Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, 15. kötetJohn Brown, 1816 |
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1. oldal
... French ; mayn or maun , Welth , from maen lapis , in the plural meini . ] 1. A place or cavern in the earth which contains metals or minerals.- In your large heart was found a wealthy mine . Waller . -A workman , to avoid idleness ...
... French ; mayn or maun , Welth , from maen lapis , in the plural meini . ] 1. A place or cavern in the earth which contains metals or minerals.- In your large heart was found a wealthy mine . Waller . -A workman , to avoid idleness ...
16. oldal
... French ; from mineral and λoy . ] One who discourses on minerals . - Many authors deny it , and the exacteft mineralogifts have rejected it . Brown's Vulg . Err . TREATISE . MINERALOGY is undoubtedly a very ancient fcience , but by no ...
... French ; from mineral and λoy . ] One who discourses on minerals . - Many authors deny it , and the exacteft mineralogifts have rejected it . Brown's Vulg . Err . TREATISE . MINERALOGY is undoubtedly a very ancient fcience , but by no ...
28. oldal
... French writers phyfical ; the 2d chemical . " The external properties may be arranged un- der the following heads : t . Figure . 2. Surface . 3 . Transparency . 4. Colour . 5. Scratch . 6. Luftre . 7. Hardness . 8. Ductility . 9 ...
... French writers phyfical ; the 2d chemical . " The external properties may be arranged un- der the following heads : t . Figure . 2. Surface . 3 . Transparency . 4. Colour . 5. Scratch . 6. Luftre . 7. Hardness . 8. Ductility . 9 ...
47. oldal
... French . Topaz of the ancients . The name Chryfolite was applied , without difcrimination , to a great variety of ftones , till Werner defined it accurately , and confined it to that which the French chemifts diftinguish by the ...
... French . Topaz of the ancients . The name Chryfolite was applied , without difcrimination , to a great variety of ftones , till Werner defined it accurately , and confined it to that which the French chemifts diftinguish by the ...
89. oldal
... French ; from minimum , Latin . ] 1. Painting in water - co- lours with powders tempered with water . A mode of painting almoft appropriated to small fi- gures . 2. Representation in a small compass ; re- prefentation lefs than the ...
... French ; from minimum , Latin . ] 1. Painting in water - co- lours with powders tempered with water . A mode of painting almoft appropriated to small fi- gures . 2. Representation in a small compass ; re- prefentation lefs than the ...
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113. oldal - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
355. oldal - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
302. oldal - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
133. oldal - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
398. oldal - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
373. oldal - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
313. oldal - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
311. oldal - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
398. oldal - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
315. oldal - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...