The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 10Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... sometimes introduced between the two lower- most ones . At the ordinary prices of wrought iron and oak , the former will be found of doubt- ful economy , and cast iron gates are too heavy , and too liable to be broken , for agricultural ...
... sometimes introduced between the two lower- most ones . At the ordinary prices of wrought iron and oak , the former will be found of doubt- ful economy , and cast iron gates are too heavy , and too liable to be broken , for agricultural ...
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... sometimes , in poetry , used for the cestus or boxing glove . A scaly gauntlet now , with joints of steel , Must ... sometimes of silk , and sometimes only of thread . To warp the silk for making gauze , they use a peculiar kind of mill ...
... sometimes , in poetry , used for the cestus or boxing glove . A scaly gauntlet now , with joints of steel , Must ... sometimes of silk , and sometimes only of thread . To warp the silk for making gauze , they use a peculiar kind of mill ...
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... sometimes when the loss is small , And danger great , they challenge all ; Print new editions to their feasts , And emendations in gazettes . Hudibras . An English gentleman , without geography , cannot well understand a gazette . Locke ...
... sometimes when the loss is small , And danger great , they challenge all ; Print new editions to their feasts , And emendations in gazettes . Hudibras . An English gentleman , without geography , cannot well understand a gazette . Locke ...
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... sometimes placed single ; sometimes two by two , either opposite or alternate ; sometimes collected in greater numbers in whirls or rings . With respect to their construction , buds are com- posed of several parts artificially arranged ...
... sometimes placed single ; sometimes two by two , either opposite or alternate ; sometimes collected in greater numbers in whirls or rings . With respect to their construction , buds are com- posed of several parts artificially arranged ...
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... sometimes cubitum in the neutral gender , signifies the lower part of the arm on which we lean . Arbuthnot . Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa , yet immediately changes the word into the masculine gender . Broome . GENDER , in grammar , is a ...
... sometimes cubitum in the neutral gender , signifies the lower part of the arm on which we lean . Arbuthnot . Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa , yet immediately changes the word into the masculine gender . Broome . GENDER , in grammar , is a ...
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Página 156 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 331 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Página 32 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Página 22 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Página 341 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Página 376 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Página 174 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 330 - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
Página 34 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Página 124 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.