Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 11John Brown, 1816 |
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... covered carriage much ufed by the natives in Calcutta , chiefly by the la- dies . It has two wheels and is drawn by bullocks . HACKET , John , Bp . of Litchfield and Coven- try , was born in 1592. In 1623 , he was made chaplain to James ...
... covered carriage much ufed by the natives in Calcutta , chiefly by the la- dies . It has two wheels and is drawn by bullocks . HACKET , John , Bp . of Litchfield and Coven- try , was born in 1592. In 1623 , he was made chaplain to James ...
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... covered with glaffes , and in hard froft with mats and straw . The earth in the frame should be two feet deep , and the frame fhould rife two feet above the fur- face , to allow height for the flower - stems to grow . The roots should ...
... covered with glaffes , and in hard froft with mats and straw . The earth in the frame should be two feet deep , and the frame fhould rife two feet above the fur- face , to allow height for the flower - stems to grow . The roots should ...
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... covered over with thick - fet hair , long and curled . The feston going to handle the upper part of the head with his fingers , the whole fell at once , leaving nothing in his hand but a handful of hair : there VOL . XI . PART I. was ...
... covered over with thick - fet hair , long and curled . The feston going to handle the upper part of the head with his fingers , the whole fell at once , leaving nothing in his hand but a handful of hair : there VOL . XI . PART I. was ...
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... covered with hair , or abounding with hair . * HAIRLACE . . . [ hair and lace ] The fillet with which women tie up their hair.- Some worms are commonly refembled to a woman's hairlace or fillet , thence called tenia . Harvey- If Molly ...
... covered with hair , or abounding with hair . * HAIRLACE . . . [ hair and lace ] The fillet with which women tie up their hair.- Some worms are commonly refembled to a woman's hairlace or fillet , thence called tenia . Harvey- If Molly ...
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... covered with fnow and ice three quarters of the year , is intenfely cold in winter . The heat of fummer is great , but of fhort duration . The cold braces the conftitution , and renders the la- bouring people healthful and robuft . On ...
... covered with fnow and ice three quarters of the year , is intenfely cold in winter . The heat of fummer is great , but of fhort duration . The cold braces the conftitution , and renders the la- bouring people healthful and robuft . On ...
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Seite 238 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 182 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Seite 411 - His pursuers soon lost sight of him, for he had, unperceived, thrown himself over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, happening to be in his garden, was addressed by the Spaniard on his knees, who acquainted him with his case, and implored concealment. " Eat this," said the Moor, giving him half a peach ; " you now know that you may confide in my protection.
Seite 411 - Cudjoe stopped them at the door, and demanded what they wanted. " The white men," said they, " have carried away our brothers and sons, and we will kill all white men. Give us the white man you have in your house, for we will kill him.
Seite 229 - ... is alleged to be unduly made, the only tribunal to which the complainants can appeal is that of the God of battles, the only process by which the appeal can be carried on is that of a civil and intestine war.
Seite 261 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hickup.
Seite 402 - I make no doubt but the forcibly attempting a crime of a still more detestable nature may be equally resisted by the death of the unnatural aggressor. For the one uniform principle that runs through our own and all other laws seems to be this, — that where a crime in itself capital , is endeavored to be committed by force, it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the party attempting.
Seite 222 - At supper one of them drank a health to the Lord Steward ; upon which another of them said, that he believed his Lord was at that time very merry, for he had now outlived the day which his tutor Sandford had prognosticated upon his nativity he would not outlive ; but he had done it now, for that was his birthday, which had completed his age to fifty years. The next morning, by the time they came to Colebrook, they met with the news of his death.