Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Volumen19 |
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Página 51
... half a woman and half a ferpent . Their pyramids and obelisks arofe from the idea of flame ; the first emblem of the fupreme principle , introduced Ly the Scythians , and which even the influence of Zoroa- fter and the Magi could not ...
... half a woman and half a ferpent . Their pyramids and obelisks arofe from the idea of flame ; the first emblem of the fupreme principle , introduced Ly the Scythians , and which even the influence of Zoroa- fter and the Magi could not ...
Página 59
... half the foot is three inches and a half longer than the head , or precifely the fixth part of the length of the whole ftatue . PRACTICE OF SCULPTURE . modern ar WE have been thus minute in our account of the Grecian Grecian fculpture ...
... half the foot is three inches and a half longer than the head , or precifely the fixth part of the length of the whole ftatue . PRACTICE OF SCULPTURE . modern ar WE have been thus minute in our account of the Grecian Grecian fculpture ...
Página 63
... half the usual time was found to be faved , and the wonted fatigue and labour were much diminished . The corn was cut without receiving any injurious fhock , falling in an even and regular state , by which means it was afterwards bound ...
... half the usual time was found to be faved , and the wonted fatigue and labour were much diminished . The corn was cut without receiving any injurious fhock , falling in an even and regular state , by which means it was afterwards bound ...
Página 112
... half , third , or fourth part of AB ; DE will be a half , third , or fourth part of CB : and the fame holds of all the reft . If , therefore , AD be the chord , fine , or tangent , of any number of degrees to the radius AB ; DE will be ...
... half , third , or fourth part of AB ; DE will be a half , third , or fourth part of CB : and the fame holds of all the reft . If , therefore , AD be the chord , fine , or tangent , of any number of degrees to the radius AB ; DE will be ...
Página 113
... half degrees . The line of fecants from o to 10 is to be eftimated by the eye ; from 20 to 50 , it is divided to every two degrees ; from 50 to 60 , to every degree ; from 6 to the end , to every half degree . parts . Ufe of the Line of ...
... half degrees . The line of fecants from o to 10 is to be eftimated by the eye ; from 20 to 50 , it is divided to every two degrees ; from 50 to 60 , to every degree ; from 6 to the end , to every half degree . parts . Ufe of the Line of ...
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Página 209 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play or from the tale would be equally deceived.
Página 159 - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
Página 209 - ... trials to which it cannot be exposed. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of his delirious...
Página 5 - I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 210 - Rowe seems to have thought very little on correction or explanation ; but that our author's works might appear like those of his fraternity, with the appendages of a life and recommendatory preface. Rowe has been clamorously blamed for not performing what he did not undertake ; and it is time that...
Página 3 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Página 4 - God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise, and his brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Página 356 - The silk-worm, when at its full size, is from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length, and about half an inch in circumference.
Página 131 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 131 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.