XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, Τόμος 2Gebbie & Company, 1901 |
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... London in response to the Russian protest . Black - snake ( Coluber constrictor ) , a com- mon snake in North America , reaching a length of 5 or 6 feet , and so agile and swift as to have been named the Racer , with no poison fangs ...
... London in response to the Russian protest . Black - snake ( Coluber constrictor ) , a com- mon snake in North America , reaching a length of 5 or 6 feet , and so agile and swift as to have been named the Racer , with no poison fangs ...
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... London , Vienna , and in many towns of the United States . There are now comparatively few large cities that do not possess a school or institution of some kind for the blind . The occupations in which the blind are found capable of ...
... London , Vienna , and in many towns of the United States . There are now comparatively few large cities that do not possess a school or institution of some kind for the blind . The occupations in which the blind are found capable of ...
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... London , born at Bury - St. - Edmunds in 1786 , died at Fulham 1857. He studied at Cam- bridge , where he took high honours ; and after filling successively several curacies , and acting for a time as chaplain to the Bishop of London ...
... London , born at Bury - St. - Edmunds in 1786 , died at Fulham 1857. He studied at Cam- bridge , where he took high honours ; and after filling successively several curacies , and acting for a time as chaplain to the Bishop of London ...
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... London 1680 , was a disbanded officer of Oliver Cromwell , and lost some estates in Ireland at the Restoration . His whole life was one of plotting and adventure , though it is probable that he acted a double part , keeping the ...
... London 1680 , was a disbanded officer of Oliver Cromwell , and lost some estates in Ireland at the Restoration . His whole life was one of plotting and adventure , though it is probable that he acted a double part , keeping the ...
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... London . In the country , where he resided for a short time in 1786 , he first conceived the idea of his poem the Farmer's Boy , which was written under the most unfavour- able circumstances in a London garret . It was published in 1800 ...
... London . In the country , where he resided for a short time in 1786 , he first conceived the idea of his poem the Farmer's Boy , which was written under the most unfavour- able circumstances in a London garret . It was published in 1800 ...
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Σελίδα 480 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Σελίδα 159 - It is difficult to comprehend how men not assisted by revelation could have soared so high and approached so near to the truth. * * * Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal...
Σελίδα 480 - If two ships under steam are meeting end on or nearly end on so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Σελίδα 119 - that the crown is, by common law and constitutional custom, hereditary; and this in a manner peculiar to itself; but that the right of inheritance may, from time to time, be changed or limited by act of parliament; under which limitations the crown still continues hereditary (2).
Σελίδα 119 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Σελίδα 137 - Dating his first call from 1790, he announced himself, in 1793, the apostle of a new religion, "the nephew of the Almighty, and prince of the Hebrews, appointed to lead them to the land of Canaan.
Σελίδα 107 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as...
Σελίδα 70 - Stainville, in the campaign of 1761, in Germany: After the peace, he entered the navy, and became one of the greatest naval officers in France. He persuaded the inhabitants of St. Malo to...
Σελίδα 358 - Hampden began his career of resistance to the king's arbitrary measures by refusing to pay ship-money, the right to levy which, without authority of parliament, he was determined to bring before a court of law. His cause was argued for twelve days in the Court of Exchequer ; and although he lost it by the decision of eight of the judges out of twelve, the discussion of the question produced a very powerful impression on the public mind. It was in Scotland, however, that formal warlike opposition...
Σελίδα 120 - Another capacity, in which the king is considered in domestic affairs, is as the fountain of justice and general conservator of the peace of the kingdom. By the fountain of justice, the law does not mean the author or original, but only the distributor. Justice is not derived from the king, as from his free gift; but he is the steward of the public, to dispense it to whom it is due.