The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 2 dalis,16 tomasThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 100
365 psl.
... half Volumes , royal 8vo . price Ss . in boards , each Part containing as much matter as any part of similar works published at cae guinea . 2. A Part , containing 381 pages and seven en- gravings , will be published on the first day of ...
... half Volumes , royal 8vo . price Ss . in boards , each Part containing as much matter as any part of similar works published at cae guinea . 2. A Part , containing 381 pages and seven en- gravings , will be published on the first day of ...
383 psl.
... half his life his head ached every morning with reading men overnight . Addison . Over and office . To OVER - OFFICE , v . a . insult by virtue of an office . This might be the fate of a politician which this ass over - offices ...
... half his life his head ached every morning with reading men overnight . Addison . Over and office . To OVER - OFFICE , v . a . insult by virtue of an office . This might be the fate of a politician which this ass over - offices ...
394 psl.
... half - year old kid , and lives in flocks on the mountains ; whence they descend into the south plains of Chili , when the hills are covered with snow . It resembles a goat , but the horns are small , and turned outwards , like those of ...
... half - year old kid , and lives in flocks on the mountains ; whence they descend into the south plains of Chili , when the hills are covered with snow . It resembles a goat , but the horns are small , and turned outwards , like those of ...
401 psl.
... half in half . Bacon . Summer's chief honour , if thou hadst outlasted Bleak winter's force that made thy blossoms dry . Milton . The present age hath attempted perpetual motions , whose revolutions might outlast the exemplary mobi ...
... half in half . Bacon . Summer's chief honour , if thou hadst outlasted Bleak winter's force that made thy blossoms dry . Milton . The present age hath attempted perpetual motions , whose revolutions might outlast the exemplary mobi ...
402 psl.
... half a year . He that outlives this day , and comes safe home , Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named . Id . Id . His courage was so signal that day , that too much could not be expected from it , if he had outlived it . Clarendon ...
... half a year . He that outlives this day , and comes safe home , Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named . Id . Id . His courage was so signal that day , that too much could not be expected from it , if he had outlived it . Clarendon ...
Kiti leidimai - Peržiūrėti viską
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
acid Addison afterwards ancient appear argali artist Bacon baptism beautiful Ben Jonson bishop body born called celebrated Christian church color common consists court covered Crassus Cymbeline death Dryden earth east father feet figures French gold Greek ground hath head History Hudibras imitation infant baptism inhabitants island Italy kind king L'Estrange laid land live lord manner ment miles Milton mountains native nature Nicholas Poussin nitric acid oxalic acid Oxfordshire pain painter painting palace paper Paradise Lost Paris parish parliament Parthians partner pass passion Pausanias pearls person pieces Pittura Pliny Polygnotus Pope principal province reign river Roman Rome royal says Shakspeare sheep side species Spenser stone Surenas Syria temple thing thou tion Titian town trees Vologeses whole wood Zeuxis
Populiarios ištraukos
397 psl. - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; " An honest man's the noblest work of God ;" And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia, my dear, my native soil!
405 psl. - Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man : And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.
607 psl. - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
370 psl. - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wanting beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
515 psl. - Fortescue, in the name of his brethren, declared, " that they ought not to make answer to that question : for it hath not been used aforetime that the justices should in any wise determine the privileges of the high court of parliament. For it is so high and mighty in its nature, that it may make law : and that which is law, it may make no law: and the determination and knowledge of that privilege belongs to the lords of parliament, and not to the justices.
412 psl. - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
629 psl. - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold !
515 psl. - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
440 psl. - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
509 psl. - ... threw every thing they had in the canoe into the river, and kept firing ; but being overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe against the current, and no probability of escaping, Mr. Park took hold of one of the white men, and jumped into the water ; Martyn did the same, and they were drowned in the stream in attempting to escape.