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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... States ; AND \ 3 An Account of the LIVES of the most Eminent Perfons in every Nation , from the earlieft ages down to the prefent times . Compiled from the writings of the beft Authors , in feveral languages ; the most approved ...
... States ; AND \ 3 An Account of the LIVES of the most Eminent Perfons in every Nation , from the earlieft ages down to the prefent times . Compiled from the writings of the beft Authors , in feveral languages ; the most approved ...
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... state of freedom , in contra- diftinction to flavery or refraint ; and may be con fidered as either natural or civil . The abfolute rights of man , confidered as a free agent , endowed with difcernment to know good from evil , and with ...
... state of freedom , in contra- diftinction to flavery or refraint ; and may be con fidered as either natural or civil . The abfolute rights of man , confidered as a free agent , endowed with difcernment to know good from evil , and with ...
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... state than tyranny itfelf , as any government is better than none at all . But the vigour of our free conftitution has always de- livered the nation from these embarraffments : and , as foon as the convulfions confequent on the ftruggle ...
... state than tyranny itfelf , as any government is better than none at all . But the vigour of our free conftitution has always de- livered the nation from these embarraffments : and , as foon as the convulfions confequent on the ftruggle ...
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... state a granulated cruft for its ground , which is afterwards . turned into fmall laciniated leaves , green above , and hoary underneath . The plant affumes a very different afpect , according to the age , fituation , and other ac ...
... state a granulated cruft for its ground , which is afterwards . turned into fmall laciniated leaves , green above , and hoary underneath . The plant affumes a very different afpect , according to the age , fituation , and other ac ...
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... states of the bishopric are compofed of three bodies : the first is the chapter , of Liege ; the fecond , the nobility of the country ; and the third , the deputies of the capital and the other towns . The three eftates are feldom ...
... states of the bishopric are compofed of three bodies : the first is the chapter , of Liege ; the fecond , the nobility of the country ; and the third , the deputies of the capital and the other towns . The three eftates are feldom ...
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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.