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, Volume 6Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... lower degrees of felony ; it was enacted that when any person is convicted of any theft or larceny , and burnt in the hand for the same , he shall , at the discre- tion of the judge , be committed to the house of correction or public ...
... lower degrees of felony ; it was enacted that when any person is convicted of any theft or larceny , and burnt in the hand for the same , he shall , at the discre- tion of the judge , be committed to the house of correction or public ...
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... Lower Rhine . CLEVES , a town of Virginia , in the United States , two miles from Port Royal , in a northerly direction . CLEW , n . s . Saxon , clype ; Dutch , klouwen . Thread wound upon a bottom : a ball of thread . A guide ; a ...
... Lower Rhine . CLEVES , a town of Virginia , in the United States , two miles from Port Royal , in a northerly direction . CLEW , n . s . Saxon , clype ; Dutch , klouwen . Thread wound upon a bottom : a ball of thread . A guide ; a ...
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... lower term of congelation : be- tween the tropics he places it at the height of 15,577 feet , English measure . And thus while the base of these mountains rests on burning sand , about half way up , in the plains of Quito , we found a ...
... lower term of congelation : be- tween the tropics he places it at the height of 15,577 feet , English measure . And thus while the base of these mountains rests on burning sand , about half way up , in the plains of Quito , we found a ...
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... lower air , particularly when a large mass of vapors is condensed by electrical agency ; for no part of the heat given out by that cause being lost by communication with air much colder , that which surrounds the vapors so condensed ...
... lower air , particularly when a large mass of vapors is condensed by electrical agency ; for no part of the heat given out by that cause being lost by communication with air much colder , that which surrounds the vapors so condensed ...
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... lower than 33 ° , and in- dicated a mean temperature of 45 ° .5 , which shows that the frost seldom penetrates to that depth . The nature of the soil , however , and external circumstances , must have a great in- fluence on this ...
... lower than 33 ° , and in- dicated a mean temperature of 45 ° .5 , which shows that the frost seldom penetrates to that depth . The nature of the soil , however , and external circumstances , must have a great in- fluence on this ...
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Page 274 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Page 21 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 322 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Page 363 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? Curse on his perjur'd arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'd?
Page 422 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 415 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 400 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 415 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 326 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 282 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.