The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 1, Volume 6Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... observe the following rules : 1. In all felonies , whether new created , or by common law , clergy is now allowable , unless taken away by act of parliament . 2. Where clergy is taken away from the principal , it is not taken away from ...
... observe the following rules : 1. In all felonies , whether new created , or by common law , clergy is now allowable , unless taken away by act of parliament . 2. Where clergy is taken away from the principal , it is not taken away from ...
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... observed by the architect ; and particularly the The subject of climate should be studied and atten- effects of the vicissitudes of the seasons upon its mate- rials . Elmes ' Dictionary CLIMATE , in geography , expresses : 1. A por ...
... observed by the architect ; and particularly the The subject of climate should be studied and atten- effects of the vicissitudes of the seasons upon its mate- rials . Elmes ' Dictionary CLIMATE , in geography , expresses : 1. A por ...
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... observe , that in the torrid zone the winter is generally a wet , the summer a dry , season ; and that this constitutes the great division of their year : but these are in direct opposition to those seasons , as they would result from ...
... observe , that in the torrid zone the winter is generally a wet , the summer a dry , season ; and that this constitutes the great division of their year : but these are in direct opposition to those seasons , as they would result from ...
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... observed : 1. That , in our climates , evaporation is about four times as great from the 21st of March to the 21st of September , as from the 21st of September to the 21st of March . 2. That , other circumstances being the same , it is ...
... observed : 1. That , in our climates , evaporation is about four times as great from the 21st of March to the 21st of September , as from the 21st of September to the 21st of March . 2. That , other circumstances being the same , it is ...
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... observed not to vary in its temperature , by the tenth part of a degree ( centigrade ) torough all the seasons of the year . It is therefore an object highly important for scientific travellers , to notice the precise heat of springs in ...
... observed not to vary in its temperature , by the tenth part of a degree ( centigrade ) torough all the seasons of the year . It is therefore an object highly important for scientific travellers , to notice the precise heat of springs in ...
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Page 21 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 298 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 37 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Page 241 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Page 294 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Page 332 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Page 99 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Page 93 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 99 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 292 - I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear, that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull.