfes contained in this Table are adapted to the Meridian of the Royal Obfervatory at Greenwich, and afford an excellent Method to difcover the Longitude, or Difference of Meridians, between that and any other Place...
Page 37 - THE brighteft of the feven ftars is of the third magnitude, and hath 61 degrees of meridian altitude, and in colour participates of the...
Page 32 - That the fait and laft days of every Term, are the firft and laft days of Appearance.