The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 22Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... pass it over without notice , andy ommend other dishes , that they may no Last & wird CONDITIONS OR PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - five Parts , or half Volumes , royal 8vo . price 8s . ia hede each Part ...
... pass it over without notice , andy ommend other dishes , that they may no Last & wird CONDITIONS OR PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - five Parts , or half Volumes , royal 8vo . price 8s . ia hede each Part ...
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... pass it without notice , to examine it without pleasure , or , we may add , to peruse it without instruc- tion and delight . Externally and internally , it is a most engaging volume ; and we hope it will meet with such success as to ...
... pass it without notice , to examine it without pleasure , or , we may add , to peruse it without instruc- tion and delight . Externally and internally , it is a most engaging volume ; and we hope it will meet with such success as to ...
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... pass on to the next beautiful group , The Lioness and her Cubs . The faces of the children so much indulged , and yet , apparently , so well educated , particularly the wily expression of the little rogue who has climbed on his mother's ...
... pass on to the next beautiful group , The Lioness and her Cubs . The faces of the children so much indulged , and yet , apparently , so well educated , particularly the wily expression of the little rogue who has climbed on his mother's ...
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... passes over the bog spavin , and often accompanies that disease . The remedy employed by farriers is to make an incision in the skin , and pass some thread , by means of a crooked needle , under the vein below the dilated part . In one ...
... passes over the bog spavin , and often accompanies that disease . The remedy employed by farriers is to make an incision in the skin , and pass some thread , by means of a crooked needle , under the vein below the dilated part . In one ...
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... pass back immediately . When this is performed , close the wound , and apply such compress and bandage as will ... passes his urine and dung involuntarily . After a few minutes he recovers his senses , and appears as well as before the ...
... pass back immediately . When this is performed , close the wound , and apply such compress and bandage as will ... passes his urine and dung involuntarily . After a few minutes he recovers his senses , and appears as well as before the ...
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Page 524 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 442 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 536 - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 421 - Good, t' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian if need were To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 393 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Page 524 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 566 - In all time of our tribulation ; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 567 - O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 396 - These villeins, belonging principally to lords of manors were either villeins regardant, that is, annexed to the manor or land: or else they were in gross, or at large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another.
Page 633 - Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that 'which we all see and know ; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments...