The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Del 2,Bind 16Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Side 370
... ground . The body was covered first with a mat , and then with white cloth ; by the side of it lay a wooden mace , one of their weapons of war ; and near the head of it , which lay next to the close end of the shed , lay two cocoa - nut ...
... ground . The body was covered first with a mat , and then with white cloth ; by the side of it lay a wooden mace , one of their weapons of war ; and near the head of it , which lay next to the close end of the shed , lay two cocoa - nut ...
Side 379
... ground warm . Bacon's Natural History . Suppose thyself in as great a sadness as ever did load thy spirit , would'st thou not bear it cheerfully if thou wert sure that some excellent fortune would relieve and recompense thee so as to ...
... ground warm . Bacon's Natural History . Suppose thyself in as great a sadness as ever did load thy spirit , would'st thou not bear it cheerfully if thou wert sure that some excellent fortune would relieve and recompense thee so as to ...
Side 384
... ground is covered with snow , are wont to complain of too much light . Boyle . After the death of Crassus , Pompey found himself outwitted by Cæsar ; he broke with him , over- powered him in the senate , and caused many unjust decrees ...
... ground is covered with snow , are wont to complain of too much light . Boyle . After the death of Crassus , Pompey found himself outwitted by Cæsar ; he broke with him , over- powered him in the senate , and caused many unjust decrees ...
Side 394
... ground , where thyme and sheep's fescue grass abound , are the best for the pasturing sheep . Sheep are subject to many diseases : some arising from insects which deposit their eggs in different parts of the animal : others are caused ...
... ground , where thyme and sheep's fescue grass abound , are the best for the pasturing sheep . Sheep are subject to many diseases : some arising from insects which deposit their eggs in different parts of the animal : others are caused ...
Side 403
... ground ; The hollow tower with clamours rings around . Id . Virgil , more discreet than Homer , has contented himself with the partiality of his deities , without bringing them to the outragiousness of blows . Id . Let lust burn never ...
... ground ; The hollow tower with clamours rings around . Id . Virgil , more discreet than Homer , has contented himself with the partiality of his deities , without bringing them to the outragiousness of blows . Id . Let lust burn never ...
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Side 397 - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; " An honest man's the noblest work of God ;" And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia, my dear, my native soil!
Side 405 - Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man : And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.
Side 607 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Side 370 - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wanting beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
Side 515 - Fortescue, in the name of his brethren, declared, " that they ought not to make answer to that question : for it hath not been used aforetime that the justices should in any wise determine the privileges of the high court of parliament. For it is so high and mighty in its nature, that it may make law : and that which is law, it may make no law: and the determination and knowledge of that privilege belongs to the lords of parliament, and not to the justices.
Side 412 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Side 629 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold !
Side 515 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Side 440 - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Side 509 - ... threw every thing they had in the canoe into the river, and kept firing ; but being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men, and jumped into the water ; Martyn did the same, and they were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape.