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"Sixty may be divided by any divisor of ten or twelve. Of all numbers that could be chosen as an invariable denominator for fractions, it has most divisors." FR. LENORMANT, Manuel d'Histoire ancienne, vol. ii. p. 177, third edition. AURÈS, Sur le Système métrique assyrien, p. 16. LENORMANT, Manuel, &c. vol. ii. p. 177, third edition. Ibid. p. 37. LENORMANT, Manuel, vol. ii. pp. 175, 178, 180.
He says that according to Babylonian notions the world is a "boat turned upside down." The kind of boat meant is, as Lenormant recognized, the deep-bottomed round skiff with curved edges that is still used for carrying loads across and along the Euphrates and Tigris, the same kind of boat that the compilers of Genesis had in view when describing Noah's Ark.
From the eminence where I stood, how many a friend and foe of Croton has looked down upon its shining ways, peopled with strength and beauty and wisdom! Here Pythagoras may have walked, glancing afar at the Lacinian sanctuary, then new built. Lenormant is eloquent on the orange groves of Cotrone. Without difficulty I was admitted.
A little digging has recently been done, and things of interest have been found; but discovery on a wide scale is still to be attempted. Lenormant praises the landscape hereabouts as of "incomparable beauty"; unfortunately I saw it in a sunless day, and at unfavourable moments I was strongly reminded of the Essex coast grey, scrubby fiats, crossed by small streams, spreading wearily seaward.
She espoused Madame de Staël's cause with zeal and earnestness; and when the latter was banished forty leagues from Paris, she found an asylum with her. Among the few fragments of autobiography preserved by Madame Lenormant is this account of the first interview between the friends.
Side by side with the TRUDDHI rise the SPECCHIE, which are conical masses of stone, of greater height and probably of more ancient date than the towers. Lenormant thinks they were used to live in; but his opinion has been much questioned, and it is necessary to speak on this point with great reserve.
A man's writing will often tell us where his early days were passed and under what masters his youthful intellect received the bent that only death can take away. It has been examined but not as yet reproduced. We can, therefore, make no use of it. See François LENORMANT, Manuel d'Histoire ancienne, vol. ii. p. 156. The whole of the last chapter in this volume should be carefully studied.
Having a faculty for business, she engaged in successful speculations and amassed a fortune, which she carried safely through the Reign of Terror. This is the more remarkable as Monsieur Bernard was a known Royalist. He and his family and his wife's friends escaped not only death, but also persecution; and Madame Lenormant attributes this rare good-fortune to the agency of the infamous Barrère.
But the students of the inscriptions had another, and, if we accept the theories of MM. Oppert and François Lenormant, a better-founded, surprise in store for us.
As an explanation of these singular relations, Madame Möhl states that it was the general belief of Madame Récamier's contemporaries that she was the own daughter of Monsieur Récamier, whom the unsettled state of the times had induced him to marry; but there is not a shadow of evidence in support of this hypothesis, though, to make it more probable, Madame Möhl adds, that "Madame Lenormant rather confirms than contradicts this rumor."
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