Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, Volumen3

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R. Garrigue, 1851
 

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Página 274 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 110 - Sea, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the Antarctic Ocean.
Página 201 - Janiculum, bevond the Tiber. He also built the bridge called Sublicius, erected a public prison in the forum, extended the territories of Rome quite to the sea, and built the town and port of Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber.
Página 380 - ... bride on the marriage day. In place of the pariam, men of rank give a costly jewel, or a rich ornament, which is laid upon the pariekure. As soon as the party have arrived at the house, the basket with the last named article is uncovered in the presence of the whole assemblage ; the pariam is then presented by the father of the bridegroom to the father of the bride, with the words, " The money is thine, and the daughter is mine ;" whereupon the latter answer, " The money is mine, and the daughter...
Página 272 - ... of the bread and wine is changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ...
Página 110 - Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Página 714 - The blocks (fig. 24 and fig. 25), the last with a notch for the fluke, are used to lay over the fluke after the anchor has been sunk, and to hold it down. To the cables of such permanent anchors are fastened large buoys, to which the vessels are moored. The ropes for the anchors are called cables, and take their name from the anchors with which they are used, as the sheet-cables, bower-cables, stream-cables, and so forth. Besides these there are two spare cables. The cables are made of the same materials...
Página 22 - The tropics are the parallels of latitude which pass through the solstices. The northern tropic is called the tropic of Cancer ; the southern, the tropic of Capricorn. The polar circles are the parallels of latitude that pass through the poles of the ecliptic, at the distance of twenty-three and a half degrees from the poles of the earth.
Página 64 - COUNTIES. 1858. £ 1859. £ 1860. £ 1861. £ 1862. £ 1863. £ 1864. £ 1865. £ 1866. £ 1. Aberdeen, 2. Argyll, 3. Ayr, . 4. Banff, . 5. Berwick, 6. Bute, . 7. Caithness, 8. Clackmannan 9. Dumbarton, 10. Dumfries, 11. Edinburgh, 12. Elgin, . . 13.
Página 22 - The continent is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the...

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