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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... inhabitants of Wha - yang and Fong - chew , two cities in the diftrict Toley . of Hang - chong - fu . Then having cut down rocks to fill up deep abyfies , and made roads through places almoft inacceffible , he came and befieged the city ...
... inhabitants of Wha - yang and Fong - chew , two cities in the diftrict Toley . of Hang - chong - fu . Then having cut down rocks to fill up deep abyfies , and made roads through places almoft inacceffible , he came and befieged the city ...
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... inhabitants , according to the best and latest accounts . 53 Cimate , The climate as well as the foil of this extenfive em- fail , and pire is very different in different parts ; fevere cold be- produce . ing often felt in the northern ...
... inhabitants , according to the best and latest accounts . 53 Cimate , The climate as well as the foil of this extenfive em- fail , and pire is very different in different parts ; fevere cold be- produce . ing often felt in the northern ...
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... inhabitants . CHINESE Swanpan . See ABACUS . CHINKAPIN . See FAGUS , BOTANY Index . CHINNOR , a mufical inttrument among the He- brews , confifting of 32 chords . Kircher has given a figure of it , which is copied on Plate CXLV . CHINON ...
... inhabitants . CHINESE Swanpan . See ABACUS . CHINKAPIN . See FAGUS , BOTANY Index . CHINNOR , a mufical inttrument among the He- brews , confifting of 32 chords . Kircher has given a figure of it , which is copied on Plate CXLV . CHINON ...
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... inhabitants , who , though either fubdued by the Roman arms , or at least compelled to retire to the woods and mountains , ftill obftinately retained their pri- mitive manners and cuftoms ; Roman colonies , and fuch of the original ...
... inhabitants , who , though either fubdued by the Roman arms , or at least compelled to retire to the woods and mountains , ftill obftinately retained their pri- mitive manners and cuftoms ; Roman colonies , and fuch of the original ...
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... inhabitants have manufactures of cloth and filken ftuffs , and carry on a small degree of commerce . E. Long . 14. 40. N. Lat . 56. 30 . CHRISTINA , daughter of Guftavus Adolphus king of Sweden , was born in 1626 ; and fucceeded to the ...
... inhabitants have manufactures of cloth and filken ftuffs , and carry on a small degree of commerce . E. Long . 14. 40. N. Lat . 56. 30 . CHRISTINA , daughter of Guftavus Adolphus king of Sweden , was born in 1626 ; and fucceeded to the ...
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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.