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... ancient poets the amaranth was made the emblem of immortality , in consequence of its flowers retaining their colours after they were plucked and dried.AMARANTHUS , in the Linnæan system , is a genus of plants , of which there are many ...
... ancient poets the amaranth was made the emblem of immortality , in consequence of its flowers retaining their colours after they were plucked and dried.AMARANTHUS , in the Linnæan system , is a genus of plants , of which there are many ...
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... ancient pugiles , to prevent their ad- versaries from laying hold of this part . AMPLIFICATION , in rhetoric , part of a discourse or speech , wherein a crime is aggravated , a praise or commendation heightened , or a narration enlarged ...
... ancient pugiles , to prevent their ad- versaries from laying hold of this part . AMPLIFICATION , in rhetoric , part of a discourse or speech , wherein a crime is aggravated , a praise or commendation heightened , or a narration enlarged ...
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... ancient Anabaptists here spoken of . ANABA'SIS , the title of Xenophon's description of the younger Cyrus's expedi ... ancient athletæ , a kind of wrestling , performed on the ground ; the combatants voluntarily throwing themselves down ...
... ancient Anabaptists here spoken of . ANABA'SIS , the title of Xenophon's description of the younger Cyrus's expedi ... ancient athletæ , a kind of wrestling , performed on the ground ; the combatants voluntarily throwing themselves down ...
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... ancient in- scriptions , and give every other assistance in their power to strangers who were lovers of that kind of learning.The monks who were employed in making new copies of old books were formerly called antiquarii . ANTIQUITIES ...
... ancient in- scriptions , and give every other assistance in their power to strangers who were lovers of that kind of learning.The monks who were employed in making new copies of old books were formerly called antiquarii . ANTIQUITIES ...
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... ancient custom of fasting in sackcloth and ashes . A'SIARCH , in Grecian antiquity , a go- vernor of the provinces , who used to pre- side over the public games . ASIDE , a term in plays for what is to be said on the stage without being ...
... ancient custom of fasting in sackcloth and ashes . A'SIARCH , in Grecian antiquity , a go- vernor of the provinces , who used to pre- side over the public games . ASIDE , a term in plays for what is to be said on the stage without being ...
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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.