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 393
... remains . Alexis of Thurium was a ce- lebrated writer of what is called the middle comedy . According to Suidas , he was the uncle of Menander , and wrote upwards of 200 dramas . Athenæus , Julius Pollux , and Aulus Gellius , have cited ...
... remains . Alexis of Thurium was a ce- lebrated writer of what is called the middle comedy . According to Suidas , he was the uncle of Menander , and wrote upwards of 200 dramas . Athenæus , Julius Pollux , and Aulus Gellius , have cited ...
Pagina 394
... remains that would otherwise have perished in the general wreck of knowledge . The iron sway of the Lombards was death to the whole mind of Italy . Yet , in these days of rapine and ignorance , the religious houses were uniformly ...
... remains that would otherwise have perished in the general wreck of knowledge . The iron sway of the Lombards was death to the whole mind of Italy . Yet , in these days of rapine and ignorance , the religious houses were uniformly ...
Pagina 397
... remains which connect the ancient with the modern world ? So prevalent was this science , that there is scarcely a province , a town , a church , or a monastery , which has not had its antiquary and its historian . Of these authors the ...
... remains which connect the ancient with the modern world ? So prevalent was this science , that there is scarcely a province , a town , a church , or a monastery , which has not had its antiquary and its historian . Of these authors the ...
Pagina 399
... remains to be done , by civil institutions and po- litical systems , for his moral amelioration and social happiness . Having laid down the general rules of legislative science , and unfolded the principles of law , civil , economical ...
... remains to be done , by civil institutions and po- litical systems , for his moral amelioration and social happiness . Having laid down the general rules of legislative science , and unfolded the principles of law , civil , economical ...
Pagina 403
... remains of her beautiful bosom . ' This author makes some curious remarks on the practise of gaming , which he found universal at Naples . He ascribes it wholly to what he calls the tædium vitæ . We connect it with the entire habits and ...
... remains of her beautiful bosom . ' This author makes some curious remarks on the practise of gaming , which he found universal at Naples . He ascribes it wholly to what he calls the tædium vitæ . We connect it with the entire habits and ...
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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.