Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volum 11John Brown, 1816 |
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Pàgina 5
... arms was quickly dight . Fairf . The fhot let fly , and grazing . Upon his fhoulder , in the paffing , Lodg'd in Magnano's brafs habergeon . Hudib . ( 2. ) HABERGEON , HABERGETUM , [ from baut Fr. high , and berg , armour . ] was a coat ...
... arms was quickly dight . Fairf . The fhot let fly , and grazing . Upon his fhoulder , in the paffing , Lodg'd in Magnano's brafs habergeon . Hudib . ( 2. ) HABERGEON , HABERGETUM , [ from baut Fr. high , and berg , armour . ] was a coat ...
Pàgina 15
... arms new luftre shine . Roque . ( 1. ) * To HAIL . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To falute ; to call to . - A galley drawing near unto the fhore , was hailed by a Turk , accompanied with a troop of horsemen . Knolles.- Thrice call upon my ...
... arms new luftre shine . Roque . ( 1. ) * To HAIL . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To falute ; to call to . - A galley drawing near unto the fhore , was hailed by a Turk , accompanied with a troop of horsemen . Knolles.- Thrice call upon my ...
Pàgina 44
... arm's length over the head , is made to fall upon the work with as heavy a blow as poffible . The fmalleft hammer used ... arms like wings , jumps upon the heap of ftraw ; till , feeling the courtier , he draws his fword , and inftantly ...
... arm's length over the head , is made to fall upon the work with as heavy a blow as poffible . The fmalleft hammer used ... arms like wings , jumps upon the heap of ftraw ; till , feeling the courtier , he draws his fword , and inftantly ...
Pàgina 77
... arms , bithop Ni- colfon , and many other eminent antiquaries , not only offered him their affiftance in procuring MSS .: but prefented him with several that were very va . luable . Being thus encouraged to perfeverance by his fuccefs ...
... arms , bithop Ni- colfon , and many other eminent antiquaries , not only offered him their affiftance in procuring MSS .: but prefented him with several that were very va . luable . Being thus encouraged to perfeverance by his fuccefs ...
Pàgina 87
... arm are of filver . On the front arm are the arms , chafed in filver , of the O'Brien family , the bloody hand fupported by lions . On the fides of the front arm , within two circles , are two Irish wolf dogs cut in the wood . The holes ...
... arm are of filver . On the front arm are the arms , chafed in filver , of the O'Brien family , the bloody hand fupported by lions . On the fides of the front arm , within two circles , are two Irish wolf dogs cut in the wood . The holes ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 238 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Pàgina 182 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Pàgina 411 - His pursuers soon lost sight of him, for he had, unperceived, thrown himself over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, happening to be in his garden, was addressed by the Spaniard on his knees, who acquainted him with his case, and implored concealment. " Eat this," said the Moor, giving him half a peach ; " you now know that you may confide in my protection.
Pàgina 411 - Cudjoe stopped them at the door, and demanded what they wanted. " The white men," said they, " have carried away our brothers and sons, and we will kill all white men. Give us the white man you have in your house, for we will kill him.
Pàgina 229 - ... is alleged to be unduly made, the only tribunal to which the complainants can appeal is that of the God of battles, the only process by which the appeal can be carried on is that of a civil and intestine war.
Pàgina 261 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hickup.
Pàgina 402 - I make no doubt but the forcibly attempting a crime of a still more detestable nature may be equally resisted by the death of the unnatural aggressor. For the one uniform principle that runs through our own and all other laws seems to be this, — that where a crime in itself capital , is endeavored to be committed by force, it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the party attempting.
Pàgina 222 - At supper one of them drank a health to the Lord Steward ; upon which another of them said, that he believed his Lord was at that time very merry, for he had now outlived the day which his tutor Sandford had prognosticated upon his nativity he would not outlive ; but he had done it now, for that was his birthday, which had completed his age to fifty years. The next morning, by the time they came to Colebrook, they met with the news of his death.