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... person under the degree of no- bility , she still continues noble ; but if she has obtained the dignity by marriage only , by a sub- sequent marriage with a commoner she loses it ; though , by the courtesy of England , she always ...
... person under the degree of no- bility , she still continues noble ; but if she has obtained the dignity by marriage only , by a sub- sequent marriage with a commoner she loses it ; though , by the courtesy of England , she always ...
Σελίδα 9
... persons as are found dead in the streets , and they distinguish themselves by the re- presentaion of a skull on one side of their habit : add to these there are blue , red , grey , green , and violet penitents , all named after the ...
... persons as are found dead in the streets , and they distinguish themselves by the re- presentaion of a skull on one side of their habit : add to these there are blue , red , grey , green , and violet penitents , all named after the ...
Σελίδα 10
... person of the king in the quality of guards . They usually bear gilt battle- axes ; but in the event of taking the field , their weapons are curassier - arms , with sword and pis- tols , and their standard a red cross on a white flag ...
... person of the king in the quality of guards . They usually bear gilt battle- axes ; but in the event of taking the field , their weapons are curassier - arms , with sword and pis- tols , and their standard a red cross on a white flag ...
Σελίδα 12
... persons as- sert , that there is also a species of pepper naturally white . PERAMBULATOR , in mechanics , an instrument used by surveyors in measuring distances , and also known by the names pedometer , way - wiser , and surveying ...
... persons as- sert , that there is also a species of pepper naturally white . PERAMBULATOR , in mechanics , an instrument used by surveyors in measuring distances , and also known by the names pedometer , way - wiser , and surveying ...
Σελίδα 16
... person's own wilful act , or one committed at the subornation of ano- ther . PERORATION , in rhetoric , the epilogue , or last part of an oration , wherein what the orator insisted on through his whole discourse is urged afresh with ...
... person's own wilful act , or one committed at the subornation of ano- ther . PERORATION , in rhetoric , the epilogue , or last part of an oration , wherein what the orator insisted on through his whole discourse is urged afresh with ...
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Σελίδα 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Σελίδα 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Σελίδα 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Σελίδα 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
Σελίδα 239 - The surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of a circle...
Σελίδα 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Σελίδα 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Σελίδα 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Σελίδα 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Σελίδα 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.