Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Volumen6 |
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... increase who are reduced to the ne- ceffity of feeding upon plain rice . Men , united by fociety in a large and populous kingdom , can employ their industry , talents , and economy , to no better purpofe than to provide neceffaries for ...
... increase who are reduced to the ne- ceffity of feeding upon plain rice . Men , united by fociety in a large and populous kingdom , can employ their industry , talents , and economy , to no better purpofe than to provide neceffaries for ...
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... increased , did the fovereign incline to burden his fub- jects with new impofitions . When Lord Macartney visited this vaft empire in the capacity of his Britan- nic majefty's ambaffador , the revenue of the Chinese emperor was not less ...
... increased , did the fovereign incline to burden his fub- jects with new impofitions . When Lord Macartney visited this vaft empire in the capacity of his Britan- nic majefty's ambaffador , the revenue of the Chinese emperor was not less ...
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... increase the fplendour of the varnish . The fish in sporting , often mistake this varnished board for water ; and endeavouring to throw themfelves in- to it , fall into the boat . The foldiers have a particular method of fishing with a ...
... increase the fplendour of the varnish . The fish in sporting , often mistake this varnished board for water ; and endeavouring to throw themfelves in- to it , fall into the boat . The foldiers have a particular method of fishing with a ...
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... increases with the number of its perpe- trations . Such was the fituation of Satan and his apoftate angels . They attempted to transfer their tur- pitude and mifery to man ; and were , alas ! but too Hence fuccefsful . Hence the ...
... increases with the number of its perpe- trations . Such was the fituation of Satan and his apoftate angels . They attempted to transfer their tur- pitude and mifery to man ; and were , alas ! but too Hence fuccefsful . Hence the ...
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... increase in number at the place of contact , the colours being fometimes mixed without any order , and fometimes difpofed in a regular manner . In the laft cafe , the coloured lines are generally concentric circles , or el- lipfes , or ...
... increase in number at the place of contact , the colours being fometimes mixed without any order , and fometimes difpofed in a regular manner . In the laft cafe , the coloured lines are generally concentric circles , or el- lipfes , or ...
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Página 361 - 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 362 - 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...
Página 338 - The directors of such companies, however, 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 250 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that 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 185 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
Página 338 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Página 360 - 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.
Página 362 - But sorrow wastes the mournful, O daughter of Toscar ! and their days are few! They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength after the mildew has passed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops of night.
Página 272 - They have a governor named by the king (or in some proprietary colonies by the proprietor), who is his representative or deputy. They have courts of justice of their own, from whose decisions an appeal lies to the king and council here in England.
Página 18 - God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.