Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... divided , the empire . The inaccuracy of the Chinese annals is extent , & e . partly by a prodigious wall of 1500 miles in length , complained of even by their most respected author Con- . and partly by bigh , craggy , and inaccessible ...
... divided , the empire . The inaccuracy of the Chinese annals is extent , & e . partly by a prodigious wall of 1500 miles in length , complained of even by their most respected author Con- . and partly by bigh , craggy , and inaccessible ...
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... divided ; and it never hap- wheat , rice , two kinds of millet , and beans . They pens there , as in almost every other country , that are brought to the spot in magnificent boxes , carried wealth and riches are engrossed by one part of ...
... divided ; and it never hap- wheat , rice , two kinds of millet , and beans . They pens there , as in almost every other country , that are brought to the spot in magnificent boxes , carried wealth and riches are engrossed by one part of ...
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... divided into two kinds , chivalry and socage ; the first whereof was martial and military , the other rustical . Chivalry , therefore , was a tenure of service , whereby the tenant was obliged to perform some noble or mili- tary office ...
... divided into two kinds , chivalry and socage ; the first whereof was martial and military , the other rustical . Chivalry , therefore , was a tenure of service , whereby the tenant was obliged to perform some noble or mili- tary office ...
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... divided into perfect and imperfect . The perfect chord is that which we have lately described ; which is composed of the fundamental sound below , of its third , its fifth , and its octave : they are likewise subdivided into major and ...
... divided into perfect and imperfect . The perfect chord is that which we have lately described ; which is composed of the fundamental sound below , of its third , its fifth , and its octave : they are likewise subdivided into major and ...
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... divided by the smallest practicable intervals , which are more suitable to the capacity of the ear than such as are re- mote . This is what we call contracting the harmony ; an art which few composers have skill and abilities enough to ...
... divided by the smallest practicable intervals , which are more suitable to the capacity of the ear than such as are re- mote . This is what we call contracting the harmony ; an art which few composers have skill and abilities enough to ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
according acid afterwards ancient animal appears army bave bivalve blue body BOTANY BOTANY Index Britain called cards China Chinese Chiton Christ Christians church Cicero Cilicia Cimbri clock coal Coalery Colchis colour commerce common compass Conchæ conchology consists court degree divided earth ecliptic emperor empire England expence flowers France glass Greek green honour inch long India inhabitants island Italy Julius Cæsar kind king light likewise Limaçons Lord lours mandarins manner matter ment multivalves nature neral observed occasion parliament particles person pieces pinion plates prince principal produced proper province quantity river Roman Rome round Scotland Sect shell side sometimes Spain species strata stratum striæ striated substance supposed surface teeth Testa tethys thing tion town trade transversely univalve valves wheel whole Wood yellow
Passagens conhecidas
Página 356 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 334 - ... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 356 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Página 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 16 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Página 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 357 - Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Página 354 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.