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 12Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... body morbidly : figuratively , kindle any pas- to sion ; to enrage ; provoke ; aggravate ; to grow hot : an angry inflamer , the thing or person that inflames : inflammable , inflammability , having the quality of catching fire ...
... body morbidly : figuratively , kindle any pas- to sion ; to enrage ; provoke ; aggravate ; to grow hot : an angry inflamer , the thing or person that inflames : inflammable , inflammability , having the quality of catching fire ...
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... bodies which have finer spirits , repeat the infusion of the body Drink , infused with flesh , will nourish faster and eas'er than meat and drink together . Id . For when God's hand had written in the hearts Of our first parents all the ...
... bodies which have finer spirits , repeat the infusion of the body Drink , infused with flesh , will nourish faster and eas'er than meat and drink together . Id . For when God's hand had written in the hearts Of our first parents all the ...
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... body into the body putrefied ; or else by excitation of the body putrefied by the body ambient . Bacon . The fire would strain the pores of the glass too suddenly , and break it all in pieces to get ingression . Digby on Bodies . Those ...
... body into the body putrefied ; or else by excitation of the body putrefied by the body ambient . Bacon . The fire would strain the pores of the glass too suddenly , and break it all in pieces to get ingression . Digby on Bodies . Those ...
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... body's action teach my mind Id . Id . They say wild beasts inhabit here ; But grief and wrong secure my fear . The fixed stars are all of them suns , with systems Locke . of inhabitable planets moving about them . They ought to ...
... body's action teach my mind Id . Id . They say wild beasts inhabit here ; But grief and wrong secure my fear . The fixed stars are all of them suns , with systems Locke . of inhabitable planets moving about them . They ought to ...
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... body . Browne . men . We should contemplate reverently the works of nature and grace , the inscrutable ways of ... bodies , whereby they are cut , as it were , into two parts , as we see in wasps and common flies . See ENTOMOLOGY . Any ...
... body . Browne . men . We should contemplate reverently the works of nature and grace , the inscrutable ways of ... bodies , whereby they are cut , as it were , into two parts , as we see in wasps and common flies . See ENTOMOLOGY . Any ...
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Page 89 - 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 69 - 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 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 52 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 15 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Page 383 - 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 265 - 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 36 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Page 188 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 4 - The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this...