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 20Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... Egypt . Thus ended the dominion of the Mamelukes in Egypt , which had continued for more than 260 years . See EGYPT . He confirmed the ancient privileges of the Venetians in Egypt and Syria , by which they carried on their commerce with ...
... Egypt . Thus ended the dominion of the Mamelukes in Egypt , which had continued for more than 260 years . See EGYPT . He confirmed the ancient privileges of the Venetians in Egypt and Syria , by which they carried on their commerce with ...
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... Egypt , unto Poti- phar . Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites . Genesis . Id . xxxvii . 27 . Consult not with a buyer of selling . Eccles . xxxvii . 11 . You would have sold your king to slaughter , His princes and his peers to servitude ...
... Egypt , unto Poti- phar . Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites . Genesis . Id . xxxvii . 27 . Consult not with a buyer of selling . Eccles . xxxvii . 11 . You would have sold your king to slaughter , His princes and his peers to servitude ...
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... Egypt and the Nile . But this , though agreeable to his own humor , did not at all correspond with that plan of life which his father had intended for him ; who therefore forced him to the bar , and the solicita- tion of public ...
... Egypt and the Nile . But this , though agreeable to his own humor , did not at all correspond with that plan of life which his father had intended for him ; who therefore forced him to the bar , and the solicita- tion of public ...
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... Egypt . Very malleable iron also abounds in this mountainous country , but want of skill in the working renders the quantity obtained comparatively small . Some parts of Bambouk are excessively hot ; yet the mountainous nature of the ...
... Egypt . Very malleable iron also abounds in this mountainous country , but want of skill in the working renders the quantity obtained comparatively small . Some parts of Bambouk are excessively hot ; yet the mountainous nature of the ...
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... Egypt , to Souakin , on the shores of the Red Sea , to Darfur , and other places in the interior . Com- merce is indeed the very life of society , and there is not a single family which is not more or less connected with some branch of ...
... Egypt , to Souakin , on the shores of the Red Sea , to Darfur , and other places in the interior . Com- merce is indeed the very life of society , and there is not a single family which is not more or less connected with some branch of ...
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Page 167 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 136 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Page 135 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Page 135 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it.
Page 409 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 416 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors ! — for so you are, That -war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires...
Page 58 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Page 426 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Page 136 - ... field, and sometimes among the manufactures of the shop. There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were...
Page 58 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.