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... plants as are rough leaved , having their leaves placed alternately on their stalks , and a mono- petalous flower divided into five parts . ASPERIFOLIE , the 41st Linnæan na- tural order of plants , with rough leaves . ASPHALTUM , a ...
... plants as are rough leaved , having their leaves placed alternately on their stalks , and a mono- petalous flower divided into five parts . ASPERIFOLIE , the 41st Linnæan na- tural order of plants , with rough leaves . ASPHALTUM , a ...
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... plant called stinking or black hoarhound . In the Lin- næan system , a genus of plants , class 14 Didynamia , order 1 Gymnospermia ; the species of which are mostly perennials , but the sweet - smelling hoarhound is an annual . BALLOTA ...
... plant called stinking or black hoarhound . In the Lin- næan system , a genus of plants , class 14 Didynamia , order 1 Gymnospermia ; the species of which are mostly perennials , but the sweet - smelling hoarhound is an annual . BALLOTA ...
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... PLANTS MAY BE AFFECTED . BOT ] BOTANISTS DESCRIBE NEARLY FIFTY THOUSAND SPECIES OF PLANTS . A New Dictionary of the Belles Lettres . devise at the common law to the contrary . The reason of this custom is , because the youngest is ...
... PLANTS MAY BE AFFECTED . BOT ] BOTANISTS DESCRIBE NEARLY FIFTY THOUSAND SPECIES OF PLANTS . A New Dictionary of the Belles Lettres . devise at the common law to the contrary . The reason of this custom is , because the youngest is ...
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... PLANTS IS EXTRACTED FROM THE SOIL BY THE ROOTS . The Scientific and Literary Treasury ; within the seed - vessel , is termed the recep- tacle of the seeds . Nectaries are those parts in a flower which are designed to pre- pare a sweet ...
... PLANTS IS EXTRACTED FROM THE SOIL BY THE ROOTS . The Scientific and Literary Treasury ; within the seed - vessel , is termed the recep- tacle of the seeds . Nectaries are those parts in a flower which are designed to pre- pare a sweet ...
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... PLANTS , ANSWERING TO THE VEINS AND ARTERIES OF ANIMALS . THE SAP IN TREES IS AT FIRST MERELY A TASTELESS FLUID . A New Dictionary of the Belles Lettres . THE SAP ACQUIRES ITS CHARACTERISTIC FLAVOUR ON ENTERING THE LEAVES . 91 PLANTS ...
... PLANTS , ANSWERING TO THE VEINS AND ARTERIES OF ANIMALS . THE SAP IN TREES IS AT FIRST MERELY A TASTELESS FLUID . A New Dictionary of the Belles Lettres . THE SAP ACQUIRES ITS CHARACTERISTIC FLAVOUR ON ENTERING THE LEAVES . 91 PLANTS ...
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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.