Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 21 |
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... given to the loin of beef , which one of our kings knighted in a fit of good humour .-- He loft his roaft - beef ftomach , not being able to touch a sir - loin which was ferved up . Addifon.- And the ftrong tabie groans Beneath the ...
... given to the loin of beef , which one of our kings knighted in a fit of good humour .-- He loft his roaft - beef ftomach , not being able to touch a sir - loin which was ferved up . Addifon.- And the ftrong tabie groans Beneath the ...
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... given by the Hin- doos to the Supreme Being , confidered as the venger or destroyer . Sir William Jones has fhown that in feveral respects the character of Jupiter and Siva are the fame . As Jupiter overthrew the Titans and giants , fo ...
... given by the Hin- doos to the Supreme Being , confidered as the venger or destroyer . Sir William Jones has fhown that in feveral respects the character of Jupiter and Siva are the fame . As Jupiter overthrew the Titans and giants , fo ...
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... given to proximity or primogeniture ; but the fachem , during his lifetime , pitches upon one whom he fuppofes to have more abilities than the rest ; and in this choice he frequently confults the principal men of the tribe . If the ...
... given to proximity or primogeniture ; but the fachem , during his lifetime , pitches upon one whom he fuppofes to have more abilities than the rest ; and in this choice he frequently confults the principal men of the tribe . If the ...
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... given no feed ; and , lo ! one born in my house is my heir . " From this mode of ex- preffion we are ftrongly inclined to think that captives taken in war were in that age of fimplici- ty incorporated into the family or tribe of the ...
... given no feed ; and , lo ! one born in my house is my heir . " From this mode of ex- preffion we are ftrongly inclined to think that captives taken in war were in that age of fimplici- ty incorporated into the family or tribe of the ...
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... given as an honorary mark of dif tution to the perfon who communicates the beft experiments to the Society . In thefe and fimilar exertions for the benefit of that Society , he em- ployed his time from 1727 to 1749 , when , at the age ...
... given as an honorary mark of dif tution to the perfon who communicates the beft experiments to the Society . In thefe and fimilar exertions for the benefit of that Society , he em- ployed his time from 1727 to 1749 , when , at the age ...
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Page 329 - ... upon which we walked •were often flat, having neither concavity nor convexity : the larger number however were concave, though...
Page 375 - ... connected ; and in this manner the operation of the engine may be continued for ever. " The injection water is continually running into the eduction-pipe, because condensation is continually going on, and therefore there is a continual atmospheric pressure to produce a jet. The air which is disengaged from the water, or enters by leaks, is evacuated only during the rise of the piston of the air-pump K. " It is evident that this form of the engine, by...
Page 331 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 234 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Page 329 - ... as have been broken off, which extends as far under water as the eye can reach. Here the forms of the pillars -are apparent : these are of three, four, five, six, and seven sides, but the numbers of five and six are by much the most prevalent.
Page 102 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Page 346 - They are held before the lord warden and his substitutes, in virtue of a privilege granted to the workers in the tin mines there, to sue and be sued only in their own...
Page 329 - ... in among the mafs of pillars, carrying here and there fmall threads of fpar. Though they were broken and cracked through and through in all directions, yet their perpendicular figures might eafily be traced : from whence it is eafy to infer, that whatever the accident might have been, that caufed the diflocation, it happened after the formation of the pillars. " From hence proceeding along...
Page 106 - Another, who had a great genius for tragedy, following the fury of his natural temper, made every man and woman too, in his plays, stark raging mad ; there was not a sober person to be had for love or money...
Page 329 - NW you meet with the higheft ranges of pillars, the magnificent appearance of which is part all defcription : here they are bare to their very bafis, and the ftratum below them is alfo vifible : in a fhort time it rifes many feet above the water, and^ gives an opportunity of examining its quality. Its...