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 1
... figure from The Phoenicians , and moft an cient Greeks and Romans , ufed the fame figure with our H , which in the series of all these alpha- bets keeps its primitive place , being the 8th let- ter ; though the afterwards occupied its ...
... figure from The Phoenicians , and moft an cient Greeks and Romans , ufed the fame figure with our H , which in the series of all these alpha- bets keeps its primitive place , being the 8th let- ter ; though the afterwards occupied its ...
Pàgina 5
... figure during the vivacity of youth : in middle age it gains ground ; and in old age governs without controul . In that period of life , generally speak- ing , we eat at a certain hour , take exercise at a certain hour , go to reft at a ...
... figure during the vivacity of youth : in middle age it gains ground ; and in old age governs without controul . In that period of life , generally speak- ing , we eat at a certain hour , take exercise at a certain hour , go to reft at a ...
Pàgina 14
... figures ; fome round , others pyramidal , crenated , angular , thin , and flat , and fome ftellated , with fix radii like the small crystals of fnow . Natural hiftorians record various in- ftances of furprifing fhowers of hail , in ...
... figures ; fome round , others pyramidal , crenated , angular , thin , and flat , and fome ftellated , with fix radii like the small crystals of fnow . Natural hiftorians record various in- ftances of furprifing fhowers of hail , in ...
Pàgina 15
... figure in the literary world , Charles IX . made him hiftoriographer of France , in 1571 . His hiftory of France extends from Pharamond to the death of Charles VII . and is the first com- plete hiftory of that kingdom compofed in the ...
... figure in the literary world , Charles IX . made him hiftoriographer of France , in 1571 . His hiftory of France extends from Pharamond to the death of Charles VII . and is the first com- plete hiftory of that kingdom compofed in the ...
Pàgina 21
... figure as the blof , fom of our cherry trees . The two large are ce- mented one upon the other , in the form of a purfe ; and when they blow , the two fmall blow alfo in their turn ; and then the whole 4 reprefent a crofs . The piftil ...
... figure as the blof , fom of our cherry trees . The two large are ce- mented one upon the other , in the form of a purfe ; and when they blow , the two fmall blow alfo in their turn ; and then the whole 4 reprefent a crofs . The piftil ...
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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.