Identifier: londonencyclopae16lond (find matches)
Title: The London encyclopaedia, or Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprisiong a popular view of the present state of knowledge
Year: 1837 (1830s)
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Publisher: London : T. Tegg & Son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hich carriesa mail bag: to packet is used by Swift for tobind up parcels : a packhorse is, a horse of bur-den ; a horse used for carrying packs: pack-saddle and packthread a saddle and thread, usedto carry and tie up packages : packwax, an ani-mal secretion. New farmer thinketh each hour a day.Until the old farmer be packing away. Tusser. You panderly rascals ! theres a knot, a gang, apack, a conspiracy, against me. Shakspeare. He cannot live, I hope, and must not die.Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. Id.Enos hasPackt cards with Czesar, and false played. Id.I rather choseTo cross my friend in his intended drift,Than, by concealing it, heap on your headA pack of sorrows. Id. Merchant of Venice. Rogues, hence, avaunt!Seek shelter, pack. Shakspeare, Go pack with him. Id. Timon Andronictu. In the darkGroped I to find out them.Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew. Shakspeare. . Ere you were queen, ay, or your husband king,I was a packhorse in his great affairs. Id.
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L,„.hmMMl fynm^^f-tn.,^.!.,. ^ PAC 421 PAC Youv beards deserve not so honourable a grave a.^to stuff a butchers cushion, or to be entombea in anasss packsaddle. Id. About his shelvesRemnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses,Were thinly scattered. Id. Romeo and Juliet.There be that can jxick cards and yet cannot playwell; so there are some that are good in canvassesand factions, that are otherwise weak men. Bacons Essays.Themistocles said to the king of Persia, thatspeech was like cloth of Arras, opened and putabroad, whereby the imagery appears in figures;whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Bacon. There passed continually packets and dispatchesbetween the two kings. Id. Henry VII. Girding of the body of the tree about with pack-thread, restraineth the sap. Id. Natural History. The wind no sooner came good, but away pack thegallies with all the haste they could. Carew. That this so profitable a merchandize, riseth notto a proportionable enhancement with other less be-n

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