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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... matter it contains , both for sugar and for alkohol . It has not saccharine matter enough to render it ever an article that can vie even with the beet - root , much more with the sugar - cane ; but it may be worked up , perhaps , with ...
... matter it contains , both for sugar and for alkohol . It has not saccharine matter enough to render it ever an article that can vie even with the beet - root , much more with the sugar - cane ; but it may be worked up , perhaps , with ...
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... matter , this ATOM is dedicated and devoted , with all possible gratitude , humilia- tion , and worship , and the highest adoration both of body and mind , by his most resigned , low , and humble creature , G. E. " DEDICATOR . s ...
... matter , this ATOM is dedicated and devoted , with all possible gratitude , humilia- tion , and worship , and the highest adoration both of body and mind , by his most resigned , low , and humble creature , G. E. " DEDICATOR . s ...
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... matter to be contracted for ; 2. A good and sufficient consideration ; 3. Writing on parchment , or paper , duly stamped ; 4. Sufficient and legal words , properly disposed ; 5. Reading ( if it be desired ) before execution ; 6. By stat ...
... matter to be contracted for ; 2. A good and sufficient consideration ; 3. Writing on parchment , or paper , duly stamped ; 4. Sufficient and legal words , properly disposed ; 5. Reading ( if it be desired ) before execution ; 6. By stat ...
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... matter , and inversely as the magnitude of the body . Since it may be shewn experimentally that the quantity of matter in different bodies is pro- portional to their weight , of consequence , the density of any body is directly as its ...
... matter , and inversely as the magnitude of the body . Since it may be shewn experimentally that the quantity of matter in different bodies is pro- portional to their weight , of consequence , the density of any body is directly as its ...
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... matter or fault , in facet , or in law . It is of two kinds ; a beneficio , and ab officio . DEPRIVATION A BENEFICIO , is when for some great crime a minister is wholly and for ever deprived of his living or preferment ; which differs ...
... matter or fault , in facet , or in law . It is of two kinds ; a beneficio , and ab officio . DEPRIVATION A BENEFICIO , is when for some great crime a minister is wholly and for ever deprived of his living or preferment ; which differs ...
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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...