The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 2. rész,19. kötetThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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390. oldal
... winds Did seem to say , seek not a scorpion's nest . Shakspeare . Henry VI . Full of scorpions is my mind , dear wife . Id . Macbeth . The squeezing crab and stinging scorpion shine . Dryden . SCORPION . See SCORPIO . SCORPION GRASS is ...
... winds Did seem to say , seek not a scorpion's nest . Shakspeare . Henry VI . Full of scorpions is my mind , dear wife . Id . Macbeth . The squeezing crab and stinging scorpion shine . Dryden . SCORPION . See SCORPIO . SCORPION GRASS is ...
402. oldal
... winds , and provisions becoming scarce , they put ashore 500 men on the coast of Buchan , to procure them some food : but , their communication with the ships being soon cut off , they fortified themselves as well as they could , and ...
... winds , and provisions becoming scarce , they put ashore 500 men on the coast of Buchan , to procure them some food : but , their communication with the ships being soon cut off , they fortified themselves as well as they could , and ...
419. oldal
... winds , he could not venture to advance , neither could he subsist any longer in his present quarters . To retreat would have sullied the glory of his arms , and exposed him to the obloquy and mur- murs of a discontented people . Yet he ...
... winds , he could not venture to advance , neither could he subsist any longer in his present quarters . To retreat would have sullied the glory of his arms , and exposed him to the obloquy and mur- murs of a discontented people . Yet he ...
460. oldal
... wind had carried both squadrons to the mouth of the Tay . Here the English fought under great disadvantages , by reason of the sand - banks ; and , before they could get clear of them , all the three were obliged to submit to the Scots ...
... wind had carried both squadrons to the mouth of the Tay . Here the English fought under great disadvantages , by reason of the sand - banks ; and , before they could get clear of them , all the three were obliged to submit to the Scots ...
500. oldal
... wind now sprung up , and , a thick fog coming on , she escaped a squadron of men of war which Elizabeth had sent out to intercept her : on the 20th of August she landed safely at Leith . Though the Scots received their queen with the ...
... wind now sprung up , and , a thick fog coming on , she escaped a squadron of men of war which Elizabeth had sent out to intercept her : on the 20th of August she landed safely at Leith . Though the Scots received their queen with the ...
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635. oldal - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me : And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
677. oldal - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
594. oldal - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
743. oldal - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
596. oldal - Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer ; For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
628. oldal - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a Gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at Rome, and founding a church there : and after their exit...
582. oldal - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
594. oldal - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
604. oldal - And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
603. oldal - We entertain a suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other, when they are but few or of a doubtful character, when they have an interest in what they affirm, when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations. There are many other particulars of the same kind which may diminish or destroy the force of any argument derived from human testimony.