Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...Appleton, 1863 |
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... land , fenced from the sea by a wall . One well - known tradition ascribes their present state to the building of the Tenterden steeple , for the erection of which the funds that should have maintained the sea - wall had been diverted ...
... land , fenced from the sea by a wall . One well - known tradition ascribes their present state to the building of the Tenterden steeple , for the erection of which the funds that should have maintained the sea - wall had been diverted ...
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... land . No proof has been found of any connection between the Gordons of France and the Gordons of Scotland . There is little or no doubt now that the Scottish Gordons took their name from the lands of Gordon in Berwickshire . Their ...
... land . No proof has been found of any connection between the Gordons of France and the Gordons of Scotland . There is little or no doubt now that the Scottish Gordons took their name from the lands of Gordon in Berwickshire . Their ...
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... land . Neither he nor his wife , it appears , could write their own names . Their descendants , the Earls of Sutherland , continued to bear the surname of Gordon through six or seven generations , till the beginning of the 18th c ...
... land . Neither he nor his wife , it appears , could write their own names . Their descendants , the Earls of Sutherland , continued to bear the surname of Gordon through six or seven generations , till the beginning of the 18th c ...
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... land , her husband was entitled to hold the lands , but only while he remained a widower . By the courtesy of England , on the other hand , the widower held the lands for his life , Lands held by Knights ' Service ( q . v . ) and Grand ...
... land , her husband was entitled to hold the lands , but only while he remained a widower . By the courtesy of England , on the other hand , the widower held the lands for his life , Lands held by Knights ' Service ( q . v . ) and Grand ...
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... lands were held of a subject , on condition of performance of services identical with those which were rendered to the king , the tenure was not grand serjeanty , but knight's service . Thus , lands on the Scottish border held of the ...
... lands were held of a subject , on condition of performance of services identical with those which were rendered to the king , the tenure was not grand serjeanty , but knight's service . Thus , lands on the Scottish border held of the ...
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Стр. 59 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Стр. 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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Стр. 176 - ... but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.
Стр. 17 - We have not received," saith Irenaeus, " the knowledge of the way of our salvation by any others than those by whom the gospel has been brought to us. Which gospel they first preached, and afterwards, by the will of God, committed to writing, that it might be for time to come the foundation and pillar of our faith.
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Стр. 176 - Some have thought that unjust attacks even upon life or property, at the arbitrary will of the magistrate, are less dangerous to the Commonwealth, than such as are made upon the personal liberty of the subject. To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate with...
Стр. 51 - Tenure by grand serjeanty is, where a man holds his lands or tenements of our sovereign lord the king, by such services as he ought to do in his proper person to the king, as to carry the banner of the king, or his lance, or to lead his army, or to be his marshal, or to carry his sword before him at his coronation, or to be his sewer at his coronation, or his carver, or his butler, or to be one of his chamberlains of the receipt of his exchequer, or to do other like services, &c.
Стр. 106 - December one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, no irregular marriage contracted in Scotland by declaration, acknowledgment, or ceremony shall be valid, unless one of the parties had at the date thereof his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding such marriage ; any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Стр. 157 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.