A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, כרך 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד
... France and other countries , and were so much below the proper currency , that they were not worth a halfpenny each . They were at length decried in 1300 , and good coins struck in their place . These were the first Irish coins in which ...
... France and other countries , and were so much below the proper currency , that they were not worth a halfpenny each . They were at length decried in 1300 , and good coins struck in their place . These were the first Irish coins in which ...
עמוד 9
... France . Those that are good manners at the court , are as ridiculous in the country , as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at court . Id . Our very priests must become mockers , if they shall encounter such ridiculous ...
... France . Those that are good manners at the court , are as ridiculous in the country , as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at court . Id . Our very priests must become mockers , if they shall encounter such ridiculous ...
עמוד 25
... France , he had begun to study mathematics ; and , having perfected himself in that science in London , he resolved to teach it . Newton's Principia showed him how little progress he had made in a science of which he thought himself ...
... France , he had begun to study mathematics ; and , having perfected himself in that science in London , he resolved to teach it . Newton's Principia showed him how little progress he had made in a science of which he thought himself ...
עמוד 26
... France . They were accused of heresy , impiety , and hide- ous crimes . Fifty - seven were burnt in the year 1311 , and the order was abolished the following year by the council of Vienne . Molai was de- tained in prison at Paris till ...
... France . They were accused of heresy , impiety , and hide- ous crimes . Fifty - seven were burnt in the year 1311 , and the order was abolished the following year by the council of Vienne . Molai was de- tained in prison at Paris till ...
עמוד 39
... France in the department of the Gard , to the south of Vigan . It consists , in fact , of three adjacent villages . Population 2500 . MONDAY is so called as being anciently sacred to the Moon , or to Mona , the Diana of the Saxons ...
... France in the department of the Gard , to the south of Vigan . It consists , in fact , of three adjacent villages . Population 2500 . MONDAY is so called as being anciently sacred to the Moon , or to Mona , the Diana of the Saxons ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
עמוד 172 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
עמוד 61 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
עמוד 129 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
עמוד 38 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
עמוד 107 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
עמוד 220 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
עמוד 419 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
עמוד 136 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
עמוד 79 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...