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 95
Sivu 2
... ancient German nation , originally a branch of the Suevi ; who , after various migrations , fettled in that part of Denmark , and duchy of Slef wick , which to this day is called Angel , and of which the city of Flenfburgh is the ...
... ancient German nation , originally a branch of the Suevi ; who , after various migrations , fettled in that part of Denmark , and duchy of Slef wick , which to this day is called Angel , and of which the city of Flenfburgh is the ...
Sivu 16
... ancient military art , a kind of ja- velin ufed by the French . They darted it at a confi- derable diftance . The iron head of this weapon refem- bled a flower - de - luce . It is the opinion of fome wri- ters , that the arms of France ...
... ancient military art , a kind of ja- velin ufed by the French . They darted it at a confi- derable diftance . The iron head of this weapon refem- bled a flower - de - luce . It is the opinion of fome wri- ters , that the arms of France ...
Sivu 17
... ancient magnificence . It is at prefent one of the beft cities in Anatolia ; its streets are full of pillars and old marbles , among which are some of porphyry and jafper . The greatest part of the pillars are fmooth and cylindrical ...
... ancient magnificence . It is at prefent one of the beft cities in Anatolia ; its streets are full of pillars and old marbles , among which are some of porphyry and jafper . The greatest part of the pillars are fmooth and cylindrical ...
Sivu 20
... ancient and honourable family . The beft genealogifts deduce their origin from Berenthobaldus , who made war upon the Thuringians in the fixth century : it has produced many princes who make a great figure in the German hiftory . Joa ...
... ancient and honourable family . The beft genealogifts deduce their origin from Berenthobaldus , who made war upon the Thuringians in the fixth century : it has produced many princes who make a great figure in the German hiftory . Joa ...
Sivu 76
... ancient Chriftians in times of per- fecution for religious worship . ANTEMURALE , in the ancient military art , de- notes much the fame with what the moderns call an out- work . ANTENATI , in modern English history , is chief- ly ...
... ancient Chriftians in times of per- fecution for religious worship . ANTEMURALE , in the ancient military art , de- notes much the fame with what the moderns call an out- work . ANTENATI , in modern English history , is chief- ly ...
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againſt alfo almoft alſo ancient Angola animalcules animals appear Arabia Arabs arch architrave Areopagus arfenic Armenia army becauſe befides body cafe called caufe Chriftian church colour compofed confequence confiderable confifts decimal defign denominator difcovered diftance divided divifion divifor entablature faid fame fays fecond feems feet fent ferve feven feveral fhips fhould fhows fide fignifies filk fince fingle firft firſt fituation fize fmall fome fometimes foon fpecies ftanding ftate ftill ftones fubject fubtract fuch fufficient fuppofed fupport Greek hiftory himſelf houfe houſe iſland itſelf khalif king laft lefs likewife Mahomet meaſure Mecca Moflem moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary obferved occafion paffed Parian chronicle perfon plants prefent Ptolemy purpoſe raiſed reafon reft reprefented Roman ſmall Strabo Syria thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion town ufual uſed vulgar fractions weft whofe
Suositut otteet
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.