The Expediency and Facility of Establishing the Metrological and Monetary Systems Throughout India, on a Scientific and Permanent Basis, Grounded on an Analytical Review of the Weights, Measures, and Coins of India, and Their Relative Quantities with Respect to Such as Subsist at Present, Or Have Hitherto Subsisted in All Past Ages Throughout the World: In Connexion with Which, the Measures of Time, on Elementary Principles of Technical Chronology of Eastern Nations, are Investigated, Explained, and Now for the First Time Referred to Their Proper Originals |
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Seite 426 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Seite 493 - And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place.
Seite 494 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years...
Seite 493 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Seite 494 - It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Seite 426 - Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Seite 410 - See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Seite 429 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Seite 349 - It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
Seite 413 - And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God.
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| Titel | The Expediency and Facility of Establishing the Metrological and Monetary Systems Throughout India, on a Scientific and Permanent Basis, Grounded on an Analytical Review of the Weights, Measures, and Coins of India, and Their Relative Quantities with Respect to Such as Subsist at Present, Or ... Ausgabe 29372 von Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature |
| Autor/in | Thomas Best Jervis |
| Verlag | American Mission Press, 1836 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 30. Sept. 2005 |
| Länge | 612 Seiten |
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