The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., الجزء 1،المجلد 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... tails . The country abounds in deer and other game , particularly wild horses and mules , and animals of the elk and lynx spe- cies . A few sables are found , though not of great beauty . The internal government is here carried on by ...
... tails . The country abounds in deer and other game , particularly wild horses and mules , and animals of the elk and lynx spe- cies . A few sables are found , though not of great beauty . The internal government is here carried on by ...
الصفحة 54
... tail forked in some species , in others simple , serves them for a rudder . Their color varies from white to green , and to red , more or less deep , doubtless in a ratio to the fragments of the vegetables on which they feed . The red ...
... tail forked in some species , in others simple , serves them for a rudder . Their color varies from white to green , and to red , more or less deep , doubtless in a ratio to the fragments of the vegetables on which they feed . The red ...
الصفحة 55
... tail the body goes down , decreasing in shape like a pear ; and is composed of seven or eight rings , which grow continually more straitened . The tail is long , divided into two ; each division giving rise out- wardly to three or four ...
... tail the body goes down , decreasing in shape like a pear ; and is composed of seven or eight rings , which grow continually more straitened . The tail is long , divided into two ; each division giving rise out- wardly to three or four ...
الصفحة 79
... tail - fin is shaped like a half - moon , by which , and his odd trussed shape , he is sufficiently distinguished . Grew's Museum . Encountering fierce The Solymean sultan , he o'erthrew His moony troops , returning bravely smeared With ...
... tail - fin is shaped like a half - moon , by which , and his odd trussed shape , he is sufficiently distinguished . Grew's Museum . Encountering fierce The Solymean sultan , he o'erthrew His moony troops , returning bravely smeared With ...
الصفحة 162
... tail is short , and the feet have spurious hoofs . They inhabit India ; and are much of the same size with the moschiferus , but the tail is longer and more per- ceptible ; the legs are very slender ; and the head resembles that of a ...
... tail is short , and the feet have spurious hoofs . They inhabit India ; and are much of the same size with the moschiferus , but the tail is longer and more per- ceptible ; the legs are very slender ; and the head resembles that of a ...
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الصفحة 114 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
الصفحة 106 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
الصفحة 32 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
الصفحة 55 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
الصفحة 104 - ... reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions. The. final sentence, it is probable, which pronounces characters and actions amiable or odious, praise-worthy or blameable; that which stamps on them the mark of honour or infamy, approbation or censure; that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has...
الصفحة 196 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
الصفحة 73 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves...
الصفحة 189 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
الصفحة 223 - And all these circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out to the satisfaction of the court and jury, the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumstances alleged are proved to have actually existed, the former how far they extend to take away or mitigate guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious until the contrary appeareth upon evidence:" 4 Blackstone's Commentaries, 201.
الصفحة 101 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.