Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 11Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... supposed it to be the instrument of the Deity . Others thought that every particle of matter was endued with life , and made the mundane system to depend upon a cer- tain mixture of chance and plastic or orderly nature united together ...
... supposed it to be the instrument of the Deity . Others thought that every particle of matter was endued with life , and made the mundane system to depend upon a cer- tain mixture of chance and plastic or orderly nature united together ...
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... supposed to form those little fleshy knots , called CARUNCULE myrtiformes . HYMENÆA , the BASTARD LOCUST TREE ; a Hyo - thy . genus of plants , belonging to the decandria class ; and roides . in the natural method ranking under the 33d ...
... supposed to form those little fleshy knots , called CARUNCULE myrtiformes . HYMENÆA , the BASTARD LOCUST TREE ; a Hyo - thy . genus of plants , belonging to the decandria class ; and roides . in the natural method ranking under the 33d ...
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... supposed to be an adjoining island , which they take to be Malta , lying in sight of Sicily . And this seems to be confirmed by Apollonius Rhodius . Whence the Phæacians afterwards removed to Coreyra , called Scheria , Phæacia , and ...
... supposed to be an adjoining island , which they take to be Malta , lying in sight of Sicily . And this seems to be confirmed by Apollonius Rhodius . Whence the Phæacians afterwards removed to Coreyra , called Scheria , Phæacia , and ...
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... supposed the heavenly bodies to be ranged , mov- ed , & c . The principal hypotheses are the Ptolemaic , Coper- nican , and Tychonic . The Copernican is now become so current , and is so well warranted by observation , that the ...
... supposed the heavenly bodies to be ranged , mov- ed , & c . The principal hypotheses are the Ptolemaic , Coper- nican , and Tychonic . The Copernican is now become so current , and is so well warranted by observation , that the ...
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... supposed rights , and adhere to the inter- ests , of the late abdicated King James and his family . JACOBITES , in church history , a sect of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia ; so called , either from Ja- cob a Syrian who lived in ...
... supposed rights , and adhere to the inter- ests , of the late abdicated King James and his family . JACOBITES , in church history , a sect of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia ; so called , either from Ja- cob a Syrian who lived in ...
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Página 14 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 240 - ... and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Página 45 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Página 335 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 276 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 131 - Jesuits had obtained the chief direction of the education of youth in every catholic country in Europe. They had become the confessors of almost all its monarchs, a function of no small importance in any reign, but under a weak prince superior even to that of minister.
Página 115 - ... says the humanity of the English law, had the prisoner been of sound memory, he might have alleged something in stay of judgment or execution.
Página 308 - ... no man had stronger likings or aversions. His veracity was indeed, from the most trivial to the most solemn occasions, strict even to severity ; he scorned to embellish a story with fictitious circumstances, which (he used to say) took off from its real value.
Página 278 - In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use.
Página 378 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity ; therefore I die in exile...