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Strona 438
... course of guilt only to make its punishment more decisive . Napoleon now touched the limit of all his glories . The ... courses fought against Sisera ; ' yet not by so direct and miraculous an interpo- sition , as to justify the proud ...
... course of guilt only to make its punishment more decisive . Napoleon now touched the limit of all his glories . The ... courses fought against Sisera ; ' yet not by so direct and miraculous an interpo- sition , as to justify the proud ...
Strona 456
... course of the river , 156 by land , 430 south - west by south of Nashville , west 1268 . Long . 91 ° 20 ′ W. , lat . 31 ° 33 ′ N. Population , in 1810 , 1511 ; and , in 1818 , about 3000. The greater part of the town stands on a bluff ...
... course of the river , 156 by land , 430 south - west by south of Nashville , west 1268 . Long . 91 ° 20 ′ W. , lat . 31 ° 33 ′ N. Population , in 1810 , 1511 ; and , in 1818 , about 3000. The greater part of the town stands on a bluff ...
Strona 459
... course will be such as we have stated . Where there was previously an exported superabund- ance , the earlier effects of an increasing demand may , for some time , be hardly visible ; or may even be counteracted , as to any particular ...
... course will be such as we have stated . Where there was previously an exported superabund- ance , the earlier effects of an increasing demand may , for some time , be hardly visible ; or may even be counteracted , as to any particular ...
Strona 470
... course was adopted . By adding £ 4516 a year , on this occasion , a sufficient pro- vision was made ( if strictly employed ) to pay off both the debts within the limited term . Principal borrowed . £ Debt created . £ By the first act ...
... course was adopted . By adding £ 4516 a year , on this occasion , a sufficient pro- vision was made ( if strictly employed ) to pay off both the debts within the limited term . Principal borrowed . £ Debt created . £ By the first act ...
Strona 473
... course be computed at a lower rate ; and no other than a conjectural computation could be made of the time when the redemption might be completed , not only because the system of purchasing stock at the market price must make the actual ...
... course be computed at a lower rate ; and no other than a conjectural computation could be made of the time when the redemption might be completed , not only because the system of purchasing stock at the market price must make the actual ...
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Strona 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Strona 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Strona 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Strona 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Strona 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Strona 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Strona 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Strona 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Strona 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Strona 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.