Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Nide 2,Osa 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 82
Sivu 3
... should be Welth . At the diffolution , Henry VIII . fold the convent and its poffeffions to one of his courtiers . They became in later days the property of a family of the name of White ( now extinct ) , who built here a good manfion ...
... should be Welth . At the diffolution , Henry VIII . fold the convent and its poffeffions to one of his courtiers . They became in later days the property of a family of the name of White ( now extinct ) , who built here a good manfion ...
Sivu 8
... should tyrant . unite in favour of the eldeft . The rest of his reign proved conformable to fuch a beginning . He was a moniter of cruelty , avarice , lewdnefs , and perfidy . Death , however , in a fhort time , happily delivered his ...
... should tyrant . unite in favour of the eldeft . The rest of his reign proved conformable to fuch a beginning . He was a moniter of cruelty , avarice , lewdnefs , and perfidy . Death , however , in a fhort time , happily delivered his ...
Sivu 11
... should become tributary to the crown of Portugal . This propofal fhe rejected with fcorn ; become tri- and let them know , that , however her daflardly fubjects buary to might fubmiffively and fhamefully behave towards them , their ...
... should become tributary to the crown of Portugal . This propofal fhe rejected with fcorn ; become tri- and let them know , that , however her daflardly fubjects buary to might fubmiffively and fhamefully behave towards them , their ...
Sivu 13
... should yield to her , as a prefent , fome The Portt of the countries of which they had already robbed her . guefe terms 2. That , in confideration of the faid prefent , which fhould in noways be interpreted as an inveftiture , the queen ...
... should yield to her , as a prefent , fome The Portt of the countries of which they had already robbed her . guefe terms 2. That , in confideration of the faid prefent , which fhould in noways be interpreted as an inveftiture , the queen ...
Sivu 14
... should reftore all the Portuguefe flaves that had taken refuge in her dominions . 6. That the should deliver up the Giaga Colanda , who had re- volted from the Portuguefe , upon condition that his crime fhould go unpunished . " Angola ...
... should reftore all the Portuguefe flaves that had taken refuge in her dominions . 6. That the should deliver up the Giaga Colanda , who had re- volted from the Portuguefe , upon condition that his crime fhould go unpunished . " Angola ...
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Sivu 329 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Sivu 71 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sivu 377 - ... spontaneously; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return...
Sivu 91 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Sivu 139 - ... being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Sivu 141 - ), would have been by the rules of the common law disappropriated, had not a clause in those statutes intervened, to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, &c. formerly held the same, at the time of their dissolution.
Sivu 223 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Sivu 215 - ... and that it is the more permanent, in proportion as it recedes the more from its natural colour. Prepared archil very readily gives out its colour to water, to volatile spirits, and to alcohol ; it is the substance principally made use of for colouring the spirits of thermometers.
Sivu 50 - An annuity for a long term of years, therefore, though its intrinsic value may be very nearly the same with that of a perpetual annuity, will not find nearly the same number of purchasers. The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to...
Sivu 91 - ... a table. Upon our egress from this amazing cavern, we perceived a Greek inscription upon a rock at the mouth, but so obliterated by time, that we could not read it distinctly.