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... contains the thin layer in which Mr Beckles has lately found the remains of several species of mammalia . PURBECK MARBLE is an impure fresh - water limestone , containing immense numbers of the shells of Paludina , from which it derives ...
... contains the thin layer in which Mr Beckles has lately found the remains of several species of mammalia . PURBECK MARBLE is an impure fresh - water limestone , containing immense numbers of the shells of Paludina , from which it derives ...
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... contains the loftiest summits of the Pyrenean chain , is divided into the three arrondissements of Tarbes , Argèles , and Bagnères , and the chief town is Tarbes . The aspect of the scenery is , moreover , very varied - savage moun ...
... contains the loftiest summits of the Pyrenean chain , is divided into the three arrondissements of Tarbes , Argèles , and Bagnères , and the chief town is Tarbes . The aspect of the scenery is , moreover , very varied - savage moun ...
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... contains 28 lbs . avoirdupois ; the capacity measure of the same name is said by some to have been so called from its being the fourth part of a ' chaldron , ' but , as it happens , the quarter does not always bear this relation to the ...
... contains 28 lbs . avoirdupois ; the capacity measure of the same name is said by some to have been so called from its being the fourth part of a ' chaldron , ' but , as it happens , the quarter does not always bear this relation to the ...
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QUATERNIONS - QUATRE - BRAS . quaternion . This new step contains Hamilton's answer to the question , answered over ... contain three . But let us analyse the process of passing from the one vector to the other , much as we have already ...
QUATERNIONS - QUATRE - BRAS . quaternion . This new step contains Hamilton's answer to the question , answered over ... contain three . But let us analyse the process of passing from the one vector to the other , much as we have already ...
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... contains 11 convents , 3 great squares , many richly - decorated churches , & c . Water is supplied from an aqueduct two miles long , and supported in part upon arches 90 feet high . The industry of the town is important , and is ...
... contains 11 convents , 3 great squares , many richly - decorated churches , & c . Water is supplied from an aqueduct two miles long , and supported in part upon arches 90 feet high . The industry of the town is important , and is ...
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Page 234 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 131 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 221 - Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Page 300 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
Page 216 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Page 285 - Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.
Page 299 - Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 340 - But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
Page 131 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 299 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible...