The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Том 18Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... length above the tide is upwards of 300 miles through an inhabited country . Its junction with the Shenando at Harper's Ferry is regarded as a great curiosity . The river has seven fathoms of water at its mouth , five at St. George's ...
... length above the tide is upwards of 300 miles through an inhabited country . Its junction with the Shenando at Harper's Ferry is regarded as a great curiosity . The river has seven fathoms of water at its mouth , five at St. George's ...
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... length of the fuzes . The intention of this practice is when a mortar battery is raised in a siege , to know what quantity of powder is required to throw the shells into the works at a given distance , and to cut the fuzes of a just length ...
... length of the fuzes . The intention of this practice is when a mortar battery is raised in a siege , to know what quantity of powder is required to throw the shells into the works at a given distance , and to cut the fuzes of a just length ...
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... length . Prague contains the ruins of what was the re- sidence of the sovereign of Bohemia before the Incorporation with the Austrian dominions . This building stood at the southern extremity of the town , in the citadel , which is ...
... length . Prague contains the ruins of what was the re- sidence of the sovereign of Bohemia before the Incorporation with the Austrian dominions . This building stood at the southern extremity of the town , in the citadel , which is ...
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... length are forced to woo . Id . Octavia presented the poet , for his admirable elegy on her son Marcellus . He now presents , as ancient ladies do , Id . Should I present thee with rare figured plate , O how thy rising heart would throb ...
... length are forced to woo . Id . Octavia presented the poet , for his admirable elegy on her son Marcellus . He now presents , as ancient ladies do , Id . Should I present thee with rare figured plate , O how thy rising heart would throb ...
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... length of the engravings on the plate to be print ed from ; if twice it must have eight teeth , if three times twelve teeth ; or in that proportion . The half of every fourth tooth must be taken away to let the tooth of the segment on I ...
... length of the engravings on the plate to be print ed from ; if twice it must have eight teeth , if three times twelve teeth ; or in that proportion . The half of every fourth tooth must be taken away to let the tooth of the segment on I ...
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Сторінка 41 - 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 110 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Сторінка 41 - By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. " These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Сторінка 370 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate" by his side come hot from hell , Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men , groaning for burial.
Сторінка 41 - 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 41 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory...
Сторінка 260 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Сторінка 345 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Сторінка 348 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Сторінка 389 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.