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T. Tegg, 1831 - 592 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 336 - The prominence on the face, which is the organ of scent and the emunctory of the brain ; scent, sagacity.
Σελίδα 165 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.
Σελίδα x - As emphasis evidently points out the most significant word in a sentence ; so, where other reasons do not forbid, the accent always dwells with greatest force on that part of the word which, from its importance, the hearer has always the greatest occasion to observe : and this is necessarily the root or body of the word.
Σελίδα 316 - a thousand years ;" generally employed to denote the thousand years, during which, according to an ancient tradition in the church, grounded on some doubtful texts in the Apocalypse and other scriptures, our blessed Saviour shall reign with the faithful upon earth after the first resurrection, before the final completion of beatitude. Though there...
Σελίδα 43 - . 182. That part of the human body which reaches from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels ; the womb...
Σελίδα v - A vowel is a simple sound formed by a continued effusion of the breath, and a certain conformation of the mouth, without any alteration...
Σελίδα 12 - -g4ze', va To strike with amazement. AGE, 4je, s. Any period of time attributed to something as the whole, or part of its duration...
Σελίδα 171 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater, or a small orb dependant on a greater, as the moon on the earth.
Σελίδα 40 - ... the ends of which the scales are suspended ; a cylindrical piece of wood belonging to the loom, on which the web is gradually rolled as it is wove ; the ray of light emitted from some luminous body.
Σελίδα 128 - ... obliquity; variation from a fixed point; in navigation, the variation of the needle from the true meridian of any place to the East or West ; in astronomy, the declination of a star, we call its shortest distance from the equator.

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