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Page 409
M . Bougainville caught one , 6 . P . Papuan is about two feet and a half which
soon became so tame as to follow and know long , being a little bigger than the
Cape pinguin . the person who had care of it . It fed on flesh , This species
inhabits ...
M . Bougainville caught one , 6 . P . Papuan is about two feet and a half which
soon became so tame as to follow and know long , being a little bigger than the
Cape pinguin . the person who had care of it . It fed on flesh , This species
inhabits ...
Page 560
With a train of iron pipes of tained this by direct observations on a series of 2550
feet , or nearly half a mile in length , the deal rods closely united together , which
appeared interval between the two sounds was found , from to transmit a sound ...
With a train of iron pipes of tained this by direct observations on a series of 2550
feet , or nearly half a mile in length , the deal rods closely united together , which
appeared interval between the two sounds was found , from to transmit a sound ...
Page 624
The harbour itself being been acquired in the art of sawing and sinking about
three miles long , it was thought proper the ice , that , although the thermometer
was at 6° that the ships should be stationed about half a in the morning , and rose
no ...
The harbour itself being been acquired in the art of sawing and sinking about
three miles long , it was thought proper the ice , that , although the thermometer
was at 6° that the ships should be stationed about half a in the morning , and rose
no ...
Page 657
This territory is else half of them may be equal , and the other not so well watered
, nor in so high a state of cul - half equal to each other , but different from the
tivation , as Tanjore ; but the soil is naturally former half , the equals being placed
...
This territory is else half of them may be equal , and the other not so well watered
, nor in so high a state of cul - half equal to each other , but different from the
tivation , as Tanjore ; but the soil is naturally former half , the equals being placed
...
Page 659
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington). na tn Triangular . . . 4n ? 2n 2 ; & c
. 2 to half the product of the extremes by the num - terminated by thick short
spikes of whitish - red ber of terms , the extremes being 1 and 1 + d . flowers . See
No ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington). na tn Triangular . . . 4n ? 2n 2 ; & c
. 2 to half the product of the extremes by the num - terminated by thick short
spikes of whitish - red ber of terms , the extremes being 1 and 1 + d . flowers . See
No ...
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Page 570 - We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble.
Page 394 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 479 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 570 - ... with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and...
Page 488 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Page 571 - But, passing over this topic, we would observe, that the complaint against poetry as abounding in illusion and deception, is in the main groundless. In many poems there is more of truth than in many histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of thought, and throw new light on the mysteries of our being.
Page 667 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Page 495 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Page 731 - Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Page 570 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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| Title | The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 17 |
| Editor | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2006 |
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