A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Tom 17Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... sugar . It seems also to contain some argil and iron . It is met with in the ci - devant provinces of Gascony and Dauphiny in France , and in some parts of England . It is employed by the French potters and enamellers in the glassy var ...
... sugar . It seems also to contain some argil and iron . It is met with in the ci - devant provinces of Gascony and Dauphiny in France , and in some parts of England . It is employed by the French potters and enamellers in the glassy var ...
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... sugar - cane , cotton , and Brasil wood . The climate is in the interior hot and moist . Hides , cocoa - nuts , ipecacuanha , and a few other drugs , are sent hence ; but its chief exports are cotton and sugar . The imports are manufac ...
... sugar - cane , cotton , and Brasil wood . The climate is in the interior hot and moist . Hides , cocoa - nuts , ipecacuanha , and a few other drugs , are sent hence ; but its chief exports are cotton and sugar . The imports are manufac ...
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... sugar - cane in considerable plenty ; but even the grains of the temperate climates can only be raised southward by artificial watering , a process to which the indolence of the Persian farmer does not allow him to apply . A vast ex ...
... sugar - cane in considerable plenty ; but even the grains of the temperate climates can only be raised southward by artificial watering , a process to which the indolence of the Persian farmer does not allow him to apply . A vast ex ...
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... sugar , are the most valuable productions of the coast ; and corn , wheat , Peruvian bark , and cacao , of the high country . The rivers on the west side of the Andes are mere mountain streams of short course ; on the eastern side rise ...
... sugar , are the most valuable productions of the coast ; and corn , wheat , Peruvian bark , and cacao , of the high country . The rivers on the west side of the Andes are mere mountain streams of short course ; on the eastern side rise ...
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... sugar alone 10,800,000 lbs . were damaged . On an average of ten years , it is calculated , that there are here annually ninety - seven bright days , 104 rainy , seventy - two of snow , and ninety- three unsettled and changeable . The ...
... sugar alone 10,800,000 lbs . were damaged . On an average of ten years , it is calculated , that there are here annually ninety - seven bright days , 104 rainy , seventy - two of snow , and ninety- three unsettled and changeable . The ...
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Strona 15 - Coke(/) to be a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears wilfully, absolutely, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question.
Strona 392 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Strona 190 - Lead it through various scenes of life and death, And from each scene the noblest truths inspire. Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason, reason; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed, and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, pour'd On this devoted head, be pour'd in vain.
Strona 68 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Strona 403 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Strona 417 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, . Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity...
Strona 15 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Strona 96 - Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. " Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins...
Strona 11 - Tis chastity, my brother, chastity : She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds ; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
Strona 42 - In prose compositions, this figure requires to be used with still greater moderation and delicacy. The same liberty is not allowed to the imagination there, as in poetry.