Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 13John Brown, 1816 |
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... most useful and important , than to have their delicate ears wounded by the ufe of a word unknown to Cicero , Salluft , or the other writers of the Auguftine age . " Yet this is no more than muft unavoidably happen , when things of ...
... most useful and important , than to have their delicate ears wounded by the ufe of a word unknown to Cicero , Salluft , or the other writers of the Auguftine age . " Yet this is no more than muft unavoidably happen , when things of ...
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... most defirable afpect for a lawn is that of the SE . As to the figure of the lawn , fome recommend an exact square , others an oblong . fquare , fome an oval , and others a circu- lar figure : but none of thefe are to be regarded . It ...
... most defirable afpect for a lawn is that of the SE . As to the figure of the lawn , fome recommend an exact square , others an oblong . fquare , fome an oval , and others a circu- lar figure : but none of thefe are to be regarded . It ...
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... most loathed life That age , ach , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradife To what we fear of death . -Thou shalt not be to him as an ufurer , neither fhalt thou lay upon him ufury . Exod . xx.25 . - The Lord fhall lay ...
... most loathed life That age , ach , penury , imprisonment , Can lay on nature , is a paradife To what we fear of death . -Thou shalt not be to him as an ufurer , neither fhalt thou lay upon him ufury . Exod . xx.25 . - The Lord fhall lay ...
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... most metals , except iron ; when exposed to heat , it melts long before it is ignited . By a ftrong heat it becomes volatile , and flies off in vapours . If fuffered to cool very flowly , and the melted portion be poured off from that ...
... most metals , except iron ; when exposed to heat , it melts long before it is ignited . By a ftrong heat it becomes volatile , and flies off in vapours . If fuffered to cool very flowly , and the melted portion be poured off from that ...
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... most dangerous . The lead ( ore ) before smelting is broke very small , and washed from the extrane- ous matter . It contains frequently arfenic , ful- phur , zinc , & c . which poifon the water in which it is washed . Fowls of any kind ...
... most dangerous . The lead ( ore ) before smelting is broke very small , and washed from the extrane- ous matter . It contains frequently arfenic , ful- phur , zinc , & c . which poifon the water in which it is washed . Fowls of any kind ...
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Seite 315 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Thiscalledon me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace.
Seite 315 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 187 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Seite 181 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Seite 259 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Seite 200 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Seite 183 - And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
Seite 287 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say. And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries. And give to God each moment as it flies.
Seite 380 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our LORD 1666, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant Religion, and old English Liberty, and introducing Popery and Slavery.
Seite 323 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.