The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Teil 2,Band 13Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... taken off . The island affords cotton , and many useful gums and resins , amongst which is the elastic gum , or India rubber ( iatropha elas- tica ) . The island of Madagascar is inhabited by va- rious tribes or castes , whose physical ...
... taken off . The island affords cotton , and many useful gums and resins , amongst which is the elastic gum , or India rubber ( iatropha elas- tica ) . The island of Madagascar is inhabited by va- rious tribes or castes , whose physical ...
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... taken English titles , such as the prince of Wales , duke of York , & c . Morundava Bay , in latitude 20 ° 16 ′ , is some- times visited for refreshments ; it is exposed from north - west to south - west and has several shallow barred ...
... taken English titles , such as the prince of Wales , duke of York , & c . Morundava Bay , in latitude 20 ° 16 ′ , is some- times visited for refreshments ; it is exposed from north - west to south - west and has several shallow barred ...
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... taken tem- porary possession of by a British squadron , but restored at the peace of Amiens . In 1807 , how ever , when the Portuguese government were compelled to emigrate , Britain again occupied the island in trust , and in that ...
... taken tem- porary possession of by a British squadron , but restored at the peace of Amiens . In 1807 , how ever , when the Portuguese government were compelled to emigrate , Britain again occupied the island in trust , and in that ...
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... taken possession of in 1801 , except a small portion assigned to the nabob Azeem al Omrah for his private estate . The countries subject to this presidency , comprehend nearly the whole of India south of the river Kistnah , and the ...
... taken possession of in 1801 , except a small portion assigned to the nabob Azeem al Omrah for his private estate . The countries subject to this presidency , comprehend nearly the whole of India south of the river Kistnah , and the ...
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... taken part in the struggle or not . Three groupes of forty each were successively shot in the Prado - the great public walk of Madrid . Others , in like man- ner , were put to death near the Puerta del Sol , and the Puerta del S ...
... taken part in the struggle or not . Three groupes of forty each were successively shot in the Prado - the great public walk of Madrid . Others , in like man- ner , were put to death near the Puerta del Sol , and the Puerta del S ...
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Seite 486 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Seite 416 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Seite 540 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Seite 657 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Seite 491 - The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently I wished I long believed, And, disappointed still, was still deceived.
Seite 385 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 636 - It is only the effect, which that figure produces upon a mind, whose particular fabric or structure renders it susceptible of such sentiments. In vain would you look for it in the circle, or seek it, either by your senses, or by- mathematical reasonings, in all the properties of that figure.
Seite 544 - For the canon law, which the common law follows in this case, deems so highly and with such mysterious reverence of the nuptial tie, that it will not allow it to be unloosed for any cause whatsoever, that arises after the union is made.
Seite 435 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Seite 542 - Now these disabilities are of two sorts: first, such as are canonical, and therefore sufficient by the ecclesiastical laws to avoid the marriage in the spiritual court; but these in our law only make the marriage voidable, and not ipso facto void, until sentence of nullity be obtained.