Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Том 18John Brown, 1816 |
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... against it , car rying fame , artillery ftores to a poft above the town , feveral fhel's were thrown from the town to deftroy the boats ; one of the hells burft in the air near the top of its flight , which was about half a mile high ...
... against it , car rying fame , artillery ftores to a poft above the town , feveral fhel's were thrown from the town to deftroy the boats ; one of the hells burft in the air near the top of its flight , which was about half a mile high ...
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... against this flovenly way of writing : we would even hold it up to reprobation . It has been chiefly on this faithlefs foundation , that the blind vanity of men has raised that degrading fyftem of opinions call- ed MATERIALISM , by ...
... against this flovenly way of writing : we would even hold it up to reprobation . It has been chiefly on this faithlefs foundation , that the blind vanity of men has raised that degrading fyftem of opinions call- ed MATERIALISM , by ...
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... against the geometrical one of their great teacher Newton . This ftriking fimilarity between the aqueous waves and the aerial undulations , affords a very faible object to represent many affections of the latter , which it would be ...
... against the geometrical one of their great teacher Newton . This ftriking fimilarity between the aqueous waves and the aerial undulations , affords a very faible object to represent many affections of the latter , which it would be ...
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... against the faults of men , but without bitterness to their perfons . The poet fhould , alfo , while endeavouring to correc the guilty , avoid ufing fuch expreffions as might tend to corrupt the innocent . Horace and Juve- Among our ...
... against the faults of men , but without bitterness to their perfons . The poet fhould , alfo , while endeavouring to correc the guilty , avoid ufing fuch expreffions as might tend to corrupt the innocent . Horace and Juve- Among our ...
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... against the definition of the council of Nice . Stil- Lingfleet . 22. Point de vife ; exact or exactly in the point of view . — You are rather point de vife in your accoutrements , as loving yourself , than the lover of another . Shak ...
... against the definition of the council of Nice . Stil- Lingfleet . 22. Point de vife ; exact or exactly in the point of view . — You are rather point de vife in your accoutrements , as loving yourself , than the lover of another . Shak ...
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Сторінка 258 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Сторінка 44 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Сторінка 274 - And secondly, it means that the prerogative of the crown extends not to do any injury: it is created for the benefit of the people, and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice.
Сторінка 259 - Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Сторінка 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Сторінка 276 - What is done by the royal authority, with regard to foreign powers, is the act of the whole nation; what is done without the king's concurrence, is the act only of private men.
Сторінка 98 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Сторінка 223 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Сторінка 222 - But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
Сторінка 277 - England it hath always been holden, that the king is lord of the whole shore, and particularly is the guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates of the realm; and therefore, so early as the reign of King John, we find ships seized by the king's officers for putting in at a place that was not a legal port.