Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Հատոր 11John Brown, 1816 |
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... hair thruft through a ring on their forehead ; and above they have a small ftraw - hat , from which hang two strings that are tied under the chin . Their drefs confifts of a piece of black or dark blue cotton cloth , which reaches from ...
... hair thruft through a ring on their forehead ; and above they have a small ftraw - hat , from which hang two strings that are tied under the chin . Their drefs confifts of a piece of black or dark blue cotton cloth , which reaches from ...
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... HAIR , n . f . [ bær , Saxon . ] 1. One of the common teguments of the body . It is to be found upon all the parts of the body , except the foles of the feet and palms of the hands . When we exa- mine the hairs with a microscope , we ...
... HAIR , n . f . [ bær , Saxon . ] 1. One of the common teguments of the body . It is to be found upon all the parts of the body , except the foles of the feet and palms of the hands . When we exa- mine the hairs with a microscope , we ...
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... hair of animals generally pof feffes . See HATS , METHOD OF MAKING . No. 4 . ( 3. ) HAIR , in farriery . See FARRIERY , PART I. Sed . I ; PART III . Sec . XIV . ( 4. ) HAIR , ANCIENT AND MODERN OPINIONS RESPECTING . The ancients held the ...
... hair of animals generally pof feffes . See HATS , METHOD OF MAKING . No. 4 . ( 3. ) HAIR , in farriery . See FARRIERY , PART I. Sed . I ; PART III . Sec . XIV . ( 4. ) HAIR , ANCIENT AND MODERN OPINIONS RESPECTING . The ancients held the ...
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... hair , which was remarkably long and beautiful , and that it might not be ftain . ed with his blood . We hardly ever meet with a description of a fine woman or beautiful man in Offian's Poems , but their hair is mentioned as one of ...
... hair , which was remarkably long and beautiful , and that it might not be ftain . ed with his blood . We hardly ever meet with a description of a fine woman or beautiful man in Offian's Poems , but their hair is mentioned as one of ...
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... hair . A certain knight , who was very proud of his long luxuriant hair , dreamed that a perfon fuffocated him with its curls . As foon as he awoke , he cut his hair to a decent length . The report of this spread over all England , and ...
... hair . A certain knight , who was very proud of his long luxuriant hair , dreamed that a perfon fuffocated him with its curls . As foon as he awoke , he cut his hair to a decent length . The report of this spread over all England , and ...
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Էջ 238 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Էջ 182 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Էջ 411 - His pursuers soon lost sight of him, for he had, unperceived, thrown himself over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, happening to be in his garden, was addressed by the Spaniard on his knees, who acquainted him with his case, and implored concealment. " Eat this," said the Moor, giving him half a peach ; " you now know that you may confide in my protection.
Էջ 411 - Cudjoe stopped them at the door, and demanded what they wanted. " The white men," said they, " have carried away our brothers and sons, and we will kill all white men. Give us the white man you have in your house, for we will kill him.
Էջ 229 - ... is alleged to be unduly made, the only tribunal to which the complainants can appeal is that of the God of battles, the only process by which the appeal can be carried on is that of a civil and intestine war.
Էջ 261 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hickup.
Էջ 402 - I make no doubt but the forcibly attempting a crime of a still more detestable nature may be equally resisted by the death of the unnatural aggressor. For the one uniform principle that runs through our own and all other laws seems to be this, — that where a crime in itself capital , is endeavored to be committed by force, it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the party attempting.
Էջ 222 - At supper one of them drank a health to the Lord Steward ; upon which another of them said, that he believed his Lord was at that time very merry, for he had now outlived the day which his tutor Sandford had prognosticated upon his nativity he would not outlive ; but he had done it now, for that was his birthday, which had completed his age to fifty years. The next morning, by the time they came to Colebrook, they met with the news of his death.