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... kind of food . Its fore - feet when anhydrous alcohol is acted on by dry chlorine are adapted for digging , although in a different gas . It dissolves sulphur , phosphorus , bromine , manner from those of the mole . The skull is and ...
... kind of food . Its fore - feet when anhydrous alcohol is acted on by dry chlorine are adapted for digging , although in a different gas . It dissolves sulphur , phosphorus , bromine , manner from those of the mole . The skull is and ...
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... kind of rhythmical declama- tion , and doubtless very simple . It was accom- panied by flutes in unison . With the decline of the ancient tragedy , the C. also fell into disuse ; and only lately has there been an attempt to produce the ...
... kind of rhythmical declama- tion , and doubtless very simple . It was accom- panied by flutes in unison . With the decline of the ancient tragedy , the C. also fell into disuse ; and only lately has there been an attempt to produce the ...
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... kind are mentioned by the ancients . The colossal works executed by Phidias at Athens , in the time of Pericles , are the most famous of this class , the greatest being the Pallas of the Parthenon . It was 26 cubits high , and ...
... kind are mentioned by the ancients . The colossal works executed by Phidias at Athens , in the time of Pericles , are the most famous of this class , the greatest being the Pallas of the Parthenon . It was 26 cubits high , and ...
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... kind , fit for mounting in a ring , is worth from £ 10 to £ 20 . It is of a fine apple - green colour in choice specimens , but inferior ones exhibit other shades of green , and it is sometimes spotted with yellowish- brown . It is ...
... kind , fit for mounting in a ring , is worth from £ 10 to £ 20 . It is of a fine apple - green colour in choice specimens , but inferior ones exhibit other shades of green , and it is sometimes spotted with yellowish- brown . It is ...
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... kind of paper , which does not well fit into a purse or pocket - book . On these several accounts , the careful class of travellers who keep to the main thoroughfares of France , Germany , and Belgium , will find £ 5 or £ 10 Bank of ...
... kind of paper , which does not well fit into a purse or pocket - book . On these several accounts , the careful class of travellers who keep to the main thoroughfares of France , Germany , and Belgium , will find £ 5 or £ 10 Bank of ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.