Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Svazek 1John Brown, 1816 |
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Strana 6
... last five or six years and as many of these were chief actors in the great political events which have so lately distracted Europe , or sharers in the brilliant discoveries discoveries which have illustrated the recent history of ...
... last five or six years and as many of these were chief actors in the great political events which have so lately distracted Europe , or sharers in the brilliant discoveries discoveries which have illustrated the recent history of ...
Strana 7
... last inftances it fupplies the place of the prepofition to , of the infinitive mood ; fignifying , you go to hunt , or go to fish . 2. In this fenfe alfo , it is fometimes prefixed to a verb , as in the well known title of the play ...
... last inftances it fupplies the place of the prepofition to , of the infinitive mood ; fignifying , you go to hunt , or go to fish . 2. In this fenfe alfo , it is fometimes prefixed to a verb , as in the well known title of the play ...
Strana 7
... last let- ters to express such as are unknown . In the above account of the letter A , the read- er will obferve , we have not copied exactly from any other Dictionary whatever ; all of them , that we have hitherto feen , not excepting ...
... last let- ters to express such as are unknown . In the above account of the letter A , the read- er will obferve , we have not copied exactly from any other Dictionary whatever ; all of them , that we have hitherto feen , not excepting ...
Strana 19
... last abbot was the famous Cardinal Beaton , at the same time archbishop of St Andrew's , and , before his death , as great and abfolute here as Wolfey was in Eng land . King John , the English monarch , granted this monaftery moft ...
... last abbot was the famous Cardinal Beaton , at the same time archbishop of St Andrew's , and , before his death , as great and abfolute here as Wolfey was in Eng land . King John , the English monarch , granted this monaftery moft ...
Strana 21
... last came to the refolution of erecting a frong pier on the north fide of the harbour . This pier is 1200 feet in length , and gradually increafes in thickness and height , as it approaches to the fa , where the head or rounding is 60 ...
... last came to the refolution of erecting a frong pier on the north fide of the harbour . This pier is 1200 feet in length , and gradually increafes in thickness and height , as it approaches to the fa , where the head or rounding is 60 ...
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