The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, 9. köideWerner Company, 1907 |
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... According to the story of Varro ( Augustine , De Civ . Dei , L xviii . c . 9 ) , it was Cecrops , the serpent - king , who first in- stituted marriage , just as the Australian natives credit the lizard with the discovery . The Hindoos ...
... According to the story of Varro ( Augustine , De Civ . Dei , L xviii . c . 9 ) , it was Cecrops , the serpent - king , who first in- stituted marriage , just as the Australian natives credit the lizard with the discovery . The Hindoos ...
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... according to M. Giraud Teulon ( Origine de la Famille , p . 21 ) , to whom we owe many of these citations , " the Etruscan text contains only the name of the mother of the dead , while the Latin text gives that of the father . " Certain ...
... according to M. Giraud Teulon ( Origine de la Famille , p . 21 ) , to whom we owe many of these citations , " the Etruscan text contains only the name of the mother of the dead , while the Latin text gives that of the father . " Certain ...
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... according to climate , race , civilization , and other circumstances ; but it would be difficult to name any religious system of any description in which it is wholly unrecognized . The origin of the practice is very obscure . ' Mr ...
... according to climate , race , civilization , and other circumstances ; but it would be difficult to name any religious system of any description in which it is wholly unrecognized . The origin of the practice is very obscure . ' Mr ...
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... according to the differing tastes of individuals . No other stated fasts , besides those already mentioned , can be adduced from the time before Irenæus ; but there was also a tendency — not unnatural in itself , and already sanctioned ...
... according to the differing tastes of individuals . No other stated fasts , besides those already mentioned , can be adduced from the time before Irenæus ; but there was also a tendency — not unnatural in itself , and already sanctioned ...
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... according to their merits . Protestant writers , while fully admitting the merits , literary and other , of many of the fathers , usually dwell much upon the admitted fact of their fallibility , and strive to show that the attempt to ...
... according to their merits . Protestant writers , while fully admitting the merits , literary and other , of many of the fathers , usually dwell much upon the admitted fact of their fallibility , and strive to show that the attempt to ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...