Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 4J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883 |
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... observed in the E. of Sumatra , which may perhaps entitle it to be ranked as a distinct species . Ele- phants are found in all parts of Africa , from the Sahara southwards , where wood and water are The favourite haunts of wild ...
... observed in the E. of Sumatra , which may perhaps entitle it to be ranked as a distinct species . Ele- phants are found in all parts of Africa , from the Sahara southwards , where wood and water are The favourite haunts of wild ...
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... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
... observed among the blocks of ice a shapeless mass , but did not at the time discover what it was . The heat of succeeding summers gradually melted the ice around it , and , in 1803 , the mammoth fell on a bank of sand . In March of the ...
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... observations several nothing . The man who was for years the intimate times in such a way as to cause the errors to be of companion of Elijah , on whom Elijah's mantle opposite kinds , then adding the observed values , and descended ...
... observations several nothing . The man who was for years the intimate times in such a way as to cause the errors to be of companion of Elijah , on whom Elijah's mantle opposite kinds , then adding the observed values , and descended ...
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... observed in the fallow - deer The antler is also furnished with a back group . snag . Some idea of the enormous size and weight of the antlers may be formed from the fact that , in a specimen where the head weighed 5 pounds , their of ...
... observed in the fallow - deer The antler is also furnished with a back group . snag . Some idea of the enormous size and weight of the antlers may be formed from the fact that , in a specimen where the head weighed 5 pounds , their of ...
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... observed after death . The relations of the deceased went through the city chanting a wail for the dead . The corpse of a male was a once committed into the charge of the undertakers ; if a female , it was retained at home till ...
... observed after death . The relations of the deceased went through the city chanting a wail for the dead . The corpse of a male was a once committed into the charge of the undertakers ; if a female , it was retained at home till ...
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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 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.