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... ages remarkably addicted to navigation ? Such , I apprehend , was indeed the true path of discovery on the Asiatic side of the globe ( but it was different undoubtedly on the European side , though by no means such as is commonly ...
... ages remarkably addicted to navigation ? Such , I apprehend , was indeed the true path of discovery on the Asiatic side of the globe ( but it was different undoubtedly on the European side , though by no means such as is commonly ...
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... ages been re- markable . In the calendar at the beginning of an old missal , at the head of the month corre- sponding with the sign Virgo , I remember having seen a female figure in this attitude ; but in the zodiac in front of this ...
... ages been re- markable . In the calendar at the beginning of an old missal , at the head of the month corre- sponding with the sign Virgo , I remember having seen a female figure in this attitude ; but in the zodiac in front of this ...
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... ages has been singularly remarkable for the exercise of its industry in the spinning and manufacture of linen , or rather cotton , cloths . Virgo is copied from her prototype in the map , in Fig . 155 . Libra . This next sign , I ...
... ages has been singularly remarkable for the exercise of its industry in the spinning and manufacture of linen , or rather cotton , cloths . Virgo is copied from her prototype in the map , in Fig . 155 . Libra . This next sign , I ...
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... ages of anti- quity were really entitled to all those praises we bestow upon them on the score of wisdom and skill in all the arts and sciences , is it credible that • they would have themselves admired or recom- mended to the 41.
... ages of anti- quity were really entitled to all those praises we bestow upon them on the score of wisdom and skill in all the arts and sciences , is it credible that • they would have themselves admired or recom- mended to the 41.
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... ages and countries are so much delighted , contain the like sort of knowledge , disguised in the like manner , and are subject to the like sort of explication as the Greek and Latin authors . The same may be said of heraldry , and orna ...
... ages and countries are so much delighted , contain the like sort of knowledge , disguised in the like manner , and are subject to the like sort of explication as the Greek and Latin authors . The same may be said of heraldry , and orna ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles Æneid Africa allude allusion alum ancient Andromache appear apprehend Arabian Gulf Bay of Honduras called Cape character China Chinese Chryseis circumstance coast Comus constellation contain Cuba derived disease drawn in fig Egypt epithet explained expression fable fever figure following lines further Gemini Greek gum lac head Hector hieroglyphics Homer Iliad implied intended island Jardin Lady Mamore means mentioned moon mountains mouth noticed observed Odyssey passage perhaps Persian Gulf Peruvian bark pestilence plague of Athens poem poet poetical Priam prototype reader reference remarkable represented resemblance seems shape shew side situate South America Spain Straits supposed Tartary Taurus tion tropic tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land volcanoes volume West India Gulf word zodiac Αλλ αρ γαρ δε δη εκ εν ενι επει επι ες και μεν ος περι τε τοι
Passagens conhecidas
Página 151 - That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence?
Página 89 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Página 227 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 85 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 276 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Página 149 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 159 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Página 216 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.
Página 138 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Página 166 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...