Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 21 |
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... appear- ance from the ftalactites , crystals and fpars around it , and looks like a cathedral supported by massy pillars . SKEIN . n . f.efcaigne , Fr. ) A knot of thread filk wound and doubled . - Why art thou then exafperate , thou ...
... appear- ance from the ftalactites , crystals and fpars around it , and looks like a cathedral supported by massy pillars . SKEIN . n . f.efcaigne , Fr. ) A knot of thread filk wound and doubled . - Why art thou then exafperate , thou ...
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... appear in the end of April ; the former difappears always before the end of June ; the lafter fometimes not till September . The woodcock comes in Gctober , and frequently re- tains till March . The tame forts of fowls are geese , ducks ...
... appear in the end of April ; the former difappears always before the end of June ; the lafter fometimes not till September . The woodcock comes in Gctober , and frequently re- tains till March . The tame forts of fowls are geese , ducks ...
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... appear worthy of reward . A victorious general has certainly a right to prevent the prisoners taken in battie from ... appears at first fight more formidable : but perhaps a little attention to the delign of the Mofaic economy may enable ...
... appear worthy of reward . A victorious general has certainly a right to prevent the prisoners taken in battie from ... appears at first fight more formidable : but perhaps a little attention to the delign of the Mofaic economy may enable ...
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... appear in ev'ry thing may bring my ruin . The sleek - hair'd nymphs were seen , To feek them fummer bowers . Shak . Drayton . As in gaze admiring , oft he bow'd His turret creft , and sleek enamell'd neck , Fawning . Thy head and hair ...
... appear in ev'ry thing may bring my ruin . The sleek - hair'd nymphs were seen , To feek them fummer bowers . Shak . Drayton . As in gaze admiring , oft he bow'd His turret creft , and sleek enamell'd neck , Fawning . Thy head and hair ...
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... appear frefh . Shak- ty : fuggith ; inactive ; indolent ; duli of motion . -He that is slothful in his work , is brother to bim that is a preat wafter . Prov . xviii . 9. - The defire of the slothful killeth him . Prov . xxi . 25.- To ...
... appear frefh . Shak- ty : fuggith ; inactive ; indolent ; duli of motion . -He that is slothful in his work , is brother to bim that is a preat wafter . Prov . xviii . 9. - The defire of the slothful killeth him . Prov . xxi . 25.- To ...
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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...