The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Band 1,Ausgabe 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 |
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Seite 507 - And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
Seite 586 - An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Warburton, occasioned by his Treatment of the Author of ' The Pleasures of the Imagination,'
Seite 588 - Notice sur deux inscriptions en caractères runiques, trouvées à Venise, et sur les Varanges, par M. Akerblad, avec les remarques de M. d'Ansse de Villoison.
Seite 487 - And the people gave a shout, saying : — " It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Seite 528 - ... chapter, and the second containing the remaining chapters. The object of the author was to give the history of the Jews from the earliest times ; and the first part, which contains the history of the world from the creation to the birth of Abraham, is merely introductory. The real history commences with his birth, preceded by a genealogical table of his pedigree. I. The first part (i. — xi. 1 — 9,1 gives an account of the creation and of the institution ot the Sabbath (i.
Seite 605 - Hymnorum,' a MS. belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, and written, as Dr Stokes conjectures, about the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. The hymn itself, however, belongs to a much earlier date.
Seite 703 - Birds, and such of the Foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing : to which are added figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from Nature by EA...
Seite 594 - The work is divided into three parts, the first of which is called "Maasse Shel R. Bosthenai
Seite 535 - ... in wars or alliances. He seems to have been naturally disposed to mildness and clemency; and, though it is impossible to acquire sovereign power, and, perhaps in Asia, to maintain it, without crimes; yet the memory of no eastern prince is stained with fewer acts of cruelty and injustice.
Seite 612 - Hunter for two years, at the end of which time he returned to Liverpool to commence practice, and was in the same year, 1770.