The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A million of facts [The book of facts, by Samuel L. Knapp, William C. Redfield, and othersC.C. Childs, 1850 |
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... thought to do so ; and of ALL who desire to correct errours in themselves or in others . The pretensions of the present Editor are a prolonged and uninter- rupted intercourse with men and books . He has for forty - two years been ...
... thought to do so ; and of ALL who desire to correct errours in themselves or in others . The pretensions of the present Editor are a prolonged and uninter- rupted intercourse with men and books . He has for forty - two years been ...
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... thought scarlet the most beautiful of all colours ; but black was painful . He fancied every object touched him . He could not distinguish , by sight , objects which he knew by feeling ; and was some time learning to dis- tinguish , by ...
... thought scarlet the most beautiful of all colours ; but black was painful . He fancied every object touched him . He could not distinguish , by sight , objects which he knew by feeling ; and was some time learning to dis- tinguish , by ...
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... thought it a cylinder , or an extended plane . Homer made it circular , and the outside water , and this was the idea of the Jews . The later Greeks from Pythagoras and Thales taught the sphericity . But the popes be- lieved it a plain ...
... thought it a cylinder , or an extended plane . Homer made it circular , and the outside water , and this was the idea of the Jews . The later Greeks from Pythagoras and Thales taught the sphericity . But the popes be- lieved it a plain ...
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... lie is evaporated in iron pans . American ashes are thought the best . Pearls consist of concentrick lay- ers of carbonate of lime ard mem- brane . Pearls and mother of pearl are Pewter is tin alloyed with a 20th of copper , 142 CHYMISTRY .
... lie is evaporated in iron pans . American ashes are thought the best . Pearls consist of concentrick lay- ers of carbonate of lime ard mem- brane . Pearls and mother of pearl are Pewter is tin alloyed with a 20th of copper , 142 CHYMISTRY .
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... thoughts . stance in the brain . Gall , to the parts of the brain principally de- veloped . Cuvier agrees with Blu ... thought , and that perceptions are images , or pictures in the inind , and conjoins innate principles as powers ...
... thoughts . stance in the brain . Gall , to the parts of the brain principally de- veloped . Cuvier agrees with Blu ... thought , and that perceptions are images , or pictures in the inind , and conjoins innate principles as powers ...
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Page 97 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 162 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 257 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 282 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 97 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 30 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 312 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 282 - For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
Page 284 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 154 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.