The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Partea 2,Volumul 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Pagina 389
... length committed prisoner to Peronne . This accident , to the great joy of the viceroy , enraged the people against the nobility , several of whom they killed , burnt the houses of others , and threatened to extirpate them all ...
... length committed prisoner to Peronne . This accident , to the great joy of the viceroy , enraged the people against the nobility , several of whom they killed , burnt the houses of others , and threatened to extirpate them all ...
Pagina 398
... length , prepared the way for Zeno and Metastasio , from whose hands the Italian opera received its last touches . The eighteenth century was the age of the severe sciences , rather than of poetry . Count Orloff has only strung together ...
... length , prepared the way for Zeno and Metastasio , from whose hands the Italian opera received its last touches . The eighteenth century was the age of the severe sciences , rather than of poetry . Count Orloff has only strung together ...
Pagina 400
... length terminated in the Cape of Minerva , now of Surrentum . Opposite , and full in view , ose the island of Caprea with its white cliffs and ridgy summit , placed as a barrier to check the tempest and protect the interior of the bay ...
... length terminated in the Cape of Minerva , now of Surrentum . Opposite , and full in view , ose the island of Caprea with its white cliffs and ridgy summit , placed as a barrier to check the tempest and protect the interior of the bay ...
Pagina 404
... length met the fate which their crimes deserved . Robespierre fell at once the victim of popular fury , of suicidal cowar- dice , and conventional denunciation . With the Jacobins , what was properly the republic perished ; and the ...
... length met the fate which their crimes deserved . Robespierre fell at once the victim of popular fury , of suicidal cowar- dice , and conventional denunciation . With the Jacobins , what was properly the republic perished ; and the ...
Pagina 406
... length a great volcano , amid which were long distinctly seen the masts and yards of the burning vessels , and which rendered obscurely visible the advancing bodies of repub- lican troops , who attempted on different points to push ...
... length a great volcano , amid which were long distinctly seen the masts and yards of the burning vessels , and which rendered obscurely visible the advancing bodies of repub- lican troops , who attempted on different points to push ...
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Pagina 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Pagina 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Pagina 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Pagina 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Pagina 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Pagina 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Pagina 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Pagina 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Pagina 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Pagina 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.