The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 22Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... hath made his viceagent , to cross whatever the faithful ought to do . Hooker . VICEGE'RENT , n . s . Į VICEGE'RENCY . Latin vicem gerens . A lieutenant ; one who is intrusted with the power of the superior , by whom he is deputed : his ...
... hath made his viceagent , to cross whatever the faithful ought to do . Hooker . VICEGE'RENT , n . s . Į VICEGE'RENCY . Latin vicem gerens . A lieutenant ; one who is intrusted with the power of the superior , by whom he is deputed : his ...
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... adjective , ad- verb , and noun substantive He hath given excellent sufferance and vigorousness to the sufferers , arming them with strange courage , heroical fortitude , invincible resolution , and glorious patience . VIG VIG 406.
... adjective , ad- verb , and noun substantive He hath given excellent sufferance and vigorousness to the sufferers , arming them with strange courage , heroical fortitude , invincible resolution , and glorious patience . VIG VIG 406.
Page 407
... villatic is belong- The country villages were burnt down to the ground . Knolles . The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn . Shakspeare Brutus had rather be a villager , Than to repute VIL VIL 407.
... villatic is belong- The country villages were burnt down to the ground . Knolles . The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn . Shakspeare Brutus had rather be a villager , Than to repute VIL VIL 407.
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... Hath met the virtue of this magick dust , I shall appear some harmless villager ; Whom thrift keeps up about his country geer . Milton . Next in order ranged Of tame villatic fowl . Id . If there are conveniences of life , which common ...
... Hath met the virtue of this magick dust , I shall appear some harmless villager ; Whom thrift keeps up about his country geer . Milton . Next in order ranged Of tame villatic fowl . Id . If there are conveniences of life , which common ...
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... Hath virgined it e'er since . Id . Greenbrier 5,914 Lewisburg Still virginalling upon thy palm . Id . Greensville 6,858 Hicksford Purity is a special part of this superstructure , restrain- ing of all desires of the flesh within the ...
... Hath virgined it e'er since . Id . Greenbrier 5,914 Lewisburg Still virginalling upon thy palm . Id . Greensville 6,858 Hicksford Purity is a special part of this superstructure , restrain- ing of all desires of the flesh within the ...
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Page 524 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 442 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 536 - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 421 - Good, t' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian if need were To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 393 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Page 524 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 566 - In all time of our tribulation ; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 567 - O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 396 - These villeins, belonging principally to lords of manors were either villeins regardant, that is, annexed to the manor or land: or else they were in gross, or at large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another.
Page 633 - Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that 'which we all see and know ; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments...