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AGALMATOLITE , a soft mineral subAFFIDAVIT , an oath in writing , taken stance , chiefly found in China , where it is before some person who is legally author wrought into various ornaments . ized to administer the same .
AGALMATOLITE , a soft mineral subAFFIDAVIT , an oath in writing , taken stance , chiefly found in China , where it is before some person who is legally author wrought into various ornaments . ized to administer the same .
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There were many of them religions then followed in Arabia , Idolaters , in use , and they received their appellations Jews , and Christians , in the knowledge from the various magistrates whose names and worship of one God , under the ...
There were many of them religions then followed in Arabia , Idolaters , in use , and they received their appellations Jews , and Christians , in the knowledge from the various magistrates whose names and worship of one God , under the ...
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Various instruments have been in . various causes , and often connected with vented for this purpose ; the first of which deformities of the limbs . For the most is attributed to Wolfius , who described it part it is the result of ...
Various instruments have been in . various causes , and often connected with vented for this purpose ; the first of which deformities of the limbs . For the most is attributed to Wolfius , who described it part it is the result of ...
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The Linnæan system comprehends regard to their structure and economy , six classes of animals ; namely , Mammalia , animalculæ are found of various sorts ; or such as suckle their young , mostly qua- some formed like fishes , others ...
The Linnæan system comprehends regard to their structure and economy , six classes of animals ; namely , Mammalia , animalculæ are found of various sorts ; or such as suckle their young , mostly qua- some formed like fishes , others ...
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He constructed 24 hours , an opinion which he supported , tables of the motions of the sun and moon ; principally , by the literal sense of various collected accounts of eclipses that had been passages in the Bible , where a total ...
He constructed 24 hours , an opinion which he supported , tables of the motions of the sun and moon ; principally , by the literal sense of various collected accounts of eclipses that had been passages in the Bible , where a total ...
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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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