Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 41819 |
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... centre of the county to the sea .. It contains about 80,000 acres , and is watered by the river Dart . Many sheep are bred here , but of a small kind , and subject to the rot . The chief riches of the inhabitants are their black cattle ...
... centre of the county to the sea .. It contains about 80,000 acres , and is watered by the river Dart . Many sheep are bred here , but of a small kind , and subject to the rot . The chief riches of the inhabitants are their black cattle ...
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... centre abortive , fruit muricate . Six species - all exotics , and natives of the South of Europe , except D. carota , or common carrot , which is in- digenous to our own pastures , with bristly seeds ; and peticles nerved underneath ...
... centre abortive , fruit muricate . Six species - all exotics , and natives of the South of Europe , except D. carota , or common carrot , which is in- digenous to our own pastures , with bristly seeds ; and peticles nerved underneath ...
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... centre is on the meridian , and is counted twenty - four hours to the following noon . The astronomical day , or the interval of time between two successive transits of the sun's centre over the same meridian , is called , likewise , a ...
... centre is on the meridian , and is counted twenty - four hours to the following noon . The astronomical day , or the interval of time between two successive transits of the sun's centre over the same meridian , is called , likewise , a ...
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... centres , round which the numbers indi- cating the quantities of variation insensibly de- creased in proportion as we departed from each centre ; so that we have here a new order of observations , answering to the places where the ...
... centres , round which the numbers indi- cating the quantities of variation insensibly de- creased in proportion as we departed from each centre ; so that we have here a new order of observations , answering to the places where the ...
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... centre C turns a vertical quadrant DFE , divided into 90 ° , beginning from the base E ; on which is a moveable in- dex CF , with a small hole at F for the sun's rays to pass through , and form a spot on a mark at C. The lower extremity ...
... centre C turns a vertical quadrant DFE , divided into 90 ° , beginning from the base E ; on which is a moveable in- dex CF , with a small hole at F for the sun's rays to pass through , and form a spot on a mark at C. The lower extremity ...
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Page 9 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page 10 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 1 - Corneille, they have very generally received, by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet, than pleasure to the auditor. The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible.
Page 7 - The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property, in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If these persons had votes, they would be tempted to dispose of them under some undue influence or other. This would give a great, an artful, or a wealthy man, a larger share in elections than is consistent with general liberty.
Page 6 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Page 1 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players. They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation.
Page 4 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 7 - ... those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life. But, since that can hardly be expected in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications; whereby some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting, in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with...
Page 1 - ... while ambassadors go and return between distant kings, while armies are levied and towns besieged, while an exile wanders and returns, or till he whom they saw courting his mistress shall lament the untimely fall of his son. The mind revolts from evident falsehood, and fiction loses its force when it departs from the resemblance of reality.
Page 1 - From the narrow limitation of time necessarily arises the contraction of place. The spectator who knows that he saw the first act at Alexandria cannot suppose that he...