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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... equal distance from the extreme proposition on either side , neither denying altogether the right of external inter- ference in any instance of popular revolution , nor maintaining the right of interfering in all . In political cases ...
... equal distance from the extreme proposition on either side , neither denying altogether the right of external inter- ference in any instance of popular revolution , nor maintaining the right of interfering in all . In political cases ...
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... equal grace and facility in either . If his poem De Partû Virginis earned him the approbation of the pope , and the distinction of being called the Christian Virgil , his Arcadia shows to great advantage the elegance , and soft- ness ...
... equal grace and facility in either . If his poem De Partû Virginis earned him the approbation of the pope , and the distinction of being called the Christian Virgil , his Arcadia shows to great advantage the elegance , and soft- ness ...
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... equal dili- gence . Left in a destitute condition , his genius was nursed in solitude , and quickened by mis- fortune . All his writings breathe an air of originality his imagination was ardent and ac- tive , and derived its aliment ...
... equal dili- gence . Left in a destitute condition , his genius was nursed in solitude , and quickened by mis- fortune . All his writings breathe an air of originality his imagination was ardent and ac- tive , and derived its aliment ...
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... equal . His plan of instruction was followed ; his maxims paraphrased ; but his disciples fell far short in knowledge and genius of their illus- trious master . Naples , a city of lawyers , re- mained stationary in jurisprudence . The ...
... equal . His plan of instruction was followed ; his maxims paraphrased ; but his disciples fell far short in knowledge and genius of their illus- trious master . Naples , a city of lawyers , re- mained stationary in jurisprudence . The ...
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... equal spirit . During this cannonade Buonaparte threw himself per- sonally amongst the fire in order to station two guns , loaded with grape shot , in such a position as rendered it impossible for any one to approach for the purpose of ...
... equal spirit . During this cannonade Buonaparte threw himself per- sonally amongst the fire in order to station two guns , loaded with grape shot , in such a position as rendered it impossible for any one to approach for the purpose of ...
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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.