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 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 388
... according to some , challenged him at the same time to decide the matter by single combat : but Peter deter- mined to employ more effectual means in sup- port of his pretensions ; and therefore pushed on his operations most vigorously ...
... according to some , challenged him at the same time to decide the matter by single combat : but Peter deter- mined to employ more effectual means in sup- port of his pretensions ; and therefore pushed on his operations most vigorously ...
Page 391
... According to some writers , if they are not positively a numerical majority of the Neapolitan nation , they include amongst them that portion of it which has the most decisive influence in political action . In the two extremes of ...
... According to some writers , if they are not positively a numerical majority of the Neapolitan nation , they include amongst them that portion of it which has the most decisive influence in political action . In the two extremes of ...
Page 401
... according to a recent estimate it must have been a most gloomy and incommo- of 155,000 males , and 175,000 females . The dious one , before the elegant improvements Lazzaroni , without either dwellings or regular oc- made in it by its ...
... according to a recent estimate it must have been a most gloomy and incommo- of 155,000 males , and 175,000 females . The dious one , before the elegant improvements Lazzaroni , without either dwellings or regular oc- made in it by its ...
Page 421
... according to what he wrote to the directory , erected a battery of twenty - four guns and mortars , which kept up a constant fire for seventy hours , razed the houses of Dgezzar level with the ground , and destroyed the principal ...
... according to what he wrote to the directory , erected a battery of twenty - four guns and mortars , which kept up a constant fire for seventy hours , razed the houses of Dgezzar level with the ground , and destroyed the principal ...
Page 440
... according to written laws and prece dents , as if he was a private citizen in a quiet court of justice , is just as rational as to require a man , in imminent peril from an assassin , to wait and prosecute his murderer according to the ...
... according to written laws and prece dents , as if he was a private citizen in a quiet court of justice , is just as rational as to require a man , in imminent peril from an assassin , to wait and prosecute his murderer according to the ...
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Page 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Page 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Page 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Page 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Page 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Page 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Page 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.