Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Հատոր 6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... river Kyang . In a few years afterwards such extremity , that those who remained were forced the Chinese emperor submitted to become tributary to to leave their country , and fly to the mountains of the the Kin , and concluded a peace ...
... river Kyang . In a few years afterwards such extremity , that those who remained were forced the Chinese emperor submitted to become tributary to to leave their country , and fly to the mountains of the the Kin , and concluded a peace ...
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... river Kyaling , which runs into the great Kyang . This they crossed on rafts made of the wood of demolished houses ... rivers Han and Whang - ho , so that they could not escape . This negligence they soon had occasion to re- pent of ...
... river Kyaling , which runs into the great Kyang . This they crossed on rafts made of the wood of demolished houses ... rivers Han and Whang - ho , so that they could not escape . This negligence they soon had occasion to re- pent of ...
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... river Ju ; as did also 500 of his most empire . resolute soldiers . The same day the new emperor , Cheng - lin , was slain in a tumult ; and thus an end was put to the dominion of the Kin Tartars in China . 35 The empire of China was ...
... river Ju ; as did also 500 of his most empire . resolute soldiers . The same day the new emperor , Cheng - lin , was slain in a tumult ; and thus an end was put to the dominion of the Kin Tartars in China . 35 The empire of China was ...
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... rivers of dif- ferent sizes , of which two are particularly celebrated , viz . the Yang - tse - kiang , or son of the sea , and Hoang ho , or the yellow river . The former rises in the pro- vince of Yunan , and passing through Houquang ...
... rivers of dif- ferent sizes , of which two are particularly celebrated , viz . the Yang - tse - kiang , or son of the sea , and Hoang ho , or the yellow river . The former rises in the pro- vince of Yunan , and passing through Houquang ...
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... river diminishes almost of a sudden , it flows with great impetuosity ; and where it resumes its former breadth it is equally rapid . At the sixth moon , when the water was high and the wind strong , the bark I have mentioned ar- riving ...
... river diminishes almost of a sudden , it flows with great impetuosity ; and where it resumes its former breadth it is equally rapid . At the sixth moon , when the water was high and the wind strong , the bark I have mentioned ar- riving ...
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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.