Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E. Smedley, Hugh J. Rose and Henry J. Rose. [With] Plates, Volume 161845 |
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... inches . Prevailing Moisture Greatest height Mean height .. Least height Inches . 30.63 29.72 28:45 So variable is the state of the wind in this island , that it cannot be reduced to any general principles . It blows with the greatest ...
... inches . Prevailing Moisture Greatest height Mean height .. Least height Inches . 30.63 29.72 28:45 So variable is the state of the wind in this island , that it cannot be reduced to any general principles . It blows with the greatest ...
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... inches above the root . The juice which flows from the wound soon hardens , and is the Galbanum which is brought to us from Syria and the Levant . The best sort of Galbanum consists of pale coloured pieces about the size of a hazel nut ...
... inches above the root . The juice which flows from the wound soon hardens , and is the Galbanum which is brought to us from Syria and the Levant . The best sort of Galbanum consists of pale coloured pieces about the size of a hazel nut ...
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... inches ; beak nearly two inches long , whitish , tip black , its base covered with strong black bristles ; general colour green ; head and fore part of the neck bluish , back part of a chestnut brown ; legs dusky red . Native of China ...
... inches ; beak nearly two inches long , whitish , tip black , its base covered with strong black bristles ; general colour green ; head and fore part of the neck bluish , back part of a chestnut brown ; legs dusky red . Native of China ...
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... inches shorter , the bill being four inches long ; a distinct furrow separates the bill from the crest , and the latter extending on the head is there covered with living skin ; the bill is of a very tough horny structure almost as ...
... inches shorter , the bill being four inches long ; a distinct furrow separates the bill from the crest , and the latter extending on the head is there covered with living skin ; the bill is of a very tough horny structure almost as ...
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... inches broad and flat at top . It is a native of the Philippines , and considered sacred by the Gentoos . See Philosophical Transactions , vol . xxiii . in which there is an account of it by Camelli . B. Cavatus , le Calao à casque ...
... inches broad and flat at top . It is a native of the Philippines , and considered sacred by the Gentoos . See Philosophical Transactions , vol . xxiii . in which there is an account of it by Camelli . B. Cavatus , le Calao à casque ...
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Page 35 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 394 - Suitably to this experience, therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second. Or in other words where, if the first object had not been, the second never had existed.
Page 250 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade ; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great...
Page 398 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 383 - ... or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh mouldering earth, that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends...
Page 6 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Page 48 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Page 96 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Page 279 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Page 258 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.