Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...Appleton, 1865 |
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... direction . On account of his tusks , the leader is very often the animal against which the efforts of the hunter are directed ; but the rest of the herd do their utmost to protect him , and when driven to extremity , they place him in ...
... direction . On account of his tusks , the leader is very often the animal against which the efforts of the hunter are directed ; but the rest of the herd do their utmost to protect him , and when driven to extremity , they place him in ...
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... direction , turns due west , and politically it Great Britain . ELIJAH ( in the Greek form , occurring in the New Testament , Elias ) , the greatest of the prophets of Israel , was born at Tishbe , in Gilead , on the borders of the ...
... direction , turns due west , and politically it Great Britain . ELIJAH ( in the Greek form , occurring in the New Testament , Elias ) , the greatest of the prophets of Israel , was born at Tishbe , in Gilead , on the borders of the ...
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... direction , enters the Caspian Sea after a course of about 300 miles . EMBALMING , the art of preserving the body after death , invented by the Egyptians , whose pre- pared bodies are known by the name of mummies , and are called in the ...
... direction , enters the Caspian Sea after a course of about 300 miles . EMBALMING , the art of preserving the body after death , invented by the Egyptians , whose pre- pared bodies are known by the name of mummies , and are called in the ...
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... direction of truly artistic embroidery . • Muslin - embroidery has been very fashionable of late . This is purely ... direction varying with the velocity and the direction in which the work moves . If 140 needles were working , and the ...
... direction of truly artistic embroidery . • Muslin - embroidery has been very fashionable of late . This is purely ... direction varying with the velocity and the direction in which the work moves . If 140 needles were working , and the ...
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... direction , empties itself into Dollart Bay , an estuary of the German Ocean , after a course of 210 miles . Its chief affluents are the Aa , the Haase , and the Leda . It is navigable for vessels of 100 tons as high as Pappenburg ...
... direction , empties itself into Dollart Bay , an estuary of the German Ocean , after a course of 210 miles . Its chief affluents are the Aa , the Haase , and the Leda . It is navigable for vessels of 100 tons as high as Pappenburg ...
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Page 196 - 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...
Page 347 - 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 231 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
Page 140 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 195 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 258 - Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
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