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... action . There are two kinds of accessaries , viz . be- fore the fact , and after it . The first is he who commands and procures another to commit an offence ; who , though he be ab- sent when it is committed , is now regarded as much a ...
... action . There are two kinds of accessaries , viz . be- fore the fact , and after it . The first is he who commands and procures another to commit an offence ; who , though he be ab- sent when it is committed , is now regarded as much a ...
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... ACTION , WHEN PRODUCED BY ONE BODY ON ANOTHER , IS CALLED MECHANICAL . ACT ] The Scientific and Literary Treasury ... ACTION , in mechanics and physics , is the pressure or percussion of one body against another . It is one of the laws ...
... ACTION , WHEN PRODUCED BY ONE BODY ON ANOTHER , IS CALLED MECHANICAL . ACT ] The Scientific and Literary Treasury ... ACTION , in mechanics and physics , is the pressure or percussion of one body against another . It is one of the laws ...
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... ACTION , in a theatrical sense , is nearly the same with action among orators ; only the actor adapts his action to an assumed character , whereas the orator is supposed to be in reality what his action expresses . -ACTION , in painting ...
... ACTION , in a theatrical sense , is nearly the same with action among orators ; only the actor adapts his action to an assumed character , whereas the orator is supposed to be in reality what his action expresses . -ACTION , in painting ...
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... actions of life go on , and on the composition of which they depend , for every alteration it undergoes must induce ... action . It is indispensable to the life of all organic beings ; it is the agent of com- bustion ; devolves heat and ...
... actions of life go on , and on the composition of which they depend , for every alteration it undergoes must induce ... action . It is indispensable to the life of all organic beings ; it is the agent of com- bustion ; devolves heat and ...
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... action of the lungs , and consequently all the func- tions of the body , depend upon the free use of air . The want ... actions . [ ANN as the date for all public deeds and writ- ings in England , on which account it is called the ...
... action of the lungs , and consequently all the func- tions of the body , depend upon the free use of air . The want ... actions . [ ANN as the date for all public deeds and writ- ings in England , on which account it is called the ...
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Page 163 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 163 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 163 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 248 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Page 404 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 275 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Page 404 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 257 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Page 315 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.