The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 6H.G. Allen, 1888 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Society , April 20 , 1876 ) , is related to the particu- of Java reaches to about 130,000,000 Ib ; and from Ceylonlar part of the plant upon which the seed grows ; size and about 100,000,000 bis annually exported . The culture of coffee ...
... Society , April 20 , 1876 ) , is related to the particu- of Java reaches to about 130,000,000 Ib ; and from Ceylonlar part of the plant upon which the seed grows ; size and about 100,000,000 bis annually exported . The culture of coffee ...
Page 126
... Society , and many of the most valuable papers in the Society's Transactions were com- municated by him . COLEOPTERA , or BEETLES , a vast and remarkably homogeneous order of Insects , characterized , as the name implies ( koλcós , a ...
... Society , and many of the most valuable papers in the Society's Transactions were com- municated by him . COLEOPTERA , or BEETLES , a vast and remarkably homogeneous order of Insects , characterized , as the name implies ( koλcós , a ...
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... society and those of individual members thereof , the collegium was what we should now call a corporation ( see ... societies at Oxford , and 30,000 students . Into the truth of these statements , or into the causes which led to the ...
... society and those of individual members thereof , the collegium was what we should now call a corporation ( see ... societies at Oxford , and 30,000 students . Into the truth of these statements , or into the causes which led to the ...
Page 143
... society - usually at certain stated intervals . In questions within his jurisdic- tion his judgment is conclusive , but his jurisdiction does not extend to any cases under the common laws of the country , or to trusts attached to the ...
... society - usually at certain stated intervals . In questions within his jurisdic- tion his judgment is conclusive , but his jurisdiction does not extend to any cases under the common laws of the country , or to trusts attached to the ...
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... society . The last , founded in 1861 , maintains a then broken in health and spirits , and near his end , the valuable museum in the old convent of Unterlinden , and Little Theatre in the Haymarket . In 1778 he published publishes ...
... society . The last , founded in 1861 , maintains a then broken in health and spirits , and near his end , the valuable museum in the old convent of Unterlinden , and Little Theatre in the Haymarket . In 1778 he published publishes ...
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Page 292 - ... 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5.
Page 292 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 262 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 220 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus, unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Page 165 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Page 135 - With many parts of this preface, in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorize, I never concurred; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle and as contradictory (in appearance at least) both to other parts of the same preface and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves.
Page 321 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 136 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 292 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Page 209 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.