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 4Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... lives single and chaste ; but if she is guilty of incontinency , she shall forfeit her estate ; never- theless , upon her coming into the court of the manor , riding on a black ram , and having his tail in her hand , and at the same ...
... lives single and chaste ; but if she is guilty of incontinency , she shall forfeit her estate ; never- theless , upon her coming into the court of the manor , riding on a black ram , and having his tail in her hand , and at the same ...
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... live in the world , and are not engaged in any monastic order . All benefices are reputed secular , till the contrary is made to appear . They are called secular benefices , because held by seculars ; of which kind are almost all cures ...
... live in the world , and are not engaged in any monastic order . All benefices are reputed secular , till the contrary is made to appear . They are called secular benefices , because held by seculars ; of which kind are almost all cures ...
Side 25
... live mostly on animal food . The Hindoo distinctions of caste are not known . 5. Hooghly district , situated principally be tween the twenty - second and twenty - third de- grees of latitude , and extending along both sides of the river ...
... live mostly on animal food . The Hindoo distinctions of caste are not known . 5. Hooghly district , situated principally be tween the twenty - second and twenty - third de- grees of latitude , and extending along both sides of the river ...
Side 28
... live by robbing and plundering . The natives , in general , are unhealthy , and numbers die in their infancy . Prostitution is extremely common , and is carried on by a regularly organised society , which is the less surprising as the ...
... live by robbing and plundering . The natives , in general , are unhealthy , and numbers die in their infancy . Prostitution is extremely common , and is carried on by a regularly organised society , which is the less surprising as the ...
Side 30
... lives upon rice , like its parents , requires no care , goes naked for two or three years , and enjoys the best of health . Polygamy , prostitution , religious austerity , and the circumstance of young widows not marrying a second time ...
... lives upon rice , like its parents , requires no care , goes naked for two or three years , and enjoys the best of health . Polygamy , prostitution , religious austerity , and the circumstance of young widows not marrying a second time ...
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Side 297 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Side 373 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Side 82 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Side 254 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Side 270 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Side 184 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Side 2 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Side 244 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Side 227 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Side 280 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.