Fireside Philosophy, Or Familiar Talks about Common ThingsTownsend & Company, 1861 - 360 pages |
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Page 64 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 45 - India) possess likewise," says he, " a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep ; of this the Indians make their clothes...
Page 69 - And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold ; none were of silver : it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Page 59 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 16 - Vijayanagar included for 200 years, from the middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, the whole of Southern India below the 1 5th degree of latitude.
Page 5 - I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I had never drunk before.
Page 119 - ... weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood, that, in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold amounts to 23 carats. In such small works as cannot be assayed by scraping off a part, and cupelling it, the assayers endeavour to ascertain its quality or fineness by the touch.
Page 73 - I found the sea in the same place, and on its shores were a party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land had been covered by the waters. ' Is this a question,' said they, ' for a man like you ? this spot has always been what it is now.
Page 73 - I found there a flourishing city, more populous and more rich in beautiful buildings than the city I had seen the first time ; and when I would fain have informed myself concerning its origin, the inhabitants answered me, ' Its rise is lost in remote antiquity ; we are ignorant how long it has existed ; and our fathers were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.