Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 16. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1796 |
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... Italy and Paris . That of the Transfiguration , preferved at Rome in the church of St Peter Monterio , paffes for his mafter - piece . He had a handfome perfon , was well proportioned , and had great fweetnefs of temper ; was polite ...
... Italy and Paris . That of the Transfiguration , preferved at Rome in the church of St Peter Monterio , paffes for his mafter - piece . He had a handfome perfon , was well proportioned , and had great fweetnefs of temper ; was polite ...
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... Italy , and are mostly used in linings . The frize is a fort of coarse rateen , and the drugget is a rateen half linen half wool- len . RATIFICATION , an act approving of and con- firming fomething done by another in our name . RATIO ...
... Italy , and are mostly used in linings . The frize is a fort of coarse rateen , and the drugget is a rateen half linen half wool- len . RATIFICATION , an act approving of and con- firming fomething done by another in our name . RATIO ...
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... Italy , France , & c . took several tours in England , and was admitted fel- low of the Royal Society . In 1672 , his intimate and beloved friend Mr Willoughby died in the 37th year of his age , at Middleton Hall , his feat in Yorkshire ...
... Italy , France , & c . took several tours in England , and was admitted fel- low of the Royal Society . In 1672 , his intimate and beloved friend Mr Willoughby died in the 37th year of his age , at Middleton Hall , his feat in Yorkshire ...
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... Italy . Whether from timidity or addrefs , the avofet fhuns fnares , and is not eafily taken . The American avofet is rather larger and longer than the laft . The bill is fimilar , and its colour black : the forehead is dufky white ...
... Italy . Whether from timidity or addrefs , the avofet fhuns fnares , and is not eafily taken . The American avofet is rather larger and longer than the laft . The bill is fimilar , and its colour black : the forehead is dufky white ...
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... Italian physician and polite scholar , was born at Arezzo in Tuscany in 1626. His ingenuity and learning recommended him to the office of first phyfician to Ferdinand II . duke of Tuscany ; and he contributed not a little toward the ...
... Italian physician and polite scholar , was born at Arezzo in Tuscany in 1626. His ingenuity and learning recommended him to the office of first phyfician to Ferdinand II . duke of Tuscany ; and he contributed not a little toward the ...
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Page 135 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 126 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 128 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 84 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
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Page 141 - ... also of forcibly impressing the carriages and horses of the subject, to do the king's business on the public roads, in the conveyance of timber, baggage, and the like, however inconvenient to the proprietor, upon paying him a settled price...
Page 46 - Doctor coming up to his. chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done, put up the box as formerly. The next day, going to the...
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Page 197 - Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only to men of no genius ; as that armour, which upon the strong is an ornament and a defence, upon the weak and mis-shapen becomes a load, and cripples the body which it was made to protect.
Page 229 - ... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.