A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes—Fiscal Transparency Module This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was ...
... Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes—Fiscal Transparency Module This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was ...
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... Former price , $ 9 . Smith's Dictionary of the Bible . A great standard classic , never superseded . All serious Bible users need their Smith only less than their Cruden . 1,024 pages , finely illus . trated . Former price , $ 4.50 ...
... Former price , $ 9 . Smith's Dictionary of the Bible . A great standard classic , never superseded . All serious Bible users need their Smith only less than their Cruden . 1,024 pages , finely illus . trated . Former price , $ 4.50 ...
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... former Rochester State Hospital property : B. The Bureau of Prisons proposes to acquire and activate a major portion of the former Rochester State Hospital at Rochester , Olmsted County , Minnesota for use as a 500 - bed Federal Medical ...
... former Rochester State Hospital property : B. The Bureau of Prisons proposes to acquire and activate a major portion of the former Rochester State Hospital at Rochester , Olmsted County , Minnesota for use as a 500 - bed Federal Medical ...
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... former Soviet Union . The paper finds that several major problems affect the use of fiscal reports from the countries of the former Soviet Union as source documents for GFS data . The most serious of these is the inadequate coverage of ...
... former Soviet Union . The paper finds that several major problems affect the use of fiscal reports from the countries of the former Soviet Union as source documents for GFS data . The most serious of these is the inadequate coverage of ...
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... Former Corporations now Included in the Borough of Queens .. SECTION V. Former Corporations now Included in the Borough of Richmond .. ............ . SECTION VI . - Summary of the Bonds and Stocks of The City of New York , Outstanding ...
... Former Corporations now Included in the Borough of Queens .. SECTION V. Former Corporations now Included in the Borough of Richmond .. ............ . SECTION VI . - Summary of the Bonds and Stocks of The City of New York , Outstanding ...
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Page 40 - The next and most common form is that which has the two-faced head of Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the other (whence the expression used by Roman boys in tossing up, Capita...
Page 18 - They would destroy no city of the Amphictyons, nor cut off their streams in war or peace ; and if any should do so, they would march against him and destroy his cities ; and should any pillage the property of the god, or be privy to or plan any thing against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand and foot, and voice, and all their might.
Page 134 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
Page 110 - Persia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft.
Page 304 - SUOVETAURI'LIA. [SACRIFICIUM, p. 277; LUSTRATIO, p. 206; and wood-cut on p. 296.] SU'PPARUM. [NAVis, p. 224.] SUPPER. [COENA; DEIPNON.] SUPPUCA'TIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened, and the statues of the gods frequently placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which the people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers.
Page 304 - Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated a person of a peculiar class, not capable of being described by any single word in our language, but well understood and appreciated by an Athenian. He had not much in common with our sycophant, but was a happy compound of the common barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer.
Page 348 - vallus,' ' a stake ; ' and properly means the palisade which ran along the outer edge of the ' agger,' or ' mound ; ' but it frequently includes the ' agger