Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 23John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... most fubtle and moveable part of matter . The fecond confifted of those little globules that were formed by the rubbing off of the firft . The interftices be- twixt these globules of the fecond element were filled up by the particles of ...
... most fubtle and moveable part of matter . The fecond confifted of those little globules that were formed by the rubbing off of the firft . The interftices be- twixt these globules of the fecond element were filled up by the particles of ...
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... most places the foil is fruitful , but in fome fandy , or what is called turf ground , and in others over - run with wood . It is watered by the Leck , Rhine , Vecht , and other fmaller rivers , befides feveral canals ; of which that ...
... most places the foil is fruitful , but in fome fandy , or what is called turf ground , and in others over - run with wood . It is watered by the Leck , Rhine , Vecht , and other fmaller rivers , befides feveral canals ; of which that ...
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... Most fure , and vulgar ; every one hears that . Shak . ( 2. ) VULGAR . n . f . [ vulgaire , Fr. ] The common people . Drive away the vulgar from the streets . Shak . - The affrighted vulgar . K. Cha . -They have conftantly differed from ...
... Most fure , and vulgar ; every one hears that . Shak . ( 2. ) VULGAR . n . f . [ vulgaire , Fr. ] The common people . Drive away the vulgar from the streets . Shak . - The affrighted vulgar . K. Cha . -They have conftantly differed from ...
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... most beautiful , and roman- tic lake in Switzerland , extending from Lu- cerne to Altdorf , 20 miles long . The figure is ir regular . It is furrounded with mountains which exhibit the most variegated scenery . The REUSS runs through it ...
... most beautiful , and roman- tic lake in Switzerland , extending from Lu- cerne to Altdorf , 20 miles long . The figure is ir regular . It is furrounded with mountains which exhibit the most variegated scenery . The REUSS runs through it ...
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... most neceffary and useful of all the sciences : the various kinds of knowledge which ought to furnith the mind of a foldier are not without great difficulty to be attained . Of moft other fciences the principles are fixed , or at leaft ...
... most neceffary and useful of all the sciences : the various kinds of knowledge which ought to furnith the mind of a foldier are not without great difficulty to be attained . Of moft other fciences the principles are fixed , or at leaft ...
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Popular passages
Page 210 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 288 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 334 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 355 - Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God, methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 267 - Macbeth doth come. ALL. The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about : Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.
Page 179 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 134 - This may be grounded on a special permission ; as when the owner of the land grants to another a liberty of passing over his grounds, to go to church, to market, or the like : in which case the gift or grant is particular, and confined to the grantee alone...
Page 220 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 321 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 237 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.