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... mountains . Owing to these annual inundations , which deposit a fresh top - dressing every year , the soil all along ... mountain . " Hassan drew out for the initiated a catechism consisting of seven heads , which did away effectually ...
... mountains . Owing to these annual inundations , which deposit a fresh top - dressing every year , the soil all along ... mountain . " Hassan drew out for the initiated a catechism consisting of seven heads , which did away effectually ...
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... mountains of Syria , and became mixed with the Yezeed Kurds ; and some of the tenets of the order are believed to linger still among them . ASSAULT and BATTERY . An assault has been commonly defined an attempt or offer with force and ...
... mountains of Syria , and became mixed with the Yezeed Kurds ; and some of the tenets of the order are believed to linger still among them . ASSAULT and BATTERY . An assault has been commonly defined an attempt or offer with force and ...
Σελίδα 13
... Mountains from Armenia , and on the east by the chain of the Zagros from Media ; Susiana and Babylonia constitute its southern frontiers . This portion of the ancient Assyrian empire comprehends part of the modern Kurdistan . The ...
... Mountains from Armenia , and on the east by the chain of the Zagros from Media ; Susiana and Babylonia constitute its southern frontiers . This portion of the ancient Assyrian empire comprehends part of the modern Kurdistan . The ...
Σελίδα 25
... mountainous part of the district is covered 1806. Completion of the French survey by Méchain and with extensive forests ... mountains gradually diminish in height as they approach the coast , along which there are some narrow tracts of ...
... mountainous part of the district is covered 1806. Completion of the French survey by Méchain and with extensive forests ... mountains gradually diminish in height as they approach the coast , along which there are some narrow tracts of ...
Σελίδα 26
... mountains . Both the seas mini costis þær æve the most delicate fish in the country- nota ! v salmon and lampreys - which are caught in con- Buurtalle quantities and sent to Madrid . * 1st n . The calate is damp , and in the mountainous ...
... mountains . Both the seas mini costis þær æve the most delicate fish in the country- nota ! v salmon and lampreys - which are caught in con- Buurtalle quantities and sent to Madrid . * 1st n . The calate is damp , and in the mountainous ...
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Σελίδα 203 - I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics ; upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures ; upon the authority of the writings of the primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice...
Σελίδα 144 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Σελίδα 73 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Σελίδα 141 - It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing: all these creatures have been observed to fall its prey.
Σελίδα 10 - Any sensations A, B, C, etc. by being associated with one another a sufficient number of times, get such a power over the corresponding ideas a, b, c, etc. that any one of the sensations A, when impressed alone, shall be able to excite in the mind b, c, etc. the ideas of the rest.
Σελίδα 105 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 203 - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Σελίδα 195 - ... and the number of such voter on the register of voters shall be marked on the counterfoil, and the voter having secretly marked his vote on the paper, and folded it up so as to conceal his vote, shall place it in a closed box in the presence of the officer presiding at the polling station (in this act called "the presiding officer") after having shown to him the official mark at the back.
Σελίδα 223 - That the bankrupt has put any of his creditors to unnecessary expense by a frivolous or vexatious defence to any action properly brought against him.
Σελίδα 244 - ... seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless .in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhymes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.