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 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... common to all , and appropriated as a place for assembling to consult about the most important affairs of the nation . Argyrus alone was neglected in this division ; but he , having gained the favor of the emperor by expelling Maniacus ...
... common to all , and appropriated as a place for assembling to consult about the most important affairs of the nation . Argyrus alone was neglected in this division ; but he , having gained the favor of the emperor by expelling Maniacus ...
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... common opinion respecting the in- fluence of the Northern invasions upon the language of those countries by inoculating it with barbarous idioms . Robert of Anjou was the friend and patron of learning in the fourteenth century . During ...
... common opinion respecting the in- fluence of the Northern invasions upon the language of those countries by inoculating it with barbarous idioms . Robert of Anjou was the friend and patron of learning in the fourteenth century . During ...
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... common to excite either much wonder or deep indignation , as society is at present constituted . Yet few men have gone to such length in im- pious extravagance as this man of destiny . It was not enough for him to boast of his triumph ...
... common to excite either much wonder or deep indignation , as society is at present constituted . Yet few men have gone to such length in im- pious extravagance as this man of destiny . It was not enough for him to boast of his triumph ...
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... common disorders Died from the pestilential fever 1689 Total .. 8915 Feeling no doubt the rashness of his eastern enterprise , his troops baffled , himself little better than a prisoner , and in danger of falling the vic- tim of the ...
... common disorders Died from the pestilential fever 1689 Total .. 8915 Feeling no doubt the rashness of his eastern enterprise , his troops baffled , himself little better than a prisoner , and in danger of falling the vic- tim of the ...
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... common - place means of power , although the unprecedented times in which he lived re- quired a system which should combine untried resources , and touch new springs of action . Be . cause old governments had found a convenient prop in ...
... common - place means of power , although the unprecedented times in which he lived re- quired a system which should combine untried resources , and touch new springs of action . Be . cause old governments had found a convenient prop in ...
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Seite 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Seite 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Seite 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Seite 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Seite 417 - 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 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Seite 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Seite 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Seite 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Seite 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.