10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REVOLVENCY»
Discover the use of
revolvency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
revolvency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A High-school Dictionary of the English Language
RETRENCH. 25. G. REVOLVENCY. place of privacy. — 1». i. To withdraw ; to go
back. Re-tr6nch', v. t. To lessen ; to curtail, ;is expenses. Be-trfinch'ment, n. Act of
retrenching; reduction. Rfit'ri-bu'tion, n. Heward or punishment ; repayment ...
Noah Webster, William Greenleaf Webster, William Adolphus Wheeler, 1871
2
Letter to Charles Empson, Esq
The calf is the animal emblem of fire, and also of revolvency, — not, let it be
remembered, the cause of revolvency according to our orrery fashion, but
significant of the revolving host around the stable earth. The fourth, the flying
eagle, is an ...
Mrs. Catherine Housman, Charles Empson, 1848
3
The task. Book 1, with life and notes
Its own revolvency upholds the world. Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And
fit the limpid elements for use, Else noxious : oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams,
All feel the freshening impulse, and are cleansed By restless undulation : even ...
4
The task, with intr. and notes by F. Storr
Distinguish revolvency and revolution. 377 The oak, &c. Cf. TEn. 4, 442. The
superstition, though ancient, can have no foundation in fact. 381 Unconscious. Is,
as it were, a corrective epithet of the poet. 385 Else. Properly an adverb, but used
...
William Cowper, Francis Storr, 1874
5
The Uses and Abuses of Air: Showing Its Influence in ...
Its own revolvency upholds the world. Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And
Jit the limpid element for use, Else noxious. Oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams,
All feel the freshening impulse, and are cleansed By restless undulation.
John Hoskins Griscom, 1848
6
The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and ...
Constant rotation of th' unwearied wheel, That nature rides upon, maintains her
health, Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads An instant's pause, and lives but while
she moves Its own revolvency upholds the world. Winds from all quarters agitate
...
William Cowper, James Thomson, 1832
7
The Poems of William Cowper ...
By ceaseless action all that is subsists. Constant rotation of th' unwearied wheel,
That nature rides upon, maintains her health, Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads
An instant's pause, and lives but while she moves. Its own revolvency upholds ...
8
Poems. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by the ...
Its own revolvency upholds the world. Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And
fit the limpid element for use, Else noxious; oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams, All
feel the freshening impulse, and are cleansed By restless undulation : e'en the ...
William Cowper, Thomas Dale, John Orrin Smith, 1841
In this rolling world, it would be idle to seek for permanence and stability in any
thing. " Its own revolvency upholds the world." But whether in the physical or
moral world these changes occur, they all proceed in n certain and uniform order.
172.
10
Choice Thoughts; Or, Selections from Nearly One Hundred and ...
By ceaseless action all that is subsists. Constant rotation of the unwearied wheel
That Nature rides upon, maintains her health, Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads
An instant's pause, and lives but while she moves: Its own revolvency upholds ...
Isaac Newton Carleton, 1878
