The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... Persian lords , who conspired against Smerdis the Magian . See PERSIA . He was afterwards put to death by Darius for conspiring against him , together with his whole family , except two persons , viz . his wife and any other she should ...
... Persian lords , who conspired against Smerdis the Magian . See PERSIA . He was afterwards put to death by Darius for conspiring against him , together with his whole family , except two persons , viz . his wife and any other she should ...
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... Persian cus- Carew . tom , by ages young and old . To diversify by mixture . intervening time . I a heavy interim shall support , By his dear absence . Shakspeare . Othello . One bird happened to be foraging for her young Gues , and in ...
... Persian cus- Carew . tom , by ages young and old . To diversify by mixture . intervening time . I a heavy interim shall support , By his dear absence . Shakspeare . Othello . One bird happened to be foraging for her young Gues , and in ...
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... Persia the daughters of Eve are reckoned in the inventory of their goods and chattles ; and it is usual , when a man sells a bale of silk , to toss half a dozen women into the bargain . Addison . Why are these positions charged upon me ...
... Persia the daughters of Eve are reckoned in the inventory of their goods and chattles ; and it is usual , when a man sells a bale of silk , to toss half a dozen women into the bargain . Addison . Why are these positions charged upon me ...
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... Persian MS . , entitled The history of Nadir Shah , known . by the name of Thamas Kouli Khan , Emperor of Persia . In 1771 he met with an additional dis- appointment by the death of his friend and pre- ceptor , Dr. Sumner , upon whom he ...
... Persian MS . , entitled The history of Nadir Shah , known . by the name of Thamas Kouli Khan , Emperor of Persia . In 1771 he met with an additional dis- appointment by the death of his friend and pre- ceptor , Dr. Sumner , upon whom he ...
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... Persian was as accurate and extensive as their own . He was also con- Versant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had ever attracted his notice so far as to learn the radical characters of that language . It was to be expected after ...
... Persian was as accurate and extensive as their own . He was also con- Versant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had ever attracted his notice so far as to learn the radical characters of that language . It was to be expected after ...
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Page 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Page 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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Page 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...