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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... kind , as a well - behaved visitor does to a banquet . The master of the feast exerts himself to satisfy his guests ; but if , after all his care and pains , something should appear on the table that does not suit this or that person's ...
... kind , as a well - behaved visitor does to a banquet . The master of the feast exerts himself to satisfy his guests ; but if , after all his care and pains , something should appear on the table that does not suit this or that person's ...
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... kind of enjoyment which is independent of the corporeal appetites . Inferior in the perfection of several of his senses to different parts of the brute creation , the supe- riority of man over them all consists in his supe- rior power ...
... kind of enjoyment which is independent of the corporeal appetites . Inferior in the perfection of several of his senses to different parts of the brute creation , the supe- riority of man over them all consists in his supe- rior power ...
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... kind is oil of vitriol diluted with as much water as will prevent it from corroding the paper . Let- ters written with this fluid are perfectly invi- sible when dry , but instantly appear as black as if written with the finest ink on ...
... kind is oil of vitriol diluted with as much water as will prevent it from corroding the paper . Let- ters written with this fluid are perfectly invi- sible when dry , but instantly appear as black as if written with the finest ink on ...
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... kind . ' ' Instinct , ' says the late lord Monboddo , in his Ancient Metaphysics , is a determination given by Almighty wisdom to the mind of the brute , to act in such or such a way , upon such or such an occasion , without intelli ...
... kind . ' ' Instinct , ' says the late lord Monboddo , in his Ancient Metaphysics , is a determination given by Almighty wisdom to the mind of the brute , to act in such or such a way , upon such or such an occasion , without intelli ...
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... kind , in which , by a little attention , these things may be distinguished . We have already given an instance in the sucking of a child , which we believe to be an operation performed by instinct . Dr. Priestley , however , thinks ...
... kind , in which , by a little attention , these things may be distinguished . We have already given an instance in the sucking of a child , which we believe to be an operation performed by instinct . Dr. Priestley , however , thinks ...
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Page 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...
Page 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...