The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 第 2 部、第 9 巻Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... iron ladles used for measuring out the soup to the poor in the hall . It is of more importance than can well be imagined , that this bread , which is mixed with the soup , should not be boiled . It is likewise of use it should not be ...
... iron ladles used for measuring out the soup to the poor in the hall . It is of more importance than can well be imagined , that this bread , which is mixed with the soup , should not be boiled . It is likewise of use it should not be ...
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... iron stone , which is dug and manu- factured . The mines are deep , and worked with long galleries or horizontal passages , having openings for the admission of air . Here too the women are said chiefly to perform the la- bor . The ...
... iron stone , which is dug and manu- factured . The mines are deep , and worked with long galleries or horizontal passages , having openings for the admission of air . Here too the women are said chiefly to perform the la- bor . The ...
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... iron ore were wrought , in the year 1678 , to some extent , the lead yielding a sixty - fourth part of silver . Shell marl is procured plentifully at the bottom Id . Though Phoebus had forewarned him of singing wars , yet the search of ...
... iron ore were wrought , in the year 1678 , to some extent , the lead yielding a sixty - fourth part of silver . Shell marl is procured plentifully at the bottom Id . Though Phoebus had forewarned him of singing wars , yet the search of ...
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... iron chain , those miserable persons were led to the stake . The ground on which the town stands , with that for a considerable way around , is un- even , and , though low with respect to the cir- cumjacent country on every side except ...
... iron chain , those miserable persons were led to the stake . The ground on which the town stands , with that for a considerable way around , is un- even , and , though low with respect to the cir- cumjacent country on every side except ...
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... iron is beaten into form . In com- mon language we use forge for large work , and smithy for small ; but in books the distinction is not kept . Any place where any thing is made or shaped . Manufacture of metalline bodies ; the act of ...
... iron is beaten into form . In com- mon language we use forge for large work , and smithy for small ; but in books the distinction is not kept . Any place where any thing is made or shaped . Manufacture of metalline bodies ; the act of ...
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431 ページ - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand : For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
401 ページ - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
402 ページ - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
698 ページ - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
753 ページ - ... as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was not confident as to the words), "Oh, sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy returns?
586 ページ - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.
430 ページ - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
668 ページ - To be no more. Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion...
481 ページ - No, there is a necessity in Fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate; He keeps his object ever full in sight, And that assurance holds him firm and right, True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, \ But right before there is no precipice; ) Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss.
417 ページ - Person, as I take it, is the name for this self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself there, I think, another may say is the same person. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.