A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, المجلد 12Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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الصفحة 103
... considerable time . The military roads through this once impene- trable region , made by the soldiers under ge- neral Wade , never fail to excite the astonishment of travellers , being often carried over mountains , and extensive ...
... considerable time . The military roads through this once impene- trable region , made by the soldiers under ge- neral Wade , never fail to excite the astonishment of travellers , being often carried over mountains , and extensive ...
الصفحة 113
... considerable merit . JODE ( Peter de ) , the younger son to the former , was born in 1606. He learned the art of engraving from his father , and surpassed him in taste and the facility of handling the graver ; but can hardly be said to ...
... considerable merit . JODE ( Peter de ) , the younger son to the former , was born in 1606. He learned the art of engraving from his father , and surpassed him in taste and the facility of handling the graver ; but can hardly be said to ...
الصفحة 116
... considerable quantity of that elastic fluid , and forms a compound of a bright yellow color . When fused it becomes of a deep orange ; and in the state of vapor from the action of heat , it has likewise a deep orange color . Sir Humphry ...
... considerable quantity of that elastic fluid , and forms a compound of a bright yellow color . When fused it becomes of a deep orange ; and in the state of vapor from the action of heat , it has likewise a deep orange color . Sir Humphry ...
الصفحة 123
... considerable length ; in which he showed , that he knew perfectly what a variety of research such an undertaking required : but his indolence pre- vented him from pursuing it with diligence , and it was not published till many years ...
... considerable length ; in which he showed , that he knew perfectly what a variety of research such an undertaking required : but his indolence pre- vented him from pursuing it with diligence , and it was not published till many years ...
الصفحة 143
... considerable successes ; but his death - bed was disturbed with the remon- strances of his subjects against his rash innova- tions . He died in 1790 , and was succeeded by his brother Leopold . See GERMANY . JOSEPH'S BAY ( St. ) , a bay ...
... considerable successes ; but his death - bed was disturbed with the remon- strances of his subjects against his rash innova- tions . He died in 1790 , and was succeeded by his brother Leopold . See GERMANY . JOSEPH'S BAY ( St. ) , a bay ...
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الصفحة 89 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
الصفحة 69 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
الصفحة 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
الصفحة 52 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
الصفحة 15 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
الصفحة 383 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 265 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
الصفحة 36 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
الصفحة 188 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
الصفحة 4 - The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this...