Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 11John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... whole corpfe appeared in its perfect fhape ; but , from the Crown of the head to the fole of the foot , covered over with thick - fet hair , long and curled . The feston going to handle the upper part of the head with his fingers , the ...
... whole corpfe appeared in its perfect fhape ; but , from the Crown of the head to the fole of the foot , covered over with thick - fet hair , long and curled . The feston going to handle the upper part of the head with his fingers , the ...
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... whole rifing gradually from the water upon the fide of a hill , whofe top is regularly for- tified . Many confiderable merchants refide at this place , and are poffeffed of shipping to the amount of feveral thousand tons , employed in a ...
... whole rifing gradually from the water upon the fide of a hill , whofe top is regularly for- tified . Many confiderable merchants refide at this place , and are poffeffed of shipping to the amount of feveral thousand tons , employed in a ...
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... whole work in 1706. Afterwards he had a thare in preparing for the prefs Appollonius's Conics and ventured to fupply the whole 8th book , the original of which is also loft . He likewise added Serenus on the fection of the cylinder and ...
... whole work in 1706. Afterwards he had a thare in preparing for the prefs Appollonius's Conics and ventured to fupply the whole 8th book , the original of which is also loft . He likewise added Serenus on the fection of the cylinder and ...
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... whole work , as the artist of greatest authority in the country where he writes . He thinks him- felf obliged , however , to declare , that this fyf- tem , however ingenious it may be , is far from being founded upon nature ; an ...
... whole work , as the artist of greatest authority in the country where he writes . He thinks him- felf obliged , however , to declare , that this fyf- tem , however ingenious it may be , is far from being founded upon nature ; an ...
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... whole and acceptance from nature , be impressed with of harmony were only formed by a fucceffion of more genuine or more legible fignatures of ber perfect chords - major , it would be fufficient to fanction than this ? We do not contend ...
... whole and acceptance from nature , be impressed with of harmony were only formed by a fucceffion of more genuine or more legible fignatures of ber perfect chords - major , it would be fufficient to fanction than this ? We do not contend ...
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Page 238 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 182 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 411 - His pursuers soon lost sight of him, for he had, unperceived, thrown himself over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, happening to be in his garden, was addressed by the Spaniard on his knees, who acquainted him with his case, and implored concealment. " Eat this," said the Moor, giving him half a peach ; " you now know that you may confide in my protection.
Page 411 - Cudjoe stopped them at the door, and demanded what they wanted. " The white men," said they, " have carried away our brothers and sons, and we will kill all white men. Give us the white man you have in your house, for we will kill him.
Page 229 - ... is alleged to be unduly made, the only tribunal to which the complainants can appeal is that of the God of battles, the only process by which the appeal can be carried on is that of a civil and intestine war.
Page 261 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hickup.
Page 402 - I make no doubt but the forcibly attempting a crime of a still more detestable nature may be equally resisted by the death of the unnatural aggressor. For the one uniform principle that runs through our own and all other laws seems to be this, — that where a crime in itself capital , is endeavored to be committed by force, it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the party attempting.
Page 222 - At supper one of them drank a health to the Lord Steward ; upon which another of them said, that he believed his Lord was at that time very merry, for he had now outlived the day which his tutor Sandford had prognosticated upon his nativity he would not outlive ; but he had done it now, for that was his birthday, which had completed his age to fifty years. The next morning, by the time they came to Colebrook, they met with the news of his death.