Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Tom 4John Brown, 1816 |
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Strona 30
... persons , who have taken the figure of a face by the touch , and moulded it in wax with the utmost exactness ; as was the cafe of the blind sculptor mentioned by De Piles , who thus took the likenets of the Duke de Bracciano in a dark ...
... persons , who have taken the figure of a face by the touch , and moulded it in wax with the utmost exactness ; as was the cafe of the blind sculptor mentioned by De Piles , who thus took the likenets of the Duke de Bracciano in a dark ...
Strona 31
... person deprived of fight , is to redrefs , as effectually as we poffibly can , the natural difadvantages with which he is encumbered ; or , in other words , to enlarge as far as poffible the sphere of his knowledge and ac- tivity . This ...
... person deprived of fight , is to redrefs , as effectually as we poffibly can , the natural difadvantages with which he is encumbered ; or , in other words , to enlarge as far as poffible the sphere of his knowledge and ac- tivity . This ...
Strona 33
... person involve a numerous company in gloom , and terminate the freedom and vivacity of agreeable discourse , in lazy yawning and difcontented filence . Of all innocent characters , this ought to be avoided by the blind ; because , of ...
... person involve a numerous company in gloom , and terminate the freedom and vivacity of agreeable discourse , in lazy yawning and difcontented filence . Of all innocent characters , this ought to be avoided by the blind ; because , of ...
Strona 36
... person . Jer writing is very straight , well cut , and the fpell- ing no less correct . To reach this fingular me- chanifin , the indefatigable cares of her affectionate mother were long employed , who accustomed her daughter to feel ...
... person . Jer writing is very straight , well cut , and the fpell- ing no less correct . To reach this fingular me- chanifin , the indefatigable cares of her affectionate mother were long employed , who accustomed her daughter to feel ...
Strona 38
... of the fame line ; and fo of the rest . I place the 2d number upon the 2d row of fquare , units be- neath units , and tens beneath tens , & c . I place Fig.1 . Inventions for the Improvement of blind Persons . BL I 38 ) ( BLI.
... of the fame line ; and fo of the rest . I place the 2d number upon the 2d row of fquare , units be- neath units , and tens beneath tens , & c . I place Fig.1 . Inventions for the Improvement of blind Persons . BL I 38 ) ( BLI.
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Strona 267 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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Strona 320 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Strona 69 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Strona 421 - Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Strona 439 - ... procuring her teats to be drawn, which were too much distended with milk, till, from habit, she became as much delighted with this foundling as if it had been her real offspring.
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