Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 8J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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... feet per minute . The greatest lift yet made by Murray's chain - pump is 60 feet high ; but it is con sidered that 100 tons of water per minute could be raised 100 feet high . From 10 to 12 feet apart has been found to be the best pitch ...
... feet per minute . The greatest lift yet made by Murray's chain - pump is 60 feet high ; but it is con sidered that 100 tons of water per minute could be raised 100 feet high . From 10 to 12 feet apart has been found to be the best pitch ...
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... feet , with a circumference at its base of 500 feet , and at its top , of from 45 to 50 feet . The sides of this sugar - loaf ' are almost perpendicular ; but a winding stair cut along the rock conducts to the summit , which is ...
... feet , with a circumference at its base of 500 feet , and at its top , of from 45 to 50 feet . The sides of this sugar - loaf ' are almost perpendicular ; but a winding stair cut along the rock conducts to the summit , which is ...
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... feet x 27 feet , and 11 feet 6 inches high , has been hewn in the solid rock , and was reached by the original passage of 320 feet long , which descended to it by an entrance at the foot of the Pyramid . The excavations in this direc ...
... feet x 27 feet , and 11 feet 6 inches high , has been hewn in the solid rock , and was reached by the original passage of 320 feet long , which descended to it by an entrance at the foot of the Pyramid . The excavations in this direc ...
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... feet 18 feet 9 inches , and 20 feet 3 inches high . This was reached by a passage rising at an inclination of 26 ° 18 ' , terminat- ing in a horizontal passage . It is called the Queen's Chamber , and occupies a position nearly in the ...
... feet 18 feet 9 inches , and 20 feet 3 inches high . This was reached by a passage rising at an inclination of 26 ° 18 ' , terminat- ing in a horizontal passage . It is called the Queen's Chamber , and occupies a position nearly in the ...
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... feet ) , and ending with the barren Maladetta , whose highest point , the Pic de Nethou or Malahite ( 11,168 feet ) , is the highest summit in the system . Between these two summits , there are several upwards of 10,000 feet In Assyria ...
... feet ) , and ending with the barren Maladetta , whose highest point , the Pic de Nethou or Malahite ( 11,168 feet ) , is the highest summit in the system . Between these two summits , there are several upwards of 10,000 feet In Assyria ...
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Page 274 - I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead ; and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 196 - 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 121 - 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 - 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 121 - 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 146 - Unless I be convinced," he said, "by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract anything, for my conscience is a captive to God's word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. There I take my stand. I can do no otherwise. So help me, God. Amen.
Page 116 - It is more than two feet in length from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The bill is thick and strong, compressed at the sides, the mandibles sharp at the edges ; the upper mandible curved at the tip, and exceeding the lower in length.
Page 274 - And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son ; who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified ; who spoke by the prophets.
Page 274 - Likewise, that the saints reigning together with Christ are to be honoured and invocated, and that they offer prayers to God for us ; and that their relics are to be held in veneration.
Page 274 - Christ ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation. I also confess, that under either kind alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true sacrament.