Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life : the Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, the Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, the Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years AgoLone Star Publishing House, 1881 - 944 sidor Salesman's dummy, consisting of specimen pages, followed by a publisher's announcement, reviews, samples of bindings, and a group of ruled leaves recording the names of subscribers in and around Florence, South Carolina. |
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... sometimes ornamented with moss or flowers , unless the words cavis ædium may be extended to the court of the peristyle , which was commonly laid out as a garden . [ The latter seems more likely . ] Scaurus , at Rome , were placed , as we.
... sometimes ornamented with moss or flowers , unless the words cavis ædium may be extended to the court of the peristyle , which was commonly laid out as a garden . [ The latter seems more likely . ] Scaurus , at Rome , were placed , as we.
Sida 32
... Sometimes the ceiling was contrived to open and let down a sec- ond course of meats , with showers of flowers and perfumed waters , while rope - dancers performed their evolutions over the heads of the company . The performances of ...
... Sometimes the ceiling was contrived to open and let down a sec- ond course of meats , with showers of flowers and perfumed waters , while rope - dancers performed their evolutions over the heads of the company . The performances of ...
Sida 42
... sometimes to a period antecedent to the Social War . Inscriptions of this kind are found only on the solid stone pillars of the more ancient buildings , and not on the stucco , with which at a later period almost everything was ...
... sometimes to a period antecedent to the Social War . Inscriptions of this kind are found only on the solid stone pillars of the more ancient buildings , and not on the stucco , with which at a later period almost everything was ...
Sida 43
... impertinent a manner . We do not indeed mean to deny that adulatory inscriptions were sometimes written on the houses or doors of powerful or popular men or pretty women . A verse of Plautus bears testimony to such a custom ( Impleantur ...
... impertinent a manner . We do not indeed mean to deny that adulatory inscriptions were sometimes written on the houses or doors of powerful or popular men or pretty women . A verse of Plautus bears testimony to such a custom ( Impleantur ...
Sida 44
... sometimes subscribed by guilds or corporations , as well as by private persons , and show that there were a great many such trade unions at Pompeii . Thus we find mentioned the offectores ( dyers ) , pistores ( bakers ) , aurifices ...
... sometimes subscribed by guilds or corporations , as well as by private persons , and show that there were a great many such trade unions at Pompeii . Thus we find mentioned the offectores ( dyers ) , pistores ( bakers ) , aurifices ...
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Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life--the Employments ... Levi W. Yaggy,Thomas Louis Haines Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1885 |
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: the Employments ... Levi W. Yaggy Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1882 |
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: the Employments ... Levi W. Yaggy,Thomas Louis Haines Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1883 |
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Sida 382 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Sida 713 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, 185 So flourish these, when those are past away.
Sida 423 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Sida 934 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Sida 774 - Thus was beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good In this dark world : for truth and good are one, And beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation.
Sida 672 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Sida 16 - And tears adown that dusty cheek have rolled. Have children climbed those knees, and kissed that face? What was thy name and station, age and race...
Sida 15 - How the world looked when it was fresh and young, And the great deluge still had left it green; Or was it then so old that history's pages Contained no record of its early ages ? Still silent!
Sida 707 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, 5 Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore...
Sida 15 - Since first thy form was in this box extended, We have above ground seen some strange mutations: The Roman empire has begun and ended — New worlds have risen- — we have lost old nations; And countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.