Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen16,Parte1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1796 |
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... give me great pleasure ( fays Mr Arfcott ) to be able to inform you of any particulars worthy Mr Pennant's notice , concerning the toad who lived fo many years with us , and was fo great a favour- ite . The greateft curiofity in it was ...
... give me great pleasure ( fays Mr Arfcott ) to be able to inform you of any particulars worthy Mr Pennant's notice , concerning the toad who lived fo many years with us , and was fo great a favour- ite . The greateft curiofity in it was ...
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... give evidence upon oath , and is in law a competent witnefs ; but the credi- bility of her teftimony , and how far forth fhe is to be believed , must be left to the jury upon the circumftances of fact that concur in that teftimony . For ...
... give evidence upon oath , and is in law a competent witnefs ; but the credi- bility of her teftimony , and how far forth fhe is to be believed , must be left to the jury upon the circumftances of fact that concur in that teftimony . For ...
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... give a general idea of the difference between them . The Victory , one of the laft built of our first rates , is 222 feet 6 inches in length , from the head to the ftern ; the length of her keel , 151 feet 3 inches ; that of her gun ...
... give a general idea of the difference between them . The Victory , one of the laft built of our first rates , is 222 feet 6 inches in length , from the head to the ftern ; the length of her keel , 151 feet 3 inches ; that of her gun ...
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... Give it me conditionally ( faid he ) ; upon condition that I have told the truth , " which they did . His body was fo robuft , that it refifted the force of the horses ; and the executioner was at length obliged to cut him into quarters ...
... Give it me conditionally ( faid he ) ; upon condition that I have told the truth , " which they did . His body was fo robuft , that it refifted the force of the horses ; and the executioner was at length obliged to cut him into quarters ...
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... give for that inftrument . Our correfpondent , who refides in the vicinity of London , alfo informs us , that lately the famous furgeon's inftrument - maker , Mr Savigny in Pall Mall , after numberless experiments , in the course of ...
... give for that inftrument . Our correfpondent , who refides in the vicinity of London , alfo informs us , that lately the famous furgeon's inftrument - maker , Mr Savigny in Pall Mall , after numberless experiments , in the course of ...
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Página 135 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Página 126 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Página 128 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Página 84 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Página 84 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Página 141 - ... also of forcibly impressing the carriages and horses of the subject, to do the king's business on the public roads, in the conveyance of timber, baggage, and the like, however inconvenient to the proprietor, upon paying him a settled price...
Página 46 - Doctor coming up to his. chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done, put up the box as formerly. The next day, going to the...
Página 25 - ... to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. It is in most respects like another bond : the difference being chiefly this : that the bond is the creation of a fresh debt or obligation de novo, the recognizance is an acknowledgment of a former debt upon record ; the form whereof is, "that AB doth acknowledge to owe to our lord the king, to the plaintiff, to CD, or the like, the sum of ten pounds...
Página 197 - Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only to men of no genius ; as that armour, which upon the strong is an ornament and a defence, upon the weak and mis-shapen becomes a load, and cripples the body which it was made to protect.
Página 229 - ... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.