The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 6Baker and Fletcher, 1826 |
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... sent for . The cause of an eclipse were fully known to them , and to all the learned of that period , but it was in vain to explain it to the vulgar - they contented them with the assurance that the sun was predominant in Greece , and ...
... sent for . The cause of an eclipse were fully known to them , and to all the learned of that period , but it was in vain to explain it to the vulgar - they contented them with the assurance that the sun was predominant in Greece , and ...
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... sent to Athens . It is related that the robes of purple and scarlet he sent to Sisygam- bus , the captive mother of Darius , together with some curiously wrought robes he had received from Macedon ; with a message , that if she liked ...
... sent to Athens . It is related that the robes of purple and scarlet he sent to Sisygam- bus , the captive mother of Darius , together with some curiously wrought robes he had received from Macedon ; with a message , that if she liked ...
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... sent from the remotest parts of the empire , when any thing hap- pened worth the king's knowledge ; and they received , besides , immediate intelligence of any sudden commotion by means of fires , which were always ready at small ...
... sent from the remotest parts of the empire , when any thing hap- pened worth the king's knowledge ; and they received , besides , immediate intelligence of any sudden commotion by means of fires , which were always ready at small ...
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... sent messengers to his palace . What was it likely they should see ? Some memory of the warning , some traces of the tears , some record of the miraculous deliverance , some overflow of grateful adoration ? Nay , but even no more than ...
... sent messengers to his palace . What was it likely they should see ? Some memory of the warning , some traces of the tears , some record of the miraculous deliverance , some overflow of grateful adoration ? Nay , but even no more than ...
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... sent to trade at the Horse Bazaar , they would value the horses by some very un - connoisseur fancies of their own , about the heads , and the tails , and the colours , & c . , to the no small confusion of all honest dealing . But where ...
... sent to trade at the Horse Bazaar , they would value the horses by some very un - connoisseur fancies of their own , about the heads , and the tails , and the colours , & c . , to the no small confusion of all honest dealing . But where ...
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