The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... , out of which a regiment of dragoons , bearing the title of the Inniskilliners , was mostly formed . They form the sixth regiment of dragoons in the British army . ed of Ino's machinations , escaped to Colchis on a INN INN 39.
... , out of which a regiment of dragoons , bearing the title of the Inniskilliners , was mostly formed . They form the sixth regiment of dragoons in the British army . ed of Ino's machinations , escaped to Colchis on a INN INN 39.
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... army against the Albigenses to expedite this holy work . Gregory IX . gave the institution its final form ; and in 1233 it was fully established in France by St. Louis , and in the four Christian kingdoms of Spain . The council held at ...
... army against the Albigenses to expedite this holy work . Gregory IX . gave the institution its final form ; and in 1233 it was fully established in France by St. Louis , and in the four Christian kingdoms of Spain . The council held at ...
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... army ; and , notwithstanding the bigotry and prostrate submission of the age , the cruelty , in- sulting arrogance , and intolerable oppression of these ghostly fathers , excited insurrection and tumult in almost every town which they ...
... army ; and , notwithstanding the bigotry and prostrate submission of the age , the cruelty , in- sulting arrogance , and intolerable oppression of these ghostly fathers , excited insurrection and tumult in almost every town which they ...
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... army without a general ; with- out him their judges are no more judges of the faith , than ministers of finance ; and as the pope , whose bull is necessary to confer that commission , was in the hands of the enemy that dissolved it , as ...
... army without a general ; with- out him their judges are no more judges of the faith , than ministers of finance ; and as the pope , whose bull is necessary to confer that commission , was in the hands of the enemy that dissolved it , as ...
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... army , that the from their example , restored among us ; but who- ever the introducers were , they have succeeded to a miracle . Swift . Here the twelfth Canto of our introduction Ends . When the body of the book's begun , You'll find ...
... army , that the from their example , restored among us ; but who- ever the introducers were , they have succeeded to a miracle . Swift . Here the twelfth Canto of our introduction Ends . When the body of the book's begun , You'll find ...
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Page 93 - 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...
Page 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Page 72 - 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?
Page 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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Page 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...