Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...Appleton, 1863 |
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... origin from the GRAY LAG G. or COMMON WILD G. ( A. ferus ) ; but all the species seem very capable of domestication , and several of them have been to some extent domesticated . The Gray Lag G. is almost three feet in length from the ...
... origin from the GRAY LAG G. or COMMON WILD G. ( A. ferus ) ; but all the species seem very capable of domestication , and several of them have been to some extent domesticated . The Gray Lag G. is almost three feet in length from the ...
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... origin of this famous knot was as follows : Gordius , a Phrygian peasant , was once ploughing in his fields , when an eagle settled on his yoke of oxen , and remained till the labour of the day was Surprised at so wonderful a phenomenon ...
... origin of this famous knot was as follows : Gordius , a Phrygian peasant , was once ploughing in his fields , when an eagle settled on his yoke of oxen , and remained till the labour of the day was Surprised at so wonderful a phenomenon ...
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... origin of the Memoirs corresponds with the origin of the Gospels -viz . , that two were written by apostles , and two by companions of the apostles . ( 2 ) The extreme improbability that there could have been other books besides the ...
... origin of the Memoirs corresponds with the origin of the Gospels -viz . , that two were written by apostles , and two by companions of the apostles . ( 2 ) The extreme improbability that there could have been other books besides the ...
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... origin of the Gospels be really the correct one or not ; all we need to say is , that it seems to possess more probability in itself than any hypo- thesis of a common written source , from which they were respectively borrowed , and ...
... origin of the Gospels be really the correct one or not ; all we need to say is , that it seems to possess more probability in itself than any hypo- thesis of a common written source , from which they were respectively borrowed , and ...
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... Origin . The origin of Gothic architecture has given rise to many very ingenious speculations . It has been said that the style was copied directly from nature ; that the pointed arches and groins of the vaults were imitated from the ...
... Origin . The origin of Gothic architecture has given rise to many very ingenious speculations . It has been said that the style was copied directly from nature ; that the pointed arches and groins of the vaults were imitated from 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.
Стр. 125 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
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.
Стр. 344 - Heron (Árdea cinérea). from the point of the bill to the end of the tail.
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.