The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... ray grass , red clover , trefoil , sainfoin , lucern , orchard grass , ti- mothy , & c . 46. On many farms , cows are kept for the milk they yield ; and for the purpose of making butter or cheese . Butter is made from cream by agitat ...
... ray grass , red clover , trefoil , sainfoin , lucern , orchard grass , ti- mothy , & c . 46. On many farms , cows are kept for the milk they yield ; and for the purpose of making butter or cheese . Butter is made from cream by agitat ...
Pàgina 81
... rays ; Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams , Scarcely enlightened with the solar beams ; With four unfixed receptacles of light , He towers majestic through the spacious height ; But farther yet , the tardy Saturn lags , And six ...
... rays ; Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams , Scarcely enlightened with the solar beams ; With four unfixed receptacles of light , He towers majestic through the spacious height ; But farther yet , the tardy Saturn lags , And six ...
Pàgina 86
... ray improves : Next glaring wat'ry through the Bull he moves ; The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray ; Now burning through the Crab , he takes his way ; The Lion , flaming , bears the solar power ; The Virgin faints beneath the sultry ...
... ray improves : Next glaring wat'ry through the Bull he moves ; The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray ; Now burning through the Crab , he takes his way ; The Lion , flaming , bears the solar power ; The Virgin faints beneath the sultry ...
Pàgina 95
... ray improves : Next glaring wat'ry through the Bull he moves ; The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray ; Now burning through the Crab , he takes his way ; The Lion , flaming , bears the solar power ; The Virgin faints beneath the sultry ...
... ray improves : Next glaring wat'ry through the Bull he moves ; The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray ; Now burning through the Crab , he takes his way ; The Lion , flaming , bears the solar power ; The Virgin faints beneath the sultry ...
Pàgina 100
... rays do not reach the south pole by 10 degrees ; and when he becomes verti- cal 23 degrees north of the equator , he shines 23 degrees beyond the north pole , and 23 de- grees short of the south pole . 275. In its annual orbit , the ...
... rays do not reach the south pole by 10 degrees ; and when he becomes verti- cal 23 degrees north of the equator , he shines 23 degrees beyond the north pole , and 23 de- grees short of the south pole . 275. In its annual orbit , the ...
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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.