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, Bind 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 95
Side 8
... mode of reducing a town is to storm it by cavalry . The garrison con- sists of about 200 musqueteers , and eighty horse . The staple of Mocha is coffee , of which this part of Arabia has the most excellent in the world . It is here a ...
... mode of reducing a town is to storm it by cavalry . The garrison con- sists of about 200 musqueteers , and eighty horse . The staple of Mocha is coffee , of which this part of Arabia has the most excellent in the world . It is here a ...
Side 9
... MODE , n . s . Fr. mode , modale ; Ital . MO'DAL , adj . modo ; Lat . modus , modalis . MODALITY , n . s . ) Form ; fashion ; custom ; manner ; way ; outward variety ; degree ; gra- dation ; state as to outward things : modal is ...
... MODE , n . s . Fr. mode , modale ; Ital . MO'DAL , adj . modo ; Lat . modus , modalis . MODALITY , n . s . ) Form ; fashion ; custom ; manner ; way ; outward variety ; degree ; gra- dation ; state as to outward things : modal is ...
Side 10
... mode to be called a being in the same perfect sense as a substance is , and some modes have evidently more of real entity than others . Though wrong the mode , comply ; more sense is shewn In wearing others follies than your own . MODE ...
... mode to be called a being in the same perfect sense as a substance is , and some modes have evidently more of real entity than others . Though wrong the mode , comply ; more sense is shewn In wearing others follies than your own . MODE ...
Side 11
... mode , music may be composed in twenty - four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even thirty- four possible modes ; but in practice ten are ex- cluded ; which , when thoroughly examined , are nothing but a ...
... mode , music may be composed in twenty - four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even thirty- four possible modes ; but in practice ten are ex- cluded ; which , when thoroughly examined , are nothing but a ...
Side 14
... mode or right manner : chaste ; becoming ; mo- derate ; not forward , impudent , or presuming : modesty is opposed , therefore , both to arrogance and looseness , or licentiousness of behaviour : modesty - piece is defined in the ...
... mode or right manner : chaste ; becoming ; mo- derate ; not forward , impudent , or presuming : modesty is opposed , therefore , both to arrogance and looseness , or licentiousness of behaviour : modesty - piece is defined in the ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
acid afterwards ancient animals appears army barrel beautiful body born Buonaparte Calabria called celebrated chiefly church color composed considerable consists contains council of ancients death Dryden Egypt Egyptian emperor employed Epicurus feet female fifth France French fruit Greeks ground harmony head houses inches inhabitants iron island Italy Jenghiz Khan Julius Cæsar kind king land length major sixth manner ment miles minor minor seventh minor third Mithras mode molosses moral motion mould mountains mouth muriate muriatic acid mussel nails Naples nature octave Osiris Paris perfect perfect fifth person philosophy piece plants Pope prince principles produced province quantity reign river Roman Rome salt Saracens says Shakspeare shell Sicily side sounds species tail taste tetrachords thing tion town trees virtue whole
Populære passager
Side 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Side 172 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Side 61 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Side 129 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Side 38 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Side 107 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
Side 220 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Side 419 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Side 136 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Side 79 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...