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... substances are formed . ACCUBATION , the posture used among the Greeks and Romans at their meals , which was with ... substance that is capable of uniting with such a quantity of oxygen as to become possessed of acid properties . ACID ...
... substances are formed . ACCUBATION , the posture used among the Greeks and Romans at their meals , which was with ... substance that is capable of uniting with such a quantity of oxygen as to become possessed of acid properties . ACID ...
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... substance . ADEPS , among physicians , is used in a more general sense , for all kinds of animal fat . ADHE'SION , the phenomenon by which the particles of bodies continue together . Adhesion denotes union to a certain point between two ...
... substance . ADEPS , among physicians , is used in a more general sense , for all kinds of animal fat . ADHE'SION , the phenomenon by which the particles of bodies continue together . Adhesion denotes union to a certain point between two ...
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... substance of the nerves ; the serous part of the blood ; and the white of eggs , and of milk . ALBURNUM , the soft white substance between the inner bark and the wood of shrubs and trees . ALCA'ICS , a term given to several kinds of ...
... substance of the nerves ; the serous part of the blood ; and the white of eggs , and of milk . ALBURNUM , the soft white substance between the inner bark and the wood of shrubs and trees . ALCA'ICS , a term given to several kinds of ...
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... substance , which , being extracted by digestion , enters the blood , and effects the repair of the body . ALIMENTARY , in a general sense , is a term applied to whatever belongs to ali- ment or food . -ALIMENTARY DUCT , a name by which ...
... substance , which , being extracted by digestion , enters the blood , and effects the repair of the body . ALIMENTARY , in a general sense , is a term applied to whatever belongs to ali- ment or food . -ALIMENTARY DUCT , a name by which ...
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... substance brought from the East Indies in drops or granules . The best kind is of a yellowish colour without , and white within . - SAL AMMONIAC , a volatile salt , of which vast quantities are thrown out by Mount Etna . The sal - ani ...
... substance brought from the East Indies in drops or granules . The best kind is of a yellowish colour without , and white within . - SAL AMMONIAC , a volatile salt , of which vast quantities are thrown out by Mount Etna . The sal - ani ...
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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.