Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 13. kötet,1. részColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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1. oldal
... fubject , ( id . iv . and vi . ) Sanballat , the chief of the enemies of the Jews , to- gether with his affociates , wrote word , that a report was spread that the Jews were building the walls of Jeru falem only with a defign to make it ...
... fubject , ( id . iv . and vi . ) Sanballat , the chief of the enemies of the Jews , to- gether with his affociates , wrote word , that a report was spread that the Jews were building the walls of Jeru falem only with a defign to make it ...
5. oldal
... fubject ; yet Nemefianus's style is natural enough , and has fome degree of elegance . The world was to much poffeffed with an opinion of his poem in the eighth century , that it was read among the claffics in the public fchools ...
... fubject ; yet Nemefianus's style is natural enough , and has fome degree of elegance . The world was to much poffeffed with an opinion of his poem in the eighth century , that it was read among the claffics in the public fchools ...
15. oldal
... fubjects of that crown , and they now experience the faine miferies with the rest of the republic . The Spaniards ... fubject to thick fogs in win- ter , through the moistnefs of the country , which would be very noxious , were it not ...
... fubjects of that crown , and they now experience the faine miferies with the rest of the republic . The Spaniards ... fubject to thick fogs in win- ter , through the moistnefs of the country , which would be very noxious , were it not ...
21. oldal
... fubject different from the actor ; as to dine , to fup , to play , & c . " " But this latter kind fometimes cease to be neuter , and commence active ; especially in Greek and Latin , when a fubject is given them : as , vivere vitam ...
... fubject different from the actor ; as to dine , to fup , to play , & c . " " But this latter kind fometimes cease to be neuter , and commence active ; especially in Greek and Latin , when a fubject is given them : as , vivere vitam ...
29. oldal
... fubject on any account . Dinner has been often three hours ready for him before he could be brought to table : and his man often faid , when he has been getting up in a morning , he has fometimes begun to drefs , and with one leg in his ...
... fubject on any account . Dinner has been often three hours ready for him before he could be brought to table : and his man often faid , when he has been getting up in a morning , he has fometimes begun to drefs , and with one leg in his ...
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35. oldal - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed ; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
131. oldal - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems ; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
122. oldal - ... he always annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one or the other by endeavouring to prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himself, and find at last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules.
122. oldal - I suppose it will be easily granted, that no man can judge whether any animal be beautiful in its kind, or deformed, who has seen only one of that species...
131. oldal - ... we lose the abhorrence of their faults, because they do not hinder our pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness, for being united with so much merit.
131. oldal - It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
122. oldal - ... the centre ; or it may be compared to pendulums vibrating in different directions over one central point ; and as they all cross the centre, though only one passes through any other point...
122. oldal - Every species of the animal as well as the vegetable creation may be said to have a fixed or determinate form, towards which nature is continually inclining...
224. oldal - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
131. oldal - ... the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may, by conquering some calamities and enduring others, teach us what we may hope and what we can perform.