Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 10,Частина 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... Some time af- ter the Popish plot , when the Tories began to gain the afcendant over the Whigs , he , in a paper called the Obfervator , became a zealous champion for the former . He was afterwards knighted , and ferved in the parlia ...
... Some time af- ter the Popish plot , when the Tories began to gain the afcendant over the Whigs , he , in a paper called the Obfervator , became a zealous champion for the former . He was afterwards knighted , and ferved in the parlia ...
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... Some contefts obliged him to leave that city in 1679 ; upon which he went to France , and then into England , where he was received with great civility by Charles II . who , after his first audience , made him a prefent of a thou- fand ...
... Some contefts obliged him to leave that city in 1679 ; upon which he went to France , and then into England , where he was received with great civility by Charles II . who , after his first audience , made him a prefent of a thou- fand ...
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... Some are reported to have recovered from the effects of the fall ; and among o- § Ptolem . thers mention is made § of a citizen of Buthroton , in Hepbaf . Epirus , whofe paffions always taking fire at new ob- ap . Phot . jects , he four ...
... Some are reported to have recovered from the effects of the fall ; and among o- § Ptolem . thers mention is made § of a citizen of Buthroton , in Hepbaf . Epirus , whofe paffions always taking fire at new ob- ap . Phot . jects , he four ...
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... Some of thefe lochs and bays likewife pro- duce fmall coral and coralline . The fresh - water lakes are well fored with trout and eels , and the rivers Lewis . Lewis Lewis . Lewis divorced her , and fhe was yield LE W [ 14 ] LE W 11 ...
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... some years before he died ; and was detefted and despised by his fubjects for his shameful attachment to a young girl , under the title of his mistress , who , by the miniftry of her patron the duke d'Aiguillon , governed the kingdom ...
... some years before he died ; and was detefted and despised by his fubjects for his shameful attachment to a young girl , under the title of his mistress , who , by the miniftry of her patron the duke d'Aiguillon , governed the kingdom ...
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Сторінка 292 - ... 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.
Сторінка 21 - ... even laws themselves, whether made with or without our consent, if they regulate and constrain our conduct in matters of mere indifference...
Сторінка 21 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Сторінка 292 - III. ; viz. that every lord spiritual or temporal summoned to parliament, and passing through the king's forests, may, both in going and returning, kill one or two of the king's deer, without warrant, in view of the forester if he be present, or on blowing a horn if he be absent, that he may not seem to take the king's venison by stealth.
Сторінка 355 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft...
Сторінка 202 - This world had a beginning ; the assertion is indeed equally true, but shines not forth with the same degree of evidence. We find great difficulty in conceiving how the world could be made out of nothing : and are not brought to a free and full consent, until by reasoning we arrive at a clear view of the absurdity involved in the contrary supposition.
Сторінка 355 - Her fong .the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was fweeter than her fong, Soft as her heart, and as her reafon ftrong. Her form each beauty of her mind e\pref$'d, Her mind was virtue by the graces drefsM.
Сторінка 233 - An immense forest originally extended to the river side, and, even as late as the reign of Henry II. covered the northern neighbourhood of the city, and was filled with various species of beasts of chase.
Сторінка 292 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Сторінка 392 - 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.