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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... king and partly at that of a sub- ject ; and secondly , such as are only in the name of the king . The former are usually brought upon penal statutes , which inflict a penalty upon conviction of the offender , one part to the use of the ...
... king and partly at that of a sub- ject ; and secondly , such as are only in the name of the king . The former are usually brought upon penal statutes , which inflict a penalty upon conviction of the offender , one part to the use of the ...
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... king's supremacy , and the lawfulness and use of the liturgy . Before institution he must also take the oaths ... king , but it is not full against the king , till induction ; and the clerk by it may enter upon the parsonage house and ...
... king's supremacy , and the lawfulness and use of the liturgy . Before institution he must also take the oaths ... king , but it is not full against the king , till induction ; and the clerk by it may enter upon the parsonage house and ...
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... king , being in amity with him , did so burn in hatred towards him , as to drink of the lees and dregs of Perkin's intoxication , who was every where else detected . Bacon . The more a man drinketh of the world , the more it ...
... king , being in amity with him , did so burn in hatred towards him , as to drink of the lees and dregs of Perkin's intoxication , who was every where else detected . Bacon . The more a man drinketh of the world , the more it ...
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... king David , and the son of Zeruiah , David's sister , and brother of Abishai and Asahel . His defeat of the army ... king of Sicily , was born in 1326 ; and began to reign in 1345. She married Andrew king of Hungary , whom she murdered ...
... king David , and the son of Zeruiah , David's sister , and brother of Abishai and Asahel . His defeat of the army ... king of Sicily , was born in 1326 ; and began to reign in 1345. She married Andrew king of Hungary , whom she murdered ...
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... king of Israel . Though he copied the political idolatryof Jeroboam I. he seems to have had a great respect for Elishah . His last visit to that prophet , with his repeated victories over the Syrians , and over Amaziah king of Judah ...
... king of Israel . Though he copied the political idolatryof Jeroboam I. he seems to have had a great respect for Elishah . His last visit to that prophet , with his repeated victories over the Syrians , and over Amaziah king of Judah ...
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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...