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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... these celebrities were the causes of thofe comercial marts which we denominate fairs . The people reforted in crowds to the feftival , and a confiderable provifion , would be wanted for their entertainment . The prospect of intereft ...
... these celebrities were the causes of thofe comercial marts which we denominate fairs . The people reforted in crowds to the feftival , and a confiderable provifion , would be wanted for their entertainment . The prospect of intereft ...
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... These addreffes , as well as the re- plies , bear , we think , indifputably the mark of the imperial pen and diction . It was on Sun- day the 20th of December that the mighty and immaculate founder of the fourth dynafty recei- ved the ...
... These addreffes , as well as the re- plies , bear , we think , indifputably the mark of the imperial pen and diction . It was on Sun- day the 20th of December that the mighty and immaculate founder of the fourth dynafty recei- ved the ...
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... These orders have been the object of constant complaint on the part of the American government , though they formed a juft retaliation on the Berlin and Milan decrees , under which Bonaparte feized and confifcated every American fhip ...
... These orders have been the object of constant complaint on the part of the American government , though they formed a juft retaliation on the Berlin and Milan decrees , under which Bonaparte feized and confifcated every American fhip ...
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... these cafes was adapted to that of the hold of the fhip , fome of them being made to fit clofe under the platform , by which means the quantity of water towed was confiderably greater than could have been ftowed , in the fame space , by ...
... these cafes was adapted to that of the hold of the fhip , fome of them being made to fit clofe under the platform , by which means the quantity of water towed was confiderably greater than could have been ftowed , in the fame space , by ...
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... these have already occurred in various articles of this work . In defcribing or treating them , we have tacitly referred the difcuffion of their general principles , in which they all refemble each other , to fome article where they ...
... these have already occurred in various articles of this work . In defcribing or treating them , we have tacitly referred the difcuffion of their general principles , in which they all refemble each other , to fome article where they ...
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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.