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... produce . Some sorts are said always to be of a bright green colour . In general , the character of the fruit to an ... produces no fruit . In the climates that suit it , there is no plant more ex- tensively useful , independently of its ...
... produce . Some sorts are said always to be of a bright green colour . In general , the character of the fruit to an ... produces no fruit . In the climates that suit it , there is no plant more ex- tensively useful , independently of its ...
Σελίδα 10
... produce a jointed filament from any part of their surface , of which one part rises upwards , forming the beginning ... producing the earliest portion of decomposed vegeta- ble matter with which the soil is fertilised . ( Bridel , Bryolo ...
... produce a jointed filament from any part of their surface , of which one part rises upwards , forming the beginning ... producing the earliest portion of decomposed vegeta- ble matter with which the soil is fertilised . ( Bridel , Bryolo ...
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... produce a distinct sound . The more powerful the contraction , the more rapid are the vibra- tions of the muscular fibres , the higher the note which they produce , and the greater the difficulty of perceiving them with the eye . The ...
... produce a distinct sound . The more powerful the contraction , the more rapid are the vibra- tions of the muscular fibres , the higher the note which they produce , and the greater the difficulty of perceiving them with the eye . The ...
Σελίδα 21
... producing tranquillity and gravity , on the same principle . This leads us to the consideration of indirect ... produces a pleasure which nobody , I believe , who is able to feel it will deny to be one of the most delicious that music is ...
... producing tranquillity and gravity , on the same principle . This leads us to the consideration of indirect ... produces a pleasure which nobody , I believe , who is able to feel it will deny to be one of the most delicious that music is ...
Σελίδα 22
... produce from a fine voice and a perfect instrument . Handel's supremacy in the art renders him especially liable to animadversion when misled by an erroneous conception of the words ; but he has been charged with many supposed ...
... produce from a fine voice and a perfect instrument . Handel's supremacy in the art renders him especially liable to animadversion when misled by an erroneous conception of the words ; but he has been charged with many supposed ...
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Σελίδα 393 - auter vie, whether there shall or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, are now devisable by a
Σελίδα 101 - provisions of an act of parliament. This board is composed of the speaker of the House of Commons, the chancellor of the exchequer, the master of the rolls, the lord-chief-baron of the Court of Exchequer, the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, and the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of England. The greater part of
Σελίδα 388 - the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Σελίδα 20 - if it did not actually prompt it. He says, ' the passions may be considerably operated upon, without presenting any image at all, by certain sounds adapted to that purpose, of which we have a sufficient proof in the acknowledged and powerful effects of instrumental music.
Σελίδα 194 - act of oblivion. For money given to a hungry courtier, Needham obtained his pardon under the great seal. He latterly practised as a physician among his party, but lived universally hated by the royalists, and now only committed harmless treasons with the College of Physicians, on whom he poured all that gall and
Σελίδα 201 - there appears to have been little either very remarkable or agreeable; but we have the testimony of Dr. Pemberton that ' neither his age nor his universal reputation had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated." Ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect of patient and continuous thought rather than to any
Σελίδα 194 - who had then started a second paper, called the ' Observator,' first exercised his authority as licenser of the press, by procuring to be issued a ' proclamation for suppressing the printing and publishing unlicensed news-books and pamphlets of news, because it has become a common practice
Σελίδα 10 - which seems to have escaped observation ; and that is, it takes its stand on the top of some stake or post, from whence it springs forth on its prey, catching a fly in the air, and hardly ever touching the ground, but returning still to the same stand for many times together.
Σελίδα 77 - Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scottish Nation," fol., published at Edinburgh in 170822, informs us, but without mentioning any authority, that Napier passed some years in France, the Netherlands, and Italy, and that while absent
Σελίδα 20 - that, without the aid of spoken characters, many a story of deepest interest is most impressively told, many a noble or tender sentiment is most emphatically conveyed by it The power and expressiveness of music may well be regarded as a most beauteous adaptation of external nature to the moral constitution of man