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... Phoenicians , as they had the first hint of an alphabet in the Egypt- ian hieroglyphics , so they saw the earliest navy , in the vessels , which with a full sail , and a north wind , were ascending the stream , and in return , gently ...
... Phoenicians , as they had the first hint of an alphabet in the Egypt- ian hieroglyphics , so they saw the earliest navy , in the vessels , which with a full sail , and a north wind , were ascending the stream , and in return , gently ...
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... Phoenicia from which it sprang ; and why the causes that conferred upon it an unrivalled excellency , never conspired to exalt any other country to an equal eminence . ( F. ) It is in the history of nations as in the history of ...
... Phoenicia from which it sprang ; and why the causes that conferred upon it an unrivalled excellency , never conspired to exalt any other country to an equal eminence . ( F. ) It is in the history of nations as in the history of ...
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... Phoenicia to the Atlan- tic . Its soil , varied of hill and dale , was among the finest of the world , constituting a country rich without profusion , rich in opposition to the pover- ty of the northern nations which reduced them for ...
... Phoenicia to the Atlan- tic . Its soil , varied of hill and dale , was among the finest of the world , constituting a country rich without profusion , rich in opposition to the pover- ty of the northern nations which reduced them for ...
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... Phoenicia ; and these were soon so filtered as to be free from any foreign taint . Their literature , like their language , was primitive and homogeneous , and like the giant trees of the forest which have never been trans- planted ...
... Phoenicia ; and these were soon so filtered as to be free from any foreign taint . Their literature , like their language , was primitive and homogeneous , and like the giant trees of the forest which have never been trans- planted ...
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... Phoenicians and Egyptians ; and the originals of the name are per- haps to be found in the Berber race ; those shep- herds who over - ran Egypt , and whose name and occupation became alike an abomination to the Egyptians . The same term ...
... Phoenicians and Egyptians ; and the originals of the name are per- haps to be found in the Berber race ; those shep- herds who over - ran Egypt , and whose name and occupation became alike an abomination to the Egyptians . The same term ...
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Page 255 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving y them be, but life from the dead?
Page 197 - In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too, some other use.
Page 94 - In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, — or are circumferred to nature, — or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine philosophy, Natural philosophy, and Human philosophy or Humanity.
Page 296 - Come, therefore, O thou that hast the seven stars in thy right hand, appoint thy chosen priests according to their orders and courses of old, to minister before thee, and duly to press and pour out the consecrated oil into thy holy and everburning lamps. Thou hast sent out the spirit of prayer upon thy servants over all the land to this effect, and stirred up their vows as the sound of many waters about thy throne.
Page 256 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Page 96 - Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned, is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or philosophia prima: which cannot but cease and stop all progression. For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level: neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
Page 290 - For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother cities, but such as I mistake if when they come of age they do not wean themselves; which causes me to wonder at princes that delight to be exhausted in that way.
Page 93 - Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia, the receptacle for all such profitable observations, and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common, and of a higher stage.
Page 297 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth, put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited scepter which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Page 297 - O perfect and accomplish thy glorious acts ! for men may leave their works unfinished, but thou art a God, thy nature is perfection...