The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Teil 2,Band 9Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... attacked with the gripes . Pigeons are also known to refuse hard , after they have been accustomed to soft water . ' River water . — This , being derived from the conflux of numerous springs with rain water , generally possesses ...
... attacked with the gripes . Pigeons are also known to refuse hard , after they have been accustomed to soft water . ' River water . — This , being derived from the conflux of numerous springs with rain water , generally possesses ...
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... attack was made upon his character by a villainous domestic , whom he had dismissed for misbehaviour ; and though he ... attacked by another stroke of the palsy , which in a few hours terminated his existence , on the 21st of October ...
... attack was made upon his character by a villainous domestic , whom he had dismissed for misbehaviour ; and though he ... attacked by another stroke of the palsy , which in a few hours terminated his existence , on the 21st of October ...
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... attack or resistance before the time of need . He forearms his care With rules to push his fortune , or to bear . Dryden . A man should fix and forearm his mind with this persuasion , that , during his passion , whatsoever is offered to ...
... attack or resistance before the time of need . He forearms his care With rules to push his fortune , or to bear . Dryden . A man should fix and forearm his mind with this persuasion , that , during his passion , whatsoever is offered to ...
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... attack of the Barradera battery , being among the fore- most who entered the enemy's work , at the head of a party of seamen . He was not , however , advanced to the rank of a post - captain till the 9th of March , 1745 , at which time ...
... attack of the Barradera battery , being among the fore- most who entered the enemy's work , at the head of a party of seamen . He was not , however , advanced to the rank of a post - captain till the 9th of March , 1745 , at which time ...
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... attack and are therefore doomed to perish . FORLORN HOPE . The soldiers who are sent Criticks in plume , Who lolling on our foremost benches sit , And still charge first , the true forlorn of wit . Dryden , FORLORN HOPE , in the ...
... attack and are therefore doomed to perish . FORLORN HOPE . The soldiers who are sent Criticks in plume , Who lolling on our foremost benches sit , And still charge first , the true forlorn of wit . Dryden , FORLORN HOPE , in the ...
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Seite 431 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand : For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
Seite 401 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 402 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 698 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Seite 753 - ... as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was not confident as to the words), "Oh, sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy returns?
Seite 586 - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.
Seite 430 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Seite 668 - 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...
Seite 481 - No, there is a necessity in Fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate; He keeps his object ever full in sight, And that assurance holds him firm and right, True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, \ But right before there is no precipice; ) Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss.
Seite 417 - Person, as I take it, is the name for this self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself there, I think, another may say is the same person. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.