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But when a and consists of sixty - six stars . ... The Aristo- gave the name of invincible , consisting of telians were also designated Peripatetics , 130 large ships , furnished with an immense and their philosophy long prevailed in ...
But when a and consists of sixty - six stars . ... The Aristo- gave the name of invincible , consisting of telians were also designated Peripatetics , 130 large ships , furnished with an immense and their philosophy long prevailed in ...
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This French term it , consists of the horses , stores , sphere revolves on its axis with a silvered provisions ... MILLARY TRIGONOMETER , an instrument , AR'NABOS , an aromatic drug , sometimes consisting of five semi - circles divided ...
This French term it , consists of the horses , stores , sphere revolves on its axis with a silvered provisions ... MILLARY TRIGONOMETER , an instrument , AR'NABOS , an aromatic drug , sometimes consisting of five semi - circles divided ...
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( BAS partitions , consisting of two or more tinc- note the earth , the alkali , or the metal of tures interchangeably disposed . which a salt is formed in union with oxygen : BAR ' - SHOT , double - headed shot , consist . thus ...
( BAS partitions , consisting of two or more tinc- note the earth , the alkali , or the metal of tures interchangeably disposed . which a salt is formed in union with oxygen : BAR ' - SHOT , double - headed shot , consist . thus ...
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The bastion consists of two faces , the water is contined by double flood - gates . and an opening towards the centre called The basin of a haren is that part which the gorge . Bastions are solid or hollow .
The bastion consists of two faces , the water is contined by double flood - gates . and an opening towards the centre called The basin of a haren is that part which the gorge . Bastions are solid or hollow .
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... which consists smithy in the royal dockyard at Woolwich : of three parts of copper and one of tin . it is ... air for forty The sound of a bell consists in a vibratory forge fires , amongst which are several for motion of its parts ...
... which consists smithy in the royal dockyard at Woolwich : of three parts of copper and one of tin . it is ... air for forty The sound of a bell consists in a vibratory forge fires , amongst which are several for motion of its parts ...
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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.
Page 406 - 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.
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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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