Numismatic: And Other Crumbs

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Crowe, 1857 - 159 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 152 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? whom seekest thou ? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
الصفحة 148 - And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, 3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
الصفحة 153 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow : for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
الصفحة 42 - Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify Her commands that a medal be granted to all persons, of every rank and class, who have been engaged in the several expeditions to the Arctic Regions, whether of discovery or search, between the years 1818 and 1855, both inclusive, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby give notice of the same.
الصفحة 32 - She was a pretty, very diminutive, plump woman of from forty to fifty, with handsome eyes, though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off. As if - I am quoting Richard again - they could see nothing nearer than Africa!
الصفحة 65 - Being now therefore settled in that sweet and civil country of Suffolk, near to St. Edmund's-Bury, my first work was to build up my house, which was then extremely ruinous. Which done, the uncouth solitariness of my life, and the extreme incommodity of that single housekeeping, drew my thoughts, after two years, to condescend to the necessity of a married estate...
الصفحة 56 - It hath pleased the providence of my God so to contrive it, that this day, this very morning, four-score years ago I was born into the World: a great time since...
الصفحة 73 - World to us; and will remain so, equally to interest and instruct unknown generations whose futurity is beyond the ken of our Divination. These varied conceptions we think have been very happily embodied. The noble figure and graceful attitude of NUMISMATA, her benign and intellectual countenance, and the magnificent flow of her drapery, uniting itself with the massive fall, and superb folds of the curtain, all contribute to indicate the presiding Deity; and then the loveliness of early Girlhood,...
الصفحة 42 - To the Officers, Seamen and others who were engaged in the expeditions to the Arctic Seas, equipped by the Government and citizens of the United States. ' 3. To the Commanders and crews of the several Expeditions which originated in the zeal and humanity of Her Majesty's subjects. ' 4. To persons who have served in the several land Expeditions, whether equipped by Her Majesty's Government, by the Hudson's Bay Company, or from private resources.
الصفحة 71 - ... and purposes of Coinage, in its fullest extent of development, a Record of Past existence : a Diffusion of the Present. Singular, as it may seem to us, the imaginative Greeks never approached the subject. The Romans have merely given us the justice of their Coinage, and the Moderns the machinery only of Coinage : the Spirit has been left with Hades. Whether our Saxon Wizard has really raised the Goddess from her sleep of ages, it is for the Priests of her Temple to declare, but at all • events...

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