The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... kind of material , do not hold mois- ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter . 36. To render a barren soil fertile , it requires to be ...
... kind of material , do not hold mois- ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter . 36. To render a barren soil fertile , it requires to be ...
Pàgina 8
... kind of material , do not hold mois- ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter . 36. To render a barren soil fertile , it requires to be ...
... kind of material , do not hold mois- ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter . 36. To render a barren soil fertile , it requires to be ...
Pàgina 10
... kinds of grain for the food of man . 44. Modern husbandry has sub - divided grass into nearly a hundred several kinds ; of which , there are two principal divisions ; natural grasses , and artificial grasses . The several sorts are sown ...
... kinds of grain for the food of man . 44. Modern husbandry has sub - divided grass into nearly a hundred several kinds ; of which , there are two principal divisions ; natural grasses , and artificial grasses . The several sorts are sown ...
Pàgina 11
... kinds that have been pre- ferred in England , are the middle - horned , or De- vonshire , for working ; and the short - horned , the ' spotted , and the Alderney , for milking . The long - horned , the Welch , the Kyloe , and the ...
... kinds that have been pre- ferred in England , are the middle - horned , or De- vonshire , for working ; and the short - horned , the ' spotted , and the Alderney , for milking . The long - horned , the Welch , the Kyloe , and the ...
Pàgina 25
... kind of hot paste , which may be worked and moulded to any shape : -the ingenuity and expertness of the workmen , in so moulding and shaping it into va- rious vessels , is highly amusing . 107. Tiles for the roofs of houses are made of ...
... kind of hot paste , which may be worked and moulded to any shape : -the ingenuity and expertness of the workmen , in so moulding and shaping it into va- rious vessels , is highly amusing . 107. Tiles for the roofs of houses are made of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Pàgina 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pàgina 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Pàgina 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Pàgina 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Pàgina 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Pàgina 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Pàgina 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.