The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Część 2,Tom 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Strona 405
... never again revisited Corsica , nor does he appear to have regarded it with any feelings of affection . One small fountain at Ajaccio is pointed out as the only ornament which his bounty bestowed on his birth place . Napoleon and his ...
... never again revisited Corsica , nor does he appear to have regarded it with any feelings of affection . One small fountain at Ajaccio is pointed out as the only ornament which his bounty bestowed on his birth place . Napoleon and his ...
Strona 407
... never filled up the appointment . Fortunately for Buonaparte the man who had been the great obstacle to his hopes and wishes was removed , and his office supplied by M. Pontevulant , who not only recommissioned the persecuted victim of ...
... never filled up the appointment . Fortunately for Buonaparte the man who had been the great obstacle to his hopes and wishes was removed , and his office supplied by M. Pontevulant , who not only recommissioned the persecuted victim of ...
Strona 409
... never have occurred to others ; clearness and precision in forming his plans ; a mode of directing with certainty the separate moving columns which were to execute them , by arranging so that each division should arrive on the destined ...
... never have occurred to others ; clearness and precision in forming his plans ; a mode of directing with certainty the separate moving columns which were to execute them , by arranging so that each division should arrive on the destined ...
Strona 412
... never pause . Disengaging the chief strength of his army from the siege of Mantua , and relieved for the present from the pursuit of the enemy in the field , he threw his force into the shape of moveable columns , and ranged at will ...
... never pause . Disengaging the chief strength of his army from the siege of Mantua , and relieved for the present from the pursuit of the enemy in the field , he threw his force into the shape of moveable columns , and ranged at will ...
Strona 413
... never failed to use ; he treasured up his wrath until he saw his antagonist disarmed . A pretext for at- tack was made , a French army was instantly flung upon the frontier , and in three months the French flag was seen flying from the ...
... never failed to use ; he treasured up his wrath until he saw his antagonist disarmed . A pretext for at- tack was made , a French army was instantly flung upon the frontier , and in three months the French flag was seen flying from the ...
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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.