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,9. kötetThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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390. oldal
... ancient laws of the country ordained men to be kept on bread alone , unmixed with salt , as the severest punishment that could be inflicted upon them in their moist climate . The effect was horrible ; these wretched criminals are said ...
... ancient laws of the country ordained men to be kept on bread alone , unmixed with salt , as the severest punishment that could be inflicted upon them in their moist climate . The effect was horrible ; these wretched criminals are said ...
392. oldal
... ancient beverage : it is recommended by Hippocrates , and preferred by him to every other aliment in acute diseases . Barley has the ad- vantage over other grains , in affording less viscid potations . The invention of pearl barley has ...
... ancient beverage : it is recommended by Hippocrates , and preferred by him to every other aliment in acute diseases . Barley has the ad- vantage over other grains , in affording less viscid potations . The invention of pearl barley has ...
395. oldal
... ancient , I believe , as the time of Hippocrates , that whatever pleases the palate nourishes ; and I have often had reason to think it perfectly just . Could it be clearly ascertained and demonstrated , it would tend to place cookery ...
... ancient , I believe , as the time of Hippocrates , that whatever pleases the palate nourishes ; and I have often had reason to think it perfectly just . Could it be clearly ascertained and demonstrated , it would tend to place cookery ...
400. oldal
... ancient Greek foot is eleven inches 875 of the English foot . FOOT OF A HORSE , in the manege , the ex- tremity of the leg , from the coronet to the lower part of the hoof . See FARRIERY . FOOT , SOLID or CUBIC , is the same measure in ...
... ancient Greek foot is eleven inches 875 of the English foot . FOOT OF A HORSE , in the manege , the ex- tremity of the leg , from the coronet to the lower part of the hoof . See FARRIERY . FOOT , SOLID or CUBIC , is the same measure in ...
413. oldal
... ancient augur , skilled in future fate , With these foreboding words restrains their hate . Dryden . Fate makes you deaf , while I in vain implore : My heart forebodes I ne'er shall see you more . Id . Your raven has a reputation in the ...
... ancient augur , skilled in future fate , With these foreboding words restrains their hate . Dryden . Fate makes you deaf , while I in vain implore : My heart forebodes I ne'er shall see you more . Id . Your raven has a reputation in the ...
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431. oldal - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand : For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
401. oldal - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
402. oldal - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
698. oldal - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
753. oldal - ... as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was not confident as to the words), "Oh, sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy returns?
586. oldal - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.
430. oldal - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
668. oldal - To be no more. Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion...
481. oldal - No, there is a necessity in Fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate; He keeps his object ever full in sight, And that assurance holds him firm and right, True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, \ But right before there is no precipice; ) Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss.
417. oldal - Person, as I take it, is the name for this self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself there, I think, another may say is the same person. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.