The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volym 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... considerable extra cutting , on the average from 120 to 130 feet deep , for about four miles , partly through a bed or de- posit of sandstone , chalk , and strong brick earth ; from thence it will fall into the vale of the River Arun ...
... considerable extra cutting , on the average from 120 to 130 feet deep , for about four miles , partly through a bed or de- posit of sandstone , chalk , and strong brick earth ; from thence it will fall into the vale of the River Arun ...
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... considerable portion of the nation , expired like a lamp in a sepulchre . Charles V. , after having fought against the protestants in Germany , and endeavoured , with- out success , to establish the inquisition against them in the ...
... considerable portion of the nation , expired like a lamp in a sepulchre . Charles V. , after having fought against the protestants in Germany , and endeavoured , with- out success , to establish the inquisition against them in the ...
Sida 62
... considerable taste . In the church of the Franciscans are bronze statues of all the Ger- man emperors . The houses , though built in the German taste , are rather handsomer , and the streets , though narrow , remarkably well paved . The ...
... considerable taste . In the church of the Franciscans are bronze statues of all the Ger- man emperors . The houses , though built in the German taste , are rather handsomer , and the streets , though narrow , remarkably well paved . The ...
Sida 102
... considerable time . The military roads through this once impene- trable region , made by the soldiers under ge- neral Wade , never fail to excite the astonishment of travellers , being often carried over mountains , and extensive ...
... considerable time . The military roads through this once impene- trable region , made by the soldiers under ge- neral Wade , never fail to excite the astonishment of travellers , being often carried over mountains , and extensive ...
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... considerable ment . JODE ( Peter de ) , the younger son to the former , was born in 1606. He learned the art of engraving from his father , and surpassed him in taste and the facility of handling the graver ; but can hardly be said to ...
... considerable ment . JODE ( Peter de ) , the younger son to the former , was born in 1606. He learned the art of engraving from his father , and surpassed him in taste and the facility of handling the graver ; but can hardly be said to ...
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Sida 93 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Sida 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Sida 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Sida 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Sida 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Sida 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Sida 397 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Sida 285 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Sida 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Sida 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...