A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and Derivations of the Scientific Terms in General Use, Together with the History and Descriptions of the Scientific Principles of Nearly Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Том 1William Thomas Brande Longmans, Green and Company, 1867 |
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... England it is reproduced in the circular chapter - houses , while the square end has been generally substituted in churches . ( Fergusson , Handbook of Architecture , p . 619. ) Absolute Curvature . [ CURVATURE . ] Absolution ( Lat ...
... England it is reproduced in the circular chapter - houses , while the square end has been generally substituted in churches . ( Fergusson , Handbook of Architecture , p . 619. ) Absolute Curvature . [ CURVATURE . ] Absolution ( Lat ...
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... England has three forms of absolution : ( 1 ) in the Daily Service , which is merely declaratory ; ( 2 ) in the Office of Communion ; ( 3 ) in the Visitation of the Sick . ( Hook , Church Dictionary . ) Absorbed ( Lat . absorbeo , I ...
... England has three forms of absolution : ( 1 ) in the Daily Service , which is merely declaratory ; ( 2 ) in the Office of Communion ; ( 3 ) in the Visitation of the Sick . ( Hook , Church Dictionary . ) Absorbed ( Lat . absorbeo , I ...
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... England , & c . The accountant - general of Chancery is an ACEPHALOCYST officer appointed by act of parliament to receive all the money lodged in court . He keeps his account with the Bank of England , which is responsible for all the ...
... England , & c . The accountant - general of Chancery is an ACEPHALOCYST officer appointed by act of parliament to receive all the money lodged in court . He keeps his account with the Bank of England , which is responsible for all the ...
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... England , the first actors were the servants of great nobles , who performed for their diversion ; and when regular theatrical companies were formed , they were long in the habit of putting themselves under the protection of distin ...
... England , the first actors were the servants of great nobles , who performed for their diversion ; and when regular theatrical companies were formed , they were long in the habit of putting themselves under the protection of distin ...
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... England , made it their endeavour to introduce primitive severity of manners by severity of punishment . De Thou appears also to have made some efforts toward putting in force the laws against adultery : but from the time of the ...
... England , made it their endeavour to introduce primitive severity of manners by severity of punishment . De Thou appears also to have made some efforts toward putting in force the laws against adultery : but from the time of the ...
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Стр. 132 - Book of Esdras, The Book of Tobias, The Book of Judith, The rest of the Book of Esther, The Book of Wisdom, Jesus the Son of Sirach, Baruch the Prophet, The Song of the Three Children, The Story of Susanna, Of Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, The First Book of Maccabees, The Second Book of Maccabees, All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them Canonical.
Стр. 429 - I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame...
Стр. 456 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Стр. 261 - I have gone too far in saying that a cultivated taste for the polite arts extinguishes the passions, and renders us indifferent to those objects which are so fondly pursued by the rest of mankind. On further reflection, I find that it rather improves our sensibility for all the tender and agreeable passions ; at the same time that it renders the mind incapable of the rougher and more boisterous emotions.
Стр. 8 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Стр. 337 - a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery of an animal which for the first five years of its life existed in the form of a serpent ; which then penetrating into the earth, and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture, contracted itself within this covering into a body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling more than...
Стр. 219 - French bailler, to deliver, is a delivery of goods in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.
Стр. 174 - An army is generally divided into a certain number of corps, each consisting of brigades, regiment .«, battalions, and squadrons; when in the field, it is formed into lines; the first line is called the vanguard, the second the main body, the third the rearguard, or body of reserve. The middle of each line is occupied by the foot ; the cavalry forms the right and left wing of each line, and sometimes squadrons of horse are placed in the intervals between the battalions.
Стр. 363 - ... the weight of tallow in candles 6 to the pound. But its light being equal to that of 5 of the latter candles, it appears from the above table that 2...
Стр. 452 - ... the herald of its decay. The gay colouring with which the Almighty has decked the pale marble of nature is not the result of any quality inherent in the coloured body, or in the particles by which it may be tinged, but is merely a property of the light in which they happen to be placed. Newton Was the first person who placed this great truth in the clearest evidence. He found that all bodies, whatever were their peculiar colours, exhibited these colours only in white light. When they were illuminated...