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These Infidels have carriages of all kinds . - They seemed indeed to want nothing but the knowledge of our holy faith to be the most enviable nation in the world . In Persia , you know , light of my understanding ! that travellers are ...
These Infidels have carriages of all kinds . - They seemed indeed to want nothing but the knowledge of our holy faith to be the most enviable nation in the world . In Persia , you know , light of my understanding ! that travellers are ...
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The English understand what they are about , and though I do not yet sufficiently comprehend their nity for great deeds of this kind . In China , learning renders a man a Manda rin ; in England , let a man toast his Majesty and his ...
The English understand what they are about , and though I do not yet sufficiently comprehend their nity for great deeds of this kind . In China , learning renders a man a Manda rin ; in England , let a man toast his Majesty and his ...
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There are several kinds of trunks , viz . ... and depends so much upon difference of climate , soil and management , that were a standard of this kind attempted to be established , the greatest confusion would ensue ; and the same plant ...
There are several kinds of trunks , viz . ... and depends so much upon difference of climate , soil and management , that were a standard of this kind attempted to be established , the greatest confusion would ensue ; and the same plant ...
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... kinds , the gemme are produced on the root . Herbs , properly speaking , says Tournefort , are those plants whose stems perish annually - BERKEN HOUT . 4. Not in SMITH . 5. Les plants dont la tige est herbacée sont nommée des herbes ...
... kinds , the gemme are produced on the root . Herbs , properly speaking , says Tournefort , are those plants whose stems perish annually - BERKEN HOUT . 4. Not in SMITH . 5. Les plants dont la tige est herbacée sont nommée des herbes ...
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LAMARK . every system , those of Rivinus and Linuxus There are several kinds of trunks , viz . excepted , which mix herbs and trees promisI. A TREE ( Arbor . ) A vegetable or cuously together . plant rising with one uniform permanent ...
LAMARK . every system , those of Rivinus and Linuxus There are several kinds of trunks , viz . excepted , which mix herbs and trees promisI. A TREE ( Arbor . ) A vegetable or cuously together . plant rising with one uniform permanent ...
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Page 16 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 30 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.
Page 30 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 5 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 61 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 86 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 62 - What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
Bibliographic information
| Title | La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1 History of women |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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