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... Lettres Samuel Maunder. Bound by RLOW Devonshire St.Boston , Ca 1853 Cyc 414 KF 106 CHICHICHICHICHICHICHICH HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VEIRI TAS FROM THE LIBRARY OF OF BOSTON RECEIVED JUNE 28 , 1938 C. MRS . ELLEN HAVEN ROSS.
... Lettres Samuel Maunder. Bound by RLOW Devonshire St.Boston , Ca 1853 Cyc 414 KF 106 CHICHICHICHICHICHICHICH HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VEIRI TAS FROM THE LIBRARY OF OF BOSTON RECEIVED JUNE 28 , 1938 C. MRS . ELLEN HAVEN ROSS.
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... received one , to suppose that the American aloe does not bloom till it is 100 years old ; the fact is , in hot countries it will flower in a few years ; but in colder climates , the growth being slower , it is necessarily longer in ...
... received one , to suppose that the American aloe does not bloom till it is 100 years old ; the fact is , in hot countries it will flower in a few years ; but in colder climates , the growth being slower , it is necessarily longer in ...
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... received into the canons of holy writ ; being either spurious , or not acknowledged as of divine origin . APODICTICA , in rhetoric , an epithet for arguments which are fitted for proving the truth of any point . APODIOX'IS , in rhetoric ...
... received into the canons of holy writ ; being either spurious , or not acknowledged as of divine origin . APODICTICA , in rhetoric , an epithet for arguments which are fitted for proving the truth of any point . APODIOX'IS , in rhetoric ...
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... received into the stomach . If a quantity is swal- lowed large enough to endanger life , let an emetic be instantly given , and then large quantities of hepar sulphuris dissolved in water be taken : this , a scruple at a time , given ...
... received into the stomach . If a quantity is swal- lowed large enough to endanger life , let an emetic be instantly given , and then large quantities of hepar sulphuris dissolved in water be taken : this , a scruple at a time , given ...
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... received into a shallow socket of another . ARTICHOKE , a plant very like the this- tle , with scaly heads similar to the cone of the pine tree . At the bottom of each scale , as also at the bottom of each floret , is the well known ...
... received into a shallow socket of another . ARTICHOKE , a plant very like the this- tle , with scaly heads similar to the cone of the pine tree . At the bottom of each scale , as also at the bottom of each floret , is the well known ...
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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.