Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 12John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... taken so deep root , that it still fubfifts at Venice , and many others . A very ancient MS . without being detected , and has spread into all of Genelis , which was in the Cottonian library , the countries of Europe . " . This ...
... taken so deep root , that it still fubfifts at Venice , and many others . A very ancient MS . without being detected , and has spread into all of Genelis , which was in the Cottonian library , the countries of Europe . " . This ...
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... taken of this decree , till 700 years after the Apoftolic times , after the difpute about images had commenced . The firft inftance that occurs in any credible author , of images among Chrifti- , is that recorded by Tertullian de ...
... taken of this decree , till 700 years after the Apoftolic times , after the difpute about images had commenced . The firft inftance that occurs in any credible author , of images among Chrifti- , is that recorded by Tertullian de ...
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... taken to wife Anne Stanhope , a woman for many imper- fections intolerable ; but for pride monftrous . Hayw . -Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of , if vanity did not make proclamations of them . L'Efrange . The ...
... taken to wife Anne Stanhope , a woman for many imper- fections intolerable ; but for pride monftrous . Hayw . -Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of , if vanity did not make proclamations of them . L'Efrange . The ...
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... taken and impounded as a stray in the actions of the acceleratores urinæ . But if The king . Shak . the first be the case , then we may suppose , that -Seeing him wander about , I took him up for a in the natural state the actions of ...
... taken and impounded as a stray in the actions of the acceleratores urinæ . But if The king . Shak . the first be the case , then we may suppose , that -Seeing him wander about , I took him up for a in the natural state the actions of ...
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... taken . Two giants tion . ] Unpreparedness ; want of preparation.kept themselves in a castle , feated upon the top Impreparation and unreadiness when they find in of a rock , impregnable , because there was no com- us , they turn it to ...
... taken . Two giants tion . ] Unpreparedness ; want of preparation.kept themselves in a castle , feated upon the top Impreparation and unreadiness when they find in of a rock , impregnable , because there was no com- us , they turn it to ...
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Page 271 - Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 132 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the...
Page 332 - Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend : but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own — the sole legislature thereof. That there is no body of men competent to make laws to bind this nation except the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland ; nor any other parliament which hath any authority or power of any sort whatsoever in this country save only the Parliament of Ireland.
Page 252 - Shall break into corruption:" so went on, Foretelling this same time's condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK. There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Page 60 - But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold incontinence.
Page 200 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 322 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 154 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own \ Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 35 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 146 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.