Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, 1. kötetA. Constable, 1823 |
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171. oldal
... plough goes before it turns . ACTUS Minimus was a quantity of land 120 feet in length , and four in breadth . Acrus Major , or Actus Quadratus , a piece of ground in a square form , whose side was equal to 120 feet , equal to half the ...
... plough goes before it turns . ACTUS Minimus was a quantity of land 120 feet in length , and four in breadth . Acrus Major , or Actus Quadratus , a piece of ground in a square form , whose side was equal to 120 feet , equal to half the ...
264. oldal
... plough is still unknown , and the ingenuity of man is only exerted to supply his most simple wants . A great part of the country of the Negroes receives Ancient among Europeans the name of Guinea , a term as old name . as the time of ...
... plough is still unknown , and the ingenuity of man is only exerted to supply his most simple wants . A great part of the country of the Negroes receives Ancient among Europeans the name of Guinea , a term as old name . as the time of ...
292. oldal
... plough who could not make one ; and that the driver should make the ropes of twisted willows , with which it was drawn . It was usual for six or eight persons to form themselves into a society for fitting out one of these ploughs ...
... plough who could not make one ; and that the driver should make the ropes of twisted willows , with which it was drawn . It was usual for six or eight persons to form themselves into a society for fitting out one of these ploughs ...
293. oldal
... plough - lands , was to pay the following rent : " Ten casks of honey ; three hundred loaves of bread ; twelve casks ... plough , for example , had but one stilt or handle , which the ploughman guided with one hand , having in his other ...
... plough - lands , was to pay the following rent : " Ten casks of honey ; three hundred loaves of bread ; twelve casks ... plough , for example , had but one stilt or handle , which the ploughman guided with one hand , having in his other ...
294. oldal
... plough of eight oxen , to sow at least a firlot ( little more than a Winchester bushel ) of wheat , and half a firlot of pease , with a proportion of beans ; or with the state of the districts where wheat is said to have been ...
... plough of eight oxen , to sow at least a firlot ( little more than a Winchester bushel ) of wheat , and half a firlot of pease , with a proportion of beans ; or with the state of the districts where wheat is said to have been ...
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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...