The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Deel 2,Volume 18Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Pagina 389
... obtained here an advantage over the Austrians . Twenty miles N. N. E. of Strasburg . RASTALL ( John ) , a printer and miscellaneous writer , born in London about the end of the fifteenth century , and educated at Oxford . He married the ...
... obtained here an advantage over the Austrians . Twenty miles N. N. E. of Strasburg . RASTALL ( John ) , a printer and miscellaneous writer , born in London about the end of the fifteenth century , and educated at Oxford . He married the ...
Pagina 398
... obtained , down with a scaffolding Of sceptres , crowns , and thrones : they've served their end , And there like lumber to be left and scorned ? Congreve . The best accounts of the appearances of nature , which human penetration can ...
... obtained , down with a scaffolding Of sceptres , crowns , and thrones : they've served their end , And there like lumber to be left and scorned ? Congreve . The best accounts of the appearances of nature , which human penetration can ...
Pagina 405
... obtained the name of rebecca ; whence the old English rebec , or fiddle with three strings . Rebec , ribibe , and ribible seem to be different names of the same instrument , and are often in- discriminately used by Gower , Chaucer , and ...
... obtained the name of rebecca ; whence the old English rebec , or fiddle with three strings . Rebec , ribibe , and ribible seem to be different names of the same instrument , and are often in- discriminately used by Gower , Chaucer , and ...
Pagina 408
... obtain or take RECEIVEDNESS , that which is due ; take or RECEIVER . obtain in any sense or way ; embrace ; admit ; entertain : receipt is the act of receiving ; reception ; admission ; wel- come ; note of something received or to be ...
... obtain or take RECEIVEDNESS , that which is due ; take or RECEIVER . obtain in any sense or way ; embrace ; admit ; entertain : receipt is the act of receiving ; reception ; admission ; wel- come ; note of something received or to be ...
Pagina 418
... obtained a quantity of antiscorbutic herbs here , but ventur- ing into the country , were assaulted by the na- tives , who stoned some of them to death , and wounded almost all . Many of the islanders were killed in return by their fire ...
... obtained a quantity of antiscorbutic herbs here , but ventur- ing into the country , were assaulted by the na- tives , who stoned some of them to death , and wounded almost all . Many of the islanders were killed in return by their fire ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 436 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Pagina 526 - I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
Pagina 437 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pagina 384 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Pagina 392 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Pagina 521 - Let others fear, to me more dear Than all the pride of May : The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul, My griefs it seems to join ; The leafless trees my fancy please, Their fate resembles mine ! Thou Power Supreme whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here, firm I rest ; they must be best. Because they are Thy will...
Pagina 399 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Pagina 615 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Pagina 579 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Pagina 510 - This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas. For the narrow mind of man not being capable of having many ideas under view and consideration at once, it was necessary to have a repository to lay up those ideas, which at another time it might have use of.