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, Band 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... leaves are not more than one - twelfth of an inch long , lanceolate and acute , of a whitish green color ; and so thinly set that the red stalk appears be- tween them . This moss , as it may be seen at a considerable distance , is a ...
... leaves are not more than one - twelfth of an inch long , lanceolate and acute , of a whitish green color ; and so thinly set that the red stalk appears be- tween them . This moss , as it may be seen at a considerable distance , is a ...
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... leaves about five inches long and two broad . The fruit grows in clusters , and is gathered when of a deep red . Before 1803 nearly the whole quan- tity was conveyed from Mocha to Jidda , whence it was conveyed to Alexandria ...
... leaves about five inches long and two broad . The fruit grows in clusters , and is gathered when of a deep red . Before 1803 nearly the whole quan- tity was conveyed from Mocha to Jidda , whence it was conveyed to Alexandria ...
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... leaves the land level . and would be of very great advantage to the in one day as a common laborer can in eight , kingdom if brought into general use . observed , that , this leaving a naked space in the It is to be place of every hill ...
... leaves the land level . and would be of very great advantage to the in one day as a common laborer can in eight , kingdom if brought into general use . observed , that , this leaving a naked space in the It is to be place of every hill ...
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... leaves , colored on their insides , and per- manent ; the flower has five oval petals shorter than the empalement , and three bristly stamina , which stand near the style , terminated by single summits ; it has an oval germen , having ...
... leaves , colored on their insides , and per- manent ; the flower has five oval petals shorter than the empalement , and three bristly stamina , which stand near the style , terminated by single summits ; it has an oval germen , having ...
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... leaves like the squill . On the whole , the moly of Homer seems to have been a species of allium or garlic . MOLYBDENUM , in chemistry and metal- lurgy , a metal which is found mineralized by sulphur in the ore called sulphuret of ...
... leaves like the squill . On the whole , the moly of Homer seems to have been a species of allium or garlic . MOLYBDENUM , in chemistry and metal- lurgy , a metal which is found mineralized by sulphur in the ore called sulphuret of ...
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Seite 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...