 | Owen Connellan - Irish language - 1844 - 132 pages
...trusting it will promote the cause of Irish literature, by facilitating the acquisition of perhaps one of the most ancient, as well as one of the most beautiful and expressive languages of Europe, and thus establish a medium of communication between... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony."] MAN IN THE MOON. THIS is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most popular superstitions. It is supposed to have originated in the account given in the book of Numbers,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 668 pages
...here presented with the idea our ancestors entertained of an imaginary being*, the subject of perhaps one of the most ancient as well as one of the most popular superstitions in the world. He is represented leaning on a fork, on which he carries a bunch... | |
 | Josias Leslie Porter - Damascus (Syria) - 1855 - 430 pages
...the plain of Kiriathaim.8 The temples and tombs of Upper Egypt are of great interest, as the works of one of the most ancient as well as one of the most enlightened nations of a 1 Compare Gen. xiv. 5, with Deut. iii. 3-14, Josh. xiii. 12, and 1 Kings iv.... | |
 | Josias Leslie Porter - Damascus (Syria) - 1855 - 428 pages
...the plain of Kiriathaim.6 The temples and tombs of Upper Egypt are of great interest, as the works of one of the most ancient as well as one of the most enlightened nations of a 4 Compare Gen. xiv. 5, with Deut. iii. 3-14, Josh. xiii. 12, and 1 Kings iv.... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - Ecclesiastical law - 1857 - 712 pages
...of any Body or Institution, chosen to give special attention to matters that concern the whole, is one of the most ancient, as well as one of the most striking and practical, of the characteristics of English Institutions.* The whole of our Jury system... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 pages
...just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. XLV. POTTEKY. Pottery is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting of the arts. From its simplicity it has probably been one of the first manufactures of... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1866 - 426 pages
...227 McQOFFIN .... 339 Jarable. THE PAKABLE. presentation of moral truth in the form of Parables JL is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting forms of literature. Parables are found far back in the earliest ages of the world ; they... | |
 | 1872 - 976 pages
...other years." THE Saxon Cantuaria, or the City of Kent, the cradle of our English Christianity, is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting of all the cities of England. Winchester alone can presume to compete with Canterbury ;... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...south-west from Jerusalem, and was the limit in that direction of the dominion of the chosen people. It is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting places in the early history of the Bible. The student of the sacred record will call to... | |
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It was one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting places in sacred record. 
