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Page 155
... took the title of Academics 378 B. C. - Stanley . Ptolemy Soter is said to have founded an academy at Alex- andria , about 314 B. C. Theodosius the Younger and Charlemagne are also named as founders . Italy has been celebrated for its ...
... took the title of Academics 378 B. C. - Stanley . Ptolemy Soter is said to have founded an academy at Alex- andria , about 314 B. C. Theodosius the Younger and Charlemagne are also named as founders . Italy has been celebrated for its ...
Page 160
... took poison and died , August 1783 . ALCORAN . The book which contains the revelation and credenda of Mahomet : it is confessedly the standard of the Arabic tongue , and as the Mahometans believe , inimitable by any human pen ; hence ...
... took poison and died , August 1783 . ALCORAN . The book which contains the revelation and credenda of Mahomet : it is confessedly the standard of the Arabic tongue , and as the Mahometans believe , inimitable by any human pen ; hence ...
Page 166
... took Rabboath their capital , and destroyed all the walls , 198 B. C. - Josephus . AMNESTY . The word as well as the practice was introduced into Greece by Thrasybulus , the Athenian general and patriot , who commenced the expul- sion ...
... took Rabboath their capital , and destroyed all the walls , 198 B. C. - Josephus . AMNESTY . The word as well as the practice was introduced into Greece by Thrasybulus , the Athenian general and patriot , who commenced the expul- sion ...
Page 174
... took possession of Peloponnesus , B. C. 1102 , Temenus seized Argos and its dependencies . Argos was afterwards a republic , and distinguished itself in all the wars of Greece . - Euripides . Inachus founds the kingdom Phoroneus reigns ...
... took possession of Peloponnesus , B. C. 1102 , Temenus seized Argos and its dependencies . Argos was afterwards a republic , and distinguished itself in all the wars of Greece . - Euripides . Inachus founds the kingdom Phoroneus reigns ...
Page 175
... took many ships , and admiral Howard maintained a running fight from the 21st July to the 27th , obliging the shattered fleet to bear away for Scotland and Ireland , where a storm dis- persed them , and the remainder of the armament ...
... took many ships , and admiral Howard maintained a running fight from the 21st July to the 27th , obliging the shattered fleet to bear away for Scotland and Ireland , where a storm dis- persed them , and the remainder of the armament ...
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Page 492 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 477 - Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
Page 511 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 455 - Bc in commemoration of their coming out of Egypt ; because, the night before their departure, the destroying angel, who put to death the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over...
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Page 454 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Page 291 - Jan. are designated by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the Dominical letter.
Page 591 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Page 289 - An Act for repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments^), do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will not exercise any (d) The 9 Geo.
Page 471 - THE poor of England, till the time of Hen. VIII., subsisted entirely upon private benevolence, and the charity of welldisposed Christians. For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so " that none of them die for default of sustenance;" and though by the statutes 12 Ric.II.