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[ AMP THE AMETHYSTINE COLOUR , AMONG THE ANCIENTS , DISTINGUISHED CERTAIN GARMENTS FROM THE TYRIAN AND HYACINTHINE PURPLE . tain , as it is to attribute to " brother Jona- composed of a volatile alkaline and the than " every marvellous ...
[ AMP THE AMETHYSTINE COLOUR , AMONG THE ANCIENTS , DISTINGUISHED CERTAIN GARMENTS FROM THE TYRIAN AND HYACINTHINE PURPLE . tain , as it is to attribute to " brother Jona- composed of a volatile alkaline and the than " every marvellous ...
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... columns of light , of the most va- AUSPICES , a kind of soothsaying ariegated and beautiful colours , shoot up to ... of a dun whatever is written in a person's own hand . colour , approaching to yellow ; sometimes writing , as an ...
... columns of light , of the most va- AUSPICES , a kind of soothsaying ariegated and beautiful colours , shoot up to ... of a dun whatever is written in a person's own hand . colour , approaching to yellow ; sometimes writing , as an ...
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The altitudes fied lapis - lazuli , and the blue colour preof the heavenly bodies are measured on these pared from it . At present it is called ultracircles , which circles may be represented marine ; and the blue glass made from the by ...
The altitudes fied lapis - lazuli , and the blue colour preof the heavenly bodies are measured on these pared from it . At present it is called ultracircles , which circles may be represented marine ; and the blue glass made from the by ...
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It is of a yellowish white colour exter- guished by the name of the place under nally , but of a greyish white within . their command . The appellation is given BARYTO - CALCITE , in mineralogy , a by way of courtesy to almost every ...
It is of a yellowish white colour exter- guished by the name of the place under nally , but of a greyish white within . their command . The appellation is given BARYTO - CALCITE , in mineralogy , a by way of courtesy to almost every ...
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BENZOIN , or BENÄJAMIN , a dry solid BERYL , in mineralogy , a pellucid gem of vegetable substance , or resin , of a fragrant a light green colour , found in the East Insmell , produced by an incision from the dies , Brazil , Peru ...
BENZOIN , or BENÄJAMIN , a dry solid BERYL , in mineralogy , a pellucid gem of vegetable substance , or resin , of a fragrant a light green colour , found in the East Insmell , produced by an incision from the dies , Brazil , Peru ...
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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 406 - 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.
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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.
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| Title | The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the Belles Lettres |
| Author | Samuel Maunder |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 832 pages |
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