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... passes during the season of " AND AXILLARY NERVE " PASS BENEATH THE ARM - PIT . SELF - EVIDENT TRUTHS , NOT LIMITED TO TIME AND PLACE , BUT WHICH ARE TRUE AT ALL TIMES AND ALL PLACES , ARE " AXIOMS . AN AZIMUTH DIAL " IS A DIAL WHOSE ...
... passes during the season of " AND AXILLARY NERVE " PASS BENEATH THE ARM - PIT . SELF - EVIDENT TRUTHS , NOT LIMITED TO TIME AND PLACE , BUT WHICH ARE TRUE AT ALL TIMES AND ALL PLACES , ARE " AXIOMS . AN AZIMUTH DIAL " IS A DIAL WHOSE ...
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... passing from the stomach to the splenetic veins . BRE VIARY , the book containing the daily service of the church of Rome ... pass three days without rehearsing the breviary . BREVIARIUM , in Roman antiquity , a book first introduced by ...
... passing from the stomach to the splenetic veins . BRE VIARY , the book containing the daily service of the church of Rome ... pass three days without rehearsing the breviary . BREVIARIUM , in Roman antiquity , a book first introduced by ...
Page 102
... passes into an insensible state , called the chrysalis or aurelia , in which it continues some weeks or months , having neither legs , wings , nor motion : at length the case is burst , and moths and butterflies emerge , which pass a ...
... passes into an insensible state , called the chrysalis or aurelia , in which it continues some weeks or months , having neither legs , wings , nor motion : at length the case is burst , and moths and butterflies emerge , which pass a ...
Page 107
... pass . CANA'RIUM AUGURIUM , in anti- quity , a sacrifice among the Romans , of a red dog , for the purpose of ... passing through the beginning of Cancer . CAN'CRITE , a fossil or petrified crab . CANDELA'BRA . Numerous domestic utensils ...
... pass . CANA'RIUM AUGURIUM , in anti- quity , a sacrifice among the Romans , of a red dog , for the purpose of ... passing through the beginning of Cancer . CAN'CRITE , a fossil or petrified crab . CANDELA'BRA . Numerous domestic utensils ...
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... pass to the retina . [ For further information on this dreadful affliction , see " Stevenson on Cataract " : and for an effec- tual cure , consult the author of that work . ] CATARRH ' , commonly denominated a Cold , is an increased ...
... pass to the retina . [ For further information on this dreadful affliction , see " Stevenson on Cataract " : and for an effec- tual cure , consult the author of that work . ] CATARRH ' , commonly denominated a Cold , is an increased ...
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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.