The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 386
... taken prisoner . Atenulphus , brother to one of the princes of Benevento , on whom the Normans had conferred the chief command , set at liberty the captive general without consulting them , on receiving from him a considerable sum of ...
... taken prisoner . Atenulphus , brother to one of the princes of Benevento , on whom the Normans had conferred the chief command , set at liberty the captive general without consulting them , on receiving from him a considerable sum of ...
Page 387
... taken possession of it ; and , by refusing the assistance he had promised to Charles , obliged him to delay his expedition . In the beginning of 1280 Procida returned to Arragon , and , by showing the letters from the pope and Sicilian ...
... taken possession of it ; and , by refusing the assistance he had promised to Charles , obliged him to delay his expedition . In the beginning of 1280 Procida returned to Arragon , and , by showing the letters from the pope and Sicilian ...
Page 389
... taken prisoner , the people returned to their alle- giance ; and thus all the attempts of the French on Naples were frustrated . Since that time the Spaniards continued in peaceable possession of the kingdom till 1707 , when it was taken ...
... taken prisoner , the people returned to their alle- giance ; and thus all the attempts of the French on Naples were frustrated . Since that time the Spaniards continued in peaceable possession of the kingdom till 1707 , when it was taken ...
Page 392
... taken against a sect which contained a large portion of public functionaries ? whole districts and provinces being , in fact , completely in the hands of persons , discharging indeed their duties with exactness , but carrying on , at ...
... taken against a sect which contained a large portion of public functionaries ? whole districts and provinces being , in fact , completely in the hands of persons , discharging indeed their duties with exactness , but carrying on , at ...
Page 406
... taken the fort which com- manded the harbour , determined upon attacking it . Accordingly in the morning he put himself at the head of his troops , sallied out , and actu- ally carried the battery and the lines which I had formed to the ...
... taken the fort which com- manded the harbour , determined upon attacking it . Accordingly in the morning he put himself at the head of his troops , sallied out , and actu- ally carried the battery and the lines which I had formed to the ...
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Page 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Page 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Page 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Page 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Page 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Page 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Page 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.