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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... whole mass , Arbuthnot . as happens in a perfect solid . SEMILU'NAR , adj . Į SEMILU'NARY . Fr. semilunaire ; Lat . semi and luna . Re- The chains that held my left leg gave me the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semi ...
... whole mass , Arbuthnot . as happens in a perfect solid . SEMILU'NAR , adj . Į SEMILU'NARY . Fr. semilunaire ; Lat . semi and luna . Re- The chains that held my left leg gave me the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semi ...
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... whole legislative and executive rulers of the state , yet could not themselves hold any office in either branch of government . It was one of those political engines invented by Buonaparte and his junto , by which he so rapidly accumu ...
... whole legislative and executive rulers of the state , yet could not themselves hold any office in either branch of government . It was one of those political engines invented by Buonaparte and his junto , by which he so rapidly accumu ...
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... whole melted down together . Another inven- tion is described in the same work , professedly as a substitute for gum , in thickening colors for printing . ' The patent was granted to Blakie of Glasgow , in 1788 , and he describes his ...
... whole melted down together . Another inven- tion is described in the same work , professedly as a substitute for gum , in thickening colors for printing . ' The patent was granted to Blakie of Glasgow , in 1788 , and he describes his ...
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... whole peal of bells , in- cluding the thongs , will sometimes be worth 140 or 150 guilders ; while the whole apparel of the senn himself , when best attired , does not amount to the price of twenty guilders . The finest black cow is ...
... whole peal of bells , in- cluding the thongs , will sometimes be worth 140 or 150 guilders ; while the whole apparel of the senn himself , when best attired , does not amount to the price of twenty guilders . The finest black cow is ...
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... whole house seemed to be in a blaze . 4. S. officinalis , the officinal cuttle , with an ovated body , has fins along the whole of the sides , almost meeting at the bottom ; and two long tentacula . The body contains the bone , the ...
... whole house seemed to be in a blaze . 4. S. officinalis , the officinal cuttle , with an ovated body , has fins along the whole of the sides , almost meeting at the bottom ; and two long tentacula . The body contains the bone , the ...
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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.