Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... leaves compofed of three fawed lobes , each leaf attended by a twining tendril ; and at the axillas long flender pedunculi , terminated each by one whitish flower , having a greenish calyx , and a red fish or purple radiated nectarium ...
... leaves compofed of three fawed lobes , each leaf attended by a twining tendril ; and at the axillas long flender pedunculi , terminated each by one whitish flower , having a greenish calyx , and a red fish or purple radiated nectarium ...
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... leaves behind it the fairest iffue , " - benevolent affection . Self - love forfook the path it first purfa'd , And found the private in the public good . Thus have we ftated the two oppofite theories re- specting the origin of paffions ...
... leaves behind it the fairest iffue , " - benevolent affection . Self - love forfook the path it first purfa'd , And found the private in the public good . Thus have we ftated the two oppofite theories re- specting the origin of paffions ...
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... leaves the corners of the mouth a little open , making a cruel and disdainful grin . 18. Hatred or jealoufy wrinkles the forehead ; the eye - brows are funk down and knit ; the eye ball is half hid under the eye - brows , which turn ...
... leaves the corners of the mouth a little open , making a cruel and disdainful grin . 18. Hatred or jealoufy wrinkles the forehead ; the eye - brows are funk down and knit ; the eye ball is half hid under the eye - brows , which turn ...
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... leaf is faid to be pa . tent , when it ftands almost at right angles with the ftalk . PATENT , or Letters Patent . See LETTER . PATER NOSTER , the Lord's Prayer , fo called from the two firft words thereof in Latin . PATER Nofter ...
... leaf is faid to be pa . tent , when it ftands almost at right angles with the ftalk . PATENT , or Letters Patent . See LETTER . PATER NOSTER , the Lord's Prayer , fo called from the two firft words thereof in Latin . PATER Nofter ...
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... leaves ; it has four oblong oval petals , twice the fize of the empalement and eight fhort ftamina with a turbinated germen , having three fhort flender ftyles , crowned by fpreading ftigmas ; the germen turns to a large three ...
... leaves ; it has four oblong oval petals , twice the fize of the empalement and eight fhort ftamina with a turbinated germen , having three fhort flender ftyles , crowned by fpreading ftigmas ; the germen turns to a large three ...
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Page 10 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 9 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 12 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 17 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 26 - ... happy at his going among them, immediately gathered round him, and made a rude kind of noise, which I believe was their method of singing, as their countenances bespoke it a species of jollity.
Page 14 - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau! La moitié de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau Et m'oblige ą venger, aprčs ce coup funeste, Celle que je n'ai plus sur celle qui me reste.
Page 52 - ... bending his notions and manners to theirs, as far as his duty to God would permit ; a conduct compatible neither with the...
Page 134 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 234 - ... has a fresh, healthy look. He wears his beard ; his face is not at all ugly or disagreeable, and he has a look that may be called sensible or sagacious for a savage.
Page 9 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he.