Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 45
... whole bible , in Greek , including the Old and New Testament , with the Apocrypha , and some smaller pieces , but not quite complete . This manuscript is now pre- served in the British Museum , It was sent as a present to king Charles I ...
... whole bible , in Greek , including the Old and New Testament , with the Apocrypha , and some smaller pieces , but not quite complete . This manuscript is now pre- served in the British Museum , It was sent as a present to king Charles I ...
Page 69
... whole extent of this vast country . Here the rigour of the Frigid Zone extends over half that which should be temperate by its position , with regard to the same parallels of latitude in the Old World : and even in those latitudes where ...
... whole extent of this vast country . Here the rigour of the Frigid Zone extends over half that which should be temperate by its position , with regard to the same parallels of latitude in the Old World : and even in those latitudes where ...
Page 76
... whole . For these purposes , the NERVES are actually given . They are chords which rise from the brain , : the immediate residence of the mind , and disperse themselves 9 76 ANATOMY . that it is impossible not to be interested in the ...
... whole . For these purposes , the NERVES are actually given . They are chords which rise from the brain , : the immediate residence of the mind , and disperse themselves 9 76 ANATOMY . that it is impossible not to be interested in the ...
Page 77
... whole , or of any particular part ; and this vindicates the Creator of all things in having actually subjected us to those many disagreeable and painful sensations , which we are exposed to from a thousand accidents in life . Moreover ...
... whole , or of any particular part ; and this vindicates the Creator of all things in having actually subjected us to those many disagreeable and painful sensations , which we are exposed to from a thousand accidents in life . Moreover ...
Page 78
... whole appa- ratus , both to give it compactness and to defend it from a thousand injuries ; which , in fact , are the very purposes of the SKIN , and other integuments . Lastly , the mind being formed for society and in- tercourse with ...
... whole appa- ratus , both to give it compactness and to defend it from a thousand injuries ; which , in fact , are the very purposes of the SKIN , and other integuments . Lastly , the mind being formed for society and in- tercourse with ...
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Popular passages
Page 51 - Zodiac are Aries : Taurus : Gemini : Cancer : Leo : Virgo : Libra : Scorpio : Sagittarius...
Page 116 - PRINTER to learn his Art and with him after the Manner of an Apprentice to serve...
Page 123 - We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God.
Page 164 - His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history diverted him, which he preferred many degrees before it.
Page 111 - God, (r) or should assert or maintain there are more gods than one, or should deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures to be of divine authority...
Page 359 - And, lastly, (which alone would have merited the title that it bears, of the great charter,) it protected every individual of the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, unless declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Page 339 - On this glass was depicted, in chiaroscuro, a string of several thousands of pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment they lost half their height, and bent into arcades .like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, and, at last, ended in pines, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was...
Page 124 - That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it scratches the post.
Page 51 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Page 428 - ... 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose was made. 4. The lands descend not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together; which was indeed anciently the most usual course of descent all over England, though in particular places particular customs prevailed.