Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... supposed to be contaminamake a will . ted in this country to the 10th generation , although Though the Chinese laws authorize slavery , yet the the law in general is conceived to be satisfied with impower of the master extends only to ...
... supposed to be contaminamake a will . ted in this country to the 10th generation , although Though the Chinese laws authorize slavery , yet the the law in general is conceived to be satisfied with impower of the master extends only to ...
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... supposed that a very large share of this enor- mous sum is actually expended by the emperor , after deducting the almost incalculable number of salaries which it is destined to pay , together with a standing China . The levying of taxes ...
... supposed that a very large share of this enor- mous sum is actually expended by the emperor , after deducting the almost incalculable number of salaries which it is destined to pay , together with a standing China . The levying of taxes ...
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... supposed to be by - standers without any share in the action . Tragedy in its origin was no more than a single chorus , who trode the stage alone , and without any actors , singing dithyrambics or hymns in honour of Bacchus . Thespis ...
... supposed to be by - standers without any share in the action . Tragedy in its origin was no more than a single chorus , who trode the stage alone , and without any actors , singing dithyrambics or hymns in honour of Bacchus . Thespis ...
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... supposed , as relate are not beyond their capacity to determine . some late philosophers have maintained , that man is They must likewise be faithful , because they had no an indigenous animal in every country ; or , that he secular ...
... supposed , as relate are not beyond their capacity to determine . some late philosophers have maintained , that man is They must likewise be faithful , because they had no an indigenous animal in every country ; or , that he secular ...
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... supposed , that a being so wicked and unhappy should be the production of an infinitely per- fect Creator ? He therefore insists , that human nature must have been disarranged and contaminated by some violent shock ; and that , of ...
... supposed , that a being so wicked and unhappy should be the production of an infinitely per- fect Creator ? He therefore insists , that human nature must have been disarranged and contaminated by some violent shock ; and that , of ...
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Página 356 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 334 - ... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 356 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Página 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 16 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Página 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 357 - Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Página 354 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.