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 18 |
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A low word . of the greatest burden through nearly that disSuch a pother , tance . Above the tide water the river has three As if that whatsoever god , who leads him , considerable ills , those above Georgetown are Were crept into his ...
A low word . of the greatest burden through nearly that disSuch a pother , tance . Above the tide water the river has three As if that whatsoever god , who leads him , considerable ills , those above Georgetown are Were crept into his ...
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... which , for 157 urgent entreaties , drew from him the secret , and , years and a half , is at an annual average proupon some slight quarrel , he soon after revealed duce of nearly 455,9914 marks . it to his master , a Spaniard .
... which , for 157 urgent entreaties , drew from him the secret , and , years and a half , is at an annual average proupon some slight quarrel , he soon after revealed duce of nearly 455,9914 marks . it to his master , a Spaniard .
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I • Desirous of comparing the strength of the mercu- procured two blocks of wood , very nearly of the rial compound with that of gunpowder , ' says Mr. same size and strength , and bored them with the Howard , ' I made the following ...
I • Desirous of comparing the strength of the mercu- procured two blocks of wood , very nearly of the rial compound with that of gunpowder , ' says Mr. same size and strength , and bored them with the Howard , ' I made the following ...
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... Such a backwardness there was among good men and masquerades , are of . frequent occurrence . to engage with an usurping people , and pragmatical of the population , about 85,000 , nearly 7000 and ambitious orators .
... Such a backwardness there was among good men and masquerades , are of . frequent occurrence . to engage with an usurping people , and pragmatical of the population , about 85,000 , nearly 7000 and ambitious orators .
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From their saros , we deduce their received doctrine among astronomers for nearly measure of this year to be 365d . 5h . 49m . and three centuries , and it was thought perfectly con11. , exceeding the truth only by 26s . , and formable ...
From their saros , we deduce their received doctrine among astronomers for nearly measure of this year to be 365d . 5h . 49m . and three centuries , and it was thought perfectly con11. , exceeding the truth only by 26s . , and formable ...
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Page 41 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 113 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 60 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 41 - Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 41 - By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. " These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 396 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 135 - He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 184 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 403 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 395 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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| Title | 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 18 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, Thomas Curtis |
| Editor | Thomas Curtis |
| Publisher | Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 12, 2007 |
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