Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 7Archibald Constable, 1823 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... employed by the English ministry in transmitting secret intelligence to them on the most important sub- jects . He was also , on sundry occasions , employed by the generals of the confederate armies , to carry in- telligence , and to ...
... employed by the English ministry in transmitting secret intelligence to them on the most important sub- jects . He was also , on sundry occasions , employed by the generals of the confederate armies , to carry in- telligence , and to ...
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... employed . It is used for various purposes ; as for figured letters ; head and tail pieces of books ; and even for schemes and other figures , to save the expences of engraving on copper ; and the prints and stamps for paper , callicoes ...
... employed . It is used for various purposes ; as for figured letters ; head and tail pieces of books ; and even for schemes and other figures , to save the expences of engraving on copper ; and the prints and stamps for paper , callicoes ...
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... employed in the same capacity by differ- ent masters , one of whom , it is said , he poisoned ; and having robbed another , he was obliged to abscond to escape the punishment due to his crimes . During a period of five months after the ...
... employed in the same capacity by differ- ent masters , one of whom , it is said , he poisoned ; and having robbed another , he was obliged to abscond to escape the punishment due to his crimes . During a period of five months after the ...
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... employed in expres- sing nothing but voluptuousness , and even the grossest obscenity . Among the ancients there were no festivals nor reli- gious assemblies but what were accompanied with songs and dances . It was not held possible to ...
... employed in expres- sing nothing but voluptuousness , and even the grossest obscenity . Among the ancients there were no festivals nor reli- gious assemblies but what were accompanied with songs and dances . It was not held possible to ...
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... employed . The inner end of the davit is secured by being thrust into a square ring of iron b , which is bolted to the deck , and forelocked under the beams . which is called the span - shackle , exhibited at large by fig . 9. is fixed ...
... employed . The inner end of the davit is secured by being thrust into a square ring of iron b , which is bolted to the deck , and forelocked under the beams . which is called the span - shackle , exhibited at large by fig . 9. is fixed ...
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Page 350 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 24 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 27 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.
Page 52 - No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. 20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Page 258 - The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.
Page 350 - Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 27 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 362 - Dryden sent a challenge to the lord Jefferies, who refusing to answer it, he sent several others, and went often himself; but could neither get a letter delivered, nor admittance to speak to him: which so...
Page 150 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
Page 187 - From all Society, from Love and Hate, Of worldly Folk ; then should he sleep secure. Then wake again, and yield God ever praise, Content with hips and haws and bramble-berry, In Contemplation passing out his days, And change of Holy Thoughts to make him merry; And when he dies his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless Robin dwells with gentle Thrush. Your Majesty's Exiled Servant, ROBERT ESSEX.