The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 19Charles Knight, 1841 |
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... portion of a screw or inclined plane . one The press for copper - plate printing consists of two cylinders , or rollers , of wood , supported in a strong wooden frame , and moveable about their axes , placed just above and another just ...
... portion of a screw or inclined plane . one The press for copper - plate printing consists of two cylinders , or rollers , of wood , supported in a strong wooden frame , and moveable about their axes , placed just above and another just ...
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... portion of any property they may capture . By the law of nations they are not considered pirates . It is usual for the country on whose behalf they carry on war to take security for their duly re- specting the rights of neutrals and ...
... portion of any property they may capture . By the law of nations they are not considered pirates . It is usual for the country on whose behalf they carry on war to take security for their duly re- specting the rights of neutrals and ...
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... portion to the third as the difference between the first and second has to the difference between the second and ... portions would do without its mullions . With regard to arches again , or rather the spaces or openings covered by them ...
... portion to the third as the difference between the first and second has to the difference between the second and ... portions would do without its mullions . With regard to arches again , or rather the spaces or openings covered by them ...
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... portion to Theodoric , the Ostrogothic king of Italy , and he wrested it from the Franks , by whom it had been seized . In A.D. 530 , the Burgundian portion was conquered by the sons of Clovis ; and in 534 the other part was ceded to ...
... portion to Theodoric , the Ostrogothic king of Italy , and he wrested it from the Franks , by whom it had been seized . In A.D. 530 , the Burgundian portion was conquered by the sons of Clovis ; and in 534 the other part was ceded to ...
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... portions of wisdom has engaged the attention of some of the most learned men . Aristotle , Theophrastus , Chrysippus ... portion from the tenth chapter to the end of the twenty - fourth comprises what may more strictly be called the ...
... portions of wisdom has engaged the attention of some of the most learned men . Aristotle , Theophrastus , Chrysippus ... portion from the tenth chapter to the end of the twenty - fourth comprises what may more strictly be called the ...
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Page 133 - Musick is yet but in its Nonage, a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the Masters of it shall find more Encouragement. 'Tis now learning Italian, which is its best Master, and studying a little of the French Air to give it somewhat more of Gayety and Fashion. Thus being farther from the Sun, we are of later Growth than our Neighbour Countries, and must be content to shake off our Barbarity by degrees.
Page 127 - Nature confessed some atonement to be necessary : the gospel discovers that the necessary atonement is made." 2. When several semicolons have preceded, and a still greater pause is necessary, in order to mark the connecting or concluding sentiment: as, " A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these...
Page 278 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; . . . what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie j'acet!
Page 99 - With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world...
Page 224 - Actius, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries, repeats the recommendations of Oribasius.
Page 11 - ... the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this Spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain to the muscles.
Page 48 - And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have, made thee a god to Pharaoh : and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 24 - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...
Page 6 - The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Page 126 - I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun.