XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, Τόμος 2Gebbie & Company, 1901 |
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... gives also the characters that are used in the Cyclopedia to show their pronunciation , most of these being distinguished by diacritical marks . ā , as in fate , or in bare . ä , as in alms , Fr. âme , Ger . Bahn = á of Indian names . å ...
... gives also the characters that are used in the Cyclopedia to show their pronunciation , most of these being distinguished by diacritical marks . ā , as in fate , or in bare . ä , as in alms , Fr. âme , Ger . Bahn = á of Indian names . å ...
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... gives to them a kind of whirling motion , and in the winter it is scarcely navigable . During January and February the shores from VOL . II . 1 It Odessa to the Crimea are ice - bound . contains few islands , and those of small extent ...
... gives to them a kind of whirling motion , and in the winter it is scarcely navigable . During January and February the shores from VOL . II . 1 It Odessa to the Crimea are ice - bound . contains few islands , and those of small extent ...
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... give admirable pic- tures of country life in Jutland , in 1846-47 . He also translated Ossian , and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield . Blidah ( blē'da ) , a fortified town of Al- geria , 30 miles inland from Algiers , well- built , with ...
... give admirable pic- tures of country life in Jutland , in 1846-47 . He also translated Ossian , and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield . Blidah ( blē'da ) , a fortified town of Al- geria , 30 miles inland from Algiers , well- built , with ...
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... give colour to the fluid , and are flattish discs , oval in birds and reptiles , and round in man and most mammals . In man they average 300th inch in diameter , and in the Proteus , which has them larger than any other vertebrate , th ...
... give colour to the fluid , and are flattish discs , oval in birds and reptiles , and round in man and most mammals . In man they average 300th inch in diameter , and in the Proteus , which has them larger than any other vertebrate , th ...
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... give out its metal ; hence this is called a reducing flame . BLUCHER . Thus various minerals can be either oxidized or reduced at pleasure , and the pipe forms a ready test in the hands of the mineralo- gist , who may use fluxes along ...
... give out its metal ; hence this is called a reducing flame . BLUCHER . Thus various minerals can be either oxidized or reduced at pleasure , and the pipe forms a ready test in the hands of the mineralo- gist , who may use fluxes along ...
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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.