Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Band 6 |
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... purpose of making commodious highways , and to preferve them as nearly as poffible on a level . They are generally bordered with very lofty trees , and in fome places with walls eight or ten feet high , to prevent travellers from going ...
... purpose of making commodious highways , and to preferve them as nearly as poffible on a level . They are generally bordered with very lofty trees , and in fome places with walls eight or ten feet high , to prevent travellers from going ...
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... purpose of melting : but , if the price of the metal has not fallen , the infraction of this law is not very feverely punished . On the other hand , if the value of unwrought copper exceeds that of the coin , a quantity of the latter is ...
... purpose of melting : but , if the price of the metal has not fallen , the infraction of this law is not very feverely punished . On the other hand , if the value of unwrought copper exceeds that of the coin , a quantity of the latter is ...
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... purpose ; even the instruments of mufic are of enormous mag- nitude , and never used anywhere elfe . All this gran ... purposes : originally it had neither paintings nor ornaments of any kind , and a ftaircafe of nine fteps conducted to ...
... purpose ; even the instruments of mufic are of enormous mag- nitude , and never used anywhere elfe . All this gran ... purposes : originally it had neither paintings nor ornaments of any kind , and a ftaircafe of nine fteps conducted to ...
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... purpose- ly invited , come and pay their refpects to the decea- fed , the nearest relations even remaining in the house . The coffin is expofed in the hall of ceremony , which is then hung with white , but fome pieces of black or violet ...
... purpose- ly invited , come and pay their refpects to the decea- fed , the nearest relations even remaining in the house . The coffin is expofed in the hall of ceremony , which is then hung with white , but fome pieces of black or violet ...
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... purpose , tread them under foot , & c . would be reckoned an unpardonable violation of decency and politeness ; nay , it often happens , that workmen , fuch as mafons and joiners , dare not tear a printed leaf of fixed to the wall ...
... purpose , tread them under foot , & c . would be reckoned an unpardonable violation of decency and politeness ; nay , it often happens , that workmen , fuch as mafons and joiners , dare not tear a printed leaf of fixed to the wall ...
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Seite 361 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Seite 362 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Seite 338 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Seite 250 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Seite 185 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
Seite 338 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Seite 360 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Seite 362 - But sorrow wastes the mournful, O daughter of Toscar ! and their days are few! They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength after the mildew has passed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops of night.
Seite 272 - They have a governor named by the king (or in some proprietary colonies by the proprietor), who is his representative or deputy. They have courts of justice of their own, from whose decisions an appeal lies to the king and council here in England.
Seite 18 - God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.