Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 4John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... whose establishment at Rouen is in full vigour , has made many advan tageous alterations in the procefs ; as indeed might be expected from the attention of fo able a che- mift . I have his permiffion to publish the follow ing extract ...
... whose establishment at Rouen is in full vigour , has made many advan tageous alterations in the procefs ; as indeed might be expected from the attention of fo able a che- mift . I have his permiffion to publish the follow ing extract ...
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... whose minds vifible objects were either never impressed , or have been entirely obliterated ? Yet , however unaccountable this fact may appear , it is no less extraordinary than true . See the Preface to Black- lock's Poems , written by ...
... whose minds vifible objects were either never impressed , or have been entirely obliterated ? Yet , however unaccountable this fact may appear , it is no less extraordinary than true . See the Preface to Black- lock's Poems , written by ...
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... whose works are feldom feen in Britain : nor are they eafily purchased in Holland , being highly esteemed and carefully preferved in private collections . The fubjects he painted were boors drinking , feafting , dancing , or quarrelling ...
... whose works are feldom feen in Britain : nor are they eafily purchased in Holland , being highly esteemed and carefully preferved in private collections . The fubjects he painted were boors drinking , feafting , dancing , or quarrelling ...
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... whose bufinefs it is to walk every day about the principal parts of the city , with a number of janizaries , to keep order , and to fee that all things are regular , even to the drefs . This office is for 3 months , and from this the ...
... whose bufinefs it is to walk every day about the principal parts of the city , with a number of janizaries , to keep order , and to fee that all things are regular , even to the drefs . This office is for 3 months , and from this the ...
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... whose business suddenly darts out upon ftrangers , wild beafts , it is to walk every day about the principal parts & c . When it chooses a tree for its watching of the city , with a number of janizaries , to keep place , it supports ...
... whose business suddenly darts out upon ftrangers , wild beafts , it is to walk every day about the principal parts & c . When it chooses a tree for its watching of the city , with a number of janizaries , to keep place , it supports ...
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Page 267 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 120 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio: but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force : as payment of rent ; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one-half of the penal sum specified in the bond.
Page 377 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 322 - ... twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east : and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies : it contained two thousand baths.
Page 28 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Page 320 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 69 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Page 421 - Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Page 439 - ... procuring her teats to be drawn, which were too much distended with milk, till, from habit, she became as much delighted with this foundling as if it had been her real offspring.
Page 393 - Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year: But ancient friends, (tho' poor, or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no Turbots dignify my boards, But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords. To Hounslow-heath I point, and Bansted-down, Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my own: From yon old...