Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, เล่มที่ 1A. Constable, 1823 |
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... feet wide at the bottom , and 34 feet high above the surface of the river , which at ebb tide is here 19 feet deep . The Old Town was former- ly the seat of the bishop , and had a large cathedral com- monly called St Machar's . Two very ...
... feet wide at the bottom , and 34 feet high above the surface of the river , which at ebb tide is here 19 feet deep . The Old Town was former- ly the seat of the bishop , and had a large cathedral com- monly called St Machar's . Two very ...
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... feet in length , and gradually increases in thick- ness and height as it approaches to the sea , where the head or rounding is 60 feet diameter at the base , and the perpendicular elevation is 38 feet . The whole is built of granite ...
... feet in length , and gradually increases in thick- ness and height as it approaches to the sea , where the head or rounding is 60 feet diameter at the base , and the perpendicular elevation is 38 feet . The whole is built of granite ...
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... feet wide , by 3 feet 9 inches deep ; and is raised to the height of 168 feet above low water mark by 17 locks . The principal rivers of Aberdeenshire are , the Dee and Don , the Ythan , the Ugie , and the Cruden . The Deveron also ...
... feet wide , by 3 feet 9 inches deep ; and is raised to the height of 168 feet above low water mark by 17 locks . The principal rivers of Aberdeenshire are , the Dee and Don , the Ythan , the Ugie , and the Cruden . The Deveron also ...
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... feet high , and sup- ported by two rows of massy columns . The immove- able solidity of the edifice , the huge masses which com- pose it , the hieroglyphics it is loaded with , stamp it a work of the ancient Egyptians . Beyond it is a ...
... feet high , and sup- ported by two rows of massy columns . The immove- able solidity of the edifice , the huge masses which com- pose it , the hieroglyphics it is loaded with , stamp it a work of the ancient Egyptians . Beyond it is a ...
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... feet high , and 19 in circumference at the base . They are 12 feet distant from each other . The enormous stones that form that ceiling , perfectly joined and incrusted , as it were , one in the other , offer to the eye nothing but one ...
... feet high , and 19 in circumference at the base . They are 12 feet distant from each other . The enormous stones that form that ceiling , perfectly joined and incrusted , as it were , one in the other , offer to the eye nothing but one ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., เล่มที่ 1 มุมมองทั้งเล่ม - 1823 |
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หน้า 206 - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
หน้า 206 - So, when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
หน้า 278 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
หน้า 15 - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.
หน้า 187 - Tickell, that he employed wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above...
หน้า 187 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son. Rowe's ballad of The Despairing Shepherd is said to have been written, either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair; and it is certain that Addison has left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love.
หน้า 188 - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can...
หน้า 46 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
หน้า 188 - He wrote, as different exigencies required (in 1707), the Present State of the War, and the necessity of an augmentation...
หน้า 206 - And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him ; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery...