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, Band 4Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... bird of the starling kind , common there , and more generally known by its Brasilian name , pitan- guaguacu . BEMILUCIUS , in mythology , a surname of Jupiter , represented young and beardless . See MOAN . BE MINGLE . Be and mingle ...
... bird of the starling kind , common there , and more generally known by its Brasilian name , pitan- guaguacu . BEMILUCIUS , in mythology , a surname of Jupiter , represented young and beardless . See MOAN . BE MINGLE . Be and mingle ...
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... birds by day , and of large bats by night ; the same care is also necessary with fields of maize and millet , when the harvest approaches maturity , particularly in regions that are much infested with wild boars , elephants , buffaloes ...
... birds by day , and of large bats by night ; the same care is also necessary with fields of maize and millet , when the harvest approaches maturity , particularly in regions that are much infested with wild boars , elephants , buffaloes ...
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... birds and the chattering of monkeys . Alligators are often seen sleeping on its banks , and enor- mous tigers spring upon the traveller who ven- tures to intrude upon their solitary retreat . This widely extended wilderness is , with ...
... birds and the chattering of monkeys . Alligators are often seen sleeping on its banks , and enor- mous tigers spring upon the traveller who ven- tures to intrude upon their solitary retreat . This widely extended wilderness is , with ...
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... birds are partridges , of which some are blue and some green , turtles , wild ducks , woodcocks , & c . Indian corn and yams are the ordinary food of the natives , and serve in the room of bread ; they have two sorts of beans , like ...
... birds are partridges , of which some are blue and some green , turtles , wild ducks , woodcocks , & c . Indian corn and yams are the ordinary food of the natives , and serve in the room of bread ; they have two sorts of beans , like ...
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... birds will not feed upon them , are moderately astringent ; and have been given with success in bilious fluxes , and diseases pro- ceeding from heat , acrimony , and thinness of the juices . Among the Egyptians barberries are used in ...
... birds will not feed upon them , are moderately astringent ; and have been given with success in bilious fluxes , and diseases pro- ceeding from heat , acrimony , and thinness of the juices . Among the Egyptians barberries are used in ...
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Seite 297 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Seite 373 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Seite 82 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Seite 254 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Seite 270 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Seite 184 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 2 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Seite 244 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 227 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Seite 280 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.