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... four different sounds : the broad sound , as in FALL ; the open , as in FATHER ; the slender , or close , as in FACE ; and the short sound , as in FAT . Most of the other modern languages , as French , Italian , German , & c . have only ...
... four different sounds : the broad sound , as in FALL ; the open , as in FATHER ; the slender , or close , as in FACE ; and the short sound , as in FAT . Most of the other modern languages , as French , Italian , German , & c . have only ...
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... four ages ; the golden age , or the age of simplicity and happiness ; the silver age , which was less purc than the golden age , and in which men began to till the ground for their sus- tenance ; the brazen age , when strife and ...
... four ages ; the golden age , or the age of simplicity and happiness ; the silver age , which was less purc than the golden age , and in which men began to till the ground for their sus- tenance ; the brazen age , when strife and ...
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... four equal portions , in each of these spaces was written one of the letters of the alphabet , and on each of the letters was laid a grain of wheat ; after which a cock being turned loose in the circle , particular notice was taken of ...
... four equal portions , in each of these spaces was written one of the letters of the alphabet , and on each of the letters was laid a grain of wheat ; after which a cock being turned loose in the circle , particular notice was taken of ...
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... four men to stand upon them ; and in the plains of Senegal they appear like villages . Their social economy is of the most regular kind , and when large masses of them make an at- tack on any animal , their assault is so vi- gorous ...
... four men to stand upon them ; and in the plains of Senegal they appear like villages . Their social economy is of the most regular kind , and when large masses of them make an at- tack on any animal , their assault is so vi- gorous ...
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... four - handed animals , the apes are destined to live among the branches of trees , and are especially adapted , from their size and strength , to occupy large forests . All of them have the power of assuming a nearly erect position ...
... four - handed animals , the apes are destined to live among the branches of trees , and are especially adapted , from their size and strength , to occupy large forests . All of them have the power of assuming a nearly erect position ...
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Стр. 274 - But as a school of moral discipline, the feudal institutions were perhaps most to be valued. Society had sunk, for several centuries after the dissolution of the Roman empire, into a condition of utter depravity ; where, if any vices could be selected as more eminently characteristic than others, they were falsehood, treachery, and ingratitude.
Стр. 163 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Стр. 158 - British islands were declared to be in a state of blockade" thereby subjecting to capture and condemnation all vessels, with their cargoes, which should continue to trade with His Majesty's dominions: And whereas, by the same...
Стр. 424 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Стр. 245 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Стр. 424 - The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness.
Стр. 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Стр. 318 - ... the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight.
Стр. 410 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Стр. 274 - From these feelings, engendered from the feudal relation, has sprung up the peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty ; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of eastern slaves, and from the abstract respect with which free citizens regard their chief magistrate.