Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, 1. kötetA. Constable, 1823 |
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95. oldal
... curled artificially by means " of a stick , and which our author supposes to be the same with the crisping - pin mentioned Isa iii . 22. The men have a girdle of coarse cotton cloth , swathed six times round their middle ; and they ...
... curled artificially by means " of a stick , and which our author supposes to be the same with the crisping - pin mentioned Isa iii . 22. The men have a girdle of coarse cotton cloth , swathed six times round their middle ; and they ...
173. oldal
... curled , and of a colour inclining to black ; his upper lip covered with short hair : and instead of the bestial parts which modesty will not allow us to name , he was fashioned as our bo- dies will be in the life eternal , which I know ...
... curled , and of a colour inclining to black ; his upper lip covered with short hair : and instead of the bestial parts which modesty will not allow us to name , he was fashioned as our bo- dies will be in the life eternal , which I know ...
265. oldal
... curls , which include a space of about five feet diameter , and give it at a distance some resemblance to the mouth of a well . Over these curls or rings it rears its head and part of its body , and remains immoveable till some animal ...
... curls , which include a space of about five feet diameter , and give it at a distance some resemblance to the mouth of a well . Over these curls or rings it rears its head and part of its body , and remains immoveable till some animal ...
331. oldal
... curled disease in potatoes has long been a sub - The curled ject of investigation and experiment among farmers ; disease in and the knowledge of its cause and cure seems yet to potatoes , remain a desideratum . The Agricultural Society ...
... curled disease in potatoes has long been a sub - The curled ject of investigation and experiment among farmers ; disease in and the knowledge of its cause and cure seems yet to potatoes , remain a desideratum . The Agricultural Society ...
332. oldal
... curled . The unsteeped ones generally failed , and those few that came up were mostly curled . Diseases of he found them all bitten , chiefly from the surface to Plants . the root , which of course stopped the progress of the sap , and ...
... curled . The unsteeped ones generally failed , and those few that came up were mostly curled . Diseases of he found them all bitten , chiefly from the surface to Plants . the root , which of course stopped the progress of the sap , and ...
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206. oldal - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
206. oldal - So, when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
278. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
15. oldal - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.
187. oldal - Tickell, that he employed wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above...
187. oldal - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son. Rowe's ballad of The Despairing Shepherd is said to have been written, either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair; and it is certain that Addison has left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love.
188. oldal - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can...
46. oldal - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
188. oldal - He wrote, as different exigencies required (in 1707), the Present State of the War, and the necessity of an augmentation...
206. oldal - And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him ; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery...