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, Volumen12Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... Ireland must be evident from the consideration that it shortens the distance between them by the shortest passage , that of the Pentland Firth , nearly 600 miles . We have already entered so fully into the local history of canals in ...
... Ireland must be evident from the consideration that it shortens the distance between them by the shortest passage , that of the Pentland Firth , nearly 600 miles . We have already entered so fully into the local history of canals in ...
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... Ireland , was commenced soon after the year 1753. The general direction of this canal is nearly west , for sixty - one miles and a half , through Dublin , Kildare , and King's Counties : it passes a low part of the grand ridge of Ireland ...
... Ireland , was commenced soon after the year 1753. The general direction of this canal is nearly west , for sixty - one miles and a half , through Dublin , Kildare , and King's Counties : it passes a low part of the grand ridge of Ireland ...
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... Ireland , in the lake of Killarney , county of Kerry , and province of Munster : in which are the ruins of a very ancient monastery , founded by St. Finian , the patron saint of these parts , to whom the cathedral of Aghadoe is also ...
... Ireland , in the lake of Killarney , county of Kerry , and province of Munster : in which are the ruins of a very ancient monastery , founded by St. Finian , the patron saint of these parts , to whom the cathedral of Aghadoe is also ...
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... Ireland or the plantations , bearing acts unjustly and immorally in either case ; but interest not exceeding six per cent . , shall be there is no good cause for blaming him in the legal , though executed in the kingdom of Great one ...
... Ireland or the plantations , bearing acts unjustly and immorally in either case ; but interest not exceeding six per cent . , shall be there is no good cause for blaming him in the legal , though executed in the kingdom of Great one ...
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... Ireland . Frogs , lice , and flies , must all this palace fill With loathed intrusion . Milton's Paradise Lost . Many excellent strains have been jostled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions . Browne . Will you , a bold intruder ...
... Ireland . Frogs , lice , and flies , must all this palace fill With loathed intrusion . Milton's Paradise Lost . Many excellent strains have been jostled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions . Browne . Will you , a bold intruder ...
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Página 89 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Página 69 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 52 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 15 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Página 383 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 265 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Página 36 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Página 188 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Página 4 - The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this...