The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3,Nummer 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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Pagina 448
... period . It has been doubted whether he was the same Aristophon who , in the year B.C. 411 , was sent by the Four Hundred on a mission to Sparta . It is certain , however , that , in B.C. 403 , he was the mover of a noted law for ...
... period . It has been doubted whether he was the same Aristophon who , in the year B.C. 411 , was sent by the Four Hundred on a mission to Sparta . It is certain , however , that , in B.C. 403 , he was the mover of a noted law for ...
Pagina 449
... period he became chiefly employed in planning and executing those sumptuous de- corations for solemn festivities or princely entertainments which were then in vogue , including dramatic exhibitions and recita- tions . In the scenery ...
... period he became chiefly employed in planning and executing those sumptuous de- corations for solemn festivities or princely entertainments which were then in vogue , including dramatic exhibitions and recita- tions . In the scenery ...
Pagina 450
... period of three years . Hermias was a eunuch , and is first mentioned as the slave of Eubulus , who with the aid of Hermias freed Atarneus from the Persian yoke , and made himself master of the place . After the violent death of Eu ...
... period of three years . Hermias was a eunuch , and is first mentioned as the slave of Eubulus , who with the aid of Hermias freed Atarneus from the Persian yoke , and made himself master of the place . After the violent death of Eu ...
Pagina 451
... period of thirteen years . Xenocrates was then at the head of the Platonic school in the Academy . Aristotle established himself in the Lyceum , a gymnasium which took its name from the neighbouring temple of Apollo Lyceus , and he ...
... period of thirteen years . Xenocrates was then at the head of the Platonic school in the Academy . Aristotle established himself in the Lyceum , a gymnasium which took its name from the neighbouring temple of Apollo Lyceus , and he ...
Pagina 453
... period . But in Aristotle the material is governed and vivified by his own creative power . Aristotle does not belong to the national mind of Greece . The period of genuine Greek antiquity which has perpetuated itself in the beautiful ...
... period . But in Aristotle the material is governed and vivified by his own creative power . Aristotle does not belong to the national mind of Greece . The period of genuine Greek antiquity which has perpetuated itself in the beautiful ...
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Pagina 729 - And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Pagina 485 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
Pagina 832 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Pagina 640 - Vincent's valuable work on the " Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, containing an account of the Navigation of the Ancients from the Sea of Suez to the coast of Zanguebar,
Pagina 492 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.
Pagina 621 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
Pagina 489 - ... by the decision of the Court of King's Bench, in the case of...
Pagina 481 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Pagina 736 - About this time he wrote a work, entitled " A Discourse: wherein is examined, what is particularly lawfull during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government ; or how farre a man may lawfully conforme to the powers and commands of those who with various successes hold kingdoms divided with civill or forreigne warres, whether it be, 1.
Pagina 451 - I now told him to come to me at the fort twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, to teach me other phrases, which I would write down.