Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 16
... four others ; the first entrusted with the care of felecting those who , on account of their learning or other good properties , are capable of filling the offices of government ; the fecond appointed to take care of the conduct of the ...
... four others ; the first entrusted with the care of felecting those who , on account of their learning or other good properties , are capable of filling the offices of government ; the fecond appointed to take care of the conduct of the ...
Pàgina 28
... four others . These were fituated at the extremities of the empire , and were fuppofed to correfpond with the four quarters of the world ; and the prince went fuc- ceffively every year to one of these mountains to offer up facrifices ...
... four others . These were fituated at the extremities of the empire , and were fuppofed to correfpond with the four quarters of the world ; and the prince went fuc- ceffively every year to one of these mountains to offer up facrifices ...
Pàgina 34
... four draughts . While they are drink ing , the dishes on each of the tables are removed , and others brought in . Each of the guests has twenty- four fet before him in fucceffion ; all of them fat , and in the form of ragouts . They ...
... four draughts . While they are drink ing , the dishes on each of the tables are removed , and others brought in . Each of the guests has twenty- four fet before him in fucceffion ; all of them fat , and in the form of ragouts . They ...
Pàgina 55
... Four Dialogues on the Immortality of the Soul , & c . 2. Account of a Voyage to Siam . 3. An Ecclefiafti- cal History , in 11 vols . 4to . 4. Life of David , with an Interpretation of the Pfalms . 5. Life of Solomon , & c . He died at ...
... Four Dialogues on the Immortality of the Soul , & c . 2. Account of a Voyage to Siam . 3. An Ecclefiafti- cal History , in 11 vols . 4to . 4. Life of David , with an Interpretation of the Pfalms . 5. Life of Solomon , & c . He died at ...
Pàgina 58
... four spoonfuls of yeft to work it . In two or three days top the bung of the cafk ; and in five or fix days , when fine , bottle it for drinking . Two gallons of melaffes are fufficient for a hogfhead of li- quor ; but if melaffes ...
... four spoonfuls of yeft to work it . In two or three days top the bung of the cafk ; and in five or fix days , when fine , bottle it for drinking . Two gallons of melaffes are fufficient for a hogfhead of li- quor ; but if melaffes ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 361 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Pàgina 362 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Pàgina 338 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Pàgina 250 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Pàgina 185 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
Pàgina 338 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Pàgina 360 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Pàgina 362 - But sorrow wastes the mournful, O daughter of Toscar ! and their days are few! They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength after the mildew has passed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops of night.
Pàgina 272 - They have a governor named by the king (or in some proprietary colonies by the proprietor), who is his representative or deputy. They have courts of justice of their own, from whose decisions an appeal lies to the king and council here in England.
Pàgina 18 - God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.