A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 16Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... OBSERVATORY , Swift . Obsequious , artful , voluble , and gay , On Britain's fond credulity they play , All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows , And bid him go to hell , to hell he goes . Johnson . Fr. observer ; Lat . observo . To ...
... OBSERVATORY , Swift . Obsequious , artful , voluble , and gay , On Britain's fond credulity they play , All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows , And bid him go to hell , to hell he goes . Johnson . Fr. observer ; Lat . observo . To ...
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... observatory was built more than 300 years before the Chris- tian era , and continued in repute for upwards of five centuries . ORIENTAL OBSERVATORIES . The oriental vestiges of ancient observatories are well collect- ed in Bailly's ...
... observatory was built more than 300 years before the Chris- tian era , and continued in repute for upwards of five centuries . ORIENTAL OBSERVATORIES . The oriental vestiges of ancient observatories are well collect- ed in Bailly's ...
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... observatory , such as had been formerly erected at Samercand , agreeably to the Mussulman books . ' ' Thus an accurate method , ' it continues , of constructing an observatory was established ; and the differ- ence which had existed ...
... observatory , such as had been formerly erected at Samercand , agreeably to the Mussulman books . ' ' Thus an accurate method , ' it continues , of constructing an observatory was established ; and the differ- ence which had existed ...
Page 89
... observatories we shall describe in alphabetical order , with the excep- tion of those of our own country , which will close the article . Avignon . Here an observatory was built by father Bonfa , so early as 1683 , and it has been ...
... observatories we shall describe in alphabetical order , with the excep- tion of those of our own country , which will close the article . Avignon . Here an observatory was built by father Bonfa , so early as 1683 , and it has been ...
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... observatory in 1788 . At Lilienthal , near Bremen , is a well - furnished observatory , which was long under the direction of M. Schroeter , who has made many valuable observations on the phases of the moon and planets . Lisbon observatory ...
... observatory in 1788 . At Lilienthal , near Bremen , is a well - furnished observatory , which was long under the direction of M. Schroeter , who has made many valuable observations on the phases of the moon and planets . Lisbon observatory ...
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Page 430 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Page 407 - Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man : And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.
Page 188 - Heaven reserv'd in pity to the poor, No pathless waste or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaimed by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore And bear oppression's insolence no more.
Page 377 - Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-house, asked him for a shilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away, bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful.
Page 430 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband : else were your children unclean ; but now are they holy.
Page 72 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 166 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart; this is he which received seed by the way side.
Page 75 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these...
Page 181 - I think we may as rationally hope to see with other men's eyes, as to know by other men's understandings. So much as we ourselves consider and comprehend of truth and reason, so much we possess of real and true knowledge. The floating of other men's opinions in our brains makes us not one jot the more knowing, though they happen to be true.
Page 99 - twas a pleasing fear; For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as I do here.