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Page 32
Adjacent to the vil . lage of Coote , not far from this road , I have walked within the
broad and capacious bed of the ancient Rhine , where cattle now feed , and
husbandmen plow up the soil ; through the centre of which flows the diminutive ...
Adjacent to the vil . lage of Coote , not far from this road , I have walked within the
broad and capacious bed of the ancient Rhine , where cattle now feed , and
husbandmen plow up the soil ; through the centre of which flows the diminutive ...
Page 185
The use of metals , as the most convenient standard of com - s . mon value , or
price to be paid upon the transfer of property , is of very ancient date . We trace it
back in facred history to the days of the patriarch Abraham : in profane history we
...
The use of metals , as the most convenient standard of com - s . mon value , or
price to be paid upon the transfer of property , is of very ancient date . We trace it
back in facred history to the days of the patriarch Abraham : in profane history we
...
Page 266
The learned president of the Asiatic Society could discover but a few lines of the
ancient Pahlàvi ; and the ingenious biographer of the Persian poets , could trace
them Ittle further than the time of the Arabian conquest . Yet , the climate of the ...
The learned president of the Asiatic Society could discover but a few lines of the
ancient Pahlàvi ; and the ingenious biographer of the Persian poets , could trace
them Ittle further than the time of the Arabian conquest . Yet , the climate of the ...
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