Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E. Smedley, Hugh J. Rose and Henry J. Rose. [With] Plates, Volumen 161845 |
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... principal manufactures are nets , cordage , and sail - cloth . The church is a Rec- tory in the gift of the Earl of Ilchester . Population 1821 , 3742 ; distant 135 miles west from London , fifteen from Dorchester . BRIEF , n . A brief ...
... principal manufactures are nets , cordage , and sail - cloth . The church is a Rec- tory in the gift of the Earl of Ilchester . Population 1821 , 3742 ; distant 135 miles west from London , fifteen from Dorchester . BRIEF , n . A brief ...
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... principal timber trees in this country are the oak , ash , elm , lime , beech , chestnut , sycamore , maple , birch , elder , hornbeam , aspin , and poplar . The oak of Britain surpasses that of most other countries in strength and ...
... principal timber trees in this country are the oak , ash , elm , lime , beech , chestnut , sycamore , maple , birch , elder , hornbeam , aspin , and poplar . The oak of Britain surpasses that of most other countries in strength and ...
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... principal fund holders . In 1814 , nearly seventy millions were added to the former amount ; and in 1816 , the sum was increased by more than fifty millions . The following statement shows the amount of the National Debt ...
... principal fund holders . In 1814 , nearly seventy millions were added to the former amount ; and in 1816 , the sum was increased by more than fifty millions . The following statement shows the amount of the National Debt ...
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... principal rivers of these northern regions are Mackenzie's river , Copper Mine river , Nelson's , Churchill's , Albany , Moose , Seal , Severn , Rupert , and Pokerekesko . The chief lakes , at least as far as yet known , ( for our ...
... principal rivers of these northern regions are Mackenzie's river , Copper Mine river , Nelson's , Churchill's , Albany , Moose , Seal , Severn , Rupert , and Pokerekesko . The chief lakes , at least as far as yet known , ( for our ...
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... principal stream is the Vilaine , which rises in the department of the Ille et Vilaine , flows through Rennes to Redon , and falls into the sea near Roche- Bernard . Brittany is also washed by the lower part of the Loire , after it is ...
... principal stream is the Vilaine , which rises in the department of the Ille et Vilaine , flows through Rennes to Redon , and falls into the sea near Roche- Bernard . Brittany is also washed by the lower part of the Loire , after it is ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 35 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 394 - Suitably to this experience, therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or in other words where, if the first object had not been, the second never had existed.
Página 250 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade ; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great...
Página 398 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Página 383 - ... or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh mouldering earth, that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends...
Página 6 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Página 48 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Página 96 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Página 279 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Página 258 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.