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, Volumen20Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... according to the nature of it , and the particular kind of work to be done , and regulate himself by trial , as is common in using gum ; or reduce the substitute , by boiling in water to the consistence wanted . ' SENECAI , or SENECE ...
... according to the nature of it , and the particular kind of work to be done , and regulate himself by trial , as is common in using gum ; or reduce the substitute , by boiling in water to the consistence wanted . ' SENECAI , or SENECE ...
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... According to some the Niger , after passing Tombuctoo , continued to flow westward , till it discharged itself into the Atlantic : others asserted that the river passing Tombuctoo flowed eastward , and had no communication with the ...
... According to some the Niger , after passing Tombuctoo , continued to flow westward , till it discharged itself into the Atlantic : others asserted that the river passing Tombuctoo flowed eastward , and had no communication with the ...
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... According to the same traveller , Tenda Maie is a small country enclosed by a bend of the Rio Grande , west of Foota Jallo , not yet mentioned by any geographer . It is a flat fertile tract , though in some places sandy . The rains do ...
... According to the same traveller , Tenda Maie is a small country enclosed by a bend of the Rio Grande , west of Foota Jallo , not yet mentioned by any geographer . It is a flat fertile tract , though in some places sandy . The rains do ...
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... according to the rules and articles of war . A sentinel , on his post in the night , is not to know any body , but by the countersign ; when he challenges , and is answered , relief , he calls out stand , relief ; advance corporal ...
... according to the rules and articles of war . A sentinel , on his post in the night , is not to know any body , but by the countersign ; when he challenges , and is answered , relief , he calls out stand , relief ; advance corporal ...
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... according to a passage in Athenæus , lib . v . , no less than 10,000 talents on the furniture of one tent ; which is six times more than what was spent in the whole of the embassy and translation , which amounted only to 1552 talents ...
... according to a passage in Athenæus , lib . v . , no less than 10,000 talents on the furniture of one tent ; which is six times more than what was spent in the whole of the embassy and translation , which amounted only to 1552 talents ...
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Página 167 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Página 136 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Página 135 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 135 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it.
Página 409 - 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.
Página 416 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors ! — for so you are, That -war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires...
Página 58 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Página 426 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Página 136 - ... field, and sometimes among the manufactures of the shop. There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were...
Página 58 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.