A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Հատոր 4Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... become of little importance as a commercial es- tablishment , since pepper could be more ad- vantageously supplied from Prince of Wales ' Island and Malabar ; in August , 1801 , the directors ordered it to be reduced to a residency ...
... become of little importance as a commercial es- tablishment , since pepper could be more ad- vantageously supplied from Prince of Wales ' Island and Malabar ; in August , 1801 , the directors ordered it to be reduced to a residency ...
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... become tributary since the English became possessors of Bengal . The greater part of the country forms one vast alluvial plain , descending imperceptibly to the sea , and annually covered by the inundations of the Ganges . Beng , the ...
... become tributary since the English became possessors of Bengal . The greater part of the country forms one vast alluvial plain , descending imperceptibly to the sea , and annually covered by the inundations of the Ganges . Beng , the ...
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... becomes almost intolerable , and is attended with a great sickness and mortality , es- pecially among Europeans . vances . Although , properly speaking , there are but three seasons in the year , viz . the cold , hot , and rainy , the ...
... becomes almost intolerable , and is attended with a great sickness and mortality , es- pecially among Europeans . vances . Although , properly speaking , there are but three seasons in the year , viz . the cold , hot , and rainy , the ...
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... become pub- lic nuisances , by the pestilential vapors which they exhale . Manure is never employed , except in the growth of mulberry , tobacco , poppy , sugar , and some other articles . The land , though per- mitted a lay , never ...
... become pub- lic nuisances , by the pestilential vapors which they exhale . Manure is never employed , except in the growth of mulberry , tobacco , poppy , sugar , and some other articles . The land , though per- mitted a lay , never ...
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... become the food of the poorest natives , and the smallest kind are equally acceptable in a curry , the standing dish in every Hindoo family , which , with a pilau nearly com- prehends their whole art of cookery . The bickly , or cockup ...
... become the food of the poorest natives , and the smallest kind are equally acceptable in a curry , the standing dish in every Hindoo family , which , with a pilau nearly com- prehends their whole art of cookery . The bickly , or cockup ...
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Էջ 297 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Էջ 373 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Էջ 82 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Էջ 254 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Էջ 270 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Էջ 184 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Էջ 2 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Էջ 244 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Էջ 227 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Էջ 280 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.