Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volumen41819 |
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... objects with the sounds that struck our ear . Whenever we heard these sounds , the same ideas arose in our minds , because we recollected the signs made to us when they were pronounced . " Exactly similar must be our measures with the ...
... objects with the sounds that struck our ear . Whenever we heard these sounds , the same ideas arose in our minds , because we recollected the signs made to us when they were pronounced . " Exactly similar must be our measures with the ...
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... objects , when observed , are ren- dered the occasions of certain sensations and affections . That many objects give no pleasure to our sense is obvious . Many are certainly void of beauty ; but then , says this author , there is no ...
... objects , when observed , are ren- dered the occasions of certain sensations and affections . That many objects give no pleasure to our sense is obvious . Many are certainly void of beauty ; but then , says this author , there is no ...
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... country readily obtained from their respective governments the assistance and pa- tronage which such an undertaking required . As the work proceeded , the objects and inten- Tons of the philosophers on both sides of the water DEGREE .
... country readily obtained from their respective governments the assistance and pa- tronage which such an undertaking required . As the work proceeded , the objects and inten- Tons of the philosophers on both sides of the water DEGREE .
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... objects , situations , or circum- stances . This general description comprehends two different acts of the mind concerning such objects , which lord Kaimes expresses thus : Desire , taken in its proper sense , is that inter- nal act ...
... objects , situations , or circum- stances . This general description comprehends two different acts of the mind concerning such objects , which lord Kaimes expresses thus : Desire , taken in its proper sense , is that inter- nal act ...
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... object to observe by it.also fixed for it at a great distance . The sights L , O , must at all times be directed against this fixed object , to place the dial truly in the meridian , proper for observing the pianets , moon , or bright ...
... object to observe by it.also fixed for it at a great distance . The sights L , O , must at all times be directed against this fixed object , to place the dial truly in the meridian , proper for observing the pianets , moon , or bright ...
Términos y frases comunes
action Addison afterwards ancient angle animal appear axis Bacon Ben Jonson body botany Boyle Brown called Calyx cause centre chyle chyme colour common consists contains dæmons degree Deucalion diameter distance divided draw Dryden dyeing earth eclipse effect electric electrometer employed enamel England engraving equal equation feet figure fixed fluid force four French gastric juice genus give given glass Greek ground Hooker Hudibras inches inhabitants insects kind king Latin latitude length Locke lower manner matter means ment meridian method Milton mordant motion nature neral observed oxyd pass person piece plane plate Pope principle produced quantity Saxon Scotland Shak Shakspeare side South species Spenser stamens stomach substances supposed surface Swift term thing tion town tricity velocity vessel whence whole word
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Página 9 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots and poison the very fountain of public security?
Página 10 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 1 - Corneille, they have very generally received, by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet, than pleasure to the auditor. The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible.
Página 7 - The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property, in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If these persons had votes, they would be tempted to dispose of them under some undue influence or other. This would give a great, an artful, or a wealthy man, a larger share in elections than is consistent with general liberty.
Página 6 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Página 1 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players. They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation.
Página 4 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 7 - ... those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life. But, since that can hardly be expected in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications; whereby some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting, in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with...
Página 1 - ... while ambassadors go and return between distant kings, while armies are levied and towns besieged, while an exile wanders and returns, or till he whom they saw courting his mistress shall lament the untimely fall of his son. The mind revolts from evident falsehood, and fiction loses its force when it departs from the resemblance of reality.
Página 1 - From the narrow limitation of time necessarily arises the contraction of place. The spectator who knows that he saw the first act at Alexandria cannot suppose that he...