Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Том 12 |
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... because they are made by the ligature of many notes . There is another fort of ligatures for breves , when there are many of these on different lines , or on different fpaces , to be fung to one fyllable . LIGATURES , among printers ...
... because they are made by the ligature of many notes . There is another fort of ligatures for breves , when there are many of these on different lines , or on different fpaces , to be fung to one fyllable . LIGATURES , among printers ...
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... because it was unlawful for any man to approach the place . For this reafon the ground was hedged in , left any perfon unawares fhould contract pollution from it . All places ftruck with lightning were carefully avoided and fenced round ...
... because it was unlawful for any man to approach the place . For this reafon the ground was hedged in , left any perfon unawares fhould contract pollution from it . All places ftruck with lightning were carefully avoided and fenced round ...
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... because it thrives lefs , but because Cork thrives more . It is compofed of the Irish and English town ; the latter ftands on the King's ifland , formed by the river Shannon . The town is three miles in circumference , having weekly ...
... because it thrives lefs , but because Cork thrives more . It is compofed of the Irish and English town ; the latter ftands on the King's ifland , formed by the river Shannon . The town is three miles in circumference , having weekly ...
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... because he could not conceive the abfence of any thing that appeared to him . Truth prevailed in all his works , grace in very few or none . Nor was there any ease in his outline ; but the stiffness of a buft in all his por- traits ...
... because he could not conceive the abfence of any thing that appeared to him . Truth prevailed in all his works , grace in very few or none . Nor was there any ease in his outline ; but the stiffness of a buft in all his por- traits ...
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... because Count Roger anciently bestowed on its bishop all his rights of royalty over Lipari . The bishop there re- ceived annually from the inhabitants a tenth part of the products of their lands . They afterwards , to pre- vent fraud ...
... because Count Roger anciently bestowed on its bishop all his rights of royalty over Lipari . The bishop there re- ceived annually from the inhabitants a tenth part of the products of their lands . They afterwards , to pre- vent fraud ...
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Сторінка 269 - I am lawfully called," said he, " to appear in that city, and thither will I go in the name of the Lord, though as many devils as there are tiles on the houses were there combined against me.
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Сторінка 233 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
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Сторінка 327 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.
Сторінка 14 - ... it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a foft and thin pulp ; and fome days after the fea was covered near the coafts with whole banks of thefe little iifh.
Сторінка 191 - The Golden Orb or Globe, put into the king's right hand before he is crowned, and borne in his left, with the sceptre in his right, upon his return into Westminster-hall after he is crowned.
Сторінка 410 - I could walk with, till this soul, like a ray of light, entered into me, and my tongue began to speak, my eye to see, and my foot to walk ; therefore punish it eternally, but deliver me.