The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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Pagina 22
... according to the means used to make them visi- ble ; viz . 1. Such as become visible by passing another liquor over them , or by exposing them to the vapor of that liquor . 2. Those that do not appear so long as they are kept close ...
... according to the means used to make them visi- ble ; viz . 1. Such as become visible by passing another liquor over them , or by exposing them to the vapor of that liquor . 2. Those that do not appear so long as they are kept close ...
Pagina 68
... according to its particular wants . The regulations of the institution , with respect to the times of meeting and its employments , are to be drawn up by the body at large , and laid be- fore the legislative assembly . On the ...
... according to its particular wants . The regulations of the institution , with respect to the times of meeting and its employments , are to be drawn up by the body at large , and laid be- fore the legislative assembly . On the ...
Pagina 71
... according to the greatness and multiplied according to the number of the per- sons that hear . South . To those that dwell under or near the equator , this spring would be a most pestilent and insupporta- ble summer ; and , as for those ...
... according to the greatness and multiplied according to the number of the per- sons that hear . South . To those that dwell under or near the equator , this spring would be a most pestilent and insupporta- ble summer ; and , as for those ...
Pagina 82
... according as the quantity of specie in the kingdom has increased by acces- sions of trade , the introduction of paper credit , and other circumstances . The statute 37 Hen . VIII . c . 9 , confined interest to ten per cent . and so did ...
... according as the quantity of specie in the kingdom has increased by acces- sions of trade , the introduction of paper credit , and other circumstances . The statute 37 Hen . VIII . c . 9 , confined interest to ten per cent . and so did ...
Pagina 99
... according to men's different complexions and inclinations . Atterbury . He who steers his course invariably by this rule , takes the surest way to make all men praise him . Id . INVECTIVE , n.s. & adj . INVECTIVELY , adv . INVEIGH , v ...
... according to men's different complexions and inclinations . Atterbury . He who steers his course invariably by this rule , takes the surest way to make all men praise him . Id . INVECTIVE , n.s. & adj . INVECTIVELY , adv . INVEIGH , v ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 93 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Pagina 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pagina 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Pagina 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Pagina 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Pagina 397 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Pagina 285 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Pagina 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Pagina 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...