The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, المجلد 6Charles Knight, 1836 |
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... coast of Scotland . [ ARRAN . ] The island of Bute is about 6 miles from Ayrshire , and half a mile from Cowal in Argyleshire . It is about 18 miles long and 4 or 5 in breadth . To the N. it is elevated , rocky , and barren ; the ...
... coast of Scotland . [ ARRAN . ] The island of Bute is about 6 miles from Ayrshire , and half a mile from Cowal in Argyleshire . It is about 18 miles long and 4 or 5 in breadth . To the N. it is elevated , rocky , and barren ; the ...
الصفحة 65
... coast of Epirus , on the northern or narrow part of the channel which divides the island of Corfu from the main- land . It stood on a hill surrounded by marshy ground , and forming a sort of peninsula at the entrance of the har- bour ...
... coast of Epirus , on the northern or narrow part of the channel which divides the island of Corfu from the main- land . It stood on a hill surrounded by marshy ground , and forming a sort of peninsula at the entrance of the har- bour ...
الصفحة 75
... coast of the State of Massachusetts , U. S. The peninsula of Barn- staple projects in the form of a boot , the point of which , at Cape Cod , is curved like a ram's horn ; Buzzard's Bay forms what may be termed the top or opening of the ...
... coast of the State of Massachusetts , U. S. The peninsula of Barn- staple projects in the form of a boot , the point of which , at Cape Cod , is curved like a ram's horn ; Buzzard's Bay forms what may be termed the top or opening of the ...
الصفحة 79
... coast of Greece are exquisitely beau- tiful they are moreover correct pictures , as must be felt by all who have travelled in those climes . The story , like all his stories , is badly constructed the characters are not very ...
... coast of Greece are exquisitely beau- tiful they are moreover correct pictures , as must be felt by all who have travelled in those climes . The story , like all his stories , is badly constructed the characters are not very ...
الصفحة 80
... coast of America . Her condition was so crazy that she soon afterwards bilged , and grounded between two small islands about a mus- ket - shot from the shore . Her captain , who had succeeded to the command during the voyage in ...
... coast of America . Her condition was so crazy that she soon afterwards bilged , and grounded between two small islands about a mus- ket - shot from the shore . Her captain , who had succeeded to the command during the voyage in ...
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الصفحة 55 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
الصفحة 36 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
الصفحة 40 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
الصفحة 54 - Subsecivae; being a connected series of notes respecting the Geography, Chronology, and Literary History of the principal codes »and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon Laws.
الصفحة 36 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast?
الصفحة 176 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
الصفحة 37 - As to any remuneration, you may think my songs either above or below price ; for they shall absolutely be the one or the other. In the honest enthusiasm with which I embark in your undertaking, to talk of money, wages, fee, hire, &c., would be downright prostitution of soul ! A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend, I shall receive as a favor.
الصفحة 29 - You, too, proceed! make falling arts your care; Erect new wonders, and the old repair; Jones and Palladio to themselves restore And be whate'er Vitruvius was before, Till kings call forth th...
الصفحة 142 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
الصفحة 70 - Alas ! why do I say MY ? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers, it would have joined lands broad and rich, it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill matched in years (she is two years my elder), and — and — and — what has been the result?