The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Teil 1,Band 10Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Seite 195 - If you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know for whom I gave the ring. And would conceive for what I gave the ring. And how unwillingly I left the ring. You would abate
Seite 105 - 7. When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a RIGHT ANGLE, and the straight line which stands on the other is called a PERPENDICULAR.
Seite 371 - most distinctly. The following remark of Dr. Blair is judicious : ' From the nature of our language, a leading rule in the arrangement of our sentences is, that the words or members most nearly related, should be placed as near to each other as possible, so as to make their mutual relation clearly appear.
Seite 20 - The pleasure that some fathers feed upon Is my strict fast ; I mean my children's looks ; And therein fasting, thou hast made me gaunt : Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave, Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.
Seite 381 - signifies retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression in such a manner as to exhibit neither more nor less than an exact copy of his idea who uses it.' This does not seem essentially different from his account of strength in composition. 'The first rule which we shall give for promoting the strength of a sentence
Seite 192 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented
Seite 381 - remark of Dr Blair is judicious : ' From the nature of our language, a leading rule in the arrangement of our sentences is, that the words or members most nearly related, should be placed as near to each other as possible, so as to make their mutual relation clearly appear.
Seite 20 - indeed, and gaunt in being old : Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ; And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt ? For sleeping England long time have I watched ; Watching breeds leanness, leanness
Seite 41 - In Poets, as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light These born to judge, as well as those to write.
Seite 122 - sectaries introduced his worship into the bosom of the Catholic church. The odious stranger, disguising every circumstance of time and place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero; and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, and of the garter.