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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... died Sep- tember 7th , 1799 , at Bowood in Wiltshire , the seat of the marquis of Lansdowne . INGENIOUS , adj . \ Fr. ingenieur ; Sp . INGENIOUSLY , adv . ingenioso ; Latin , inge- INGENIOUSNESS , n . s . nium , ingenuus , in- INGENUITY ...
... died Sep- tember 7th , 1799 , at Bowood in Wiltshire , the seat of the marquis of Lansdowne . INGENIOUS , adj . \ Fr. ingenieur ; Sp . INGENIOUSLY , adv . ingenioso ; Latin , inge- INGENIOUSNESS , n . s . nium , ingenuus , in- INGENUITY ...
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... died in 1216 ; and his works were printed at Cologne in 1575 . INNOCENT V. , a Dominican friar , was archbi- shop of Lyons , next a cardinal , and at last elected pope , in 1276 , but died a few months after . His works on religion have ...
... died in 1216 ; and his works were printed at Cologne in 1575 . INNOCENT V. , a Dominican friar , was archbi- shop of Lyons , next a cardinal , and at last elected pope , in 1276 , but died a few months after . His works on religion have ...
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... died in 1202 . JOACHIMITES , in church history , the dis- ciples of Joachim . They were particularly fond of certain ternaries : The Father , they said , ope- rated from the beginning till the coming of the Son ; the Son , from that ...
... died in 1202 . JOACHIMITES , in church history , the dis- ciples of Joachim . They were particularly fond of certain ternaries : The Father , they said , ope- rated from the beginning till the coming of the Son ; the Son , from that ...
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... died in 1696 , aged seventy - two . JOHN XXII . a native of Cahors , before called James d'Euse , was skilled in the civil and canon law ; and was elected pope after the death of Clement V. on the 7th of August 1316. He published the ...
... died in 1696 , aged seventy - two . JOHN XXII . a native of Cahors , before called James d'Euse , was skilled in the civil and canon law ; and was elected pope after the death of Clement V. on the 7th of August 1316. He published the ...
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... died in 1182. He was one of the first restorers of the Greek and Latin languages in Europe , and an elegant Latin poet . He wrote several books ; the principal of which are , his Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury , a collection of ...
... died in 1182. He was one of the first restorers of the Greek and Latin languages in Europe , and an elegant Latin poet . He wrote several books ; the principal of which are , his Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury , a collection of ...
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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...