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... ancients had a hydraulic machine called Hiero's or Hero's fountain , from the Syracufan whe invented it . As it has in ... ancient and modern state . In its original ftate it confifted of two vetiels KLMN , ( Plate 283 , fig . 80. ) and ...
... ancients had a hydraulic machine called Hiero's or Hero's fountain , from the Syracufan whe invented it . As it has in ... ancient and modern state . In its original ftate it confifted of two vetiels KLMN , ( Plate 283 , fig . 80. ) and ...
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... ancient nations have been thus tranfmitted by the Poets , however mix- ed with fictions . Even after the discovery of al- phabetical characters , the facred fcriptures inform us , that MOSES and MIRIAM , the two moft anci- ent authors ...
... ancient nations have been thus tranfmitted by the Poets , however mix- ed with fictions . Even after the discovery of al- phabetical characters , the facred fcriptures inform us , that MOSES and MIRIAM , the two moft anci- ent authors ...
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... ancient Greeks and Romans , with their godi goddeffes , demi - gods , heroes , centaurs , furie gorgons , monfters , and the rest of thofe " beaut ful wonders , " as Horace files them , which wer believed for many ages after the heroic ...
... ancient Greeks and Romans , with their godi goddeffes , demi - gods , heroes , centaurs , furie gorgons , monfters , and the rest of thofe " beaut ful wonders , " as Horace files them , which wer believed for many ages after the heroic ...
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... ancient Lyric Poets to indulge in a more unbounded liberty in the than in any other species of poetry ; foaring in fudden tranfitions , bold digreffions and lofty excurtons , fometimes away from their subject al- together . But PINDAR ...
... ancient Lyric Poets to indulge in a more unbounded liberty in the than in any other species of poetry ; foaring in fudden tranfitions , bold digreffions and lofty excurtons , fometimes away from their subject al- together . But PINDAR ...
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... ancient , more universal , or perhaps more effectual , than by APO- LOGUE OF FABLE , ( See thefe articles . ) As to the actors in this little drama , the fabulift may prefs into his fervice every kind of exiftence un der Heaven : not ...
... ancient , more universal , or perhaps more effectual , than by APO- LOGUE OF FABLE , ( See thefe articles . ) As to the actors in this little drama , the fabulift may prefs into his fervice every kind of exiftence un der Heaven : not ...
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Page 333 - The writ upon which all proceedings here are grounded is called a quo minus : in which the plaintiff suggests that he is the king's farmer or debtor, and that the defendant hath done him the injury or damage complained of; quo minus sufficient j existit, by which he is the less able to pay the king his debt \ or rent.
Page 48 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 276 - He may reject what bills, may make what treaties, may coin what money, may create what peers, may pardon what offences, he pleases...
Page 339 - Power also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects also that natural bodies are able to produce in one another occurring every moment to our senses, we both these ways get the idea of power.
Page 214 - Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes of that bounty ; and does cloth return, Which not for warmth, but ornament, is worn : For the kind fpring, which but falutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year : Ripe fruits, and...
Page 274 - prerogative' we usually understand that special pre-eminence, which the king hath over and above all other persons, and out of the ordinary course of the common law, in right of his regal dignity. It signifies, in its etymology (from prae and rogo), something that is required or demanded before, or in preference to all others.
Page 224 - Not thinking it is levee-day; And find his honour in a pound, Hemm'd by a triple circle round. Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green, How should I thrust myself between?
Page 121 - ... and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle. His standing on the sharp fins of this fish signified to the Saxons that by worshipping him they should pass through all dangers unhurt : by his girdle flying both ways was...
Page 222 - It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.