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... carried away ; it is distinguished from the air- shaft , and usually made on the side of a hill . ADIT OF A SHIP ... carry orders from the major to the colonel and serjeants . When detach- ments are to be made , he gives the number to be ...
... carried away ; it is distinguished from the air- shaft , and usually made on the side of a hill . ADIT OF A SHIP ... carry orders from the major to the colonel and serjeants . When detach- ments are to be made , he gives the number to be ...
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... carried off . By thus continuing to work the pump , the air in the receiver will be gradually exhausted ; but can never be wholly drawn out , so as to leave a perfect vacuum within the vessel ; for it must be considered , that the air ...
... carried off . By thus continuing to work the pump , the air in the receiver will be gradually exhausted ; but can never be wholly drawn out , so as to leave a perfect vacuum within the vessel ; for it must be considered , that the air ...
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... carried too far . In burlesque poetry it is frequently used with excellent effect ; though even there the sense should never be sacrificed to the sound . Tastefully used , it is a most en- AL'MAGEST , the name of a celebrated book ...
... carried too far . In burlesque poetry it is frequently used with excellent effect ; though even there the sense should never be sacrificed to the sound . Tastefully used , it is a most en- AL'MAGEST , the name of a celebrated book ...
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... carrying off phlegmatic hu- nuate . mours . APOPHORETA , in antiquity , presents made to the guests at feasts , or other en- tertainments , which they carried away with them . APOPH'RADES , in medicine , an epithet for the day in which ...
... carrying off phlegmatic hu- nuate . mours . APOPHORETA , in antiquity , presents made to the guests at feasts , or other en- tertainments , which they carried away with them . APOPH'RADES , in medicine , an epithet for the day in which ...
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... carried Ga - pillæ to any substance , and the thread nymede up into heaven in the form of an lengthens in proportion as the spider re- eagle . It was also chosen as the symbol of cedes from it . The whole workmanship of empire , first ...
... carried Ga - pillæ to any substance , and the thread nymede up into heaven in the form of an lengthens in proportion as the spider re- eagle . It was also chosen as the symbol of cedes from it . The whole workmanship of empire , first ...
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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.