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In a bath in it is both pleasant and refreshing . fact the whole circuit of the lake is
wild , dreary , and The historical notices of the Dead Sea extend back nearly
desolate . Ridges of drift mark the water - line , which rises 4000 years . When Lot
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In a bath in it is both pleasant and refreshing . fact the whole circuit of the lake is
wild , dreary , and The historical notices of the Dead Sea extend back nearly
desolate . Ridges of drift mark the water - line , which rises 4000 years . When Lot
...
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Sulphur springs stud the shores , sulphur is strewn , whether upheaved the
watershed occurred at the same geological in layers or in fragments , over the
desolate plains ; and bitumen period which gave to the whole of Palestine its
present is ...
Sulphur springs stud the shores , sulphur is strewn , whether upheaved the
watershed occurred at the same geological in layers or in fragments , over the
desolate plains ; and bitumen period which gave to the whole of Palestine its
present is ...
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110 126 17 40 38 237 | 278 From this it appears that in 86 families with one
parent a congenital deaf mute there were 218 children , of whom 21 were deaf
and dumb , or about one - tenth of the whole . In the 24 families with both parents
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110 126 17 40 38 237 | 278 From this it appears that in 86 families with one
parent a congenital deaf mute there were 218 children , of whom 21 were deaf
and dumb , or about one - tenth of the whole . In the 24 families with both parents
...
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It is a meanly - built , of the midst of the fire at Mount Sinai in the ears of the
straggling town , with irregular suburbs stretching out into whole people on the “
day of the assembly , " and rehearsed in the plain ; its wide roadways are only
paved ...
It is a meanly - built , of the midst of the fire at Mount Sinai in the ears of the
straggling town , with irregular suburbs stretching out into whole people on the “
day of the assembly , " and rehearsed in the plain ; its wide roadways are only
paved ...
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Decamps produced a number of it would be impossible for him to execute the
whole work genre pictures , chiefly of scenes from French and Algerine on so
extensive & scale . He accordingly commenced in domestic life , the most marked
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Decamps produced a number of it would be impossible for him to execute the
whole work genre pictures , chiefly of scenes from French and Algerine on so
extensive & scale . He accordingly commenced in domestic life , the most marked
...
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Page 102 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 2 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 2 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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Page 102 - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
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Page 240 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
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| Title | The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7. köide The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Thomas Spencer Baynes |
| Contributor | Thomas Spencer Baynes |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | H.G. Allen, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 sept. 2007 |
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