A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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Pagina 2
... cause of halos and mock suns . If we can con- ceive any kind of bodies in the atmosphere , which , according to the known laws of optics , will , either by reflection or refraction , produce the appearance in question , when nothing ...
... cause of halos and mock suns . If we can con- ceive any kind of bodies in the atmosphere , which , according to the known laws of optics , will , either by reflection or refraction , produce the appearance in question , when nothing ...
Pagina 3
... caused by hail- stones , of a pyramidal figure ; because , after two or three of them had been seen about the sun , there ... cause with the colors of thin plates . He concludes his expli- cation of the rainbow with the following obser ...
... caused by hail- stones , of a pyramidal figure ; because , after two or three of them had been seen about the sun , there ... cause with the colors of thin plates . He concludes his expli- cation of the rainbow with the following obser ...
Pagina 11
... cause . Hudibras . Wear under vizard - masks their talents , And mother wits before their gallants ; Until they're hampered in the noose , Too fast to dream of breaking loose . Id . You want to lead My reason blindfold like a hampered ...
... cause . Hudibras . Wear under vizard - masks their talents , And mother wits before their gallants ; Until they're hampered in the noose , Too fast to dream of breaking loose . Id . You want to lead My reason blindfold like a hampered ...
Pagina 16
... cause . Labor ; act of the hand . Cowper . Alnashar was a very idle fellow , that never would set his hand to any business during his father's life . Addison . I rather suspect my own judgment than I can be- lieve a fault to be in that ...
... cause . Labor ; act of the hand . Cowper . Alnashar was a very idle fellow , that never would set his hand to any business during his father's life . Addison . I rather suspect my own judgment than I can be- lieve a fault to be in that ...
Pagina 18
... cause of the loudness or softness of sounds ; as in Bacon . ringing of a hand - bell harder or softer . HAND - BREADTH , N. S. A space equal to the breadth of the hand ; a palm . A border of an hand - breadth round about . Exodus . Off ...
... cause of the loudness or softness of sounds ; as in Bacon . ringing of a hand - bell harder or softer . HAND - BREADTH , N. S. A space equal to the breadth of the hand ; a palm . A border of an hand - breadth round about . Exodus . Off ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Pagina 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Pagina 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Pagina 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Pagina 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Pagina 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Pagina 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Pagina 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.