Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...W. and R. Chambers, 1874 |
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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. 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. 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. 86 - Florence), and a protracted discussion took place, the chief points of which were the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Стр. 344 - Heron (Árdea cinérea). from the point of the bill to the end of the tail.
Стр. 199 - A Voyage of Discovery to the Western Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (Lond.
Стр. 259 - Edge-hill with him; and during the fight, the Prince and duke of Yorke were committed to his care: he told me that he withdrew with them under a hedge, and tooke out of his pockett a booke and read; but he had not read very long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground neare him, which made him remove his station.
Стр. 73 - Ireland; and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the said united kingdom and its dependencies ; and also the ensigns, armorial flags, and banners thereof, shall be such as his Majesty, by his royal proclamation under the great seal of the united kingdom, shall be pleased to appoint.
Стр. 43 - Naples, he negotiated the armistice which separated that general from Napoleon. In 1818, he was returned for Hull on Whig principles ; but at the next election, in 1820, lost his seat, and some years elapsed before he re-entered parliament.
Стр. 246 - HARMO'NIC PROPORTION. Three numbers are said to be in harmonic proportion when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the second and third, otherwise harmonic proportion is that which subsists between the reciprocals of numbers which are in arithmetical proportion.
Стр. 119 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.