Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... Sometimes patrols confift of an officer and 3 or 40 men , as well infantry as cavalry ; but then the enemy is generally near at hand , and confequently the danger greater . PATRON , among the Romans , was an appellation given to a ...
... Sometimes patrols confift of an officer and 3 or 40 men , as well infantry as cavalry ; but then the enemy is generally near at hand , and confequently the danger greater . PATRON , among the Romans , was an appellation given to a ...
Page 69
... sometimes 250 barks on the banks ; the larger barks have two divers , and the fmaller one . As foon as the barks arrive at the place where the fish lie , and have caft anchor , each diver binds a ftone , fix inches thick and a foot long ...
... sometimes 250 barks on the banks ; the larger barks have two divers , and the fmaller one . As foon as the barks arrive at the place where the fish lie , and have caft anchor , each diver binds a ftone , fix inches thick and a foot long ...
Page 73
... sometimes fur- prifed , by the ceafing of the rains , at a greater distance from their beds than they have ftrength and moisture to carry them . He affures us , that none of the pearl- fifh are eatable ; and that they are the only fish ...
... sometimes fur- prifed , by the ceafing of the rains , at a greater distance from their beds than they have ftrength and moisture to carry them . He affures us , that none of the pearl- fifh are eatable ; and that they are the only fish ...
Page 85
... sometimes as injudi heads , tho ' free from them on their bodies . The reafon ciously abstained from . of this is , that their heads fweat lefs than their bodies , and they take no care to comb and clean them . The Spanish negroes wash ...
... sometimes as injudi heads , tho ' free from them on their bodies . The reafon ciously abstained from . of this is , that their heads fweat lefs than their bodies , and they take no care to comb and clean them . The Spanish negroes wash ...
Page 102
... Sometime after this the king requefted five of Cap- tain Wilfon's men to attend him in a war he was go- ing to make against the inhabitants of a neighbouring ifland called Oroolong , who , as he faid , had done him an injury . But ...
... Sometime after this the king requefted five of Cap- tain Wilfon's men to attend him in a war he was go- ing to make against the inhabitants of a neighbouring ifland called Oroolong , who , as he faid , had done him an injury . But ...
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Page 10 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 9 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 12 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 17 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 26 - ... happy at his going among them, immediately gathered round him, and made a rude kind of noise, which I believe was their method of singing, as their countenances bespoke it a species of jollity.
Page 14 - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau! La moitié de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau Et m'oblige à venger, après ce coup funeste, Celle que je n'ai plus sur celle qui me reste.
Page 52 - ... bending his notions and manners to theirs, as far as his duty to God would permit ; a conduct compatible neither with the...
Page 134 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 234 - ... has a fresh, healthy look. He wears his beard ; his face is not at all ugly or disagreeable, and he has a look that may be called sensible or sagacious for a savage.
Page 9 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he.