Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Том 8John Brown, 1816 |
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... most o thers which have ever happened in Chriftendom on account of religion , was that pernicious max- im of Popery , that the church is independent of the ftate . It is not to be fuppofed that this maxim was agreeable to the fovereign ...
... most o thers which have ever happened in Chriftendom on account of religion , was that pernicious max- im of Popery , that the church is independent of the ftate . It is not to be fuppofed that this maxim was agreeable to the fovereign ...
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... most of our ancient records , on purpose to prevent any marks of the former independency of the nation from remaining to pofterity . Afterwards Crom- well spoiled this nation of its records , moft of which were fent to the tower of ...
... most of our ancient records , on purpose to prevent any marks of the former independency of the nation from remaining to pofterity . Afterwards Crom- well spoiled this nation of its records , moft of which were fent to the tower of ...
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... most splendid structure trates , and Town Council , with the Principal , of the fort in Europe , will be the completeft and Profeffors , and Students of the university , a num- most commodious ; and it will do the utmost ho- ber of ...
... most splendid structure trates , and Town Council , with the Principal , of the fort in Europe , will be the completeft and Profeffors , and Students of the university , a num- most commodious ; and it will do the utmost ho- ber of ...
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... most diftant quarters of the globe . The profeffor is botanist to the king , and receives a falary of 120 ) . annually for the fupport of the garden . A mo- nument , to the memory of the celebrated bota- nist Linnæus , was erected here ...
... most diftant quarters of the globe . The profeffor is botanist to the king , and receives a falary of 120 ) . annually for the fupport of the garden . A mo- nument , to the memory of the celebrated bota- nist Linnæus , was erected here ...
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... most ef fectual measures to fecure this refpect ; they should take the simplest and most probable methods of cherifling thofe feeds of knowledge which feem more or less to be lodged in the minds of children , and require only proper ...
... most ef fectual measures to fecure this refpect ; they should take the simplest and most probable methods of cherifling thofe feeds of knowledge which feem more or less to be lodged in the minds of children , and require only proper ...
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Страница 393 - ... does as much as in him lies, break or stop the pipes whereby it is distributed to the public use and advantage of mankind. He that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what does he but lead himself and others into errors? And he that designedly does it, ought to be looked on as an enemy to truth and knowledge.
Страница 353 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Страница 177 - If the iron globe is fixed on a pedeftal an inch from the table, and a glafs hoop, or a portion of a hollow glafs cylinder excited, be placed round it, the light body will move as in the circumftanccs mentioned above, and with the fame varieties.
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Страница 360 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in fhades, eludes her eager fwain ; But feigns a laugh, to fee me fearch around, ?'And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
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Страница 196 - It is imponderable, and, by its distribution, in various proportions, among the particles of matter, gives rise to the three general forms of gas, liquids and solids. The particles of water, by losing caloric, have their cohesion so much increased, that they assume the solid form of ice...
Страница 389 - And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
Страница 339 - Again, a painter was desirous of drawing the elephant kept in the menagerie at Versailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw fruit into his mouth ; but as he...
Страница 237 - When a quire of paper, without any thing between the leaves, is pierced by the electrical ftroke, the two powers keep in the fame track, and make but one hole in their paffage through the paper; not but that the power from above, or that from below, fometimes darts into the paper at two or more different points, making fo many holes; but thefe generally unite before they go through the paper. They...