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... produced by the neighbouring vineyards . Of this there are two varieties , the red and the white , but the former is most highly esteemed . That produced by the ducal vineyards at Wiesbaden is preferred to all the other red wines of the ...
... produced by the neighbouring vineyards . Of this there are two varieties , the red and the white , but the former is most highly esteemed . That produced by the ducal vineyards at Wiesbaden is preferred to all the other red wines of the ...
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... produce a crop , an abundant supply of decayed manure , or of bones or parings of horses ' hoofs , is buried below ... produced of such extraordinary size that 110 heads in a state fit for the kitchen have been known to weigh more than ...
... produce a crop , an abundant supply of decayed manure , or of bones or parings of horses ' hoofs , is buried below ... produced of such extraordinary size that 110 heads in a state fit for the kitchen have been known to weigh more than ...
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... produced by powerful opiates , and where , on awakening , he found everything that could excite and gratify his senses . He was made to believe that this was a foretaste of the paradise of the prophet , reserved for his faithful and ...
... produced by powerful opiates , and where , on awakening , he found everything that could excite and gratify his senses . He was made to believe that this was a foretaste of the paradise of the prophet , reserved for his faithful and ...
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... produce brass ; and the quantity of the brass so produced tests the richness of the ore in zinc . The sulphide or blende is assayed nearly in the same way . ASSEMA'NI , GIUSEPPE SIMO'NE , a learned Maronite , a native of Syria , born in ...
... produce brass ; and the quantity of the brass so produced tests the richness of the ore in zinc . The sulphide or blende is assayed nearly in the same way . ASSEMA'NI , GIUSEPPE SIMO'NE , a learned Maronite , a native of Syria , born in ...
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... produced no observers , though it certainly adopted the opinion of the earth's motion . Meton , B.C. 432 , introduced the cycle of nineteen years for the moon's motion ; Calippus , B.C. 330 , introduced the improvement on the former ...
... produced no observers , though it certainly adopted the opinion of the earth's motion . Meton , B.C. 432 , introduced the cycle of nineteen years for the moon's motion ; Calippus , B.C. 330 , introduced the improvement on the former ...
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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.