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 18Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... miles . The smaller part lying on the rivers March and Hanna , is fertile ; the rest is mountainous and containing only here and there fruitful spots . The pastures are good , and the number of sheep considerable . The chief rivers are ...
... miles . The smaller part lying on the rivers March and Hanna , is fertile ; the rest is mountainous and containing only here and there fruitful spots . The pastures are good , and the number of sheep considerable . The chief rivers are ...
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... miles . The Carpathians traverse the whole length of this district ; but in general the elevations are not great , and they are com- monly covered with vineyards . Of the wine produced , that called the Szent George Ausbruck is inferior ...
... miles . The Carpathians traverse the whole length of this district ; but in general the elevations are not great , and they are com- monly covered with vineyards . Of the wine produced , that called the Szent George Ausbruck is inferior ...
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... miles W. N. W. of London , in the direct road to Aberystwith . It is a neat well - built town , with clean and regular streets , and is the residence of many genteel families . It is seated on a gravelly soil on the banks of the Lug ...
... miles W. N. W. of London , in the direct road to Aberystwith . It is a neat well - built town , with clean and regular streets , and is the residence of many genteel families . It is seated on a gravelly soil on the banks of the Lug ...
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... mile north of Preston . It is a burgh of barony , and a port of the custom - house , eight miles east of Edinburgh , and nine and three - quarters north - west of Had- dington . It received its charter of erection in 1617 , by which ...
... mile north of Preston . It is a burgh of barony , and a port of the custom - house , eight miles east of Edinburgh , and nine and three - quarters north - west of Had- dington . It received its charter of erection in 1617 , by which ...
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... miles broad , which forms the harbour , and affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships . There is also an inner harbour , where ships may receive all repairs that can be performed without going into dock . The principal entrance ...
... miles broad , which forms the harbour , and affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships . There is also an inner harbour , where ships may receive all repairs that can be performed without going into dock . The principal entrance ...
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Page 41 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 113 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 60 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 41 - Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 41 - By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. " These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 396 - 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 135 - He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 184 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 403 - 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. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 395 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.