A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 22Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... mountains , and other places . VOL . XXII . - PART 1 . 2. T. flavum , the common meadow rue , has a leafy furrowed ... mountainous pastures . THALLAND , a province of Sweden , called also DALEA and DALIA , which see . THAMAS KOULI KHAN ...
... mountains , and other places . VOL . XXII . - PART 1 . 2. T. flavum , the common meadow rue , has a leafy furrowed ... mountainous pastures . THALLAND , a province of Sweden , called also DALEA and DALIA , which see . THAMAS KOULI KHAN ...
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... mountains and precipices , which are represented with more boldness than ingenuity . Another piece represents a battle on the plain , where the force , consisting of chariots and cavalry , is equally put to flight by the hero . These ...
... mountains and precipices , which are represented with more boldness than ingenuity . Another piece represents a battle on the plain , where the force , consisting of chariots and cavalry , is equally put to flight by the hero . These ...
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... mountains which rise behind these monuments , on the western bank of the Nile , are found the tombs of the kings of ... mountain . M. Belzoni , however , con- ceives that no number approaching to forty could be found in this place ...
... mountains which rise behind these monuments , on the western bank of the Nile , are found the tombs of the kings of ... mountain . M. Belzoni , however , con- ceives that no number approaching to forty could be found in this place ...
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... mountains where there are theriacal herbs . Bacon . THERMÆ , hot baths or bagnios . Luxury and extravagance were in nothing carried to such heights as in the therma of the Roman em- perors . Ammian complains that they were built to such ...
... mountains where there are theriacal herbs . Bacon . THERMÆ , hot baths or bagnios . Luxury and extravagance were in nothing carried to such heights as in the therma of the Roman em- perors . Ammian complains that they were built to such ...
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... mountains are perpetually covered with snow . The principal thermometric scales in Europe are , as we have already stated , Fahrenheit's , which commences at the temperature produced by mixing snow and salt , and which is 32 ° below the ...
... mountains are perpetually covered with snow . The principal thermometric scales in Europe are , as we have already stated , Fahrenheit's , which commences at the temperature produced by mixing snow and salt , and which is 32 ° below the ...
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Page 32 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Page 345 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Page 78 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 21 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 419 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 78 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...
Page 188 - When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest Son and Heir: Or if a Man do violate the King's Companion, or the King's eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife of the King's eldest Son and Heir...
Page 39 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Page 29 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 58 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...