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 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... houses are found to be built of unburnt bricks , with little lime ; and hence , if a house be awhile neglected , it becomes a heap of rubbish and mud . The dola's resi- dence is large and lofty , having one front to the sea , and ...
... houses are found to be built of unburnt bricks , with little lime ; and hence , if a house be awhile neglected , it becomes a heap of rubbish and mud . The dola's resi- dence is large and lofty , having one front to the sea , and ...
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... house of Modena . The extent and population of the six districts of Modena Proper is 1740 square miles , with ... houses are well built , and the streets clean and regular . The finest is the Strada Maestra , but almost all of ...
... house of Modena . The extent and population of the six districts of Modena Proper is 1740 square miles , with ... houses are well built , and the streets clean and regular . The finest is the Strada Maestra , but almost all of ...
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... house , treasury , the resi- dence of the Alkaid , and the houses of the fo- reign merchants ; and an outer town lately inha- bited by the Jews who are not foreign merchants : but this part of Mogador is also walled and for- tified . The ...
... house , treasury , the resi- dence of the Alkaid , and the houses of the fo- reign merchants ; and an outer town lately inha- bited by the Jews who are not foreign merchants : but this part of Mogador is also walled and for- tified . The ...
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... houses of commons in both kingdoms : king George I. made him a commissioner of trade and plantations , and advanced ... house of commons , for the encouragement of agriculture ; and translated Franco - Gallia , a Latin treatise of ...
... houses of commons in both kingdoms : king George I. made him a commissioner of trade and plantations , and advanced ... house of commons , for the encouragement of agriculture ; and translated Franco - Gallia , a Latin treatise of ...
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... houses of monks , mendicant friars , and nuns : abbeys , priories , & c . , are more properly called religious houses . The houses belonging to the several religious orders in England and Wales were cathedrals , colleges , abbeys ...
... houses of monks , mendicant friars , and nuns : abbeys , priories , & c . , are more properly called religious houses . The houses belonging to the several religious orders in England and Wales were cathedrals , colleges , abbeys ...
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Page 110 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Page 170 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 59 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 127 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Page 36 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 105 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
Page 218 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Page 417 - 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.
Page 134 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Page 77 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...