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, Том 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... says , is at that time very pure and agreeable . At another time he observed a double range of co- lors round his shadow . The colors of the outer- most range were broad and very distinct , and every where about two feet distant from ...
... says , is at that time very pure and agreeable . At another time he observed a double range of co- lors round his shadow . The colors of the outer- most range were broad and very distinct , and every where about two feet distant from ...
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... says he , a sphere of glass or crystal , full of water , be placed in the beams of the sun , there will not only be two circles of colored light on the side next the sun , and which constitute the two rainbows ; but there will also be ...
... says he , a sphere of glass or crystal , full of water , be placed in the beams of the sun , there will not only be two circles of colored light on the side next the sun , and which constitute the two rainbows ; but there will also be ...
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... says , bays , cali- mancoes , & c . There is a free school for forty boys , and a very antique Bridewell . Its ... say the halter was a lump of lead or stone , with a hole or handle fixed to it , by which it might be carried . Hier ...
... says , bays , cali- mancoes , & c . There is a free school for forty boys , and a very antique Bridewell . Its ... say the halter was a lump of lead or stone , with a hole or handle fixed to it , by which it might be carried . Hier ...
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... says Dr. Willich , are a very strong food , which is not easily digested . If eaten in proper time , and in small quantities , they may be a cordial to some vigorous stomachs , especially in the morning , as a substitute for the ...
... says Dr. Willich , are a very strong food , which is not easily digested . If eaten in proper time , and in small quantities , they may be a cordial to some vigorous stomachs , especially in the morning , as a substitute for the ...
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... says , the hundreds are fifty - two . There is one city , Winchester , twenty market - towns , and about 1000 villages . The whole county , in- cluding the isles of Wight , Jersey , Guernsey , Sark , and Alderney , is comprehended ...
... says , the hundreds are fifty - two . There is one city , Winchester , twenty market - towns , and about 1000 villages . The whole county , in- cluding the isles of Wight , Jersey , Guernsey , Sark , and Alderney , is comprehended ...
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Сторінка 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Сторінка 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Сторінка 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Сторінка 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Сторінка 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Сторінка 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Сторінка 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Сторінка 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Сторінка 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Сторінка 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.