The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Частина 2,Том 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... considerable loss . The Greeks were soon after defeated a second time at Cannæ ; and in a third engage ment , near Ofanto , the army of Doceanus was entirely routed , and himself obliged to fly to Bari . On this he was ordered to return ...
... considerable loss . The Greeks were soon after defeated a second time at Cannæ ; and in a third engage ment , near Ofanto , the army of Doceanus was entirely routed , and himself obliged to fly to Bari . On this he was ordered to return ...
Сторінка 390
... considerable changes for the better . All branches of the public administra- tion were invigorated and improved ; society in the upper ranks was reconstructed upon the Parisian scale ; French literature was imported ; the French code ...
... considerable changes for the better . All branches of the public administra- tion were invigorated and improved ; society in the upper ranks was reconstructed upon the Parisian scale ; French literature was imported ; the French code ...
Сторінка 391
... considerable portion of the population . They do not , indeed , appear con- nected with the French party , of which M. de Beauchamp supposes them to have been a branch ; for it is well known that they were equally hostile to the French ...
... considerable portion of the population . They do not , indeed , appear con- nected with the French party , of which M. de Beauchamp supposes them to have been a branch ; for it is well known that they were equally hostile to the French ...
Сторінка 396
... considerable advances under the Arragon princes . Laurentius Valla was munificently patronised at the court of Alphonso . Campano , Carracioli , Albine , Pomponius Lætus , adorned the academy towards the close of the fifteenth century ...
... considerable advances under the Arragon princes . Laurentius Valla was munificently patronised at the court of Alphonso . Campano , Carracioli , Albine , Pomponius Lætus , adorned the academy towards the close of the fifteenth century ...
Сторінка 397
... considerable for distinct speci- fication . Amongst the writers of general history we have already mentioned Summonte . It is , however , in literary history that Naples abounds , even to affluence . Manso bequeathed to pos- terity the ...
... considerable for distinct speci- fication . Amongst the writers of general history we have already mentioned Summonte . It is , however , in literary history that Naples abounds , even to affluence . Manso bequeathed to pos- terity the ...
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Сторінка 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Сторінка 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Сторінка 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Сторінка 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Сторінка 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Сторінка 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Сторінка 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Сторінка 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Сторінка 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Сторінка 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.