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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... fuffered , and the apprehension of their fuffering it again . We have feen a child a year old highly entertained with the noife and struggles made by its elder brother when plunged nake ! into a veffel filled with cold water . This ...
... fuffered , and the apprehension of their fuffering it again . We have feen a child a year old highly entertained with the noife and struggles made by its elder brother when plunged nake ! into a veffel filled with cold water . This ...
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... fuffered pain , ( fee INSTINCT ) ; and could we constantly carefs it with what is called an angry look , it would be cheered by that look , and frightened at a fmile . It feels , how- ever , the effects of anger , and is foon capable of ...
... fuffered pain , ( fee INSTINCT ) ; and could we constantly carefs it with what is called an angry look , it would be cheered by that look , and frightened at a fmile . It feels , how- ever , the effects of anger , and is foon capable of ...
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... fuffer her to proceed on her voyage without interrup . Paffport tion . The violation of fafe - conducts or paffports ... fuffered in the laft days , and at this time of the day , ( Matt . xxvii . 46. Heb . i . 2. ) At even alfo the fun ...
... fuffer her to proceed on her voyage without interrup . Paffport tion . The violation of fafe - conducts or paffports ... fuffered in the laft days , and at this time of the day , ( Matt . xxvii . 46. Heb . i . 2. ) At even alfo the fun ...
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... fuffered being guilty ? Would the greatest misfortune that can befal a virtuous man be to you a confolation ? The ... fuffering well our fortune we fubdue , Fly when the frowns , and when the calls purfue . PATIGUMO ( a corruption of the ...
... fuffered being guilty ? Would the greatest misfortune that can befal a virtuous man be to you a confolation ? The ... fuffering well our fortune we fubdue , Fly when the frowns , and when the calls purfue . PATIGUMO ( a corruption of the ...
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... fuffered fa- tigues and miferies a thousand times worse than death , that you and yours might furvive to days of peace and profperity ? Is it your prefervers , then , whom you would deftine to deftruction ? You will not , you can . not ...
... fuffered fa- tigues and miferies a thousand times worse than death , that you and yours might furvive to days of peace and profperity ? Is it your prefervers , then , whom you would deftine to deftruction ? You will not , you can . not ...
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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.