The New Pocket Cyclopædia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically Arranged;: With Lists of Select Books on Every Important Subject of Learning and Science; Designed for the Higher Classes in Schools, and for Young Persons in GeneralSherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813 - 645 pagini |
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... stone , the last an ax . One would have spikes , and him a spade they give ; Another asks a saw , and gets a sieve . Thus crossly crost , they prate and point in vain ; What one hath made , another mars again . - These masons then ...
... stone , the last an ax . One would have spikes , and him a spade they give ; Another asks a saw , and gets a sieve . Thus crossly crost , they prate and point in vain ; What one hath made , another mars again . - These masons then ...
Pagina 7
... stone ; afterwards on lead , and on plates of the softer metals . When it became more extensively practised , in some coun- tries , the leaves of plants , and the bark of trees were used ; † in others , tablets of wood covered with a ...
... stone ; afterwards on lead , and on plates of the softer metals . When it became more extensively practised , in some coun- tries , the leaves of plants , and the bark of trees were used ; † in others , tablets of wood covered with a ...
Pagina 8
... stones . The title was struck on the outside . The whole volume might be about 50 yards in length , and one and a half in width . The square form of our books , with separate leaves , was known to the antients , but little used . Select ...
... stones . The title was struck on the outside . The whole volume might be about 50 yards in length , and one and a half in width . The square form of our books , with separate leaves , was known to the antients , but little used . Select ...
Pagina 40
... stone : The huge round stone resulting with a bound , Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground . Pope . The second line possesses uncommon beauty . The words being all monosyllables , a pause is render d neces- sary after ...
... stone : The huge round stone resulting with a bound , Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground . Pope . The second line possesses uncommon beauty . The words being all monosyllables , a pause is render d neces- sary after ...
Pagina 61
... stone columns is the first , and is adorned with wooden figures of oxen , horses , and elephants . Here , all persons are allowed to come without distinction . The second part is filled with images of men , with many heads and arms ...
... stone columns is the first , and is adorned with wooden figures of oxen , horses , and elephants . Here , all persons are allowed to come without distinction . The second part is filled with images of men , with many heads and arms ...
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The New Pocket Cyclopaedia: Or, Elements Or Useful Knowledge, Methodically ... Encyclopaedias,John Millard Vizualizare completă - 1813 |
The New Pocket Cyclopaedia: Or, Elements Or Useful Knowledge, Methodically ... Encyclopaedias,John Millard Vizualizare completă - 1813 |
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Pagina 29 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Pagina 516 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Pagina 40 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pagina 76 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Pagina 28 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Pagina 553 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Pagina 22 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Pagina 26 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Pagina 24 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Pagina 376 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...