Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 4W. and R. Chambers, 1868 |
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... connected with it at its base , it is composed without a perceptible effort . ' The E.'s pace , when of a vast multitude of small muscles variously inter exceeding a walk , is neither a trot nor a gallop , laced , but chiefly either ...
... connected with it at its base , it is composed without a perceptible effort . ' The E.'s pace , when of a vast multitude of small muscles variously inter exceeding a walk , is neither a trot nor a gallop , laced , but chiefly either ...
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... connected by a canal with Seneca Lake and the interior of Pennsylvania , and it is intersected by the railway which , with a length of 460 miles , connects Jersey City , virtually a suburb of New York , and Dunkirk on Lake Erie . E. is ...
... connected by a canal with Seneca Lake and the interior of Pennsylvania , and it is intersected by the railway which , with a length of 460 miles , connects Jersey City , virtually a suburb of New York , and Dunkirk on Lake Erie . E. is ...
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... connected with E. are Abbot Thurstan , who defended the Isle against William the Conqueror for seven years ... connection with book - printing . It is represented at present by Rammelmann Elzevier , whose father was governor of the isle ...
... connected with E. are Abbot Thurstan , who defended the Isle against William the Conqueror for seven years ... connection with book - printing . It is represented at present by Rammelmann Elzevier , whose father was governor of the isle ...
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... connected in some embargo if issued by any other competent authority . · way or other with a state of war between two countries . EMBASSY . In a popular sense , all diplomatic missions are spoken of as embassies ; but such is not the ...
... connected in some embargo if issued by any other competent authority . · way or other with a state of war between two countries . EMBASSY . In a popular sense , all diplomatic missions are spoken of as embassies ; but such is not the ...
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... connected with each series of fingers does the work of the arm , by carrying the fingers to a distance corresponding ... connecting the frame on which the work is fixed to an apparatus similar to a common panta- graph , or instrument so ...
... connected with each series of fingers does the work of the arm , by carrying the fingers to a distance corresponding ... connecting the frame on which the work is fixed to an apparatus similar to a common panta- graph , or instrument so ...
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Page 234 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat ; and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Page 234 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 143 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 127 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Page 55 - ... if a man do violate the king's companion, or the king's eldest daughter unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm, or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere, and therefore be provably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition.
Page 234 - 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 178 - ... may establish, or tend to Establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit, either at the instance of his majesty, or of any other person.
Page 74 - An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect a Convention with France on the subject of copyright to extend and explain the International Copyright Acts, and to explain the Acts relating to copyright in engravings...
Page 350 - 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 343 - I observed, he cared not to hold very long; then, he stood on a small pot; and, bending his body, took a glowing iron with his mouth from between his feet, without touching the pot, or ground, with his hands; with divers other prodigious feats.