The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volumen10Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... English gentleman , without geography , cannot well understand a gazette . Locke . One cannot hear a name mentioned in it that does not bring to mind a piece of the gazette . Addison . All , all but truth , falls dead - born from the ...
... English gentleman , without geography , cannot well understand a gazette . Locke . One cannot hear a name mentioned in it that does not bring to mind a piece of the gazette . Addison . All , all but truth , falls dead - born from the ...
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... English translators ren- der it by hell and hell - fire , and so do the trans- lators of Mons and Father Bouhours . In the valley of Hinnom , near Jerusalem , there was a place named Tophet , where the idolatrous Jews sacrificed their ...
... English translators ren- der it by hell and hell - fire , and so do the trans- lators of Mons and Father Bouhours . In the valley of Hinnom , near Jerusalem , there was a place named Tophet , where the idolatrous Jews sacrificed their ...
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... English and Dutch made vigorous exertions to open a passage through the icy barriers of that ocean ; and discovered Nova Zembla , the strait of Waygatz , and Spitzbergen . Russian travellers also pene- trated to Okhotzk , on the eastern ...
... English and Dutch made vigorous exertions to open a passage through the icy barriers of that ocean ; and discovered Nova Zembla , the strait of Waygatz , and Spitzbergen . Russian travellers also pene- trated to Okhotzk , on the eastern ...
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... English , particularly in their sea charts ; it is also frequently designated by its ancient name of the German Ocean . 3. The Baltic , which communicates with the British Sea by the Sca- gerack and Cattegat , the former of which may be ...
... English , particularly in their sea charts ; it is also frequently designated by its ancient name of the German Ocean . 3. The Baltic , which communicates with the British Sea by the Sca- gerack and Cattegat , the former of which may be ...
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... English measure . This de- termination also agrees nearly with the results from the combination of a great number of ex- periments , made at different places of the earth , upon the pendulum . Because the measure of a degree at the ...
... English measure . This de- termination also agrees nearly with the results from the combination of a great number of ex- periments , made at different places of the earth , upon the pendulum . Because the measure of a degree at the ...
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Página 156 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 331 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Página 32 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Página 22 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Página 341 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Página 376 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Página 174 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 330 - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
Página 34 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Página 124 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.