Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Volumul 16,Ediția 136 -Volumul 18,Ediția 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science , in which he had already attained great proficiency , he removed to Greenock , and settled there. No. 136 . 1.
... that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science , in which he had already attained great proficiency , he removed to Greenock , and settled there. No. 136 . 1.
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... time , are said to have conceived the use of steam for mechanical purposes , it may be stated that the process of discovery was taken up exactly at the point where Hero left it by Solomon de Caus , a Frenchman 8 LIFE OF JAMES WATT .
... time , are said to have conceived the use of steam for mechanical purposes , it may be stated that the process of discovery was taken up exactly at the point where Hero left it by Solomon de Caus , a Frenchman 8 LIFE OF JAMES WATT .
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... taken place since , we have ample and melancholy testimony in the wars of the ancient Greeks and Romans . SCENE AT TYRE . Alexander , usually styled the Great ( who flourished about 50 years before Christ ) , as is well known , made war ...
... taken place since , we have ample and melancholy testimony in the wars of the ancient Greeks and Romans . SCENE AT TYRE . Alexander , usually styled the Great ( who flourished about 50 years before Christ ) , as is well known , made war ...
Pagina 7
... taken down , and the prisoners sent back to their places of confinement in the city . This happened in the begin- ning of July , before which time the famine had increased to a degree at which it was hardly possible for the garrison to ...
... taken down , and the prisoners sent back to their places of confinement in the city . This happened in the begin- ning of July , before which time the famine had increased to a degree at which it was hardly possible for the garrison to ...
Pagina 8
... taken . A shrill cry of misery , like the wailings of women , was heard from the walls . The common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of ...
... taken . A shrill cry of misery , like the wailings of women , was heard from the walls . The common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of ...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts William Chambers,Robert Chambers Vizualizare completă - 1846 |
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Pagina 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Pagina 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Pagina 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pagina 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Pagina 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Pagina 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Pagina 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Pagina 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...