The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, 1. köideMichael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, 1917 |
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... Assyria , whose aid had been sought against the Syrians ( II Kings , XVI ) . AÏDA , ah e ' da , an Italian opera composed by Verdi in 1871 to celebrate the opening of the grand opera house at Cairo , Egypt . Verdi was chosen for this ...
... Assyria , whose aid had been sought against the Syrians ( II Kings , XVI ) . AÏDA , ah e ' da , an Italian opera composed by Verdi in 1871 to celebrate the opening of the grand opera house at Cairo , Egypt . Verdi was chosen for this ...
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... Assyrians , of limestone and alabaster ; the Egyptians , of richly - carved stone . The altars of the Hebrews , from the one that Noah " builded unto the Lord " after the Flood , to the magnificent gold - covered al- tar of incense in ...
... Assyrians , of limestone and alabaster ; the Egyptians , of richly - carved stone . The altars of the Hebrews , from the one that Noah " builded unto the Lord " after the Flood , to the magnificent gold - covered al- tar of incense in ...
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... Assyrians , Etruscans and Greeks found the lintel practically sufficient for their needs ; though they understood the principle of the arch , only the Etruscans used it to any extent . Among the Romans , how- ever , it met with great ...
... Assyrians , Etruscans and Greeks found the lintel practically sufficient for their needs ; though they understood the principle of the arch , only the Etruscans used it to any extent . Among the Romans , how- ever , it met with great ...
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... Assyrians , and Parthians were all highly skilled in the use of the bow and arrow , the Parthians being the most celebrated horse - archers of ancient times . Among European peoples none excelled the English in archery , and stories of ...
... Assyrians , and Parthians were all highly skilled in the use of the bow and arrow , the Parthians being the most celebrated horse - archers of ancient times . Among European peoples none excelled the English in archery , and stories of ...
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... Assyria and Babylonia , that we find the first successful attempts to give beauty to the work of the builder . The ... Assyrians developed an architecture which resembled the Egyptian only in its straight lines and flat roofs and massive ...
... Assyria and Babylonia , that we find the first successful attempts to give beauty to the work of the builder . The ... Assyrians developed an architecture which resembled the Egyptian only in its straight lines and flat roofs and massive ...
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Page 458 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 205 - My native country, thee, — Land of the noble free, — Thy name I love : I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills ; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 208 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Page 603 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 234 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 523 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Page 207 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 455 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.
Page 378 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.