Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6Archibald Constable, 1823 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... received them from a divine tortoise that carried them on his shell , and delivered them into the hands of Tsang - hie . During this period also , music , money , carriages , merchandise , commerce , & c . were invented . There are ...
... received them from a divine tortoise that carried them on his shell , and delivered them into the hands of Tsang - hie . During this period also , music , money , carriages , merchandise , commerce , & c . were invented . There are ...
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... received , though the sovereign gaged in some other office by his order . 5. The ting- complies with them only when he himself thinks proper . pi - tao have the inspection of the troops . 6. The tun- The number of literary mandarins in ...
... received , though the sovereign gaged in some other office by his order . 5. The ting- complies with them only when he himself thinks proper . pi - tao have the inspection of the troops . 6. The tun- The number of literary mandarins in ...
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... received in advance . On all the great roads in China there are several offices of this kind , which have a settled correspondence with others ; the travellers therefore have only to carry to one of these offices a list of such things ...
... received in advance . On all the great roads in China there are several offices of this kind , which have a settled correspondence with others ; the travellers therefore have only to carry to one of these offices a list of such things ...
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... received , and vi- sits paid . All the family assemble in the evening , and partake of a feast to which no stranger is admitted ; though they become a little more sociable on the fol- lowing day . The feast of lanthorns ought to take ...
... received , and vi- sits paid . All the family assemble in the evening , and partake of a feast to which no stranger is admitted ; though they become a little more sociable on the fol- lowing day . The feast of lanthorns ought to take ...
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... received the prize of his dexterity and courage . The skill and strength that were exerted in wrestling and boxing bear a distant and doubtful relation to the merit of a soldier ; but the tournaments , as they were invented in France ...
... received the prize of his dexterity and courage . The skill and strength that were exerted in wrestling and boxing bear a distant and doubtful relation to the merit of a soldier ; but the tournaments , as they were invented in France ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.