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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... never ufe to be voluntary dictates . Hooker . Thoughts which voluntary move . Milton . ( 2 . ) * VOLUNTARY . . s . [ from the adjective . ] 1. A volunteer ; one who engages in any affair of his own accord . - Rash , inconfiderate ...
... never ufe to be voluntary dictates . Hooker . Thoughts which voluntary move . Milton . ( 2 . ) * VOLUNTARY . . s . [ from the adjective . ] 1. A volunteer ; one who engages in any affair of his own accord . - Rash , inconfiderate ...
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... never attacks mankind unlefs when provoked , or in defence of its young . It fometimes bites the natives of Kamtfchatka when asleep , but never devours them . 2. URSUS ARCTOS , the COMMON BEAR , has ftrong , thick , and clumfy limbs ; a ...
... never attacks mankind unlefs when provoked , or in defence of its young . It fometimes bites the natives of Kamtfchatka when asleep , but never devours them . 2. URSUS ARCTOS , the COMMON BEAR , has ftrong , thick , and clumfy limbs ; a ...
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... never foot did ufe . Spenfer . Snakes that ufe within the house for fhade . May . brooks . Ye vallies low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and wanton winds , and guthing Milton . ( 1. ) USEDOM , an island of Pomerania , at the ...
... never foot did ufe . Spenfer . Snakes that ufe within the house for fhade . May . brooks . Ye vallies low , where the mild whispers use Of shades , and wanton winds , and guthing Milton . ( 1. ) USEDOM , an island of Pomerania , at the ...
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... never backwards . Dr Solander has feen one of thefe birds take up a fake , fmall tortoise , or fuch like , in its claws ; when dafhing it from thence againft the ground with great violence , if the victim was not killed at firft , it ...
... never backwards . Dr Solander has feen one of thefe birds take up a fake , fmall tortoise , or fuch like , in its claws ; when dafhing it from thence againft the ground with great violence , if the victim was not killed at firft , it ...
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... never have them . If the goods are hid by the thief , or left anywhere by him , fo that he had not them a- bout him when he fled , and therefore did not throw them away in his flight ; these also are not bona waviata , but the owner may ...
... never have them . If the goods are hid by the thief , or left anywhere by him , fo that he had not them a- bout him when he fled , and therefore did not throw them away in his flight ; these also are not bona waviata , but the owner may ...
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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.