Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 4John Brown, 1816 |
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... died in 1550 . * To BLESS . v . a . preterite and participle , blef fed or bleft . [ bl - fhian , Saxon . ] 1. To make happy ; to profper ; to make fuccefsful.- The quality of mercy is not ftrain'd ; It droppeth as the gentle rain of ...
... died in 1550 . * To BLESS . v . a . preterite and participle , blef fed or bleft . [ bl - fhian , Saxon . ] 1. To make happy ; to profper ; to make fuccefsful.- The quality of mercy is not ftrain'd ; It droppeth as the gentle rain of ...
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... died at the ve- nerable age of 77. In the fame period flourished CASPAR CRUMBHORN , blind from the 3d year of his age : yet he compofed feveral pieces in many parts with fo much fuccess , and performed both upon the flute and violin fo ...
... died at the ve- nerable age of 77. In the fame period flourished CASPAR CRUMBHORN , blind from the 3d year of his age : yet he compofed feveral pieces in many parts with fo much fuccess , and performed both upon the flute and violin fo ...
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... died excommunica- ted . * BLOCKISHI . adj . [ from block . ] Stupid ; Make a lott❜ry , dull.- And , by decree , let blockish Ajax draw The fort to fight with Hector . Shakespeare . * BLOCKISHLY . adv . ( from blockib . ] In a ftupid ...
... died excommunica- ted . * BLOCKISHI . adj . [ from block . ] Stupid ; Make a lott❜ry , dull.- And , by decree , let blockish Ajax draw The fort to fight with Hector . Shakespeare . * BLOCKISHLY . adv . ( from blockib . ] In a ftupid ...
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... died in 1647 . He left 4 Tons all artists . ( 2. ) BLOEMART , Cornelius , the youngeft fon of Abraham , was born in 1603 at Utrecht . The first principles of drawing and painting he learned from his father ; but his inclination for ...
... died in 1647 . He left 4 Tons all artists . ( 2. ) BLOEMART , Cornelius , the youngeft fon of Abraham , was born in 1603 at Utrecht . The first principles of drawing and painting he learned from his father ; but his inclination for ...
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... died , in 1740 , in an hofpital . ile was author of a treatife , in French on Ideal Beau- ty . It was published in 1732 , and has fince been tranflated into English . ( 1. ) BLONDEL , David , a proteftant minister , diftinguithed by his ...
... died , in 1740 , in an hofpital . ile was author of a treatife , in French on Ideal Beau- ty . It was published in 1732 , and has fince been tranflated into English . ( 1. ) BLONDEL , David , a proteftant minister , diftinguithed by his ...
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Seite 267 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Seite 120 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio: but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force : as payment of rent ; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one-half of the penal sum specified in the bond.
Seite 377 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Seite 322 - ... twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east : and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies : it contained two thousand baths.
Seite 28 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Seite 320 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Seite 69 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Seite 421 - Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Seite 439 - ... procuring her teats to be drawn, which were too much distended with milk, till, from habit, she became as much delighted with this foundling as if it had been her real offspring.
Seite 393 - Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year: But ancient friends, (tho' poor, or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no Turbots dignify my boards, But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords. To Hounslow-heath I point, and Bansted-down, Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my own: From yon old...