Natural History, General and Particular ... Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated, with Notes and Observations, by William Smellie ... A New Edition ... Corrected and ... Enlarged, by Many Additional Articles, Notes, and Plates, and Some Account of the Life of M. de Buffon. B
... sea . The torrent of water was immediately followed by another of inflamed ... seven leagues distant from the summit . The volcanoes of Sicily seem to have ... torrents of bitumen . P. de la Torré , an able phi- 6 6 6 C . < with in its ...
Natural History, General and Particular ... Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated, with Notes and Observations, by William Smellie ... A New Edition ... Corrected and ... Enlarged, by Many Additional Articles, Notes, and Plates, and Some Account of the Life of M. de Buffon. B
... sea . The torrent of water was immediately followed by another of inflamed ... seven leagues distant from the summit . The volcanoes of Sicily seem to have ... torrents of bitumen . P. de la Torré , an able phi- 6 6 6 C . < with in its ...
Natural History, General and Particular ... Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated, with Notes and Observations, by William Smellie ... A New Edition ... Corrected and ... Enlarged, by Many Additional Articles, Notes, and Plates, and Some Account of the Life of M. de Buffon. B
... broad sabre . This species is new and apparently rare , and has not hitherto been described . We saw the specimen in the cabinet of Mauduit , who received it from Cayenne * . * Sonnini notices this as a very rare bird , he not having ...
Micrographia Illustrata, OR, The Knowledge of the MICROSCOPE Explain'd: Together with an ACCOUNT of A New Invented UNIVERSAL, Single Or Double, MICROSCOPE, Either of which is Capable of Being Applied to an Improv'd SOLAR APPARATUS: This TREATISE Contains a Description of the Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of Microscopes in General; Together with Full Directions how to Prepare, Apply, and Examine, as Well as Preserve, All Sorts of Minute Objects: Also an Account of The Principal MICROSCOPICAL DISCOVERIES, that Have Hitherto Been Mentioned by the Most Celebrated AUTHORS, Together with a Great Variety of New Experiments and Observations. The WHOLE Being, as it Were, A NATURAL HISTORY of a Multitude of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatick Animals, Seeds, Plants, &c. To which is Added, A TRANSLATION of Mr. JOBLOTT's Observations on the Animalcula, that are Found in Many Different Sorts of Infusions; AND A Very Particular Account of that Surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water Polype, Translated from the French Treatise of Mr. Trembley. This WORK is Compiled for the Assistance of Those, who are Desirous of Surveying the Extensive Beauties of the Minute Creation; And is Illustrated with 65 Copper-plates, Curiously Engrav'd, which Contain Above 560 Pictures of MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS
... pelis ( 12 p . 124 . p . 124 . SECT . XX . Of the little Flowers of different Sorts that are found in Meadows , Op . 124 . SECT . XXI . An Infufion of fweet Bafil , p . 125 . SECT . XXII . Infufion of Blue - bortles , a fecond Time , p ...
The History Of The Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. Being Two Additional Volumes To Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: Containing The Original and First Establishment of All the Religious Orders that Ever Were in Great-Britain; Being Those of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Cistercians, Regular Canons of St. Augustin, Carthusians, Gilbertins, Trinitarians, Premonstratenses, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum: As Also of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinian Friers, Regular Canons of Arroasia, Brigittins, Monks of Fontevrand, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, Friers of Penance, Or of the Sack, and Bethleemites, Not Spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The Foundations of Their Several Monasteries. A Very Large Collection of Many Hundreds of Grants and Charters Belonging to Them, Besides Several Thousands Abridg'd. The Final Suppression of All Those Places, with Some Account of the Manner how Their Vast Lands and Possessions Were Dispos'd Of. There Are Added Catalogues of the Abbats, and Other Superiors of Those Religious Houses, and of All Persons Eminent, and Distinguish'd for Piety, Learning, and Other Accomplishments, in the Several Orders; with Short Lives of as Many of Them as Have Been Transmitted Down to Us. Collected from Above Two Hundred of the Best Historians Extant, and from Antient Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and Many More in the Hands of Learned Antiquaries, and Other Curious Gentlemen, Whose Names May be Seen in the Preface. Adorn'd with a Considerable Number of Copper-Plates of the Several Habits of the Religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of Sacred Places Destroy'd, Or Gone to Decay, and Prospects of Others that are Still Standing
... Abby of St. Cathe- rine of the Mount near Roan in Normandy . Frontenac in ... Martin of Seez in Normandy Ί Sele , or Sebe , a Cell to St , Florentius near ... hot Ardor of Perfection . And being inform'd , that the holy Monafteries ...
The History Of The Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. Being Two Additional Volumes To Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: Containing The Original and First Establishment of All the Religious Orders that Ever Were in Great-Britain; Being Those of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Cistercians, Regular Canons of St. Augustin, Carthusians, Gilbertins, Trinitarians, Premonstratenses, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum: As Also of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinian Friers, Regular Canons of Arroasia, Brigittins, Monks of Fontevrand, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, Friers of Penance, Or of the Sack, and Bethleemites, Not Spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The Foundations of Their Several Monasteries. A Very Large Collection of Many Hundreds of Grants and Charters Belonging to Them, Besides Several Thousands Abridg'd. The Final Suppression of All Those Places, with Some Account of the Manner how Their Vast Lands and Possessions Were Dispos'd Of. There Are Added Catalogues of the Abbats, and Other Superiors of Those Religious Houses, and of All Persons Eminent, and Distinguish'd for Piety, Learning, and Other Accomplishments, in the Several Orders; with Short Lives of as Many of Them as Have Been Transmitted Down to Us. Collected from Above Two Hundred of the Best Historians Extant, and from Antient Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and Many More in the Hands of Learned Antiquaries, and Other Curious Gentlemen, Whose Names May be Seen in the Preface. Adorn'd with a Considerable Number of Copper-Plates of the Several Habits of the Religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of Sacred Places Destroy'd, Or Gone to Decay, and Prospects of Others that are Still Standing
... patrocinio roboravi- mus . Hiis Teftibus , & c . NUM . CCCCLXXV . Quieta ... Carta Margarete de Say de quieta Clamatione ejufdem Demanda , & verba- tim ficut ... Cartas Hugonis de Say , Roberti fcilicet de Mortuo Mari & Margarete de Say ...
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds,: And of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, &c., Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten Copper-plates, from Designs Copied Immediately from Nature, and Curiously Coloured After Life. With a Full and Accurate Description of Each Figure. To which is Added, a Brief and General Idea of Drawing and Painting in Water-colours; with Instructions for Etching on Copper with Aqua Fortis: Likewise Some Thoughts on the Passage of Birds; and Additions to Many Subjects Described in this Work. In Four Parts
... Body feemed to be a mixed Colour . The Throat and Belly had the Hairs fomething shorter and softer , of a brownish , or Clay - Colour , without any Mixture . The Legs ... Build- ings , Holborn , whither I was directed to go to draw it , by Dr ...
Natural History, General and Particular. ... Translated, ... with ... Notes and Observations by W. Smellie. Second Edition
... . p . 77 . Lepus vulgaris cinereus , cujus venatio animum exhilarat ; Klein . quad . hift . nat . p . 51 . Lepus caudatus ex cireneo rufus ; Briffon . quad . p . 94 . hare and the rabbit afford to man the double advantage.
Natural History, General and Particular. ... Translated, ... with ... Notes and Observations by W. Smellie. Second Edition
... dabuh with dubbah , which laft denotes the hyaena , joined to the avidity for dead carcaffes , common 6 to * Dabuh Arabica appellatione Africanis Sefef dicitur . Ani- mal et magnitudine et forma lupum refert , pedes et crura homi- nis ...
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals,&c. From the French. With Notes by the Translator
... dabuh to the hyena , which , in fact , belongs to the baboon . It appears , then , that the hyæna , is neither the dabuh of the Arabians , the jesef or fefef , of the Africans ; nor the deeb of Bar- bary . But to put a stop to this ...
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History,: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. From the French. With Notes by the Translator. In Ten Volumes..
... dabuh ; and as the baboon belongs to the fame climates , fcratches up the earth and is nearly of the fame form with the hye- na ; these circumstances firft deceived travellers , and naturalifts adopted their blunders , without ...
A Description of a Great Variety of Animals and Vegetables ... Extracted from the most considerable writers of natural history by Thomas Boreman ... Being a supplement to a Description of Three Hundred Animals ... Illustrated with above ninety copper plates, etc. With "Natural and Philosophical Conjectures on the Ignis Fatuus, or J
... Animal are odly turn'd , for they rife upright firft , and then wind forward like " a Hook : It feeds upon the Plants that grows on the Sands , and tops of the Rocks . " Tis a very fhy and timorous ... Animal fits ANIMALS and VEGETABLES . 3.
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History ... From the French. With Notes by the Translator, Etc
... dabuh to the hyæna , which in fact belongs to the baboon . It appears , then , that the hyæna is neither the dabuh of the Arabians , the jesef or sesef of the Africans , nor the deeb of Bar- bary . But to put a final stop to this ...
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: History of the brute creation. Of the degeneration of animals
... dabuh to the hyena , which in fact belongs to the baboon . It appears , then , that the hyæna is neither the dabuh of the Arabians , the jefef or fefef of the Africans , nor the deeb of Bar- bary . But to put a stop to this confufion of ...
The Natural History of Quadrupeds. Translated from the French. With an Account of the Life of the Author. Illustrated with ... Engravings of Animals. [With a Portrait.]
... dabuh and dub- bah , have made them be mistaken for the same animal , though it is expressly mentioned in the very passages we have quoted , that the dabuh has hands and feet like those of a man , which corresponds with the baboon , but ...
Critica Sacra in Two Parts: the First Containing Observations on All the Radices Or Primitive Hebrew Words of the Old Testament, in Order Alphabetical. ... The Third Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged by the Authour; with an Addition of a Supplement to Both Parts. The Second Philological and Theological Observations Upon All the : 2: Critica sacra; or, Philologicall and Theologicall observations upon all the Greek words of the New Testament, in order alphabeticall. ... By Edward Leigh ...
... ver . 41. It is generally put for any mo- ney , of whatsoever matter it be made ... word is fo ufed in Pollux , Epicharmus . Compare Mat . 15. 9. with Mark 6 ... apa presse image . to xogawei , ut ab omni adumbrata , vel inani Kings Tranf ...
A Body of Practical Divinity, Consisting of Above One Hundred Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism, Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines ... with a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture. To which is Added, The Art of Divine Contentment ... The Third Edition, Corrected and Amended
... kingdom . ' 2. Comfort in death : here is that which may take away from God's children the terror of death , they are now entering into the kingdom . Indeed no wonder , if wicked men be appalled and terrified at the approach of death ...
“The” Dramatic Works And Poems Of James Shirley, Now First Collected; With Notes By The Late William Gifford, Esq. And Additional Notes, And Some Account Of Shirley And His Writings, By The Rev. Alexander Dyce ; In Six Volumes: Containing The Ball. The Young Admiral. The Gamester. The Example. The Opportunity. The Coronation
... Pimp . But for a time , there's mystery in that . By this means I resolv'd ... language a page ; my chief picaro : by degrees you may send for all your ... your pardon , sir , is not 390 [ Act I. THE OPPORTUNITY .
A Six Months Tour Through the North of England: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in Several Counties of this Kingdom: Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil; II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of Their Stock, Products, Population, and Various Methods of Culture; III. The Use, Expence and Profit of Several Sorts of Manure; IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the Respective Profits Attending Them; V. The State of the Waste Lands which Might and Ought to be Cultivated; VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with Their Rates, Earnings, &c.; VII. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion Between Them; VIII. The Register of Many Curious and Useful Experiments in Agriculture, and General Practices in Rural Oeconomics Communicated by Several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed with Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and Other Remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of Such Implements of Husbandry, as Deserve to be Generally Known; and Views of Some Picturesque Scenes, which Occurred in the Course of the Journey
... Profit II S. in inclosures ; but on commons , 25. 3 d . Worcester to Evesham ; at Pershore . Flocks . From eighty to two hundred . Profit . os . -Bendfworth , near Evesham . Flocks . From fixty to twelve shun- prendred . " Profit . 8 s ...
Les Miserables (v.11-12, Fantine, translated by William Walton; v.13-14, Cosette, translated by J. Carroll Beckwith; v.15-16, Marius, translated by M. Jules Gray; v.17-18, The idyl of the Rue Plumet and The epic of the Rue Saint-Denis, translated by M. Edouard Jolivet; v.19-20, Jean Valjean, translated by M. Jules Gray.)
... my life . Who are you ? " The prowler answered rapidly and in a low voice : " I belong , like yourself , to the French army . I must leave you . If I am taken I shall be shot . I have saved your life . Help yourself now . " " What is your ...
Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime: Translated ... with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings and Character of the Author. By William Smith
... that " for the fake of nourishing the remoteft Parts , they opened the Body into a num- " ber of Rivulets , like a Garden well stock'd " with plenty of Canals , that the Veins might .CC by this means receive their supply of the " vital ...
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA, And ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: On an ENTIRE NEW and IMPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Improvements and Latest Discoveries on the Various Subjects. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory Anc Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; ALSO THE WHOLE CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. WHEREIN ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES ARE PROPERLY ARRANGED Into GENERAL and COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES; LIKEWISE ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, CRITICALLY ILLUSTRATED, and Very COPIOUSLY EXPLAINED, in the Most CLEAR and SATISFACTORY MANNER, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprising a ... Course of ANCIENT and MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and Newest IMPROVEMENTS Made in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY IN Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other Works of the Kind. By Adopting this New and Improved Plan, this Work Includes a Complete Circle of the ARTS and SCIENCES; and Forms a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Encyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with UPWARDS of 150 Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES ... IN THEREE LARGE WOLUMES.
... dragon , in natural hiftory , a fabulous animal , which has been reprefented ... meteor , appearing long and finous , fomething in the fhape of a flying ... breed in the mufcular parts of the arms and legs , called Guinea- worms . This ...
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA, And ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: On an ENTIRE NEW and IMPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Improvements and Latest Discoveries on the Various Subjects. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory Anc Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; ALSO THE WHOLE CIRCLE OF THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. WHEREIN ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES ARE PROPERLY ARRANGED Into GENERAL and COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES; LIKEWISE ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, CRITICALLY ILLUSTRATED, and Very COPIOUSLY EXPLAINED, in the Most CLEAR and SATISFACTORY MANNER, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprising a ... Course of ANCIENT and MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and Newest IMPROVEMENTS Made in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY IN Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of Other Works of the Kind. By Adopting this New and Improved Plan, this Work Includes a Complete Circle of the ARTS and SCIENCES; and Forms a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Encyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with UPWARDS of 150 Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES ... IN THEREE LARGE WOLUMES.
... kiln . Dr. Hales is alfo of opinion , that a ventilation of warm dry air from the adjoining ilove , with a cautious hand , might be of fervice to trees and plants in green - houses ; where it is well known that an air full of the rancid ...
The Sea-man's Kalender: Or, An Ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, and Certain of the Most Notable Fixed Stars ... First Calculated by John Tap. Since Corrected, and Enlarged with Many Additions ... With a Discovery of a Way to Find the Long Hidden Secret of Longitude, by Henry Bond ... All which are Now Newly Calculated and Corrected ..
The Works Of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... Accurately Revised In Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates ; With Some Account of the Author's Life, And Notes Historical and Explanatory, By John Hawkesworth
... Caper is to be married to Sir Peter Giball ; one thing is certain , that he hath promis'd to have him . Ld . Sparkih ... clapper of a mill ; fhe talks enough for herself and all the company . Neverout . And yet the fimpers like a firmity ...
THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA; OR, MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF Arts and Sciences: ON ENTIRE NEW AND APPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Discoveries and Latest Improvements on the Various Subject. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts, AND ALL THE VARIOUS RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. Alphabetically Arranged, and Digested in the Most Complete, Regular, and Systematical Manner. Together with Full, Clear, and Satisfactory EXPLANATIONS of ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprizing a Regular and General Course of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and IMPROVEMENTS in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors ... of Other Writers on the Various Subject; And Forming a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Cyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with Near Two Hundred Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of All the Numerous and Various Important Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE LARGE HANDOSME VOLUMES.
... caper - cucumber . BELATUCADRUS , the name of an ancient British idol , fup ... copper : the proportion one to the other is about twenty pounds of pewter ... clapper on the infide , and the ear or cannon on which it hangs to a large beam ...
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