The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Del 2,Bind 9Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Side 386
... species , all natives of Britain . They grow on the banks of rivulets , and on the trunks of trees . The most remarkable is the F. antipyretica , with purple stalks . The Scandinavians line the insides of their chimneys with this moss ...
... species , all natives of Britain . They grow on the banks of rivulets , and on the trunks of trees . The most remarkable is the F. antipyretica , with purple stalks . The Scandinavians line the insides of their chimneys with this moss ...
Side 387
... ultimate effect of all aliments must be virtually the same ; and that the several species can only differ from each 2 Č 2 other in the quantity of nutriment they afford , instead thereof , and armed myself therein to play the FOOD. ...
... ultimate effect of all aliments must be virtually the same ; and that the several species can only differ from each 2 Č 2 other in the quantity of nutriment they afford , instead thereof , and armed myself therein to play the FOOD. ...
Side 389
... species of potations , we may , in like manner , be governed by the chemical composition which distinguishes them . They may be arranged under four divisions , viz . Class I. Water - Spring , river , well water , & c . Class II . The ...
... species of potations , we may , in like manner , be governed by the chemical composition which distinguishes them . They may be arranged under four divisions , viz . Class I. Water - Spring , river , well water , & c . Class II . The ...
Side 393
... species of action upon the nervous system , although it is very difficult to define the nature of this difference . If taken immediately after a meal , it is not found to create that disturbance in its digestion which has been noticed ...
... species of action upon the nervous system , although it is very difficult to define the nature of this difference . If taken immediately after a meal , it is not found to create that disturbance in its digestion which has been noticed ...
Side 399
... species , the negroes , that we should not put them upon the common foot of humanity , that we should only set an insignificant fine upon the man who murders them ? Addison . Like footmen running before coaches , To tell the inn what ...
... species , the negroes , that we should not put them upon the common foot of humanity , that we should only set an insignificant fine upon the man who murders them ? Addison . Like footmen running before coaches , To tell the inn what ...
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Side 431 - 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...
Side 401 - 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.
Side 402 - 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...
Side 698 - 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!
Side 753 - ... 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?
Side 586 - 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.
Side 430 - 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...
Side 668 - 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...
Side 481 - 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.
Side 417 - 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.