Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 11Archibald Constable, 1823 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... passed for the most learned person of her time . At length she was thought worthy to succeed her father in that distinguished and important employment , the government of the school of Alexan- dria ; and to teach out of that chair where ...
... passed for the most learned person of her time . At length she was thought worthy to succeed her father in that distinguished and important employment , the government of the school of Alexan- dria ; and to teach out of that chair where ...
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... passed between one of the inhabitants and an appari tion in the church - yard there ; wrote " Edge - hill , " a poem , for which he obtained a large subscription in 1767 ; and was also author of " Labour and Genius , " 1768 , 4to ; of ...
... passed between one of the inhabitants and an appari tion in the church - yard there ; wrote " Edge - hill , " a poem , for which he obtained a large subscription in 1767 ; and was also author of " Labour and Genius , " 1768 , 4to ; of ...
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... passed to the family of Jejassama , in which it still continues . Tayc- koy and his successors have contented themselves with the title of cubo , which , under the dairos , was that of prime minister , whose office is now suppressed ...
... passed to the family of Jejassama , in which it still continues . Tayc- koy and his successors have contented themselves with the title of cubo , which , under the dairos , was that of prime minister , whose office is now suppressed ...
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... passing the same thread round it once . Women , except such as happen to be separated from their husbands , shave no ... passed through the place where they are made . A Japanese always has his arms painted on one or more of his garments ...
... passing the same thread round it once . Women , except such as happen to be separated from their husbands , shave no ... passed through the place where they are made . A Japanese always has his arms painted on one or more of his garments ...
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... passing the brush to one end ; and then with another stroke from the middle , passing it to the other . But no part should be crossed or twice passed over , in forming one coat , where it can possibly be avoided . When one coat is dry ...
... passing the brush to one end ; and then with another stroke from the middle , passing it to the other . But no part should be crossed or twice passed over , in forming one coat , where it can possibly be avoided . When one coat is dry ...
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Page 14 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 240 - ... and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Page 45 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 335 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 276 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 131 - Jesuits had obtained the chief direction of the education of youth in every catholic country in Europe. They had become the confessors of almost all its monarchs, a function of no small importance in any reign, but under a weak prince superior even to that of minister.
Page 115 - ... says the humanity of the English law, had the prisoner been of sound memory, he might have alleged something in stay of judgment or execution.
Page 308 - ... no man had stronger likings or aversions. His veracity was indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value.
Page 278 - In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use.
Page 378 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity ; therefore I die in exile...