The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... chief support of every commonwealth , they were unanimous . The curse denounced upon such as remove ancient land ... chiefs and other individuals of that tribe then voluntarily INFIDELITY . 11.
... chief support of every commonwealth , they were unanimous . The curse denounced upon such as remove ancient land ... chiefs and other individuals of that tribe then voluntarily INFIDELITY . 11.
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Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington). the chiefs and other individuals of that tribe then voluntarily entered ... chief scene of their operations in that coun- try , not only adopted the Swiss discipline , but improved upon it ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington). the chiefs and other individuals of that tribe then voluntarily entered ... chief scene of their operations in that coun- try , not only adopted the Swiss discipline , but improved upon it ...
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... chief , almost the sole outlet , and New York the great empo- rium of a fertile country extending along the lakes , much larger than the British Isles , and fast filling with inhabitants . Proceeding east- ward from Lake Erie the canal ...
... chief , almost the sole outlet , and New York the great empo- rium of a fertile country extending along the lakes , much larger than the British Isles , and fast filling with inhabitants . Proceeding east- ward from Lake Erie the canal ...
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... chief of the apostles , and in our own behalf , do excommunicate and interdict this church , and all the chapels thereunto be- longing , that no man from henceforth may have leave to say mass , or to hear it , or in any wise to ...
... chief of the apostles , and in our own behalf , do excommunicate and interdict this church , and all the chapels thereunto be- longing , that no man from henceforth may have leave to say mass , or to hear it , or in any wise to ...
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... chief , in gracious dignity inthroned , Shines o'er the rest . Thomson's Seasons . Summer . INTIMACY , n . s . Fr. intimer ; INTIMATE , adj . , n . s . , & v . a . Span . intimado ; INTIMATELY , adv . INTIMATION , n . s . IN'TIME , adj ...
... chief , in gracious dignity inthroned , Shines o'er the rest . Thomson's Seasons . Summer . INTIMACY , n . s . Fr. intimer ; INTIMATE , adj . , n . s . , & v . a . Span . intimado ; INTIMATELY , adv . INTIMATION , n . s . IN'TIME , adj ...
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Page 93 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Page 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Page 397 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 285 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...