The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 6Charles Knight, 1836 |
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... quantities of broken victuals , basketsful of fruits , and even living animals ; the details given of the quality as well as of the quantity of arti cles consumed by this man , without ever satisfying his rave- nous appetite , are too ...
... quantities of broken victuals , basketsful of fruits , and even living animals ; the details given of the quality as well as of the quantity of arti cles consumed by this man , without ever satisfying his rave- nous appetite , are too ...
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... quantity of silk is likewise produced . Com- pared with the surrounding districts , Burdwan has the appearance of a garden . The native zamindars are generally wealthy ; the more considerable of them usually reside in Calcutta , leaving ...
... quantity of silk is likewise produced . Com- pared with the surrounding districts , Burdwan has the appearance of a garden . The native zamindars are generally wealthy ; the more considerable of them usually reside in Calcutta , leaving ...
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... quantity of light within a very small space , will , if the light be very strong , such as that of the sun , also collect a considerable quantity of heat , which will set fire to many substances ; or , if the glass have an aperture of ...
... quantity of light within a very small space , will , if the light be very strong , such as that of the sun , also collect a considerable quantity of heat , which will set fire to many substances ; or , if the glass have an aperture of ...
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... quantity of surface , and presents the greatest condensation of light and heat which the glass will afford . The ... quantities , in one moment ; to melt small lighted with gas , the streets have been well paved and the pieces of metal ...
... quantity of surface , and presents the greatest condensation of light and heat which the glass will afford . The ... quantities , in one moment ; to melt small lighted with gas , the streets have been well paved and the pieces of metal ...
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... quantity of aqueous fluid from the blood , which is carried out of the system under the form of perspiration . [ PERSPIRATION , CUTANEOUS . ] The secretory arteries of the skin are excited to such an unusual degree of action by the ...
... quantity of aqueous fluid from the blood , which is carried out of the system under the form of perspiration . [ PERSPIRATION , CUTANEOUS . ] The secretory arteries of the skin are excited to such an unusual degree of action by the ...
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Page 55 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 36 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
Page 40 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 54 - Subsecivae; being a connected series of notes respecting the Geography, Chronology, and Literary History of the principal codes »and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon Laws.
Page 36 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The gloomy night is gathering fast?
Page 176 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Page 37 - As to any remuneration, you may think my songs either above or below price ; for they shall absolutely be the one or the other. In the honest enthusiasm with which I embark in your undertaking, to talk of money, wages, fee, hire, &c., would be downright prostitution of soul ! A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend, I shall receive as a favor.
Page 29 - You, too, proceed! make falling arts your care; Erect new wonders, and the old repair; Jones and Palladio to themselves restore And be whate'er Vitruvius was before, Till kings call forth th...
Page 142 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 70 - Alas ! why do I say MY ? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers, it would have joined lands broad and rich, it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill matched in years (she is two years my elder), and — and — and — what has been the result?