A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 4 |
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The depth Then snatch'd the shining belt , with gold inlaid ; varies from four fathoms to twenty - seven . The The belt Eurytion's artful hands had made . Dryden . passage of both Belts is attended with considerBelt , BALTHEUS , a kind ...
The depth Then snatch'd the shining belt , with gold inlaid ; varies from four fathoms to twenty - seven . The The belt Eurytion's artful hands had made . Dryden . passage of both Belts is attended with considerBelt , BALTHEUS , a kind ...
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Otherwise it is called a bend sinister , as fended by a small garrison , with three or four in fig . 2. Bends are composed of either plain pieces of cannon . In its vicinity are to be seen or crooked lines ; engrailed , wavy , crenelle ...
Otherwise it is called a bend sinister , as fended by a small garrison , with three or four in fig . 2. Bends are composed of either plain pieces of cannon . In its vicinity are to be seen or crooked lines ; engrailed , wavy , crenelle ...
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... it possible , to unite the four religious communities appearing to have been sung in all the churches , of Christendom , and he proposed , that four as early as St. Chrysostom's time . councils should be held in different places ...
... it possible , to unite the four religious communities appearing to have been sung in all the churches , of Christendom , and he proposed , that four as early as St. Chrysostom's time . councils should be held in different places ...
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The rivers , besides those gigantic streams , the The soubah of Bengal consists of twenty - four Ganges , the Brahma - putra , and Megna , are the sircars , and 787 mahals . The revenue is Rup - naráïn , Dámóda , Téstà , Cúram ...
The rivers , besides those gigantic streams , the The soubah of Bengal consists of twenty - four Ganges , the Brahma - putra , and Megna , are the sircars , and 787 mahals . The revenue is Rup - naráïn , Dámóda , Téstà , Cúram ...
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... east of the Hooghly river , thirty - four ruled until his death in 1759 , when he was miles north of Calcutta , is celebrated as the place succeeded by Soulet Jung ; on whose death the where the Hindoos used formerly to drown them- ...
... east of the Hooghly river , thirty - four ruled until his death in 1759 , when he was miles north of Calcutta , is celebrated as the place succeeded by Soulet Jung ; on whose death the where the Hindoos used formerly to drown them- ...
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Page 297 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 373 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
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Page 254 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Page 280 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.
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| Title | A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 4 A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Thomas Curtis |
| Editor | Thomas Curtis |
| Publisher | Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 13, 2007 |
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