The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 22Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 378
... Quantity , and an Analysis of Aristotle's Logic . New edition , 8vo . 0 10 6 Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind Robinson's Scripture Characters , new edition , 0 26 with Memoir by W. Jones , and Rev. Robert Hall's Eulogy , 5 vols ...
... Quantity , and an Analysis of Aristotle's Logic . New edition , 8vo . 0 10 6 Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind Robinson's Scripture Characters , new edition , 0 26 with Memoir by W. Jones , and Rev. Robert Hall's Eulogy , 5 vols ...
Page 386
... quantity of honey or treacle , and liquorice powder , and make them into a mass fit for balls . The weight of each ball should be one ounce and a half . 2. Hide - bound . When a horse's hide or skin sticks to his ribs , as it were , and ...
... quantity of honey or treacle , and liquorice powder , and make them into a mass fit for balls . The weight of each ball should be one ounce and a half . 2. Hide - bound . When a horse's hide or skin sticks to his ribs , as it were , and ...
Page 389
... quantity of blood thrown into the frog , from the compression which the sensible foot undergoes from the contraction of the heels . In this case , the animal suffers pain from his in- effectual efforts to expand the inelastic and in ...
... quantity of blood thrown into the frog , from the compression which the sensible foot undergoes from the contraction of the heels . In this case , the animal suffers pain from his in- effectual efforts to expand the inelastic and in ...
Page 390
... quantity of syrup to make a ball . One of these balls should be given every third night , and worked off the following morning with a common purg- ing ball ; by this treatment the blood will be cooled and improved , and the disease ...
... quantity of syrup to make a ball . One of these balls should be given every third night , and worked off the following morning with a common purg- ing ball ; by this treatment the blood will be cooled and improved , and the disease ...
Page 391
... quantities , and is of so sticky and thick a substance , that it adheres to the orifice of the nostrils and upper lip , so as frequently to impede free nasal respiration , and cause the animal to snuffle and snore . Sometimes the matter ...
... quantities , and is of so sticky and thick a substance , that it adheres to the orifice of the nostrils and upper lip , so as frequently to impede free nasal respiration , and cause the animal to snuffle and snore . Sometimes the matter ...
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Page 524 - 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 442 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
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Page 421 - Good, t' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian if need were To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 393 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Page 524 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
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Page 396 - These villeins, belonging principally to lords of manors were either villeins regardant, that is, annexed to the manor or land: or else they were in gross, or at large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another.
Page 633 - Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that 'which we all see and know ; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments...