The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Τόμος 17Werner Company, 1907 |
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... taken a fixed place in Scotch literature . These poems are his best work , but he gave most of the energy of his vigorous intellect to writing ballads and songs in English ; and he interpreted the martial spirit of the Norse sea- rovers ...
... taken a fixed place in Scotch literature . These poems are his best work , but he gave most of the energy of his vigorous intellect to writing ballads and songs in English ; and he interpreted the martial spirit of the Norse sea- rovers ...
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... taken and plundered several times by the Tatars , the Russians , the Poles , and the Lithuanians . From 1320 to 1530 it was under the rule of Lithuania ; in the latter year it was taken by Russia , and became one of her chief ...
... taken and plundered several times by the Tatars , the Russians , the Poles , and the Lithuanians . From 1320 to 1530 it was under the rule of Lithuania ; in the latter year it was taken by Russia , and became one of her chief ...
Σελίδα 24
... taken . To prevent the gills from being clogged by from the pharynx . Each branchial arch is provided on sand or mud , a peculiar apparatus separates these organs each side of its whole length , with a series of closely - set gill ...
... taken . To prevent the gills from being clogged by from the pharynx . Each branchial arch is provided on sand or mud , a peculiar apparatus separates these organs each side of its whole length , with a series of closely - set gill ...
Σελίδα 26
... taken to insure the preservation of the corpse and the inviolability of the sepulchre ; hence the huge pyramid , the secret pit , and the subterra- neous labyrinth . The shadowy and impalpable ka- the mere aspect , be it remembered , of ...
... taken to insure the preservation of the corpse and the inviolability of the sepulchre ; hence the huge pyramid , the secret pit , and the subterra- neous labyrinth . The shadowy and impalpable ka- the mere aspect , be it remembered , of ...
Σελίδα 36
... taken to confirm and establish tant members of the new corporations . Thus in 1200 King John granted to the burgesses of Nottingham " a merchant - guild with all the liberties and free cus- to Ipswich in the same reign , besides ...
... taken to confirm and establish tant members of the new corporations . Thus in 1200 King John granted to the burgesses of Nottingham " a merchant - guild with all the liberties and free cus- to Ipswich in the same reign , besides ...
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Σελίδα 234 - Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial, upon the charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St Helena.
Σελίδα 314 - History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles.
Σελίδα 142 - The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Σελίδα 233 - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies.
Σελίδα 65 - LL.B. in 1823, and was called to the. Bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn, in Michaelmas Term...
Σελίδα 288 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Σελίδα 328 - We must necessarily suppose that the development of the Negro and White proceeds on different lines. While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone.
Σελίδα 61 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Σελίδα 147 - What must have been the result of this? As long as people thought in language, it was simply impossible to speak of morning or evening, of spring and winter, without giving to these conceptions something of an individual, active, sexual, and at last, personal character.
Σελίδα 61 - If the offender, for any unlawful object, does an act which he knows or ought to have known to be likely to cause death, and thereby kills any person, though he may have desired that his object should be effected without hurting any one.