The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed, 9. kötet |
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... course all bore the name Lucretia ) lends it its greatest celebrity in story . Lucretia was the wife of Lucius Tar- quinius Collatinus , who had unknowingly charmed the base Sextus Tarquinius , her husband's cousin , the son of ...
... course all bore the name Lucretia ) lends it its greatest celebrity in story . Lucretia was the wife of Lucius Tar- quinius Collatinus , who had unknowingly charmed the base Sextus Tarquinius , her husband's cousin , the son of ...
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... course all bore the name Lucretia ) lends it its greatest celebrity in story . Lucretia was the wife of Lucius Tar- quinius Collatinus , who had unknowingly charmed the base Sextus Tarquinius , her husband's cousin , the son of ...
... course all bore the name Lucretia ) lends it its greatest celebrity in story . Lucretia was the wife of Lucius Tar- quinius Collatinus , who had unknowingly charmed the base Sextus Tarquinius , her husband's cousin , the son of ...
9. oldal
... course of milder treat- rent pursued . ́England is proverbially slow in adopting venents , and for twenty - three years after the chains wn removed from the inmates of the Bicêtre , the old de of treatment continued in full force in ...
... course of milder treat- rent pursued . ́England is proverbially slow in adopting venents , and for twenty - three years after the chains wn removed from the inmates of the Bicêtre , the old de of treatment continued in full force in ...
12. oldal
... course of our existence . The lungs of a man are estimated to contain about 330 cubic inches of atmospheric air when filled as full as they can hold , by drawing in the breath to the utmost . At each act of respiration we draw in and ...
... course of our existence . The lungs of a man are estimated to contain about 330 cubic inches of atmospheric air when filled as full as they can hold , by drawing in the breath to the utmost . At each act of respiration we draw in and ...
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... course affected by the nature of that surface . There is no means of judging lustre accurately , it is altogether a matter of appreciation of the eye ; but several varieties and degrees of intensity are recognized , which can be best ...
... course affected by the nature of that surface . There is no means of judging lustre accurately , it is altogether a matter of appreciation of the eye ; but several varieties and degrees of intensity are recognized , which can be best ...
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286. oldal - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
12. oldal - Great, not as a hewn obelisk ; but as an Alpine mountain, — so simple, honest, spontaneous, not setting up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green beautiful valleys with flowers...
237. oldal - That quickens only where thou say'st it may : Unless Thou show to us thine own true way No man can find it : Father ! Thou must lead.
286. oldal - ... for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. — His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; and, as my friend Mr.
286. oldal - The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment. Neither is this strain altogether imitative. His own native notes...
93. oldal - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
35. oldal - The Government is an absolute monarchy, modified and tempered by customs and usages having the force of law; and during the last quarter of a century the power of the Sovereign has been gradually limited and controlled. The Sovereign is advised by her Prime Minister, who is the real source of all political power; he is assisted by a number of ministers who act as heads of departments— education, justice, the interior, foreign affairs, &c.
146. oldal - Father, he blessed it, brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take and eat ye all of this, FOR THIS IS MY BODY.
286. oldal - ... are bold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or at the most five or six syllables, generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity, and continued with undiminished ardour for half an hour or an hour at a time.
136. oldal - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law.