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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Henry VII : moftly in their crowns and royal robes , together with the portraits of many other eminent perfons of both fexes . The illuminators and painters of this period feem to have been in poffeffion of a confiderable number of ...
... Henry VII : moftly in their crowns and royal robes , together with the portraits of many other eminent perfons of both fexes . The illuminators and painters of this period feem to have been in poffeffion of a confiderable number of ...
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... Henry IV . Rule of living boly . * IMMATERIAL . adj . ( immateriel , Fr. in and * IMMATUŘELY . adv . ( from immature . ] materia , Lat . ] 1. Incorporeal ; diftinct from mat . Too soon ; too early ; before ripeness or completer ; void ...
... Henry IV . Rule of living boly . * IMMATERIAL . adj . ( immateriel , Fr. in and * IMMATUŘELY . adv . ( from immature . ] materia , Lat . ] 1. Incorporeal ; diftinct from mat . Too soon ; too early ; before ripeness or completer ; void ...
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... Henry IV . * IMMATERIAL . adj . [ immateriel , Fr. in and materia , Lat . ] 1. Incorporeal ; diftinct from mat- ter ; void of matter . - Angels are fpirits immate- rial and intellectual , the glorious inhabitants of thofe facred palaces ...
... Henry IV . * IMMATERIAL . adj . [ immateriel , Fr. in and materia , Lat . ] 1. Incorporeal ; diftinct from mat- ter ; void of matter . - Angels are fpirits immate- rial and intellectual , the glorious inhabitants of thofe facred palaces ...
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... Henry V. nance the landing in his long - boat . Wotton . - Ly . 2. A subaltern devil ; a puny devil . In this fenfe fimachus immur'd it with a wall . Sandys's Tra . ' tis still retained .-- Such we deny not to be the vels . imps and ...
... Henry V. nance the landing in his long - boat . Wotton . - Ly . 2. A subaltern devil ; a puny devil . In this fenfe fimachus immur'd it with a wall . Sandys's Tra . ' tis still retained .-- Such we deny not to be the vels . imps and ...
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... Henry.- And thou most dreaded imp of higheft Jove Fair Venus ' fon Fairy Quee The tender imp was weaned from the teat . Fairfa A lad of life , an imp of fame . Shak . Henry 2. A fubaltern devil ; a puny devil . In this fen ' tis ftill ...
... Henry.- And thou most dreaded imp of higheft Jove Fair Venus ' fon Fairy Quee The tender imp was weaned from the teat . Fairfa A lad of life , an imp of fame . Shak . Henry 2. A fubaltern devil ; a puny devil . In this fen ' tis ftill ...
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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.