The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... language , the dis - bour , which is situated on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia , cordant notes of which they are composed are simply by a canal fifty - four miles long , and capable of receiving appogiaturas . [ CHORD . ] vessels ...
... language , the dis - bour , which is situated on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia , cordant notes of which they are composed are simply by a canal fifty - four miles long , and capable of receiving appogiaturas . [ CHORD . ] vessels ...
Σελίδα 26
... languages . He said that he could think made the invention useful to the world . The Latin Bible and write with ... language . Though singularly abrupt and irritable tion- in temper , he made and retained many friendships which were ...
... languages . He said that he could think made the invention useful to the world . The Latin Bible and write with ... language . Though singularly abrupt and irritable tion- in temper , he made and retained many friendships which were ...
Σελίδα 31
... language is two - fold . Before a , o , and u , and occasionally before i and e , it is the medial letter of the guttural order . The other sound , which it possesses only before i and e , is one of the medials of the sibilant series ...
... language is two - fold . Before a , o , and u , and occasionally before i and e , it is the medial letter of the guttural order . The other sound , which it possesses only before i and e , is one of the medials of the sibilant series ...
Σελίδα 32
... language . They call themselves only the Gadhel , also sometimes writable that this fact should have been advanced by Mr. Moore ten and always pronounced Gael , and their language the Gaedheilg , pronounced Gaeilg , or , nearly Gaelic ...
... language . They call themselves only the Gadhel , also sometimes writable that this fact should have been advanced by Mr. Moore ten and always pronounced Gael , and their language the Gaedheilg , pronounced Gaeilg , or , nearly Gaelic ...
Σελίδα 33
... languages . We shall only mention that the most recent publication which has appeared on the subject of the Gael in English ... language of art adopted in the fifteenth century , as it appears in the heading of one of his chapters : De ...
... languages . We shall only mention that the most recent publication which has appeared on the subject of the Gael in English ... language of art adopted in the fifteenth century , as it appears in the heading of one of his chapters : De ...
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Σελίδα 212 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Σελίδα 212 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Σελίδα 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Σελίδα 125 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Σελίδα 157 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
Σελίδα 168 - Charlotte, in which are equally involved the happiness of your royal highness in your parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the state, that the intercourse between her royal highness the princess of Wales, and her royal highness the princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulation and restraint.
Σελίδα 127 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Σελίδα 289 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 159 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Σελίδα 212 - A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new...