The Foreign Review, Том 5Black, Young, and Young, 1830 |
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... ancient Rule - of - Thumb , which must still have place here ) ; after which aphorism , his Lordship proceeded to state that the great ruin of all British Poets sprang from a very simple source ; their exclusion from High Life in London ...
... ancient Rule - of - Thumb , which must still have place here ) ; after which aphorism , his Lordship proceeded to state that the great ruin of all British Poets sprang from a very simple source ; their exclusion from High Life in London ...
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... ancient centuries were impressed . - All the Shadows were standing round the empty Altar ; and in all , not the heart , but the breast quivered and pulsed . One dead man only , who had just been buried there , still lay on his coffin ...
... ancient centuries were impressed . - All the Shadows were standing round the empty Altar ; and in all , not the heart , but the breast quivered and pulsed . One dead man only , who had just been buried there , still lay on his coffin ...
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... ancients in all branches of mineralogy . The belief that stones grew and produced their like , was very common amongst them . In distinguishing the various kinds of gems , they almost exclusively regarded their exterior qualities , and ...
... ancients in all branches of mineralogy . The belief that stones grew and produced their like , was very common amongst them . In distinguishing the various kinds of gems , they almost exclusively regarded their exterior qualities , and ...
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... ancients were , of course , entirely ignorant . If they attended but little to a knowledge of the respective veins from which precious stones were received , this is partly owing to the skilful secrecy of the tradesmen . Pliny mentions ...
... ancients were , of course , entirely ignorant . If they attended but little to a knowledge of the respective veins from which precious stones were received , this is partly owing to the skilful secrecy of the tradesmen . Pliny mentions ...
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... ancients . Pliny and Apollonius Dyscolus went so far as to believe that a diamond placed in the fire does not even grow hot . The passage next in antiquity to that of Theophrastus , just alluded to , occurs in the Septuagint , Jerem ...
... ancients . Pliny and Apollonius Dyscolus went so far as to believe that a diamond placed in the fire does not even grow hot . The passage next in antiquity to that of Theophrastus , just alluded to , occurs in the Septuagint , Jerem ...
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Страница 161 - ... judge is so clear and open as to declare against that impious vulgar opinion that the devil himself has power to torment and kill innocent children, or that he is pleased to divert himself with the good people's cheese, butter, pigs and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches.
Страница 189 - ... who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own, but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employments, and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions.
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Страница 116 - ... thumbs on the pit of the stomach and the other fingers below the ribs. Then you will descend slowly along the body as far as the knees, or better, and, if you can without incommoding yourself, to the extremity of the feet.