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, Том 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... force of about 20,000 regular troops . Every soldier may demand his dis- charge and a pension after twenty years ' service : the number of these pensioners is at present con- siderable ; but they are liable to do militia duty ...
... force of about 20,000 regular troops . Every soldier may demand his dis- charge and a pension after twenty years ' service : the number of these pensioners is at present con- siderable ; but they are liable to do militia duty ...
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... force , and obliged the members to return , and pass decrees of accu- sation against the Girondists . He acted on all occasions as a faithful partizan of Robespierre , whom , when accused , he in vain endeavoured to support , and was ...
... force , and obliged the members to return , and pass decrees of accu- sation against the Girondists . He acted on all occasions as a faithful partizan of Robespierre , whom , when accused , he in vain endeavoured to support , and was ...
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... force , and hardly wings deny . Creech . We view in the open champaign a brace of swift greyhounds , coursing a good stout and well - breathed To hare and rate them , is not to teach but vex them . hare . Hills , dales , and forests far ...
... force , and hardly wings deny . Creech . We view in the open champaign a brace of swift greyhounds , coursing a good stout and well - breathed To hare and rate them , is not to teach but vex them . hare . Hills , dales , and forests far ...
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... force , not quite so strong as the sea - breeze ( which blows every day during the fair season from the west , W.S.W. , and south - west ) ; but somewhat stronger than the land wind at night from the north and N.N.W. A fog is one of the ...
... force , not quite so strong as the sea - breeze ( which blows every day during the fair season from the west , W.S.W. , and south - west ) ; but somewhat stronger than the land wind at night from the north and N.N.W. A fog is one of the ...
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... force which alters the chords , and destroys the purity of the harmony ; for this position is equally false both in theory and practice : in theory , because an impulse , however forcible , must proportionally operate on all the parts ...
... force which alters the chords , and destroys the purity of the harmony ; for this position is equally false both in theory and practice : in theory , because an impulse , however forcible , must proportionally operate on all the parts ...
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Страница 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Страница 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Страница 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Страница 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Страница 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Страница 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Страница 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Страница 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Страница 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Страница 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.