The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volumen 11Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... Roman feet . Pope The man who pauses on the paths of treason Halts on a quicksand , the first step ingulphs him . Hill's Henry V. HALTER , n . s . & v . a . Sax . þealrene , from palr , the neck . A rope to hang malefactors ; to bind ...
... Roman feet . Pope The man who pauses on the paths of treason Halts on a quicksand , the first step ingulphs him . Hill's Henry V. HALTER , n . s . & v . a . Sax . þealrene , from palr , the neck . A rope to hang malefactors ; to bind ...
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... Roman yoke . Prior to these Belgic invaders , who drove out the aborigines , little or nothing is known of its ... Romans included this district in the province named Britannia Prima . Under the Saxon domination , it formed the central ...
... Roman yoke . Prior to these Belgic invaders , who drove out the aborigines , little or nothing is known of its ... Romans included this district in the province named Britannia Prima . Under the Saxon domination , it formed the central ...
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... Roman hand , or any other , there is something peculiar in every one's writing . Cockburn . Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter . Addison . They were wrote on both sides , and in a small hand ...
... Roman hand , or any other , there is something peculiar in every one's writing . Cockburn . Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter . Addison . They were wrote on both sides , and in a small hand ...
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... Romans ; and during the subse- quent war several times defeated Eumenes , more through the force of his own genius ... Roman commanders . HANNIBALIANUS ( Flavius Claudius ) , ne- phew of Constantine the Great , was by him ap- pointed ...
... Romans ; and during the subse- quent war several times defeated Eumenes , more through the force of his own genius ... Roman commanders . HANNIBALIANUS ( Flavius Claudius ) , ne- phew of Constantine the Great , was by him ap- pointed ...
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... Roman law , the constitu- tion of the empire , and all kinds of provincial customs . Many inferior judges and magistrates are appointed by the proprietors of estates ; and some of those nominated by the king are rather by his ...
... Roman law , the constitu- tion of the empire , and all kinds of provincial customs . Many inferior judges and magistrates are appointed by the proprietors of estates ; and some of those nominated by the king are rather by his ...
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Página 200 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 121 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 222 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 385 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, • Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Página 90 - He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow . Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Página 142 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Página 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep. All heaven and earth are still : from the high host Of stars, to the lulled lake and mountain-coast, All is concentered in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and defence.
Página 16 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Página 10 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
Página 102 - Temperature may be conceived to depend upon the velocities of the vibrations ; increase of capacity on the motion being performed in •greater space ; and the diminution of temperature, during the conversion of solids into fluids or gases, may be explained on the idea of the loss of vibratory motion, in consequence of the revolution of particles round their axes, at the moment when the body becomes liquid or aeriform ; or from the loss of rapidity of vibration, in consequence of the motion of the...