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 21
... proper places , which give a paffage into cross roads that lead to different villages . Covered feats are erected on all the great roads , where travellers may fhelter themselves from the inclemency of the weather ; temples and pagods ...
... proper places , which give a paffage into cross roads that lead to different villages . Covered feats are erected on all the great roads , where travellers may fhelter themselves from the inclemency of the weather ; temples and pagods ...
Pàgina 24
... proper statement of what is paid in the provinces , of what is referved in the different cities , or contained in the dif- ferent treasuries of the empire , is fubjected to the exa- mination of the grand tribunal of finances . This ...
... proper statement of what is paid in the provinces , of what is referved in the different cities , or contained in the dif- ferent treasuries of the empire , is fubjected to the exa- mination of the grand tribunal of finances . This ...
Pàgina 49
... proper restraint , to thofe which are hid under the darkness of a rude and illite- rate age . Dardon Distinction of ranks appears to be effentially necef- san fary to the existence of civil order . Even in the fim- dutal pleft and ...
... proper restraint , to thofe which are hid under the darkness of a rude and illite- rate age . Dardon Distinction of ranks appears to be effentially necef- san fary to the existence of civil order . Even in the fim- dutal pleft and ...
Pàgina 54
... proper , because the bigger the cakes are , the longer they will keep . Obferve , that these cakes are very liable to take any good or bad fcent , and there- fore they must be carefully wrapt up in paper , and kept in a dry place ...
... proper , because the bigger the cakes are , the longer they will keep . Obferve , that these cakes are very liable to take any good or bad fcent , and there- fore they must be carefully wrapt up in paper , and kept in a dry place ...
Pàgina 56
... proper character . Every one feels the con- traft between the foftnefs of the falfe fifth , and the grating found of the tritone , though the one of thefe intervals is produced by a method of inverting the other . With the feventh ...
... proper character . Every one feels the con- traft between the foftnefs of the falfe fifth , and the grating found of the tritone , though the one of thefe intervals is produced by a method of inverting the other . With the feventh ...
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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.