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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... round the world , Mr. Clerke served on board his ship as a midshipman ; and was afterwards on the Ame- rican station . In 1768 he sailed round the world a second time in the Endeavour , as master's mate ; but , during the voyage ...
... round the world , Mr. Clerke served on board his ship as a midshipman ; and was afterwards on the Ame- rican station . In 1768 he sailed round the world a second time in the Endeavour , as master's mate ; but , during the voyage ...
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... round , though in the warm climates it thaws in the same degree the next day . This height M. Bouguer calls the lower term of congelation : be- tween the tropics he places it at the height of 15,577 feet , English measure . And thus ...
... round , though in the warm climates it thaws in the same degree the next day . This height M. Bouguer calls the lower term of congelation : be- tween the tropics he places it at the height of 15,577 feet , English measure . And thus ...
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... round , about wenty fathoms under the surface . In like man- ner , the mine of Dannemora in Sweden , which VOL . VI . presents an immense excavation , 200 or 300 feet deep , was observed , at a period when the working was stopped , to ...
... round , about wenty fathoms under the surface . In like man- ner , the mine of Dannemora in Sweden , which VOL . VI . presents an immense excavation , 200 or 300 feet deep , was observed , at a period when the working was stopped , to ...
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... rounded by volcanoes , the craters of which are encircled by eternal snows , they appear to have admired , in the solitude of their deserts , those objects only which strike the imagination by the greatness of their masses ; and their ...
... rounded by volcanoes , the craters of which are encircled by eternal snows , they appear to have admired , in the solitude of their deserts , those objects only which strike the imagination by the greatness of their masses ; and their ...
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... round the poles and rise in graceful row . The path that leads where hung sublime , And seen afar , youth's trophies bright In Fancy's rainbow - ray invite His wingy nerves to climb . Gay . Beattie . Id . Ah ? who can tell how hard it ...
... round the poles and rise in graceful row . The path that leads where hung sublime , And seen afar , youth's trophies bright In Fancy's rainbow - ray invite His wingy nerves to climb . Gay . Beattie . Id . Ah ? who can tell how hard it ...
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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.