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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... never to make peace with an enemy whilst he occupied their territory . On the 28th Rieti was in the possession of the Austrians , and the Neapolitan army fell back upon Aquila . The Austrians ap- peared in sight ; general Pepe was ...
... never to make peace with an enemy whilst he occupied their territory . On the 28th Rieti was in the possession of the Austrians , and the Neapolitan army fell back upon Aquila . The Austrians ap- peared in sight ; general Pepe was ...
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... never supplanted by their idioms , receiving from time to time their inflexions and termina- tions , and gradually declining into a jargon assuming the form of a distinct language . Such was the state in which it waited only for a ...
... never supplanted by their idioms , receiving from time to time their inflexions and termina- tions , and gradually declining into a jargon assuming the form of a distinct language . Such was the state in which it waited only for a ...
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... never attempt- ed before in the same department - to introduce into moral and political , the exactness and pre- cision of demonstrative science . His plan seems to be as unbounded as his genius . Montesquieu exhibits , as in a mirror ...
... never attempt- ed before in the same department - to introduce into moral and political , the exactness and pre- cision of demonstrative science . His plan seems to be as unbounded as his genius . Montesquieu exhibits , as in a mirror ...
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... never shines so bright on the less favored regions beyond the Alps , is justly considered as the most splendid and beau- tiful exhibition which nature perhaps presents to the human eye , and cannot but excite in the spec- tator , when ...
... never shines so bright on the less favored regions beyond the Alps , is justly considered as the most splendid and beau- tiful exhibition which nature perhaps presents to the human eye , and cannot but excite in the spec- tator , when ...
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... never comes to any people by accident . It must spring out of the principles of knowledge , truth and righteousness , and be the deliberate will of the high minded and the good . The revolution of France failed through the want of the ...
... never comes to any people by accident . It must spring out of the principles of knowledge , truth and righteousness , and be the deliberate will of the high minded and the good . The revolution of France failed through the want of the ...
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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.