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Page 544
The east winds consist of air brought basis of opinion that electricity is the
principal tily from the north , and not impelled farther ... The west winds consist of
air brought The north - east wind consists of air flowing from hastily from the south
, and ...
The east winds consist of air brought basis of opinion that electricity is the
principal tily from the north , and not impelled farther ... The west winds consist of
air brought The north - east wind consists of air flowing from hastily from the south
, and ...
Page 545
A wind , therefore , cond , the wind will fly 57 feet . will blow out of a place in
which the air is sud. cr ? denly rarefied ; and on ... it must necessarily have a
great infourth proportional to the two numbers that ex . fluence on the generation
of winds ...
A wind , therefore , cond , the wind will fly 57 feet . will blow out of a place in
which the air is sud. cr ? denly rarefied ; and on ... it must necessarily have a
great infourth proportional to the two numbers that ex . fluence on the generation
of winds ...
Page 547
There the winds can nei - ber and April from the east or north - east , and ther be
said to blow from the north nor the ... space varies a little in latitude as the sun the
west side of a great continent where the wind approaches either of the tropics .
There the winds can nei - ber and April from the east or north - east , and ther be
said to blow from the north nor the ... space varies a little in latitude as the sun the
west side of a great continent where the wind approaches either of the tropics .
Page 548
Sometimes it shifts to the at Cambridge , in the same province , the most east as
the sun descends , and continues there frequent wind is the south - east . — The
predomi . during the whole night . In February , March , nant winds at New York ...
Sometimes it shifts to the at Cambridge , in the same province , the most east as
the sun descends , and continues there frequent wind is the south - east . — The
predomi . during the whole night . In February , March , nant winds at New York ...
Page 549
Switzerland the prevailing winds are the north March , and more seldom during
September and and west ; at St . Gothard ... of that kingdom the wind blows for
seven years at that place :most frequently from the north , north - west , and
Winds .
Switzerland the prevailing winds are the north March , and more seldom during
September and and west ; at St . Gothard ... of that kingdom the wind blows for
seven years at that place :most frequently from the north , north - west , and
Winds .
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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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