Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 13John Brown, 1816 |
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... ancient custom of the community . Custom , as it is equally founded in the will of the lawgiver with written law , has therefore the fame effects : Hence , as one ftatute may be explained or repealed by an- other , fo a ftatute may be ...
... ancient custom of the community . Custom , as it is equally founded in the will of the lawgiver with written law , has therefore the fame effects : Hence , as one ftatute may be explained or repealed by an- other , fo a ftatute may be ...
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... ancient laws ( for I defend not the ridiculous barbarisms fometimes introduced by the ignorance of modern practisers ) , the fubftantive murdrum , or the verb murdrare , however harsh and unclaffical it may feem , was neceffarily framed ...
... ancient laws ( for I defend not the ridiculous barbarisms fometimes introduced by the ignorance of modern practisers ) , the fubftantive murdrum , or the verb murdrare , however harsh and unclaffical it may feem , was neceffarily framed ...
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... ancient , and as legal , as that of a layman , who is feldom guilty of giving fuch beneficial bargains . Swift . 2. An image ufed by painters in contriving attitudes . You are to have a layman almost as big as the life for every figure ...
... ancient , and as legal , as that of a layman , who is feldom guilty of giving fuch beneficial bargains . Swift . 2. An image ufed by painters in contriving attitudes . You are to have a layman almost as big as the life for every figure ...
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... ancient chro nicles to have fucceeded his father Bladud , about A. M. 3160. The story of this king and his three daughters , is well known from Shakespeare's ex- cellent tragedy founded on it .. * ( 2 . ) LEAR , a river in ...
... ancient chro nicles to have fucceeded his father Bladud , about A. M. 3160. The story of this king and his three daughters , is well known from Shakespeare's ex- cellent tragedy founded on it .. * ( 2 . ) LEAR , a river in ...
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... ancient town of Boeotia , LEBADIA , on the borders of Phocis , fi- tuated between Helicon and Cheronea , near Co- rona . In it ftood the oracle of Jupiter Tro- phonius , which all who went to confult defcend- ed into a fubterraneous ...
... ancient town of Boeotia , LEBADIA , on the borders of Phocis , fi- tuated between Helicon and Cheronea , near Co- rona . In it ftood the oracle of Jupiter Tro- phonius , which all who went to confult defcend- ed into a fubterraneous ...
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Página 315 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Thiscalledon me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace.
Página 315 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 187 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Página 181 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Página 259 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 200 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 183 - And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
Página 287 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say. And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries. And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 380 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our LORD 1666, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant Religion, and old English Liberty, and introducing Popery and Slavery.
Página 323 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.