The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Μέρος 2,Τόμος 17Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Σελίδα 396
... remains of its prey . Barbut informs us that these fishes propagate their species like the shark . He adds that in the gulph of Guinea they follow ships for the sake of the offals , and hence the Dutch give them the name of dung - fish ...
... remains of its prey . Barbut informs us that these fishes propagate their species like the shark . He adds that in the gulph of Guinea they follow ships for the sake of the offals , and hence the Dutch give them the name of dung - fish ...
Σελίδα 400
... remains some time , but when taken out it assumes a white but very dull appearance : to give it a polish , it is put into a tub containing a quantity of bran , which is set in motion by turn- ing a shaft that runs through its centre ...
... remains some time , but when taken out it assumes a white but very dull appearance : to give it a polish , it is put into a tub containing a quantity of bran , which is set in motion by turn- ing a shaft that runs through its centre ...
Σελίδα 402
... remains to withdraw it from the die y , which is done by the following contrivance : -Behind the die a piece of bone or wood is placed in a sliding rod 29 , for the point to enter : this rod has a helical spring coiled round it , which ...
... remains to withdraw it from the die y , which is done by the following contrivance : -Behind the die a piece of bone or wood is placed in a sliding rod 29 , for the point to enter : this rod has a helical spring coiled round it , which ...
Σελίδα 405
... remains in the mass , and is thus reduced into ' fumes , and , at length condensing , it is precipitated into the water , leaving behind it a mass of silver grains ing at the extremes , render the matter very porous of different figures ...
... remains in the mass , and is thus reduced into ' fumes , and , at length condensing , it is precipitated into the water , leaving behind it a mass of silver grains ing at the extremes , render the matter very porous of different figures ...
Σελίδα 409
... remains of which , as well as crabs , shell - fish , and molluscæ , were found in the stomach . This species is the fattest of the tribe ; and therefore most so in January when they moult . They are supposed to lay and sit in October ...
... remains of which , as well as crabs , shell - fish , and molluscæ , were found in the stomach . This species is the fattest of the tribe ; and therefore most so in January when they moult . They are supposed to lay and sit in October ...
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Σελίδα 570 - We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble.
Σελίδα 394 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Σελίδα 479 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Σελίδα 570 - ... with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and...
Σελίδα 488 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Σελίδα 571 - But, passing over this topic, we would observe, that the complaint against poetry as abounding in illusion and deception, is in the main groundless. In many poems there is more of truth than in many histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of thought, and throw new light on the mysteries of our being.
Σελίδα 679 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Σελίδα 495 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Σελίδα 743 - Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Σελίδα 570 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.