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 8
... horfe : 2. A hired horfe ; hired horfes being usually taught to pace , or recommended as good pacers . - Light and lewd perfons were as eafily fuborned to make an affidavit for money , as post - horses and backney's are taken to hire ...
... horfe : 2. A hired horfe ; hired horfes being usually taught to pace , or recommended as good pacers . - Light and lewd perfons were as eafily fuborned to make an affidavit for money , as post - horses and backney's are taken to hire ...
Pàgina 25
... horfe , or any other beaft , it was led with them to the scaffold , and there fastened by a cord to the pin , that held up the axe ; and when the fignal was given by the jurors , who were the first burghers within the fe- veral towns of ...
... horfe , or any other beaft , it was led with them to the scaffold , and there fastened by a cord to the pin , that held up the axe ; and when the fignal was given by the jurors , who were the first burghers within the fe- veral towns of ...
Pàgina 36
... horfe , of Hungary leather , mounted with and fometimes two ftraps , with a fecond thro band if the horfe is apt to unhalter himself . * To HALTER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] bind with a cord ; to catch in a noofe . - He mi have ...
... horfe , of Hungary leather , mounted with and fometimes two ftraps , with a fecond thro band if the horfe is apt to unhalter himself . * To HALTER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] bind with a cord ; to catch in a noofe . - He mi have ...
Pàgina 37
... horfe's foot , upon his endeavouring to rub his neck with his binder feet . For the cure , anoint the place morning and evening , with equal quan . tities of linfeed oil and brandy , well mixed . HALTEREN , a town of Germany , in the bi ...
... horfe's foot , upon his endeavouring to rub his neck with his binder feet . For the cure , anoint the place morning and evening , with equal quan . tities of linfeed oil and brandy , well mixed . HALTEREN , a town of Germany , in the bi ...
Pàgina 51
... horfe : alfo for a divifion of the horfe into two parts , with respect to the rider's hand . The fore hand includes the head , neck , and fore quarters ; the hind hand s all the rest of the horse . ( 5. ) HAND , in painting , fculpture ...
... horfe : alfo for a divifion of the horfe into two parts , with respect to the rider's hand . The fore hand includes the head , neck , and fore quarters ; the hind hand s all the rest of the horse . ( 5. ) HAND , in painting , fculpture ...
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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.