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... medicine , inequality or irregularity as applied to the pulse . ANOMALOUS , in a general sense , is ap- plied to whatever is irregular , or deviates from the rule observed by other things of the like nature . - ANOMALOUS VERBS , in ...
... medicine , inequality or irregularity as applied to the pulse . ANOMALOUS , in a general sense , is ap- plied to whatever is irregular , or deviates from the rule observed by other things of the like nature . - ANOMALOUS VERBS , in ...
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... medicine , a discri- mination of one disease or symptom from another . ANTIDOTE , a counter - poison , or any medicine generally that counteracts the ef- fects of what has been swallowed . ANTIL'OGY , an inconsistency between . two or ...
... medicine , a discri- mination of one disease or symptom from another . ANTIDOTE , a counter - poison , or any medicine generally that counteracts the ef- fects of what has been swallowed . ANTIL'OGY , an inconsistency between . two or ...
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... medicine , the recrements of the aliment which pass off by stool . APHO'NIA , in medicine , a deprivation of voice , or palsy of the tongue . APH'ORISM , a maxim or principle of a science ; or a sentence which comprehends a great deal ...
... medicine , the recrements of the aliment which pass off by stool . APHO'NIA , in medicine , a deprivation of voice , or palsy of the tongue . APH'ORISM , a maxim or principle of a science ; or a sentence which comprehends a great deal ...
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... medicine to promote the carrying off phlegmatic hu- nuate . mours . APOPHORETA , in antiquity , presents made to the guests at feasts , or other en- tertainments , which they carried away with them . APOPH'RADES , in medicine , an ...
... medicine to promote the carrying off phlegmatic hu- nuate . mours . APOPHORETA , in antiquity , presents made to the guests at feasts , or other en- tertainments , which they carried away with them . APOPH'RADES , in medicine , an ...
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... medicine , any communication to the body , externally or internally , by way of a remedy . APPOGIATU'RA , in music , a small note inserted by the practical musician , between two others , at some distance ; or a note in- serted by way ...
... medicine , any communication to the body , externally or internally , by way of a remedy . APPOGIATU'RA , in music , a small note inserted by the practical musician , between two others , at some distance ; or a note in- serted by way ...
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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.