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 6
... lived forms of power and office glided with such rapidity through successive ranks of degradation , from the court to the very dregs of the populace , that they seemed rather to solicit acceptance , than to be a prize contended for ...
... lived forms of power and office glided with such rapidity through successive ranks of degradation , from the court to the very dregs of the populace , that they seemed rather to solicit acceptance , than to be a prize contended for ...
Pagina 37
... lived best . Faerie Queene . Now day is spent , Therefore with me ye may take up your inn . Id . The West , that glimmers with some streaks of day , Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn . Shakspeare . Macbeth . Go ...
... lived best . Faerie Queene . Now day is spent , Therefore with me ye may take up your inn . Id . The West , that glimmers with some streaks of day , Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn . Shakspeare . Macbeth . Go ...
Pagina 74
... lived rather in a fair intelligence , than any friendship with the favourites . In at his mouth Clarendon . The devil entered ; and his brutal sense , His heart or head possessing , soon inspired With act intelligential . Milton's ...
... lived rather in a fair intelligence , than any friendship with the favourites . In at his mouth Clarendon . The devil entered ; and his brutal sense , His heart or head possessing , soon inspired With act intelligential . Milton's ...
Pagina 77
... lived . Hale . Loving , and therefore constant , he used still the intercession of diligence and faith , ever hoping , because he would not put himself into that hell to be hopeless . Sidney . them , although it be only to intercede ...
... lived . Hale . Loving , and therefore constant , he used still the intercession of diligence and faith , ever hoping , because he would not put himself into that hell to be hopeless . Sidney . them , although it be only to intercede ...
Pagina 79
... lived The rural day , and talked with flowing heart , Or sighed , and looked unutterable things . INTERCURRENCE , n . s . tercurro . Passage between . Thomson . From Lat . in- Consider what fluidity salt - petre is capable of , without ...
... lived The rural day , and talked with flowing heart , Or sighed , and looked unutterable things . INTERCURRENCE , n . s . tercurro . Passage between . Thomson . From Lat . in- Consider what fluidity salt - petre is capable of , without ...
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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...