The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 1, Volume 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... sound Their ivory lutes lay by . Sing no more ditties , sing no mo , Of dumps so dull and heavy ; Tusser . Spenser . Shakspeare . The frauds of men were ever so , Since Summer first was leafy . MOAB , in ancient geography , a country of ...
... sound Their ivory lutes lay by . Sing no more ditties , sing no mo , Of dumps so dull and heavy ; Tusser . Spenser . Shakspeare . The frauds of men were ever so , Since Summer first was leafy . MOAB , in ancient geography , a country of ...
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... sounds upon which a piece of music is formed , and which are called the essential sounds of the mode . There is this difference between the mode and the tone , that the latter only deter- mines the principal sound , and indicates the ...
... sounds upon which a piece of music is formed , and which are called the essential sounds of the mode . There is this difference between the mode and the tone , that the latter only deter- mines the principal sound , and indicates the ...
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... sounds , and of consequence form as many keys or tones ; and , as each of these tones is suscep- tible of the major or minor mode , music may be composed in twenty - four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even ...
... sounds , and of consequence form as many keys or tones ; and , as each of these tones is suscep- tible of the major or minor mode , music may be composed in twenty - four modes . Nay , in the manner of writing music , there are even ...
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... Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating , but pangs of the belly are with an insatiable man . Ecclus . xxxi . 20 . With equal measure she did moderate The strong extremities of their rage . Spenser . Was it the purpose of these churches ...
... Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating , but pangs of the belly are with an insatiable man . Ecclus . xxxi . 20 . With equal measure she did moderate The strong extremities of their rage . Spenser . Was it the purpose of these churches ...
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... sounds to a given MOD'ULATOR . Skey , or into concord : modulation is the act of doing this , or the har- mony ... sound . Grew's Cosmologia . The speech , as it is a sound resulting from the modulation of the air , has most affinity to ...
... sounds to a given MOD'ULATOR . Skey , or into concord : modulation is the act of doing this , or the har- mony ... sound . Grew's Cosmologia . The speech , as it is a sound resulting from the modulation of the air , has most affinity to ...
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Page 114 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 106 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Page 32 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 55 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 104 - ... reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions. The. final sentence, it is probable, which pronounces characters and actions amiable or odious, praise-worthy or blameable; that which stamps on them the mark of honour or infamy, approbation or censure; that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has...
Page 196 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 73 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves...
Page 189 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Page 223 - And all these circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out to the satisfaction of the court and jury, the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumstances alleged are proved to have actually existed, the former how far they extend to take away or mitigate guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious until the contrary appeareth upon evidence:" 4 Blackstone's Commentaries, 201.
Page 101 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.