Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 13John Brown, 1816 |
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... French , and even the arguments of the counfel and decifions of the court were in the fame barbarous dialect . An evident and fhameful badge , it must be owned , of tyranny and foreign fervitude ; being introduced under the aufpices of ...
... French , and even the arguments of the counfel and decifions of the court were in the fame barbarous dialect . An evident and fhameful badge , it must be owned , of tyranny and foreign fervitude ; being introduced under the aufpices of ...
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... French . It is faid ori ginally to fignify forrow or complaint , and then to have been transferred to poems written to exprefs forrow . It is derived by the French from leffus , Latin , a funeral fong ; but it is found likewife in the ...
... French . It is faid ori ginally to fignify forrow or complaint , and then to have been transferred to poems written to exprefs forrow . It is derived by the French from leffus , Latin , a funeral fong ; but it is found likewife in the ...
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... French workmen , according to the minute detail of this procefs given in the Encyclopedie , re peat the divifion and the beating once more ; but as the fquares of gold , taken for the first opera- tion , have four times the area of ...
... French workmen , according to the minute detail of this procefs given in the Encyclopedie , re peat the divifion and the beating once more ; but as the fquares of gold , taken for the first opera- tion , have four times the area of ...
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... French and Ger- mans , contains 3000 geometrical paces , or 3 Eng- lifh miles . The French league fometimes con- tains the fame measure , and in fome parts of France it confifts of 3500 paces : the mean or common league confifts of 2400 ...
... French and Ger- mans , contains 3000 geometrical paces , or 3 Eng- lifh miles . The French league fometimes con- tains the fame measure , and in fome parts of France it confifts of 3500 paces : the mean or common league confifts of 2400 ...
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... French call infernals , used at the bombardment of St Malo's , in 1693. In thefe kind of inventions , as well as in compofitions for fire - works , he had fre- quent trials of fkill with French and Dutch gun- ners and engineers in ...
... French call infernals , used at the bombardment of St Malo's , in 1693. In thefe kind of inventions , as well as in compofitions for fire - works , he had fre- quent trials of fkill with French and Dutch gun- ners and engineers in ...
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Page 315 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Thiscalledon me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace.
Page 315 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 187 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 181 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Page 259 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 200 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 183 - And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
Page 287 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say. And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries. And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 380 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our LORD 1666, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant Religion, and old English Liberty, and introducing Popery and Slavery.
Page 323 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.