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... usually rising in the shape of a wart , though sometimes depressed and flat . ACT , in a general sense , denotes the exertion , or effectual application , of some power culty . Act is distinguished from power , as the effect from ...
... usually rising in the shape of a wart , though sometimes depressed and flat . ACT , in a general sense , denotes the exertion , or effectual application , of some power culty . Act is distinguished from power , as the effect from ...
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... which , being extracted by digestion , enters the blood , and effects the repair of the body . ... the signification of the term was still farther extended , so as to comprehend whatever substances had this effect .
... which , being extracted by digestion , enters the blood , and effects the repair of the body . ... the signification of the term was still farther extended , so as to comprehend whatever substances had this effect .
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... says Bohours , " give infinite pleasure in the perusal of works of genius ; they have nearly the same effect in language as lights and shadows in painting , which a good artist distributes with propriety : or the flats and sharps in ...
... says Bohours , " give infinite pleasure in the perusal of works of genius ; they have nearly the same effect in language as lights and shadows in painting , which a good artist distributes with propriety : or the flats and sharps in ...
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They defend themselves with clubs , and employ these weapons with considerable effect , even against man . Some of them , called gibbons , have arms of prodigious length . On the loftiest branches of the gigantic eastern forest trees ...
They defend themselves with clubs , and employ these weapons with considerable effect , even against man . Some of them , called gibbons , have arms of prodigious length . On the loftiest branches of the gigantic eastern forest trees ...
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Perhaps it is not to be wondered at , that among the smatterers in that philosophy which describes matter as acting upon matter by necessary laws , and thus producing necessary effects , some should be tempted to reject the existence of ...
Perhaps it is not to be wondered at , that among the smatterers in that philosophy which describes matter as acting upon matter by necessary laws , and thus producing necessary effects , some should be tempted to reject the existence of ...
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Page 165 - 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 165 - 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 165 - 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 250 - 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 426 - 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 277 - 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 426 - 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 169 - 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 259 - 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 317 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| 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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