Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Հատոր 6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... card is sent on the evening before the entertainment , ano- ther on the morning of the appointed day , and a third when every thing is prepared and the guests ready to sit down to the table . The master of the house al- ways introduces ...
... card is sent on the evening before the entertainment , ano- ther on the morning of the appointed day , and a third when every thing is prepared and the guests ready to sit down to the table . The master of the house al- ways introduces ...
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... card of thanks to the There are several public festivals annually celebrated Pal officer . in China . One is that already mentioned , in which tiva Their method of drinking tea is not like that of the emperor tills the ground with his ...
... card of thanks to the There are several public festivals annually celebrated Pal officer . in China . One is that already mentioned , in which tiva Their method of drinking tea is not like that of the emperor tills the ground with his ...
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... Cards invented in France for the king's amusecertain conditions , which are ill observed by ment . the Spaniards , whose clergy use the inquisitioc 1399 Westminster abbey rebuilt and enlarged . - Westin all its tortures ; and in 1609 ...
... Cards invented in France for the king's amusecertain conditions , which are ill observed by ment . the Spaniards , whose clergy use the inquisitioc 1399 Westminster abbey rebuilt and enlarged . - Westin all its tortures ; and in 1609 ...
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... , two , six , ten , & c . - Some of these , or those of two letters , will be found in every sentence . 9. The most common words of four letters are , this , that , * By shuf- fling the cards in this viously agree CIP [ 158 ] CIP.
... , two , six , ten , & c . - Some of these , or those of two letters , will be found in every sentence . 9. The most common words of four letters are , this , that , * By shuf- fling the cards in this viously agree CIP [ 158 ] CIP.
Էջ 159
... cards are to be first placed in the order as here- after follows , and then shuffled by taking off 3 from the top ... cards , by writing one letter on every card ; he there will then shuffles them in the manner described , and writes ...
... cards are to be first placed in the order as here- after follows , and then shuffled by taking off 3 from the top ... cards , by writing one letter on every card ; he there will then shuffles them in the manner described , and writes ...
Common terms and phrases
according acid afterwards ancient animal appears army bave bivalve blue body BOTANY BOTANY Index Britain called cards China Chinese Chiton Christ Christians church Cicero Cilicia Cimbri clock coal Coalery Colchis colour commerce common compass Conchæ conchology consists court degree divided earth ecliptic emperor empire England expence flowers France glass Greek green honour inch long India inhabitants island Italy Julius Cæsar kind king light likewise Limaçons Lord lours mandarins manner matter ment multivalves nature neral observed occasion parliament particles person pieces pinion plates prince principal produced proper province quantity river Roman Rome round Scotland Sect shell side sometimes Spain species strata stratum striæ striated substance supposed surface teeth Testa tethys thing tion town trade transversely univalve valves wheel whole Wood yellow
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Էջ 356 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Էջ 334 - ... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Էջ 356 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Էջ 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Էջ 16 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Էջ 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Էջ 357 - Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Էջ 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Էջ 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Էջ 354 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.