The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 18Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 401
... rent perfectly , and consequently in what other sense it may be truly and properly affirmed that the church is holy . Pearson . I am hastening to convert my small estate , that is personal , into real . Child on Trade . As a diocesan ...
... rent perfectly , and consequently in what other sense it may be truly and properly affirmed that the church is holy . Pearson . I am hastening to convert my small estate , that is personal , into real . Child on Trade . As a diocesan ...
Page 406
... rents , or prices of victuals , & c . REBELLOW , v . n . Re and bellow . bellow in return ; echo back a loud noise . To He loudly brayed with beastly yelling sound , That all the fields rebellowed again . The resisting air the thunder ...
... rents , or prices of victuals , & c . REBELLOW , v . n . Re and bellow . bellow in return ; echo back a loud noise . To He loudly brayed with beastly yelling sound , That all the fields rebellowed again . The resisting air the thunder ...
Page 466
... rent , or where they do not exceed twenty- one years . The registered memorials must be engrossed on parchment , under the hand and seal of some of the granters or grantees , attested by witnesses who are to prove the signing of sealing ...
... rent , or where they do not exceed twenty- one years . The registered memorials must be engrossed on parchment , under the hand and seal of some of the granters or grantees , attested by witnesses who are to prove the signing of sealing ...
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... rent . Bacon . I may well employ the remainder of their lives to perform it to purpose , I mean the work of evangeli ... rents , to be enjoyed after the expiration of another particular estate . As if a man seised in fee simple grants ...
... rent . Bacon . I may well employ the remainder of their lives to perform it to purpose , I mean the work of evangeli ... rents , to be enjoyed after the expiration of another particular estate . As if a man seised in fee simple grants ...
Page 514
... RENT , v. REMPHAN , an idol or Pagan god , whom St. Stephen says the Israelites worshipped in the wilderness as they passed from Egypt to the land of promise . - Acts vii . 43. That the martyr here quotes the words of the prophet Amos ...
... RENT , v. REMPHAN , an idol or Pagan god , whom St. Stephen says the Israelites worshipped in the wilderness as they passed from Egypt to the land of promise . - Acts vii . 43. That the martyr here quotes the words of the prophet Amos ...
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Page 436 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 526 - I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
Page 437 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 384 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 392 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 521 - Let others fear, to me more dear Than all the pride of May : The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul, My griefs it seems to join ; The leafless trees my fancy please, Their fate resembles mine ! Thou Power Supreme whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here, firm I rest ; they must be best. Because they are Thy will...
Page 399 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Page 615 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 579 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Page 510 - This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas. For the narrow mind of man not being capable of having many ideas under view and consideration at once, it was necessary to have a repository to lay up those ideas, which at another time it might have use of.