Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen 13,Parte 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... miles from Dublin . It is fituated on a branch of the river Shannon which runs into Lough Derg . Here Neomenia ... miles to the fouth of Croydon , where traces of an ancient town are ftill to be leen . NEOMAGUS , ( Ptolemy ; ) Noviomagus ...
... miles from Dublin . It is fituated on a branch of the river Shannon which runs into Lough Derg . Here Neomenia ... miles to the fouth of Croydon , where traces of an ancient town are ftill to be leen . NEOMAGUS , ( Ptolemy ; ) Noviomagus ...
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... mile long , and the whole was covered with gold . The roofs of the dining halls reprefented the firmament , in motion as well as in figure ; and conti- nually turned round night and day , fhowering down all forts of perfumes and fweet ...
... mile long , and the whole was covered with gold . The roofs of the dining halls reprefented the firmament , in motion as well as in figure ; and conti- nually turned round night and day , fhowering down all forts of perfumes and fweet ...
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... miles in length from north to fouth , and 200 miles in breadth from eaft to weft . They confift of 17 provinces ; 10- of which are called the Auftrian and French Nether- lands , and the other feven the United Provinces . The greatest ...
... miles in length from north to fouth , and 200 miles in breadth from eaft to weft . They confift of 17 provinces ; 10- of which are called the Auftrian and French Nether- lands , and the other feven the United Provinces . The greatest ...
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... miles , except where it is in- terrupted by the admiralty ; and the Neva , during the whole of that space , has been lately embanked at the expence of the empress by a wall , parapet , and pave- ment of hewn granite ; a moft elegant and ...
... miles , except where it is in- terrupted by the admiralty ; and the Neva , during the whole of that space , has been lately embanked at the expence of the empress by a wall , parapet , and pave- ment of hewn granite ; a moft elegant and ...
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... miles , with a confiderable tract of level ground all around The climate in the lower part is reckoned to be warmer than Barbadoes , but it is more temperate towards the fummit . The foil is very fine in the lower part , but grows ...
... miles , with a confiderable tract of level ground all around The climate in the lower part is reckoned to be warmer than Barbadoes , but it is more temperate towards the fummit . The foil is very fine in the lower part , but grows ...
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Página 35 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed ; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Página 131 - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems ; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Página 122 - ... he always annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one or the other by endeavouring to prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himself, and find at last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules.
Página 122 - I suppose it will be easily granted, that no man can judge whether any animal be beautiful in its kind, or deformed, who has seen only one of that species...
Página 131 - ... we lose the abhorrence of their faults, because they do not hinder our pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness, for being united with so much merit.
Página 131 - It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Página 122 - ... the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point...
Página 122 - Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining...
Página 224 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Página 131 - ... the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may, by conquering some calamities and enduring others, teach us what we may hope and what we can perform.