Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Τόμος 3John Brown, 1816 |
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Σελίδα 10
... increased , became full of build- ings ; which induced the diftinction of Acropolis and Catapolis , i . e . of the upper and lower city . The extent of the citadel was 60 ftadia ; it was furrounded by olive trees , and fortified with a ...
... increased , became full of build- ings ; which induced the diftinction of Acropolis and Catapolis , i . e . of the upper and lower city . The extent of the citadel was 60 ftadia ; it was furrounded by olive trees , and fortified with a ...
Σελίδα 16
... increased in proportion to his clerical dignities . He collected his tythes with the most oppreflive extortion ; kept 64 fe- male concubines , betides feveral male ones , and at laft was accufed of beftiality ! A bill of com- plaint ...
... increased in proportion to his clerical dignities . He collected his tythes with the most oppreflive extortion ; kept 64 fe- male concubines , betides feveral male ones , and at laft was accufed of beftiality ! A bill of com- plaint ...
Σελίδα 21
... increase of this natural weight the weather is commonly fine , and we feel ourselves what we call braced and more active , but on the contrary , when the weight of the air diminishes , the wea- ther is bad , and people feel a ...
... increase of this natural weight the weather is commonly fine , and we feel ourselves what we call braced and more active , but on the contrary , when the weight of the air diminishes , the wea- ther is bad , and people feel a ...
Σελίδα 59
... increase of wealth ; that they had on foot an army of 12,000 men , and in their colonies and zarrifons 17,000 : that their fleet confifted of 300 ; whereas the Peloponnefians had no fuch ad- vintages . For thefe reafons he propofed as ...
... increase of wealth ; that they had on foot an army of 12,000 men , and in their colonies and zarrifons 17,000 : that their fleet confifted of 300 ; whereas the Peloponnefians had no fuch ad- vintages . For thefe reafons he propofed as ...
Σελίδα 86
... increased in fize . ( 3. ) AUCTION , in Roman antiquity , was origi nally a kind of fale , performed by the public ... increase ; because the goods were fold to him , qui plurimum rem augeret , who bid most for them . * To AUCTION . v ...
... increased in fize . ( 3. ) AUCTION , in Roman antiquity , was origi nally a kind of fale , performed by the public ... increase ; because the goods were fold to him , qui plurimum rem augeret , who bid most for them . * To AUCTION . v ...
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Σελίδα 8 - How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem; yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance, as this great volume of the world?
Σελίδα 285 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Σελίδα 235 - I'm weary of conjectures :—this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.] Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Σελίδα 379 - ... are not the right of the demandant, and the champion of the demandant, then taking the other by the hand...
Σελίδα 265 - The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about: the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains: the earth with her bars was about me for ever; yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Σελίδα 379 - A piece of ground is then in due time set out, of sixty feet square, enclosed with lists, and on one side a court erected for the judges of the court of common pleas, who attend there in their scarlet robes ; and also a bar is prepared for the learned Serjeants at law.
Σελίδα 244 - It is chiefly by discounting bills of exchange, that is, by advancing money upon them before they are due, that the greater part of banks and bankers issue their promissory notes.
Σελίδα 324 - ... without any instructions or inquiry, and having staid about it for some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.
Σελίδα 379 - The appellee, when appealed of felony, pleads not guilty, and throws down his glove, and declares he will defend the same by his body; the appellant takes up the glove, and replies that he is ready to make good the appeal, body for body. And thereupon the appellee, taking the book in his right hand, and in his left the right hand of his antagonist, swears to this effect : ' Hoc audi, homo, quern per manum teneo,
Σελίδα 323 - Its upper edge, wherein would have been the sockets of the teeth, was perfectly smooth. Measuring it with that of an adult, by placing their hinder processes together, its broken end extended to the penultimate grinder of the adult. This bone was white, all the others of a sand color.