Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 4J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883 |
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... latter in the town . centre being 48 56 ′ N. , and the long . 46 40 ′ E. Its Ely Cathedral . - About the year 673 , Etheldreda , longest diameter is eleven miles , and its shortest daughter of the king of East Anglia , and wife of about ...
... latter in the town . centre being 48 56 ′ N. , and the long . 46 40 ′ E. Its Ely Cathedral . - About the year 673 , Etheldreda , longest diameter is eleven miles , and its shortest daughter of the king of East Anglia , and wife of about ...
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... latter statute , embezzlement by a Bailee ( see BAILMENT , is now indictable . Under this provision , a shop . keeper appropriating goods intrusted for repair , may be tried and convicted . Embezzlement of letters and newspapers by ...
... latter statute , embezzlement by a Bailee ( see BAILMENT , is now indictable . Under this provision , a shop . keeper appropriating goods intrusted for repair , may be tried and convicted . Embezzlement of letters and newspapers by ...
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... latter into volatile oil of bitter almonds , prussic acid , grape - sugar , formic acid , and water ( see ALMONDS , VOLATILE OIL , or ESSENTIAL OIL OF ) . The vegetable albumen of almonds is almost entirely composed of emulsin ; which ...
... latter into volatile oil of bitter almonds , prussic acid , grape - sugar , formic acid , and water ( see ALMONDS , VOLATILE OIL , or ESSENTIAL OIL OF ) . The vegetable albumen of almonds is almost entirely composed of emulsin ; which ...
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... latter It was , however , revived in England early in this to peel off . Acids find their way through minute century ; and copies of portraits and pictures on a invisible pores , which exist in the best enamel ; and much larger scale ...
... latter It was , however , revived in England early in this to peel off . Acids find their way through minute century ; and copies of portraits and pictures on a invisible pores , which exist in the best enamel ; and much larger scale ...
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... latter line . It occupies 23,900 square geographical miles , and includes the Scilly Isles , Channel Isles , Ushant Isle , Isle of Wight , and many islets and rocks , especially off the coast of Bretagne . It is shallowest at the Strait ...
... latter line . It occupies 23,900 square geographical miles , and includes the Scilly Isles , Channel Isles , Ushant Isle , Isle of Wight , and many islets and rocks , especially off the coast of Bretagne . It is shallowest at the Strait ...
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Page 156 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 53 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 98 - This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory. II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
Page 167 - In walking along the street, in my youth, on the side next to this prison, I have often been tempted by the question, ' Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married ?' Along this most lawless space was hung up the frequent sign of a male and female hand conjoined, with ' Marriages performed within,
Page 81 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
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Page 70 - That no person offered as a witness shall hereafter be excluded, by reason of incapacity from crime or interest, from giving evidence, either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the Court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any Court, or before any judge, jury, sheriff, coroner, magistrate, officer, or person having, by law or by consent...
Page 123 - the knowing ones,' or the initiated. It was necessary that they should be born in wedlock, be of the Christian religion, lead a blameless life, and bind themselves by a tremendous oath ' to support the holy Feme, and to conceal it from wife and child, father and mother, sister and brother, fire and wind, from all that the sun shines on and the rain wets, and from all that is between heaven and earth.
Page 50 - An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments, signifies such interest as the tenant hath therein ; so that if a man grants all his estate in Dale to A and his heirs, everything that he can possibly grant shall pass thereby.
Page 45 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.