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... held peculiar views as to the body of Christ , and doubted his divinity . AGONISTICI ( from agōn , Greek , a conflict ) , also termed circutores , a branch of the Donatists ( arhich see ) in the 4th century . They preached with great ...
... held peculiar views as to the body of Christ , and doubted his divinity . AGONISTICI ( from agōn , Greek , a conflict ) , also termed circutores , a branch of the Donatists ( arhich see ) in the 4th century . They preached with great ...
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... held , except during short intervals , till gained by the Romans in 262 B.C. From A.D. 825 till 1086 it was held by the Saracens . AHMEDNUGGUR ( W. India ) , once capital of a state founded by Ahmed Shah , about 149. After having fallen ...
... held , except during short intervals , till gained by the Romans in 262 B.C. From A.D. 825 till 1086 it was held by the Saracens . AHMEDNUGGUR ( W. India ) , once capital of a state founded by Ahmed Shah , about 149. After having fallen ...
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... held here 314 , 358 , 375. Near this city , on 28 July , 1402 , Timour or Tamerlane defeated and took prisoner the sultan Bajazet , and is said to have conveyed him to Samar- cand in a cage . ANDALUSIA ( S. Spain ) , a province once ...
... held here 314 , 358 , 375. Near this city , on 28 July , 1402 , Timour or Tamerlane defeated and took prisoner the sultan Bajazet , and is said to have conveyed him to Samar- cand in a cage . ANDALUSIA ( S. Spain ) , a province once ...
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... held his first parliament in 1309 ; and here Wishart was burnt by archbishop Beaton , 1545 , who himself was murdered here in 1546. The university was founded in 1411 by bishop Wardlaw . The bishopric originated with the establishment ...
... held his first parliament in 1309 ; and here Wishart was burnt by archbishop Beaton , 1545 , who himself was murdered here in 1546. The university was founded in 1411 by bishop Wardlaw . The bishopric originated with the establishment ...
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... held by them till A.D. 263. In 1406 they_recon- quered it , but abandoned it in 1428. After much anarchy , bishop Adran , a French missionary , obtained the friendship of Louis XVI . for his pupil Gia - long , the son of the nominally ...
... held by them till A.D. 263. In 1406 they_recon- quered it , but abandoned it in 1428. After much anarchy , bishop Adran , a French missionary , obtained the friendship of Louis XVI . for his pupil Gia - long , the son of the nominally ...
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Page 117 - Indian philosophers, who derive their name from Brahma, one of the three beings whom God, according to their theology, created, and with whose assistance he formed the world. They devoted themselves totally to the worship of the gods, and were accustomed from their youth to endure labours, and to live with frugality and abstinence.
Page 91 - Rosary (a series of 15 large and 150 small beads), in honour of the Blessed Virgin, about 1202. Beads soon after were in general use. The Bead-roll was a list of deceased persons, for the repose of whose souls a certain number of prayers was recited. Beads have been found in British barrows. BEAM AND SCALES. The apparatus for •weighing goods was so called, '' as it weighs so much at the king's beam...
Page 182 - Clogher takes its name from a golden stone, from which, in times of paganism, the devil used to pronounce juggling answers, like the oracles of Apollo Py&iits.
Page 180 - Clarendon was completed in 1712, partly from the profits arising from the sale of Lord Chancellor Clarendon's ' History of the Rebellion,' the copyright of which was given to the University.
Page 268 - Days (twelve annually), about the beginning of the four seasons, are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, in Spring; after the feast of the Pentecost (Whitsunday), Summer; after the festival of the Holy Cross.
Page 174 - Subahdar of Oude and Governor Hastings ; by which the Nabob was relieved of all his debts to the Company, on condition of his seizing the property of the Begums, his mother and grandmother, and delivering it up to the English : this treaty also enabled the Subahdar to take possession of the lands...
Page 68 - BACHELORS. The Roman censors frequently imposed fines on unmarried men ; and men of full age were obliged to marry. The Spartan women at certain games laid hold of old bachelors, dragged them round their altars, and inflicted on them various marks of infamy and disgrace.—• Vossius.
Page 186 - Coffins of marble and stone were used by the Romans. Alexander is said to have been buried in one of gold : and glass coffins have been found in England. — Gough. The earliest record of wooden coffins amongst us, is that of the burial of king Arthur, who was buried in an entire trunk of oak, hollowed, AD 642.
Page 171 - As the champion of God and the ladies (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth; to maintain the right; to protect the distressed...