"144" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no land, however, till one o'clock in the morning of Friday the 7th of June, when we were in latitude 14 deg. 5' S. longitude 144 deg. 58' W. and observed the variation to be 4 deg. 30' E. After making the land, I hauled upon a wind under an easy sail till the morning, and then a low small island bore from us W.S.W. at the distance of about two leagues. In a very short time we saw another island to windward of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... found a city, they are warned away by the ghost of Polydorus and visit Anius in Ortygia (19-99). Apollo promises AEneas and his descendants world-wide empire if they return to "the ancient motherland" of Troy,—which Anchises declares to be Crete (100-144). They reach Crete, only to be again baffled. Drought and plague interrupt this second attempt to found a city. On the point of returning to ask Apollo for clearer counsel, AEneas in a dream is certified ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... P. 144. On the mythological theories of the eighteenth century, comp. Gruppe, 36 foll.; on Bryant, 40; on Dupuis, 41.—Polemic against Euhemerism from the standpoint of nature-symbolism: de la Barre, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la religion en Grece, in Mem. de l'Acad. des ...
— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann
... giueth victorie vnto whom it pleaseth him. Which the Psalmograph saw verie well, and therefore ascribed all the issue of his prosperous affaires to God, as may well be noted by his words, saieng expresselie, [Sidenote: Eob. Hess. in Psal. 144.] —— ab illo Munior, hic instar turris & arcis erat, Dura manus in bella meas qui format & armat, Ad fera ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) - Richard the First • Raphael Holinshed
... religious in Pototan, a village then ruined; [144] and that village, as it was so small, was united, above Suagui, with another called Baong. [145] Accordingly, a church was built there. This convent of Baong had more than one thousand Indians, and was a well-known ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIII, 1629-30 • Various
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