Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 էջ |
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Էջ 68
... manufacture , and the inhabitants of the frozen zone warmed with the fleeces of our sheep . " How fuperior , " fays an ingenious writer , is fuch a man , in the eye of reafon and of heaven , to the NOBLE of a thousand years , who has ...
... manufacture , and the inhabitants of the frozen zone warmed with the fleeces of our sheep . " How fuperior , " fays an ingenious writer , is fuch a man , in the eye of reafon and of heaven , to the NOBLE of a thousand years , who has ...
Էջ 78
... manufacture . But Bruffels exceeds them all in the beauty and quantity of its camlets ; thofe of England are reputed the fecond . and Some give the name of mohair to the camlet or ftuffs made of the hair now under confideration . What ...
... manufacture . But Bruffels exceeds them all in the beauty and quantity of its camlets ; thofe of England are reputed the fecond . and Some give the name of mohair to the camlet or ftuffs made of the hair now under confideration . What ...
Էջ 80
... manufacture : it being abfolutely neceffary for the well dreffing of cloth . The fleece prepar'd , which oil - imbibing earth Of Wooburn blanches . DYER . The territory of Athens was anciently celebrated for the excel- lency of its figs ...
... manufacture : it being abfolutely neceffary for the well dreffing of cloth . The fleece prepar'd , which oil - imbibing earth Of Wooburn blanches . DYER . The territory of Athens was anciently celebrated for the excel- lency of its figs ...
Էջ 81
... manufactured in the looms of that most ancient empire . Native of a fiery clime , this plant will fheot vigorously amid the fands of thofe parched and barren favannahs in which other vege- tables would inevitably perish ; nor does it ...
... manufactured in the looms of that most ancient empire . Native of a fiery clime , this plant will fheot vigorously amid the fands of thofe parched and barren favannahs in which other vege- tables would inevitably perish ; nor does it ...
Էջ 98
... manufactures . It is drawn from the fruit by preffes , or mills made for the purpose . The confumption of this oil is incredible ; and it is reputed one of the most useful things in the whole world . fweeteft , and what we most efteem ...
... manufactures . It is drawn from the fruit by preffes , or mills made for the purpose . The confumption of this oil is incredible ; and it is reputed one of the most useful things in the whole world . fweeteft , and what we most efteem ...
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Էջ 66 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants ; they knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Էջ 130 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Էջ 31 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Էջ 9 - Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky.
Էջ 350 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Էջ 185 - He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.