The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Τόμος 17H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... species of Haliotis , besides various species of Turbo . The pearl - shell fisuery is an important industry on the north and north - west coasts of Australia , producing about 800 tons yearly , valued at over £ 100,000 , the Papuan ...
... species of Haliotis , besides various species of Turbo . The pearl - shell fisuery is an important industry on the north and north - west coasts of Australia , producing about 800 tons yearly , valued at over £ 100,000 , the Papuan ...
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... species inhabit Central America . They are said to be solitary birds , or at most living in pairs , among the gloomy forests , where they sit on the underwood nearly motionless , or only jerking their long tail as the cry " houtou ...
... species inhabit Central America . They are said to be solitary birds , or at most living in pairs , among the gloomy forests , where they sit on the underwood nearly motionless , or only jerking their long tail as the cry " houtou ...
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... species of clumsily - built rats spread over southern Asia from Palestine to Formosa , and from Cashmere to Ceylon . The most noteworthy member of the group is the Great Bandicoot or Pig rat of the continent of India ( N. bandicota ...
... species of clumsily - built rats spread over southern Asia from Palestine to Formosa , and from Cashmere to Ceylon . The most noteworthy member of the group is the Great Bandicoot or Pig rat of the continent of India ( N. bandicota ...
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... species , one from western India , and the other from eastern Africa . IV . Uromys , Peters . , differs from Mus in having the scales of the tail not overlapping , but set edge to edge , so as to form a sort of mosaic work . There are ...
... species , one from western India , and the other from eastern Africa . IV . Uromys , Peters . , differs from Mus in having the scales of the tail not overlapping , but set edge to edge , so as to form a sort of mosaic work . There are ...
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... species are believed to exist , all belonging to the Ethiopian Region ( of which the Family is one of the most characteristic ) , and ranging from Abyssinia Kethwards . Three species inhabit Cape Colony . ( A. N. ) MOVERS , FRANZ KARL ...
... species are believed to exist , all belonging to the Ethiopian Region ( of which the Family is one of the most characteristic ) , and ranging from Abyssinia Kethwards . Three species inhabit Cape Colony . ( A. N. ) MOVERS , FRANZ KARL ...
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Σελίδα 53 - Culpable homicide, which would otherwise be murder, may be reduced to manslaughter if the person who causes death does so in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation.
Σελίδα 57 - LL.B. in 1823, and was called to the. Bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn, in Michaelmas Term...
Σελίδα 225 - I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. 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 196 - I come to lead you into the most fertile plains in the world : rich provinces, great cities, will be in your power. There you will have wealth, honour, and glory. Soldiers of Italy, can your courage fail?
Σελίδα 138 - 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 53 - 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.
Σελίδα 53 - 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 52 - ... (d.) an intent to oppose by force any officer of justice on his way to, in, or returning from the execution of the duty of arresting, keeping in custody, or imprisoning any person whom he is lawfully entitled to arrest, keep in custody, or imprison, or the duty of keeping the peace or dispersing an unlawful assembly, provided that the offender has notice that the person killed is such an officer so employed.
Σελίδα 53 - If the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily injury which is known to the offender to be likely to cause death, and if the offender, whether he does or does not mean to cause death, is reckless whether death ensues or not...
Σελίδα 129 - The thought that is most intensely present with the mystic is that of a supreme, all-pervading, and in-dwelling power, in whom all things are one.