The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 2. osa,15. köideThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... called the middle comedy . According to Suidas , he was the uncle of Menander , and wrote upwards of 200 dramas . Athenæus , Julius Pollux , and Aulus Gellius , have cited them occasionally ; and several de- tached sentences of them are ...
... called the middle comedy . According to Suidas , he was the uncle of Menander , and wrote upwards of 200 dramas . Athenæus , Julius Pollux , and Aulus Gellius , have cited them occasionally ; and several de- tached sentences of them are ...
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... called the Christian Virgil , his Arcadia shows to great advantage the elegance , and soft- ness , and melody , of ... called the Nurse , which has been translated by Mr. Roscoe , a tender exhortation to mothers upon the nurture of their ...
... called the Christian Virgil , his Arcadia shows to great advantage the elegance , and soft- ness , and melody , of ... called the Nurse , which has been translated by Mr. Roscoe , a tender exhortation to mothers upon the nurture of their ...
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... called the Cicero of Naples . We need only mention Andrea ( who died in 1698 ) , Gravina , and his pupil Peter Metastasio . He was the first lawyer who called philosophy to the aid of jurisprudence . His interpretations of the Roman ...
... called the Cicero of Naples . We need only mention Andrea ( who died in 1698 ) , Gravina , and his pupil Peter Metastasio . He was the first lawyer who called philosophy to the aid of jurisprudence . His interpretations of the Roman ...
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... called del Parto , founded and endowed by Sannazzaro , the well known poet , contains his tomb , adorned with statues and bas - reliefs . There are altogether upwards of 300 churches . The mansions of the nobility have little ...
... called del Parto , founded and endowed by Sannazzaro , the well known poet , contains his tomb , adorned with statues and bas - reliefs . There are altogether upwards of 300 churches . The mansions of the nobility have little ...
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... called out ' outlawry , outlawry ; let him be proclaimed a traitor . ' It is said that Aréna , a native of Corsica like himself , aimed a dagger at his breast , which was only averted by the interpo- sition of one of the grenadiers ...
... called out ' outlawry , outlawry ; let him be proclaimed a traitor . ' It is said that Aréna , a native of Corsica like himself , aimed a dagger at his breast , which was only averted by the interpo- sition of one of the grenadiers ...
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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.