Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volum 4Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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Pàgina 385 - The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Pàgina 257 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Pàgina 31 - Fragments of Ancient Poetry. Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated from the Gaelic or Erse language...
Pàgina 255 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Pàgina 73 - Of the positive checks, those which appear to arise unavoidably from the laws of nature, may be called exclusively misery; and those which we obviously bring upon ourselves, such as wars, excesses, and many others which it would be in our power to avoid, are of a mixed nature. They are brought upon us by vice, and their consequences are misery.
Pàgina 11 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Pàgina 21 - XVII Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to be Loved or Feared...
Pàgina 11 - M'Culloch. — A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans.
Pàgina 285 - Verily Christ Jesus the son of Mary is the apostle of God, and his Word, which he conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit proceeding from him.
Pàgina 105 - Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero, in a letter to a friend.