Chambers's Encyclopædia: CHI to ELEW. & R. Chambers, 1886 |
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... house . Pop . ( 1880 ) 9203 , employed chiefly in the manufacture of woollen goods , leather , gloves , & c . There is also some trade in wood , pitch , potash , & c . The town , which was founded by Christian IV . , has suffered many ...
... house . Pop . ( 1880 ) 9203 , employed chiefly in the manufacture of woollen goods , leather , gloves , & c . There is also some trade in wood , pitch , potash , & c . The town , which was founded by Christian IV . , has suffered many ...
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... houses or- where the climate permits - in flower - gardens . The favourite species of the gardener is , however , C ... house in Britain . It was introduced in 1789. It is reckoned among florists ' flowers . CHRYSELEPHA'NTINE ( Gr ...
... houses or- where the climate permits - in flower - gardens . The favourite species of the gardener is , however , C ... house in Britain . It was introduced in 1789. It is reckoned among florists ' flowers . CHRYSELEPHA'NTINE ( Gr ...
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... house , the hospital , the prison , and an ancient palace , with a river in front is navigable at all seasons for vessels deeply excavated well of indifferent water . The of from 50 to 60 tons . 6 The C. rises well at a fly , and takes ...
... house , the hospital , the prison , and an ancient palace , with a river in front is navigable at all seasons for vessels deeply excavated well of indifferent water . The of from 50 to 60 tons . 6 The C. rises well at a fly , and takes ...
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... house attached to them , which is of various forms , most commonly octagonal , and is often one of the richest and most beautiful portions of the whole edifice . On the continent , chapter - houses are not so common , the Chapter ( q ...
... house attached to them , which is of various forms , most commonly octagonal , and is often one of the richest and most beautiful portions of the whole edifice . On the continent , chapter - houses are not so common , the Chapter ( q ...
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... house ( 1555 , c . 33 ) . come obsolete in British medical practice . Many species of Cistus are much cultivated for the beauty of their flowers , which are red , white , lilac , yellow , or fre- quently of two colours , and are common ...
... house ( 1555 , c . 33 ) . come obsolete in British medical practice . Many species of Cistus are much cultivated for the beauty of their flowers , which are red , white , lilac , yellow , or fre- quently of two colours , and are common ...
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Page 251 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England and Ireland, and to the churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do, or shall appertain to them, or any of them? Queen. — All this I promise to do.
Page 170 - That all actions and proceedings, which before the passing of this Act might have been brought in any of her majesty's superior courts of record, where the plaintiff dwells more than twenty miles from the defendant,— or where the cause of action did not arise wholly or in some material point within the jurisdiction of the court within which the defendant dwells or carries on his business at the time of the action brought...
Page 288 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaueness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 144 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5. Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
Page 144 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 288 - Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues ; and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.
Page 310 - And for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity...
Page 149 - Laws, 37, that, in the silence of any positive rule, affirming or denying or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests.
Page 56 - ... monarch and the parliament, and as such beyond the control of parliament during the life of the sovereign, was settled by 1 and 2 Viet.
Page 157 - To make the comprehensibility of a datum of consciousness the criterion of its truth would be, indeed, the climax of absurdity. For the primary data of consciousness as themselves the conditions under which all else is comprehended, are necessarily themselves incomprehensible. We know, and can know only, that they are, not how they can be.