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 15 巻Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... afterwards so dexterously wielded by the so- phists who overran Athens and the other cities of Greece . From a passage in one of the epistles of Seneca , it should seem that Zeno , who was the leader of this sect , had adopted the ...
... afterwards so dexterously wielded by the so- phists who overran Athens and the other cities of Greece . From a passage in one of the epistles of Seneca , it should seem that Zeno , who was the leader of this sect , had adopted the ...
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... afterwards passed sen- tence upon the unhappy Calas , to have his tongue cut out , and to be burned alive . This in- famous judgment was executed on the 19th of Fe- bruary , 1619 , and in the thirty - fourth year of his age . But in no ...
... afterwards passed sen- tence upon the unhappy Calas , to have his tongue cut out , and to be burned alive . This in- famous judgment was executed on the 19th of Fe- bruary , 1619 , and in the thirty - fourth year of his age . But in no ...
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... afterwards begged of me to give him a statement of the manner of his capture , to show it to his government in his justification . Those blockheads of deputies , ' continued Napoleon , ' wanted to attack and storm the town first ; but I ...
... afterwards begged of me to give him a statement of the manner of his capture , to show it to his government in his justification . Those blockheads of deputies , ' continued Napoleon , ' wanted to attack and storm the town first ; but I ...
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... afterwards adopted had been previously foreseen . The quarrel between the convention and the forty - eight sections of Paris , which eventually placed Buonaparte in a more distinguished situation than ever he had held before ...
... afterwards adopted had been previously foreseen . The quarrel between the convention and the forty - eight sections of Paris , which eventually placed Buonaparte in a more distinguished situation than ever he had held before ...
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... afterwards the empress Jose- phine . This lady was a Creolian , the daughter of a planter in St. Domingo . Her name at full length was Marie Joseph Rose Tascher de la Pagerie . She had suffered her revolutionary miseries . In her ...
... afterwards the empress Jose- phine . This lady was a Creolian , the daughter of a planter in St. Domingo . Her name at full length was Marie Joseph Rose Tascher de la Pagerie . She had suffered her revolutionary miseries . In her ...
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668 ページ - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
453 ページ - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
607 ページ - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
637 ページ - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
417 ページ - 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.
646 ページ - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
700 ページ - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
646 ページ - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
641 ページ - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
751 ページ - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.