A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... four inches high : the stalks are simple at the base , and covered with a rusty down ; but higher up are red , and divided into several round , single , taper branches , which pro- ceed nearly from the same point . The leaves are not ...
... four inches high : the stalks are simple at the base , and covered with a rusty down ; but higher up are red , and divided into several round , single , taper branches , which pro- ceed nearly from the same point . The leaves are not ...
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... four hours . But the diurnal revolution of the planets is now accounted for , without the assistance of any such primum mo- bile . MOCENIGO ( Andrew ) , a native of Venice , in the sixteenth century . He served his country with zeal ...
... four hours . But the diurnal revolution of the planets is now accounted for , without the assistance of any such primum mo- bile . MOCENIGO ( Andrew ) , a native of Venice , in the sixteenth century . He served his country with zeal ...
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... four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even thirty- four possible modes ; but in practice ten are ex- cluded ; which , when thoroughly examined , are nothing but a repetition of the other ten , under relations ...
... four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even thirty- four possible modes ; but in practice ten are ex- cluded ; which , when thoroughly examined , are nothing but a repetition of the other ten , under relations ...
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... four feet long . It has four broad and sharp iron teeth at the front , which readily cut through the hill , and spread the earth it consists of ; and be- hind there is a large knob for breaking the clods . There is , however , a better ...
... four feet long . It has four broad and sharp iron teeth at the front , which readily cut through the hill , and spread the earth it consists of ; and be- hind there is a large knob for breaking the clods . There is , however , a better ...
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... four grand or almost universal monarchies or em- pires , the ASSYRIAN , PERSIAN , GRECIAN , and ROMAN , of which we treat in their due order , or alphabetical place . The strong resemblance of these four universal empires to the ...
... four grand or almost universal monarchies or em- pires , the ASSYRIAN , PERSIAN , GRECIAN , and ROMAN , of which we treat in their due order , or alphabetical place . The strong resemblance of these four universal empires to the ...
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Page 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Page 172 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 61 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 129 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Page 38 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 107 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
Page 220 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Page 419 - 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.
Page 136 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Page 79 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...