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They live on vegetables , in- The air is sometimes , also , represented as habit hollow trees , and burrow in the a ... This bladder , which is always more or less AILANTHUS , a Chinese tree , called replete with air , the fish is ...
They live on vegetables , in- The air is sometimes , also , represented as habit hollow trees , and burrow in the a ... This bladder , which is always more or less AILANTHUS , a Chinese tree , called replete with air , the fish is ...
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... which is obtained by incision remark upon a book or writing , in order to from a tree . It is said to be an inferior clear up some passage , or draw some conkind of myrrh , and is good for pains in the clusion from it .
... which is obtained by incision remark upon a book or writing , in order to from a tree . It is said to be an inferior clear up some passage , or draw some conkind of myrrh , and is good for pains in the clusion from it .
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They .abound with a sweet the branches of trees , and are especially and grateful moisture , and are , therefore , adapted ... or springing from tree to tree , and are produced only in the tenth generation , swinging themselves to great ...
They .abound with a sweet the branches of trees , and are especially and grateful moisture , and are , therefore , adapted ... or springing from tree to tree , and are produced only in the tenth generation , swinging themselves to great ...
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That construct . which flows by incisions out of the cocoaed by Louis XIV . for carrying the Bucq to nut tree . But the word arack appears to Versailles , is 7000 fathoms long , with 2560 be an Indian name for strong liquor of any ...
That construct . which flows by incisions out of the cocoaed by Louis XIV . for carrying the Bucq to nut tree . But the word arack appears to Versailles , is 7000 fathoms long , with 2560 be an Indian name for strong liquor of any ...
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A DWARF TREE , BETWEEN A SHRUB AND A TREE , IS CALLED AN “ ARBUSCLE . " CERTAIN PLANTS ARE SAID TO HAVE TREE - LIKE AND ARBORESCENT STEMS ; BECAUSE , THOUGH AT FIRST HERBACEOUS , TUEY BECOME WOODY . ARC ] A New Dictionary of the Belles ...
A DWARF TREE , BETWEEN A SHRUB AND A TREE , IS CALLED AN “ ARBUSCLE . " CERTAIN PLANTS ARE SAID TO HAVE TREE - LIKE AND ARBORESCENT STEMS ; BECAUSE , THOUGH AT FIRST HERBACEOUS , TUEY BECOME WOODY . ARC ] A New Dictionary of the Belles ...
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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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