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... ground , at a distance from hills , and from the fea thore ; but with regard to the latter , the upper and under maffes of ftrata differ in their fondity and properties . " Hence , ( fays Mr Price ) it is pain , that inclined fiffures ...
... ground , at a distance from hills , and from the fea thore ; but with regard to the latter , the upper and under maffes of ftrata differ in their fondity and properties . " Hence , ( fays Mr Price ) it is pain , that inclined fiffures ...
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... ground over which thefe jack - a - lanterns have appeared . " But this mode of judging of mines has now loft all credit . Mines are now most com- monly discovered by inveftigating the nature of fuch veins , ores , and ftones , as feem ...
... ground over which thefe jack - a - lanterns have appeared . " But this mode of judging of mines has now loft all credit . Mines are now most com- monly discovered by inveftigating the nature of fuch veins , ores , and ftones , as feem ...
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... ground may be driven at 50 s . tapesce . " In that kind of ground called by our autor fafiile , and which he explains by the jamale tender - Blanding , he tells us , that " a very Linctual , proving , and confequential way is , by ding ...
... ground may be driven at 50 s . tapesce . " In that kind of ground called by our autor fafiile , and which he explains by the jamale tender - Blanding , he tells us , that " a very Linctual , proving , and confequential way is , by ding ...
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... ground , And miners crush'd beneath their mines are found . Dryden . 2. One who makes military mines . - As the bom- bardeer levels his mischief at cities , the miner bu- fies himself in ruining private houses . Tatler . MINERE . See ...
... ground , And miners crush'd beneath their mines are found . Dryden . 2. One who makes military mines . - As the bom- bardeer levels his mischief at cities , the miner bu- fies himself in ruining private houses . Tatler . MINERE . See ...
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... ground at the bo tom , where it would take fire , as it did at th furface . On applying his hand to the pla whence the vapour iflued , he found the impul of it like a ftrong breath ; and felt the fame fer fation on applying it to the ...
... ground at the bo tom , where it would take fire , as it did at th furface . On applying his hand to the pla whence the vapour iflued , he found the impul of it like a ftrong breath ; and felt the fame fer fation on applying it to the ...
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Page 353 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Page 386 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 396 - ... without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or human, but in direct contradiction to the laws both of God and man : and therefore the law has justly fixed the crime and punishment of murder on them and on their seconds also.
Page 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Page 109 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 371 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 309 - ... in case of non-payment at the time limited, for ever dead and gone from the mortgagor ; and the mortgagee's estate in the lands is then no longer conditional, but absolute. But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money, and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage...
Page 170 - ... be reckoned thirty times cheaper than it is now. In the reign of William the Conqueror commodities were ten times cheaper than they are at prefent ; from which we cannot help forming a very high idea of the wealth and power of that king. For...
Page 257 - Laws, or from thofe who are intruded with the Execution of them. In fine, the Commercial Virtues and Duties require that we not only do not invade, but maintain the Rights of others ; that we be fair and impartial in transferring, bartering, or exchanging Property, whether in Goods or Service; and be inviolably faithful to our Word and our Engagements where the Matter of them is not criminal, and where they are not extorted by Force.