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 34
Sivu 8
... 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 fubjects from this tyrant ; who , notwithftanding his ...
... 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 fubjects from this tyrant ; who , notwithftanding his ...
Sivu 12
... rest , lea- ving that kingdom in a manner defolate , To add to all this , her troops , exafperated at the lofs of their wives , children , and goods , which were carried to the fartheft corner of Benguela , were all on the point of ...
... rest , lea- ving that kingdom in a manner defolate , To add to all this , her troops , exafperated at the lofs of their wives , children , and goods , which were carried to the fartheft corner of Benguela , were all on the point of ...
Sivu 17
... rest ; but is no lefs liable to be turned out , if fhe proves unfaithful . The ladies of the blood - royal have the privilege of choosing their husbands out of any , even the meaneft rank ; and have even the power of life and death over ...
... rest ; but is no lefs liable to be turned out , if fhe proves unfaithful . The ladies of the blood - royal have the privilege of choosing their husbands out of any , even the meaneft rank ; and have even the power of life and death over ...
Sivu 21
... rest . " A plant has a power of directing its roots for pro- curing food . The red whortle - berry , a low evergreen plant , grows naturally on the tops of our highest hills , among ftones and gravel . This fhrub was planted in an ...
... rest . " A plant has a power of directing its roots for pro- curing food . The red whortle - berry , a low evergreen plant , grows naturally on the tops of our highest hills , among ftones and gravel . This fhrub was planted in an ...
Sivu 30
... rest , and magnified nine or ten times in diameter . The pipe or cafe b is made of fand , intermixed here and there with minute fhells , and all cemented together by a glu- tinous flime , probably iffuing from the animal's own body c ...
... rest , and magnified nine or ten times in diameter . The pipe or cafe b is made of fand , intermixed here and there with minute fhells , and all cemented together by a glu- tinous flime , probably iffuing from the animal's own body c ...
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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.