"Xi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Abraham enters quite abruptly upon the scene. His genealogy is given in Genesis (chap, xi.), he being the ninth in descent from Shem, each generation occupying a little more than thirty years. The birth of Abraham is usually placed somewhere about two thousand years before Christ. His father's name was Terah, whom the Jewish and Mohammedan ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... PLATE XI.—An Example of Persian Embroidery.—Formerly in the collection of Lord Leighton, and now in that of the London County Council's Central School of Arts and Crafts. The embroidery is carried out almost entirely in chain stitch with brilliantly coloured silks, upon a fine semi-transparent ground. ...
— Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving • Grace Christie
... which signifies that conscience does not deceive, and that its testimony is as overwhelming as that of a thousand witnesses—Quintil Inst Orator lib. v. chap. xi.—Ed.] ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... resistance of paper have been made by F. Uppenborn (Centralblatt fuer Electrotechnik, Vol. xi. p. 215, 1889). There is an abstract of the paper also in Wiedemann's Beiblaetter (1889, vol. xiii. P. 711). Uppenborn examined the samples of paper under normal conditions as to moisture and obtained ...
— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall
... masterly short novel Advent or The good Shepherd (Aventa).—Father and Sam Fegarnir) was first published in the periodical Eimreiin in 1916. The present version, with slight changes, is that found in the author's collected works, Rit XI, 1951. ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various
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