Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E. Smedley, Hugh J. Rose and Henry J. Rose. [With] Plates, Volume 141845 |
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... Alps and Pyrenees . Some resemble pyramids and obelisks , while others are flat and square , grouped with the utmost irregularity . The country abounds also in forests , morasses , deep and beautiful vallies and rivers . This renders ...
... Alps and Pyrenees . Some resemble pyramids and obelisks , while others are flat and square , grouped with the utmost irregularity . The country abounds also in forests , morasses , deep and beautiful vallies and rivers . This renders ...
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... Alps ] leaving their wives and younger children below , do , not without some difficulty , clamber up the acclivities , dragging their kine with them . Ray's Wisdom of God in the Creation . ACCLIVITY , in a military sense , the slope of ...
... Alps ] leaving their wives and younger children below , do , not without some difficulty , clamber up the acclivities , dragging their kine with them . Ray's Wisdom of God in the Creation . ACCLIVITY , in a military sense , the slope of ...
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... Alps , in Rhætia , said to be the highest in Europe , in ADULT . which are the sources of the Rhine , Rhone , Nantz , Tesin , and Aa . It is the modern St. Gotherd . Adula is also a name given to a mountain of Navarre , in Spain ...
... Alps , in Rhætia , said to be the highest in Europe , in ADULT . which are the sources of the Rhine , Rhone , Nantz , Tesin , and Aa . It is the modern St. Gotherd . Adula is also a name given to a mountain of Navarre , in Spain ...
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... Alps , and thence flows into and through the Grisons , the country of Tyrol , the dutchy of Ba- varia , and into the Danube by way of Passau . ENUS , in Ancient Geography , now called Eno , and too often undistinguished from neia ...
... Alps , and thence flows into and through the Grisons , the country of Tyrol , the dutchy of Ba- varia , and into the Danube by way of Passau . ENUS , in Ancient Geography , now called Eno , and too often undistinguished from neia ...
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... Alps , much more to the magnificent chains of moun- tains that appear in the western world . Sir Geo . Shuckburgh observes , in the Philosophical Transac- tions ( vol . Ixvii ) , that Vesuvius placed upon mount Ætna , would not be equal ...
... Alps , much more to the magnificent chains of moun- tains that appear in the western world . Sir Geo . Shuckburgh observes , in the Philosophical Transac- tions ( vol . Ixvii ) , that Vesuvius placed upon mount Ætna , would not be equal ...
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Page 9 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 293 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 194 - At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being...
Page 327 - PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames...
Page 69 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree : his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 194 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these:- "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.
Page 78 - I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for them at Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 245 - Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal, All men think all men mortal but themselves...
Page 110 - And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand : and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Page 246 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?