Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 9John Brown, 1816 |
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... wounds ; and con- tracted a strict friendship with that general which lafted till his death . At his perfuafion ... wound . Know- ing that it could not be drawn cut without occa- fioning immediate death , he would not fuffer it to ...
... wounds ; and con- tracted a strict friendship with that general which lafted till his death . At his perfuafion ... wound . Know- ing that it could not be drawn cut without occa- fioning immediate death , he would not fuffer it to ...
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... wound , and expired , A. A. C. 363 . EPANALEPSIS . EPANODOS Figures in Rhetoric . See ORATORY . EPANORTHOSIS . EPARER , in the manege , the flinging of a horfe , or his yerking and ftriking with his bind Jegs . EPAULETTES , a kind of ...
... wound , and expired , A. A. C. 363 . EPANALEPSIS . EPANODOS Figures in Rhetoric . See ORATORY . EPANORTHOSIS . EPARER , in the manege , the flinging of a horfe , or his yerking and ftriking with his bind Jegs . EPAULETTES , a kind of ...
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... wound . ( 19 ) ETHIOPIA , HISTORY OF , FROM THE TO TAL OVERTHROW OF THE ADELIANS , TO THE DEATH OF ZARA JACOB . The remainder of this expedition confifted only in the destruction and burning of towns and villages , and maffacres of ...
... wound . ( 19 ) ETHIOPIA , HISTORY OF , FROM THE TO TAL OVERTHROW OF THE ADELIANS , TO THE DEATH OF ZARA JACOB . The remainder of this expedition confifted only in the destruction and burning of towns and villages , and maffacres of ...
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... wound dreffed , but obftinately refufed to pro- ced farther . Next day he was taken ; betrayed , as is faid , by a woman whom he loved , to a par- ty of the enemy , who entered the cave , and car- ried him in triumph to Gragué . Here ...
... wound dreffed , but obftinately refufed to pro- ced farther . Next day he was taken ; betrayed , as is faid , by a woman whom he loved , to a par- ty of the enemy , who entered the cave , and car- ried him in triumph to Gragué . Here ...
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... wounds be- fore he fell . His head was cut off , and brought by Nur to his miftrefs , who hung it up on a tree be- fore her door . Here it remained for 3 years , when it was bought by an Armenian merchant , who buried it at Antioch , in ...
... wounds be- fore he fell . His head was cut off , and brought by Nur to his miftrefs , who hung it up on a tree be- fore her door . Here it remained for 3 years , when it was bought by an Armenian merchant , who buried it at Antioch , in ...
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Seite 264 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Seite 307 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head ? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell ALL.
Seite 218 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
Seite 263 - I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Seite 4 - The second qualification required in the action of an epic poem is that it should be an entire action. An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts ; or, as Aristotle describes it, when it consists of a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Seite 26 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater ; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with its motion ; and yet, with its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round about its proper centre.
Seite 247 - I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Seite 306 - Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we' affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Seite 165 - ... once what is the weight of a quantity of water, equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand ; and by comparing this with the weight of the sand, we have its true specific gravity.
Seite 257 - The balls of his broad eyes roll'd in his head, And glar'd betwixt a yellow and a red : He look'da lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair : Big-bon'd, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-bhoulder'd, and his arms were round and long.