Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 12John Brown, 1816 |
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... common green holly . fmooth leaves ; but it is often found intermixed There is alfo a variety of the common holly with with the prickly - leaved on the fame tree , and often on the fame branch there are both forts of leaves . The common ...
... common green holly . fmooth leaves ; but it is often found intermixed There is alfo a variety of the common holly with with the prickly - leaved on the fame tree , and often on the fame branch there are both forts of leaves . The common ...
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... common in the 5th . But they were ftill confidered only as ornaments , and even in this view , they met with very confidera- ble oppofition . In the following century the cuf tom of thus adorning churches became almoft univerfal , both ...
... common in the 5th . But they were ftill confidered only as ornaments , and even in this view , they met with very confidera- ble oppofition . In the following century the cuf tom of thus adorning churches became almoft univerfal , both ...
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... common , except that the turban is a little larger , gauds . Taylor's Rule of living boly . and folded somewhat differently . * To IMAGINE . v . a . ( imaginer , Fr. imaginor , IMAUS , in ancient geography , the largeftmounLat . ] 1. To ...
... common , except that the turban is a little larger , gauds . Taylor's Rule of living boly . and folded somewhat differently . * To IMAGINE . v . a . ( imaginer , Fr. imaginor , IMAUS , in ancient geography , the largeftmounLat . ] 1. To ...
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... common law . The difficulty arifes hence , that no ftatute has ex- prefsly declared this power to be in the crown , though many of them ftrongly imply it . The tute a Ric . II . c . 4. fpeaks of mariners being reted and retained for the ...
... common law . The difficulty arifes hence , that no ftatute has ex- prefsly declared this power to be in the crown , though many of them ftrongly imply it . The tute a Ric . II . c . 4. fpeaks of mariners being reted and retained for the ...
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... common law , a person could we are not to omit those characters of majesty not be imprisoned unless he were guilty of some that God imprinted upon the body . South.- force and violence , for which his body was subShe amidst his spacious ...
... common law , a person could we are not to omit those characters of majesty not be imprisoned unless he were guilty of some that God imprinted upon the body . South.- force and violence , for which his body was subShe amidst his spacious ...
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Page 271 - Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 132 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the...
Page 332 - Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend : but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own — the sole legislature thereof. That there is no body of men competent to make laws to bind this nation except the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland ; nor any other parliament which hath any authority or power of any sort whatsoever in this country save only the Parliament of Ireland.
Page 252 - Shall break into corruption:" so went on, Foretelling this same time's condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK. There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Page 60 - But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold incontinence.
Page 200 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 322 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 154 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own \ Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 35 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 146 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.