Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 7J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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Page 11
... common filbert ; the Walnut , Chest- nut , Hickory , and Pecan ; the Souari , the Cocoa or Coker nuts , and the Brazil or Para nut . The Barcelona and Black Spanish , as their names imply , are from Spain ; the former is the commonest ...
... common filbert ; the Walnut , Chest- nut , Hickory , and Pecan ; the Souari , the Cocoa or Coker nuts , and the Brazil or Para nut . The Barcelona and Black Spanish , as their names imply , are from Spain ; the former is the commonest ...
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... common in most parts of Europe , and is found in most of the wooded districts of England . Its whole length is about six inches . If taken young , it is easily tamed , and becomes very familiar and amusing ; but an old bird caught and ...
... common in most parts of Europe , and is found in most of the wooded districts of England . Its whole length is about six inches . If taken young , it is easily tamed , and becomes very familiar and amusing ; but an old bird caught and ...
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... common species occur which produce acorns as sweet as chestnuts . Other varieties of the common oak are assiduously propagated by nurserymen as 17 OAK - OAKUM . Oannes . OANNES - OASES . THE fifteenth letter in the English ...
... common species occur which produce acorns as sweet as chestnuts . Other varieties of the common oak are assiduously propagated by nurserymen as 17 OAK - OAKUM . Oannes . OANNES - OASES . THE fifteenth letter in the English ...
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... common in the south - east of Europe , and in some parts of Asia . The timber is imported in considerable quantity into Britain for ship - building and other purposes . The leaves differ from those of the common oak in their acute lobes ...
... common in the south - east of Europe , and in some parts of Asia . The timber is imported in considerable quantity into Britain for ship - building and other purposes . The leaves differ from those of the common oak in their acute lobes ...
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... COMMON OAT ( A. sativa ) , having a very loose panicle , which spreads on all sides , and two or three fertile florets in each spikelet , the paleæ quite smooth , not more than one floret awned ; 2. TAR- TARIAN OAT ( A. orientalis ) ...
... COMMON OAT ( A. sativa ) , having a very loose panicle , which spreads on all sides , and two or three fertile florets in each spikelet , the paleæ quite smooth , not more than one floret awned ; 2. TAR- TARIAN OAT ( A. orientalis ) ...
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Page 114 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
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Page 101 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
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Page 97 - Those who vomit it are considered innocent, while those whom it purges are pronounced guilty, and put to death by burning. The innocent return to their homes, and slaughter a cock as a thankoffering to their guardian spirits. The practice of ordeal is common among all the negro nations north of the Zambesi.