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 6
... trees , decayed wood , and where coals or cinders have been laid . It is stemless , has tips inversely egg - shaped , nod- ding , and bright yellow . If the fruit - stalk is moistened at the base with a little water or steam , the head ...
... trees , decayed wood , and where coals or cinders have been laid . It is stemless , has tips inversely egg - shaped , nod- ding , and bright yellow . If the fruit - stalk is moistened at the base with a little water or steam , the head ...
עמוד 8
... trees appear in considerable numbers ; but their stunt- ed growth shows the poverty of the soil . The cli- mate is intensely hot . The south - east wind blows here for eight months in the year over the burning sands of the interior ...
... trees appear in considerable numbers ; but their stunt- ed growth shows the poverty of the soil . The cli- mate is intensely hot . The south - east wind blows here for eight months in the year over the burning sands of the interior ...
עמוד 13
... trees , hemp , and pasturage , but the corn raised is not equal to the consumption . Cattle are reared in large numbers ; bees likewise are objects of attention ; but the chief article of cul- ture and manufacture is silk . The other ...
... trees , hemp , and pasturage , but the corn raised is not equal to the consumption . Cattle are reared in large numbers ; bees likewise are objects of attention ; but the chief article of cul- ture and manufacture is silk . The other ...
עמוד 25
... trees , was rewarded with their shadow . Sidney . Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears Moist it again ; and frame some feeling line . Shakspeare . All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace - burning heat . Id ...
... trees , was rewarded with their shadow . Sidney . Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears Moist it again ; and frame some feeling line . Shakspeare . All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace - burning heat . Id ...
עמוד 27
... trees . Peacham . Mountains , which to your Maker's view Seem less than molehills do to you . Roscommon . What is more obvious than a mole , and yet what more palpable argument of Provider - ce ? More . Strange ignorance ! that the same ...
... trees . Peacham . Mountains , which to your Maker's view Seem less than molehills do to you . Roscommon . What is more obvious than a mole , and yet what more palpable argument of Provider - ce ? More . Strange ignorance ! that the same ...
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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...