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, Volumen6Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... nature is constantly tempering the inequality of the seasons . The vast beds of snow , or fields of ice which cover the land and sea in these dreary retreats , absorb , in the act of thawing or passing again into their liquid form , all ...
... nature is constantly tempering the inequality of the seasons . The vast beds of snow , or fields of ice which cover the land and sea in these dreary retreats , absorb , in the act of thawing or passing again into their liquid form , all ...
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... nature of the soil , the physiognomy of the plants , the view of beautiful or savage nature , have great influence on the progress of the arts , and on the style which distinguishes their pro- ductions . This influence becomes the more ...
... nature of the soil , the physiognomy of the plants , the view of beautiful or savage nature , have great influence on the progress of the arts , and on the style which distinguishes their pro- ductions . This influence becomes the more ...
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... nature of dipping Locke . We should then have as much feeling upon the chipping off a hair , as the cutting off a ... natural history , a name given to the flat depressed centroniæ , from their re- sembling a shield . CLISSA , a fort of ...
... nature of dipping Locke . We should then have as much feeling upon the chipping off a hair , as the cutting off a ... natural history , a name given to the flat depressed centroniæ , from their re- sembling a shield . CLISSA , a fort of ...
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... nature seemely to aray ; With which bare wretched wights he daily clad , The images of God in earthly clay ; And , if that no spare clothes to give he had , His owne cote he would cut , and it distribute glad . fle with him brought ...
... nature seemely to aray ; With which bare wretched wights he daily clad , The images of God in earthly clay ; And , if that no spare clothes to give he had , His owne cote he would cut , and it distribute glad . fle with him brought ...
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... nature , the whole of its surface would be a mere desert . They are likewise of great use as a screen , interposed between the earth and the scorching rays of the sun , which are often so powerful as to destroy the grass and other ...
... nature , the whole of its surface would be a mere desert . They are likewise of great use as a screen , interposed between the earth and the scorching rays of the sun , which are often so powerful as to destroy the grass and other ...
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Página 274 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Página 21 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Página 322 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Página 363 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? Curse on his perjur'd arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'd?
Página 422 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Página 415 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Página 400 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 415 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 326 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Página 282 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.