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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... common use after the foundation of the American Anti - Slavery Society ' by Garrison and others at Boston , in 1852 . " Abomasus . The fourth stomach of rumi- nants , in which the process of digestion is completed . Aborigines . The ...
... common use after the foundation of the American Anti - Slavery Society ' by Garrison and others at Boston , in 1852 . " Abomasus . The fourth stomach of rumi- nants , in which the process of digestion is completed . Aborigines . The ...
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... common law . It has jurisdiction principally for the determination of private injuries to private rights arising at sea , or intimately connected with maritime subjects ; and in most cases to which its authority extends it has ...
... common law . It has jurisdiction principally for the determination of private injuries to private rights arising at sea , or intimately connected with maritime subjects ; and in most cases to which its authority extends it has ...
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... common species , a weed in most cultivated it is to be performed in a smooth , tender , and ground . This plant , E. Cynapium , or fool's affecting manner , and , therefore , rather in- parsley , is an acrid poison , and from its re ...
... common species , a weed in most cultivated it is to be performed in a smooth , tender , and ground . This plant , E. Cynapium , or fool's affecting manner , and , therefore , rather in- parsley , is an acrid poison , and from its re ...
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... Common Law Procedure Act , 1854 , to all persons having conscientious objections . A false declaration Change of form and change of properties are the common consequences of chemical affinity . We observe , 1. Solids forming liquids ...
... Common Law Procedure Act , 1854 , to all persons having conscientious objections . A false declaration Change of form and change of properties are the common consequences of chemical affinity . We observe , 1. Solids forming liquids ...
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... common feast . There is some dispute whether in the apostolic times this feast did not take place before the communion , in more exact accordance with the circumstances attending the institution of the sacrament . The agape or feasts in ...
... common feast . There is some dispute whether in the apostolic times this feast did not take place before the communion , in more exact accordance with the circumstances attending the institution of the sacrament . The agape or feasts in ...
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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...